Functional Diagnostic Nutrition with Reed Davis

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The most chronic downward spiraling degenerative conditions of today are lifestyle.

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You earned that hypothyroidism.

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You earned that irritable bowel.

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You earned all of that by, I won't say misbehaving, but by not having enough data and actually having false data, advertising and things, it's very bad for us, but, but you can control it.

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You can get your arms around it.

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Welcome to The Wayfinder Show with Luis Hernandez, where guests discuss the why and how of making changes that lead them down a more authentic path or allow them to level up in some area of their life.

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Welcome back to the Wayfinder show.

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I'm your host, Louie Hernandez.

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And today I'm excited to welcome Reed Davis.

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Reed is a double board certified holistic health practitioner, a certified nutritional therapist, and founder of the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition.

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With over 20 years of experience, over 10, 000 clients, and 4, 000 graduates worldwide.

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Worldwide, Reed is a pioneer in functional lab testing in holistic lifestyle medicine.

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He's a former environmental paralegal who shifted his focus to the impact of the environment on human health, helping people uncover and address the root causes of their health challenges.

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Reed, welcome to The Wayfinder Show.

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Thank you, Louis.

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Pleasure to be here.

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Yeah.

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I'm excited to have you here.

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So before we get into it, just, can you share a little bit about, who you are, your origin story, your journey, maybe how you got to where you are?

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I'm a lifelong learner and helper of people.

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I've been in the service business since I was a kid, really.

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I've always been looking for ways to serve.

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And, as you mentioned, I used to be in environmental law, saving the whole planet, air, birds, water, trees, bees, and.

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In the nineties, I started to think about people.

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What about people?

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What about me?

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Us the, and environment's bad.

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Enough dead birds and fish and stuff, and you wonder, what about us?

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So I changed careers.

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Also, there was some things going on in my job as an environmental guy that I didn't like, a lot of focus on the wrong stuff from my personal.

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Heartfelt point of view.

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So I was very happy to change to now, what about people?

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So I went to work at a wellness center where my son was going.

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He was a high school athlete back then, a really good one.

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And that's not just his dad talking.

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He was a really good one, and so I was taking him to a wellness center, getting him treated, like massage and chiropractic and acupuncture, just trying to keep him in his very good shape.

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And I loved it there.

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I was listening to the practitioners there and the owner was a chiropractor.

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I would sit in and listen to her go over my son's x rays and different things.

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And I was fascinated.

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I said, Hey, I want to help you guys.

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To grow, they gave me a job running the place at least took me about three days and I was running the place and but then the owner and this is where their life really changed.

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The owner said.

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Hey, Reed I'm about to start my diplomat program in nutrition.

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If you come along with me, you'll get your nutritional therapy certificate.

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And you can work, here's the key, you can work on our patients in between classes.

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And I thought, wow, that's really hands on.

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That's me, hands on guy, and I said, yeah, I want to do that.

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And I was blown away by How much I learned and yet it wasn't enough.

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Just learning nutrition didn't really help people that much.

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I was doing it in the office.

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I was practicing everything I was being taught.

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And ended up selling a lot of supplements.

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to the patients, but that wasn't helping them.

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And I just heard so many stories from the patients about how they've been to six or eight or ten different practitioners.

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How they weren't better yet.

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And as, one thing you learn in the law area is protectionism.

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I was a, planet protector.

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Now I was a consumer protector.

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I thought, That sucks.

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What do you mean you've been to 8, 9, 10 practitioners and you're not better yet?

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So I thought, number one, there's a rip off.

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Whoever you're going to see, and I didn't know much about medical.

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I'd never really been to a doctor except for sports injuries.

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And so I just didn't know what it was like.

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And all these women in their 40s and 50s mostly.

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A lot of guys matter of fact it was mostly'cause their wives made'em come in like when we had good results with the women, they brought us, their kids, they brought anyway, so I was supposed to be doing nutrition, but here's the trick.

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I really wanted to help.

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I really.

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I used to go out riding my motorcycle.

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I still ride in the hills of Southern California and I get to really think pretty deeply about some things and I said, this cycle of trial and error that all the patients were in like every day.

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Like this.

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They're coming in.

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I've seen 10 people.

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I've seen 8 people.

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I still have this and that different problem.

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And I thought, big rip off.

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And I didn't know how, but I determined Louie, I said, I'm gonna be the last person they need to see.

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Which at the time was a joke, but, that never bothered me before, that it seemed impossible.

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And I'll say this, people joke, that I say this, even back then.

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I said, I have a lot to learn, but I have nothing to unlearn.

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I wasn't trained in, in, in being told you have to do it this way and you have to do it that way.

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So I listened to some really smart people, had great mentors.

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I started running lab work.

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I worked directly with the laboratory directors, the lab.

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scientists and researchers who they too wanted to help people.

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They were always looking for a test that traditional doctors weren't using.

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So this was very alternative medicine back then.

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And people had to pay for it out of pocket, so it wasn't covered by insurance.

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So there was a lot of obstacles, I just became the guy that ran more labs than anyone else.

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And I'm proud of it.

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I spent ten years working in that office.

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Trying to be the last person every patient had to see.

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And I made some discoveries along the way.

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It was really great and it's still really great.

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Just to wrap it up to where I'm at now.

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I'm going to tell you, but I got to tell you that the system I developed over 10 years was so successful with the patients.

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They were referring me and I was also out lecturing and doing things.

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And everyone told me you better be teaching.

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Reed, just, Reed, just think of all the people you could help if you would teach others what you were doing.

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Your system.

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It was a system by then at the end of tenure.

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So that's what I taught my first class in 2008.

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And I've never looked back, that those people took my class, wouldn't go away, I laugh about it, they're still hanging out, they want to know more, want to know more, how'd you do this, how'd you build your business, how, everything about it.

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The discoveries now seem pretty simple, at the time it was just a lot of work, I worked seven days a week for years, trying to figure out what's wrong with Mrs.

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Smith or Mr.

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Jones, running labs and labs and consulting.

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And then, because Also, because I couldn't write a prescription, wasn't a doctor, and none of them wanted another diagnosis and prescription anyway.

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And I created this system, it's, there's a pattern.

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I started researching the hormones, I started running a lot of hormone testing.

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Oh hey, that helps, but not all the way.

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Then the immune system And that helps, but now then digestion and detoxification.

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So I finally came up with this series of tests that I just had everybody run.

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Remember I didn't want I'm gonna diagnose and treat a specific oh, you're hypothyroid or you're irritable bowel.

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I couldn't that's for doctors I just want to find out all the things they needed to improve all the Data points in a way the lab test results all the things that you could do that need to be improved.

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Again, Mrs.

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Smith's there and, I had nothing to prove to myself.

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It was really just proving to Mrs.

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Smith.

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Here's what's really wrong with you.

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Your diagnosis, I get it, doctor, one doctor has this diagnosis, another has another.

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They've done all that stuff.

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Wasn't working.

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Matter of fact, some, and I bet your audience Identifies with this.

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Some people were told nothing's wrong with you.

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They ran their blood work.

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Nothing's wrong with you.

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And they said, I know something's wrong.

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And so I did that other kind of testing that the alternative at the time.

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Now it's progressed.

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It's called functional medicine, some of it.

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But so I checked and it became an acronym that we use hormone, immune, digestion, detoxification, energy production, and nervous system.

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So that spells HIDDEN.

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H A T D E N.

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And it's just occurred that way.

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I didn't pull it out of a hat or, it was really what I found out was wrong with everybody.

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Everybody coming in, whatever their chronic downward spiraling, degenerative kind of thing was, it had elements of those functions in the body, those what I call healing opportunities, hormone, immune, digestion, detoxification, energy production, and nervous system.

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And then along with it, And it happened.

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Along the way was what do you do about it?

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So that's where, remember, I couldn't write a prescription.

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I had to send people home.

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I had to tell them, Louie, Hey, coming in the office is great, and you're getting your acupuncture, your chiropractic, your modalities, and you're going to the gym even, doing, but what are you doing at home?

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So over that 10 year period, and since then, it, we continued to learn and develop.

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But we came up with D R E S S.

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I did.

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It's what I told them to go home and do.

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Eat go to bed on time.

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Exercise.

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Reduce stress in every way that it can be identified.

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And take your supplements.

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And yes, they're important.

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D R E S S.

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If we look for H I D E N healing opportunities, everybody has some.

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At least a number of those.

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Multiple.

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And oh, by the way, those things have an effect on each other.

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Which dispels the idea of looking for one single root cause.

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You're not going to find it.

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You'll find causal factors, but it takes a much broader point of view than that.

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So HIDDEN were the labs, those were the discoveries, but then what people had to do at home to fix it themselves was DRESS, Diet, Rest, Exercise, Stress Reduction, Supplementation.

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Now your podcast is a great one and you're helping a lot of people.

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I go on all kinds of podcasts where they just want to talk about one of those things.

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Tell us about the diet, Reed.

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I can spend an hour or five on the diet, figuring out the right diet.

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And then rest.

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What do you mean?

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Exercise.

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For who?

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It matters.

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The stress reduction is huge.

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Because we run labs to find out the hidden stressors.

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The damage done to the body is going to be pointing the finger back at the causal factors, or the hidden stressors, which is where that word hidden comes back up.

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And then supplements, I don't sell them, but I know an awful lot about them, and I teach people how to pick them and choose them for their own unique situations.

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And yeah, they're required, because, you just can't get enough nutrition from food.

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These days.

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It's really difficult anyway.

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And so what I discovered in 10 years was the hidden system of investigation that the healing opportunities and then how a person can live themselves out of the trouble they've lived themselves into.

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So most chronic downward spiraling degenerative conditions of today are lifestyle.

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You earned that hypothyroidism.

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You earned that irritable bowel.

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You earned all of that by, I won't say misbehaving, but by not having enough data and actually having false data advertising and things.

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It's very bad for us.

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But but you can control it.

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You can get your arms around it.

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Wow.

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So the word I came up with, I'm open to any other question, if you wanna dig into there, I can go as deep as you want.

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Yeah.

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The anatomy, the physiology, the biochemistry.

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Yeah.

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Like anything, yeah.

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It's probably over my head there, but I, at a high level, we're gonna at, I'd like to dig in a little deeper.

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Did you go to ninth grade?

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I could explain it to you.

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Yeah.

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I barely made it past it.

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Like that's the other thing is see, because I was a lay person and I had to educate the patients who have various levels of understanding, so I had to make it really simple.

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So I took some, this is same as law by the way, in law you take complex things and you try to make it simple.

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A lot of analogies and, metaphors and things in health.

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It's the same thing.

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You have to use analogies and help people understand and then look at their life.

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And so we're, in a way, we're like health coaches to, we ask a lot of questions to find out what.

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What's wrong with them?

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What their motivating factors are?

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How are we going to help you overcome this?

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Because it's not take this for that.

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Even though I have lots of bottles of stuff, I use lots of things, it's not take this for that approach.

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It's what's wrong, how are you going to fix it?

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Yeah.

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One more time, can you go over your acronym, hidden hormone, immune, digestive?

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Hormone, immune, digestion, detoxification, energy production, and nervous system.

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And I played around with that for a long time, by the way.

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It's, there's other things you can test for and analyze and assess like oxidative stress and on.

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But those were the six major areas that almost everyone coming in our office needed to handle as basics.

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People come in with various symptoms.

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There's a lot of causal factors.

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Those causal factors are having an effect on each other.

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And, Louie, you're not going to hear hardly anyone else talk about that.

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You talk to a functional Listen, we get to the root cause.

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I'll call BS on them, depending on what labs they're running and how far upstream they're looking.

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How far upstream are you willing to go?

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And then what are the interactions between these causal factors?

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No one discusses it.

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That's why I have one, if you want to call it, use the word diagnosis.

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It's called metabolic chaos.

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So all those hidden causal factors, HID, are effecting each other in ways that can't be singly measured.

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And I'm saying that as a guy who teaches lab work.

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I know about measuring things.

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But you can't singly measure all that.

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You just have to have an understanding of how the dots are connected and what that person has to do to reverse it.

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That's where we draw, we get great results, because we clinically correlate everything we find.

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In other words, the lab results explain exactly why people feel the way they do, when no one else was even trying to explain it to them.

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Oh, you got hypothyroid.

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Here's your medication.

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Come back in three months.

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We'll get those test results where we want them.

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They're treating the paper, not teaching that person why they're hypothyroid.

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Because, and there's lots of reasons why that have nothing to do with the health of your thyroid.

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They have much more to do with a lot of things.

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I can go there.

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I can go into the metabolic processes.

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Before we go into that, I'd like to back it up.

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When somebody comes in, what are the tests that they should do?

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We all go to our doctors and get some labs done.

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But, they're very low level, right?

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But they, they run CBC, chempanels, differentials, and, metabolic profiles, blood work mostly.

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So you get your blood drawn, you come back in a couple weeks, you go over what they find, anything that's high or low, they'll tell you about, it might not be diagnosable yet.

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It might be leaning towards blood sugar problems or cholesterol problems or these standard things and that's just not good enough.

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What we use is saliva, urine, stool, and some blood testing for a different look, a way of registering or measuring subclinical problems.

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They're not diagnosable problems.

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They're, a lot of these tests actually are still research use only.

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So that's why they're not covered by insurance.

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That's why they're not used by doctors.

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But they're really good labs that tell me as an investigator, a health investigator, What's really wrong?

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What's out of balance?

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What needs improvement?

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Before you get a disease.

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Because remember, a lot of people were told nothing's wrong with you.

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Take, here's your chill pills.

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Take this for that.

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And it, as, if you only Take this, something that relieves the symptoms, that's okay, you'll feel a little better, but the downward spiral, the degeneration of the metabolic processes is just going to continue to downward spiral.

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So you need stronger medication or if you weren't given any now you need medication come back in six months Then I can prescribe something You know, let it get bad enough where you're diagnosable and treatable.

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That's not our way You know, the people I said in the beginning and I noticed this 25 years ago They're caught in a cycle of trial and error if they were told There's, your blood work looks normal.

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Go do some diet and exercise.

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They start surgery.

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They know they're not normal.

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They know they're not sleeping right, don't have enough energy, but there's not a diagnosable condition from a medical point of view.

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They're subclinical.

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So we look at the Those things can tell you where to make the improvements, how to make the improvements, and what data you can track, along with how you feel, and losing weight and sleeping better and better, whatever you, sex life or something, just all these things.

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And it does require behavior change.

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That's the one caveat.

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Are you willing to do a few things?

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Like what?

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There's no standing on your corner upside down with carrots in your nose, though.

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That's a good thing.

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Yeah.

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I had so much fun in that office.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I bet you did.

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So I'm curious.

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All right.

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So you got to go in, you get a more extensive lab test with, those four different excretions you, we give that you take.

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And then that gives you an idea of, a better idea of what's happening, even if it's not diagnosable.

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What are some of the common ones that you see?

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Yes.

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I can tell you my wife is one of those people You know, I'll tell you, it's Yeah.

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Yeah.

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My wife is one of those people where she, she's, she suffers from chronic migraines and she's been checked out by all kinds of doctors, Western, Eastern, Northern, Southern, all types.

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And they can't, no matter what they do she still has them and they can't find them.

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I'm assuming that's a common thing, right?

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Cause I, I hear this from a lot of middle aged women, right?

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The yes.

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And we've had a lot of success in that area because we look for the triggers.

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So typically, physicians, it's good that she got checked out, and to your audience, if you have migraines, you want to get checked out, make sure you don't have a brain tumor.

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They're good at that.

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I can't scan for a brain tumor.

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But I can start running tests to look for triggers that are triggering those things.

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My best stories, a true story from 25 years ago almost, was a lady who called me up on a referral.

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You helped my friend, I'm hoping you can help me.

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We're just talking on the phone.

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I don't know if I can help you or not.

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I run labs, that's how I help people.

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What's your problem?

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Migraines.

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How often does that bother you?

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Five days a week, she's in a dark room with a pillow over her head.

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How long has that been going on?

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Two years.

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Nothing.

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Migraines.

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Five days a week.

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Two years.

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Tried all this different stuff.

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What have you tried?

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We ask questions.

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And then we run labs, pretty much.

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There's other questions.

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We do a good onboarding and intake and history and things like that, just like anyone would.

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But we ship lab test kits out.

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Most of our lab tests, Louie, can be done at home.

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You can put saliva, urine, stool, and they're not expensive relative to continuing to suffer and miss work and all the different things.

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So anyway, within just with getting her lab to.

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This results back and telling her some things she could change.

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She called me up just a couple weeks later and said, Reed, I haven't had a migraine in two weeks.

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I've only had, she, I laughed at the, I've only had normal headaches.

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Yeah.

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And I thought there's no such thing as a normal headache.

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The idea was that we found the trigger for her migraines and the same thing is true with so many other conditions.

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I've had people with the hives, with asthma, with ADD and ADHD, with achy joints and all kinds of problems from weight to fogginess to just I used to say so broke they can't even pay attention.

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Yeah.

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And yeah, we run labs.

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So with migraines, you're looking for triggers.

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Sometimes you can find them.

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I've had what we call a resistant case where it's really hard, and there's not enough lab work.

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We're still hoping that, and I work with a couple labs, to develop some lab work.

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I've actually helped them to customize a couple labs that we run that are, again, easy to do.

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I like the easy to, at home, Because I can ship those kits anywhere in the world.

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We're in 50 countries.

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Because we're able to ship test kits.

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And the people put in their own samples.

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And there's a hassle in some countries, but all over America, Canada New Zealand, Australia United Kingdom, we have a lot of practitioners.

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The other countries can be difficult.

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Yeah.

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But if you can run these labs, you can get to the underlying causal conditions.

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So have you noticed over time, you've been doing this a long time now.

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So have you noticed certain trends of ailments that grow more?

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For example, when I was a kid, I don't remember anybody having a peanut allergy, or, An addiction a sensitivity to gluten or any of these things, right?

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And it seemed maybe I just wasn't aware, I wasn't in my world, I grew up in a different environment and, that, wasn't really, there were bigger problems, but now I feel like it's everywhere, right?

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These sensitivities and such.

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Where did you grow up?

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Outside of Providence.

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Where did you grow up?

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In Central Falls, Rhode Island, it's a small, poor, immigrant town and outside of Providence.

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But, there's no where you, there's no where you, you go, sorry.

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Yeah, no, that's it.

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I just, we had other issues that were more prevalent, I think, to us.

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More in your face than some of these helped.

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Not that we didn't have some of these, but we just didn't deal with them.

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The two things about that, at least two things.

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The health of America and its kids, adults, everybody, it's gone down since you and I were kids.

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Okay.

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And I go back further than you.

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I actually grew up in Canada, but I live in San Diego for 40 years now.

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But, so things were different and the food was different.

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The advertising was different.

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The stuff that we, they put in our food was different.

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So there's been a lot of changes that make us sicker.

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A friend of mine's a doctor, Dr.

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Tom O'Brien.

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He might make a good guest for your show, by the way.

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He, in his lectures, which I watch a lot, he says, we're out of the top 38.

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Developed countries, the health of Americans is ranked number two.

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Number two from the bottom.

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So that tells you something.

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It does.

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We're one of the unhealthiest countries with all of our stuff.

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There's reasons for that.

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One is the crap that's allowed to be put in our food.

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Food is the number one contributor to metabolic chaos so it's the environment, which has been cleaned up a little bit since I, to the law program I went to because hippie lawyers sued the government and these big polluters, and they've changed rivers and lakes to, but they're much cleaner than they used to be, and that's a good thing.

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So I've seen a lot of development.

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To answer your question, what's different is that our food is completely a toxic mess.

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Yeah.

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The number of chemicals that are allowed, and their irritants, they affect all these functions and create imbalances in the body, beginning with the brain and other areas, the gut, digestion, all the things that we test for.

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But the other thing is recognition of new, I think, psychological diseases.

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When I was a kid, if you were, had energy, you got to go outside and play.

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I wrote an article once.

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Where little Billy was not paying attention in school.

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He was poking the other kids and outbursting loudly.

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And I said, Oh, you mean he was being a boy?

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And that's how it was like boys.

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You go out and play go fight and go do the stuff that we will.

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Now there's social conditioning that doesn't allow us to be.

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We don't get enough time outside.

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Kids should be exercising for hours every single, until they're exhausted.

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Then they can get up and go.

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And then they can maybe pay attention to something else for a few hours.

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If it's interesting, and if the person teaching it gives a crap.

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Pardon me.

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I think a lot of the problems is that, Teachers, some of them, aren't interested in the topic.

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They're like, they sign up for math teaching.

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Oh, they're teaching English all of a sudden, or vice versa.

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I can tell when someone teaching cares about their topic.

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And so can kids.

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They know it intuitively.

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So things like ADD and ADHD didn't exist when you and I were boys.

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Especially when I was a boy.

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You were just a boy.

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Anyway, one or two bad kids.

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We called it poor parenting back then.

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Sure.

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I've read all the literature and all the stuff in between and watched that evolution and I've helped a lot of kids, too, and I could tell you story after story.

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I had a principal call me once, Mr.

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Davis, I tracked you down from the mother of Billy.

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Who apparently you're working with, and he's a different kid, he's no longer jumping out of his chair.

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He's no longer poking the other kids and starting arguments.

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He's actually paying attention and doing well, in a very short period of time.

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And he's so impressed, and my head's swelling up.

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Because I know how I helped, and he, then he blew it.

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He goes what'd you put him on?

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And it was very disappointing that was his response.

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I'm glad he recognized this kid's a completely different kid.

00:29:27.209 --> 00:29:43.733
But what we quote unquote put him on was A better diet, we got rid of the offending foods from test, we tested, we got him on a better bedtime schedule, more exercise, eat, so eating going to bed on time, getting a good night's sleep the exercise was huge.

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And just sometimes some discipline is helpful.

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And it turned this kid around.

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No drugs, no medications.

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Not even any supplements, magic supplements over the counter from the store.

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None of that.

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Just found out what was offending, what the offenders were, and got rid of them.

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So that's lifestyle medicine.

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That's the ultimate.

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epigenetic program.

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Yeah.

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By the way this boy, if you think about it, had brothers and sisters who were perfectly normal.

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So that tells you something, like it's individuality that we have to be most concerned with.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I can go round and round.

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Yeah.

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I experienced this in a very real way about a year ago.

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I was I had gotten a sports nutritionist who really helped me with my diet and and I just noticed, I, I.

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I ate really, I felt really first of all, calm all the time, focused, all that And I had a lot of energy.

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I was training for a marathon at the time, and I had never, as the training went on, I adapted really well.

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I didn't have any ailments, soreness or anything.

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A lot of it was from really clean eating.

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And then the marathon was in Japan, so we went to Japan, and everywhere I'd go, we ate.

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And even at 7 Eleven, we'd get like a rice cake and it was excellent, and we felt good.

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And then as soon as we came back to America, and we were at the airport, I had my first burger that I had in months, and I thought, Oh, I can't wait to have a burger again, right?

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And immediately, I just felt I felt it, my I felt it in my stomach, in my head, it just, it was, I felt tired it was a different feeling.

00:31:27.213 --> 00:31:29.463
And that was like such a night and day difference.

00:31:29.463 --> 00:31:36.433
It really just made me aware I've been hearing this for a while, but just how messed up our food is now, it's incredible.

00:31:36.983 --> 00:31:40.634
I've been in Japan and I remember eating a lot of fish actually.

00:31:40.634 --> 00:31:40.894
Yeah.

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A lot of fish.

00:31:42.828 --> 00:31:46.689
Yeah but, a mix there's a way to figure out what the right diet is for you.

00:31:46.959 --> 00:31:47.318
Yeah.

00:31:47.378 --> 00:31:49.229
And What is that way?

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We call it metabolic typing.

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And so people could go, there's a book called Metabolic Typing Diet by William Wolcott, who's a good friend of mine.

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Matter of fact, here, I have a 20 year old copy of this book still on my desk.

00:32:07.913 --> 00:32:09.288
Called Dogeared, this book.

00:32:09.318 --> 00:32:09.709
Oh, wow.

00:32:09.709 --> 00:32:09.769
Yeah.

00:32:09.769 --> 00:32:10.548
Metabolic Taping Diet.

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There's a website, mt diet.com.

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Mt diet.com.

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And so we look, everyone's different and what it does is help you find out your ancestral diet.

00:32:23.973 --> 00:32:37.884
But your ancestry, so my ancestry might be different than your ancestry, so it's basically ancestral, but not two generations, 500 generations of ancestry.

00:32:38.153 --> 00:32:40.894
What's bred in your bones, in your genes?

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We say bread and the bone.

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So there's a correct metabolic type diet for everyone.

00:32:46.374 --> 00:32:48.693
And it's, there's four basic categories.

00:32:49.054 --> 00:33:00.144
And we have tests like to determine oxidative rate and autonomic dominance and these things that will tell you how much protein, fat and carbs to eat.

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Starting with that, you start with how much protein, fat and carbs.

00:33:04.463 --> 00:33:05.463
Perfect for me.

00:33:06.253 --> 00:33:09.473
And what's perfect for you could be a slightly different ratio.

00:33:10.084 --> 00:33:25.773
Yeah, and what could be someone else could be a totally different ratio like, and it's genetic so if you look at my cousin was a priest up in Canada and his Parishes were Cree Indians the Cree Indian nation.

00:33:25.834 --> 00:33:52.614
Up in Canada's almost desk and man they're such fast oxidizers Parasympathetic dominant people that when they eat their native diet, they're perfectly healthy Those, the Cree Indians, when the French and English first came over and started all the fur trapping and all that stuff two hundred and some years, three hundred years ago, they were amazed at the energy that the Cree Indians had.

00:33:53.124 --> 00:33:56.564
Like these I call them Indians, First Nation natives or whatever.

00:33:59.114 --> 00:34:00.503
They were just known as being.

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They could dance across the rocks for 14 hours straight trapping and fishing and doing what they do, but guess what?

00:34:12.168 --> 00:34:13.009
They're all sick.

00:34:13.329 --> 00:34:18.998
They all have diabetes and the highest rate of alcoholism and suicide on the planet.

00:34:19.329 --> 00:34:23.228
The Canadians of Canada are all going to government clinics.

00:34:23.759 --> 00:34:29.009
And the reason could be attributed almost entirely to their diet change.

00:34:29.668 --> 00:34:42.219
Because when the fur trapping and all that died down, they started finding minerals, copper and diamond ore for gold and all that.

00:34:42.458 --> 00:34:55.534
So they All the mines, which brings in mine workers, and it isn't them, brings in crap food, fat food, and the grocery store selling spaghetti.

00:34:55.753 --> 00:34:56.333
Yeah.

00:34:56.614 --> 00:35:08.704
Now, if your genetic makeup is to eat salmon and caribou, like 90 percent protein, and the fat that's included with the meat, with some seasonal fruits and nuts.

00:35:08.744 --> 00:35:12.664
Matter of fact we used to go up there and just eat blueberries in the summertime.

00:35:13.224 --> 00:35:18.643
So there's other stuff to eat but they got away from their natural diets and their health went to hell.

00:35:18.943 --> 00:35:26.773
And, because I asked my cousin, again, he's a priest with two parishes, and I was joking with him.

00:35:26.813 --> 00:35:29.474
I said, when people up there get sick, do they go to the medicine man?

00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:39.228
He goes I'm their medicine man, like I'm the religious chief anyway, I said no, when they get sick they he goes, oh, they're all sick.

00:35:39.528 --> 00:35:50.139
They're all they all go to the diabetes and are, alcoholic and they don't fish and hunt and trap anyway, even though the streams, and he used to tell me the caribou would take two hours.

00:35:50.139 --> 00:35:54.429
The herds are so it would take two hours to cross the road.

00:35:55.619 --> 00:35:56.708
They just they're eating it.

00:35:57.369 --> 00:36:06.349
Tim Horton Donuts and drinking coffee and alcohol and I don't know what the hell, but What's wrong with coffee?

00:36:06.349 --> 00:36:09.128
Not doing what the body demands.

00:36:09.733 --> 00:36:10.373
Say again.

00:36:10.614 --> 00:36:11.583
What's wrong with coffee?

00:36:15.224 --> 00:36:19.083
I actually like coffee, but if you're a Cree Indian, I get it.

00:36:19.143 --> 00:36:20.014
There's other stuff.

00:36:20.014 --> 00:36:35.824
So so anyway, so the native diet if you will is Probably the right diet It's hard to figure out when there's been so much travel and intermarriage and so you need a better way We found through metabolic typing we can get close to That's right for you.

00:36:36.434 --> 00:36:40.733
And then you can, and teach you how to modify it and get it just right.

00:36:41.614 --> 00:36:47.693
Plus we do food sensitivity testing and those increase something you said earlier, maybe.

00:36:48.168 --> 00:37:02.909
Want to say look the sicker you get the sicker you get you know the more food sensitivities You'll have and different things like that like you know you mentioned the gluten that's inherited for the most part, but a lot of other foods.

00:37:02.909 --> 00:37:05.148
It's because you Not functioning right.

00:37:06.798 --> 00:37:24.518
So what about somebody, can't have access to your lab testing or your services what is something that they can do, or they don't want to wait, what is something they can do right now to you know, themselves at home to just maybe have a little bit of improvement in their health?

00:37:24.518 --> 00:37:28.418
There, everyone can improve diet, rest, exercise.

00:37:28.909 --> 00:37:34.329
reduce stress and supplementation, there's generalized recommendations.

00:37:34.679 --> 00:37:44.998
It works much better with the lab work because zero in on where you're out of balance, how you need to improve, but eating right for your metabolic type, everybody can.

00:37:45.423 --> 00:37:48.664
You can read a book and learn how to eat for their individuality.

00:37:49.304 --> 00:37:50.704
No other book will tell you that.

00:37:50.824 --> 00:37:53.213
There's, everyone says, try my diet.

00:37:53.643 --> 00:37:57.094
You might get lucky, but likely you're not.

00:37:57.824 --> 00:37:59.864
So then the rest is really critical.

00:37:59.873 --> 00:38:06.704
Going to bed early, getting up a little earlier, perhaps if you don't work night shift, and I know this modern world.

00:38:06.974 --> 00:38:09.594
But my dad always said early to bed, early to rise.

00:38:10.023 --> 00:38:11.634
Work like hell and advertise.

00:38:15.278 --> 00:38:16.349
I can't help myself.

00:38:17.239 --> 00:38:22.469
Yeah the idea of sleeping, resting, it's not just sleep, rest.

00:38:22.849 --> 00:38:26.918
You see the screen behind me, there's actually a David back there.

00:38:26.958 --> 00:38:43.673
If I get, burnt up from, I don't really get burnt up, but if I get challenged by concept shifting from going from one, I run a company I have 50 employees, I have meetings, I have issues, I sometimes I just go and meditate, rest.

00:38:44.108 --> 00:38:45.679
Even for 12 minutes.

00:38:45.818 --> 00:38:57.929
Yeah, so diet rest, which isn't just sleep the rest your emotions and things The exercise I also worked out today my I'm a personal trainer.

00:38:58.728 --> 00:39:03.588
I have it my own gym and I do I do it on a FaceTime call.

00:39:03.588 --> 00:39:09.148
I have an iPad, my exam, and we, yeah, she's in Florida, I'm in Southern California.

00:39:09.369 --> 00:39:09.918
Go figure.

00:39:10.639 --> 00:39:11.858
So diet, rest, exercise.

00:39:12.128 --> 00:39:29.849
The stress reduction is sometimes a hard one, Louie, because when I say stress, most people think, Oh, yeah, my job, sucks, or traffic sucks, or there's fires, or, maybe you're arguing with your spouse, or Believe it or not, you're not always right when you're arguing with your spouse.

00:39:32.208 --> 00:39:32.798
Don't argue.

00:39:33.179 --> 00:39:41.369
I got my ways of just, I'm married, but so it's the people think about the mental emotional stressors, money and stuff.

00:39:41.639 --> 00:39:45.608
That's not, I'm talking about that, but man, there's so many other types of stress.

00:39:46.108 --> 00:39:49.418
If you drink too much coffee, that's a chemical stress.

00:39:49.418 --> 00:39:52.298
If you drink bad coffee with chemicals in it, that's more.

00:39:52.518 --> 00:39:54.418
If you're eating food that's full of chemicals.

00:39:55.969 --> 00:39:58.588
So we have all this toxicity in the environment.

00:39:58.889 --> 00:40:03.918
If you're driving through traffic, you're sucking up a lot of fumes and that's bad for you.

00:40:04.313 --> 00:40:17.224
Stress reduction means not just settling the mental emotional things, I believe there's another type, the psychospir But there's all of this chemical stress, man, that's just crushing us.

00:40:17.244 --> 00:40:21.094
We're marinating in a toxic soup around big cities.

00:40:21.094 --> 00:40:25.634
I live in the country and still I know I'm affected because I can test for it.

00:40:25.853 --> 00:40:32.643
I can do environmental toxicity testing and tell you what's in your bloodstream, what's in your tissues, even in your hair and stuff.

00:40:33.034 --> 00:40:33.164
Wow.

00:40:33.938 --> 00:40:40.559
The other type, so there's that mental, emotional, psycho spiritual, chemical stress, and physical pain stress.

00:40:40.568 --> 00:40:45.739
I have injuries from having a very well used body.

00:40:46.289 --> 00:40:52.599
I did things that probably shouldn't have done as much of it or to that extreme.

00:40:52.818 --> 00:41:00.693
Kickboxing and jiu jitsu and water sports and motor Cycling and all these things.

00:41:00.693 --> 00:41:03.543
I would do it and if I got hurt, I didn't care.

00:41:04.733 --> 00:41:10.063
Suck it up, but now at 71 years old, it comes back to haunt you.

00:41:10.063 --> 00:41:13.304
I remember the three or four times I hurt my neck.

00:41:13.704 --> 00:41:14.643
It builds up.

00:41:14.873 --> 00:41:16.614
So that's another type of stress.

00:41:17.228 --> 00:41:22.378
And the reason I say that is because your body responds the same, the stress response kicks in.

00:41:22.969 --> 00:41:27.748
It doesn't matter if you get punched in the face or yelled at, your body responds the same.

00:41:27.898 --> 00:41:38.389
To chronic pain, to all this other stuff I throw in the psycho spiritual because I believe not having a purpose in life I can see who's stressed out because they have no purpose.

00:41:38.978 --> 00:41:42.289
Hey dude, you better find You know, a purpose in your life.

00:41:42.289 --> 00:41:47.838
That's why you're all messed up, stressed out and anxiety, so like you, you got a purpose, right?

00:41:48.378 --> 00:41:49.728
So you're not all stressed out.

00:41:49.969 --> 00:42:00.648
You also, I would mention to say pretty fast oxidizer, parasympathetic, dominance and things, there's just stuff that you, if you live that way, according to your nature.

00:42:01.418 --> 00:42:02.318
You'll be happier.

00:42:02.728 --> 00:42:03.918
Yeah, for sure.

00:42:04.418 --> 00:42:06.009
Reid, this has been really insightful.

00:42:06.009 --> 00:42:08.768
I definitely gotta check out some of your lab testing.

00:42:08.978 --> 00:42:12.668
Might be talking to you about that after this, but yeah, for sure.

00:42:13.128 --> 00:42:17.418
For now, we're gonna switch over to our world famous Wayfinder four.

00:42:17.938 --> 00:42:21.329
So can you give us a hack, just a life hack that you use every day?

00:42:21.829 --> 00:42:23.744
My, my number one hack will cost you nothing.

00:42:24.893 --> 00:42:35.614
You'll get up in the morning and you put your feet on the floor and you say your prayers, you thank our maker for, all the blessings and count them and be grateful.

00:42:35.824 --> 00:42:39.764
I got lots of people come through my program and we talk about it all the time.

00:42:39.764 --> 00:42:40.554
We call it vitamin.

00:42:42.423 --> 00:42:42.974
G.

00:42:43.594 --> 00:42:44.213
Gratitude.

00:42:44.713 --> 00:42:44.943
Yeah.

00:42:44.943 --> 00:42:49.893
My biggest hack is that, the other hacking some of it's good.

00:42:50.393 --> 00:42:51.224
I run labs.

00:42:51.233 --> 00:42:51.943
That's my hack.

00:42:51.954 --> 00:42:53.884
Saliva, urine, stool, blood.

00:42:54.304 --> 00:42:55.543
That's my way of hacking.

00:42:55.833 --> 00:43:00.873
But I have stuff like, I got this infrared sitting right here on the floor.

00:43:00.873 --> 00:43:03.083
It's just out of my reach or I'd show it to you.

00:43:03.393 --> 00:43:08.603
And I plug it in and I put it on my hip, cause I, from kickboxing I hurt my hip and.

00:43:08.728 --> 00:43:10.719
I'm repairing it.

00:43:10.728 --> 00:43:11.898
I'm getting stem cells.

00:43:12.228 --> 00:43:15.759
That's another big hack for me, is the stem cells, peptides.

00:43:15.759 --> 00:43:17.708
I'm doing some pretty advanced stuff.

00:43:17.708 --> 00:43:20.369
But again, I'm a geezer, or almost a geezer.

00:43:21.349 --> 00:43:21.958
You look great.

00:43:23.338 --> 00:43:25.179
What about a favorite?

00:43:26.503 --> 00:43:33.143
This is just anything like a book or show, an activity, something, my favorite thing is snuggling with my wife.

00:43:34.103 --> 00:43:34.724
I love it.

00:43:35.153 --> 00:43:40.193
If I don't get my snuggles in, man, every single day, she'll tell ya.

00:43:40.824 --> 00:43:41.733
And we're just like that.

00:43:41.733 --> 00:43:44.434
We're two little peas in a pod and we I love it.

00:43:44.724 --> 00:43:45.449
Snuggle up.

00:43:45.449 --> 00:43:47.208
And We do cool things.

00:43:47.349 --> 00:43:48.268
That's beautiful.

00:43:48.789 --> 00:43:49.248
Yeah.

00:43:50.329 --> 00:43:53.579
I don't know how that sounds, but you asked, right?

00:43:53.798 --> 00:43:54.728
No, that's great.

00:43:54.739 --> 00:43:55.628
That's a good one, man.

00:43:55.898 --> 00:43:57.028
I think you're right.

00:43:57.039 --> 00:43:59.338
Who doesn't love someone going with their significant other?

00:43:59.838 --> 00:44:02.938
What about a piece of advice for your younger self?

00:44:03.438 --> 00:44:06.289
Man slow, slow the roll a little bit.

00:44:06.659 --> 00:44:11.498
Think a little more deeply and consider the consequences.

00:44:11.509 --> 00:44:14.699
And if they're, it's like the risk taking, the risky.

00:44:15.309 --> 00:44:30.498
Behavior cliff diving, and, the motorcycle accidents I've been in were all just me and my motorcycle, no cars were ever involved, it was just riding beyond my or my bike's comfort level, abilities and things like that.

00:44:30.958 --> 00:44:36.478
But yeah, there's a big hill, let's go jump off it, and yeah, that's that's part of it at least.

00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:39.429
That's called being a boy, like you said earlier.

00:44:39.889 --> 00:44:42.159
Yeah, but when you're 40, you're supposed to quit.

00:44:42.829 --> 00:44:47.568
How big of a boy can you be, we're supposed to, but we still, boys will still be boys, right?

00:44:48.478 --> 00:44:53.289
Yeah I did jujitsu until I was 65 or 66.

00:44:53.298 --> 00:44:58.809
They called me bad Santa in the gym because I was really strong.

00:44:59.378 --> 00:45:03.608
You, the only technique would beat me, strengthless was never an issue.

00:45:03.978 --> 00:45:08.579
But yeah but, I, I got hurt doing that wrestling with 23 year olds.

00:45:08.579 --> 00:45:11.079
It would, where you're supposed to be able to roll and.

00:45:12.074 --> 00:45:16.873
Get thrown and handle it and just you get old and it's just hard to do, which I quit.

00:45:17.324 --> 00:45:19.193
Yeah, I can still roll a bit, but.

00:45:20.449 --> 00:45:21.018
I don't do it.

00:45:21.318 --> 00:45:25.588
That won't mess with you, What about, yeah.

00:45:26.009 --> 00:45:36.849
What about a big opportunity or a limiting belief that, you see out there, you just struck on something that's like a whole episode.

00:45:36.909 --> 00:45:40.349
The limiting belief thing is so big.

00:45:40.449 --> 00:45:48.318
Certain people had limiting beliefs, we wouldn't have ever achieved all the stuff that we have.

00:45:48.318 --> 00:45:53.498
It's all been done by people who just believed, what they believed they could achieve.

00:45:53.898 --> 00:45:56.139
And so it's, you name it, what's anything?

00:45:56.579 --> 00:46:05.748
I think a big opportunity, like in a investment wise now, because I've been dabbling a bit is in organic farming.

00:46:05.818 --> 00:46:06.489
I really want to.

00:46:07.123 --> 00:46:35.998
Help farms convert to organic small farms, so there's small farmers who can't compete with the big guys because it's hard, and, but they could convert, takes about three years to convert a regular farm to an organic farm, so if somebody has, 500 acres or 1000 acres, they could make a lot of money supplying people with really good, high quality food, and that's what I'd like to see change is the quality of our food, It sucks.

00:46:36.119 --> 00:46:41.628
It's really bad, and kids, I'll just finish with one more little story on that note.

00:46:42.048 --> 00:46:49.429
I had a patient coming in our office who was a principal of five charter schools.

00:46:50.028 --> 00:46:52.989
So private, five, five charter schools.

00:46:53.219 --> 00:46:55.259
She went to one each day of the week, Monday through Friday.

00:46:57.233 --> 00:47:03.563
And she started sitting in on the parent teacher conferences for misbehavior, basically.

00:47:04.304 --> 00:47:11.204
And she would just sit and listen to the parents, the teacher, and the kid.

00:47:12.074 --> 00:47:14.324
And she only would ask the kid one question.

00:47:14.543 --> 00:47:15.523
She told me this.

00:47:15.523 --> 00:47:17.664
We had serious talks about it.

00:47:17.844 --> 00:47:20.094
She started asking all the kids one question.

00:47:20.844 --> 00:47:22.903
What'd you eat for breakfast this morning?

00:47:23.454 --> 00:47:26.574
What percentage do you think we're eating crap?

00:47:28.034 --> 00:47:33.963
90 percent Wow, you're as close as you could have got.

00:47:33.963 --> 00:47:37.463
Yeah, no one's I would imagine There's also a lot of kids who don't eat breakfast, right?

00:47:37.463 --> 00:47:40.554
I know a lot of my girls I had to like if they ate breakfast, right?

00:47:40.554 --> 00:47:42.664
Yeah, we had to force them something.

00:47:42.704 --> 00:47:48.954
Yeah, and Starbucks on the way to school, it's ridiculous.

00:47:48.954 --> 00:47:51.983
It's Yeah, it's funny this morning.

00:47:51.983 --> 00:48:14.914
I had a conversation with a lady I run with because her kids in the morning, you know She's a doctor and she likes to make sure they're all healthy and everything and we run at 5 in the morning Before her kids are even up and she was telling me how she go Breakfast is like the worst because she doesn't have time usually to make sure that they eat right So they're eating, these sugar cereals right?

00:48:14.914 --> 00:48:19.563
Captain Crunch, or Froot Loops, or any of those kind of things, because they love that, and that's the only thing they'll eat.

00:48:19.563 --> 00:48:24.094
And she's just more concerned about them having actual calories, as opposed to nothing.

00:48:24.494 --> 00:48:31.074
But and again, this is somebody who's extremely health conscious, make sure their kids eat everything good, organic, but not breakfast.

00:48:31.603 --> 00:48:33.043
And it just says something, doesn't it?

00:48:33.594 --> 00:48:34.954
You're, yes, absolutely.

00:48:34.954 --> 00:48:38.509
And you're the active word there was Consciousness.

00:48:38.748 --> 00:48:38.929
Yeah.

00:48:38.958 --> 00:48:40.909
'cause you said health conscious.

00:48:41.028 --> 00:48:41.298
Yeah.

00:48:41.329 --> 00:48:42.648
How about just conscious?

00:48:43.268 --> 00:48:43.358
Yeah.

00:48:43.719 --> 00:48:49.469
Environ environment, environmental awareness and situational awareness and things like that.

00:48:49.469 --> 00:48:51.599
Just be more conscious.

00:48:52.228 --> 00:48:52.438
Yeah.

00:48:52.438 --> 00:48:55.403
Health is part of it, but there's an awful lot to it.

00:48:56.023 --> 00:48:56.864
Yeah, for sure.

00:48:57.434 --> 00:48:58.333
That's my hack.

00:48:58.784 --> 00:49:00.554
Be more self-aware and conscious.

00:49:01.373 --> 00:49:01.764
Yeah.

00:49:01.764 --> 00:49:06.884
Reid, if people want to know a little bit more about you, or your practice, how can they find you?

00:49:09.764 --> 00:49:17.123
The best way, probably, Louie, and thank you, is FDN, you see my shirt, FDN, so FDN Training, fdntraining.

00:49:17.844 --> 00:49:24.873
com, slash Wayfinder, in honor of the show, so slash Wayfinder.

00:49:25.443 --> 00:49:29.873
That will take them to a free gift, something about health that you'll like.

00:49:30.233 --> 00:49:37.893
They may even give you a choice, do you want my e book, or do you want a little course, do you want to, learn more about the labs, just depends what you want.

00:49:38.264 --> 00:49:38.824
Probably get it.

00:49:39.094 --> 00:49:42.934
Anyway, yeah, it's FDN is functional diagnostic nutrition.

00:49:42.983 --> 00:49:46.773
It's what I coined It's the phrase I gave, I had to name it something.

00:49:46.943 --> 00:49:47.143
Yeah.

00:49:47.143 --> 00:49:47.483
Yeah.

00:49:48.014 --> 00:49:52.523
You're good at these names I gave it that 15 years ago, and I'm stuck with it.

00:49:52.903 --> 00:49:53.494
Okay.

00:49:53.994 --> 00:49:55.063
Thank you very much Reed.

00:49:55.063 --> 00:49:57.793
This has been really insightful Yeah.

00:49:57.853 --> 00:50:00.414
And I'll be going on fdntraining.

00:50:00.414 --> 00:50:01.943
com forward slash wayfinder.

00:50:01.943 --> 00:50:05.594
I think my, as soon as I tell my wife about this, she's going to want to order the labs too.

00:50:05.594 --> 00:50:07.583
So we'll be checking all that out.

00:50:08.934 --> 00:50:09.293
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