Inflammation, Fasting & Metabolic Age: A Blueprint for Lasting Weight Loss | Dr. Bradley Morris

Forget quick fixes — inflammation is the real root cause blocking fat loss, energy, and hormone balance. Everyone’s talking about Ozempic & GLP-1 drugs for weight loss… but what if there’s a way to lose fat, heal your body, and feel amazing — without the side effects?

In this deep-dive episode, David & Dale Cross sit down with Dr. Bradley Morris to reveal a smarter, sustainable path to health:

1. Why all diets “work”… until inflammation stops them
2. Daily weigh-ins as an inflammation meter (not a guilt trip)
3. Intermittent fasting explained — and when to avoid it
4. Cortisol’s hidden role in belly fat, poor sleep, and hormone crashes
5. Food swaps that reduce reactions (wheat, pasta, fruit, “free foods”)
6. Peptides explained (amino acids, not drugs)
7. The power of digestive enzymes, hydration, and gut health
8. Why metabolic age is the true health marker — and how to reverse it
9. The truth about Ozempic: side effects, sustainability, and what happens after you stop

💡 Practical. Hopeful. Sustainable. Dale shares her real story of losing 45 lbs in 4 months without drugs — and keeping it off.

👉 If you’ve been tempted by quick fixes but want a proven playbook to feel good again, this episode is for you.

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Chapters

• 0:55 Ozempic, GLP-1s & the bigger question: living lean drug-free
• 1:32 Meet Dr. Bradley Morris + why last episode blew up
• 2:26 Dale’s struggle after 40, kids, “doing everything right”
• 3:44 Dale’s results: 45 lbs in ~4 months—and kept off
• 6:00 Who qualifies for the weight-loss program (screening first)
• 7:00 Who qualifies for the weight-loss program (screening first)
• 7:53 Peptides 101—short-chain amino acids & metabolism
• 9:33 Hormone disruptors in modern food (labels to watch)
• 11:03 Obesity & underlying issues (gut, autoimmunity, absorption)
• 14:09 Cholesterol ≠ culprit: the inflammation/paramedic analogy
• 29:34 Find your kryptonite foods (Dale: nightshades)
• 35:14 Tequila talk: smartest alcohol choices & mixers
• 37:49 Fruit + alcohol + liver = stored fat (how to time it)
• 42:11 Pasta swap that won’t wreck you: Italian flour, semolina/durum basics
• 43:40 Kids + gluten sensitivity; why some noodles hit different
• 45:22 Weekend indulgence → Monday mood: recognizing your inflammation hangover
• 48:14 Cortisol loop: inflammation → stress → sleep disruption → more stress
• 49:55 PVN, DHEA & sex hormones: why chronic stress trashes libido/menopause
• 55:22 Intermittent fasting, explained: why 11a–7p often beats 12–8
• 57:16 Don’t do one plan forever: cycling IF, changing inputs
• 59:56 What your body’s asking for pre-workout (glycogen)
• 1:06:14 Healing timelines: 3-day inflammation, 6–9 week repair, 6–9 month regen
• 1:09:44 Enzymes 101 (villi, tight junctions, zonulin, “leaky gut” → autoimmunity)
• 1:13:34 “Nothing tastes as good as feeling good” (taste buds reset)
• 1:16:10 High-GI fruits to limit (bananas, grapes, melons, pineapple)
• 1:16:46 Free foods: cucumber, celery, leafy greens, onions
• 1:22:24 Ozempic/GLP-1s: what works, the common side effects, the “now what?”
• 1:25:18 The sustainability gap: drugs don’t teach you how to eat
• 1:28:45 Metabolic age explained (and why it hits home)
• 1:31:02 Real hope: these markers are reversible
• 1:33:11 Misinformation fatigue & the “Google MD” trap
• 1:33:40 How propaganda shaped breakfast (set up for next segment)

Transcript

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Head. Welcome to Real Talk Hilton Head, the real estate lifestyle podcast of Coastal Carolina. Are you thinking about uh
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weight loss? Are you trying to considering Ozimpac or some form of OMAC
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or any other thing? Are you frustrated? Are you just battling this for years and you want the answers on how do you lose
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weight? How do you do it healthy? And how do you live on the other side of
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weight loss without drugs? Well, this episode's for you. We're going to talk about uh everything. Ozimp, we're going
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to talk about healthy weight loss. We're going to talk about cava, all sorts of things. So, if this is up your alley,
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you need to stick around. You need to subscribe first, like this, share, but you need to pay attention because today
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we have Dr. Bradley Morris. Uh, he is a multitude of things on Hilton Head
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Island. Asher, if you want to break to the wide angle here, that's Dr. Morris. So, welcome to the show. Welcome back to
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the show. Back to the show. Yeah. Despite popular demand. Yeah. The last time we did the show, it
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just blew up and people just want more information on what we're going to talk about. So, thank you for coming back. My
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pleasure. And being with us back, Phil. Okay. So, let's go through your history so
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everybody can know like what your struggle was with the weight and give them that story and then how we
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got in touch with Dr. Bradley. He was first of all, he was my savior and answered many questions. I think we
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said this the last I thought that was Jesus, but we'll talk about that on the other side. I'm not drinking. Please.
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You have to be third cuz he would be second. No, I mean, as many women know, when you
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when you hit that 40 mark, your hormones start to change. And you have children,
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it's just once you have kids, it just changes everything. And I was doing everything I could. I was exercising,
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trying to eat healthy, what we thought was healthy. You would sit at your desk on that little walking about her walking treadmill.
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I would walk. She would walk eight hours a day if I could and I learned to type very well
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behind it. I just was frustrated. Absolutely frustrated. So, um, I worked with Dr. Mary Odum for a period of time
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to get myself cleaned up and then I got to a point where she said, "All right, you're ready for Dr. Bradley." And
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that's where we met. Yep. Yep. And we started um this program that we really want to talk about. It's more
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than a program. It's a lifestyle and it's truly become my lifestyle. Um, and we'll get into that now, but um, for me
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it was truly life-changing. It gave me my confidence back. It made me feel like
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who I really am cuz most women when Put a thumbs up in the comments if you want your confidence back and to feel
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better right now. Absolutely. And if you, you know, the person that you are right now is not who you really are. And I think that's what
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I struggled with. It was like I knew there was a better Dale in there. And um so when I lost the weight, honestly, I
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lost 45 lbs. And how many months? Probably about 5 months. 6 months. The program's only four. And you hit
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your goal before the end. I did, didn't I? Okay. So 45 lbs. 45 lbs in 4 months.
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And I've kept it off. I think that's the key. I absolutely the key for me honestly was lifestyle.
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And I think Dr. Bradley helped me learn my body and and that's what's so
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beautiful about your program. There were so many things and we'll jump get into that. So, please hang tight. Is I
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learned what worked for my body and what doesn't work for my body. And most importantly, no prescriptions.
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Yes. This is all 100% natural through food, diet, um obviously exercise and
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peptides and supplementation. Yeah. All right. Yeah, that's great. So, Dr. Bradley, explain
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because what we want for the audience because we missed this last time. Walk us through where you started with Daniel
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and that whole process and and give them hope and give them the steps. Well, and I think sorry to jump in
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because there is a step before there's two parts to your weight loss program. That's a good point. So, let's start from the beginning. If somebody's coming
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to you, where do you start? The first thing is, do they qualify for just the weight loss program?
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Okay. Right. um I know that sounds kind of rough maybe that you didn't qualify and people like well I need to lose weight I
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definitely should qualify and I'm like well sometimes we have underlying issues going on that have to be addressed
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before you're even ready to get into any type of weight loss and it could be a
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digestive issue it could be an autoimmune issue that you're not even aware of so there's a lot of underlying things going on in our bodies that we're
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not really aware of because we may not be symptomatic yet um so there's a lot of questions that I ask first to go, hey, is this going to
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be a good place for you to start? So, let's say that they can get past that first screening of those questions and
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jump right into a weight loss program. So, you sorry, you are you have a questionnaire that they fill out.
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Um, actually, it's me. Um, you're the I am the questionnaire. I have some questions. Smiling face is the
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questionire. Um, and the reason being the reason it's not as simple as a questionnaire is because your answer leads to another
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question. that's where your experience and your knowledge. So, you know, um doing functional medicine for as long as I
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have, it's it's one of those things I'm like, well, if you answer it this way, I'm going to go this way, but if you answer it this way, I'm going to go this
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way. And so, and and that's just going to keep changing. Yeah. And so, I wish it was cookie cutter. I wish there was
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so many more things that were cookie cutter in what I do. It's just not. um the weight loss program once you get past that first
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part you know so if we don't have underlying conditions that are preventing us from even attempting to lose weight
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then we can jump into this weight loss program um and so getting into that then it's a matter of going all right what
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are goals number one are your goals reachable in in a certain time frame and then it's
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a matter of going okay what all are you doing wrong and it's it's one of those things that
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there's so much information out there. Yeah, that's what's overusing. It is. They all contradict each other.
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It does. And and I see them all. And here's the problem with all the diets out there. By the way, this is a plug for every diet out there. They all work.
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They all work. Yeah. For the right person. Okay. Right. And so that's the part that I
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look at and go, well, which diet works for everybody? Yeah. Well, there's no perfect diet for
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everyone. Right? So the way that we put the program together was all right, let
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me talk to them. Um, we do use peptides and what the peptides does is it actually helps us speed up the
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metabolism so that we can burn fat. Okay? Because without seeing results quickly,
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people get disinterested. Right. Honestly, if you're making me follow a specific way to eat and I'm not seeing
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some change, I'm going to stop doing it. Yeah. And and I look at everything as me. Yeah. Right. If I'm not willing to do it, how
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can I ever expect anybody else to do it? Yeah. So seeing the changes quickly in a safe
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manner to me is very important. Can we park on a second peptides? Because I mean I didn't know what a
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peptide was. Sure. What's a peptide? A peptide is an amino acid. Okay. So everybody knows what a protein is,
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right? Yeah. That's a long chain amino acid. Okay. Short chain amino acids are peptides. Got So, all naturally occurring in your
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body and all we've done is we've combined different amino acids to create this peptide that helps speed up the
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metabolism. Okay. Okay. Does does your body produce those naturally over the years?
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Does it change? Not producing them. You're going to get different amino acids from the food you eat. Okay. Um and or not get
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or not eat and and one of the problems is food is so nutrientless. Yes. Anymore.
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Yeah. And you know, everything that they're doing to the food is affecting it. And one thing you brought up that I loved
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was we have babies and our hormones change. Yes. And I went, "Yep." Because almost every
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food out there anymore is a hormone disruptor. Yeah. Right. So when we're when we're going up and
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down the aisles, just look to your left and your right and go hormone disruptor. Hormone disruptor.
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I've heard somebody say to me, "Don't go in the center aisles." That's what I'm talking. Live on the outer aisles. Right.
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And you just just just walk down there and you know you see Froot Loops. Yeah. hormone disruptor, right?
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Doritos. And I'm picking out foods that I love. Yeah. I don't eat them because I know they're
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hormone, but these are things that I grew up on and I and I I really love Doritos. It's one of my favorites, too.
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Oh, me too. But they look at all the stuff in it and because I can't remember. And the ingredients, it's the artificial
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ingredients that disrupt the hormon it's it's preservatives and and the things that are, you know,
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food colorings, MSG, all those things are messing with hormones, you know. So, you're right. When we have
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babies and as we age, our hormones are changing. Even for us guys, yeah, our hormones are changing. But
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unfortunately, the food is speeding that along. And we're starting to see that now in younger people.
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Yeah. In my practice, I never saw teenagers and 20 year olds and 30-y olds. It was always 40s and plus.
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let's make your dream a reality. I heard it said that a pediatrician
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never in their whole career would see a kid with diabetes.
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And now they're saying over 50% of the kids by the time they're 18 are di are pre-diabetic or diabetic. Is that right?
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I mean it's frightening. Yeah. And so and then the question that I have then I'm like well what's causing it? And so that's
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how my that's what my whole practice is built on. Okay. Is why and what's root cause. Root cause it.
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And and you know everybody gets that label and I'm like ah that's a great label. But all that kind of does is tell us
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where we need to look because it's going to go right back to how the weight loss program was built. Okay. And what I did is I just took my
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functional medicine practice and went, "Wow, everybody loses weight now. how I could just do a weight loss
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program for people that don't need the in-depth work that we do here. Yeah. And and and see them lose weight. And I
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was telling you earlier, I go, we're at a point now that I don't have anybody that can't lose weight. Is this for obese people though? Cuz you
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know, you have some of those people that are they need to lose 200 lb. They need to lose, you know, a lot of weight. Is
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this for them or do they need something different? So, if you think about it, there's a
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high likelihood that there's a lot of underlying stuff going on. Yeah. If they're obese,
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it needs to be addressed first. First. Okay. Right. Um I tell this a million times.
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I'm like, "Well, you don't break down your food. You're not absorbing nutrients." Got it. Okay. Well, what else? What other
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problems does that cause? And usually those people that are are that overweight are already going to have all
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the labels. They're going to have hypertension, diabetes, all this stuff. They're going to have it all. And so I'm like, "Okay, we all have that
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going on." And then the question is like, "Well, why did I get it?" God didn't select them. Yeah. like they don't really want to be
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obese. Nobody wants that. But there's a breakdown in the system that no one's addressed and nobody's tried to
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address to go, "Hey, listen. This is the problem." Yeah. Right. It's not this calorie in calorie
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out thing. It's not that you're not exercising. It's not that. There was other things that disrupted these
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systems. And what we don't realize as a group is it all works together.
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Yeah. But remember, we got a card. Yeah. So there's a ologist for every part of your body.
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Yeah. And and you know, are they communicating? Well, and then functional medicine, that's what I do is I'm looking at
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number one, what's the biggest problem and two, what's causing it. Yeah. Right. And so when you start addressing
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those things, then you can really you can really change people's lives and you're going to the root of the problem. So if they have hypertension,
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instead of giving them a a a pill for that hypertension, you're saying, "All right, what's causing that?" through
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blood work, through Sure. and and it and it's a matter of identifying um
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things that most doctors are looking at going, "Eh, it's really not a problem." Okay. Yeah. Because it's not a problem
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to them because they're over here. This is the problem zone I'm looking at. And it's it's just like hyper lipidmia,
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high cholesterol. Yeah. Well, we're going to give them a statin to lower the cholesterol because, you
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know, elevated cholesterol causes strokes and heart attacks, which is number one killer in America. Yeah. Yeah. So the easiest thing to do is let's
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lower it instead of going what's the problem? What's causing that? So if you really dig deep, elevated
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cholesterol is an inflammatory marker. Okay? Which will lead us to what's causing the inflammation.
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That's that's precisely the point. I saw a doctor who actually said this. He said, "Blaming cholesterol
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for the heart condition is like blaming the paramedic for the car accident." Thank you.
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Right. And and that hit me. He's like, cuz what happens is is every time you see a condition, you see a ton of
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cholesterol and you say, "Well, it's got to be the cholesterol." He's like, "If we showed up at every car accident and
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you saw a paramedic, you're like, "Well, paramedics are causing it." He's like, "No, it was the inflammation that caused
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the cholesterol." That is it in a nutshell. And so, everybody's looking at that. It's a
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billion dollar industry. Yeah. And all I look at it, and there there are some some genetic predispositions.
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So, there's type 2A. You ready for this one? Hyper beta lipoproteinia. Wow. Can you say that three times
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quickly? I can. To a hyper beta liproinia to a hyper. If you know what that is, put it in the comments, please.
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Spell it. I was going to say without TV. It is a genetic predisposition to going
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to have elevated cholesterol. Got it. Okay. Well, I've heard that there's some people have elevated cholesterol and they're perfectly healthy. Totally.
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Like, no, they're fine. Yep. That's totally accurate. Wow. But the majority is an inflammatory
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response. Got it. Okay. And so the question then is, well, what's causing that? And nobody's
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looking. Yeah. And that's what I do is I look. And that's what I was going to say. That's the key to your whole program is
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inflammation. It's pretty simple. Trying to figure it out. It it is when you put it down on paper going, okay,
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here's what we found. Yeah. What's causing it? Well, I found this and I found that. Yeah. Which one of these things is is actually
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the root cause? Okay. Right. And I'll tell you, so that's where you're you're helping them kind of you're the investigator.
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and then hunting it down. And and the thing that I say every week, every day,
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you don't break down your food and you don't absorb your nutrients and let's see what it messed up. That's it. And so that's where the
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weight loss thing came in because I'm going, okay, I know you're not breaking down your food. That means you're not absorbing your nutrients.
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Do you have any other things going on that's going to prevent me from helping you lose weight? No, you're a great candidate for the weight loss program.
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Got it. So that's let's fix all the underlying issues. And so and a lot of times when we just start
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breaking down our food and absorbing the nutrients properly, these things correct themselves. The wonderful thing about the human body, it is always trying to
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be healthy. It is. That's why it's always I've actually heard I've I've heard that that that the body itself is is the biggest driver of
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health. It's trying to make you healthy always. And and I'm a chiropractor by
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trade. And if you look at spines, you'll see that your spine compensates to keep
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you out of pain. So if it would if you would have a misalignment and it would hurt,
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all you would do is go get adjusted and everything would be fine. But it doesn't. Your body automatically adjust compensates
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to keep you out of pain. And then it can't compensate any longer and you're like, man, I can't get rid of
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this pain. Got it. You can take a pain pill, but what always comes back? Because it's not a result of being shortage on aspirin.
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Yeah. Yeah, that headache isn't because you're short on aspirin. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. And is not sure. It does get rid of it. So, God bless it.
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Not begging for more. It's not begging for more. And so then that's when I really
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realized that it can't compensate anymore. And so now you're seeking help. And
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that's where the chiropractic adjustment was helping people is because they were removing and getting rid of those compensations and getting to that root
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cause of the problem by adjusting the spine. Yeah. Okay. And all we're doing is looking at throughout the whole body.
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learn more. [Music] So, sum this up right now to bring us up to speed. You know, weight loss, anybody
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can do it. Anybody can get there. Um, you do have all diets work. All diets work. Um, you do have to have
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some certain things in place though for it to optimize and that um that um it's getting to the root cause
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is the biggest thing right now. So, walk us through. So, Dale comes in, you go through, she's a great candidate. Now
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what's that process like? what are the steps like to say okay you are a good candidate where do we go
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so uh first is to to show them what to eat okay right I don't have any special foods
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right I just does everybody eat the same thing we do have approved
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in the beginning yes so there's an approved food list it's not as stringent as my functional medicine food list okay
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so there's some leeways there and what I'll run into is somebody not losing weight or they'll have a stall All
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okay. And my question is like, "Well, what' you eat?" Anybody that's worked with me knows that if you have no change or an increase in
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your weight, I'm coming at you with what you eat. So, I do contact people
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frequently. He did that with Dale. So, can I can I just let you all know you are very accountable to Dr. Bradley.
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Every day you come in and you report your weight. Yep. So, so we'll kind of back up before we get there. So when when you come in,
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right, you have this really cool book that just walks you through. You have a conversation with your folks, tell them
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about the proved food. Basically, every day we're going to weigh yourself. And
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I'm going to tee that up for you. The reason why we weigh ourselves one of the most important things, and I know people
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don't want to get on the scale. The scale is your friend. When I say to him every day, he was
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like, "The scale is your friend." So there's the overlay. You can see it now. Happy guys scale.
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So, think about it. Everybody hates it because the number is going to show up. But if you get on the scale and you gained a
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pound overnight, I am here to tell you with 100% certainty. You did not build a
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pound of muscle or a pound of fat overnight. Ain't happening. I wish cuz I
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lift weights and I'm like, man, I would I did two pounds. Yeah, it would be fantastic. It's not
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happening. But what is happening is inflammation. So I I tell people that don't get it.
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I'm like, listen, when you sprain your ankle, it swells up, right? Yeah.
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You're going to weigh more tomorrow with a sprained ankle than you did when it
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wasn't sprained. So when you eat an inflam mechanism,
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protecting. So the reason your ankle swells is to protect the joint. Okay. So we swell it so you can't move it.
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It's protecting the joint. Okay. Well, inside of us when we're eating foods, all of a sudden when you
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become inflamed, guess what? You're not any longer? Hungry. Now, the problem that we have is people
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stay inflamed. And so, they're programmed to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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Okay? And they don't know what feeling good is. So, like, I feel fine. Doesn't change. I'm like, just wait cuz I'm
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going to help you get rid of the inflammation so that when you do eat something that's inflammatory, you're going to know. Oh my gosh. And so this is this is the
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education process that was completely invaluable. Well, is that the right
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word? Totally valuable. You know what I'm trying to say? Invaluables means a good word. It means there's no no
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there's so much value. All right, let's go with price. We'll do
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a dalism. Invaluable can be a dalism. How's that? Yes. Invaluable is a dism. If you don't know what a dalism is, look at our past.
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Yeah. Look at our journey home. Um, I think the education that you bring to
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this program, that's just one of the things is teaching us when you get on the scale, you go up a pound. That's
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inflammation. Don't stress out. Cuz I would look at and say, "Oh my god, I'm putting on weight." When you told me that, I'm like, "Okay, now I know my
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body doesn't like A, B, or C." And we'll get into that. Um, but
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well, I also remember you're a special case because you like to play four hours of pickle ball. Oh, tennis.
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Tennis, whatever. I was like, "It is tennis." But you're right because I thought it was pickle ball, but it's
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tennis. I knew it was like 4 hours and like I didn't lose weight. I'm like, you play 2 or 3 in the morning, 2 or 3
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hours in the afternoon, and then come home the next day and be like, you know, my I I'm inflamed. Why? I'm like,
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hello. Your body, you didn't lose weight. Yeah. And she was This was prior to you. Yeah.
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But that shows you too there's a lot of people out there who are exercising and they're like, why am I not losing
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weight? That's it. Explain it. So, anytime you're exercising, and if you think about weightlifting is the
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easiest to do because you you lift a weight. Yeah. Well, we're trying to build a muscle. In order to build muscle, I got to break it down.
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Yes. That's an inflammatory reaction. Yeah. And I promise you, if you're working out and not losing weight, you're inflamed.
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Yeah. Now, is that a bad thing? Not necessarily. And I think you did a tournament or something and I was like,
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you just wait. Give it a couple days. Yeah. Let the soreness leave your muscles cuz that soreness is the inflammation. Let
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it leave and your scale is going to go back to where it was and down more. Yeah. And it did. And that's when you had that
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big epiphany with me. You're like, "Hey, it worked. I because I was like, "Hey, listen. I got no problem with your
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exercising because the program says you don't have to." Yeah, it does. And there's a reason why you say don't do it.
23:02
Yeah. Because you're not going to see those changes. Yeah. And I said, "Dr. Bradley, I will be exercising." So that makes sense now,
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too, cuz I even for us, what I noticed, we we went to a two-day workout, two two
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days a week. Yeah. And you tend to think I need to work out three, four, five, six days a week. But
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what I realized for me, especially, you know, you get to my age and he's a young man.
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Put a put a put a how old do you think I am? I don't know. But you never asked the lady that, so it's
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his. So anyways, put it in the comments. Long and short though, you get to my age and you what I've come to realize was oh my
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gosh, I used to feel like, oh, I need to get in more, but now I need my body to recover.
23:43
That's the most important part because it's like I push it, I push it, and then all of a sudden I need two or three days. Let it calm down.
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But it and it's as effective. So, I was losing weight less days in the gym. Yeah. It's funny how that works.
23:55
Well, it's counterintuitive. It really is. It And you know, there's people that me personally, I need to go to the gym
24:02
frequently. Mhm. Because otherwise I get bored. Okay. Right. So I may be going to the gym, but
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I'm not going to do a full body workout so that I can go more frequently. Got it.
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Because I I like to be able to get in that routine of going and going and going. Right. So I'm not going to train my biceps or
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chest more than once a week. Okay. So I don't change it. I don't I don't train body part the rest.
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So I don't train any body part more than once a week. Okay. Because of that. Yeah. and and it's it's still going to
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be more effective actually because if you are overtraining then all of a sudden you're causing
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other responses in your body like cortisol the stress hormone that's going to cause belly fat.
24:47
Yeah. So everybody that's not going to sleep or everybody that's waking up in the middle of night and they think it's they got to go to the bathroom.
24:53
Are we sure? Or is it just you're full of cortisol? Wow. So the cortisol wakes you up and makes you go to the bathroom.
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So here's what it is. It doesn't make you go to the bathroom. Okay. No, it's so many people have said to me over the years, they're like,
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"Well, I get up once or twice a night to go to the bathroom." I'm like, "Well, are you waking up because you have to go
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to the bathroom or are you waking up and then because you're awake now you have to go to the bathroom?"
25:16
Okay. Okay. The answer is B. You wake up and now you have to go to the bathroom. You think about when you were a kid and you slept
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through the night, you woke up, what's the first thing everybody does? What's the first thing everybody does? So, if it's 3:00 in the morning
25:30
and you wake up, you got to pee. You got to pee. Yeah. Okay. Your kidneys are filtering all through
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the night. And so, it's not that you had to pee, so you woke up.
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Yeah. If you woke up, you had to pee. And here's why. The brain loves cortisol.
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Okay. But it's designed to be released in short amounts. And we all have stress, physical, chemical, and emotional,
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right? So, my my dog just got hit by a car and killed. I'm sad. Mhm. My my body releases cortisol to help me
25:59
cope with it, right? It's the stress hormone, but it's releases. I cope with it. It's
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gone. But when we got things going on inside our body that we don't even know. Yeah. You know, you're not breaking down food,
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your sugar's not regulated, thyroids off, whatever it is, that's a stress because your body's always trying to get
26:15
homeostasis or balance. Yeah. Yeah. Therefore, it's releasing cortisol. And so, the brain is getting bathed in
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cortisol all day long and it loves it. Okay. Unfortunately, it can be neurotoxic to the brain. But if you if
26:28
you bathe the brain all day in cortisol, yeah, and you do go to sleep now, the cortisol
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levels are dropping. So the brain's like the brain's like, "Hey, listen. Give me some. You've been
26:38
bathing me all day long. You need a fix. Let me get some more." So So that's why it wakes you up. That's why it wakes you up.
26:44
Got it. Wow. And you can't go to sleep. Yeah. It's just because your cortisol levels are so high. Huh. But as you're relaxing,
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it comes down. They drop and now you go to sleep. But it's So this is even more. It's so much bigger than weight loss. I mean, this is
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like really I mean, you're talking about just a whole balanced life. Like, yeah, it is. And the cool thing about doing
27:03
the weight loss program and the diet, everybody calls it weight loss programs, weight changes. Right. Right. But really, it's a health program. So,
27:09
you're getting your body to work optimally. Yeah. Right. And so, it's not just it's just not weight. It's going to be in every
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organ system. Yeah. And so I will promise you if you're losing weight, your
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inflammation's going away. That's what it is. Because you can't lose weight if you're inflamed. Wow. We go to all the gyms around the island
27:29
and talk to people. I'm like, how long you been doing this and how's your weight loss? Yeah. Right. And and they'll all tell you,
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I've been here every time. I do it because I do feel good from exercising, but I'm not losing a pound. Yeah. even though I eat right
27:43
because they don't understand the fundamentals that your body in it's and that's really what it is. It's the we
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see the ankle blowing up, but what we don't see is your gut or your heart or
27:55
your everything else is saying, "Hey, I'm not happy. I'm not happy." And it's
28:02
Well, one of the things that I really figured out from your program was when I was not inflamed, what it felt like not
28:09
being inflamed. And when then I did become inflamed, that bloated feeling that every you feel bloated, people say
28:15
feel bloated. That's inflammation. I had no idea. That's my ultimate goal. I felt Yeah. Is that It sounds kind of mean.
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You can feel it. But my ultimate goal is to get I'm like, if you just give me a couple weeks to get you cleaned up,
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Yep. I'll give you a little more more freedom. Y because then you veer off a little bit
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and you eat something that your body doesn't like. It might be okay with him.
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And that's what happens. Tomatoes. No problem with tomato, you know. But
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chickpeas, they kick. They don't like you. Yeah, you know, but I love them. I love chickpeas. Like I But and I go
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for it every now and boy, I pay for it. I pay for it because of the inflammation
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in his body. It's it's it inflames inflame. So here's the thing with that. This why
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I tell everybody that's out there for the whole worldwide web. Please. My job is to get you to know.
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Yes. And understand, right? Then it's all up to you. Yeah. And that's a perfect example. And I tell
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people, I'm like, "Listen, all I'm here to do is so you know." Yeah. But then you can make a decision like, "Hey, I know what this is going to do to
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me." Yeah. And I do the same thing. Y is is all right. Am I going to do that today? What do I got going on tomorrow?
29:26
I know it's going to So I want to talk about that, too, because like, so it's funny because we're all trained on health foods.
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Yeah. But it's really the right foods for your body. For your body. And obviously, you know,
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you want pro I think we could all agree except for the food companies that the process the more processed it is
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probably not great for you anybody, right? That that you know the overprocessed um single ingredients or
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very few ingredients, but even within that cuz I was listening to like a Dave Asprey show and he was talking about
30:01
everybody's on the kale kick and the arugula kick and stuff. He said, 'Well, that's great, and it's not that he's
30:07
bad, but he says, there's actually, you know, he says, um, nobody wants to die. Nothing wants to die, not even plants,
30:13
and everything has a defense mechanism to live, including plants. And I was like, I never thought about that. And
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he's like, and that they actually have these things inside of like kale and certain things that are not great. I
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don't, you might even know the term, the name of them. There's a Well, if you look at if you look at things like kale,
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Yeah. it's very rough. Yeah. Why? Because other things aren't going to eat it.
30:36
Exactly. Right. So depending on depending on like where things Why do we cook the heck out of
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stuff? Yeah. Because I mean even you know broccoli and cabbage and cauliflower.
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Yeah. Eat it raw versus eat it cooked. You're going to know. Yes. You get inflamed.
30:53
Well, and you're going to be very gassy and bloated and bloated. Yeah. Is it bad food? Nope. And people are
31:00
like, "Well, you got to eat raw to get the vitamins." And I'm like, okay, let's break that down. Take this
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into a laboratory and go, okay, what's the vitamin content on that? Yeah. And if you look at thing, if you look at foods from 50 years ago versus today,
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it's not even in there because they've changed it all. They modified it and, you know, so really a lot of we're still
31:21
getting nutrients from food. It ain't like it used to be. Um, you know, so a lot of those things I'm like, okay, we're splitting hairs
31:27
here, right? And and that's one of the things that I'm big on. I'm like, let's not make this crazy. Let's make this simple.
31:32
Yeah. Right. But it's that's it. And all food has a defense mechanism. And so do those
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animals. It's called teeth. Yeah. You know, or they're very fast, you
31:43
know. Exactly. If you look at if you go to the ocean, you look all these different types of fish. That's right. You know, there's fish that are
31:48
surviving way better than the other fish. And A, are they faster? B, are they meaner? You know, they got more teeth. Yeah.
31:54
And so everything does have that defense mechanism. But we got to eat. And so what is going
32:00
to be the lesser of the two evils per se, right? And that's where you're talking about is individually, and this is where
32:08
I would say you're like a guide, a coach, you're you're a lot of things. You're a doctor, but it's really getting
32:13
with somebody to help me, the individual, say, "What's right for me?" Well, and and to piggy back off of that,
32:20
that's where I learned that I was allergic to nightshades. Yep. So night shades are tomatoes, peppers,
32:26
um eggplant. Is there any other ones? I think that's the three. Um, those are the big three. The big three. So, I remember one day
32:33
being frustrated giving you what I had eaten. I'd gone up and you said, "Right." So,
32:38
and you would think those are all healthy. Hold on. One day. So, every day you send your your um your weight to Dr. Bradley
32:46
through an app. And then if you go up his first thing, what did you eat? So, I don't even wait for him to tell me what did you eat? I ate this. I literally
32:53
give him a litany. He was like, well, what about the tomatoes? They're night shades. I didn't even know what a night shade was until you told me. So, let's
33:00
talk about that cuz my body reacted to tomato tomatoes. Um,
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tomato tomato. We did that the last episode. I was like, dang it. We just did this.
33:11
We're going to How do you say it? Tomato. Tomato. Put it in the She says tomato.
33:17
Tomato. Tomato. So, so let's because I've I've told
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people about this program and how you've helped me figure that out and now I've eliminated that out my diet because I
33:28
would eat salsa all the time. I would put sliced tomato on sandwiches. I just can't do that anymore because I don't
33:34
want to be inflamed. So, why does a night shade do that to you? Well, I think we talked about that a
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little earlier. I think tomatoes, one of the things are the skin and the seeds. Skin and seed. And if you look at other night shades,
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they have that skin and the seed. Yeah. The pepp.
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So, I think that's the reason. I think that's why people get away with the cook. One that I don't know that is
33:58
perplexing to me is I see people react to a green pepper. Mhm. But not a yellow or a red.
34:04
Really? Yeah. I can't figure that one out. I haven't gone that in depth. I just eliminated it all. Yeah. And done. You know, it's it's one
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of those things that Why is it? I think it's the skin in the seed. Maybe it's, you know, some of the
34:17
phytonutrients in them. I don't know. Um, but and it goes with all foods to
34:23
me. Yeah. Because the main goal I have for every patient is sustainability.
34:29
Yes. Right. And so identify it and really I don't care what
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it is, right? Just identify that food. Well, and I think that's and that's thing because we're not saying right now
34:40
to you out there, hey, you can't have tomatoes. You know that we're saying you got to find what your body
34:47
I call it kryptonite. Everybody knows Superman. Oh yes. Yep. So what is your kryptonite? Your
34:52
kryptonite tomatoes. Tomatoes. Mine is not ice cream. Gluten.
34:58
It is. I can roll with ice cream all day. I'm And this is the part where we talk about denial.
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But you know what I did find out? Tequila doesn't do anything. So, this was my favorite lesson Dr. Bradley
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taught me. My favorite. Go ahead, Dr. Bradley. Give them the lesson of tequila. Well, tequila is a natural pro
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probiotic. It is the most natural of the alcohols. It's the least processed
35:26
of the alcohol of all the alcohols. And you're allowed to drink alcohol on this program.
35:31
Yeah. Yeah. I think that um restrictions if you I I'm from that school of man,
35:38
you tell me I can't have it, I want two of Well, let's talk about that because because I think a lot of people they've
35:44
we did the How many diets have we done? We've done a lot. We've tried a lot. So, I I want to distinguish this because
35:50
what you're saying, what you're trying to get us to do is find out what your body likes and doesn't like. Flow with
35:57
it. But this is not about just being this restrictive lifestyle. It's like learning. So, let's get into this. You
36:03
hit on the 8020. Let's talk about this 80. Let's go into that. I didn't get back to tequila, though.
36:08
Let's finish. Well, and that's one of it. Like we live in the low country, the real estate lifestyle, you know,
36:14
how can you live here, still have a beverage, and still lose weight. Exactly. So, alcohol is of course going to be a
36:21
toxin. Yeah. It's going to then the liver is the guy getting rid of all the toxins. Yeah. Right. So, another thing that happens is
36:28
called gluconneogenesis. So, fruits that have glucose, which stay away from the processed stuff and let's just talk
36:34
about fruit. Okay. So my rule is if you're going to have cocktails, don't eat fruit that day
36:39
because fructose has to be converted into glucose. Gluconneogenesis takes place in the liver. So if you've had
36:46
fruit that day and then you have a cocktail, the cocktail is going to trump the fruit because it's more toxic.
36:52
So now that gluconneogenesis is going to slow down for that and it'll eventually come and do it, but it's going to be
36:58
later in the day. So you're not going to burn it. So you're going to store it as fat. Yeah. Wow. That's why people put on
37:04
on way. That is fascinating. So, and what do they serve at bars? Pretzels and bread sticks. And I'm going
37:12
and fruit with their drinks. Remember that was one thing you Well, lemons and limes, no big deal. But
37:17
all of a sudden, you're having a strawberry dairy. I'm like, "Yeah." Yeah. All those syrups put orange juice, the
37:24
cranberries, all those things are going to be very high in sugar. Alcohol is going to take precedence over
37:30
the fructose. So then the body's going to store be over here. So it's going to be over there waiting processing all the
37:36
alcohol. Now we're going to bed gets processed storage fat. Yeah. Jeez.
37:41
It's fascinating actually. So the answer to that is don't eat fruit. Well, don't eat don't eat fruit wine
37:49
and drink high quality tequila. It is one of those things that um What's your mixer? What's your mixer
37:55
with the clear alcohol? I stick with um club sodas. Okay. Yeah. um because it doesn't have the
38:00
sugar in it. Um and the the cool thing is now they have like Zvia.
38:05
Okay. Yeah, I've seen that. So that's going to be a soda sweetened with stevia instead of sugar or
38:11
aspartame. Aspartame is neurotoxic. It's not good for you. Really? Okay. So let's Can we dive?
38:17
But isn't that like in everything? Aspartane's like the it's gum sugar.
38:22
Everything. So gum um my house we chew what's called pure. So it's it's sweetened with xylitol.
38:28
People like, "Oh my gosh, xylitol, that'll affect the gastrointestinal tract." And you're absolutely right, in large amounts, but that little piece of
38:34
gum. So, do I want aspartame, which is neurotoxic or gastrointestinal and upset
38:40
from exylitol, which you'd have to have a ton of, but you only need that much aspartame.
38:45
Wow. So, everything sweetened with aspartame should not be drank. Okay. Okay. Um, doesn't mean we're not going
38:51
to do it because it is found in everything. But again, if we're just conscious and making decisions based on
39:00
being conscious, then the probability of it affecting you is not there. Yeah. What what Sorry.
39:06
You just drives me crazy is the fact that we know that this is a toxin and it's in your food.
39:13
Well, that's the national conversation we're having right now. Yeah. That's what our is trying to get into. I think and I know we're beating a
39:19
dead horse definitely between us, but for the folks out there, you have to know what's in your food.
39:25
Well, and I think more importantly, you have to recognize we live in a world where
39:31
business money drives a lot of it. Money drives it. And so just because it's out
39:38
there doesn't, you know, but you cuz he just said something that I thought was interesting is it's this conscious I
39:44
feel like what this is, it's not about a diet. This is about us growing up.
39:49
Yeah. In a way, and what I mean by that, and I don't want to insult anybody, but this is the sense of you have to be
39:56
personally responsible, conscious of the decisions you're making. And then you have to be put on
40:03
your big boy pants, if you will, and say, "I'm committed now to making
40:09
decisions, you know, consciously knowing this is going to hurt me or this is going to
40:15
cause this and if I do this, like, hey, I know like last night she made this
40:20
incredible fetuccini uh chicken fetuccini pasta." Yeah.
40:26
Loaded with pasta. They ate it. I did not I did not touch anything with the barge bowl.
40:31
I ate three bowls. What kind of pasta noodles? It was terrible. They're regular. Not who made them.
40:37
And no, the store did. Yeah. Sto wheat flour. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was terrible. No water noodles. I did not touch it. I
40:44
looked at it. I'm like, "Oh, you're so Every bite." I was like, "But I was like, "I don't care. I'm watching the
40:49
cabs lose." But but I but my point being is I I owned it and I was like okay I
40:56
know though I have to lock it down like I have like my because I'm a big
41:01
intermittent fasting you I say yeah we're going to almost do it every day. Let me interrupt you and just ask you a
41:06
question. Yeah. How did you feel after you ate it? Um I felt bloated. I felt I felt it.
41:12
Okay. And how did you feel the next day? I felt shitty today. Pardon. I felt today was a rough day for me. I
41:19
was dragging and and that's fine as long as you're okay with that.
41:24
Yeah. Now, my next question is when are you doing it again? When am I doing that again? I'm not
41:30
going to do it for a while. Okay. And that's that's my whole point with everything. And so I talk about
41:35
9010 8020. Yes. Yeah. I'm like, you just did your 10. Yeah. Right. The 10% of the time you're like,
41:41
"Hey, I really want that. I'm going to go ahead and do it." And you know it was going to bloat you. You didn't feel good
41:47
today. Shitty day. I felt really bad to ask her. I was like, "So now next time."
41:52
And why the hell are you making it? She's telling my secret to my children.
41:58
The boys love it. No, I get it. But I shouldn't be feeding that to them. And I totally understand.
42:05
No judgment. There could have been Oh, I'm not judging. I'm just going to show you how to do it better. Okay. Okay.
42:11
Yeah. I'm going to I'll tell you. I'm like what noodle to buy instead of that noodle. What about your own noodles? That would be perfect. Just import your
42:17
flour from Italy. Okay. So, it's clean. So, flour from Italy. Why?
42:23
But you don't have to go that deep. Let's make it easy. Let's keep it simple. Kroger is where we shop. So, I know they
42:28
got it. It's called Muellers. Yes. Yeah. If you look at the ingredients, it's called Simolina. Durham wheat. Yes.
42:34
When Jesus said break, eat, and think of me. Yeah. He was using Durham wheat. Okay. It's not as processed. It's not as GMO.
42:40
And that's I've heard that our weed has in America. Yeah, they've dwarf the
42:47
dwarf wheat. They they genetically change. That's the GMO. So, it's not even real wheat. So, I'm a gluten sensitive person. I
42:53
have two children and noodles are a big hit at our house because kids love it. Right.
42:58
So, fetachccini alfredo, the two gluten-free children will eat it with no reaction. Yeah. Okay.
43:04
Right. So, that's what I was like, it's okay. Yeah. Just instead of using whatever noodle you use, look for that. I know Mueller's
43:12
for sure. Just look at the label and go, does that say simolina or derm wheat? Okay. Okay. And you're less likely to have the reaction.
43:17
And it's so easy. I did buy non GMO noodles. They were definitely always the non GMO. But
43:22
but you know what's so funny? You taught me like I never knew how easy it is to make freaking noodles. I was like
43:28
And it's tastes so much better. Oh, so much. So much. It's just not easy. No, it's it's not convenient.
43:34
And that's the been the problem with everything is convenience. Yeah. I mean,
43:39
no one's going to believe this. I grew up loving McDonald's and Taco
43:45
Bell. I mean, I could go tell you all the things I love at each one of them. Yep. Ah, thank God when they came out with a
43:51
satchel of 10 tacos. Yes, sir. I'm a big guy and I'm like, "Finally, somebody got on the program, right?
43:58
I love that food." And boy, do I wish it was good for you cuz I do love the way it tastes.
44:04
Yeah. I don't eat it because of the way it makes me feel. That's right. And that's what I that's the only reason I asked you those questions was because
44:11
how did it make you feel? And if you're okay, you know you're going to be bloated, you're going to have a crappy day the
44:17
next day, go ahead. As long as you're not following it up again because then you're going to get into an inflammatory
44:23
state and you will eventually develop problems. So, it's the inflammation day after day
44:29
after day that's causing the Yeah. So, like we can go we and I won't pick on McDonald's too much, but we can go down there and watch everybody eat.
44:35
Yep. And I'll assess them. We'll just sit at the table and they'll go through euphoria,
44:41
that wonderful food and then I'll start I'll look at everybody. I'm like, "Well, that guy right there's got hypertension,
44:47
diabetes, no question about it." And if we walked up to him and go, "How's that make you feel?" I don't feel any different because he's so inflamed.
44:54
I tell people, I'm like, "You know, when your house is on fire and you throw a match at it, you wouldn't even know there's a match."
44:59
Yeah. But if you put the match up, that's what we do with the weight loss program and the functional medicine is
45:05
I'm just putting out the fire. Yeah. And then I that's why I tell people, you know, they ask me all the time, well,
45:10
can I go ahead? Like, sure, go ahead. Yeah. And and that that's the reason I ask you the question, how did it make you feel?
45:15
How'd you feel the next day? It's so true, though, because I think that's the first thing I noticed when we when you started doing it and I started
45:22
following you was when you do feel optimal, you're kind of
45:27
like in a zone. You're like, "Okay, it's normal." Oh, you like and you don't think about it. You don't think about it. That's But then all of a sudden you do you you
45:34
do your 10 and the next 3 or 4 days you're like this is so rough and you're like oh my
45:39
god I want to feel like I did and that's you're right. Everybody's in this chronic state where they're so used to it. Yeah.
45:47
I noticed the thing that cuz I'm the weekend guy. Mhm. You know Monday through Friday I'm perfect.
45:52
Yeah. When the weekend comes along we want to go out to eat. We're going to have cocktails. You know, do whatever. I'm gonna stay gluten-free because I don't
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like the way it makes me feel. Yeah. But I was noticing on Mondays I was just, for lack of a better word, pissy.
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Yeah. I was just like, you know, about everything. You won't like me when I'm pissy.
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No, I'm not very likable either. You know, and I have a way with words. I
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talk relatively quickly. So incredible. You won't like me when I'm angry. You're not going to like me when I'm
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angry. I turn green. And and I I was like, you know, it's always Mondays and then Tuesdays I'm good because I always would
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fast. So I would do be bad all weekend by 10. Yeah. And then I would eat dinner Sunday night
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and I wouldn't eat dinner again until Monday night. Yeah. And so I did a whole 24-hour fast by
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Tuesday morning. I'm back because I got rid of all the inflammation. Yeah. So that was Keep going. Keep praying.
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And I'm I'm feeling and you know it dawned on me one day cuz I was like, "Man, I hate Mondays.
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Why do I hate Mondays?" And you know, I started analyzing everything and I'm like, "Well, it's because I'm doing crappy stuff all week." And so I was
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like, "All right, this weekend I'm not going to do anything crazy." Yeah. And I was okay on Monday.
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Yeah. See, I feel like that's hopeful. Don't you? Yeah. Oh, a thousand%. Cuz that's on that turn. I wanted to turn to the
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solution, right? So we've explained how you feel fasting. That is simply the key
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to getting I think that's probably the medicine of it's the fastest. It's it's the fastest. So let's talk a
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little bit about fasting. The thing is is what a lot of people will do is they and so I I refrain from
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teaching it in the beginning. Okay. Because people will be like, "Well, I'm
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just going to cheat and then I'm gonna fast." Fast. Ah, got it. So you're trying to get them to
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get the fundamental understanding without taking a shortcut. Exactly. And it's okay to do the
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shortcut like you had the fetuccini last night. Mhm. If I did it because
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I wanted it. I know what it's going to do to me. And I'm willing to accept
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that I promise you I'm not going to eat for 24 hours, right? Just because of I know what it's doing
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to me and I want to get out of that state. Yeah. Okay. Um, but I'm not going to keep doing that because doing a 24-hour
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fast frequently will actually be rougher on you because of cortisol.
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Yeah. Because you're putting your body into your body stress. So inflammation c So that's the first
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thing. You put bad stuff in, inflammation happens. The body's response to inflammation is cortisol.
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The body's response to stress is cortisol. Stress. Okay. Oh, okay. So inflammation puts the stress.
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That's it. Stress triggers cortisol. Cortisol does what? Well, A, it creates belly fat.
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Okay. B, it's going to affect your sleep. Can't go to sleep. Can't stay asleep. So now all of a sudden, now the cycle
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continues cuz now disrupts the gut. Mhm. Upsets the Vegas nerve. Yep. I mean, Vegas nerve is all of your
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organs. Vegas nerve runs everything straight on down. Now you're in sympathetic drive, right?
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And now that's causing more stress. Yep. And so now you're in this now the
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body's in this perpetual state of survival versus optimal health. Absolutely. And that's that's it
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survival hormone cortisol. And then we go to the doctor and they go she she tapped on female hormones. Now
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this is what will get you. The perventricular nucleus and what? Hold on a second.
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You don't have to know it. PVN perventricular. You know what he just said? Put something in the comments. Perry
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ventricular nucleus in the phalamus releases DHEA and decides where it goes.
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Okay. Survival hormone, cortisol, sex hormone, progesterone, estrogen, testosterone.
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Okay. The brain's like, "Can I sex if I'm dead?" No. Can I survive without sex? Yep. So,
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when you're in a constant state of stress, it's cutting off your sex hormones. Wow. So, men and women that are having these
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testosterone and women with the hot flashes and mood swings and they think, "Is there hormones, hormones, hormones?"
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Yeah. I'm like, "No, it's not as big as this." No, it's not. You know, every guy out there right now is going, "How do I get rid of this
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freaking stress hormone?" Well, that's 843 now.
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Yeah. Call Dr. Brad. 843. But that's it. And so, so many
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people are stuck in sympathetic overdrive, which is what we're talking about with the Vegas nerve.
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Yep. Yep. releasing cortisol all the time that they only have so much DHEA that the brain's like, well, I can
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survive without my sex hormones working, but I can't Wow. use my sex, right?
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That's why that's why the sex drive goes down. Yeah. So, sex drives down. Now, we're menopausal, hot flashes. That why some
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women have horrific menopause. That's why young girls cycles are messed up. That's why young boys are having
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erectile dysfunction issues in their 20s. Wow. which I was dumbfounded when I started seeing that.
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Yeah, that's crazy. Um, and it's all driven by inflammation and reaction
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to food. Yeah, it's the food most of the time. Most of the time. Most of the time. You can't say with 100%.
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Well, yeah. Well, and I get it. But it's it's I'm a gambling guy. I'm going now. Well,
51:16
I think we can all recognize this because RFK has brought this to our attention which is this is prior to what
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probably 193040 somewhere around there when the real changes to how food supply
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happened. Most of the things that we're all dealing with didn't even exist.
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If you even look at the 90s and prior, so it was the '9s when they started doing a lot of GMO, right? So I was born
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prior to that. 1980, right? 1980 prior to that
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1980 we experienced real food. People born after 1990 didn't. So why
51:53
did my patient base all of a sudden get younger? Wow.
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And and I I' I've got five and sixy olds that mom's bringing to me because they want to give their kids these
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medications. And I'm like, well, I'm not interested in sticking a needle in your ADHD medicine. Even ADHD. I mean, that's
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all part of chronic cough. Yeah. I like Okay. It related to not being able to break
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down their food. Well, what messed up their stomach? The food that they're eating. Yeah. So, it's destroying the lang of the stomach. So, we can't break down food
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properly. And look at every kid food. Oh, everything that's marketed to kids,
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horrible is junk. And the hardest part as a parent, if you're out there, put a
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something in the comments if you're trying so hard to get your kids to actually eat because it's like
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everything marketed to kids. Well, even read the labels. Oh. So awful. I we we don't you know my children are
52:47
old enough now they don't eat none of this stuff and I always pick on Froot Loops because they happen to be my favorite cereal. I know. Mine too. I love And Crunch.
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Oh yeah. It says on the label now it says gluten-free. It didn't used to. But it always just said fortified with
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vitamins and minerals, right? Yes. Yeah. Fortified meaning we stripped it out and added it back in.
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So unsuspecting moms are like, "Oh, it's got vitamins and minerals. It's gluten-free." And um you flip it over
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and you're like, "Okay, so it's made with cornmeal and all these dyes which are all carcinogenic
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corn." Yep. Cornmeal, sugar, cornmeal, and corn syrup. And it's like,
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so one of the problems is there's supposed to be truth in
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labeling. Yes. And there is, but not the real truth.
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Yeah. Right. So parents don't stand a chance now. Yeah. You know, you you know, Lunchables.
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Oh, I refuse to let these boys. There's so much food that they want to try and I
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just won't let them do it. Froot Loops being one of them. We don't have cereal in our house. Yeah. We don't actually have any
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funniest story ever. My son was, who's 21 now, he was in third grade. They go on a field trip and they went to
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a small Lutheran school, so there's only 10 kids in the class. The teacher calls my wife and says, "Um,
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we were on a field trip. We went to McDonald's for lunch and Zachary wouldn't eat.
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And she's like, "What?" She goes, "Yeah, he said he's not eating that pink slime." I love it. And she's like, "Well, you think father
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cuz his dad showed him a video on how to make chicken nuggets." Yeah. And so he's like, "I'm not eating that." And he would go ahead.
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Shiloh had his first McDonald's meal at Chris. It was at a baseball clinic.
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Yeah. Yeah. And we we uh it got bought in and he tried it for the first time ever. He's 11. He's like,
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he's like, "Dad, can I eat this?" And all his friends were like, "What do you mean? He never had McDonald's till he was 10." And they
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were shocked. They were like, "What?" I'm like, "I still never had I still never had McDonald's." Put yourself on camera.
54:45
16. Yeah. Yeah. And And I I will tell you, I absolutely love McDonald's. I haven't eaten it.
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I lived on it as a kid. I don't think I've eaten McDonald's in 25 years. Yeah. Yeah. But when I was old enough to drive, I'm
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like, "Can I get a Big Mac quarter pounder and a fry?" And then they came out with the 50 nugget thing. I'm like,
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"Yeah, I used to pump 50 nuggets their their fish fillet and their chicken sandwich." Oh my god.
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We don't want people encourage people. Can Can we get back to
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54 minutes? Okay, cool. That's fine. I want to get back to inflammation. Um inflammation um how to cure it through
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fasting. Right. So with the program, you say to fast till about 11 12:00, right?
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Yeah. But we're looking for about intermittent fasting during 16 hours. Let's break down intermittent fasting. Yeah, that's what I want.
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So there's lots of different there's lots of different um intermittent fasting. Um I usually use the 168.
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Okay. Okay. So basically um you can eat at noon and then you don't want to have
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anything past 8. I don't think that 8 is a good time.
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Okay. So because liver kind of shuts down and goes to bed at seven. At seven. Okay. So that's why I'm like 11 to seven. I
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think that is the perfect Oh, okay. I'm gonna try that then because like I said, the liver is going to bed at a seven and we want that guy to be
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awake for anything we do. Intermittent fasting, the reason that it works is because anything and everything
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you eat is inflammatory. Kale, the superfood, inflammatory,
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sunflower seeds, inflammatory. Yeah. Chicken wings inflammatory. Big Macs
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inflammatory. Okay. So, all foods inflammatory is my point. So what fasting does is it stops
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inflammatory processes happening because every time you eat is an inflammatory
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process. Got it? Okay. No matter how clean the food is, it's just on different scales. Right?
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So we're giving the digestive system and the body a break by intermittent fasting.
56:44
Gotcha. Now there's times that I don't think it's great. Right? So if people are having a big cortisol problem, I'm like
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you you can't intermittent fast and because it's going to spike the cortisol. It's going to spike because you're you're doing that and I don't think we
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should do anything forever. Yeah. Right. Remember I said all dads work. They do. You just can't do the same
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thing over and over again. Your body likes to habituate. Meaning getting used to So it's like working out though, right?
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Same thing, right? You got to change it up because your body likes to get used to it, right? So, so this is interesting cuz I
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intermittent fast and I have every single day. So, I shouldn't be doing that.
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I've been 11 12:00. No years since you you since we started.
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So, about a year. So, so what I would do is pick a month and eat breakfast, you know, and it's going to be so hard.
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Yeah. You just like I've done it and I'm just like So, you know what I do? that pattern
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cuz like with so when I work out there's days I can go and have a
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deficiency workout where I wake up go and we hit it hard and I'm fine but then there's those days where I'm like I have
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to eat like I what I'll typically do is two hardboiled eggs you know or um maybe I actually do
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grapefruit because I know I'm going right into the gym and I'm talk to him about breaking a fast with fruit but if you're going right into the
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gym not as bad not too bad So, but I have that's what I'll do is when I know I have a workout,
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I feel like my body is telling me like I need something a little more to go in and do this.
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So, you don't have any glycogen stores is what's telling you. Oh, yeah. Okay. Really? You don't have any storage. That's all
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it's telling you. That's why you're getting like Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You don't have any glycogen to go
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up. Now, you get a better result,
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better fat burn by fighting through it. Okay. Okay. Is it good to do it all the time?
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No, because cortisol. Oh, so my so I'm actually creating stress on my body.
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Yeah. If it's if it's here and there, ah, not as bad. And that's why I'm like, all right, and I learned this through my
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personal experience of it was so hard for me to eat in the morning. So hard. Yeah.
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I love working out empty. I think it's great because of glycogen. Yeah. Yep. But I wouldn't come home and eat. So
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coming home and eating was really hard for me for a while. Yeah. Um I was literally for my wife, she's
59:08
like, "Are you full?" I'm like, "I wasn't hungry when I started." Yeah. Yeah. I'll start storing food in my cheeks.
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I'm like, you know, and and and hard-boiled eggs were a go-to cuz they're easy.
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They're so easy. They're so easy. And I'm just like, Yeah. You know, just breathing heavy, trying to choke it in.
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And then over time, I started to get used to it. Yeah. And by changing things up, I started seeing better gains in the gym because
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that's the reason that I was like, man, what's going on? Yeah. I had to figure out that that physiology behind that of go why why am
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I not as strong today or a week later because I do that workout one week later.
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Yeah. And I'm like I lifted more a week ago. Why am I weak today? Yeah. And it was because I was drained.
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And so by adding that breakfast and you don't have to do it all the time. You just got to do it like you know pick a month where you're going to eat
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breakfast. Choke it down. Do whatever you can. And then you'll start noticing that then when you go back to intermittent fasting becomes a little
1:00:01
harder. Yeah. Dang it. It does. And that's okay. Because making it a little harder means
1:00:07
you're you're you're giving that body a a challenge. Got it. And by giving the body a challenge, it's
1:00:14
going to react. Yeah. Right. It loves homeostasis. It loves it. Nice and easy. Same thing over and
1:00:20
over. The body is trying to be balanced, healthy, balanced, and normal. And it and I think that's key for people
1:00:25
to understand is your body is trying to
1:00:31
make you healthy always. And it's just and and that's why I go back to that consciousness thing,
1:00:36
right? Like we're making this conscious decision to work with it to partner.
1:00:41
But don't but don't always agree with it. Ah because it's trying to get you to
1:00:48
homeostasis. Yeah. Right. And by making changes now it's
1:00:53
growing. Okay. Right. So it's like the gym. Yep. Same thing. Your brain the same thing.
1:00:59
Yep. You know, if you read the same passage over and over again, are you getting smarter? No.
1:01:04
No. So, if you do the same thing over and over again, Yeah. Are you getting start? No. And it's the same thing with
1:01:09
everything. Yeah. You know what I love about this because it's really right up our alley and I think this is sort of what the heart of
1:01:16
the show is about and to challenge everybody out there. This is a human
1:01:21
journey that you never arrive. Like there's never a point at which like okay
1:01:27
I'm at homeostasis I'm at yeah my perfect you know uh uh balance in my
1:01:33
account you know I mean it's the point is is you have to accept the human state
1:01:40
which is growth life is about growing for sure every day and this is no different that
1:01:46
we're you're you're now accepting that I have to grow as a human and understanding how to optimize this
1:01:53
thing. Yeah. And it it I've been running my blood work for years. Yeah.
1:01:58
And it's always moving. Yeah. Ain't that funny? It is. You know, so I'm doing everything and I feel really great. I run. I'm
1:02:04
like, what is that? Yeah. And so I'm always trying to optimize my my laboratories. Yeah.
1:02:09
To see if I feel something different. That's what's so hard sometimes because you do things, you're like, I don't feel any different. Yeah.
1:02:14
Yeah. But then I chase a number and I'm like, is that something that I can see? Because then I'll recommend it to a
1:02:20
patient if I can make that change with me. Yeah. But it's it's constant moving. It's a moving target. And the moment
1:02:26
that we think it's not moving that you got it, you're just lost. Yeah, you did.
1:02:31
It's lost. And just wait. It'll catch up. Yeah. Right. Just wait. Yeah.
1:02:36
You know, I I was like, man, I cured my gluten problem. So, I would eat some gluten. I didn't
1:02:41
feel any problems. Yeah. And then comes back. Yeah. Good. One one of your famous things and
1:02:48
you when you work with Dr. Bradley. He has all these sayings that you will remember. What do we call them? Bradleyism.
1:02:54
Bradism. One of my favorite and I quote it all the time and I still to this day
1:02:59
remember you telling me um and you correct me if I'm wrong. Inflammation if
1:03:05
you eat something that inflames you just a little bit is like arsenic and it spoils the whole lot. Right.
1:03:11
Close. Okay. Because it's so true about inflammation. Yep. So I hear all the time, well I just
1:03:17
had a little bit. Yeah. Just I had one chip. I had one chip. I'm like, "Hey, eat them all." Yeah.
1:03:23
What's funny? Yesterday's child had one of those Cape Cod chips. He had the whole bag out
1:03:28
and literally there was one he it just fell on the counter or something and I was like,
1:03:33
"Fuck it." I'm like, "I did it." And then all I heard that I was like, "You know what?" I went over to the back. I
1:03:39
was like, "Give me the bag." I did it. Don't let Dr. Brady finish his people. Somebody say she's like I'm like, "You
1:03:45
gained a pound and a half." She's like, "I have no idea what I did. What'd you eat?" Yeah.
1:03:51
Blah blah blah blah. I'm like, "Okay, what'd you eat that was bad?" She's like, "I had one bite of my kid's chicken finger." I'm like, "Well, you
1:03:56
should ate the whole damn thing because that one bite caused an inflammatory reaction. So, you might as
1:04:02
well finish it." That's wild. Because that's where you got the arsenic. I'm like, they're like, "Well,
1:04:08
I had one little bite." I'm like, "Well, just have one sip of arsenic." Yeah. See, because the one sip will kill you
1:04:13
and the one bite is going to cause the inflammatory reaction. Wow. So, you might as well just eat it all. Yeah.
1:04:19
And be completely I disagree with that. Okay. So, I agree to it that it causes inflammation. But
1:04:26
what I disagree is either a pound of inflammation or two pounds because it takes me 2 days, 3 days to get 2 lbs
1:04:33
off. Oh, no. It's going to be the same across the board. So, if I burn you Yeah. Now, there are first, second, and third
1:04:39
degree burn. I like how you thought about that. I just want to work.
1:04:44
That was not good. That's delicate. That's not a good point. Let's go to arsenic.
1:04:50
A sip of arsenic versus a gown. Arsenic. Doesn't matter. But but then let's talk about when we do
1:04:57
look at the scale and we see you've gone a pound, a pound and a half. It does take time to get that off like
1:05:04
sure especially like half a pound and a pound is easy to come off within the day. But
1:05:09
if you add on more, it takes a couple days to unwind that inflammation in your body. Why people who are chronic, like
1:05:16
if you're chronic for years, oh gosh, they can't. Those are the people that are chronic
1:05:22
are easy because once you get rid of inflammation and then they eat something crazy again, right? It's the people that
1:05:29
like you, you could eat something bad, may or may not see it. Yeah. Right. And so then that gives you this,
1:05:36
oh, I didn't gain anything. There's my green. I feel it. And I hate the feeling. Well, that's what I'd love for people to
1:05:42
feel it. Yeah. Right. Because if you feel it, then you're less likely to do it. And it's okay to He knew he was going to feel
1:05:48
bad, right? But he complained all day today. Now, that's where I'm coming in. That's
1:05:54
the problem. I don't want to hear I'm not trying to hear that cuz you knew going in, big boy. You don't get that
1:05:59
one. But do you guys see like what I go through over here? Well, I'm sorry. I don't sugarcoat that.
1:06:06
No, that's true. But it's it's it's really that thing. And and when I tell people about inflammation, if you look at the phases
1:06:14
of recovery, okay, an inflammatory phase is three days. A repair phase is 6 to9 days. But a
1:06:21
regenerative phase is 6 to9 month. I shouldn't say 6 to9 days, six to nine weeks. The repair or the regenerative
1:06:27
phase is 6 to9 months. That's how things So what does that mean? So if I if I cut myself or break a bone,
1:06:33
okay, I'm going to have an inflammatory phase for 3 days. Okay. Then I'm going to have a repair phase over the next 6 to9 weeks. Okay.
1:06:39
And then the next 6 to9 months is going to be regeneration. So 6 to 9 months from now, my scar which is really big
1:06:45
and ugly in the beginning is going to fade. Fade. Okay.
1:06:50
Okay. So if we think about that and you think about doing something that's inflammatory and that's what when we're when I tell
1:06:57
people to add foods in, I'm like if you feel a reaction you got to wait three days because of that three days that
1:07:04
okay and that's that's the reason because the inflammatory phase is three days. Is that exact? Absolutely not.
1:07:10
Yeah. You know, it's it's just kind of an average. Um some people may notice it for 5 days and it's not relative to how much you
1:07:17
ate. Yeah. Right. One bite or the whole damn thing doesn't matter.
1:07:24
That's the inflammatory reaction. And so that's that's where the three-day thing comes in. Got it.
1:07:30
But you may or may not feel bad for three days. Yeah. Make
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Yeah. And I and I've had people that um they didn't feel anything the day and then the following day they feel
1:07:42
absolutely like trash and it's a fiveday process. Yeah. And and because I'm watching that scale,
1:07:48
you know, you're plugging in your numbers with me. I'm watching it and I'm like, you're one of the unlucky ones. You don't get it right away. It's kind
1:07:53
of delayed response, right? As long as you're, you know, you've not been eating more inflammatory foods. So,
1:07:59
you had the inflammatory food and you didn't change and all of a sudden it went crazy and you stayed clean over
1:08:04
those days then you know that it's just a little different. So, um just to kind of tie a bow on the
1:08:11
program cuz I know we went off. So, basically come in, you do your assessment, you decide whether they're
1:08:17
good good you I I don't know if you still do it. You gave me a scale, you gave me supplements, you gave me a
1:08:24
digestion. So, you gave me the peptides, right? And you gave me something to help me with my appetite because you have a
1:08:30
certain uh percent ounces of approved meats, ounces, approved vegetables.
1:08:36
Sure. So the the weight loss program does incorporate intermittent fasting. Yeah. Um because not everybody's used to that,
1:08:41
we have an appetite control. Of course, it's all herbal. Y the one thing I know across the board with everybody in America, they do not
1:08:48
digest their food well. Yeah. So I do I do give digestive enzymes which I love. I still use they and
1:08:55
everybody should. It's just it's if anybody that's listening to the show right now, a digestive enzyme will change your
1:09:00
life. Yep. Expl. So, what does a digestive enzyme do and you know like what's that
1:09:06
process? So, there's a lot of them out there. Yeah. Okay. Um we use one now. They used to be called digestion which I thought was a
1:09:12
great name. It does. They changed it to digest the meal which we have sitting on our
1:09:19
it's it's an okay name. I like digestion better. But digest the meal and it's exactly that. And you have a link. Do you have a link
1:09:25
that we can put on the website? Um, yeah. I don't know if I can put I think I can. If you generate a link, give it to us
1:09:31
and we can do that because they generally sell it to doctors. It's plant-based. It's absolutely clean. But
1:09:38
in a nutshell, what it does is break down food. Yeah, we can open one up and we can do that.
1:09:44
We could literally had one jello pudding snack packs. The guy that owns the company, Doug Grant,
1:09:49
he will open up a digestive meal and put it in there. And snack packs. There's two.
1:09:54
So you put in one side, not the other, and then you turn it over and the one that's got the digestive meal in it runs
1:09:59
out because it broke down the food. Wow. Wow. So it literally breaks down your food because the number one problem we have
1:10:05
is we are destroying the lining of the stomach where we're not breaking down our food properly. It sits in there, right?
1:10:10
Because it's like rotting, right? I mean, if you've ever had a compost, right? Like nastyc stomach. It'll rot in the
1:10:17
intestine. But the problem that we have is because it's whole going into the intestine. And I use my fingers because
1:10:24
in your small intestine you have what are called villi and that's how you absorb a nutrient. So there's your B6, there's your thamin, there's potassium,
1:10:30
whatever it is. And in between you have a junction that allows the nutrient into the bloodstream but keeps all the bad stuff out, all the
1:10:36
allergens and toxins from the food. Okay. Okay. Okay. What happens is when food's not broken down properly, it comes in here can't be
1:10:41
absorbed. It starts destroying the villi. Oh sits on it almost. Yeah. And but they release zulin when
1:10:48
they start to destruct. Wow. That opens up the tight junction and now you're getting allergens and toxins into your
1:10:53
leaky gut. That's that's a leaky gut. And that's why you get food allergies. Okay. That's how you develop autoimmune.
1:11:00
Autoimmune. Wow. So you're killing the very things designed to actually extract, absorb,
1:11:07
then it's creating a leak almost like a a mesh. It's breaking it open. Well, that's what it that's what a tight junction is. It's like the screen on
1:11:14
your door. Okay. Keeps all the bugs out. It allows the air in the here. It it lets the nutrient
1:11:19
in but keeps all the allergies and the toxins food out. So you're not absorbing repair and heal over here. Okay.
1:11:26
So if you get yourself right, you you can fix those. You can absolutely fix those.
1:11:33
This is your gut. Sorry. The villi villi. And for those on the podcast, we all got
1:11:38
our hands on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You have to go see YouTube and see it. Sorry. So yeah, but it that's probably the
1:11:43
biggest problem I see. Okay. Don't break down my foods. I can't absorb my nutrients. Wow. So you you give um part of the
1:11:50
program you so part of the program is to make sure that they're digesting food and that's why a lot of people like I've never felt
1:11:55
so good and I'm like man I'm not a genius even like honestly as I sit here and
1:12:02
listen in my head I keep going it's really so simple it is like this is
1:12:07
everybody's spinning their wheels they're going on a zimpack which we got to talk about a little bit
1:12:12
um and we'll pick what hour I don't care how long this one's going to be because honestly
1:12:18
Stay with us cuz you're going to enjoy this because and chunk it down. Watch the shorts, but you got to stay with us
1:12:23
because it's it's what I want people to know is honestly it's very simple. It's
1:12:29
a conscious decision. It's a little bit of discipline and it's a lot of discipline. Not just a little,
1:12:35
a lot. Because I can't tell you how many times I'll look at something and say, "I really want you." And I have to walk away. When I start No, I'm kidding.
1:12:44
Well, I started mine October 26. I'll never forget that date. I went through Thanksgiving and Christmas. Go. I was so
1:12:51
disciplined because you have to be. If if you hit that point where you've had enough, you've got to be disciplined.
1:12:58
Even to this day, you turned away the yams with the marshmallow and everything. Oh, the Christmas cookies.
1:13:05
Why I made Yeah. So good. So, it's an interesting thing. The word discipline.
1:13:10
Yeah. So I'm going I totally and I totally get it and I I resonate
1:13:15
and I'm going discipline but is it discipline or just smart?
1:13:22
Thank you. I am smart. I appreciate you. Is it just making good decisions? Yeah. Right. You know,
1:13:28
is it discipline to not spend your whole paycheck or maybe invest it? Right. So what's my favorite saying? Nothing
1:13:34
tastes as good as feeling good. Yes. Espanism
1:13:39
it tasted good to hear. It's true. And then all the rest of the time. And how long is it here? 30 seconds for
1:13:46
And it's in here. And then it's here for a long, long time. I cannot tell you. Chocolate. Crave chocolate. Desperately love chocolate.
1:13:54
Man, I have learned that it's only good here. And then I literally after I've
1:13:59
had it, I'm like, well, that was good for about 5 seconds, but now I'm done. Just for me. So now that you got away
1:14:06
from foods and then when you go back and you have a food that you haven't had in a long time, you're like, "Man, I really miss that." Yeah. How did it taste?
1:14:11
It's not as good as I thought it was. No, it's never good. Why? Because you cleaned off receptors that were muddying
1:14:17
up. Yeah. Right. So the junk in it. Yeah. That's why people are craving sugar like that. That's the whole McDonald's thing,
1:14:23
right? Cuz they actually We had a friend in Ohio. She was a food scientist. You know what
1:14:28
her job was? She was to create She worked for Papa John. She worked on and her job was to
1:14:34
create the flavors. Yeah. To trick the mind to you think you're eating. That's exactly what she said. We just
1:14:39
create the things that tell your brain says, "Oh my god." Amazing. That's why sugar is more addictive than
1:14:45
cocaine. Wow. Right. Because you're exciting. It's excitatory. Yeah. And so you're exciting. The brain. The
1:14:51
brain's like, "Man, give me some more of that. I love being excited." Yeah. Right. If I punch you in the arm, that's not
1:14:56
excitatory. It's like, stop that. The pain, the pain and pleasure principle is real.
1:15:02
Yeah. Right. If I punched you in the arm and it felt fantastic, you'd be like, "Man, do that again."
1:15:07
Right. It's so funny because when I'm out in the field all the time um doing appointments, one of the things I do for
1:15:14
food is I take a can of tuna, right? And I just eat it raw. I know,
1:15:21
not exciting. But I tell you what, it's straight protein. I don't have any
1:15:26
You want to know my kryptonite? Yeah. Tuna is it? Yeah. I can't. You don't like tuna?
1:15:31
I eat it straight out of the can. But you know, I don't But I mean, God bless you. I'm just I
1:15:38
just can't. I smell it and I'm like, "No, sir." All right. I'm going to So, I'm going to
1:15:44
pull you back real quick. So, we talked about the peptides. We talked about the um digest meal, right? So, that's what
1:15:51
goes home with you along with this awesome handy dandy book. That's just a guide
1:15:57
with the approved foods. Um, and it goes through everything that you've talked about, the approved foods,
1:16:03
the there's certain fruits and vegetables you can have. Do you want Sure. We want to eliminate some of the So, we want to We don't want to eat the
1:16:10
high glycemic index fruits because it's going to spike sugars. What are those? What are those? Bananas, grapes, melons.
1:16:17
God, I love bananas. Yeah. Pineapples. Banana chips. Very high in sugar. Veggies are
1:16:22
even banana chips that are dehydrated. Sure. Yep. Well, Believe it or not, dehydrating them makes it more
1:16:27
concentrated sugar. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. My bad. Sorry. Carrots and peas.
1:16:33
Carrots and peas. Yep. Which And then the proteins are pretty wide open. Yeah. Um things like, you know, the the farmra
1:16:40
stuff. I tell people to avoid that because it's just not healthy for you. It's got usually hormones.
1:16:46
Free foods are cucumbers, celery, and if you need something, an egg, hard-boiled
1:16:51
egg. That's why I love those. Beets. Beets. Um, beets are going to be higher in sugars, but you know, you can still
1:16:56
go into that 4 ounces. So, one of the things is we are going to be in a calorie deficit. That's how you do lose
1:17:01
weight. Yeah. And we put the program together so that you're not starving. You're not hungry.
1:17:07
Yeah. Me personally, if you make me hungry, I'm going to eat. Yeah. I'm not You're not going to do that to me every day. I might make it a day,
1:17:14
but day two, I'm like, "All right, the heck with this. I'm going to eat." So, I do have it designed to where there's
1:17:20
enough food in there. And don't forget the free food list. Yes. Well, the free food's key. That's my option. So, the free food list is added into
1:17:28
your protein, your vegetable, and your fruit. So, that you really should never be hungry.
1:17:33
Yeah. And then as your body gets free food examples though, just so Oh, cucumbers. Well, cucumbers. Definitely.
1:17:39
Yep. And lettuce. All your all your green leafes. What meats? Onions. There's no there's no free meat. No, it's only those big.
1:17:46
Oh, I got it. So, that's a protein. Then you got your veggies. You got your fruits. Gotcha. And then there's a list of free foods
1:17:51
that are going to be in more of the veggie category. Got it. Okay. Right. Cuz there there's mostly made up
1:17:58
of water. Mhm. And you don't eat more than 4 ounces of fruit in a day period because
1:18:03
twice. So you get it twice. You get actually eight ounces. So it's 4 ounces of protein, 4 ounces of vegetables, 4 ounces of fruit, and then
1:18:09
all the free foods. Yeah. You want to do in your 8 hour window. Got it. Um and in the beginning, it's a little
1:18:15
harder because you're not used to it unless you've already intermittent fasted. Y, you know, some people are so programmed to eat breakfast. Um, but that's where
1:18:21
the appetite control drops come in to help you get around that. And I'm like, you know, drink water,
1:18:28
black coffee. And let's talk about the water because I would come in and get away. And you're like, how much water have you drunk?
1:18:34
So, hydration's huge, right? So, if your cells aren't hydrated, what
1:18:39
happens to them? They shrug. They die. They become inflamed. Oh, they become inflamed. Okay. Yeah. You become I mean, think about
1:18:45
dehydration. What does dehydration look like in somebody? You know, so they're going to
1:18:51
be headaches, lethargic. Okay. Um the body's going to shut down. Your blood doesn't flow. Like I had I
1:18:57
when I what do I I was getting drawn blood or something. And the first thing she said to me, she goes, "Wow, you
1:19:03
drink a lot of water, don't you?" I said, "Yeah." And she could just tell from my veins and the way the blood was
1:19:09
pop up. Yeah. They pop up in the in the way she was able to draw blood and how she could tell by the viscosity of my blood. How
1:19:16
does that affect weight loss though? Because you're not eating as much, you're fuller. What do you mean the water?
1:19:21
Oh, the So the water, you know, we should be drinking about half our body weight in ounces of water because of
1:19:26
intracellular communication. Okay. So, does little shriveled up raisins communicate is big fat cells.
1:19:33
Wow. So, a little raisin like that is a dehydrated cell versus a hydrated cell. Wow.
1:19:39
So, that's the big thing is intracellular communication. You got trillions of cells. So, we want those the guys to be super hydrated.
1:19:45
Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. Do you uh have a preference on the type of water? Like tap water versus
1:19:51
Of course, tap water is going to be terrible. The still's going to be stripped. So, you know,
1:19:58
anymore it's like, oh my gosh, you start looking at the bottled water like what was the one Ebian? The naive water.
1:20:03
Yeah. You know, and it's like, do I need a PhD in water? Yeah. I know.
1:20:08
You know, which one is it? You use a glass bottle, not a plastic bottle and all that. You know, our house has
1:20:13
reverse osmosis. Um, and I do have glass um, water containers that I have.
1:20:19
Yes, we do the hydrogen actually. Yeah. And I like the hydrogen water. Um, so you know, water is great. And
1:20:25
some people are like, "Well, yeah, but your stomach's acidic." And I'm like, "Dude, you're splitting hairs."
1:20:31
It makes it way more difficult than it is. Somebody said, "What was it?" I I
1:20:36
said I was doing something and they're like I think it was exile. I can't
1:20:42
believe you're doing that. And I'm like, do you shower? And they go, yeah. Do you have a re
1:20:47
anything hooked up to your house? No. My gosh. So, you're letting that toxic water get permeate your skin?
1:20:54
I was like, don't I mean, if they saw what our counties and cities put in our water, you know, we get we get so neurotic
1:21:00
about stuff, especially when it comes to food and diets. Yeah. And I'm like, yeah, chill. Let's let's keep this simple
1:21:07
because simple wins. Yeah. if if if it's, you know, I gota get my book out to see what I'm doing every time I go out to eat, you're not
1:21:14
going to do it long. And so the way that I've designed it is so once you kind of get it down, you got it.
1:21:20
Yeah. Right. And so that's that's the big thing is and and then the sustainability about it. How do we keep the weight off?
1:21:26
You brought up with Zimpic. Number one. Yeah. Actually, let's talk about Can I back up real quick? And in this
1:21:32
awesome book, you also have recipes real quick. Chairs. Yeah. This chair like sucks. like it's
1:21:38
really bad. That's on you, honey. Okay, we'll edit it out. Just give us 15 20
1:21:45
more minutes. You change your chair. I'm good with it. It's all right. It's going to be a whole thing. Um, so before we go there, I just
1:21:53
want to also say in this book, and I know I keep holding this up because this is your Bible in this program, you have
1:21:58
recipes. So, you not only do you give us food lists and things that you should eat, amounts, times of day, or and lots
1:22:05
of tips, there's recipes in here. And actually we had your ground chicken with
1:22:11
um cauliflower rice for lunch with amino acids. Still we still use all the recipes in there. So
1:22:17
becomes it's sort of embedded now into our but you can go to Zimp. I want to go to Zimp because
1:22:24
I personally know a lot of people that are on it and the thing is it works. It does. They've lost a ton of weight. However, I
1:22:32
keep seeing because I pay attention to stuff and I and I don't know if it's widely reported because of how popular
1:22:38
it is, but you know, the company that makes it isn't from America. Where
1:22:44
they're from, they can't even sell it. Really, they can't even sell it. They're in Europe.
1:22:49
They can't sell it. We are the only market in the world and we're their number one for them.
1:22:57
Their entire company is built off of this one drug. But I keep seeing and hearing reports of
1:23:04
all these crazy side effects. And so let's talk about that for people out there because they're and I get it.
1:23:10
They're desperate and they're seeing they're seeing their friends shred all this way. What are you doing? And let's
1:23:17
face it, the doctors. It's easy. There's a lot of incentive. It's easy. It does lower your blood
1:23:23
sugar because, right, it's designed for diabetes. Yeah. Um the side effects, one of the big ones is gastrointestinal, right? And so one
1:23:30
of the things that that nobody's doing is going, "Well, what's next?" So
1:23:36
why is it not allowed in Europe? Because of socialized medicine. If you get sick over there, they got to pay for it. Got it.
1:23:41
Right. That's why you don't see the the food additives, the food colorings, all the crap that we allow in our food here.
1:23:48
Got in Europe. Because the government's on the hook for it. They're like, "We're not going to give sick. They got to pay for it." So they're like, "Well, eat that."
1:23:55
Yeah. Right. That makes sense. There's incentive. That's why it's here. That's that. Now, Ozimpic, Bakovi, Bonjuro, all those
1:24:01
things. Yeah, because there's multiple different ones. They do help you lose weight. They do.
1:24:06
And I'm like, okay, it's great. And I don't necessarily have a problem with somebody that's got a huge A1C that's
1:24:13
horribly obese because they can't do anything, right? I shouldn't say they can't. They're just less likely. And we
1:24:20
are programmed that easyy's the best. You know, like I think I said to you earlier, my mom and dad like, "Don't
1:24:25
they got a pill for that?" Yeah. Just take a pill. Mhm. So that's one thing. But the the the
1:24:32
number one thing that I have to say about I'm like, "Okay, so you lost the weight.
1:24:37
Now what?" Mhm. Did it teach you how to eat? Absolutely.
1:24:42
Not. So what are you going to do now? Right. And the reason that a lot of people don't eat and lose weight is
1:24:48
because it makes them nauseous. I don't know about you, but I'm not real hungry when I feel like I'm going to throw up. Yeah. Right.
1:24:53
So that's one of the reasons they lose so much weight. But what about when you hit your goal? What's next? Saying that
1:25:01
you did maybe you did get by all the side effects, right? You had some gastrointestance. You made it through
1:25:07
because the body is so resilient. The body does want to be healthy. Yeah. And it didn't destroy you.
1:25:12
Yeah. So you're at your goal weight. Now what? And that's where the sustainability is a humongous problem. Okay.
1:25:18
And it's not been around long enough to go, all right, well now it's been 2, three years. You took OIP. You lost the
1:25:26
weight. Where are you at today? Yeah. Can they get off of it? Sure.
1:25:31
Because you're gonna get to a point where they can't take it no more. Okay. Okay. Because they're their their numbers are
1:25:36
going to be normal. If they continue, they would be too low. Do they revert back? Sure. What do you think's going to
1:25:42
happen? Okay. So, it's a boomerang. It's just Yeah. That's my whole point is besides
1:25:48
losing the weight, what were you taught? Well, you were taught I take this drug, I'm going to
1:25:54
lose the weight. I got my A1C down. I'm no longer diabetic. Now what?
1:26:01
Well, your cravings and your favorite foods are still going to be the same. The food we have is still going to be the same. Did you make better food
1:26:07
choices? Well, nobody told me to make different. You just didn't eat. Yeah. Yeah. Because is that what it I don't
1:26:13
even know what is it? Not eating is also not good for you. Your body needs to nutrition. It needs
1:26:20
That's why people look gray. Yeah, it's because I want to say it does change. There's skin.
1:26:26
Yeah. Because they're not getting nutrients. Okay. So, that's the reason. Oh, so that cuz you gray is the word.
1:26:32
Because I've noticed that I could see like and there's a few we know and we're and you could see it. You're like, well,
1:26:38
you've lost a lot of weight, but you're you don't Are you How do you feel? Are you healthy? Yeah. It look like the Adams family a
1:26:43
little bit. It's like that. And some people have to be careful losing too much weight because then you got that skin left over. Well, for sure they're going to have
1:26:48
that. But yeah, you know, in in in the world, we're like, well, is it better to have too much weight and have
1:26:55
that skin stretched out, or is it better to have a skinny body with all this extra skin? Cuz that extra skin is really doing nothing but, you
1:27:01
know, hanging around. Yeah. Yeah. Is it good? No. But is it as dangerous for your health as being that
1:27:07
overweight? No. Good point. Yeah. So, you know, they can have it cut off at plastic surgery. Oh my god. Now you're just layering on.
1:27:14
Yeah. But the fact that they're gray Yeah. Yeah. And I promise you if you start running blood work on them going, "Well,
1:27:19
here's all your other health problems now." Jeez. Right. And now what I need you to do is eat. Yeah. Yeah.
1:27:25
And because you have no idea what you're supposed to eat. You're going to go back to You're going to go back to what you're used to eating.
1:27:31
Yep. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Well, so that's that's the bad problem. And I think that because that's that's
1:27:36
what we would implore people is like, look, this is it's just these decision points,
1:27:43
right? We we tell the children all the time, every decision you make, there's a
1:27:48
consequence to that decision, whether it's a good or bad. Yeah. And there's always a consequence to a
1:27:54
decision you make. There is. So, what happens if somebody's watching this and they're out in, you know, Idaho
1:28:00
or somewhere else? Can you help them? I can. So, I see people all over the country. Okay. My furthest is Alaska.
1:28:07
Wow. Oh, wow. Yeah. So they're doing functional medicine with me and how they found me was a parent actually lived in Hilton
1:28:14
Head. Okay. Okay. And so they're like, "Can you help my daughter?" And I'm like, "Sure." Okay.
1:28:20
Um so you know that's a functional medicine case, but it doesn't matter if it's weight loss or functional medicine. I can do it anywhere you live.
1:28:27
You can do it. You're virtual. Yeah. It's all virtual. Um and you know, you talked about a scale. I have those
1:28:33
mailed. And reason that I mail scales is so you can't give me some excuse about your scales.
1:28:38
Well, and to go back to that when I would come into the office and I don't know how you do this now. We would measure. Do you know how it was I was
1:28:45
get we so you get on the scale and Dr. Bradley has all the charts. You've lost this body weight. You've you don't have
1:28:52
enough water in you. I mean he would tell you all these your age metabolic age. I mean I went from 63 down to like
1:28:58
29. Yeah. When she first when she first showed me her metabolic age, I was like, that's
1:29:04
Can you talk to that metabolic age that for people? What it is is it's it's an easy number.
1:29:10
Mhm. For me to go, all right, what's your metabolic age? I know you're doing all the right stuff, right? I'd kind of I
1:29:17
get a good overview of you by looking at metabolic age. Okay. Okay.
1:29:22
So, if you get on the scale and you're 40 years old and it says you're 80, that means
1:29:27
I mean, I already know what your body's 80 on the inside. I know everything going on. Yeah. You know, my scale only went to 90.
1:29:34
Wow. Wow. So, you my the thing that I would tell people, I'm like, well, your metabolic age is 90. I said, I got good news and
1:29:40
bad news. The good news is if it's truly 90, it's great. But the bad news is only goes to
1:29:46
90. So, it could be 100, could be. Wow. We're going to know as things change. Yeah. And it, you know, it was so crazy
1:29:51
because that metabolic age just hit everybody. Oh, it does. When I saw 63,
1:29:57
you don't even know what that means. But that number you're like, so what does it mean? Does that mean
1:30:03
like inside of you? It's a combination of your fat. Okay. Your visceral fat, your body fat, as
1:30:08
well as your muscle mass. Wow. Your hydration. So they take all those numbers to come up with that. So it's just an overview, a quick number
1:30:16
to go, that's not good. Yeah. Right. Yeah. If you're 40 with a metabolic age of 90, you're like, "Okay, you're
1:30:21
heading towards an early demise." Yeah. No question. You know, and this know they know. Yeah. Um but you know, you're hitting the 20s
1:30:27
all of a sudden and you're going, "Hey, I feel good." The metabolic age of a 20-year-old, 27,
1:30:33
whatever it was. Yeah. That's a great thing, right? So, I'm always chasing it. My metabolic age is 28.
1:30:39
Yeah. And so, I'm always making sure it's at least 28. Staying there. See what I love because when we had
1:30:45
these, the last one with Dr. Marrier too. I love hopeful things. Yes.
1:30:50
Right. That people because Ozimp is a hopeful thing in the sense I'm going to lose weight, but
1:30:56
it's not going to change your metabolic age. If anything, it might make it worse. Yeah. So, what I love is what you're
1:31:02
talking about. These are very hopeful things because these are all things that you can control. They're reversible.
1:31:07
Yeah. Like that's to me is a very hopeful theme. Like, you know, because like disease, that's what when I was watching
1:31:13
I think Dr. Braden or something like that. He's talking about disease. And he broke the two words down. Yep.
1:31:18
And and that when your body's not at ease, it gets sick and ages faster. And that's
1:31:25
what causes all this stuff. Well, you can take away the disc and now it's at
1:31:30
ease. That's right. You know, and that's what you're that's really what the heart of what you're about. It is. And and it's even the people that
1:31:36
have Ozimpic, you know, they're 200 pounds overweight. I'm like, "Okay, do the Oympic. Get going." But you don't
1:31:44
want to stay on it until you're at goal weight. Get it to where now you can get off your butt. There you go.
1:31:49
And move. Yeah. And and come see me. I I'll teach you how to continue get away from the drug.
1:31:56
Yeah. But continue that weight loss journey and so that you do get your health and your life back. That's awesome.
1:32:01
You know, so that's that's kind of and that's really the fun thing for me is getting people's life back. Okay. They really have no hope.
1:32:07
Yeah. Um and I work with so many young people now. It's just crazy. I feel like
1:32:12
there's a movement though happening. I I feel like that I don't know what age group they
1:32:18
are, but I feel like they're kind of looking at everything and they're kind of rethinking it and saying, "Nah, I'm
1:32:25
not really buying into that and they're they're much more open." I think I think you're totally right about that.
1:32:30
I think that um well, I think a lot of people are sick and tired of being sick and tired. Yes.
1:32:35
Right. And so I talk to those people a lot and see one of the things that we deal with is skepticism,
1:32:40
right? because there's everything on the internet so much misinformation disinformation
1:32:47
and I don't know how many people have like listen Google MD if you want to do it go ahead
1:32:53
but I don't want to have to be challenged every day because you keep
1:32:59
googling and go well it said this on the internet I'm like you do you and I'll do me um that's
1:33:05
that's one of my headaches I feel like we're in a world now though where sort of the It's the Wizard of Oz
1:33:11
moment where the curtain's getting pulled back. Yeah. And you're recognizing that Yeah. You have to look at the motive. You know,
1:33:18
the Bible says the root of all evil is the love of money. And I think what we're all recognizing now is well, maybe
1:33:26
you brought up the breakfast. You ever hear of a guy named Edward Bernay? B- E R N A Ys. Check it out. He
1:33:34
wrote a book called Propaganda. I have it. You can read it. I'll actually put it as an overlay. He was the nephew of
1:33:40
Sigman Freud. Okay. So he took all of Sigman Freud's work on the human psychology
1:33:46
and he figured out his job was and he worked for like every president up to
1:33:52
Bill Clinton from the 1920s and he worked for all these corporations
1:33:57
and he figured out his whole job was how do you manufacture consent? How do you
1:34:03
rule a nation with a small group of people while letting the people think
1:34:09
that they're making the decision? So you and he actually the uh it was
1:34:16
like the pork industry I think came to him and said we want to sell more pork pork. He said well they need to eat it for
1:34:21
breakfast. Bacon ham bacon and eggs. So he created this whole
1:34:27
campaign and he did this he published a study and he went to doctors universities and he
1:34:34
said hey if people will eat you know ham and eggs for breakfast they're going to
1:34:41
be healthier and he got like 4,000 doctors to sign off and they started prescribing it
1:34:46
and that's how it got so the culture in America you didn't have this big heavy breakfast but as a result of Edward
1:34:54
Bernay and his propaganda. He got the whole culture to adopt this
1:34:59
whole sense of interesting, isn't it? You study it. It's a fact. He is a and he'll tell you like he's got, you know,
1:35:06
he died in like mid 90s. He's got a lot of videos and he's candid talking about how easy it is to convince the rest of
1:35:14
us. And like the Banana Republic, you ever hear of that term? Um he he did this thing with the Dole company in
1:35:20
Guatemala. They owned all this land. Well, they had this president that came in and said, uh, they elected him and
1:35:26
said, "Hey, that's our land and you, you know, you've got to start sharing some of that profits with us." So, they came
1:35:32
to him and said, "Hey, how do we get this how do we get this guy out of power?" So, he created this whole thing
1:35:37
about the Russians being down there and they were communists and and he got the
1:35:42
whole country behind him and we overthrew the government just so Dole could have the land back.
1:35:48
That's so crazy. Yeah. So anyways, my my point my point with that is, you know, that
1:35:53
that uh we have to understand some of the information
1:35:59
isn't always pure like the motive behind it, right? Like you know the So I've I've kind of practiced
1:36:06
through the transition of this internet. Yes.
1:36:12
And I tell you people come with stuff and you're like what? And when I was younger, you know, you kind of like okay blah blah blah. But
1:36:18
then as I get older, I'm like, look, yeah, I I'm not going to be challenged. If you
1:36:23
want to go figure that out on your own, go ahead. You know, well, that's where everybody's got to make their Yeah. And it's it's it's frustrating
1:36:29
because you're like, for those that are listening, we have a
1:36:34
very funny face coming from. Yeah. I'm just like, what? Yeah. Somebody said something to me and it was
1:36:40
today. They're like, um, you know, there's boine in that. I'm like, um, okay.
1:36:45
So, you really think I I'm like, "Listen, I don't make this stuff. I just know what works." Yeah. And it's a supplement company that's
1:36:52
very reputable and they make very clean products. Yeah. They only sell to doctors.
1:36:58
And then she brought up um I guess I can throw Dr. Axe under the belt. She's like, "Well, Dr. Axe has one." I'm like,
1:37:04
"I don't know who Dr. Axe is." Um he's he's just another one of the internet guru people that has his own
1:37:09
supplement line and that's what you always have to ask. And I'm like, "Yep." Yeah.
1:37:15
So he's not selling to just He's selling to everybody. So you don't have to have a reason to get that supplement. You
1:37:20
just got to have a want. Yeah. Where when when I'm telling somebody to take something and there's a absolute
1:37:26
reason behind it, right? And I read a laboratory of some sort to go, hey, you're deficient here. This is what you needed. And she just brought up
1:37:32
this boine thing and I'm like, okay. Um, hey,
1:37:37
I tell you what, why don't you try that and let me know how it works out. Well, speaking of the thing is he's going to have to spend
1:37:43
you were about to go right a ton of money on a new test. Yeah. Wow. So, speaking of supplements, so
1:37:48
we've talked a lot about cortisol and I I think things are changing in the world
1:37:53
of of supplements. Obviously, there there is no regulation on supplements. So, you got to be very careful.
1:37:59
Thanks to Orin Hatch. Yeah. Um, so there's one that you had
1:38:04
introduced to me which I absolutely love called Feeling Free and I've I've lived
1:38:10
on that and you've recently bought us another one to try. Um, do you want to talk about that just a little bit?
1:38:16
So feel free is one of those ones. Um, it's interesting because it's cava. Okay. And I I was telling David earlier which
1:38:24
for those out there with a k r a t o m, right?
1:38:29
M. If you Google it, all kinds of stuff about kind of stuff right there. Give it to you so you can
1:38:35
show it. Yeah. Throw it. All right. Real botanicals
1:38:42
and cabba. Put it on the camera here. Yeah. So, she's going to help us.
1:38:47
Lots of lots of research behindratom. Andratom gets a little bit of a bad name just like all kinds of other stuff,
1:38:54
right? Um because it is associated. It's not an opiate. Yeah. But it goes along in that family.
1:39:00
Okay. Okay. No got lots of bad raps. If you think about heroin, heroin was designed by the bear corporation.
1:39:06
Really? I mean, come on. Right. Gosh. And it was really designed to help soldiers that were being shot to help
1:39:15
with pain. Oh, wow. Cuz there wasn't, you know, jetbacks and all that back in those wartime.
1:39:20
Yeah. And of course, then they started finding all the side effects with it. So that's where opiates started getting a bad rap. And we use them today, you know,
1:39:27
Vicodins and Percoets because it does help with pain. Yeah. Theratom that they use there, it's in a very small amount and it's a very hard
1:39:33
word to say. Seven hydroxy marginine. Wow. You you've come up with some fancy names
1:39:39
today. I I think I got spell that. Put it in the comments. I can't spell that.
1:39:44
Um and then Cabba. So it it does it does help with some pain. And then the cava
1:39:50
that goes along with it is more of the mood booster. The mood booster. Yes. Yes.
1:39:56
Talking about cortisol. This is why I wanted So those are things that are going to
1:40:01
improve your mood with the least amount of side effects. Gotcha. So, and it's going to give you more
1:40:06
energy. Why? Because you're not being dragged down. Yeah. Um and and even theratom, you know, been
1:40:12
around long enough and just like you said, if you start googling this stuff, you're going to be like, "Oh my gosh."
1:40:18
And when I tell everybody, I'm like, "Do you take Tylenol?" Sure. Google it.
1:40:24
Tylenol, it's one of the worst things you can put. It literally destroys your liver,
1:40:30
but it's on every terrible and and it's prescribed in every hospital pain and children if you're teething
1:40:37
children's Tylenol, right? So, that's one of the things that that and that's where I get back to that internet search when people are like,
1:40:43
"It's got boine." Yeah. Yeah. Come on. You're taking a leave every day. You
1:40:48
don't even know what you're doing to yourself. And yeah, I've told people like, do you shower in that water?
1:40:54
Yeah. Right. So, you know, that's the part that does drive us a little bit crazy as doctors is because there, you know, there is so
1:40:59
much and it's cool. I get it. I want people to be educated, right? Um, but when when I'm recommending
1:41:06
something, it's something that I have researched and go, okay, now can you abuse it? Sure. Because because it is
1:41:13
associated with those opiates that you could become addicted to that type of thing. And there's many other
1:41:18
supplements out there that could happen the same way. Vitamin D, you can you can get vitamin D toxicity if you have too
1:41:24
much. Well, I think we talked about this pre-show, right? Was addictions happen in a lot of areas,
1:41:30
right? I mean, people have addictions to food, they have addictions to alcoh
1:41:39
the porn industry went crazy with the internet, right? They thought that that
1:41:45
internet porn was going to create more sexual devian and create more crime. Y
1:41:50
and it actually decreased it. Yep. Yeah. Um and so, you know, there's there's so
1:41:55
many things out there that Yeah. And and you know, you can probably find the good and the bad in just about anything. Yeah. 100%.
1:42:01
Well, and I think it's one thing that I found was and I tried it. I I it was in your office and I went in. I was so low
1:42:08
on energy one day and it was an energy um not energy drink but like an energy panic and I was like
1:42:14
I'm just going to try this and literally within 15 minutes I felt the most amazing I'd felt. It almost like gave me
1:42:20
this level. Yeah. I felt like myself again and not just energy but just focus emotions
1:42:26
and that's part of my daily supplement regimen. I think the Cabba is the main player
1:42:32
there. Okay. We were talking I don't know if you were in the room we were talking about it's from Vanuatu. Yes. Yes. From Australia.
1:42:38
Yeah. It was near New Zealand. Vanuatu is this little island that a kid that
1:42:43
grew up near my children who was at my house all the time. His mother was from Banawatu. Wow. And he was like I asked him about it
1:42:50
when I learned that it was from Bonawatu and he's like oh yeah people chew on copper root all the time
1:42:56
just to help them with energy. Well they're not they don't know any different. I mean they don't wear shoes and socks over there.
1:43:02
Yeah. Um, but it was one of those things they it makes you feel good. Yeah. Right. And there's no side effects to
1:43:07
cava and because it does make you feel good and I'm like let me So can I ask you a question because
1:43:13
because one of the things food really affects your mood affects everything. It affects your happiness.
1:43:19
It affect I mean that's why so many people you know what do you do when you're sad? You know you you comfort food
1:43:24
we call it comfort food. But you feel worse cuz you get inflamed. Well, but as you're changing and that's
1:43:30
why I think with these supple some of these things, it's why I wanted to talk about it was as people are going through
1:43:36
this program and as they might be experienc it's okay and these are safe products and that's really what I want
1:43:42
you to talk to is like is it okay for somebody to say hey look maybe because you know when you're intermittent fasting you might feel low
1:43:49
energy a little bit especially when you're detoxing because in the beginning your body's not used to it and you start getting rid of these
1:43:55
toxins that you thought were normal. Yeah. And that's one of the things, you know, you're talking about how food makes you
1:44:01
feel. Yes. And as you get cleaned up, so we eat food because we're sad, because it's
1:44:06
excitatory, but what happens the next day, right? Right. So, you might have this, but then
1:44:11
you got that. It might bring you up a little bit, but then you crash. Like we were talking about even with me cuz I'm I'm good through the week. That
1:44:18
might be a little bad on the weekends. Yeah. And I was noticing on Monday, I wasn't as happy as I was the rest of the time. And it was just because of the way food
1:44:24
is affecting us. Yeah. And so different supplements like this is is a great adjunct to go, man,
1:44:30
I'm having a great day today. What did I do? Well, I did this. Um, let me let me let me try the the Cavanratom.
1:44:37
Yeah. Um, and it does give you that. And one of the cool things I like about it is you get that mental focus.
1:44:42
Yes. Oh my gosh, she locks it. I I just lock it when she does it. Like literally, you call it GSD. Yep.
1:44:48
Get done. Yeah, she does. I get a GSD mode. I call her central command, right? like
1:44:54
when she's locked in, it's like it it's just and it it's it's really cool the way
1:44:59
that it affects the brain chemistry on a non-toxic level. Yes. And that's what I absolutely love.
1:45:05
So, the other thing I actually was just saying to David, today I've noticed a lot is how um CBD and THC drinks,
1:45:14
there's so many more versus as an alcohol um alternative. They they're all
1:45:19
advertising that you don't get hangovers. I mean, what are your thoughts on these micro dosing?
1:45:25
So, it's a different product. I know it's a different product and I do like micro doing. Okay. I think micro doing is good. You know,
1:45:31
they're actually doing it with psilocybin and even LSD. Oh, wow. Um, I don't know much about the micro
1:45:36
doing with LSD as I do the psilocybin. What's psilocybin? Psilocybin magic mushrooms.
1:45:42
Got you. I've seen a ton of like lion's mane mushrooms. Well, psilocybin is going to be in that
1:45:48
family, but it's a little different. But what they were doing is um one was alcohol abuse.
1:45:53
Okay. So they were using the psilocybin with the alcoholics um because it's repairing
1:45:59
neural pathways. Yeah. So the psilocybin and that micro do isn't that funny how neuropathways.
1:46:06
Yeah. That's a good subject. Yeah. You know when we start talking about neural pathways what is that?
1:46:12
Everything. Yeah. Your whole life. Your whole life. What's destroying neuropathways?
1:46:18
Everything. near everything. And so my my by micro doing they're not
1:46:23
getting the euphoria or the high. Um so you know you're not getting this
1:46:29
out of body experience. Yeah. Okay. You're repairing neuropathways and all of a sudden you can think clearer and
1:46:34
you're happier because and that's exactly what the advert is saying. Okay. That's it. Okay. I don't psilocybin illegal in not
1:46:42
all states in some states just like THC. Yeah. Um, and so I think that they got a
1:46:48
bad rap just like you know heroin used to be what was it? It was the um, gosh, make sure I get this right. I believe
1:46:55
they called it the housewife's elixir. Oh, no way. Before the Truth and Labeling came out,
1:47:00
okay. And what was happening was women, and this is, you know, 1920,
1:47:06
okay? They had the elixir at the drugstore, the housewife elixir, like so they're getting high off heroin.
1:47:11
What? I didn't know. And that could be getting this mixed up with cocaine. Well, they just Coca-Cola was cocaine,
1:47:19
but I'm pretty sure it was heroin. And you know, all of a sudden, these people were becoming addicted to it.
1:47:25
Okay. And they were using it for pain because that's how it was developed was for pain. Yeah. Okay. And then it became, well, you can only
1:47:31
use it for acute pain. Well, the people that had chronic pain were already addicted and so they were going crazy.
1:47:36
And so then that's how it got wiped off the market. Okay. And then now the legal stuff showed up because you're not going to
1:47:41
get rid of it forever. Yeah. Um but that's kind of the story with a lot of drugs. Okay.
1:47:47
Um and that's where the LSD, the psilocybin, even you know the opiates.
1:47:52
So there is there is uses for them but they abuse them. It's like everything you know alcohol
1:47:57
has been abused, food's being abused. Everything you know gets abused by somebody somewhere. And that's where the
1:48:03
bad rap comes. And that's where now with the internet you can find the good and bad and everything. Yeah. But it's still figure it out. This
1:48:10
has been great. Are there any other relaxants I guess you would recommend
1:48:15
or help with the energy and f because I think that's the key. When I say relaxance, you you understand what I'm saying? So um there's a lot of them out there.
1:48:22
Um the supplement companies we use premier research or um optimal health
1:48:27
systems. So they're only selling to doctors. Um one product's called tranquinol which is great anti-anxiety.
1:48:34
It's got magnolia bark in it and valyan root. So, it's a combination of things. And so, of course, what is good for an
1:48:40
anxiety? Magnolia bark. Okay. Wow. Malaria root. It's calming. Um, you
1:48:46
know, it's just like, you know, melatonin helps people go to sleep. Yeah. But it's not going to keep you asleep.
1:48:52
Melatonin helps you go to sleep. Yeah. GABA is your stay asleep. Okay. What's GABA?
1:48:58
Um, GABA is a neurotransmitter, but there's supplements that are going to affect your GABA. Okay.
1:49:05
Wow. and magnesium. That's magnesium is a calming depending on the type. Okay. So, there's all different kinds.
1:49:10
Yeah. Um oxide and citrate aren't very absorbable. Your malates, tarates, and glycinates are going to be more
1:49:15
absorbable. So, you're going to get more of the benefits of the magnesium. Okay. Whereas the oxide and citrates, you'll
1:49:21
get more of the laxative effects. Oh, nice. Yeah. Okay. You ever need a colon? Stay away from those.
1:49:27
No. When you get a colonoscopy, they're giving you magnesium citrate. I got you. That's what's in that little jar. Okay.
1:49:32
Okay. Well, this has been so interesting. I mean there's so much more. I almost feel like I mean we almost have
1:49:38
to do this like weekly. This is what I love about the functional medicine. They you use all these alter
1:49:43
alternative remedies to help with issues. Well, the main thing with that is we
1:49:49
don't want to create other problems. Correct. Yes. And with the alternate I know with like the enzymes you there's no interaction,
1:49:56
right? A lot of stuff with each other. If I took one herb, it's not going to be
1:50:02
affected with another herb, you know. And you can't overdose on these things. This is what's And they're not destroying your organs,
1:50:10
your liver, and all that. There's no side effects. I mean, you could abuse anything. Yeah. But most of them, especially the ones
1:50:15
that I work with, you could take the whole bottle of it and really do nothing but waste your
1:50:22
money. Yeah. So, let's wrap this up with this. So, Asher, put on the camera, Dr.
1:50:27
Bradley. Talk to the person out there who obviously you're accepting new
1:50:34
patients and and this is what you do. Who talk to somebody out there who's like who who could use you right now?
1:50:42
Who can you help? Who can you David? That is a loaded question. I want to know because No, I want to know because like I know that there's
1:50:48
going to be somebody that finds this that's that's like this is a little bit helpful for them. It's like talk to them
1:50:54
and they contact you, reach out to you. So the the biggest be thing that I see and I love working with is the people
1:51:00
that can't figure out what's wrong. So there's a couple classifications of people that I work with. Of course, the
1:51:05
weight loss is the weight loss. I want to lose weight. Fine, dequalify. But there's people out there that don't
1:51:10
feel good and don't know why. Mhm. Those are always really interesting because that's my detective work.
1:51:16
Yep. And then there's the people out there that have been diagnosed, they still don't feel good, and they've gone
1:51:22
down lots of different roads. And those are the people that, one of the first things I tell them, I'm
1:51:28
like, "Well, yeah, you've been labeled this, but you nobody's really figured out why that's happening to you." Got it.
1:51:33
God didn't pick you. Yeah. Right. Can can you give me, sorry to interrupt, some examples. If someone has cancer,
1:51:39
could you help them with that? So, I don't treat cancer, but there are holistic doctors that do.
1:51:45
Well, and with the way with trans cancer works, if you got cancer, that's fine. I'm happy to help. I've done tons of cancer symposiums and studied it. My
1:51:52
mother passed away from cancer, so I became quite versed. Yeah. The reason I say I don't treat cancer because I'm not an encologist. Okay.
1:51:58
Yeah. Okay. What I do treat is the human body. Yeah. And so with cancer, all I do is make
1:52:04
sure that I got the human body functioning at as optimally as I
1:52:10
possibly can to beat it. Is that right? Well, I mean, there's always a side effect, but Well, what I've heard is is I've
1:52:16
heard every human has cancer cells, but but that a healthy body
1:52:22
can battle it. Yep. You know, so so what you're saying is you can help them get to the optimal
1:52:28
side of on this side and then that gives you a greater chance, I guess, or whatever, right? So, the reason that we we do develop a
1:52:34
cancer is because the immune system can no longer fight it. Fight it. Why?
1:52:40
Because it's all messed up. what's being what's taking up the time in the body or what what processes are
1:52:46
being used instead of fighting that. So yeah, so you're letting the body get homeostasis.
1:52:51
So you're getting things to get out of the way so that it can handle that. Yeah. Right. So I don't I don't I don't tell
1:52:57
anybody to stop taking drugs. I don't tell anybody any of that. I'm just like, well, how well can I get your body to work?
1:53:02
Yeah. Right. So the the most fun are the people like I don't feel good don't know why cuz figuring that out and I don't
1:53:09
necessarily come in like well this is what you got. Yeah. I just go well here's what's going on. Yeah
1:53:14
and this is causing that and this is causing that and that will make you feel like this and you have tests that you use.
1:53:21
Yep. Absolutely. So we use blood urine saliva stool air and that can all be done from a
1:53:26
distance. So yeah those are just things that I order and most outside of blood work blood work will send you to a lab. Yeah,
1:53:33
almost everything else is at home test that are sent off to a lab and analyzed and then I get the results.
1:53:38
Okay. Um so and then here on the island for those who are local Yeah. they can come and see you.
1:53:44
They can't see me in person. Okay. Unless you want to. Yeah. Um cuz I do I am all virtual now.
1:53:49
All virtual. Okay. Yep. So I I do and there's people here that are like I'd really like to sit down and talk to you and that's fine. Um
1:53:55
I'll meet them I tend not to go to homes. Yeah. Um but I'll meet them out somewhere if they really want to talk to me in
1:54:01
person. Okay. um just so they can get an idea of what's going on. And it seems like since
1:54:07
I've been virtual doing the they're like Zooms, not exactly Zooms. Yeah, it's just like I'm sitting across from
1:54:13
you right now. We do it with real estate. Yeah. So, it's it's real close. Some people want that
1:54:19
that in person and I'm like, I don't know if I notice any difference now that the
1:54:24
phone didn't work for me. I didn't like that. But the videos I do, I do the same thing. Yeah, it works.
1:54:30
So, okay. So the people that you're trying to be investigate and find out what's going on, somebody that comes to
1:54:36
you that already has a label you can work with. So and it you don't have to have a label. It's really um people that want
1:54:43
to feel optimal. So maybe you feel good, you just don't know what optimal is. You want to be better. Yeah.
1:54:48
Those are the hardest. Yeah. Because at least when you got something like, "All right, here's where we look." Yeah.
1:54:54
Um the people that have got the label, they're a little easier because I know where to look. I don't want to break
1:54:59
down the system is I don't feel good and I don't know why. Little more difficult, but I'm going to ask you a bunch of questions so that I
1:55:07
can determine where do we look, right? There's tons of tests out there and I don't have any set test because
1:55:13
everybody's different. Everybody's problems a little different. Yeah. Um so that question is always so hard for me like who do you want? I'm like
1:55:19
well no that's goods but I think it's great for people who are out there. So how do they get a hold of you? Is it
1:55:24
like do you have a website, LinkedIn, Facebook? So um I'm on all those things. My website is dr bradradmorris.com.
1:55:30
Okay. And then of course I got a phone number 843962-6855 and we'll put that up there.
1:55:35
That rings right to my cell phone. Um my cell phone doesn't ring as you can see.
1:55:41
It's been sitting there and I'm hitting buttons on my watch. Yeah. Declining calls. Um and I will call you
1:55:46
back. So um I do handle it all myself. Um and usually what I do is I kind of do
1:55:53
a discovery call. Yeah. And go, hey, is this going to be a good fit? Okay. And then if it is, then uh we'll
1:55:59
go through the paperwork process and lab testing and whatnot. And you are also a chiropractor as well.
1:56:04
I am, which since I'm virtual, it makes it really hard to I know you don't practice as much.
1:56:10
So listen, if you're listening to the show, um obviously in the descriptions on Buzzrout and all the platforms, we'll
1:56:17
have the links, but if you're if if you want to watch it, go to YouTube. Our YouTube channel is uh RealTalk HHI. So,
1:56:24
it's YouTube real talk hhi. Uh, we'll put everything in there as well. But I just we encourage you. You're talking to
1:56:31
two Well, Dale's really Well, you did it. You may not have been
1:56:36
Bradley. It works and and we've done everything. We've done like gosh, since I've known you, like how many
1:56:42
Body for Life will take you way back. We've done the Body for Life, P90X, uh, I mean, all that. But the keto diet
1:56:49
out of all of it, I think for me what this did for me was real make just help
1:56:54
me simplify it, I think would be the word. It helped us understand our personal bodies. David's body works different
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than my body. So we can tailor our meals, we can tailor our lifestyle based
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on what we know. And I think as women, that was what was so frustrating for me, Dr. Bradley, is I didn't know what I
1:57:13
didn't know about my body. And you really helped me figure that out. And I have so much more confidence now when I
1:57:19
go out to a restaurant. I know exactly what I need to eat and not eat. And we didn't even touch that about going to
1:57:25
restaurants and how you eat. But it just helped me in so many ways know what
1:57:30
works for me. Whereas before I felt like I was in the dark 100%. You know, and and to everybody we talk about lifestyle.
1:57:36
Yeah. There's no lifestyle without life. Yeah. You know, so you have to have optimal life to have the lifestyle. If you want
1:57:43
to live the lifestyle, you have to make this decision for you and you have to
1:57:50
work with great guides and teachers and doctors that can help you and that's
1:57:55
what we think Dr. Bradley presents. Well, thank you. Yeah, absolutely. So, thanks for being on the show. Pleasure.
1:58:00
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word out there. But this is great information and we really appreciate it. Thank you again for everything you've
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done for us. Promise you'll come back. I will come back. Awesome. Sounds good. Always have a great time. Thank you.
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