Health and Wellness Show 07-08-2023

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Episode Transcript

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Hey, thank you for spending sometime on this Saturday morning with us here
on one h three point five FMand five sixty AM w VOC Gary David
hanging out for a second hour,but we'd always switched our focus to your
health and your wellness on the Healthand Wellness Show, and coming up were
talking to Jim Snell from the Lowsof James Snell involved in an auto accident.
If you've got a family member,a young family member or maybe an

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elderly family member, or the thingsyou need to know about Harry, your
insurance company might deal with him.We'll talk with Jim about that. And
therapeutic massages with Aaron Plott from MassageMechanics, so she joins us in the
next half hour. Underway now withBridget Trammell, the founder of the owner
of the head coach at the healththere. Bridget, good morning, Good
morning Gary. How are you doingtoday? I am just dandy, thank

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you, and I hope you aretoo. I sure am, and I'm
here today to talk about what everybodyis trying to figure out how to do
keeping up with the kids or forsome cases the grandchid, trying to get
rid of that belly fat trying toget healthy. You know, it's I'm

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not at the grandkids stage where yeah, I should be, but I'm not.
I guess maybe one of these daysI will be. Yeah. It's
a funny because I say this topeople all the time, people I know
who are younger than I am,who have kids. I'm thinking, you
know, as much as what ablessing from God they are. I don't
think I could do it again.I certainly couldn't do it at my age

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the second time. And you know, at the health there, most of
our clients are over the age offifty five. So we've got a lot
of grandparents in our program, andso we had constantly here about keeping up
with the grandkids. I had someclients, Debbie and Mark, that came
in and just kind of plopped downin front of me and their extra wide

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chairs, and you know, theywere out of breast just from walking to
the office, and they told methis really heartbreaking story. The past summer,
they had tried to take their grandsonto Disney World and they were so
excited to give him this once ina lifetime trip at the happiest place on
Earth, and their grandson was beggingto ride with Grandpa on the Doorf's mind
train, and Mark and Debbie couldnot sit in the roller coaster because I

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couldn't sit in a lot of theride, And it was just a humiliating,
devastating experience for everybody involved. AndI'm happy to say that ninety days
later, Debbie and Mark had lostover fifty pounds and thirty inches each and
has lost most of those inches fromtheir belly and they were able to then

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keep up with their grandkids. ButI hear that story all too often in
our health coaching office of folks overthe age of fifty five trying to get
rid of belly fat. That's notonly humiliating, but it's debilitating, like
they literally cannot keep up with theirfamilies. Yeah, and we know because

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you've told us before. I meanjust that that belly fat leads to so
many other issues, and we don'tthink about that. I guess we just
think it. Yeah, Okay,that sounds slightly Maybe it's a bit embarrassing.
You know, I can't get intothings I used to wear. Okay,
I get I'm carrying some extra pounds, what have the energy I have?
But it's a lot more than justthat. That's right, that's right.
It causes type two diabetes, highblood pressure, high cholesterol, sleep

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apnea IBS, which nobody likes totalk about, that irritable bow syndrome that
can take a whole three hours outof your day. If you got stomach
problems that you don't want to talkabout. It is embarrassing. And you
know, the clients that come tothe healthcare, you know, the perfect
beach body that you know, thatholy grail, the beach body. You
know that that ship has sailed.You know, we're not interested in looking

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perfect. I mean, this isthis American image on social media of these
eighteen year old girls that have thesetwenty inch waste that's not practical. You
know, try going through divorce,try and raising kids, try being a
successful adult, but that having ajob. You know, it's just not
practical to spend ten hours a weekperfecting your abs. It's just not possible.

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So at the healthcare we've kind ofjust made it our slogan. After
eight thousand clients success stories mostly rightthere from the belly and average of seventeen
inches in the first thirty days,sixteen pounds off in the first thirty days,
all visceral fat. We've kind ofjust sort of telling people we're not
here and make you look like asuper model. Was just here to help
you keep up with the grandkids.And let me let me point this out,

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bridget you just you were talking justa moment ago about you know,
going raising kids, maybe going througha divorce, having a job, you
know, to be able to work. You say this from experience, absolutely
so. When I first did thehealth stare, I was two hundred and
twenty pounds. I was a singlemom, had just gone through a terrible

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divorce. I had a two yearold and a four week old baby,
so I had to also provide.I had to go to work nine hours
a day. I was I wastaking care of my family. There was
not time to pack a bag goto the gym, and I didn't care
what I looked like. You know, at that stage of life, it
was survival, you know. Iwould go to the grocery store, I'd

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pack both of my kids into theshopping cart, and then by the time
I got to the bread or cereal, I had such stabbing pain in my
back from the extra weight I wascarrying. I could barely make it up
to the front to just check out, get my kids put in the car
seats, and I thought, I'vegot to do something because I've got to
take care of my family. Andmy first thirty days in the health there,

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I lost a pound a day.I lost thirty pounds of fats my
first thirty days, and by thetime I completed ninety days, I lost
eighty pounds of fat. But Ididn't do it by going to the gym.
I didn't do it by you know, cutting calories. I ate whatever
I wanted. The only thing Ididn't eat with sugar. But I took
an entire cellular health approach, andit was so much easier and so much

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more sustainable. But I'll tell youI don't look great in the bikini.
I still have cellulite, I don'thave apps, but I feel freaking amazing.
And that's what we try to doit the healther. We want you
to live longer, not look likea supermodel. And let's point out too,
there was no such thing as thehealth there when you did the health
there. You're right, that's right, that's right. I went to health

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coaching school. I studied over fourhundred diets, and I pulled out all
the easy parts from all the diets. So every diet works right for a
little while, yes, but itonly works as long as you're honest.
So I looked for something that Icould put together that would be sustainable for
a lifetime. And since that time, we've had doctors and chefs and health
coaches and chiropractors and and uh youknow, naturopathic doctors, cardiologists, dietitians

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have absolutely scaled this program from frontto back with a fine toothed calm,
and it is the number one weightloss company in the up State and we've
had phenomenal success. As a matterof fact, if you don't have success
on our program, we'll give yourmoney back in the first thirty days,
right right exactly. And you havea lot of working professionals and they fit

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that bill. They don't have timeabsolutely every day to go through that's exactly
right, And no money has timefor that. You know, nobody got
time to go to the gym andlook perfect and things like that, And
nor do we care. I mean, we're busy adults for busy parents and
grandparents. Um. And I've gotcountless clients that are in their sixties.

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You would not believe how many peopleare sleeping in separate recliners because they're sleep
at MEA, their acid reflux,their sea pat machines. You would not
believe how many couples that should beenjoying retirement, enjoying time with their families,
enjoying time with each other, theyjust can't because of their symptoms.

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They've got low sex drive, lowtestosterone, they're hormones, they're all over
the place, imbalanced. We've hadfertility clinics even reach out to us to
help clients with the symptoms of PCOS. Because Gary, everything goes back to
cellular health. How healthy are yourselvesnow? We have clients go ahead,

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health, tell us what does that? What does that mean? So imagine,
Gary, your cells are like agrape, right, They're supposed to
be filled with water. You know, when you bust into that grape,
you can set that water squirts out. It's like a fresh, healthy bubble
of water. So when our cellsare not healthy, they turn into raisins

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and they shrivel up, and thatvisceral fat, that belly fat, gets
stuck in there and you can't getrid of it. Everything goes back to
that. It causes high blood pressurebecause the vessels are restricted. It causes
sleep at me of because your organsare restricted, you can't breathe. It
causes low sex, strive, lowtext fosterone, hormonal imbalances. So as

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we have been able to take clientsand reverse their cells from raisin to grapes
to find the way, over seventypercent of your cells can be completely regenerated
within ninety days. That's why wehave a ninety day program. We see
now couples who were in their sixtiessleeping in separate reclient are now chasing each

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other around the house and having betterintimacy than they've ever had, having better
energy than they've ever had, havingbetter breathing, and they're actually able to
keep up with the grandkids. Letme ask you this, bridget Trammell,
who was with us this morning onthe Health and Wellness Show, used,
as we just talked about, youstarted this company because you had to find

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a way to get yourself healthy again. What's the old saying, necessity is
the mother of invention and consolutely inyour case, that's that's that couldn't be
more true. So you start thiscompany and you know it's it's grown and
grown and grown and grown, sincetwenty fifteen. I mean when you started,
you were and you still do fromPamattawa. I suppose hands on coach

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clients right absolutely. And here's thething, Gary, how many fitness trainers,
health coaches, doctors, health andwellness dietitians. How many people do
you know like that that have actuallybeen fat? You should hire the healthier

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coaches because we've been fack. Wegot sick and tired of being sick and
tired. You know. It's kindof like it's kind of like, you
know, you go to a travelagency and they give you a nice shiny
brochuret and say, hey, theBahamas is great, have a great time,
but they've never been there. It'sa sterile connection. Whereas I can

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take a client and say, listen, I was that sad single mom.
I had enough. I had totake control of my health because my family
needed me, because if I didn'ttake care of myself that I wouldn't be
able to take care of my family. Or even worse, some of my
clients families are taking care of them. Yeah, so I can say follow

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me down the trail. I havebeen there. I know where the pitfalls
are. I have studied the artof motivation. I'm a professional motivator.
I will turn you into your ownhealth coach for life so that you can
stay healthy. That's a big partof the program too. Vitamin light,

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vitamin love, that's the most importantthing. And you know, like I
said, Gary, we are justtrying to help people keep up with the
grandkids. And cellular health is adifferent kind of getting healthy. It's not
just weight loss, it's getting healthyfrom the inside out, regenerating yourself,
reducing this will fad that causes diabetes. Sleep at me a high blood pressure

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be trying to keep up with you. Yeah about it. I did want
to ask you one of the thingsfor you, Ron Bridget, and that
is this, because as someone whohas you know, coached countless people through
the years on the Health There,what are the when people first sit down
with you or the Health There coach, what are the questions that you hear
most frequently? They're scared Gary.They want to change their life, but

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they're afraid of what they will haveto do to change, you know,
because we've all been told, oh, take these drops, take these shots,
take you know, starve yourself,weigh your food, work out,
and watching the fear in their eyesturned to hope when I say there's only
two things you can't eat. You'renever gonna go to the gym. You

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can have as many calories as youwant. We're not going to count calories.
We're gonna be here for you.We got a chef that's gonna cook
you for let mignon. We're gonnago to the grocery store with you and
show you how to read labels.You are going to take control of your
health, but you're not gonna haveto change very much. And people they
look at me and say it's toogood to be true. That is the
hardest part is to convince them aboutthat a sular health program is going to

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work because it's too easy. That'swhy we had to give a thirty day
money back guarantee. Because it's soeasy. They're in disbelief. Yeah,
and I will take from someone who'sdone the program. Anytime you make a
change in life. At first,it's okay, this is a little different.
I can't just go to everything Ialways did and not think about it.

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I gotta read labels, I gottado this. But it's not.
It's not difficult and be before youknow it. And in my case,
does it even take two weeks?I think, okay, hey, I'm
into the mode. Now I've innew habits and it becomes extremely easy.
And you can eat a rib steak, potato with cheese and sour cream and

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butter we're talking about. You caneat a sub sandwich, We're talking about,
you can have that glass of redwine. It is the easiest program
you will ever do. So don'tbe afraid to pick up the phone and
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chocolate cake and twinkies, but you'llbe able to enjoy most of the things
that you like, and you canstill grow out and still have a good
time. But the thing is,if you take control of your life,
which the health there is the eavy'seasiest way to do that. But if
you take control of your life,the value of your quality of life,

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you can't put a price on that, Gary, can't. You cannot.
Bridget as always, thank you somuch. Eight seven seven, I dare
me Idarecolumbia dot com or rightdaremea dotcom to get that free initial consultation.
Bridget, thank you have yourself aterrific weekend, you too, Thanks Gary.
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listening to the Health and Wellness Showon one h three point five FM and
five sixty am WDVOC and welcome back. We appreciate you joining us this morning.
My name is Gary David and we'renow joined by our favorite attorney.
It's Jim Snow from the law officeof James. Now, how are you,
buddy. I'm doing very well,Star. Good to see you.
Man. Do you have a bigweekend last weekend? I know you took

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the boat out right, yes,yeah. You know what I noticed was
the fireworks, especially coming off ofm Spence Island. We're off sync with
the music. Oh no, yeah, gotta hate it when that happens.
That was that was the thing.Yeah, that's a problem. We did
it. We took it. Wewere out that day, but we uh,
I'm not real big on being onthe water after the sun goes down,

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so we we came in before thesun went down. But it's kind
of time. How did we goon July? Well, it was that
it was July first, I guessit was. Yes, yeah, let's
last Saturday. But uh yeah,yeah, if you go out earlier.
What't how many boats on the lakethen? But I know it got busy.
I mean we what we had aboat that that sank out there,
um because of the wake of allthe other boats zoom and bye. I

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mean it's it's yeah, yeah,you might get a call about that one.
I don't know if you've dealt whatthat was a time or two.
I think yeah, yeah, practice. But today we want to talk about
your car auto accidents, but specificallyUM insurance companies and how they may deal
with people of a certain age.Well you know, and it's just and

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I'm not saying they always do this, but they always do well, no,
it's just and this is just morekind of practical information for UM for
maybe family members of of kind ofsenior citizens or even younger people. M
Um, so after a car wreck. Um, specifically something that could be

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more serious, right, Um,watch just to tell you one thing I've
noticed, if you have, I'mgonna call it like a really minor like
a fender bender, right, withoutany kind of significant injuries or anything substantial.
It can even be difficult sometimes toget an adjuster on the phone.
Um. I mean just they don'twant to. You know, you never

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hear back. You know, it'sit's it's you know, they kind of
slow play it. Right if it'ssomething though, where it's laptop like hundred
laptop. Ok, let's go Brandon, um and um okay, where were

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we? And and I remember Igot I had to ask if I could
if that was allowed on the air, and um, and and just everybody
also can know you know most lawyersthat practice personal injury um law right,
that that helped follow these claims,you know most of them are you know,
certainly lean to the left and youknow vote democratic and um, but

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not all not all, not alljust you know, not naming names here,
but not all. Yeah, notnot not naming names. Um okay,
um where where where was it?Yes? Yes, so it should
walk. Yeah, it can beso with the minor incidents. Sometimes it
can be like, you know,just low priority and they don't even really
want to get back to you ifit's how significant, Okay. Um.

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A lot of insurance companies will tryto get a quick, fast settlement up
front before people have time to reallyunderstand or appreciate how injured they are,
how much their medical bills will be. Um, you've mentioned that before.
You've talked about that quite a bit. Why it's important not to not to

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take that first. If they docome at you quick with an offer,
that's it may feel like, oh, this is great, right, but
it's not right and and and youknow, once you sign on the dotted
line and you know, you signa release and he takes some money,
I mean that very that's that's gonnabe it, you know, um,
even if you find out later thatit was a mistake or they you feel

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like you got taken advantage of.I mean once you take you know,
once you sign, you're you're done. Um. And so there some insurance
companies really will try to push hardto get to see if they can get
a quick upfront resolution. UM.Like I remember recently my office we settled
the case for ended up getting fullfull policy limits of one hundred thousand,

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and the initial offer from the insurancecompany was five thousand, and that was
made to the client before we werehired. Um. And that's just what
they were, you know, they'rejust trying to you know, insurance companies
are for profit businesses and if theycan get a case settled for less early
um. But anyway, so oneof the things I always want to point

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out is if you have a say, a younger person, you know,
you know, a team you know, eighteen, nineteen twenties, younger,
early twenties, UM. And youknow, that's certainly is a situation where
if an insurance company maybe there mightbe an adjuster who feels like they can
take advantage of them. Um.You know, get them some paperwork out

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quickly, offer a little bit ofmoney um. And to them it may
seem like a lot of money,and they may not be depreciate you know,
what the bills are, the expensesor anything going to be. That's
just a situation to kind of beon the lookout for, right UM.
And I think naturally, you know, parents, if they have a child

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who's you know, nineteen twenty twentyone, whatever, probably you're going to
be on the lookout for, youknow, helping helping their child with with
the aftermath to say, a carwreck, and and you know probably probably
are gonna natural really want to wantto review the paperwork and talk to them
and make sure that they have ahandle on what's going on. Okay,
but it's still something to be onthe lookout for, right. Um.

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Now. The other side of thatis if you get a senior citizen and
you know, just just like somesome senior citizens you know have a reputation
for being you know, kind ofsusceptible to scams or different hoaxes. They're
just they're trusting, they want tobe agreeable. Um, you know,

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they assume they can just naturally wantto follow people they perceive as authority figures.
They come from a different era,and they come from different era.
Um. Sometimes older people, imean really can have a difficult time,
you know, after a serious accidentwhen those adjusters, you know, some
adjuster calls and starts trying to youknow, kind of be a little pushy

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about taking recorded statements or getting documentssigned or doing other or things. They
can kind of feel like they youknow, ought to go along with whatever
it is you know, just towell agree like they've got their best interest
at heart and they don't always whateverand and and the thing is, if
you know you're you know you're youknow, if you're I'll call it fifty.

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And you know your parents are intheir seventies. You know, this
may be the first time in lifeyou know where um, you know,
you feel like kind of the rolesare reversing and you've got to go and
just sort of, hey, what'sgoing on? You know what, what's
the paperwork? What's so? SoI just would just throw it out there,
UM, just kind of you know, if you've got senior citizen parents,

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you may want to, um askif they'll let you, you know,
just kind of keep up with what'shappening, look at the paperwork.
UM, make sure you know theyunderstand what's happening. And um, you
know, don't make it. Youknow, they don't they don't rush into
something or make a decision later thatthat won't be an the best so for

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for folks who and it really thisapplies to people of all ages, yes,
because again you this is something thatyou know as a you know,
as as an insured person, youpay the premiums. You know, every
month, every year, every sixmonths, whatever it is, and you're
paying them with the assumption that ifyou ever need that uh that that that

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that coverage to pay off, itwill. But we don't deal in that
world like you do, or likean insurance adjuster does or an agent does.
And you know, when things happen, we look at stuff and we're
like, okay, you know,even me it, well, I'm not
young anymore, but you know,even a forty year old you could look

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at that and think, Okay,I don't really know what this means.
But a lot of people continue tothink, well, I can do this
on my own, and some peoplecan sure, um you've talked before.
I mean, depending on the severityof the injury or the claim for the
damage to an automobile, it's justit may just not be worth it the
high an attorney. But I'm guessingthe percentage of times that somebody who goes

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on their own and misses this ormisses that doesn't understand this and don't understand
that, it's it's pretty high.You're really opening yourself up to to not
getting really what you've been paying forall these years. Well that's right,
And you know in them in incriminal court. Um, you know,
the judges will go through a wholeserious of advisements to people that are in

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court without a lawyer. They'll callthem fred advisements. Right. You know,
basically, you know, you knowthere's things that a lawyer may know,
or that that you may you maynot that can that could make a
big difference in the outcome. Andthey will, um at least try to
qualify that people are making a knowing, intelligent decision by waiving the right to
counsel. Right. Um, there'sno such protection in settlement of a of

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a civil claim or an insurance claimafter IRAQ, Nobody looks over the paperwork
and make sure it's fair reasonable thatyour interests are squared away. Um,
you know, unless you get alawyer. Right. And that's um,
that's one of the that's one ofthe one of the big differences. The

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other thing I'll tell you, Uh, you may pay premiums, but you
pay them to your insurance company.True. Yeah, and you're not more
than likely Yeah, you get hitby the you know it's the other guys,
cunt carrier. Um, so theycertainly you know you're not their customer
usually um, And I'll just willsay one other thing about about paying premiums

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for a forget and let this escapeme. Um, it's always a good
idea to check with your your insurancecompany or look at your declarations page.
UM. And and I do encouragefolks now to look and make sure they've
got enough underinsured and ensured as wellas for um property damage on another vehicle.

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UM, it's probably probably a wholeprobably go through a whole segment on
this. But you know, ifyou if you get involved, and even
though I'm gonna call it back toa fender bender with like a kind of
one of these newer cars with allthe cameras and sensors, um, you
know you can you can bump acar that might be a five hundred dollar

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repair on an older vehicle, oryou just kind of buff it out and
you start throwing off some of theelectronics or some of the sensors on a
newer vehicle. Right, it canvery quickly run into the tens of thousands
for something that looks like I meana scratch. Um. If you're carrying
the minimums, if you're especially ifyou're carrying the minimums, Look, you

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carry the minimums and you know youyou know, you tap a back of
a of a you know when especiallya new view. Some new electric vehicles
have so many different sensors and features. Sure it can very easily exceed,
you know, twenty five thirty thousanddollars for just a tap. And that's

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just something else to keep it rind. I don't want to change the subject
here, but something just popped intomy head while you were saying this.
I don't know if you've had anyexperience with this yet or not, but
I guess as time goes on,everybody will somebody who's driving let's say a
Tesla for example, and more andmore vehicles have some sort of a self
driving component to them. Right now, I still don't understand how that works,

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right, and it doesn't always work. So if you're driving one of
those vehicles, I mean, you'restill you're still obviously responsible for it.
But do you see that there's goingto be all kinds of controversy over you
know, it's the driver's fault orif the driver wasn't actually driving but the

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car was doing the drive. Andhave you had one of those pop up
yet? So? I have Ihave not had had anything where there was
anything significant out of a self drivingBut I mean, first thing I'll tell
you is, you know, thedriver, the owner the vehicle. Right
when you um acquire the vehicle,you're gonna sign all kind of paperwork,

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I'm sure, waving every possible rightyou could ever wave against Tesla or anybody
else in case of any any accidentsor Elon Musk is not responsive, I'm
not responsible. So they're gonna haveall those protections. Right. Well,
if you are a passenger or you'rean outsider we'll call it, you're just
on the street or another vehicle andyou get hit by an electric vehicle self

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driving, obviously you haven't and youhaven't waived those rights unless you also have
a Tesla um. And some ofthat's gonna have to come out of legislation,
right, I mean, you're gonna, you're gonna you know, um,
Because my first thought as a lawyerwould be if if somebody, you
know, if if a self drivingcar, you know whatever did whatever injured

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my client. I mean I'm gonnabe looking at the owner of the vehicle.
I mean, you know, thedriver of the vehicle, the owner
of the vehicle, and potentially themanufacturer. You know, to try to
get as much um recovery as possible. But I'm sure those those are complicated
issues and are are going to continueto be complicated. But as the driver,

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so called driver of the vehicle,that's your vehicle, you can't just
say, oh, not my fault. I mean, the dirt car just
went and did its own thing.You're you're still responsible. You're the owner
of the vehicle. You're the driver, yes, of the vehicle so to
speak. Okay, which leaves meto another question, since you brought up
these you know, waiving not responsiblekind of things. You get behind one
of these trucks on the interro anywhereand they've got put on the back and

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maybe it's a gravel truck or whatever. Not responsible for damage is done?
Really? You know again, Ithink those are just stickers. Um.
If if I'm driving down I twentyand one of those trucks fulls in front
of me and stuff comes flying offthe back and damages my vehicle, he's
he puts the side his car saysnot responsible for damage one other vehicles that

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that that doesn't hold any water,does it? So? I mean,
you know, we think about rockchips and you know, broken windshields and
that sort of thing. I willtell I'm not aware of anybody trying to
bring an actual legal claim against youknow, a truck for you know,
the rocks that come off I wouldexpect um. You know, if you

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actually try to file the lawsuit,I think you'd have difficulty proving. But
if a big rock comes off ofthat thing and bust your windshielding and impairs
your vision, you are off theroad, of course, of course,
you know if I could happen.Okay, we're getting It's like a thought
exercise, you know. I cantell you this on the truck's behalf right.
It's one thing. If you havea load that's not secure or your

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heart you're hauling gravel you're hauling andit's not correctly tarped, right right,
Um, then you're liable. Imean simply because that truck is going down
the road and it happens to kicka rock up. You know it's not
responsible for that, just like okay, yes, right, So one thing
in South Carolina, all right,South Carolina does not follow the doctrine of

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um uh. And I'm going tomispronounce it, but in um is the
one in Latin words, Yeah,it's a Latin word for the thing speaks
for itself and parade lecto. Ithink I remember this. I remember this
in law school, the story ofa barrel that falls out of a second
floor window causes an injury. Um, just because you have a an event

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doesn't automatically create legal liability. Okay, that doctrine. So that that's the
rule in South Carolina. Right,just because there was an event, and
just because there were damages from theevent, that does not add atomatically create
liability. Okay, that's the generalrule here. So if we have a
rock kick off the road, that'san event, just because that happened doesn't

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automatically create the liability. You're stillgonna have to be able to establish and
prove negligence. Right. So that'sthe and I guess made that whether those
those signs of those plaquers are backingthe trucks before I see them, I'm
thinking away, you're telling me thatif a rock comes out of that bed
of that truck, that gravel truckand bust my windshield, that you're not
responsible of that. I didn't signthat waiver. Yeah, well again,

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I think those are the stickers.Um. And you know you can put
any kind of sticker you want onyour vehicle basically, but I will say
this if if you had if andit's look very possible if you track down
the owner of the company, youknow, they may cover a windshield or
something rather than deal with you know, deal with something. But but then
in South Carolina, if you've gotinsurance, just pay for it anyway.

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Yeah, all right, I've startedme to change shoverage any there. But
I just popped into my head,Jim's out. You need an attorney for
personal injury law, for criminal defenselaw. I mean, you got a
big practice going on over there.How can folks reach you? My friend?
All right, so they can giveus a call at eight zero three
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Call one eight seven seven I Jeremygo to idare Columbia dot com. Welcome
back to the Health and Well theShow on one h three point five FM
and five sixty a m w VOC. We're now joined by Aaron Plot from

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Massage Mechanics. Posture it affects usin a lot of ways, whether it's
good or bad. Right, itreally really really does. And I want
to focus a lot on how postureaffects, you know, our balance and
our alignment, but how the rolesat our feet truly play in this.

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And so a lot of times weget, um, you know, asked
the question, Um, you know, did my pain start and the foot
and travel to my tevis and hipor did it start in my televis and
hip and travel to the foot?Okay, And that's really it's kind of
a chicken or egg questions and theanswer is both. You know, it

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happens both ways. But We're reallygoing to focus on and start with the
foot. So I'm going to talka little bit about um feet, biomechanics
and We've talked about biomechanics before andwhat that means and and basically how your
mechanical aspect of your of your body, your your muscles and your you know,

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structure, your bones and joints umand how that relates to the chemical
and uh circulatory aspect of your body, that that biological part of your body.
All right, classes in session,you'll pay close attention right professor delivered.
Your feet have three axes of movementand and that is basically where you

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have either your hinge movement for yourflection, which is where your foot will
come upward um or your extension whereaswhen you're pointing your toe um or you've
got your supernation and your pronation,which is you know, where you can
turn your foot from one side tothe other um. And then you've got

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a third axis that allows for abductionan adduction which allows us to pivot okay
or turn on a dime. Sothose functions are the basic biomechanics of the
foot and the ankle, and thosethose joints and the feet are so important.
And you know, most people don'trealize you have twenty six bones in

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your feet and thirty ligaments in yourfeet, and so they're all there for
holding the structure and stabilizing the footand allowing it to withstand extreme pressure from
high impact activity, which is justour day to day life. Now here's
the where it becomes kind of,you know, an issue. We were

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not made to wear constrictive devices onour feet, so socks pose, you
know, any type of footwear isincredibly binding to those tissues and muscles.
And of course you know how lifeis today, no shirt, no shoes,
no service, right, Um.But we lose a lot from the

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inability to really feel the ground andhave our foot moved through its full axis
of motion. Um as you walkaround uneven surfaces, and a lot of
our surfaces are no longer uneven.You know, you think about all the
indoor places, you know, it'svery flat, very hard. Um.

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So so we're losing a lot ofthat functionality of our foot. Um.
And that's starting to affect not justour posture, but our balance. So
when you're standing, your balanced alignmentof your feet is the first steps to
proper alignment of the whole rest ofyour body. There's there's a saying,

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and it's improper body alignment. Boneis over bone and that means all your
bones are stacking up and lining upthe way that they should. Um.
And what that does is it createsless stress on your muscles and more ease
in your organs and the nerve flowthroughout your whole body. So basically,
what that means is it takes thestress off your system. So when you're

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standing properly and you have proper balance, you know, you're all those systems
in your body are all lined up, and so a lot of that stress
is reduced and it allows all yoursystems to work on a homeostatic level.
Um. Well, I don't wantto get ahead of you here, but
since you brought it up, Aaron, well, define standing properly for us,

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how should we be standing? Allright? So not at all?
Not at all. So a balancestance is created by standing with both your
feet parallel, your big toes touchingeach other, you know, and the
heels are slightly apart, okay,and the opposer are spread out and lengthened,

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and your knees are soft. Sothat's important. You don't want to
lock out that knee because that's puttingundue stress on that joint. So you
just soften your knee and you bringyour feet kind of together with your big
toes touching. Okay, heels onthe floor, which you can't walk that
way, you can't, but thatis the proper stance to begin at.
Okay, and when you're walking,you never see anybody do no. One

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of the most popular stances, theycall it the teenage stance, and it's
where you know, you've got onefoot facing forward and all your weight is
in it, and then the otherfoot is slightly turned outward and a hand
is on that hip and your hipsis popped out and yeah, and that's
just completely on. You know,that structure and that alignment is completely off,

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and it's putting so much pressure invarious different areas of your body,
and so pain comes from those misalignments. Um, you get these tightnesses in
the fascia and in the muscle tissue. You get restrictions from circulatory flow because
there's pressure being put on joints andnerves. In situations where you know things

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are going numb, you know,one of the best things that you can
do in the morning before you evenget out of bed are ankle rotations and
so like, if you're laying inbed and you just rotate your ankles around
in a full circular motion for acouple of minutes. That wakes up the
nerves in your feet so that whenyou stand up, your feet aren't numb,
they aren't anything. They're woken upand they're able to start processing information.

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As you walk through your house andeverything, I know, you're just
like, well, what's the pointof that, What does that have to
do with anything? You know?Um, And basically what it is is
it's getting your body ready to processinformation. So all of the things that
we do, our body is constantlygiving and receiving information. So we've got

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our sensory nerves which are receiving informationand giving it to our brain. These
are the things that we're feeling throughall of our viscera and our muscles,
and your viscera is all your organs. And if you think about your skin
being your largest organ and it beinga huge sensory organ, that makes a

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lot of sense. And then youhave your motor functions, which are your
brain talking to your body. Soit's giving the body commands to move and
to do these various different things.So we need to tie that into your
feet and how they process information andwhat they're telling the body and how they're
moving. That has an overall impacton your balance and how you walk in

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your gait and your posture all theway up the line. Good. That
comes to one of the main thingsthat we've really done on across the board
as a culture, and how thatreally affects our posture are the shoes.
The shoes that we wear. Andthis isn't just women though, the main

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you know example shoes right exactly,So their negative contributor to the proper alignments
because of the way that they makeyour foot and you know, the structural
of your foot, so just thepositioning that it puts your feet in and

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how that affects not just your feetbecause obviously you know a lot of the
shoes that we wear, especially aswomen, our feet hurt, you know,
I mean, after you have themon for a little while, your
feet starts to really really hurt invery specific places. But the way that
it rotates, you know, yourspine and the way that the curvature of
your spine has changed, and therotation of your pelvis, and even the

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pressure that it puts on your kneesm is huge comparatively to being in flat
shoes. When you're in flat shoes, your weight, your body weights distributed
evenly throughout your foot, whereas whenyou're in heels, it causes a huge
increase in the downward pressure on theballs of your feet again, excess pressure

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on your knees, and the curvatureof your sign and especially your lumbar and
upper thoracic regions is exaggerated. Soit almost gives you if you look at
it on an X ray, italmost kind of looks like it gives you
a humpback and a cheerleader, butall at the same time. So it's

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a really odd positional thing when youwhen you think about it, you know
from that kind of a picture,you know that that's attractive in any way.
But it is, you know,um, And the longer that we
consistently do that, the longer youcompress your feet that way, um,
it becomes not so much of posturalanomaly, it becomes a pattern. And

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that's how your actual natural posture becomesover time. If you're wearing high heel
shoes every single day and things likethat, so flatly a differences there too,
I guess, huh, there reallyare, And and so a lot
of the things like massage can addressa lot of this. We can address

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not just the tight fascia and thetense muscles within the foot um, but
it also helps to break up depositsof stagnant circulatory um materials UM, stagnant
limp and and acid crystallization that happensin the foot and that can also all
of that has impact on how yourfoot functions UM and so massage can do

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a whole lot for helping to restorethat. But there are even limitations as
far as what we can do andand sometimes you have to have you know,
orthotics to inserts to help support thestructure of the foot, especially if
you've had a lot of collapse withinthe arches um or weakening in the in

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the supportive muscles of the feet,or bone damage. Sometimes you have to
have surgical intervention, especially in situationslike hammertoes, bunyans, things like that
where you know there are structural changesto the bone um and weaknesses. Especially
you know, say you're in aterrible accident and that bone structure has to

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be rebuilt. You know, werun into a lot of people who have
um structural apparati in their ankles andin their feet. UM. So there
are a lot of different things thatcan go into that, um you know.
And it's crazy how the physical frailtythat actually develops in people who consistently

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wear high heel shoes, um,even cowboy boots. I know, because
I know I was just talking aboutwomen and their high heel shoes, but
I do have to point out,like men's shoes are are not necessarily that
much better, you know, especiallyin the whole Western fashion industry where you've

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got these uh you know, cowboyboots with like extremely pointed toes because they're
made to fit into store ups andthings like that, and it's compressing the
structure of the foot. You know, when you're looking for a good shoe,
you want something that supports the footas a whole. So when you're
standing flat, it supports your wholefoot and it feels good. But you

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also need a wide toe box becausethe more you stand on your feet and
the more you walk around your yourfeet tend to swell, you know,
and your toes. You know,if you've got good hoe muscular control and
good structural control, you can spreadyour toes out, um, and that
first and second your big toe andthe second toe. They're responsible for like

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your directional positioning and posture, whereasthe other three are meant for your balance
and meant to spread and kind ofgive you a base, you know.
Okay, So if you can't dothat in your shoes, then your shoes
aren't great. Always a pleasure,Aaron. How to folks reach you at

(51:29):
Massage Mechanics, So the best wayis to go on the website www dot
Massage Mechanics sc dot com um andyou can book online there you can read
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give us a call at the officewhich is eight oh three five two zero

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Facebook and everything, so it's eightoh three four six six seven one four
nine if you need to get ahold of me directly with questions. And
we're located in Lexington, so we'repretty central to everything. But we are

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more than happy to help if youhave any questions before coming in, if
you aren't sure that it's going tobe right for you, we're always happy
to do consults over the phone aswell and kind of walk you through the
process to terrific massage mechanics. Aaronalways a pleasure. Professor Blot. Can
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