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Heal Yourself Naturally: Diva Jessica’s Functional Medicine Playbook · The Diva Details

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Welcome to the Diva Details. Welcome to the Diva Details
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Where bold, confident women embrace life unapologetically.
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Aloha, everybody. This is Diva Mia, and today we have a super special guest.
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Her name is Diva Jessica, and she is a nurse practitioner.
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She's got over 20 years experience, and she's seen over 20,000 patients.
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I know you know near and dear to my heart is functional medicine and more natural
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medicine, and she specializes in it.
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And on top of that, she's also offering nationwide consulting now.
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So if you can't see her in person, she's going to talk a little bit about how
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you can visit her online as well.
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So without further ado, Diva Jessica, how are you doing today?
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Thank you for having me on. This is so exciting.
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I know. I know. So if you want to kind of just tell me a little bit about your
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background so everybody knows.
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Well, my passion first started, if you want to know real quick,
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I'll tell you, my little sister was born. She was very, very sick.
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She lived like the first seven years of her life in and out of the hospital,
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in and out of the hospital. Nobody knew it was wrong.
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And so when I was seven, I decided I wanted to be a doctor and save other people's
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siblings, you know, because I love my little sister so much.
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She was eight years younger than me. So she's like my little baby doll.
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And so I was on my way to school to be a medical doctor, a pediatrician.
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And I happened to sell health insurance because I had to work,
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you know, while I was going to school to get in all my degrees.
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I had to work. And so I happened to meet a chiropractor and he told me the body
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is created perfectly. It's a self-healing organism.
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If something is going on, you must find out what's malfunctioning.
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It's not really a deficiency in a pharmaceutical.
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And crazy enough, I worked in the pharmacy. I counted pills.
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And so it was like that just made sense to me. So I immediately was like,
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oh, gosh, I can help kids with ear infections and all this kind of stuff and
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not just give them drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs.
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And so I withdrew all of my applications for medical school.
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I had already taken my MCAT. I already got my master's degree in biology.
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And I decided to go to chiropractic school. So then I come out of chiropractic
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school and I have all this knowledge because in chiropractic school,
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they really teach you a lot of function, physiology.
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So you learn about function, not just musculoskeletal, but how the whole body functions.
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And so I had all this knowledge, but guess what? Nobody goes to a chiropractor
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for any ailment other than musculoskeletal.
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So it came down to the fact that my mom had cancer.
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And I'm trying to tell my mom, like, you can't eat these carbohydrates.
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Like, you cannot have Coke and Blue Bell ice cream every day.
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Like, you just can't. And she just straight up told me, well,
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my oncologist said I could, and you're just a chiropractor. You don't know.
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And I was like, OK, well, I've got to do something about this because I have
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all this knowledge and yet people are not going to come to me to find it.
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So I went back to school, got another bachelor's and master's in nursing,
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and that's what made me a family nurse practitioner.
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So I have a bachelor's and master's in biology, a doctorate in chiropractic
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and a bachelor's and master's in nursing, a lot of school, way more than anyone should have to do.
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And so that's where I got the passion to improve people's qualities of life.
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And with that comes my route I chose was functional medicine because that focuses
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more on restoring function versus traditional medicine, which tends to be symptom
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and disease management.
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You know, like your cholesterol problems are never going to go away.
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Your blood pressure is never going to go away.
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Like that's just symptom and disease management. And so that has just remained
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my driving force and purpose after I lost my mom, sadly, to cancer and the recommendation
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she was given on the medical site. Now, don't get me wrong.
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There's a time and place for pharmaceuticals. You know I believe that.
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It's just that I feel like you should look at the function first.
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So that's what really drove me and how I got started.
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So for those of you out there that don't understand functional medicine,
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so functional medicine looks mainly at the root cause first.
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It's going to look at your lifestyle. It's going to look at your hormones.
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It's going to look at detoxing.
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It's going to look at your whole system and say, what's the root problem here
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that we fix, not just treating the symptoms.
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So that's where a lot of medicine is starting to go to.
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I think it's a nice blend. And a lot of times you'll use Eastern medicine and
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Western medicine combined.
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And you'll look at what works to fix the problem, not just cover up the symptom.
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It sometimes takes longer because of that, because you're actually fixing a
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problem, not just masking a symptom.
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You can mask a symptom with a drug in a day or two, but to fix the core problem,
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you may have to change your lifestyle.
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So moving forward, this is kind of what your specialty is.
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Now, I know that you've helped people that have been autistic.
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You've helped people that have autoimmune diseases. You've helped people that have had cancer.
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People sometimes still go the traditional route with chemo, but there's other
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things you can do on the side to support people.
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And if you want to, let's start with autism. Let's kind of start with each one and we'll go from there.
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Well, with autism, it's also toxins in the body, whether they're coming,
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they're environmental toxins.
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So whether these environmental toxins are from a vaccination into a newborn
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system that's not even developed, if it's the glycophosphates,
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if it's pesticides, I don't know.
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There's so many things and there's children that are not vaccinated that are
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now coming up with these neuro issues. And so what we do with little ones when
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they come into the office is we just start back to the basics.
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And I say the basics, but it should be the basics for everybody,
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but it doesn't seem to be. It's the basics for me.
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So in my office, it's restoring that gut health, getting rid of inflammation.
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Pulling the heavy metals out, addressing parasites.
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So it's just restoring function, cleaning the body back up.
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So really it doesn't matter if it's autism, autoimmune, cancer,
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whatever it is, it's going to be the same thing. heal up your gut,
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get your nutrition balanced, get everything balanced out, restore function,
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and then see, do we still have a problem?
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And we've had some amazing, amazing turnarounds, but it takes commitment from the patient.
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So I wouldn't want someone to think like, oh, just come to my office and it's
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just this miracle thing.
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Like, no, I mean, you as a patient yourself of my office, like,
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you know that I guide you, I give you the information, but it all lays on you.
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You've got to choose to avoid those food sensitivities. You have to choose to
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take the supplements and the nutrition.
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And so the more compliant a patient is and the more involved they are with their
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health care, the more results they get. It's just, it's better.
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And so the great thing is at this office, I spend a lot of time educating you
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and informing you so you're empowered to make an informed decision about your health.
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Hey, I think that this is going to be great. This is what your blood work says.
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This is what's been helpful. I need you to do this. And then we check again
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three months later and we're like,
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You did it and look, it worked. And so it's really not just like this magic
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pill, functional medicine. It's like you're restoring your function.
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You can't just do whatever you want to do that got you in the position that you were before.
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And that's what I tell patients so many times, like, well, what you're doing now, it's not working.
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Otherwise, you wouldn't be in my office. Exactly.
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It's like you have to be willing to take accountability. And I think traditional
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medicinal medicine is, oh, there's a pill for whatever,
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you know, you can eat however you want, and I got a pill for you,
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and it's like, no, I don't have a pill for you, but you can't eat however you
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want, so it's like, yeah, that's what we do, so it doesn't matter,
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autism, autoimmune, cancer, unexplained, I get a lot of patients in here,
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too, that'll be like, I've gone from doctor to doctor to doctor,
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they tell me I'm fine, but I don't feel fine, they want to make me think I'm crazy.
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I don't think I'm crazy. What do you think?
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And then I look and I go, oh gosh, no, you're not crazy.
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These are medical ranges and these are functional medicine ranges.
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I need them to be here, not here.
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And so it's like, well, that explains why they thought you were okay,
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but let's put it here and see how you do.
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And then lo and behold, you know, their three-month checkup,
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because we usually check people every quarter, you know, they're doing much better.
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Yeah, so one of the things I noticed is that as soon as you come in,
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as soon as somebody comes and sees you, you You do extensive blood workups.
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A lot of doctors that you go to, they don't do blood work or they only do blood
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work if you have an issue.
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So you do an extensive blood work that is usually covered by some insurance, sometimes not.
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You also do allergy tests.
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An allergy test is a food sensitivity test to say you shouldn't be eating this
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because it's going to cause inflammation in your body.
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That's one thing I've never had a doctor do unless I had allergies.
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Isn't that sad? That's great. i know and we don't realize food is medicine and food does a
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the way that we live and it causes inflammation. It can mess with your gut biome.
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I know there's a lot of focus on the gut biome lately and rebuilding gut biome
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because of all the antibiotics that people have been on.
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As far as food sensitivity, can you talk to that as well as the gut biome a little bit?
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Yeah, food sensitivities are huge. You know, when you go to a traditional allergy
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office, they prick your arms, prick your back.
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That's an immunoglobin E sensitivity.
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Most people know when they have an immunoglobin E, that's the person who knows
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like, I can't eat shellfish. I can't eat dairy. It's going to tear me up.
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But it's what we test is immunoglobin G.
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That immunoglobin G are those hidden things that are giving you that brain fog,
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that headache, that migraine,
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that digestive upset, the stiffness in your joints, whatever it is,
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you can think of anything that would be inflammatory and is going to be associated with that gut.
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And so I'll have people tell me all the time, like, I've eaten that my whole
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life. What do you mean I can't have chicken? I'm like, I don't know.
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I've been doing it for 20 years.
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The test says you can't have chicken. Don't eat chicken. And they'll stop eating chicken.
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And then all of a sudden they might cheat and have some chicken two,
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three months later and then end up with a migraine. It's like, well, you inflamed her.
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Don't do that. Don't do that now. And so I kind of equate it to like,
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like if you're in a hot shower, I don't know if you've ever gone to a hot shower
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and you kind of crank the water up and get a little hotter, a little hotter, a little hotter.
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Before you know it, your skin's turning red, but you're still comfortable.
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Like it's hot. Well, that's inflammation.
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If you were to get out and try to step back into that temperature,
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I mean, your body would freak out. So it's the same thing.
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When you eat foods that may be healthy, we're not testing McDonald's.
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You already know it's not good for you.
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When you eat food that's healthy and you're just inflamed, inflamed,
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inflamed, that's like that hot shower.
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Well, when you take those things out and then you try to reintroduce them,
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you'll go, oh man, my body does not like that. Then you'll notice it.
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But the other thing is, is I don't want people to base their health on just what they feel.
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So even though you think you eat it and you feel fine, it's like.
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You'd be surprised. And sometimes people don't even know how great they can
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feel. Honestly, they don't know.
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They just assume the brain fog or the fatigue or the achy knees is because they're
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getting old or something.
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I'm 49 years old. I use that excuse all the time. I'm like, oh, I'm just getting old.
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But the reality is it's probably if I ate something that I wasn't supposed to.
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And I eat a pretty strict diet.
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Every once in a while, you're just like, I don't care. I'm going to have it.
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It's like, I'm a regular person, just like my patients. And it's like,
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I have those days and then I pay for it.
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And so it's super important the amount of like there's this relationship called
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the gut-brain communication. The amount of nerves that innervate,
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the digestive system directly communicate with the brain is just like mind-blowing.
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So that gut health really is like your second brain.
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The brain is your computer. It tells everything that's going on.
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But what's going on in that gut can destroy everything.
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You're old enough to remember that old phrase probably, if mama's not happy,
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nobody's happy. Yeah. Remember that?
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It's the same. If that gut's not happy, it will inflame everything else.
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Well, how well do you think your brain and your organs and all that stuff's
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going to function if it's inflamed? It won't.
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Yeah. What is the number one thing that people complain about when they come
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in? Do you have like a, or is it just kind of a wide range?
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I would say that no matter what is going on with them, fatigue is a major problem for people.
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They're not resting well. they're chronically fatigued.
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It's a major role, low energy, just not being able to produce what they used to be able to.
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So when people come in, they do blood work with you.
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A lot of times they'll do hormone tests as well. And they do a food sensitivity.
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How do you customize per patient based off of the results you get?
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What's your process? Well, I look through each thing with them.
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I explain it. So, for example, well, these are your white blood cells.
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This is where it's at. This is where I want to be. This is what you can do.
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So, the majority of people who come in, they all have the same makeup going
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on in their lives. Hot mess.
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And it's just a matter of where are they at on that hot mess level and what
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kind of symptoms are they getting. And the symptoms are all different amongst
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the patients, but it comes back to the same core thing.
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Deficiencies, inflammation, etc. So I go through and I say, Okay,
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this is this is here, it needs to be here. And I want you to do this.
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And we're gonna check in three months. And the great thing is just three months
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later, so many times patients labs have greatly improved, their health has greatly
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improved, and they start feeling better right away.
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So it's not you probably damaged your body 20, 30, 40 years by the time you get to me.
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But it's not 20, 30, 40 years to help it heal, because the body is a self healing
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organism as long as you give it what you need.
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Right. So one of the things that you do that I know that's unique and I haven't
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seen it in a lot of places is different types of IV therapy from now.
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I know there's a lot of drip bars out there that do stuff, but they don't do
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the full analysis and blood workup to make sure that they're giving you the
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right IVs, first of all. And
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I know you do iron as an IV. I know you do methylene blue. You also have what's called eboo.
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Can you kind of talk to those three things and kind of the reasoning behind?
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I know you're seeing a lot of iron needs lately with people being low on iron.
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Can you talk to that a little bit? Yeah, I would tell you astonishingly,
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probably 95, 98% of the people who come into my office are low on iron.
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They're not in the functional range. They might be barely hanging on on this huge range of 15 to 55.
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And in the medical world, if they were 15, they'd be like, oh, it's fine.
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It's in range. But the thing is, and that's if they even check them,
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which is rare. I don't have any patients who are really commonly checked for iron.
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Sometimes they'll check ferritin, but that's a misnomer anyways,
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because ferritin is the iron protein and it can indicate inflammation.
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So you could literally make your doctor think that you have great iron because
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your ferritin is up and you could actually be in an alert status and blood transfusion
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level because the iron is so low.
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So this low iron has become a problem.
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I can't tell you exactly where it's coming from, what's causing it,
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but I can tell you that in the last four to five years, it has been out of control.
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Mm, nearly every person walking in the door. I don't know if it's the spraying.
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You know, when they sprayed and flooded Texas, somebody got nosy and found the
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company that was called Rainmakers.
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Well, once they found out the company that was spraying in Texas,
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I looked it up. Well, there's aluminum oxide, silver oxide.
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There's different metals that they spray. Well, those things fall down.
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We breathe them in, eat them in, whatever.
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I looked up those ingredients, And guess what? They destroy the gut.
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So they're causing inflammatory gut issues.
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When the gut is inflamed, you start losing your iron. When you have parasites,
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you start losing your iron. Those parasites, those little boogers,
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they're going to eat everything.
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They're going to eat it all. And people don't realize because they don't really
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talk about this a lot in the United States. It's like, no, we all have parasites.
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They're eating us. And so the iron is a major problem.
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Also, I don't know the impact, you know, because I've really noticed this the
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last four or five years. So I look around, I go, what has changed?
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I've been in practice for 20 years. What has changed? The things that we know
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that have changed is COVID was a big one.
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5G was a big one. If you look up the radiation difference between 4G and 5G
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radiation, it's at least 20 times.
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Well, everybody knows radiation damages your cells.
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So it doesn't matter if it's a red blood cell, a white blood cell.
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It doesn't matter. The damaging our cells.
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And so it's very important. and the risk of getting low iron is that then your
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body becomes low oxygen.
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And when you're low oxygen, there are certain things that love an oxygen-deprived environment.
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Those would be viruses, bacteria, candida, yeast, mold, parasites.
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Well, those things are associated with cancers, and here you have them talking
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about these super cancers that have just come out. It's like, well, you think?
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Everybody's walking around oxygen-deprived, high-carbohydrate environment. it's inviting these in.
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So part of restoring function is restoring the environment so that that way
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intruders do not want to live there with you.
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Because when they live there with you, they're making a problem.
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And so it's very, very important to have those iron levels checked.
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I encourage everybody, they need to know what their iron saturation levels are
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and find somebody who has iron IVs.
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Yeah, I think iron IVs are very important. I've even had my children get iron
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IVs because their iron was low.
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And then methylene blue is the next one.
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So what are the purposes and why do people do methylene blue?
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Methylene blue is really great for killing off things like candida,
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yeast, parasites, bacteria.
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It also, so some people use it for that purpose. It also helps the mitochondria
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of the cell. And the mitochondria of the cell is the powerhouse of the cell.
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And so we don't want to lose cell health because that's when we start dying
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and we start being weakened and succumbing to parasites, viruses,
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bacteria moving in and creating cancers, autoimmune, etc.
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Call it what you want. It doesn't matter. It's the body being eaten by stuff, being destroyed.
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And so the methylene blue is really great for cognitive function.
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It's really great for, you know, neurodegenerative problems,
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whether that's autism, Alzheimer's, dementia, Parkinson's, anti-aging.
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It's like we don't want the mitochondria of our cells to die.
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Yes, yes. And then one of the things that I did because I have an autoimmune
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affecting my liver is EBU. And I don't know what that stands for,
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but I've never seen anyone else have it.
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I know it's out there, but it's more alternative medicine now.
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And it filters your blood out.
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And I don't even know what it stands for. Maybe you can explain it a little
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better than I can, but it filters your blood out. So if you have a liver issue.
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Where your liver's not filled to you and your blood very well,
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it actually cleans out. It was amazing.
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I've done it several times and it's been amazing. EBU stands for extra corpuscle
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blood oxygenation and ozonation.
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So just like we talked about the low iron causing low oxygen in our body,
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this is putting ozone in.
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So ozone is three molecules of oxygen.
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That is anti-inflammatory, kills viruses, bacteria, candida,
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yeast, mold, all the things that are a problem for our body.
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It takes the blood out of one arm, runs it through a dialysis filter,
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where in that dialysis filter through the other side is forced ozone.
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So super, super, super gets those red blood cells under pressure.
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You literally see a waste product bubbling out into a container.
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Then it comes up, and then it runs through UV light, where it picks up UV, A, B, and C.
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So frequencies of sunshine, as well as the whole LED spectrum.
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And then it goes back into your other arms.
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So eboo is like ozone IV on steroids.
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So it's going in and out circulating around for 50 minutes. It's super, super intensive.
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One of our very first patients when I first got trained on it,
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he had just had a major surgery.
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His arm was a swollen sausage. I couldn't even find veins. I was like,
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gosh, what are we going to do?
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It was so bruised. It was so bad.
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Well, normally we would use one arm and one arm. We had to go to the other arm
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and try to find two veins that were parallel to each other so that way they
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weren't mixing because we needed to get it into the body.
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And so lo and behold, literally before our eyes, had we known that was going
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to happen, I would have taken video. The bruising started fading back.
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All the inflammation went down. He was able to bend his arm up to his chest
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versus before it was like this little sausage. He couldn't even wiggle his fingers barely.
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It was mind-blowing. And so really just seeing some phenomenal things happen
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with Eboo, things that I didn't even expect.
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Like I always tell patients, I can't promise anything, but I will work my best
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to help you because I have such a passion that people deserve the best quality of life.
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I mean, we've had another patient, she came in here, she was having some vision
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issue. They were saying it was caused by her thyroid gland.
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They wanted to do crazy stuff, take her eyeballs out, widen the sock.
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I'm telling you, I was like, ooh, that made me squeamish.
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I was like, oh no, I'm super sensitive about the eyes. So I told her,
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well, let me just clean you up and let's see what happens with your body because
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it knows what to do. It's a self-healing organism.
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Let's see when we get all the trash out if it can heal itself.
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I kid you not, Diva Mia, after her first treatment, she now could see clear for four days.
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Mind you, she had blurred double vision.
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She couldn't walk. She couldn't drive. She couldn't anything.
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I said, wow, that's amazing. Just one treatment.
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I said, well, maybe the next treatment we'll get seven days." You know,
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I told her, I don't know. Let's just try.
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After five weeks of EDTA chelation combined with eboo, she drives,
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she sees, she has never had a problem. She wrote a review on her website. You can see it.
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Crazy. They were wanting to take this lady's eyeballs out of her head and do something crazy.
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So EDTA chelation, I've done that with you as well. That's a heavy metal cleanse.
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Can you kind of describe what the purpose of that is? Yeah.
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Heavy metals get into us from the environment, again, environmental toxins.
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So whether it's vaccinations, the cooking pans, the pipes we're drinking out
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of, what they're spraying on the sky, I don't even know.
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Who knows? There's so many things that we don't even realize have metals in
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them. I mean, underarm deodorant. I mean, we have constant exposure.
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Like, you don't have to have chewed on lead paint windowsill when you were a
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kid to have a lot of metals in your body.
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And so what EDTA does is it's kind of a dual bang for your buck.
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So when you come in and get EDTA chelation, it's going to, one,
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root a rooter and clean out your vascular system, like take out all the deposits.
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And then, two, take out the metals.
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And metals are so dangerous for us because they lead to neurodegenerative problems.
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Autism, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, dementia. I mean, nobody wants to deal with that. That's terrible.
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And the thing is, is that these metals, parasites, viruses, bacteria,
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it's like they're shield from your immune system.
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So your immune system's sitting here battling all these problems in your body,
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and it's like they need to get out.
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So you've got to remove the shield, go in and clean up stuff,
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and then go, okay, body, now do your thing because you should be okay, you know?
23:32
Yeah, so you're trying to make sure that the body's capable of healing,
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but you can't until you take the stressors of heavy metals and bacteria and
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candida and parasites away. Exactly.
23:45
I know a lot of functional medicine is also crossing the realm into longevity,
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and NAD has been pretty popular lately. As far as IV therapy goes,
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NAD is supposed to help with longevity and mitochondria. Do you do a lot of NAD?
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I'll tell you, because we're not a drip bar, one of those places you can just
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walk into and get an IV. Mm-hmm.
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We do extensive stuff. So NADs start in our office originally for detoxifying patients.
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So it's how we're able to get patients safely off from pharmaceuticals like
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gabapentin, even street drugs.
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So whether they became addicted to street drugs, painkillers, gabapentin,
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antipsychotics, antidepressants, that's what we originally for years have used
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NAD for, is to safely detox these things out of people's bodies so they're not
24:34
suffering the withdrawals. I mean, right down to alcohol.
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I had a patient, I never seen somebody drink so much alcohol in my life.
24:41
He literally would wake up in the morning and be having the 40s. He had to.
24:45
If he did not, he'd be convulsing and shaking all over. It was the saddest thing ever.
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One day of NAD and he was able to go the whole day without liquor.
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And we just had to work on it and clean him up.
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So that's what we originally used it as a detoxifier.
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But we've always known that it also, like methylene blue, helps the mitochondria.
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So now people are really jumping on that for the anti-aging.
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So whether it's methylene blue or it's the NAD, like people don't want to age.
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I probably think about it daily.
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I mean, I'm 49 and I see people with some wrinkles and I'm like.
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Oh, I got to do something.
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Like, I don't want wrinkles like that.
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Like, you start getting older, you start going, oh, my gosh.
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So, I think we could all use some youthfulness.
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And, you know, it's just part of being aware of your body. When you start going
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down that route of wanting to restore function and take care of your body,
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it's like, well, I don't want to age.
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I want my body to last as long as it possibly can.
25:50
I've heard that our body is supposed to last like a really, really long time.
25:54
But we just, we poison ourselves so much and we don't know how to take care of ourselves.
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And we get parasites and I don't know.
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Well, there's more and more centenarians, people over 100 now.
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So if we can take care of our body and keep it functioning, we should be able
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to have a good quality of life.
26:14
And one of those things that people kind of are afraid of, at least women I
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know, are hormone therapy or HRT.
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And some women were like, you're taking testosterone. You're a woman.
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So can you tell me as far as hormone therapy, I know that you focus on that
26:30
as well and you help people with hormone because it does affect fatigue and
26:34
other issues and other parts of the body as well.
26:36
So what's your focus on that? So as we age, obviously, our body needs hormones
26:42
to reproduce, but we also need hormones to feel well. Otherwise, we're going to feel old.
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Nobody wants to feel old and tired and fatigued and just feel bad.
26:52
So we check those hormone levels. We only use bioidentical hormone pellets, nothing synthetic.
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We don't want to put synthetic chemicals.
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There's a time and place for pharmaceuticals, but we try to avoid it.
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So we're going to check things like testosterone.
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Testosterone for a female particularly.
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Can cause a decreased sex drive, you know, running and hiding from your husband,
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frankiness, irritability.
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If you have a bunch of kids like I do, I have four of them. It'll extra annoy
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me if my testosterone is a little low.
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But when it's normal, I'm like, oh, okay, you're being a pain,
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but I'm not that easily annoyed by you.
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And it also helps our lean muscle mass. So as we get older, we start losing muscle.
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You don't want to lose muscle, bone, that sort of thing. So that's how it helps
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a female, how it helps a man.
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I know a lot of women are like, no, don't give my husband and testosterone,
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he's going to chase me more.
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I'm like, girl, he's going to chase you if he's at 100.
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It doesn't matter. His leg could be half cut off. He's going to chase you around the house.
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So the thing is, but we want them to feel better because when they feel better, everything's better.
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And so when we take their numbers up to 800, 900, 1200 in some cases,
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what happens for them is it doesn't crank up their sex drive.
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They're not going to chase you around the house any more than they already do
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when they're sitting at 100.
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But what it does is it helps their lean muscle mass. It helps their body weight.
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They don't get that mid-afternoon fatigue where they just want to lay on the
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couch and do nothing. And they're like, oh, they're having to fight through it.
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Like it's not there. They're not being lazy.
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They're literally just testosterone hormone depleted.
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It makes them want to just come home and do nothing.
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And so then on females, we're also going to check estrogen. So for females,
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we need a little testosterone.
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We don't need 900, but we need a little bit. And we also need estrogen.
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Now, estrogen helps females with vaginal dryness, hot flashes, our bone density.
28:42
A big thing that I think about is like those fine line wrinkles,
28:46
not these ones, the fine line ones.
28:49
No, no, not those deep ones. That's because you and I are expressive and we
28:53
make lots of facial expressions, but it's those fine ones that are just tiny.
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You're like, oh, no, that's coming from estrogen.
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Also, when our hands start thinning, coming from estrogen.
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So estrogen really helps protect our body from aging, looking old.
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I don't want to look old or feel old. It's not a vanity thing.
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It's just you have to think about part of your health is your mental health.
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So when you look in the mirror, you know, you want to look good. You want to feel good.
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And so that's where estrogen comes in to, you know, help us ladies.
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Now, men, we don't give them estrogen. We want to make sure their estrogen levels
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stay low because, oh, that'll make them cranky.
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They don't want to deal with that hormone that we have to deal with.
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It's hard enough for us to deal with it.
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And then you've also got progesterone, thyroid hormone, cortisol,
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all those things need regulation as well. They do.
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So progesterone is kind of yes or no. If we give it to females,
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it helps relax smooth muscle. It helps you sleep better.
29:52
Thyroid is a huge missed thing because, again, there's this medical ranges and
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they'll be like, you're fine.
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And usually they actually check your TSH, which is thyroid stimulating hormone.
30:02
That doesn't tell me anything.
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I need no T3, T4. I need to know more stuff. And I need you to be here.
30:08
If you're not here, then we need to get you there because the thyroid regulates so much.
30:14
I mean, your body temperature will be off. Your blood pressure will be off.
30:17
For ages, everybody's like, oh, your blood pressure is 105.
30:20
That's great. You got the blood pressure of a marathon runner.
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I'm like, yeah, but I don't run anywhere. Maybe if someone's chasing me.
30:27
And so it was like, no. And my body temperature was always 97.
30:31
I was always freezing like oh it's so cold in here all along it was my thyroid
30:36
so the thyroid regulates so much it affects fertility affects so much and so
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many times people are told it's just fine it's just fine,
30:44
So we use something called Lugol's iodine to detoxify. Do you want me to tell
30:50
you a little bit more details about this thyroid?
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Yeah. So you remember the periodic table elements, a little chart?
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The far right column are the metal halides, where those are the negative ones.
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Those are the fluoride, chloride, bromide, iodine. So you can imagine the words
31:05
I just said. You've heard of those things. They're in our environment.
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Fluoride's in our toothpaste. It's in our drinking water. Chloride in our swimming
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pools. Go soaking it. Go.
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You know, whatever. you know bromides in our baked goods so what
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happens is these negative one metal halides they
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come into the body and they attach onto the thyroid because
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the thyroid is looking for that negative one charge and then
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the body is like oh okay i must be good so we don't have this big goiter anymore
31:29
like a long time ago and so i must be good well you're not good because your
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thyroid's not functioning doesn't have what it needs so when you take lugo's
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iodine lugo's iodine is a stronger charge and it kicks those things out.
31:43
It also detoxifies mercury.
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It also is radio protective. So you know how earlier I mentioned the 5G that
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it's damaging to our cells.
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Anytime that you hear someone's had a major big radiation exposure,
31:55
like a leak, they give them iodine.
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And it's like, well, we're all having a major radiation exposure right now. We just can't see it.
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And that's why people were also very, very sick when it first came out.
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Like, oh no, migraines, everything.
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Well, I mean, our body is having to adjust to it, but nonetheless,
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it's still dangerous for us.
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So lots of good reasons why you got to take care of that thyroid and how I look
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at things a bit differently.
32:18
Well, how long does it, like if somebody goes on hormones, how long typically
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before they start feeling less fatigue or starting to feel better,
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do you see most people react to hormone therapy?
32:29
Well, at one month, you're going to reach peak. So at one month,
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you should be feeling pretty good.
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But hormones are just one part of the cause of fatigue.
32:38
You have to address that inflammatory gut issues, your stress levels,
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your parasites, your other things. Because if parasites are over here,
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eating all your nutrition and stealing everything, like, well,
32:49
you still gonna feel fatigued.
32:50
So it's a lot, which is why it's so important for functional medicine versus
32:55
symptom and disease management. Because if you went to one provider and they
32:59
said, hey, Diva Mia, you need some hormones.
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That's why you're low energy. And you're like, okay, great.
33:06
And then, and then it's like, yeah, but you were inflamed, you were stressed
33:11
out, you got parasites eating all your nutrition, like.
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You just you just got one small spot of
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it so when you're talking about functional medicine it's about restoring function
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of the whole body like we gotta look at all of
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it and you're gonna have to follow those recommendations because it's a lot
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because i got a lot of organs i'm working with you know and i know i know you
33:32
look work with lifestyle do you advise people on what foods to eat as well as
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like how much exercise to get yeah definitely so we typically go off from that
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food sensitivity test that we do,
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which is just simple blood tests. We have the results back in two weeks.
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And then my recommendation would be for you to avoid those food sensitivities
33:49
and really cut down the amount of carbohydrates.
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You know, our food is very carbohydrate heavy.
33:57
Well, not only does a low oxygen environment invite those bad things in, guess what?
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Carbohydrates feed, viruses, bacteria, candida, yeast, mold, parasites, all of them.
34:08
So we want to make the environment so that these nasty guys,
34:12
these little monsters are not in your body.
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They don't want to stay there with you. So it's typically cutting your carbs, reducing it.
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Some people going more carnivores. Some people are going more keto and then
34:24
avoiding food sensitivities.
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And I'll tell you, people's labs clean up quickly.
34:29
Three months, six months, a whole new body, whole new body, just by changing
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that, changing that dietary intake.
34:36
And I know inflammation, it's like the.
34:38
It's causing a lot of chronic disease. And food sensitivities are part of it,
34:43
but there's other things you have to do too.
34:45
And I know IV therapy is a big part of your practice. What are your core components,
34:50
I guess, to help people decrease their inflammation?
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Ibu is huge for removing inflammation.
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So is another great anti-inflammatory. We do it via IV, oh, well,
35:04
that'll pull someone's inflammation down like crazy.
35:06
But it's really, it's really those lifestyle changes. I'll tell you,
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that's the bigger component.
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Like, if you walk in the door, I do an IV for you, and then you leave and went
35:16
and inflamed yourself, you're not going to gain.
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IVs are an add-on to the changes that you're making.
35:21
Like, so much depends upon patients. You know, when patients come back in,
35:26
and they see their blood work, and they're so greatly improved,
35:29
I always, always tell them, like that's because you did this because they were
35:33
like thank you so much for guiding me I'm like
35:36
I didn't do the work. I just guided you. I know what you need to do.
35:39
You did it. And not all of my patients will do it. I mean, some people will
35:44
sit there and argue with me about yogurt.
35:45
And I'm like, I mean, I can't make you not eat it, but I'm highly advising against,
35:52
you know, for example, if they're sensitive to it.
35:53
So it's like, well, I mean, you're grown. You can do what you want.
35:56
So it really is. It really is on the patient.
36:00
Like it takes a lot of work. You have to want it. Do you do anything with peptides?
36:04
I know that's all the rage lately.
36:06
Have you done anything with peptides? Because I know a lot of people are for
36:09
like joints and things like that.
36:11
The GLP ones people are using for weight loss, the BP pain restoration.
36:16
For like joint health and inflammation.
36:18
And there's a lot of peptides that are now people are starting to use for hair
36:21
growth and things like that.
36:23
Do you work with any of those at all? You know, amazingly, I'm actually trained in the.
36:28
Peptides, but it's not a huge part of the practice because everything else that
36:33
we do is already so specialized that patients, I mean, you know,
36:37
patients come from out of state to see me.
36:39
And so, I mean, you've been in the office when there's out of state patients that are there.
36:43
So it's like they're coming for that very specific reason that I try not to
36:48
just do everything. I already do so much.
36:50
So we have a few patients who want a peptide for a certain thing.
36:54
We'll order it for you. You can get it from the compounding pharmacy. It's not a big deal.
36:57
And I'm trained in them. It's just not something that I go after because what
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I have is so specialized in my knowledge on viruses or sites.
37:08
You know, people are coming into me for big stuff and sometimes things that
37:11
they've suffered for years from and never had answers.
37:14
So it's like I try not to throw too much at them. I'm already throwing a lot at them.
37:18
Yeah. Change your diet. Take 100 pills, you know, whatever it is.
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Change your diet, go for red light therapy, go to the sauna.
37:25
It's like, yeah, all the things that all the things we have to do as we get
37:29
older, we're like, what?
37:31
Yeah, well, we should have been doing it all along. That's the thing.
37:34
So a lot of people, once they detox, they also find they lose weight without
37:38
doing any peptides as well, because like a lot of people are on the GLPs and,
37:43
you know, that can lead to gallbladder issues. I know for that one for sure.
37:47
And other issues. So but a lot of times, once people detox, the weight just
37:51
falls off. It does, does.
37:53
I've literally, one of my patients was from New York and he owned a pizza pasta
37:59
restaurant, Italian guy. And he was, he was quite large.
38:03
His wife came here. She dragged him in to make him get a food sensitivity test.
38:08
And, and he took a look at it and he said, I can't, I can't do this. I have to try the food.
38:14
I have to, whatever. And I said, I just giving you the information.
38:17
You now know what you need to do. You do what you can do. I can't make you. You're grown.
38:22
Well, she had flown back in and brought him. One year later, she had brought him.
38:28
She had come a few other times, but this time she brought, this guy lost over 200 pounds.
38:33
And I was like, what did you do? He said, nothing.
38:37
I just, I just accepted that I could not eat those foods anymore and that somebody
38:41
else would have to try them. I could not. Kid you not.
38:44
And I mean, it's like you get rid of the inflammation and the body stops holding
38:49
the toxins and starts functioning properly.
38:52
Whenever we have improper diet, constant inflammation, we end up with major dysregulation.
38:58
It was a mind-blowing change because I would not have believed.
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He was going to change his diet. He straight up told me, this is my business,
39:06
my livelihood. I have to taste the food. I have to taste the sauces. I have to.
39:10
And I said, I understand. I understand. You got to do what you got to do.
39:13
You got to take care of kids. I get it. I got four kids. I got to take care
39:15
of them. You know, I got to do what I got to do. Nope.
39:18
I guess he dug deep and decided to make those changes.
39:22
Wow. Crazy. I know adrenal fatigue, a lot of people suffer from,
39:25
from too much stress. And a lot of people are trying to evolve into decreasing
39:31
their stress through yoga, but what can you do to help people besides just diet fix their adrenals?
39:37
That's a good one because we have constant stress.
39:40
It's like every day there's something, whether it's your kids or a bill or a
39:46
water pipe leak or something on your car, it's constant.
39:50
So things like Epsom salt, baking soda, bentonite clay, baths at the end of
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the evening before you go to bed to help detoxify the body.
39:58
You can also listen to healing sounds. You can find them on YouTube.
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You just do a search for like healing frequencies and it'll come up like 428,
40:09
526, something like that.
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I think 482 and 526 hertz, HZ.
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And so you can put those on and what they are is they're biaural music.
40:19
You have to have it on headphones and what it'll do is it pans between the sides of the brain.
40:24
So it helps balance and calm the brain down.
40:27
So they're just healing sleep frequencies. You can search it.
40:30
Just you have to Bluetooth it to your headphones or whatnot,
40:32
and you have to be able to sleep with headphones.
40:34
I found a little like headband, and it has little teeny flat speakers because I'm a side sleeper.
40:40
Yeah. And that just helps calm the body because it balances it because we have
40:45
so much stress and frequencies in the environment put into our body.
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It helps balance and calm it.
40:51
It's a really, really good tool and it's something that's free.
40:54
But if you find them on YouTube, just don't pick the ones that say live.
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Because if it says live, it will come on with commercials and it'll wake you up and that's not fun.
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So you just find the one, the healing sleep frequency that is...
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10 hours or something. Turn that on, go to sleep. That helped a lot.
41:12
Those are super, super great stress relievers.
41:15
Also, B12 is very important for the adrenal glands. The adrenal glands eat it
41:20
like candy because they're our stress response.
41:22
Okay, good to know. I know a lot of people also have been suffering from long
41:26
COVID and people are traveling all over the country to try to find solutions.
41:31
Do you support people that have long COVID and are you treating anyone right now?
41:35
We do have a lot of patients who come in with long COVID.
41:38
In fact, it even attacked me really, really bad. I don't remember if I ever
41:41
told you the story of what happened with me. I think I probably did.
41:44
I was like, a few patients. No, I think you're probably one of them.
41:47
And so look, long COVID got a hold of me really bad. And so again,
41:51
it goes back to restoring gut function, getting rid of parasites,
41:56
getting rid of the inflammation, helping boost your immune system. And then Dr.
42:02
Brian Artis, he has a bunch of research even on how nicotine helps.
42:06
And, you know, we don't recommend it. We just tell patients,
42:10
hey, research this because we are empowering you to make an informed decision.
42:14
If you feel like it's best for you, go for it.
42:16
And so we have patients who started back in February when we started testing
42:19
people for long COVID and spike protein.
42:22
And there's people who are now negative spike protein and no more long COVID.
42:27
So it's been working very, very, very well. I encourage people to check out that research on it.
42:31
It's interesting how sometimes they tell us something's poison and awful for
42:35
us and it could be the cure for something.
42:37
It's like, I don't know. It feels weird to tell someone, go get a nicotine patch.
42:41
But I'm like, just like a Brian Artis's nicotine and COVID podcast.
42:45
He has like a whole research on it. It's really interesting.
42:48
And then you start diving down other holes. I'm always diving down holes because
42:52
I always want to find solutions to help my patients. Yeah.
42:55
I know that there's a huge connection as well. We have to be consistent and
42:59
we have to have a strong mindset.
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But do you find that some of these treatments are helping people's mental health?
43:05
Because mental health is becoming a huge problem in the country.
43:08
It's been a problem for a while, but it seems like it's getting worse.
43:11
Absolutely. I have patients who come in on antidepressants, antipsychotics.
43:16
I had one patient with schizophrenia in here really bad. He was always talking to people.
43:21
We did a bunch of colloidal silver, so silver hydrosol IVs, and killed off the
43:28
parasites that were the viruses that were in his body.
43:32
And so for him, it was a high viral load, and good as can be now, no problems.
43:39
It took us probably about three to four months, took us a while,
43:43
of aggressive IVs, and we used colloidal silver and ozone in that case.
43:48
So regular, now that's the extreme case, but regular just anxiety,
43:52
depression, it really goes back to the same thing.
43:55
Get rid of the things that are causing us problems. Parasites.
43:58
Parasites, they're very active at nighttime. They will keep you up all night.
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They will make your body stress out. They're eating on you. They're eating your
44:06
nutrition. They're a big problem.
44:08
And so you get this inflammation, then your brain can't think,
44:12
then it stresses you out.
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I mean, people are ending up with anxiety who've never had it before.
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They're like, I've never had anxiety. Where did this come from?
44:17
It's like, well, the body is being attacked.
44:20
If you have a bear chasing you every day, eventually you're going to be like,
44:25
oh my gosh, I'm scared to step out of my tent. There's going to be a bear there
44:28
and the body just starts.
44:30
It has too much. So that's where it comes back to depression,
44:34
anxiety, everything like just clean up the body.
44:37
Majority of my patients get off their pharmaceuticals, which is the very reason
44:40
why we also use the NAD to detox those things out of their body safely.
44:45
When people are on all these antipsychotics, antidepressants,
44:49
anti-this, that, sleep, this, that, it's a lot of toxin.
44:52
They can't usually safely get off those drugs.
44:55
They end up developing things like acustacea where their body's just moving
44:58
all over the place. That's where I get a lot of people flying from out of town to come and see me.
45:02
We have to detox their body and we use the NAD.
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So it's really, really, really powerful when you just restore function to the
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body, how all of these symptoms just go away. You don't have them anymore.
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Those symptoms are a result of malfunction.
45:17
It's not because there's something wrong with the body other than it's malfunctioning.
45:22
Do you recommend any daily stuff that people can do if they haven't seen you
45:27
yet just to support their decrease their immune and detox?
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Is there anything people can do from home like just to get started before maybe
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they can get an appointment with you? It's really hard for me to tell you because
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you know how the blood work comes back in sections?
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And it's like, okay, thyroid, hormones, this.
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It's like each organ needs its own thing.
45:47
So it's very hard for me to tell you like, oh, just go take this because I don't know what's going on.
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And also the products that are available, I'll tell you just because you find
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it at the nutrition store doesn't mean that that's what's in the bottle.
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They can put whatever's on the label. So we only use physician-grade products
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because they are quality controlled through a facility.
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So they've created their own regulating board.
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And so that way you know what it says is in the pill is what is in the pill.
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So it's very hard for me to say like, oh, yeah, they should be taking this.
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I mean, it's like I can say that when we talked about iron earlier,
46:23
I definitely want to point out never, ever take oral iron. Oral iron is elemental iron.
46:28
You cause inflammatory gut issues, which is why we do iron via IV and bypass the gut.
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You're just going to create more problems. So no oral iron. You'll end up in
46:37
a vicious cycle. You're never going to get out of it.
46:38
So it's very hard. Even with a multivitamin, it's like, oh, you know,
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every doctor tells you, oh, take a multivitamin.
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I don't even have a multivitamin at the office because I'm balancing out everything else.
46:49
And it's such higher doses. Like I look at a multivitamin and I'm like,
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oh, well, that has like two units of vitamin D.
46:56
I'm telling you to take 10,000 units. So it's like it's really hard to tell.
47:00
I can tell you that something that people could start with, though.
47:03
Is making sure that they have half their body weight in ounces of water.
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So while it's not a vitamin, you must get water, half your body weight in ounces of water per day.
47:12
And really, we need to up our electrolyte salt.
47:15
So we typically have patients, we used to use LMNT salt packs,
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not a plug for them or anything. I'm just talking to you and letting you know what we use.
47:24
They have some ingredients we didn't really like, as we learned,
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you know, once someone develops something, someone's always going to make something
47:30
better. So we use athletes.
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They only have two flavors because it comes from actual freeze-dried fruit.
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They use monk fruit versus stevia.
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And what that does is it just makes you have like salty water.
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If you don't have those kind of packets, you could get like a gray sea salt,
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like a Celtic sea salt, put a pinch in everything on water.
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You know, we all need salt. They have us so afraid to eat salt.
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You know, like it's so bad for us, but it's like, no, All mammals need salt.
47:57
You think about if you have cows, you have salt licks for them.
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If you put a deer feeder out, you have a salt lick. If you have a gerbil,
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you have a salt lick. We need salt.
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And so people, if they can just start with getting proper hydration,
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proper minerals, that can go a long ways.
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Yeah. So let's say somebody comes to you and they have inflammation.
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They have parasites. They have heavy metals.
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They have pretty much the whole gambit like a lot of us do. Autoimmune issues,
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possibly even cancer. We don't even know. Majority of my patients.
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Where would you start with them? I know you're going to start with blood work,
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and I know you're going to start with food sensitivity.
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But what do you try to fix first? Do you try to fix the inflammation?
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Do you try to fix the parasites? Or are you doing a multi-approach to fix it
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all at once? Well, it's a team effort.
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So food sensitivities, there's nothing I can do to fix that.
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You got to stop eating it.
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So there's a part that you're going to do. I'm going to give you best recommendations
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on the vitamins you should take, the nutrition you should take based on your blood work.
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And I'll know how long you need to take it or how much you need to take.
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And then you're going to avoid the food sensitivities.
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And then on my end, you'll come in and do IVs.
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We'll get IVs going and start working on stuff. So it's really a dual effort.
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It's not just one-sided.
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As I said earlier, this is not just like a magic pill. It's like,
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well, you've got to put your part in and it's work. Okay.
49:14
Right. Do you do anything to boost immunity? Because we've talked a lot about
49:18
detoxing and decreasing inflammation, but what are your focuses as far as boosting
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someone's immunity? Absolutely.
49:24
So getting rid of inflammation alone will boost your immune system.
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When you consume one bite of something you're not supposed to eat because it's
49:31
a food sensitivity, it will inflame you and in turn will lower your immune system.
49:35
And so and the more we can get the heavy metals out, the parasites out,
49:40
etc., the less your body is having to constantly focus on those things.
49:44
We also do some things like water fasting for some of our patients.
49:48
It's like, yeah, water fasting, that's going to boost your immune system,
49:51
reset it. Dormant stem cells are going to wake up. Also great for anti-aging.
49:54
And so because those dormant cells wake up and repair some wrinkles or something,
49:58
we really go into a lot of stuff to patients.
50:02
But again, it comes down to what is a patient willing to do?
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Now, any patient can water fast for 10 days, but are they willing to?
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I mean, yeah, exactly. you're willing to and you do it for way longer than 10 days.
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I'm actually on day three right now. I do it every other month and I have so
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since December 2019 because it keeps a cancer marker in check for me.
50:23
So instead of trying to poison the cancer that wherever it is,
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I don't know because I just have the marker, a positive marker. It's like.
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I'm not going to go look for it. I'm just going to keep it under control.
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For five years almost, December will be five years I've been able to keep it
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under control with water fasting, nutrition, strict diet, you know.
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You have to be willing to make those changes. You have to realize that there's
50:43
no food that is worth your quality of life.
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So whether it's water fasting and it's no food, just some air pudding,
50:51
or it's a strict diet, like life is amazing.
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Health, quality of health is amazing and
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it's like there's there's no food that is worth it
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and when you really accept that and realize it you're willing
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to water faster willing to stop eating those foods because life
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is so much more enjoyable than a moment on your lips yeah i know a lot of people
51:14
they they're like i deserve to have this food or they they use food as like
51:18
a reward i think it's taught in childhood and then when they have you know sensitivities
51:24
to it they don't realize how destructive it is towards their bodies.
51:27
Absolutely. I mean, you probably grew up with your grandparents telling you,
51:30
if you finish your food, you're going to have dessert.
51:33
I say the grandparents because it's always the grandparents feeding us bad food.
51:36
My mom would not dare use food as a reward if I finished my food.
51:42
I just had to finish my food or she's going to beat me.
51:45
So it's like, but we get to go to the grandparents. Like, oh,
51:48
finish your food. You get to have dessert.
51:51
If you made a good grade, you get to go eat pizza. You know,
51:54
even Pizza Hut, when I was a kid, had the Book It program or whatever.
51:58
You know, if you read your books, you got pizza. like it's
52:01
always been like a reward for let's
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celebrate we celebrate instead of going on vacation and
52:07
celebrating people are celebrating by let's go
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have dinner let's go have this and it's like learn to celebrate life go go on
52:15
vacation with your family or something to celebrate and and then while you're
52:20
there have the foods that are good for you yeah i know a lot of and it's not
52:25
just you know family sometimes the girls where do they want to go they want to go out for dinner.
52:29
And it's like, why don't we go for a hike instead? Or why don't we go for a
52:32
bike ride or go to the spa?
52:35
I mean, there's so many things you can do, but it's become so customized that
52:38
you want to get together with somebody, you go for dinner.
52:40
And there's so many other things you can do or go for lunch.
52:44
So we did talk a little bit about B12 and vitamin D.
52:47
And I know vitamin D, a lot of people are short on as well as iron, as well as iodine.
52:53
And magnesium is another one. So are there like certain things that you see
52:56
over and over again that people tend to be short on besides those things?
53:00
Omegas as well. Omegas is a big problem for deficiencies. Really? So omega-3s? Yep.
53:07
You're omega. Okay. All omegas or is there one specific that most people are
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deficient in? Omega-3, omega-6.
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I mean, people are just deficient. Magnesium, potassium, salt.
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It's not the kind of salt that comes from packaged foods. That's iodized salt.
53:21
It's actually just poison for us. It's like mineral salt.
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Like we're very deficient on these things.
53:27
So it takes a lot of work. You understand, most of my patients that come into
53:31
my office are 30, 40, 50, 60.
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They got all those years of being deficient and poisoned from chemicals in the
53:39
environment and parasites and toxins and metals.
53:42
It's like, most patients come in a hot mess. Come in a hot mess. I love hot messes.
53:46
When you come in and you literally just want health guidance.
53:49
Which I have those patients to because they're referred from family members,
53:52
and they're like, okay, I don't want to become a hot mess.
53:55
So let me come in now and learn what to do and I'm
53:58
literally asking him questions I'm like no nothing nothing here nothing
54:01
here because I spend about 45 minutes asking a lot of
54:03
questions and it's like oh gosh you know it's like
54:06
those are great patients because like now you know what to do go do it but majority
54:10
are they just they've become desperate because they've gone doctor to doctor
54:14
doctor nobody's checking these things and then if they do check them they're
54:18
in the medical range it's like no I need you to be here if you're not in the
54:22
functional range It's just not good. Not good. Yeah.
54:25
So I know that you're now branching out into national coaching or national helping
54:31
people nationally with different online and running their blood work and helping
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them that don't live near you or can't come and visit you right away.
54:40
So can you talk a little bit about that new growth that you're doing with your company now? Yes, sure.
54:45
As patients come into my office and every single patient, they have family members.
54:48
And once I've helped them, they want me to help grandma who lives five states
54:52
over. They want me to help all these people, their sister, their whatever.
54:55
And I'm like, oh, my gosh, I'm one person. I hear it all the time.
54:57
You need an office in San Antonio. I need an office in Houston.
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It's like, I'm one person. What do you want me to do?
55:02
And so I finally decided that, OK, I'm just going to need to do it.
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So Friday, as you know, I don't see patients in the office.
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That is going to become my virtual health coaching.
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So I don't have to go get a license in every single state. It's just going to be health coaching.
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I'll give you the guidance. You're not getting IVs. You're not getting anything,
55:22
but you're going to know what to do and have a full interpretation and guidance
55:26
because I'm coaching you.
55:28
On your health, which is really what I do in the brick office as well,
55:31
except for that you're right here and you can also get IVs and whatnot.
55:33
Now, that doesn't mean you may not decide you want to just fly in and just have me take care of you.
55:38
Patients do that. They stay at Airbnbs or relatives or whatever.
55:41
But this is designed so that way you can get the core in.
55:46
What food should I eat? What nutrition should I take?
55:49
We're going to be doing food sensitivity tests and their labs.
55:52
And it's so easy because LabCorp is nationwide. I just put it in an order.
55:56
I talk with you or you talk with one of my nurses and then it's like I put together
56:01
the plan and I say, okay, Diva Mia, reviewed your labs.
56:04
This is here. It needs to be here. This is what I need you to do. And these are the foods.
56:08
Please don't eat them. I can't make you not eat them, but you're going to inflame yourself.
56:13
Now you're knowingly poisoning yourself. Before you just thought you were healthy
56:16
eating. You're all the time. I don't eat out. I eat healthy.
56:20
Why do I still not feel right? It's like, well, you were unknowingly eating beans.
56:24
Chicken or something that you're, or eggs. Like you were unknowingly poisoning yourself.
56:28
It's not because you were trying
56:29
to. I believe that you were trying to be healthy. I hear it all the time.
56:32
So this is a great way while they can't get the full experience by not being
56:37
in the office, they can get food sensitivity tests. They can get full labs.
56:42
If it's something like hormone pellets or something like that,
56:44
it's like, well, then they can find an office that's close to them if Texas
56:48
is just not close enough for them.
56:50
So yeah, that office is called the Vital Reset.
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That's wonderful. We'll post that, too, in the comments later as well.
56:57
One of the things, too, is most people that come to functional medicine,
57:01
they're a little shocked because insurance doesn't tend to cover everything
57:06
or cover some things, but it doesn't cover.
57:08
It might cover like your hormones. It might cover some supplements. It might cover people.
57:13
They're confused because I think it's starting to change. But currently,
57:17
a lot of functional medicine is not covered.
57:20
No, it's not. Health insurance, I really don't think it should be called health
57:24
insurance. It really should just be called sick insurance. Call it what it is.
57:27
It's only based on if you're sick. It's not based on if you're healthy.
57:31
You want to have a heart attack?
57:32
They'll pay for it. You want to have some organs thrown in the trash?
57:35
They'll pay for it. You want to take drugs for the rest of your life?
57:38
They'll pay for it. You want to get healthy?
57:40
No. So the one thing that they do typically pay for is at least the LabCorp lab.
57:46
At the very least, they'll cover those, and that's a great help to patients.
57:49
And so the reason being is because we're restoring function and we're not giving you pharmaceuticals.
57:55
I mean, so like the pharmaceutical drug reps, they don't even visit my office.
57:59
Even though I have a DEA license, you would think like I'd be on the list and
58:02
they'd be coming here and trying to get me to write their prescriptions.
58:05
Nope, because we don't take insurance. Because we can't, they don't want to pay it.
58:08
So they don't pay us to sit there for 45 minutes to an hour and spend time with
58:12
you and get to know you as a patient.
58:14
You know how much I know you as a patient? It's a very different experience.
58:17
All patients have my personal cell phone number.
58:19
It's like, it's a very different experience when you come to this office,
58:22
but I'm not being told how to treat you or what I can do with you because the
58:27
insurance is not involved.
58:29
But HSAs or health savings accounts or I don't know, whatever all those abbreviations
58:34
are that some people have from their jobs, that's accepted.
58:36
So we swipe those cards. It pays their nutrition, pays whatever.
58:39
Sometimes they want to know, like, why is it recommended? It's like,
58:41
well, those are their labs. Shows that they need it. So we haven't had a problem
58:45
with people having that covered.
58:47
And then also offices like functional medicine offices, a lot of them will take
58:51
options like care credit.
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So I don't know if you've ever heard of that, but care credit in our office
58:56
gives you six months. You can get whatever you need and it's 0% interest.
59:00
Just get it paid off in those six months and it was same as cash.
59:03
So there are options to be able to afford it.
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Okay. So that helps people out that can't afford it that really need to get
59:09
healed. And we're talking about healing, not just,
59:13
you know, putting a Band-Aid on a disease. So it's really about truly healing
59:19
yourself from the inside out.
59:21
If somebody wants to get a hold of you, I don't want to put your cell phone
59:23
number on here, but I'm going to post your website. Is there a good way?
59:27
What's the best way to contact you once they go to your website? Is there a form?
59:31
Yeah, they can request an appointment or they can call the office.
59:35
It's just the new you med clinic is the website or doc doc.
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Jessica.com is also an easy way to remember it. And the office number is just 817-281-9040.
59:49
It's on the website. But you can also like contact us and then we call you and
59:54
can talk to you about what's going on and set you up an appointment.
59:57
And you do chiropractic as well, correct?
59:59
Yeah, I am a chiropractor. Few people come to me for chiropractic unless they're
1:00:03
already my existing patients and they're like, oh, I need an adjustment.
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I've been a chiropractor for 20 years.
1:00:07
I mostly focus on the functional medicine because there's not a lot of providers who do what I do.
1:00:14
So it's like, if you're a patient of mine, you can get an adjustment,
1:00:18
but typically not just new patients walking in for chiropractic because I have
1:00:23
so much focus and time put into the functional side, which is very much needed. I think people really.
1:00:29
Tired of taking drugs. They're tired of just like, here's your prescription.
1:00:33
Here's your prescription. Same thing day in, day out. It's like they want a
1:00:37
solution. And the solution is really just got to restore function.
1:00:40
Well, functional medicine is very naturopathic, too. I mean,
1:00:42
there's a lot of natural things.
1:00:44
And people that tend to do functional medicine, like I also do acupuncture and
1:00:47
I do massage and I do IVs and red light and sauna.
1:00:52
I mean, I kind of cover the whole gambit of everything.
1:00:54
So I think that people that do functional, they're looking for quality of life, not just quantity.
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And that's the difference is functional medicine gives us a better quality of
1:01:04
life. It does. And I tell people, there's somebody made a quote someplace,
1:01:07
you're either going to pay now or you're going to pay later.
1:01:09
Either way, you're going to pay. You just have to decide, do you want to pay
1:01:12
for health or do you want to pay for that extreme sick that you're now dealing with?
1:01:15
Because either way, you're going to be paying.
1:01:18
Yes, exactly. And paying with your life. Having a poor quality of life,
1:01:21
you're paying. It may not be money, but you're paying. You're paying the price.
1:01:25
Is there anything that we forgot to discuss today that you want to bring up?
1:01:28
If you're in Texas, I'm at the New You Medical and Infusion Clinic.
1:01:31
If you're nationwide, I'm at The Vital Reset. And it's just thevitalreset.com.
1:01:36
So either way, I've got you and can give you guidance. My passion is for people
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to have that quality of life.
1:01:43
Like, I think they deserve it. Well, thank you, Diva Jessica.
1:01:46
It's been a pleasure having you on. I feel honored to have you.
1:01:50
And I hope that this reaches the right people and the people that need your
1:01:53
help can find you because I know there's a huge need for this right now in this country.
1:01:58
So that's all I've got. This is a diva me. I'm going to sign off.
1:02:02
You want to sign off, diva Jessica?
1:02:03
Sounds great. Sign it off. You guys, everybody have a wonderful week and take
1:02:07
care of yourself. Ciao, ciao.
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