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Allan Breidenbach of QC Kinetix · Ask The Experts

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Thirteen ten, Wi b A and Ask the Experts Joined in studio this evening
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by Alan Brighton baki is with QC Kinetics. Alan, great to see you
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at the studio. Oh, it's a pleasure to be here. Thanks for
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having me. I've had the pleasure of coming out and visiting you at your
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Southwest Side location a couple of times. And just an amazing clinic, and
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we'll talk about all the magic that goes on there. But that's not the
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only clinic. You have two here in the area, don't you. We
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do. We also have one up on just off American Parkway and one fifty
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one by Aaron Snugpub. So for folks that have probably heard me and others
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talking about QC Kinetics, pretty amazing stuff, really the future of medicine.
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How did you get involved, Alan, with QC Kinetics. What's a little
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bit about your background. Well, I got involved with it because I was
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just really intrigued by the technology. You know, the ability to help help
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people, you know, reduce pain and prove their range of motion and give
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their life back to them really was very appealing when you can do it in
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a non surgical way, no downtime, no missed work, the ability to
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get back to doing the things that you really want to do and feel like
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the best version of yourself. When we talk about that type of work that
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you guys are doing at QC Kinetics, let's talk about your typical patient.
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What is it for folks that kind of take the action they say, you
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know what, I'm going to call. Everyone's got the number burnt into their
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head six, so eighty three when ninety seven seventeen fifty is for people to
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actually kind of make that step. What are you seeing? What's kind of
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is there like a breaking point or is it just something where where it's it's
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maybe a spouse or an event or something says, you know what, today's
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the day to make that call and take that action. What's kind of that
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impetus? Generally? You know, I think it falls into kind of three
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categories. Sometimes it's the spouse who says enough is enough, But more often
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than not, you know, pain sneaks up on people in a different way.
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Arthritis particularly, it sort of becomes as an ache and then it starts
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to affect the way you sleep, the way you move, and pretty soon
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you stop doing things and when you realize I'm my life is getting smaller.
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I'm not doing as much as I want to do. I may want to
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go ride my bike, I may want to go walk around the lake.
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I may want to you know, be able to stand at a ballgame or
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do something that I just can't do anymore. And then it's that realization sort
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of like the glass shattering, where you say enough is enough. Also,
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we hear a lot of people say I can't sleep anymore. Oh it's too
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painful. I lay on my side, whether it's my shoulder, my hip,
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my knee. I want to be able to sleep again. And you
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know, when you're sleep deprived, pain just gets worse and worse and worse.
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And people just don't have the time or the luxury to say, Okay,
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I'm going to go have a surgery. You know, roll the dice
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with what that's going to be miswork, you know, the cost of you
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know, deductibles and insurance or through the roof. And so we provide a
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nice alternative to that. Let's talk about what what you mentioned the alternative and
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what we're talking about with regenerative medicine. For folks that aren't familiar, what
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is regenerative medicine? And and you mentioned kind of the science. This is
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cutting edge, but it's not necessarily anything new per se, is it.
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It's it's it's obviously that these natural biologics have always been there. It's the
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application and how we're using them that are that revolutionized things, isn't it.
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Yeah, you've really captured it. Well, it's not just a one size
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fits all. We really try to tailor our protocols to the individual patient.
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You know, a lot of the terms have been out there in the industry
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for a while. People will hear about plasma or platelet rich plasma, or
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stem cells, and we have a few other things that we have in our
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bag of tricks, if you will, that that can help. Some of
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it's a little bit proprietary, but we do harvest really all the genetic I
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should say genetic material, but the biologic material from you. So we're using
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your system to help heal yourself, and from that we really reduce any risk
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of any sort of contamination or infection and really allow your body to recognize what's
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going on and then heal itself. You talk about contamination or infection and I
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think of surgery and I I am somebody who who's knock on Wood. I've
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never actually had a surgical procedure performed on me in my life, and it's
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it's and I've had loved ones that have and it's always it's scary. I
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mean that the reality is going through that. And modern medicine is amazing.
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They can do amazing things, but it's still surgery. There's still that stuff.
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This is an amazing alternative to get the results are outstanding and not have
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to worry about that process of being put under. And I've got to bet
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for a lot of folks too, that's something that they say, you know
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what, I'm gonna I'm going to go this route because I just don't want
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to experience that or have to go through that process of surgery. I think
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that's spot on. Now. One of the things I want to make very
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clear on is there are certainly times where surgery is very appropriate. So I
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don't want any of my comments to be construed that somehow, oh, we
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can solve every problem that you have. That's certainly not the case. We
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know if you have a broken bone or a torn fully torn ligament, these
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are things that we can't help with. But without question, you know,
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there's plenty of people who rightfully have a little bit of a fear of surgery.
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Maybe I've had a surgery. A lot of our patients have had one
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knee replaced and just don't ever want to go through that experience again, or
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have had a hip replacement and don't want to have that experience again, or
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have a bad knee and they want to stop the other one from getting that
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bad, and so you know, we'll treat both. That Bilateral treatment is
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very, very popular to make sure that we keep people moving because you know
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what happened sometimes, Sean, is you favor one joint and then pretty soon
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the good joint yeah, gets worse, Yeah, and you start saying,
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gee, that was my good knee. What happened? We just had a
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Green Bay packer I was in it. I think of the player who was
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that that was having some injury issues and went in for studies and found out
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his literally was relying on one leg much more than the other and that stress
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that was being put on that that more used leg. Case in point right
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there. As we talked this morning with Alan Bridenbach with QC Kinetics self whenever
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six oh eight three one nine seventeen fifty that's six' eight three one nine,
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seventeen fifty. So let's talk about the consultation. That is, you guys
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offer free consultation for folks that say, this is something I'm curious about.
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How does that How does that consultation go? And and and what are what
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are you know, what are some of the people's experiences with those Well,
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I think this is the thing that's really kind of a different experience than what
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they might get from when I say traditional medicine. When you go into your
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family practitioner, you get a referral out to an orthopedist, you get the
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opportunity to meet right away, you know, with our specialists that can walk
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you through here are the treatment options available to you. Obviously, you go
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through we go through an exam, we want to make sure that you're a
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viable candidate. We're taking a health history. But as we go through that
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process, we then tailor that program to what your situation is. And then
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you'll meet with one of our patient consultants to have the opportunity to go through
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and say here's the best best path forward for you, and here's what you
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can expect as an outcome. One of the things things also I think is
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really cool about QC kinetics. Is that is that personalized experience is It's unfortunate
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what's going on I think in healthcare in this country is a lot of folks
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feel like a number they feel kind of like cattle being hearded this way and
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that way, and don't really feel like their medical concerns, let alone their
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personal concerns are being addressed, having those consultations, having those meetings. As
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I've mentioned, I've had a chance to meet with you a couple of times
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here on the West Side, and I am always amazed at just how welcoming
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and how open everybody is as well to talk about different things and make that
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connection and establish that relationship when it comes to improving people's lives. That's important
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too, is having that understanding of what do you want to get out of
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this and what's your goal here? Without question, I mean, we know
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that one of the things we talk about are really non medical. You know,
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we don't get into a conversation to say, Okay, we're going to
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get your range of motion to this, or we're going to get your pain
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level to this. Although I will say one of the things we do is
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we actually do use a third party to validate our outcomes and to have the
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ability to say, Okay, here's what we typically see from a patient.
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So it's not just us saying it, although we have a lot of patients
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that are saying it. It really is that opportunity to say, hey,
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what does this mean to you? For some people, it may mean they
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can get back into the weight room and they can start doing squats again.
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For some people that might mean I can get on the floor with my grandkids
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and get up without thinking about it. For some it might be I can,
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you know, walk around of golf, or I can swim again,
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or I can sleep, just some basic things. I think one of the
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things is if you've ever had this said to you, you know, I
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have bone on bone. We want to see you. Yeah, because we
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really help people in that regard, and that really is a specialty for us.
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You know, one of the things that folks can't see but I can
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is how you light up when you talk about this stuff. You're passionate about
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this, obviously for a number of reasons. Having seen the outcome firsthand of
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so many people that have come to visit QC kinetics. You've also got a
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personal story as well. Don't you, I do. I laugh about it.
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Is that not only am my part of QC Kinetics, but I'm also
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a patient my shoulder. I had a surgery on both my shoulder and back
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in two thousand, played a lot of baseball and kept playing up until about
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twenty fifteen, well past the warranty expiring, and really started falling into that
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trap that I talked about earlier, and that is, you know, my
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range of motion just kept decreasing. It kept decreasing. I was having trouble
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sleeping on it. I'm a side sleeper. So I finally said, you
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know, this seems ridiculous. Here we am here, I'm a part of
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this clinic, and I haven't given it a shot for myself. And I
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would tell you, Sean, I went from not being able to reach across
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my body to not raise my arm above my head. I'm showing you right
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now, Right now, I'm back. I can do pushups, I can
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do shoulder dips, I'm exercising. It really has made a profound difference.
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And shoulders are so difficult to treat surgically and to have an outcome like that,
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I can't image. There's so much going on. Yeah, it's not
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just a hinge. It moves in a lot of different ways. It's a
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pretty amazing joint. As we talked this morning with Alan Bridenbike with QC Kinetics
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self number six eight three seventeen fifty. That's six so eight three one nine
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seventeen fifty, we hear a lot of horror stories of folks that have pain,
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and the obvious thing that for a lot of us we do as we
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reach for the medicine cabinet, we start out maybe some tail and all or
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whatever, and then start going people want to avoid that for for really good
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reason. Sure, and QC Kinetics and I say this, and I think
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this needs to be reinforced. No drugs, No drugs. Yeah, and
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that's a great point. I think one of the things that is often forgotten
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is we have become, you know, we sort of numb the pain in
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different ways. It might be you know, oh I had a tough day
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to day, I'm feeling pretty sore. I have a few drinks, you
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know, have an old fashion on Friday. Nothing wrong with that, But
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by the same token, pretty soon you know you're taking tail and all or
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you're taking advil, and then pretty soon you're taking six eight ten, twelve,
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just to get through the day, just to get your day started.
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That can have a lot of challenges with it. Sometimes you can go to
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a general practitioner and they'll give you, you know, core zone shot.
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Well, you can only do a few of those. You know, that's
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not something you can do over and over and over because it can start to
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break down the tissues. We actually have a number of patients we refused.
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We refer to those as cruise shots. Hey, I'm going on a cruise
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this summer. I want to be able to get through it. But when
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I get back, let's get treated. And I think there's a big difference
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between masking pain and fixing pain. And that's really where we try to focus.
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And that's what I was going to ask you about next, is just
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that is when you know, you're you know, if you're doing those those
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the injection steroids and other things, or an end set and those those type
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of things, it's not addressing the issue at all. It's making it so
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you don't maybe not feel the issue, but you're really not solving the problem,
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are you. Yeah. It's not a permanent solution, right, I
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mean, I think about it. If your shingles blow off your roof.
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You might put a blue tarp up there for a while and that can hide
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the problem. You still have a problem. Yeah, and the final thing
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too, And we're going to actually talk more with Alan about Obviously we talk
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about by logics and we talk about restoring your damaged tissue, the other things
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they do a QC kinetics as well. I'm going to talk with Alan about
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that in just a moment, But first I also want to talk about getting
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back to life. Is we talked about surgery earlier. There's recovery. There's
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substantial recovery when it comes to surgery, QC kinetics, natural biologics. What's
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the recovery like there? At what's zero? You know? Without question?
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I mean I'll tell you that people walk into the clinic, they walk back
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out. Yeah, they can drive themselves home. They have the ability to,
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you know, keep doing what they want to do. Probably the only
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thing that might slow them down a little bit is we have one procedure when
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we deal with stem cells that you just can't take a shower for twenty four
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hours, so you can't get it wet. So if you shower up before
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you come in, it probably won't disrupt your schedule too badly to wait twenty
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four hours and go from there. No problem, they're at all Talking today
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with Alan Bredenbach. He is with QC Kinetics. You can, of course
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pick a phone, give him a call you're looking for. Of course,
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we were talking about regenerative medicine. If you've got that pain, knees hips,
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shoulder, back pain, pick up the phone, give them a call,
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get that free consultation six oh eight three one nine seventeen fifty. That's
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six oh eight three one nine seventeen fifty, which you you our conversation with
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Alan. Oh, they do more at QC can X. We're gonna get
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the details out. They're doing other great miraculous things for folks at QC can
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X. We'll do that next at Our conversation with Alan Brian Bach with QC
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Kinetics continues right here on thirteen ten dou Wui b a thirteen ten wui b
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A and ask the experts talking today with Alan briden Bock of QC Kinetics.
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Miss any part of the program, don't bring you can always listen back at
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WIVA dot com, also available on the iHeartRadio app. Talking about some of
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the great stuff they are doing a QC kinetics if you've got questions or of
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course you'd like to schedule that free consultation telephone number six oh eight three seventeen
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fifty. That's six so eight three one nine seventeen fifty. I ask you
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about that. That consultation as well, Alan is for a lot of folks
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like, Oh, I'm going to get in there and they're just gonna,
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you know, run me through the system. There's a reason, a really
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important reason for that those consultations, isn't there. Yeah. I think one
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of the biggest things that we try to emphasize is we know not everybody's eligible
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for care. So for example, people might have back pain that's being caused
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by a nerve issue. Well, that's something that regenerative medicine hasn't quite figured
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out yet. I hope we do, sure, But that's really a critical
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piece, Right, You're under the care of a doctor, You're under the
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care of a physician group that really cares about what you're doing and whether or
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not you're likely to have a good outcome. Because I'm not interested in treating
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somebody where you know, we may steer them a different way. We may
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say, hey, we've had some people come in who have a severely sprained
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ankle and we'll say, let's just be a little patient. Or we might
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have somebody who has a disk issue or a bone issue that we can't quite
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deal with, and we want to be very disciplined and saying here is your
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best course of action. It may be with us, it may not be,
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but if it is with us, we certainly are going to talk you
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through the pros and cons of what that might be. And that's one of
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the fantastic things about making that call six o' eight three one nine, seventeen
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fifteen, getting that free consultation to start that start that exploration. Is it
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right for you? Is it something that's going to be perfect for you?
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We all hope so, but again, you do never know until you make
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that call six oh eight three one nine, seventeen fifteen. We talk about
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regenerative medicine, those regenderate medicine protocols. There's other things that you guys are
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doing a QC kinetics that are that are vitally important and folks may not be
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aware of. First off, I hear the phrase low tea. Yes,
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what are we talking about with low T? Well, it's testosterone replacement therapy,
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okay, and you certainly see a lot of advertising for it. It's
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become very, very popular. I'm actually a patient for that as well,
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and I can't believe the difference it's made for me, Sean, I just
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started it three months ago. In the last three months, I've lost ten
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and a half pounds of fat, oh wow, four pounds of bustle,
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and I have actually taken a pound of fat off my mid section, that
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visceral fat that gets on your organs. A lot of times, I think
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people think about testosterone replacement around sexual function or sexual dysfunction. Really the difference
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is how you sleep, your mental clarity, your energy level, that three
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o'clock sort of crash that you have in the afternoon where you go and reach
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for you know, PENU, mine, MS or whatever your you know,
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vice might be. You're looking close at me. Well that's that was my
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personal one. There's no question about it. I can't believe the difference it
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has made for me. And we actually do some things that are unique in
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terms of reducing any of the potential side effects. Also making sure that you're
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under medical care so that you're not taking pills from a mall, you know,
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vitamin shop. You're not taking a prescription off the internet where you might
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talk to somebody on a video screen. We're you know, taking blood levels,
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We're looking at contraindicators. We're making sure that we dial in exactly what
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you need, not just what you know somebody says, hey, here you
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go. Because I think one of the things that can be very dangerous when
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you start playing with hormones is you can over or under and you can start
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getting into a whole situation that you just don't want. So we're really thrilled
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about it because one of the things that is interesting is low hormones can actually
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lead to some joint you know problem really and so there all these things kind
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of fit together in a very unique way, and so low T has really
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been an exciting part for us. You mentioned too, how how these things
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can all fit together. So I think that having the high standard as well,
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I think is something that obviously folks who have maybe you've known somebody that
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that's that's been to QC Kinetics or or heard others talking about it, is
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having that very high standard of care. And of course when you're applying these
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things, how you're applying and who when you mentioned, you know, literally
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having that that consultation, having that meeting face to face one on one of
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those meetings, how important that is. We talked today with Alan Bridenbach telphe
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Ouverer for QC Kinetics six eight three seventeen fifty. That's six eight three seventeen
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fifty. As a guy with no hair, I always go to the I
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always go to the go to the hair loss thing. And you guys can
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help folks with that, can't you. We do, And actually, surprisingly
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larger than fifty percent, more than fifty percent of our patients are actually women.
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We help a lot of women. We can do isolated treatments if you
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have kind of a spot that's thinning out that you're uncomfortable with, you know,
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if you're wearing a headband or a hat or having to comb your hair
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a certain way, we generally can help, and certainly we can help if
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you have a whole head that you want to do as well. But we
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also walk you through that to say what are the likely outcomes? Are you
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a good Canada? You know, what's the health of the hair follicle?
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Is it possible to regrow hair? Not everybody can, And we're going to
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have that conversation with you. But you know, I make the running joke
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that for the most part, if if you're a viable Canadate, we can
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grow grass on a rock, well we know how to do it. This
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is pretty dense. We may have to talk. We'll have to talk about
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that. And then one other thing is you mentioned with with low T and
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the treatment there a weight loss and as a society we are we're not good.
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And I'll point to figure out myself as well about about doing good things
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for ourselves, and we think about carrying around those extra pounds. You guys
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are able to help folks with weight, aren't you. I couldn't be more
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excited about this part of our treatment because it helps everybody. We certainly see
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all the things out there. We know the brand names Ozepic is one of
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the ones that gets talked about, Njaro and others. There. Again,
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we try to dial in exactly what's best for you and think about the combination.
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For every pound that you take off, that's four less pounds of pressure
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on your joints, and so in combination, these things can be spectacular for
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people. But the problem with them again is you know, these are a
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medical treatment. This isn't something that people should just buy over the internet or
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just go into, you know, a place that might do facial threading or
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other things. You know, you want to get under the care of a
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doctor and you want to be able to have ongoing support and maintenance as you
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go through this, and we continue to check in. We actually have an
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app. We work with you to make sure that you're tracking well, and
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we work with you in terms of your biology to make sure that this is
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the right mixture, if you will, for you, so we do things
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that can reduce any potential side effects. We slowly ramp up your levels in
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it to make sure that you're tolerating the drug well. And everybody's a little
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bit different again as you do it, and so you have to have that
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ongoing work with your physician or your provider to make sure that you're getting the
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best possible treatment. And then depending on what your weight loss goals are,
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right, if you're thirty pounds or less, we may treat you differently than
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if somebody is fifty to eighty pounds or one hundred pounds, and we walk
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you through that and kind of have those candid conversations and say, hey,
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here's what's possible. I know some of our early patients here have had just
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wonderful successes, and we really love it because when you see them coming back
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in smiling, yes, that's always a good thing. What a great time
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of year to look great, feel good. As we talk with Alan Brydenbach
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with QC Kinetics. If you've obviously become familiar with QC kinetics you're interested,
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make that call. Also, more importantly, most importantly, if you've got
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somebody specially in your life, you say, you know what you may benefit
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from this, tell them about QC Kinetics. The telephone number six oh eight
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three one nine seventeen fifty. That's six oh eight three one nine seventeen fifty.
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Alan, it's always great to see you. Look forward to seeing you
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again real soon. I appreciate Sean, thanks so much. And again that
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telephone number six oh eight three one nine seventeen fifty