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Functional_Holistic Medicine Is A Scam, Expensive. Doctors Are Taking Advantage of Sick People. · Health, Life & What’s Next

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  Jennifer GNC, where we discuss what it really takes to heal your body.
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  Hello healers.
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  Thank you for watching this video.
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  Welcome back to our YouTube channel.
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  Or if you are listening to this on the podcast, welcome, welcome, welcome.
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  Before I get started, I'm going to say a few things.
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  I will be triggering some people.
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  Some people will be looking at this or listening to this.
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  They will get triggered.
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  They will get angry.
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  You will have a flow of emotions.
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  What I would love for you to do.
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  I would love for you to create some space If you feel like you're being triggered or you're angry or you're upset or whatever thoughts that comes to your mind, I would love for you to pause this video or stop this podcast, turn it off, walk away.
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  But I also would love for you to come back to it because I think it is a very important topic that I need to discuss with you that many of us are not aware.
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  And I need to discuss it with you.
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  Not only is it going to help you know what to expect when you work with a functional medicine doctor, but it's also going to help you discern if you want to put your money in a functional medicine clinic, or if you want to, you know, continue doing whatever you're doing, or what you should be looking for before you invest.
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  Now this is, I'm making this video because we got an email from a patient And if you are the patient watching this video, I want to thank you.
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  Thank you so much.
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  This has nothing to do, you know, with blaming you or being, you know, like it's no, if one person has this question, I'm sure many people have this question.
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  So that's the whole purpose of what we are making this video because.
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  Again, I feel like when people hear functional medicine, they think, they think about it differently.
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  They don't really know what it involves.
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  And also not only on the financial aspect of it, but the work that we do at Functional Medicine Doctors and how us here in New Jersey, Wellness Corner NJ is the most cost effective clinic.
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  And many people get sticker shocked.
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  So that's why I'm saying you should really watch this video or listen to this podcast because we're going to talk about money.
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  We're going to talk about what to look for, and we're going to talk about things that you can do while you are working on getting that money.
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  Now, if you are new to me, you don't know who I am.
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  This is your first exposure.
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  My name is Dr.
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  Jennifer Genti.
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  I am a functional medicine doctor, holistic medicine doctor, integrative medicine doctor, natural medicine doctor.
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  What do I do?
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  I help my patients get rid of digestive issues, naturally.
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  Get rid of hormonal imbalance, naturally.
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  Lose weight, naturally.
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  I just help them.
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  You know, going from point A to point B, and our patients are unique.
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  They are special.
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  They are unique.
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  I am not for everyone.
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  My clinic is not for everyone.
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  We do things that are completely different.
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  We really, really love our patients.
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  We really, really go above and beyond for our patients, and Because of the way I want to help our patients or help people, we have a different structure here in our clinic.
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  Okay.
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  So again, we specialize in hormonal imbalance, the natural way, autoimmune conditions, the natural way, the gut issues, helping people eliminate gas, blood acid reflux, get, get off medications, the natural way, and also lose weight because losing weight is always, always an important factor on everybody's list.
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  And I have a weight loss program that is.
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  The amazing, as a matter of fact, we just got off our detox program and I have to tell you, everybody's loving the detox people lost anywhere from 12 to 18 pounds in three weeks, two and a half weeks, really, and we did so, what have we, you know, While they have energy, vitality, without giving, you know, up all the things that they love, without, you know, with the, with the idea of exploring all the possibilities out there, so I know for sure our results.
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  Visible and we do great work here.
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  So why am I filming this?
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  So as we make some changes in our consultations and we make some changes in our follow up, we, I hired another practitioner to help me because I'm seeing there's a trend that way people are not getting, uh, Healthy in conventional medicine, people are not getting healthy, people calling us, contacting us, asking us if we can, you know, do something for them and what they should be doing.
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  So that's how this whole conversation comes.
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  So we decrease our consultation rate.
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  Our consultation rate used to be 450 for two office visits.
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  So now it's 250.
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  We're about to increase it to 260, really 250 for one hour.
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  And also the follow up visit is 150.
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  So people are still saving money.
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  So, what I want you to understand, what I want you to really take away from this, on this video, take away from this, me talking to you about this, is the value, the work that we do.
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  And I mentioned it at the beginning because many people are not aware how, how much work it takes for practitioners like myself to help patients get healthy.
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  So, right now we see patients two days out of the week.
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  And the reason why we're doing that, because the other days, like Mondays and Wednesdays, we are closed on Thursdays, and Fridays, Mondays and Wednesdays, we are managing cases.
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  I have a lot of difficult.
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  tough cases, cancer patients in my practice, they are doing well, autoimmune patients, in my practice.
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  So I need to create the time and space to really help my patients on a larger scale, because when people give us money, they are paying for results.
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  My practice, my programs are result driven.
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  That is why when people invest in us, they, you know, we have different tier of investment depending on how much support or guidance they need.
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  We still have one, so since we are studying and we're hearing from people, we have three tiered right now in our practice, and people get to choose financially which one they can afford.
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  because my job is not to look in people's pocket, it's to give them the recommendations that will benefit them.
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  Because our patients will come to us after they've seen so many other doctors, after they've been on so many medications, after they've done so many other things, and they're not getting results, and then they come to us.
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  So this patient sent us a message and, in this sense of how we've taken advantage of six people.
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  I think that's how she like verbalized it.
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  I'm probably putting my own words, She's mentioned that because her package was 11, 000 tick was 11, 000 because packages, changes prices and we are taking advantage of sick people.
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  We are just like the other doctors out there.
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  We are money hungry and like a whole bunch of statements.
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  that are not true.
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  And I understand because people usually have exhausted their funds before they come to us, If they have money in the savings account or they have money somewhere, they already use a lot of that money before they come to us.
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  And since functional medicine happens to be the last resort for a lot of people, they are expecting to have a different, a different fee.
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  So, which is not the case at all.
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  A typical functional medicine package like ours is in the 20, 000.
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  Yes, it's 20, 000.
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  So let me tell you how this whole study.
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  I'm going to take you, on the patient journey from the minute they contacted us, Usually people go read our reviews.
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  We have wonderful reviews and all the people that give us reviews, they all paid money because functional medicine is not a covered service.
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  Although now we hired a company and we submit on our patient's behalf, We pay that company a lot of money every month.
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  So on the other end, we are losing, Our patients paid 250, and then we do insurance verification, which we pay for.
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  There's nothing free in America.
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  And we also submit on their behalf, which we pay for.
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  There's nothing free in America.
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  So we are investing because I want people to.
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  at least have the first or the second visit so that they can have an idea what those causes are or what pathogenic activities they have or what the toxicity bundles are.
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  Like I want them to have some information and then they can discern or they can take that information and do whatever they want to do with it.
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  So patients will find us on Google.
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  Schedule an appointment.
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  Our consultation, the first one hour consultation of 45 minutes to one hour consultation is 250.
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  As you can see on the screen, a typical functional medicine consultation is 460 per hour.
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  we've always been the most cost effective functional medicine office out there from the very beginning, We've always, so when people contact us, we will send them forms to complete.
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  There's an NTECH form they have to complete because the more information they give us, the more we can help them.
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  There's a seven day full journal that they have to complete because we want to give them some recommendations of things they can get started right away, and they also have to submit the current blood tests.
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  So all this paperwork we have to review and evaluate before the patient comes to our clinic.
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  so we take in an hour of the time to study the paperwork, to evaluate the paperwork, because if you know anything about insurance, insurance will deny any blood test that has been done frequently, So we want to make sure that we are ordering different tests.
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  If a patient has done a CBC, or a basic test done, and we cannot, if we have not reviewed, we cannot.
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  We did the same test.
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  The insurance will deny.
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  And also, the reason why we have them submit the blood test is because we also want to make sure that we are going over the test with them as well.
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  You'd be amazed how many times patients will come to us and they have no idea that the liver is failing, the kidney is failing, or they have autoimmune conditions, like whatever.
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  They have no idea.
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  You'd be amazed.
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  And most often, I'm looking at the results.
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  I'm like, did you know you have a cyst on your kidney?
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  Nope, the doctor didn't tell me that.
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  do you know that you have Hashimoto's thyroiditis?
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  Nope, the doctor.
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  So we've taken time to study not only the NTIC form, which is nine pages, your seven day full journal, and also the lab results from previous doctors so that will better help us help you and format our next steps.
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  And then you come in, we spend 45 minutes, since we are doing work behind the scenes, we spend 45 minutes with you, sometimes an hour, depending on the severity of the case.
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  And then we give you the LabCorp script, or the hormone kit test, or the toxicity bundle, so we give you those, recommendations, and then you go have them done.
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  While you have them done, we, now, we send you, basic recommendations of things you should do.
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  If I'm seeing something, for instance, I had a patient that had, that was taking calcium, which I don't think anybody should be taking calcium because calcium leaks into the tissue and that will lead to calcification.
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  And if you look at the trends of cancer, a lot of cancer patients have calcification, kidney stones, calcification, oxalate.
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  So I will give them specific recommendations right on the first step.
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  Visit or we will send them a recommendations after we document everything.
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  After we look at, uh, look at the visit notes, we'll send them some recommendations within 48 hours.
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  So you are getting something for the 250.
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  I know it's terrible.
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  I have to explain everything.
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  I will break it down.
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  You are getting something for the 250, and then when you come back for your follow up visit, which is 150, again, we have to take an hour before you get to us, to our clinic, to study the results of the test that we prescribed.
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  Like if it's the toxicity bundle, that's like an 18 pages, we're looking at your mold, your environmental toxicity, and also your heavy metal toxicity, and we have to highlight things, point, point, point, pinpoint things out to you, because again, it's new to you.
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  We are helping you identify the root cause of your symptoms and your illnesses and your diseases.
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  That's another hour.
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  And then when you come, we repeat the same process, we'll go over everything with you, your hormone, your cortisol levels, your estrogen, progesterone, DHEA, and then we'll go over the lab corb, your gut infections, your kakusaki, your cytomegalovirus, phobovirus, epistemovirus.
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  So we spend time with you, sometimes up to an hour.
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  And our 150.
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  So if you look at all the work that we do before you sign the protocol, and you look at other people's pricing, like I have one on the screen, these people are this is public knowledge, So you can Google these people, you're gonna see the same information.
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  So I'm not outing them or blaming them or anything like that.
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  So you can see they have very transparency pricing, which is which I love.
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  They these people are charging 650 to see a nurse practitioner for 60 minutes.
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  6.
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  50 for 60 minutes.
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  That's just to see them for 60 minutes.
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  There's no packages.
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  There's no protocols.
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  There's no recommendations.
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  60 minutes.
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  895 to see this wonderful lady for 90 minutes.
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  So there's a deposit.
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  So when I say functional medicine is Cost effective it is cost effective because again, we are helping you identify on the world cause we're giving you basic recommendations We are customizing a plan for you Now once you are gone what I do I take another 30 minutes to go over Your results again.
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  I video it that's something I started doing because i'm still training our And as a practitioner, she's new to functional medicine.
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  I'm training her as I do the videos.
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  I'm helping her recommending certain things.
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  So I am behind the scenes mentoring someone that is amazing.
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  She's lovely.
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  She has so much patience.
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  If you haven't met Debra, she is.
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  And she's gonna be a great functional medicine practitioner.
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  She is.
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  She's not gonna be.
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  She is already.
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  And people are gonna see her more than see me because I have so much patience.
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  Other very complex cases that I need to treat behind the scenes.
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  I have people that hires me, pays me 25K, a lot of money because they are know I can get them results.
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  They are know they hiring a private doctor.
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  So if I want to help a lot of people, I need to help, Because Paris wasn't built.
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  By one person, one day, like the bridge wasn't built by one person.
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  So when it comes to helping people get healthier, the functional medicine way, the natural medicine way, it requires other people to help me.
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  So that's what we had in the practitioner.
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  So After I record the video, if you're a patient of mine, you're a follow up patient, you'll probably know what I'm talking about.
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  And I think that's the video the person saw that got her very upset at me and telling me that I'm taking advantage of sick people, I'm just like the other doctors, I'm pushing pills, which I just like the recommendation is strictly, strictly natural medicine, natural herbs.
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  I don't do medications here.
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  We don't do medications.
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  We only prescribe as an emergency.
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  So you will never see me prescribing a medication on my protocol.
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  Now why does the protocol Intel?
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  So we did the video going over the results again and send that over to the patient with the protocol.
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  I also filmed and we caught the protocol.
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  So you see all the work we do.
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  All the work that we do.
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  Two fifty is like four hours.
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  One fifty is like a lot of work.
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  We do a lot of work.
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  so when I sent the customized, individualized, personalized photo call to the patients, I give them three options.
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  Three options now and the level of, again, guidance, accountability, and support, the more guidance, accountability, and support one needs, the more that person's gonna pay.
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  But at the end of the day, you are, they are not paying anywhere close.
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  I know when you look at the price, You, when they look at the price, they might be like, Oh my God, it's a lot of money.
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  Yes.
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  Because for us, you are paying for healing.
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  When you pay, you pay attention.
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  So that package that person's referring to is 11, 000.
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  I believe it's four to six months, but what do we get for 11, 000?
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  I'm very transparent without prices.
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  And I want you to be very honest with yourself, Like if you are in a phase or stage as you cannot afford 11, 000, then do what you can do, because at the end of the day, it's a lot of work.
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  Everything's included.
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  Everything's included.
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  Six one on one visit.
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  If you want to take this right 650 times six, let's do the math if we're to take 650 Just for our hearts.
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  I have my phone 650 times six.
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  That's already 3, 900 right and then you have all the supplements included all the supplements So our protocols have different phases phase one is detox everybody detox.
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  I include that into the protocol That's like 650.
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  The detox is 650 and then phase two Phase 0 is detox, sorry.
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  Phase 1, we work on inflammation, immunity, concentration, energy, because we need to prep your body for phase 2 and 3.
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  And phase 2, depending on what your, the, the root causes are, sometimes it's hormonal imbalance.
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  We're seeing a lot of hormonal imbalance, peri pre and post menopause.
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  We're also seeing a lot of autoimmune conditions now.
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  We've seen a lot of mold toxicity, a lot of gut infections.
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  So phase two might be on hormones or might be on, you know, digestive issues.
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  Like it depends.
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  It depends on what is coming up in abundance, the results of the blood test.
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  And then phase three, always, always, we always go after pathogen, right?
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  Because that's when your body's strong and that's when we can actually go and kill things, Kill, so to speak.
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  Decrease your viral load, decrease your pathogenic loads.
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  That's what I mean by that, decreasing the inflammation as well, and also helping your cells and your body and your organs and your tissue have room and time for them to recuperate.
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  So, 11, 000, and the 11, 000 is giving you a private doctor.
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  When patients work with us, they don't need any other doctors.
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  Why?
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  Because we have an expert functional medicine.
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  I've been practicing functional medicine for 10 years now.
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  And then we also have a conventional, medicine practitioner as well.
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  That's that she does fantastic work.
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  So we will help you.
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  We will guide you.
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  We'll give you all of the things that you need, So, we never charge our patients for communicating with us through Practice Better.
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  Practice Better is a HIPAA compliant app that I use, and I check on our, we check on our patients every Mondays.
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  The Tier 1 people, we check on them every Mondays because we want to make sure that they are getting results, they are on the right track, and we want to make sure that we are serving them at the highest level.
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  We pay for results.
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  So they get a message from me, a message from the other, a message from their wife.
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  They get a message from us checking to see how, you know, the weekend went.
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  And whatever, issues that's coming up, we have to fix that problem.
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  Now, I have a patient that having an autoimmune flare up, That's a patient that signed a protocol last year.
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  Signed the protocol and her protocol was 9, 000.
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  That was last year.
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  Right.
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  And because of work, because of, family issues, she's not able to really feel a hundred percent because stress is so hard.
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  So I'm helping her to stress.
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  We never charge her, I'm not going to say, Hey, your protocol was for four months.
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  And it's like more than four months.
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  We have to charge you again.
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  No, because.
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  We agreed that we will get to a level of health and wellness where she can actually focus on maintenance.
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  So yes, you're paying 11, 000, 10, 000, 13, 000.
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  But you have to look at the work that we're going to do, We help you get off your medications.
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  We help you build your immune system.
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  We help you decrease inflammation.
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  We help you balance your hormones.
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  We help you get rid of your digestive issues, decrease your autoimmune flare up.
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  We help you feel better.
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  We And you're paying for a result.
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  And we do all that without throwing a pill at you.
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  I use herbs.
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  We use herbs.
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  I have to say we, because I have another practitioner.
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  We use herbs now.
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  In our protocols, We, as I mentioned, we always give people different options.
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  So if you can do the whole, the tier one with all the supplements included, all the support, we do daily check in with our patients, weekly check in with our patients.
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  They have meal plans, recipes included.
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  They have multiple things included, really.
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  In phase one, if that's what they can do, awesome.
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  We also have phase two, where they can just start with a few supplements and then they can add.
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  The office visit, they can add other supplements at the CFIT.
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  And then we have phase three, where they have no office visits, That's 6, 500.
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  At the time I'm recording this, no office visits, and they get to work with Deborah, They don't get to have access to me because again, they It's not fair to the other people that are paying me a lot of money that requires my brain space, my expertise, my time to really, and to also help the other people.
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  So it's not fair.
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  It's not into integrity, Like, I'm not going to pay 25K knowing that somebody else is paying 6, 500 and they're getting the same level of care.
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  It is not fair.
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  So 6500 gets you a few supplements on each phases, you still get the detox, a few supplements in each phases and then you can add supplements as you want and there's no office visit and you only get the meal plan.
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  So there are different tier of really, working with a functional medicine doctor.
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  But functional medicine doctor, yes, many of us might look at it as it's very pricey, but what is the alternative?
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  I ask my patients this all the time.
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  What is the alternative?
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  Sometimes we feel like we don't have the money, but we need to do this work.
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  I usually ask my patients to really give it up to the universe.
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  If that is something you are called to do and you have tried all the other things, nothing is working, you are frustrated with the doctors or you're frustrated with the practitioners, you're frustrated of doctors telling you that something's wrong with you, it's in your head, prescribing a pill, prescribing Xanax or whatever they're prescribing, and you want to invest in yourself because functional medicine is an investment.
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  Not an expense, it's 11, 000, which we have payment plans, but 11, 000 for a result.
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  If I know someone has a pill and I have a chronic illness and that person can give me The treatment, the protocol that's going to help me feel better.
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  And it's 20, 000.
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  Trust me, if I don't have it, I will ask that's me.
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  And I'm not saying for you to do this.
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  This is, we all have our personal, ways, the way we see things.
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  I myself invested, I just invest, I mean, I finished with a coach that charged me 25, 000 for six months.
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  People are paying more than 11, 000 and other things out there.
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  People are paying more than 11, 000, more than 13, 000 on other things out there.
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  If I had a patient who came to me the other day, saw her, her protocol was 14, 000, but it was a lot of work.
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  It was a six to nine months protocol.
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  We have a lot of work to do.
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  A lot of work.
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  That protocol requires a lot of my time.
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  Like we had two different phases.
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  It was a lot.
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  If I'm being, it was a lot.
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  It's a lot of work on my part, And she said, no, she said, I'm sorry.
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  I couldn't afford it.
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  Got home, her roof leaked.
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  She had problem with her roof and guess how much she had to pay for the roof.
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  How much I think it was 18, 000 or something like that.
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  It was more than what the protocol is.
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  And guess what?
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  She found them.
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  She found the money.
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  She found the money after the roof.
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  She had to fix a roof, her plumbing went out.
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  So within that time frame, within that one month, she ended up paying over 25 K.
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  over, over 30K.
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  Between the plumbing, the roof people, and they have to do some electric stuff, a lot of things they have.
• 22:59
  So your body's at the house, right?
• 23:01
  The longer you wait, the more money you pay.
• 23:03
  So now I'm going to tell you some things you should look for before you hire your functional medicine doctor.
• 23:08
  So the first thing you have to look for is what is the work they are putting in to help you.
• 23:13
  If you are working with a functional medicine doctor, they're not asking you to complete paperwork and they're not looking at your paperwork prior to coming in.
• 23:20
  They have no idea what you're coming in for.
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  Like they wait for you to come and say, Hey, my name is Dr.
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  Jente.
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  How can I help you?
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  Run, because it requires a lot of work and people don't understand that we, I, Deborah, we do a lot of work.
• 23:33
  We look at, imagine if we have five patients that day, we have five intake forms we have to look at before the patients come.
• 23:40
  We have, sometimes people will send us blood tests, like, you know, documents from other hospitals and we have to look at all that.
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  Because what is the purpose of asking you to submit a document if we're not going to look at it, It's like wasting your time.
• 23:52
  We have to look at all that.
• 23:53
  So first we have to make sure that that doctor is asking you to complete paperwork.
• 23:57
  Complete the paperwork and send it, They should also be asking you for current blood tests because, again, we don't want to repeat what was done before.
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  Like you're paying money, whether it's 250, 460, 400, it doesn't matter.
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  We don't want to repeat the same thing.
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  So you want to make sure that doctor's actually, doing the work.
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  Evaluating your paperwork.
• 24:16
  So when you come, you'd have to repeat yourself, repeat your story.
• 24:18
  You might have to, you know, like, do it to remind them, or they might ask, like, ask my patients questions, like, can you tell me again what happened this day?
• 24:27
  So, again, to kind of make sure that we don't, we get, you know, we get in the gist of things, we get in the right information, but you shouldn't be repeating your whole story again, not at all.
• 24:35
  If that's the case, then that's not a doctor for you.
• 24:38
  and you also have to make sure that the doctors are doing necessary blood tests and that's how we save our patients money.
• 24:43
  Functional medicine doctors can have you pay anywhere from 4, 000 to 7, 000 in blood tests.
• 24:50
  For us, it's a hormone panel kit, which is 2.
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  60.
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  You pay the company.
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  We might do a toxicity bundle, which is very important.
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  Everybody, every human being should do that.
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  That's 4.
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  60.
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  You pay the company.
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  And then LabCorp is covered by insurance.
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  So we really put the time and the energy in making sure that people are not paying more they should pay, So you can take that thousands and few dollars and put that towards your care, And after that, we take time that we don't get paid for to work on your individualized protocol.
• 25:20
  That 150 follow up doesn't pay us to pay, to spend that hour.
• 25:24
  So we cut the video, to send it to you, to customize the protocol, to go over the blood test again.
• 25:28
  That's 150, 150.
• 25:30
  So we, at the other end, is losing money, but that's okay because I always feel like as long as I'm servicing the community, we're giving back to the community, I'm always going to get things, you know, in threefold, Because so many people are getting sick, they are frustrated, and it's going to get worse, if I'm being honest with you, because the medications are not working anymore, the medications are increasing the side effects, There's so many things happening out there that many of us are not aware of.
• 25:55
  Like you start with one medication, you start, you know, two, three, four, five.
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  So it's like 200 for 30 minutes.
• 26:01
  Look at those prices.
• 26:02
  And, and you still have to pay for customized tests, And these people in PA, again, it's just reference.
• 26:10
  When I tell people that they're like, no, that's not true.
• 26:12
  So I had this, I'm just going to show you guys, we are the most cost effective.
• 26:15
  And these people, they are full.
• 26:17
  People come to them, the people come to them, and they are literally helping a lot of people, So, we help our patients, we are result driven practice, no matter how much money you pay.
• 26:30
  Because I know people's health is priceless.
• 26:32
  You might look at this and be like, well, Dr.
• 26:33
  Jente is good for you, you're a doctor, you're rich.
• 26:36
  No.
• 26:36
  It's good for you because you know what for the patient to say we're taking care of sick people I mean, I just did a group detox people many of them didn't even pay 650 because they're already in our world All they have to do is purchase in the package And they get access to everything.
• 26:49
  I literally changed my schedule.
• 26:51
  Me not getting paid services, people on zoom calls, because that's what I wanted to do to show them behind the scene of how I'm eating to give them pointers.
• 26:59
  I spent like, I created a video, in a document for people that want to lose weight.
• 27:02
  They should be eating this given that these things are time consuming.
• 27:05
  I don't get paid six 50, six 50 for one, one minute, one hour, 60 minutes, but since six 50 for three weeks with weekly zoom calls.
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  Don't get paid.
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  So what am I saying this?
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  I'm not saying this to again.
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  I'm really Thank the patient.
• 27:21
  I want to say thank you because I'm sure many of you guys have a lot of questions.
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  why is this so expensive?
• 27:27
  Are we the most expensive functional medicine that, which is not the case?
• 27:31
  We're not even close to being expensive for the amount of work and value that we do.
• 27:35
  We deliver.
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  To our patients and our patients have access to us to practice better every day.
• 27:40
  I answer patients questions all day long giving them Recommendations all day long.
• 27:45
  We have a given nature.
• 27:46
  I'm always giving people samples I'm always giving people like i'm trying things for our patients.
• 27:51
  So That really Make me thinking i'm like, okay I don't have to do this video.
• 27:57
  I don't but i'm doing this for you Because I want you to really put in the back of your mind what to expect when you work with the functional medicine doctors or what the price is out there.
• 28:07
  So you get to choose, you get to decide if that's something you want to explore.
• 28:11
  If you are not ready for functional medicine right now, And you don't have the money, you don't know where you get, that's okay.
• 28:18
  That's okay.
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  Nobody's blaming me, blaming you.
• 28:20
  Nobody's shaming you.
• 28:20
  That's okay.
• 28:22
  But there are things you can do as you're working on this.
• 28:25
  You can do a detox, Our roadmap is, our roadmap is detox.
• 28:28
  decreasing inflammation, building your immune system, and then fight pathogens, So you can detox, whatever detox you can get on the internet, start with that.
• 28:35
  You can literally change your diet.
• 28:37
  That's why we send patients recommendations of things they should remove.
• 28:40
  You can change your food.
• 28:41
  There's so much you can do right now.
• 28:43
  That can help you change your food.
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  Whatever you're eating now is giving you the results.
• 28:47
  Look at your stress level.
• 28:49
  Look at your lifestyles.
• 28:50
  There's so many things you can do.
• 28:52
  Do you have to work with functional medicine doctor?
• 28:54
  I highly recommend it because spending time buying the supplements online, spending time seeing all these doctors, it adds up.
• 29:01
  It really adds up, If you go to your doctor's office and the doctor's charging you 200 follow up visits.
• 29:07
  And it's been 10 years.
• 29:09
  We've been, I mean, five years we've been struggling with this and every time you go, it's 200.
• 29:14
  I'm just being modest.
• 29:16
  200.
• 29:16
  And then you've seen that doctor at least four times that year.
• 29:20
  And then the medications, some of them are covered by insurance.
• 29:23
  Some of them are not covered by insurance, or there's a, there's a copay, right?
• 29:26
  There's a fee for the medications, Add that up.
• 29:29
  But the most, the most important fee that you really have to add up or the most important cost is the cost of you not getting well.
• 29:37
  You're paying, although you're not paying money, but you're also paying if you're feeling tired, exhausted, you know, hormone imbalance, anxiety, you're feeling foggy.
• 29:46
  Lethargic, having the stomach that won't go away, having your colitis, this autoimmune, your joint pain, like the headaches and migraine, like the anxiety, the stress, you're paying for it.
• 29:57
  It's not monetary, but you're paying for it.
• 30:00
  You're paying for it by the night, the sleepless night.
• 30:03
  You're paying for it because your symptoms are consuming you, and you don't know what to do, and you've seen all the doctors, or you've seen all the practitioners, or you cannot afford this, you cannot afford that, you're paying for it.
• 30:12
  So this video is not to make you upset, this video is for you to see what you should expect, because again, I have the intention when people come to us, they think it's going to be a 500 thing, or 300, 3, 000 thing, no, 3, 000 for 3 months?
• 30:25
  No 6, 000 for three months.
• 30:28
  No, it's a lot of work we do behind the scenes when people hire us to demand results, they expect that we're going to give them the information, give them the recommendations that we're going to actually help them target the symptoms.
• 30:40
  So that they can feel better.
• 30:41
  So it's not just here's my money.
• 30:44
  And then I'm just gonna, you know, like continue doing what I'm, no, it's work on our part because again, functional medicine is in the name is to help you restore the function of your body.
• 30:53
  And here at Wellness Corner NGO, we are the most cost effective functional medicine that I know out there.
• 30:59
  And no, we're not taking advantage of sick people, we're not stealing people's money, we're not, you know, whatever, you know, the words are, like, we practice with integrity, we spend a lot of time, 11, 000, 13, 000 package is a lot of work.
• 31:17
  A lot of work on our part, because again, we have to monitor you.
• 31:21
  We have to make sure that you have access to us.
• 31:23
  We have to make sure that we're thinking for you.
• 31:24
  We're thinking for your illness.
• 31:25
  We're thinking for how you're going to get results and you know, what to include, what not to include.
• 31:30
  We actually, and everything's included.
• 31:32
  It's not just 11, 000 and nothing else is included.
• 31:35
  Everything's included.
• 31:36
  So when you watch this video, I want you to really.
• 31:39
  Really sit with yourself and say, what am I paying for?
• 31:42
  Because I know whatever you're paying for, you're going to get whatever you're paying for.
• 31:46
  The lower the cost of the package, the less care you're going to get.
• 31:50
  Because I've seen that patients, you know, left us, they went to the nearest functional medicine doctor and they only get in supplements and every time they have to see the doctor, they have to schedule, schedule a visit every time, like literally schedule a visit every time.
• 32:03
  And I'm like, what?
• 32:05
  Yeah.
• 32:05
  And sometimes they don't get, a call back from, from the doctor, the call, the live messages, the email, nothing, or they get something from a coach.
• 32:14
  Yeah.
• 32:14
  so what are you getting?
• 32:16
  Are you paying 13, 000 and get the most care and get a doctor that's actually about you, about your results?
• 32:22
  Or are you getting, are you paying 5, 000, 3, 000 and get supplements and frustration and recommendation to stop eating gluten?
• 32:31
  Or are you getting a meal plan with recipes?
• 32:33
  And when things are not working, you can send that message to the doctor and say, Hey, I'm still having chronic fatigue.
• 32:39
  I'm still having, you know, diarrhea, constipation.
• 32:42
  I'm still bloated.
• 32:42
  My acid reflux is not going away, I'm still on this medication.
• 32:45
  So I want you to really think about what you're getting because at the end of the day, those numbers are just numbers, right?
• 32:51
  11, 000 are just numbers because your health is priceless.
• 32:55
  You can start working.
• 32:56
  We usually ask patients to give us a deposit and start working.
• 32:59
  As you start working and you are working on the universe, you never know where the rest of the money will come.
• 33:05
  And I feel like sometimes patients don't trust themselves too, They don't trust they're going to get the money.
• 33:09
  They don't trust themselves.
• 33:10
  Do what you can.
• 33:11
  You don't have to do the most expensive, Tier you can do the cheapest one.
• 33:15
  You can actually go google food, you know elimination diet do what you can But know that whatever you're doing is the result is the level of results you're gonna get The more you pay the more result you get the more you pay attention the more you do the work So I needed to do this video because i'm sure many people have the same questions And for us I wanted to put it out there because when we compare our prices we are not even close You To what people are charging out there.
• 33:41
  If you find a price that's like 1, 000 a night, what are you getting?
• 33:46
  What are you getting?
• 33:47
  Are you, are we replacing medications with supplements?
• 33:50
  You don't need to pay a doctor or practice 1, 000 for supplements.
• 33:54
  You can actually go on Google and get your 1, 000 for supplements, Like what are you getting?
• 33:58
  So thank you so much for watching this video.
• 34:00
  Thank you so much for listening to this podcast.
• 34:03
  I would love for you to share this so that when those that are interested in functional medicine will know what to expect and they'll make the best educated decisions for them that will give them the results they are looking for.
• 34:14
  All right.
• 34:14
  I know for us, our patients get results.
• 34:17
  We always go above and beyond.
• 34:18
  Even when people give us 15, 000, sometimes we work a year with people for 15, 000.
• 34:24
  When it should have been six months because life happens or nine months life happens things happens We are patient we pause we will continue.
• 34:32
  We never penny pitch people We never really force people to do anything If you know if you've been in my world, I will give you my recommendations I will give you the things you decide because my job is not to convince you because we do a lot of work behind the scenes that many people are not looking at so i'll see you on our next video thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for listening to this episode.
• 34:53
  Do me a favor.
• 34:55
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• 35:02
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• 35:11
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• 35:17
  Stay tuned and I'll see you in the next episode.
• 35:19
  Bye-bye