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Facebook Live: Inflammation The Silent Fire Destroying Your Health And How To Put It Out · Health, Life & What’s Next

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I believe when you truly know the root causes of your symptoms, disease, illness, you heal your body and break free from the conventional medicine rollercoaster, which is only providing a pill and a bandage solution, keeping you stuck and sick.
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And to me, that is unacceptable.
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Welcome to Find the Root Cause podcast.
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I'm Dr.
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Jennifer Jente.
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My patients call me Dr.
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J.
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Functional medicine and root cause doctor and on this podcast each week I will be diving deeper on a health topic with the intention of helping you get a clear understanding of why your symptoms do not have to be a mystery anymore and a plan to help you reduce the need for medications, reduce the frustration, the confusion, the anxiety in order to achieve health and well being.
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wellness, happiness, to feel your very best and improve the quality of your life.
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If you are ready to take your health, stamina, and life to the next level and stop struggling, keep listening.
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I got something amazing to tell you.
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I am live, so I'm loving this live.
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Facebook Lives are, aren't you guys loving the same thing?
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I'm loving it.
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Back in the days I used to do so many of these and people used to get a lot of value and my goals to bring it back only because we are at a time where.
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Ah, so many people are struggling.
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So many people are facing that of health challenges.
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And as a functional medicine doctor, it is my job to shed some light and discuss the things that most doctors are not talking about.
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So I wrote some notes, so you're gonna see me reading because I wanna make sure that I'm not missing anything, any point.
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If you have any questions, even after watching this, you can just send in my weight.
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Comment below and ask your questions.
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I would love for you to share this information with all the people that you know that can benefit from it.
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I usually tell my patients sharing is caring and loving, because when you offer the gift of health to people, you're giving them a lot, A lot of us think it's money or it's a gift, but having a body that works for you is very important.
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And one thing that I do a lot with my patients, that I work with patients on a regular basis is addressing inflammation.
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Nobody's talking about inflammation, Like I have to tell you how many times people will come to me and no one is checking the inflammatory markers.
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So part of my treatment protocols and part of my investigative process is to check inflammatory markers.
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You gotta know because it always starts with inflammation.
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So in today's video, in today's Facebook Live YouTube podcast, remember you can always go to our YouTube channel to get the catch that replay,'cause the algorithm only keeps these wonderful.
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Lives for like 30 minutes, or you can listen not to this on the podcast.
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That would cause podcasts as you are driving, cooking, cleaning, just to kind of educate yourself.
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That's one thing I tell my patients all of the time, that nobody can take away from you.
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Like nobody can take away my knowledge, although I spend a lot of money, but nobody can take away my knowledge.
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Even now, we've grown and building my business and I'm learning things about funnels, about ads, and I'm like, I'm gonna learn these things and use'em forever.
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And that's the thing when it comes to healing your body, whatever learning you acquired, skills and tools, you can always use it forever.
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So inflammation.
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I treat inflammation as nobody's business.
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And when my patients are less inflamed, that's when they start seeing results.
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That's when they start feeling better.
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That's when they'll text me and say, Dr.
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Gente, I'm losing weight.
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I'm using water weight.
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I feel less inflamed.
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I feel less heavy in my body.
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My hormones, I'm not experiencing half flashes up because we are targeting inflammation.
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Did you know that most people ignore the first signs of inflammation?
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Because we've been this conditioned.
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We've been conditioned to do so.
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We tell ourselves it's aging, it's stress, it's hormones.
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I'm getting older when in fact it's your brain getting used to feeling bad, Like we keep coming up with.
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Things, I'm not gonna call them excuses, like our brain is telling our stories to keep us exactly where we are.
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No, it's not aging.
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Could it be your hormones?
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Yes.
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But what's causing the hormone imbalance, right?
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It's stress.
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Like we all have stress, but we all have different degrees and severity of inflammation.
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So I want you to stop and recognize this inflammation, this symptoms as a warning sign.
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It's your body communicating with you.
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When you have inflammation, it's like your body is whispering before it starts screaming.
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We start with inflammation.
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That's a whisper.
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And then full blown symptoms is the scream.
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It's your body, like the back pain, you wake up with the bloating, that's not going away.
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The chronic fatigue, that's not improving.
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That's your body actually screaming out loud.
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But we don't start screaming.
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We start whispering.
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So inflammation is the whisper that almost everyone is missing and including your doctor.
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That used to be me.
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I usually wait until that patients are severely sick and then maybe we'll check inflammatory markers.
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And when I'm looking at people's blood tests, because that's part of my process.
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When you schedule consultation with me, I'm gonna ask you to upload previous blood work.
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And I'm like, you inflamed, but nobody's checking the inflammatory markers like what's going on?
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No one, but you have to because it always go back to inflammation.
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Every single symptoms, every single disease lead to inflammation.
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It was says.
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So it was said that 90% of chronic disease is linked to inflammation, 90%, the heart disease, the diabetes, the autoimmune conditions, the arthritis, obesity, the weight gain, lead to inflammation, and so often we do all the injections out there.
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They are not addressing the inflammation.
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These are quick fixes because when you stop taking the injections or the weight loss medications, what happen?
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The weight comes back.
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I saw a patient yesterday who's in Monro.
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And she was like, Dr.
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Gente, my doctor didn't tell me when to stop taking this me, uh, medication.
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I've lost weight, but that's it.
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I lost weight, but I'm still tired.
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I'm still bloated now.
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My stomach is really hurting.
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I'm having like aches and pains.
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That's inflammation.
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She's like, I would love for you to help me not to be dependent on this medication because I know for sure I'm an educated person and I know when I stop taking the pill, the weight will come back, which is completely true.
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Alright, so six out of 10 adults in the us.
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Have a chronic illness and most studied as an solid inflammation.
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You gotta have inflammation for you to be sick.
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That is just the pathway of disease creation.
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75% of people dealing with chronic fatigue, migraine, bloating, weight gain, have inflammatory markers that are never tested in traditional labs.
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Traditional labs, like the labs that your doctors are doing right now, they are not testing inflammatory marker that could be leading to all this health disease and symptoms you are faced right now.
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70% of the immune system lives in the gut, like we all know that now, when I did this research, because I wanna bring real numbers to the table.
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I don't want you to think like it's me creating all this.
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Yes, I've been practicing for 11 years.
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I've seen it all, and every single patient of mines are inflamed.
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But I want you to bring like the statistics that I'm seeing as I'm researching these topics, right?
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70%.
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I think it's more than that.
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I think 90% of the immune system is in the gut, So meaning inflammation starts in the gut, not in your head, not in your joints, not in your ovaries.
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For those people that are struggling with hormonal replacement, not in your skin, for all those, skin rashes in the gut, inflammation.
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Age is you five times faster.
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That's why I tell people age is just a number.
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Don't tell me it's because you're getting older.
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That's why you feel the way you feel.
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Don't tell me because you're older, because that's why your hormones are, I balance like not all 40-year-old, 44-year-old going through perimenopause are experiencing the same symptoms.
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I've seen people that are postmenopausal, they have beautiful estrogen levels, but yes, you're supposed to have no estrogen if you,, post menopause, But that's not the truth.
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It is the inflammation, it's the degree and the severity of inflammation that makes your skin looks older, that makes it difficult for you to lose weight.
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That makes you have chronic fatigue and even memory, the brain fog, the forgetfulness.
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You can't recall things like you used to.
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Your brain has to work harder for you to recall inflammation that are sharp as you used to.
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It's the is to burn inflammation.
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We call that neuroinflammation.
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Neurotoxicity.
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Chronic inflammation increases the risk of depression by 70%.
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We all have some types of mental illness.
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We all anxious, we all depressed because we don't love the way our body is functioning.
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We are not getting to the root causes, the underlying causes of why you're feeling the way you're feeling.
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That leads to depression in frustrations that I know something is wrong, but yet everything is normal.
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My doctor's telling me it's in my head.
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I'll be depressed'cause I want a body that functions for me every day.
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I want to have energy.
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I want to lose weight on demand.
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I want not to look that I'm pregnant with the blueness.
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And if you have chronic inflammation and we never check your markers, we don't know why your doctor cannot explain to you, give you a clear solution and answer why that is to depression, I'll be very depressed and hopeless.
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Women, US are twice as likely to have hidden solid inflammation due to hormonal fluctuation and stress load.
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Did you hear that?
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US females?
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We have way more solid inflammation because of our hormones that are fluctuating all of the time, every 28 days, right?
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We have hormonals imbalance if you are still menstruating, so then you have like all this estrogen, progesterone, DHE, stress hormones, and then we process stress differently.
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We do, men are not like that man only has testosterone that just renewed every 24 hours and man's like, oh, stress.
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Okay, we'll deal about it.
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We'll deal.
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We'll deal with it later.
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Us we like, it's in our head.
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We keep repeating the stressful situations in our head.
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Like your mind keep racing.
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We keep thinking you like all, you wake up all hours of the night looking at the ceiling, thinking about all the things in your head.
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So the stress load and also the hormones makes us to be more likely to have inflammation that are hidden.
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Now I'm gonna go over a few things when it comes to inflammation.
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We're gonna go into deep dives, into the root causes of inflammation because I want you to understand how all your symptoms.
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Diseases diagnosis are literally linked to inflammation, so gut inflammation, connection, what's causing your inflammation in the gut?
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Leaky gut, we all know about leaky gut imbalance in the gut microbiome specifically, if you take antibiotic, you take medications.
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Even though over the counter medications, I promise you it's messing up your gut food sensitivities.
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How often do you eat food and then your gut is acting up or you get in a rash.
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Or you have respiratory issues because of the histamine production, pathogens, viruses, candida, mold, and also parasites.
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Processed foods, foods that you did not cook in your kitchen that you are purchasing because you know you're busy out of convenience.
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So these people don't connect gut symptoms with moods, with skin, with weight.
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When I tell patients the connection, they're like, oh, I see how my gut.
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My imbalance in the gut microbiome.
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The food sensitivity is the way I eat.
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The pathogens, the gut infections that I have, the process can actually lead to inflammation.
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What about stress?
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Chronic stress raises cortisol.
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Cortisol disrupts sleep hormones, immune function that leads to inflammation.
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Okay, we all have stress.
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When was the last time you look at your stress hormones?
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When was the last time you look at your adrenal hormones?
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Chronic stress increases inflammation markers by 60%.
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That's why people who do not have a right process, they don't know how to manage stress are always sick.
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They always have a cold.
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They always have flu because that stress is weak in your immune system, creating massive inflammation.
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People underestimate stress because it's invisible, right?
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We don't see stress.
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Like, I don't know.
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I'm not even stressed because I don't see it, but when in fact internally we have stressors that are creating accident of stress leading to increased cortisol, leading to inflammation.
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What did I say?
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Your body keeps score even when your mind tries to push through.
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Let me repeat myself.
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Your body keeps score even when your mind tries to push through.
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What about hormones?
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How is that linked to inflammation?
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I'm gonna tell you.
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Inflammation, disrupt estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, your thyroid with hormones, your insulin hormones leading to weight gain, PMS, symptoms and fertility.
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Fatigue, anxiety, cold intolerance, cyst formation, like all these ovarian cysts.
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Multiple is from inflammation.
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All these PMS symptoms, hormonal imbalance, your heart flashes, your irritability, your cramping when you get your bleed.
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That's inflammation.
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You can't lose the weight, but we don't know why we can't lose the weight.
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We used to lose the weight easily.
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Now it's a struggle.
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That's inflammation.
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Inflammation is heavy in our bodies.
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It makes our cells, it's bloating our cells and making us feel very heavy.
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What about the insulin hormones like those insulin resistance.
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Your body, your pancreas is creating insulin.
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When was the last time you checked your insulin?
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I have to tell you, if I have a penny, like a penny, like a quarter, for all the people that are coming to my clinic, they've never heard the word insulin.
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That are trying to lose weight, or they're like, oh yeah, I don't have diabetes.
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My glucose is fine.
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My hemoglobin A1C is fine.
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I'm like, what about the insulin?
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What is that?
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It is a blood test you should be doing with your doctor because that leads to inflammation that's gonna prevent you from losing the weight and need to order chronic health conditions.
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I check insulin in every single human in my clinic.
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I have to look at these hormones because 90% of doctors don't.
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Hormones issues are always inflammation issues in the digest, in, in disguise.
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Hormone issues are always inflammation issues in disguise.
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Whenever you are experiencing hormone imbalance, pre prepare, post menopause, think about inflammation issues in disguise and it's, I'm always in awe how doctors gynecologists, OBGYNs, like the female doctors, never check people's hormones, but we all get, IUD, we all get hormone replacement therapies.
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We get the pills, but what is your level?
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What are the levels of your estrogen progesterone, DHEA testone, nobody can tell me.
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But yet I have hormone more imbalance.
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Do you, which hormones, I dunno, can't lose the weight.
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Why?
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I don't know.
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Inflammation, another root cause of inflammation.
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So we're still going deep dives into the root cause is toxicity bundle.
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Now that happens to be my secret sauce in helping my patient felt amazing within two to three weeks.
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That's why increased energy people lose weight in my practice when I address the toxicity burden.
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I have a test that I do a UN test that tests all your toxins, your mycotoxins, your heavy metal toxicity, and your environmental toxicity, and link it to specific disease and symptoms, and also tell me and you how to get rid of it.
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It's a UN test.
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I've been running this test for seven years in my practice and when people, when I do this test and I show it to people, they're like, oh my god.
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Dr.
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Genti.
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Now I can see clearly what my doctors have been missing, what I've been missing, and I also can see how I'm not crazy, my friend.
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If you are not addressing your toxicity burden, you are missing 90% of the healing process.
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You hear me?
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You get to assess the level of toxins you have in your body.
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Do you have mold?
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Yes you do.
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How do I know?
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Because you eat rice, you eat oats, you eat peanuts, drink coffee.
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These things are moldy.
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Do you have heavy metals?
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Yes.
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You do?
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How do I know?
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Because hey, heavy metals everywhere you cook with it, right?
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Your pen aluminum.
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If you have dental work, your mercury filling, that's heavy metals.
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You take medication, Tylenol's full of heavy metals.
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Oops.
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I'm not supposed to say this, but you have heavy metals.
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Do you have and endocrine disruptors?
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Yes.
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You do the plastics.
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BPA, pesticides.
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Do you have PEs?
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Yes you do, because it's weird in our food.
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That's how we get the food sensitivity.
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That's how we are having all these gut issues.
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The average person has over 200 plus chemicals stored in the bodies.
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This is a fact.
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I didn't, I did not create this.
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This is me doing research.
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You, me, all the people living in the United State of America.
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We have over the average person, over 200 plus chemicals live in our bodies.
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How?
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'cause we are exposed to toxins every day.
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If you truly wanna lose weight, address your toxicity level, because when you lose toxins, your cells shrink.
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You decrease inflammation, you get rid of water weight, you lose weight, period.
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So this is your awareness.
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'cause so many people are coming to me, they like trying all of the things, but one thing they can actually do that can literally significantly help them lose weight or feel better or get rid of the chronic fatigue of the brain fog.
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Because leaky gut, leaky brain neurotoxicity, toxic gut, toxic brain is connected.
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It's detoxed.
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Right now we're doing a Paray Cleans, and I wish I can show you guys pictures of what's coming out of people's body.
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And I love when I do those Percys because people will never know.
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They'll never know what they have until they see it.
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And sometimes I ask my patients to believe it before they see it because if you're gonna wait to see it, you'll never believe it, then you're never gonna heal.
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Remember inflammation in disguise, a lot of us are like having tons of things.
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Stored in our bodies.
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And because we're not taking, we're not putting the effort and investigating and identifying, we'll never know, but yet we are on the cycle of finding the greatest, latest solution.
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How can you find a solution if you don't even, you don't know what you're looking for.
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It's not gonna happen.
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Let's talk about inflammation and nutritional deficiencies.
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Yes, inflammation depletes nutrients like Omegas, magnesium, the B vitamins, vitamin D, these things are crucial for energy production.
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They are crucial for mood.
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That's why we tell patients mental illness.
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It's a gut thing.
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It's an inflammation thing.
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Whenever you feel stressed, you are anxious, you're depressed, you have bipolar, whatever.
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It's inflammation in your brain.
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If you take medications, again, the medications are depleting your nutrients.
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If you have gut infections, they are still your nutrients.
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If you never detox, your cells are clogged with toxins.
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You are not gonna have nutrients penetrating your cells.
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They're not gonna get what they need to help.
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Them thrive and then for them to work for you.
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92% of Americans have at least one nutritional deficiency, 92%.
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That's why IV vitamin therapy, if you have a clinic that can give you a preservative free IVs, you can replenish those nutrients in a matter of weeks pills.
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You might be saying, well, Dr.
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Gen, I'm taking supplements.
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Oh my God, supplements will not replenish your nutrients in the cells as far as IV could.
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You gotta take a lot of pills.
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You gotta take multiple bottles to actually feel the difference.
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Marilyn spoke to a patient this morning that are signing up for a total body restoration program and she was saying, oh my God, how she spend at least$5,000 in supplements?
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Not kidding.
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I cannot make this up.
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No.
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She's like, well, I work with a functional medicine doctor before, and I did all this testing.
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That was like thousands of dollars and then I enroll into a program.
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Nothing was included.
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Is this like everything's included in my program, I literally give you specific targeted nutrients.
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Multi multi minerals, magnesium, all the thing herbs.
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We do a lot of herbs in my practice to help you decrease the inflammation and feed your cells what they need.
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But if you're looking at this like, I don't have access to vitamin therapy, I'm taking my pills, just know that you have to do your due diligence to look at the ingredients and also know you might have to take those pills for a long time.
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Specifically if you have gut issues, you are not absorbing.
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Those pills are just sitting there.
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And just be okay.
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You gotta take them for a long time and those pills might not be giving you the result that you're looking for.
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But nutritional deficiencies is a thing that happens when you have inflammation cause your cells are inflamed and there's no space for nutrients to go in there.
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And that leads to a whole bunch of symptoms, many of the symptoms that you're experiencing now.
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So root causes of inflammation.
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We talk about gut inflammation connection.
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We talk about how stress as a biological fire starter, when was the last time you checked your stress hormones?
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Like so many people are coming to me.
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They know they are stressed, but nobody's helping them.
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Stress.
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Check the stress hormones.
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Your cortisol, when was the last time you checked that?
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Not the blood.
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'cause you have to check your cortisol and cellularly.
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You have to look at the morning, afternoon, evening, and night.
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Hormonal imbalance.
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That's not a root cause of inflammation and toxicity burden and nutritional nutrient deficiencies.
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Almost every patient who walks into my in our clinic says the same thing.
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They'll say the following.
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Almost every single one of'em, almost every single patient that walk into my clinic will say the following, I just don't feel like myself anymore.
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Dr.
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Gente, I don't feel like myself anymore.
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And they have been told the labs are normal.
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Not only they've been told the labs are normal, they can see the labs are normal.
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They are very powerful human beings.
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They can read.
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They are very smart people.
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They're like, yep, my lives are normal.
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They have been through this anxiety.
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Take a Xanax.
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It's anxiety, you stress you anxious.
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Take Xanax.
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They have been told your hormones.
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It's your hormones.
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Lemme give you a pill.
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Let's do IUD, let's do the pal, let's do the cream.
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They have been told this again, stressed, right?
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Like you're stressed out.
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They have been told this age.
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I'm getting older.
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No, it's none of the above.
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It's none of it's not you.
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You are not crazy.
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That dismiss.
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Okay, so what happens when people, when patients like themselves have been through all this?
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Nonsense.
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I call it nonsense.
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It creates dismissal that leads to helplessness because they feel so hopeless.
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It's like nobody can help me.
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I don't know what's wrong with me and have to live like this for the rest of my life.
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And when people feel this way, it leads to a psychological state where people start believing.
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Nothing will help, nothing will help.
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But they know deep inside of them something is going wrong.
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You live it with your body.
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You know how your body is to function and you know how your body's functioning now.
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So when you have doctors, practitioners, and that used to be me, no shame, no judgment telling you it's your age, it's anxiety, it's your hormone.
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Nothing is wrong with you, makes you feel like nothing will help.
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And then you stop looking.
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You stop believing, and you stop going into victim mode.
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So the intel, I discover the power of functional medicine.
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My friend breaks that cycle by showing you, me why they feel the way they feel, and how to reverse it.
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I love what I do because every single time I have a patient sitting in my clinic on this chair, or I'm doing Zoom, like I have one patient right now, Shirley Brown, she's my patient.
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We're doing Zoom calls or meetings.
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People just look at me like, and they start crying.
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They're like, oh my God.
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It's not me.
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I don't have to take a Xanax.
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I'm not crazy because I can literally show them on paper by checking inflammatory markers by checking the proper testing without them spending a lot of money, and they're gonna see all these abnormalities like, am I gonna die?
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Think that's a joke.
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They'll be like, am I?
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Am I okay?
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I'm not, no.
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If you go to your doctor and you say, I don't feel good, guess what?
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You don't feel good.
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You don't decide to pay money whether the insurance is paying or not.
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It doesn't matter because you pay the insurance.
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They pay your taxes, pay the insurance they pay, okay?
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Or you working with a functional medicine, Dr.
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Like myself, because you want an extended office visit, you want someone that's actually gonna investigate and dedicate time, energy, and studying your case and looking for all the possible markers to give you some answers, some clarity, some results.
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That's what we do as a functional medicine.
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I break the cycle by showing you why you feel the way you feel.
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And no, you are not crazy.
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No, you don't wanna go see a shrink or papa pill.
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That's what I do every day, and I will not stop doing that because I have to tell you, me stopping doing the work that I was chosen to do is me doing a disservice to the world.
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So many people need to hear this.
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So many people are waking up this morning every day.
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Hoping and praying.
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They have a great day, struggling suffering, and they are doing so many things.
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They're doing exactly what they were told.
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They're taking the medication, they're investing in themselves.
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They're eating healthy, they're exercising, but yet they're not feeling great.
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Something is missing.
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Functional medicine test.
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The test that I do on the treatments that I provide for my patient, people that I never knew existed.
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We look at the gut, we look at inflammation.
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We look at nutritional deficiencies.
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We look at toxicity bundles, we look at gut infection, we look at hormones, we look at autoimmune triggers.
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We also look at your detox pathways, and patients will tell me, I've never had any doctors look at all of this for me.
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And I said, because you never had any doctors looking at all this factors.
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That's the reason why you still don't know what's going with you.
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And that's the reason why you're on the quest.
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You're searching, you've been searching for years, you've been seeing all the specialists.
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But if people are not addressing the gut issues, the inflammation issues, the toxins issues, the hormone issues, the detox, like you are missing up, you missing out in a list of frustration, disappointment, and you're feeling like, okay, it's me.
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I have to settle for this.
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And your body's like, Nope, we are not.
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And you know how I know your body's saying we're not settling because the symptoms keeps increasing.
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You're getting more and more of the symptoms used to be sluggish today, and then tomorrow you have chronic fatigue.
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The migraine is not going away.
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The skin rash is not going away.
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It keeps coming back Your gut, this keeps getting bloated.
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People will tell me they have like gut issues, even drinking water.
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Water is the best medicine.
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Why are we reacting to water?
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So what are you supposed to drink to hydrate?
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It's your body saying, no, don't give up.
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We're not gonna give up.
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There's a lot more work to do here.
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We deserve to feel great.
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We deserve to have a better quality of life.
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Let's address the inflammation.
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So if you've been living with symptoms that don't make sense, and this doesn't make sense, Dr.
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Gent, I'm doing all of the things and your body feels inflamed, heavy, tired, and out of balance, and you feel like you're going through, you're doing everything but still not getting results.
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Look at your inflammatory markers.
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Schedule consultation with a functional medicine doctor.
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Bring those questions to your doctor.
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Doctor, are you checking all these things I just mentioned?
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Because you and your doctors are missing a lot.
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I'm gonna okay myself.
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If you've been living with symptoms that don't make sense, we call them mystery symptoms, mystery illness.
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Nobody can help you figure this out, and your body feels heavy and flame tired, sluggish, and out of balance.
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You know when your body feels out of balance because you're dealing with it, right?
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Every day, nothing is working.
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If you feel like you're doing anything and everything right now, the latest, greatest whatever, Dr.
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Google is giving you some information or recommendations but still not getting answers.
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You still dunno what's wrong with you, that you know your hormones are in balance or how because you have PMS symptoms have flashes.
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You would ability that your body says, but hormones or you have fibroids and endometriosis.
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PCOS different in my hormones, but which one can you do the proper test?
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Are you seeing on paper which hormones are in balance?
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You already know something is off.
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Absolutely something is wrong.
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Dr.
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Gen.
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I don't feel like myself, but which hormones?
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I don't know.
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When you do identify the hormones that are imbalanced have it.
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Why is it imbalanced?
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I don't know.
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There's always something creating the dysfunction and disease in your body, and that's my message to you today.
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My message to you today is not to give up.
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Continue on this journey.
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It's your body.
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It's your health, it's your vessel.
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Don't give up.
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You can't afford to.
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What's the alternative?
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As you get older, the symptoms are louder and you have less functioning.
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Your body functions decreases.
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You find yourself in facilities that you don't wanna be, like nursing homes and a wheelchair worker, that's not normal.
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Society said it is, but I'm telling you, that's not normal.
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And all the patients that are in nursing home didn't choose to be there, didn't know this medicine exists.
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Back in the days, people didn't know functional medicine exists.
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They didn't know there are natural ways.
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Or the other options to heal, aside from taking the pill.
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So that's what inflammation does to your body.
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We talked about the root causes, right?
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We talked about how you're not crazy, something is wrong, how inflammation usually starts silently and then becomes lack of screaming in your body.
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Your body is asking for help, and it's time to listen before the whisper becomes very loud.
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Because when that becomes loud, you're gonna spend more time or energy, you're gonna be more stressed out, more anxious in finding a solution.
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I specialize in uncovering the exact root causes of my patients inflammation and symptoms, and build in a plan for them.
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That's what I do.
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That's what I'm able to get.
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90 something Google reviews, and I'm writing right now because we do great work.
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I want you to know that you need to really work with a doctor that knows what they're doing.
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And Don.
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Don't just waste your money, time and energy on any doctor that calls themselves functional medicine.
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Do your due diligence, research them out, but functional medicine should also be in your back pocket.
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Now, this is what we're gonna do because my goal on this planet, and I'm fully accepting my work, I used to hide from it.
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If I'm being honest with you.
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I used to shy away.
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I'm like, oh, people will find me if they need me.
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People will come to me if they need me.
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When they struggle enough, they suffer enough.
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I can't allow this to happen anymore.
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Because I'm seeing a lot more cancer patients now, a lot of autoimmune conditions.
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And to be honest with you, I would love not to do that.
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I would love for people to start working on themselves before the symptoms lead to cancer and autoimmune.
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So I'm hosting a free workshop.
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It's free, and I would love for you to come.
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It is happening December 2nd at 5:00 PM to spend the time.
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And this workshop, we're gonna workshop some of your symptoms and I'm gonna use the functional medicine process.
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To show you how I would, if you are a patient of mine, how I would handle this situation?
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Any symptoms, any disease, bring it.
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Of course, I'm not gonna treat you'cause we cannot treat in a zoom meeting.
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There's a lot more you need to identify.
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But my hope during this free workshop is to really show you what is possible to give you hope when some clarity, this mental old beliefs for you to start thinking how wow.
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I need to really look elsewhere.
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I need to incorporate something else because what I'm doing right now is not working.
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cause so often people will come to me, oh, I'm your worst case.
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I'm a very challenging case.
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I'm like, no you're not.
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Don't think like that.
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You're not a challenging case.
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It so happens your inflammation, your whisper has been loud.
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We just have more work to do.
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That's all.
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But you's not a challenging case.
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So on this free workshop, I would love for you to attend and also to bring a friend of family members.
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'cause all I'm doing is to show you what's possible, give you the information.
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For you to educate yourself.
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cause when you do not know what's going on and you have no education, you're at the mercy of the doctors, you're at the mercy of the practitioner and they can do whatever they want with you.
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You are literally transferring your power to them.
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And my goal for my patients, for them to have enough knowledge to be dangerous, enough knowledge to have to hold a conversation with the doctors.
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I want you to work, talk to your doctor.
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Like, okay, I'm in charge of my body.
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Since I am not the expert, I didn't go to school, medical school, I need to hire you to help fix this, but I'm not even just gonna sit here and be a passive participant and let you do whatever and I'm just gonna, no, because if you do that, you are not gonna get the results you're looking for.
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You gotta come prepared and show up.
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You're like, okay, this is what's happening.
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And I think we should look at this.
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Dr.
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Gente says this, I journal my food and I know we need to look at these hormones.
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I would love you to like actually bring the question, bring it to your doctor, say hey.
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I want to feel good.
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I wanna feel great.
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I wanna feel better.
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And I know it's possible for me.
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And I've been looking, I've been searching.
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I have this knowledge I would like to share with you.
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Can you help me?
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And you're not gonna do that if you don't learn yourself.
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Your health is your number one priority, should not be somebody else's priority.
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It's yours by the, at the end of the office visit, you spend 15 minutes with your doctor, you think your doctor's gonna be thinking of you.
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No, your doctor's moving on to the next patient.
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So I saw a patient the other day.
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Who just diagnosed with stage four cancer, colon cancer, and she's upset because she doesn't like the way the doctor delivered the message to her.
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Then oncologist just walking through the room, hi, so and so, you have cancer just like that.
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No compassion, terrible bedside manner, like she was looking for someone to kind of deliver the message with ease, not like understanding.
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This is a very challenging time with a challenging diagnosis.
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Someone to be there.
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The doctor just walked, Hey, so and so you have cancer.
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We need to do chemotherapy now, and I have to, I have to tell, I'm like this.
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We had learned to do that.
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Imagine that doctor has three, like 15 other patients so that compassion is not there.
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Don't be upset.
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I'm like, just understand.
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Doctors nowadays have a lot going on.
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People are sick, they are not feeling better.
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They remain sick.
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And doctors us, we are like overwhelmed, burnt out with the amount of people coming to our clinic, our practice.
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So unfortunately I would love for it not to be that experience, but it is what it is.
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That's why I left conventional where I still practice, sorry, conventional medicine because I was just like one of those doctors.
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I was just walking through the room, so and so you have diabetes, take metformin, goodbye.
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No education, no change of lifestyles, no compassion, because I'm in my head.
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I'm like, okay, I have a list of people I need to see and I need to make sure I get, see all these people.
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Do my notes.
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Okay.
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And be home for my own family at a certain time.
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And I don't wanna bring work home and the insurance gonna ask for a whole bunch of paperwork.
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Like we got to go like, hurry up.
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Doctors go like, I need to tell you what I need you to tell you.
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I need to give you the pills and I need to go, I need to get out.
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Until I saw a patient that actually changed everything for me.
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And I told the story so many times, this Spanish speaking patient, and she's like, and that was her third visit in the emergency room, second or third.
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And she was like, doctor and her beautiful.
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And whenever ask I tell the story, I'm not tearing because it's so emotional.
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She was like, doctor I know what's wrong with me.
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And I'm saying to my head, if you know what's wrong with you, why are you here?
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I'm like, like you are wasting my time lady.
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Come on.
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Terrible.
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She's like, my husband is beating on me.
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Just exactly.
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Quote and all I'm thinking in my head, I have an emergency room full of people.
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Okay.
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I need to opt this lady's blood pressure medication so I can move on.
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And the nurse is looking at me and I'm looking at the nurse.
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I'm like, I don't know what to tell you.
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Like I'm not domestic violence like expert.
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And I'm like, okay, but you need to take this medication.
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She's like, my blood pressure is high because my husband is beating on me.
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And I'm like, I don't know what else to do, miss whatever misses, whatever.
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I'm just gonna give you a pill and then I gotta go.
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And that's what I did.
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I had up her blood pressure medication.
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I'm telling her, this is so emotional.
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Her blood pressure medication and then I just walked out.
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I know what happened to her.
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So often you hear stories how people don't make it out of domestic violence.
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Could have had no capacity or no room to show compassion to get this lady resources.
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'cause I had 20 other patients I had to see so, so mad.
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So anyways, I'm crying because it is when you.
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Seeing all these doctors and you're just a number.
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My patient used to be a number to me and I'm like, I need to see 20 people to generate revenue for the insurance to pay so we can keep our doors.
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At one point, I feel like I was competing with the other doctors who get to see, oh patients and it's 10, 15 minutes.
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How can I know you and help you in 15 minutes?
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No way, Jose.
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It's not gonna happen.
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I'm just gonna give you pills.
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So this lady and I, and I'm telling you this is like that changed everything for me.
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Usually it takes one thing besides my own health issues, my dad going through cancer, like it has nothing to do with the amount of emotion that I felt after seeing this lady like this has to, this is not working out.
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I am a legal drug dealer.
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I'm giving people drugs all day long.
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I wish I can find this lady and just apologize to her because I was not the best practitioner.
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And I was not the best practitioner because I didn't wanna be.
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It's because society said that's the way I was supposed to practice.
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So when these people come to my door, they have no re don't, they have no clue what's going with them.
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And they have 5, 3, 4, 5 medications and they're like, I don't know.
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I don't know.
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How do I get off this medications?
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My doctor never told me how to get off this medications.
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Like, what do I do?
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And I'm looking at them like, we need to identify the causes.
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We need to decrease inflammation.
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We need to remove toxins, we need to repair your gut.
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And they're looking at me like, oh my God, how come no one never told me that?
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So I'm sitting here, I'm like, okay, I need to do more work.
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I really need to do more work.
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This is not working out.
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What I'm doing right now is not enough because I'm seeing way too many patients like that.
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So that's why we're doing this half workshop December 2nd, 2025, to win awareness, clarity, and for you not to be at the mercy of your practitioner.
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Again, this is not batching the doctors.
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'cause I used to be one of those doctors who just give you pills when everything is normal.
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I'm like, everything's normal.
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Or I have the nurse call you and say, Hey, so and so everything's normal.
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Sometimes I don't even, nobody calls you.
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You have to call the doctor.
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The doctor.
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I did blood work.
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Can you tell me what's wrong with me?
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The doctor?
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Everything is normal.
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Okay.
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But I'm still not normal.
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I feel like terrible.
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Okay.
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I dunno what to tell you.
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Everything is normal.
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Like if you feel terrible, it's in your head.
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You're crazy.
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I don't know.
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We cannot help you.
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So it's, it is very challenging knowing that as a practitioner, there are so many options out there for you and people do not know about them.
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To me, it's challenging.
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I have this conversation so many times with my team.
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I'm like, how can we do better?
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How can we increase awareness?
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How can we tell people they don't have to suffer a struggle anymore?
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They have choices.
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And that's why I do this Facebook Lives.
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We're gonna be doing this, Facebook Lives every Wednesday at 1:00 PM and I'm gonna bring topics like this to educate you.
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We're gonna be doing some type of workshop or master classes.
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That's my dedication to my community, and they're gonna be free.
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Okay?
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And I wanna talk about hormones.
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I wanna talk about your gut one in your life.
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I wanna talk about this.
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Why you still sick?
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I wanna talk about how medication is not healing, it's numbing.
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I wanna talk about the brain fog, memory issues, anxiety, mental illness that is not all in your head, it's your body.
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I wanna talk about how to add 10 plus years of healthy years into your life.
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When people submit me in person, they're like, how old are you?
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I look so young because age is just a number.
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And some people, well, some people tell me I have good genes.
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Okay, you can't blame it on your genes, but I've seen a lot of people that has be like, good genes and they still struggling and they still look old and they're like very young.
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Alright, so please help me spread the words.
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I would love for you to share this information.
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Invite people to our free health workshop.
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You come when your symptom went to disease.
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If you have, if you're curious like, ah.
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My doctor said this thing doesn't work.
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Right.
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Conventional doctor said functional medicine is a skin.
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It's voodoo medicine.
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I would love for you to show up.
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Let me po let me prove it to you.
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So December 2nd at 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time.
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It's a Zoom meeting, so you have to register because I don't wanna burn anybody that's not committed in learning.
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How they can start hitting the bodies because we're gonna be discussing a lot of things behind the scenes and people are gonna be sharing the symptoms for me to workshop the symptoms.
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And I want only people that are serious.
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If you still wanna be in the conventional space and that's working for you, this is not for you.
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If you wanna continue taking the medications and that's working for you, this is not for you.
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These are for people that are tired of being tired, that are looking for answers, that are looking for an alternative.
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These are people that are like, okay, Dr.
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Gent and holistic medicine is something I'm interested in.
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They want to explore.
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These are the people that are willing to invest time and energy and money into themselves because as we know, insurance space for pills and surgeries not healing.
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And I wanna talk to those people.
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I'm very serious'cause I'm gonna dedicate an hour and I'm gonna go deep, very deep.
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With our patients and we're gonna workshop and I'm gonna tell you what I think is happening.
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And of course you are gonna have to do some due diligence and do the proper work to add to really, because we don't wanna assume.
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And that's for you.
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Workshop, free workshop, come in early free workshop December 2nd at 5:00 PM and standard time.
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You can DM me for the link.
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You might see it in the Facebook banner.
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If you're watching this on Facebook, you're gonna see a link like you can, there's a code, you can scan the code.
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A barcode.
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I wanna make it easier for you, a Q code that's gonna lead you straight to the registration page and I can't wait to see you.
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Alright, so next week, what are we gonna talk about?
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We are gonna talk about why you still feel sick when your labs are normal.
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Yeah.
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Because I want you to start thinking how these things are like really happening to you and it's a good thing so that you can end 2025 with a different mindset and start 2026 with clarity and hope.
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That is the goal, my friend.
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We are not going to 2026 like this.
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And I'm making sure that I'm gonna be so loud now moving forward in telling my stories, telling my patient stories, and proving to you and showing you what's possible.
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All right?
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Okay.
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I love you so much.
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Thank you so much for watching this Facebook, Instagram, listening to the podcast, watching this on YouTube.
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I'm back with our weekly Facebook Lives and I would love for you to schedule this time into your schedule.
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'cause I am, I work my schedule to be present.
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And I would love to educate you so you can be empowered and take back control of yourself, of your body, of your hormones, of your health, of your energy, so you can have the health that you so desire that you are born with to begin with.
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I'll see you next week and then again, register for the free workshop and I wish you have and I wish you to have a beautiful rest of your day.
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Bye..
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