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Gut, Hormones, Parasites, & Ozone: A Deep Dive into Functional Medicine with Diva Jessica · The Diva Details

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