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December 11, 2025 20 mins
In this episode, Tim O’Brien and Dr. Bradley Brunner dive deep into what foundational care truly means and why so many people feel stuck in the same health struggles year after year. They break down the upcoming launch of The Healthy Place Holistic Clinic, explain how functional medicine evaluates root causes, and reveal what really happens during the clinic’s 45-minute comprehensive intake. From personalized battle plans to integrative practitioner collaboration, learn how this new approach empowers you to take control of inflammation, fatigue, micronutrient deficiencies, long-term health goals, and more. Plus, get practical insights on labs, lifestyle sequencing, bio-tracking, and how foundational care complements your primary care team.

Ready to take your health to the next level? The Healthy Place Holistic Clinic is here to help you get to the root of your concerns with data-driven care, expert guidance, and natural solutions. Learn more and book your visit at TheHealthyPlaceClinic.com.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yo yo yo, mister Sean. Well, nice flurry for flurry
lead day out there.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
It's not fun out there from what I've been told.
And just coming in from the cold. Our good buddy,
doctor Bradley Brunner with the Healthy CLA.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yes, sir, Hello, how.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Is it out there? Doctor?

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Oh it's a blowing is it? Yeah, it's good.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
We are nice and comfy right in the comfort of
the studio this morning, and we've got a lot of
great stuff to talk about. Of course. The Healthy Place
Clinic opening up right in the new year. You can
book online though right now. Don't miss this opportunity to
send on over to Thehealthy Placeclinic dot com. You can
learn more and you can also book right online again.
Those appointments start right in the new year, starting January fifth.

(00:46):
Speaking of the Healthy Place, you can learn more about
the Healthy Place online finds your Healthy Place dot com.
Great day to get on in Westside Fitchburger Sun Prairie
location of the Healthy Place. Don't forget today's Wednesday. That
means Tim will be hanging out at the fit.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
And doctor Bradley and yeah and timmy boy.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Boy want to stop by to stop in myself between
ten and five and of course Wells consultants standing by
at all the locations as well as online. And uh
and I know today is Wednesday, Tomorrow is Turkey Day,
and then there's a Friday, and Friday is called Black Friday,
and it's a it's always a good good reminder to

(01:27):
get out shop local. And uh and I know you guys,
Tim have some great stuff going on at the Healthy Place.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yeah, so today we have some pre Black Friday discounts
going on, So it's a good time for those who
cannot make it Friday or Saturday. And if you're in
town Friday, Saturday or out of town, you can shop
on our website find your Healthy Place dot com or
pop in one of our stores. We'll be having our
deepest discounts of the year, so deep I can't even

(01:54):
talk about it. I get in trouble with the tea.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
You gotta get in store, keep on all your stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
You know, we do a sales show on every few months,
so if people get you know, two or three month
supplies when we do it, you can hop from sale
to sale, so or get a whole year supply.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Bob. That's what I do.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yes, that's and that's and that's it. You know, you
talk about these these great events that you guys do
at the Healthy Place every couple of months, really big,
really big opportunities, and it reinforces the importance of if
you're on Facebook and social media, make sure you're following
the Healthy Place on those platforms. They've also got a
fantastic YouTube channel as well. I can always stay in

(02:29):
touch with the Healthy Place, or even better, just always
stop on it.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Each stage a step in you know, supplements I'm super
pumped about obviously fifteen years. What I want to remind
people this Thanksgiving is that their foundational care, their foundational health,
is what deteriorates over the decades and what leads to
all these inflammation diseases, these four horsemen, you know, cancer,

(02:53):
cardiovaster disease, dementia, diabetes. This is sort of like what's
gripping all of our loved ones as they get into
their seventy the eighties, and there they're inflammation diseases, which
means there's a lot with epigenetics that can be done
earlier in life. And so that's kind of my my
passion point for the show today and for Thanksgiving in general,

(03:13):
is like your health it's a it's a gift, you know,
and it's something that you can lose and that's something
that you have to fight for. So the Healthy Place
Clinic dot Com, you can book an appointment now. And
what I'm telling the community is if not the clinic
that we're making, then then find another foundational care clinic.
You know, Sean and doctor Bradley, we like to talk
about that we're not replacing primary care.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
You know, we're not.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
We have some of the best mds, nurse practitioners in
the world here in Madison. You know, we're not replacing
acute care that you know, emergency room, I High five,
I know all them all by name because I'm in
there with one of my five kids every other week.
It feels like we're foundational care. So that's getting to
the root causes. It's data driven based on your personalized

(03:56):
patient driven experience. You know, you're the best EO in
the room when it comes to your own health. You're
the best doctor in the room when it comes to
your own health. So I'm really challenging people to make
an appointment takes five minutes the Healthy Place Clinic dot Com.
The intake will cost you two hundred bucks, so it's
not that high, you know, Becky and I worked hard
to get that barrier of entry in because what you

(04:19):
get for that two hundred dollars forty five minute intake
at the Healthy Place Clinic is a battle plan based
on your history, like your genetics, YOURNA DNA, your ambitions
for the future, your you know, when I'm a grandparent,
I want to be able to do this. It's patient driven.
It's all about you and this getting support around you.
So I would challenge you. Book an appointment takes five

(04:40):
minutes the Healthy Place Clinic dot com if you have
questions on it. Doctor Bradley and I will be at
the Fitchburg store today ten to five. Like there's so
many people Sean that I talked to and it's Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
I love it, and it's.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
Difficult for me because all these customers that I've known
for fifteen years since opening in Fitchburg in twenty ten,
see them battling the same issues and the Healthy Place
helped him.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
In this way and that way. But I talked to
a person last Wednesday.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
I was so upset because he's in the same spot
really that he was ten years ago, and we minimize
some of his pain and his gut issues, and he
has headaches that we've been able to see some ground on,
so you get excited about that, but he's still suffering
from the same damn thing, you know, and so it
starts to get Discouraging is one word, but inspiring is another,

(05:30):
because when you're discouraged, you can look at the larger
situation and be inspired because you can usually do something
about it. So that's where Becky and I were just obligated.
So I'm in to hand the mic over to doctor Bradley.
Can you explain quick, you know, in a couple of minutes,
like what that experience would look like if I'm, you know,
going to go to the Healthyplaceclinic dot com and book
an appointment, Like, what does it look like from there?

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah? I think the real magic starts before the appointment
as well, because we're going to send over a comprehensive
into before that visit, and then when you do come
to the visit, bring recent labs, imaging, whatever record you
got for us to review. That's super helpful before we
make a game plan and start to hear your story

(06:14):
and the goals for your health journey going forward.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Hey, we're talking this morning with doctor Bradley Brunner and
Tim O'Brien from the Healthy Place. Of course, the Healthy
Place Clinic opening in the new year January first, So
you're gonna want to make your appointment or a fifth
excuse me, you want to make your appointment right now,
just hoad on over to the Healthy Placeclinic dot com.
You can learn more online. You can book an appointment
right online as well. That intake only two hundred dollars.

(06:38):
That is absolutely phenomenal. That is a great, great opportunity
for you do that today. Of course, you've got family
and friends over talk to them as well about the
Healthy Place and the Healthy Place Clinic. Get those appointments booked. Well,
you're going to continue our conversation with doctor Bradley and Tim.
We'll talk about foundational health and of course the great
things that go on at both the Healthy Place and
the Healthy Place Clinic. We'll get those details next as

(06:58):
ask the experts with the Healthy Place and use right
here on thirteen ten WUIBI eight forty five thirteen ten
wi b A and ask the experts. Hanging out with
doctor Bradley and Tim O'Brien. Of course, they come to
us from the Healthy Place and the Healthy Place Clinic
online find your Healthy Place dot com and of course
the Healthy Place Clinic, the Healthy Placeclinic dot Com. Very

(07:19):
easy to remember, very important to get on over there
learn more about the Healthy Place Clinic. The clinic will
be up and running right in the new year, but
you can book your appointment right now online. Again, that's
Thehealthyplaceclinic dot com, Thehealthyplaceclinic dot com. And doctor Bradley as
we talk a little bit about that intake and that
initial appointment to kind of walk through how that all works,
what's kind of the gist of that initial appointment.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yeah, I call it the ABCS of functional medicine evaluation,
and the A stands for the anthropometrics or vital signs.
So you might hop on a bioimpedance analysis and that'll
tell us some good things about fat mass or scal
muscle mass. We'll also check blood pressure and then the
BEE is the biomarkers are functional labs. So if you

(08:06):
have you know, a CBC with differential or lipids or
micronutrient panels, bring that we'll be able to evaluate that.
The SEA would be for the clinical findings and especially
a nutrition exam, and it's pretty cool what I can
really see from your hair or scalp or mouth or teeth,
skin nails, all those tell me a lot of things
of your micro nutrient status that we can help plug

(08:28):
and play with that. And then lastly is the diet
and lifestyle assessment, so we'll see what does a food
journal look like for the past week, and we can
start to organize the evaluation and prescribe a lifestyle plan
going forward.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
That is really interesting stuff as we talk this morning.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
That's my favorite part too, by the way, is that, Yeah,
I call it a battle plan, doctor Bradley.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
It's like you get a battle plan.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
And if I've observed, you know, I was bringing up Vicki,
you know in the last segment of the call where
it's just like ten years ago, insomnia was real and
it was a conversation and we battle plan, you know,
we like worked really hard in the supplement space to
help her, and we did and it's cool, but she's
still struggling with insomnia. And that's an example where Vicky's

(09:11):
you know, she has an appointment and she's going to
be seeing you, and you'll dig deep and and she'll
walk away with a battle plan that's that's you know,
might include IV's depending my nutritive. IV's might include some
lab work to kind of see what's going on at
the route. I might include, uh, hey, let's do these
couple of things and then follow up in three months.

(09:31):
And so then you get this battle plan and this clarity.
And so that's the piece that people have been missing.
Uh they you know, I was talking to another lady
last Wednesday when I was in the store and and
and she has you know, two kids, and they both
have some health challenges, and she has a health challenge.
And that's another example where for years, you know, we've
been digging into their stories helping you know. She she

(09:54):
was sharing some testimony of how our team has helped her,
and I was like giving her high five. But but
she's still like, I don't know what to do next
because it's just so much.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
You know, we're busy.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
And so then you got kids, you got significant other,
you got your own health, and so then we do
the shotgun approach.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
We're like, oh, I heard red light's good.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
So when you buy the red light and you're like
put your arm on it, you know, and you're like, Okay,
is this right?

Speaker 1 (10:14):
So the battle plan.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
Gives that absolute clarity of what to do next, and
I love that.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Let's talk about as we talked this morning with Tim
O'Brien and doctor Bradley Bradley from The Healthy Place and
The Healthy Place Click. Let's talk then about doctor Bradley
about you know, kind of working through that first clinic,
that first meeting and what goes on there and for
folks that are booking an appointment, what should they expect.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
So we want to check the vitals, nutrition, physical exam
and maybe even recommend some fasted labs or body composition scan.
These can all help us identify early patterns for the
next bit of testing. And I would say too to
echo Tim, is that you'll be empowered and supported. So
I always say healing is a journey, and you do

(11:01):
not want to walk this thing alone. So the goal
of the clinic is to really help you leave feeling heard, hopeful,
and motivated, so knowing you have a care team alongside
you every step of the way.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
Yeah, talk about that, Bradley, because you know, we have
some real challenging patients that are already signed up that
we've known for you know, fifteen literally since we started
the business. And so for those people, you go through
that process and there's some challenges. Can you touch on
the like the support side where like you're there for them,
but also like the integrative meetings that we'll have weekly

(11:35):
with all the doctors.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah, I would say, you know, as a you know,
holistic practitioner, it means somebody's bringing a whole list of
problems potentially to the table and we need to sort
that out and prioritize and have the patient in the
center of this collaborative care team so we can all
be able to really get to the root of what's
going on.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
I think that maybe one doctor we get them all.
That's something I've been saying that kind of inspiring to me.
You know, you get you have an appointment with doctor Bradley,
and you get some great wins, but there's this area
that you're kind of stuck in or especially worried about.
So then every Friday, you know, the practitioners sit down
for a couple hours and they work on that case
and they get and it's called integrative medicine. And I
didn't even know that that's what that meant until a

(12:16):
couple of years ago, is it?

Speaker 2 (12:18):
And Tim is it's similar to what you do at
the Healthy Place with your wellness consultant says, well, I
know a big part of what you guys do is
sharing that information.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
Yeah, what works, what gets breakthrough. We call it the
systems meeting every other week because we're meeting together to
be like, Okay, what system of education can we implement
that's going to make us be more valuable to the community.
What system of consistent and strategic education for our community?
Can we actually move the meter when it comes to
their energy or their stress, or their sleep or basically

(12:48):
what they're looking for help for their foundational care as
well as they're functional. You know, some folks want to
be to play tennis again. So that's the focus at
the clinic, you know, or that's the focus at the
Healthy Place. Supplements are part of the circle. Foundational care
is the circle.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
That's what we've been missing as a community.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
We have some of the best mds and nurse practitioners
and nurses, pharmacists, we have incredible chiropractors, acupunctuous supplement stars
the Healthy Place, you know, like, but we don't have
like like we're under service, Like we don't have access
to foundational care to get to the root of the
issues that are taking our loved ones and hurting our lives.

(13:29):
And I talked to a lady Christa that she was
saying that she's so like fatigued. She's in her fifties,
like fatigued, feeling crappy every day, that she wouldn't even
notice if something's going on. I mean, she's too young
for that. So, like the answer is foundational care. So
if not the Healthy Placeclinic dot com book, now, go
do that. If you don't go, do that, like, get

(13:49):
some foundational care somewhere, because what happens is the inflammation
that's going on right now that's connected to your epigenetics.
That's your dog, your activity, the supplements you take or
don't take.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Like, like right.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
Now where you're at, there's like two floodgates that are
open and it's connected to glucose and people are increasingly
opening these two floodgates ones called inflammation and they don't
even know it. And then the other one's browning, which
is oxidative stress, and they don't even know it. You
take a bite out of an apple turns brown, that's browning.
That expedites the deterioration internally and externally. So if you

(14:27):
want to age faster, keep moving those two floodgates open.
And then the inflammation ones, you know, the root of
all degenerative disease, and the four horsemen that I like
to talk about and warn people about, like the Cornal study.
I'll just you know, pass the mic after this, But
the Cornal study in twenty fifteen, we're just changing a
sequence in that you eat like veggies, then proteins, fats,

(14:50):
then sugars, carbs, starches. If you eat in that order,
it immediately reverses type two diabetes, that's what the study revealed,
and work just as well as met Foreman. So the
ten million people in the United States they're taking met
Foreman could immediately quit according to this study and it
would work. The sequence in that what they eat would

(15:11):
work just as well as met Foreman, and they'd start
to lower their sugar levels just by changing the sequences
that they eat. And then this study showed something like
a life expectancy increase of twenty years if you implement
this earlier on or But the point is any point
you implement it is gonna extend your life like just
that point that's and that's a free thing you can do.

(15:31):
Eat the salad first, then the chicken, then the French fries.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Good advice, good guidance as always from Tim O'Brien from
the Health.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
Notice though, Sean, that's why I'm like twenty twenty one's
when we came up with the clinic concept. Yes, and
it took four years to get it going, but people
are just suffering all over this community and it gets
to a point where it's like, Okay, we have to
link arms with those that are passionate about moving the
needle because there's like people are not feeling well and

(16:00):
there's a lot of darkness when it comes to your health,
and we want to come in like a laser, just light,
an explosive light, some sort of explosive light. I got
to figure out a mechanisms light.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Working on that as we talked this morning with Tim
O'Brien and of course doctor Bradley from the Healthy Place
Clinic online the Healthy Placeclinic dot com booking starting now.
The appointment start January fifth. You can head on over
the website to Healthyplaceclinic dot com get more information, book
your appointment as well. There and doctor Bradley, let's talk
about working with and Tim alluded to this as well.

(16:32):
We've got great doctors and others as well here in
Dan County in southern Wisconsin. You work with folks primary
care doctors, and you actually want to share information with
them as well, don't you.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yeah, we want to keep them in the loop. Definitely.
I think that connection is very powerful because yeah, we
are not a primary care you know, clinic, So I
think collaborating together is paramount. So if you have a
broken bone or heart attack going on, you're not coming
to me, you know. So I think that medicine two
point zero is great, and where we can come in
with that medicine three point zero and being as proactive

(17:02):
and preventative and especially looking at micronutrient deficiencies. I think
that again, when we're going to that root cause we
can plug the holes that maybe your nutrition or diet
is just lacking a little bit.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
There should people that as they're making that appointment for
the new year, and of course heading over to the
Healthy placeclinic dot com, Now, should they be contacting their
primary care doctor and getting some records what type of
things would be helpful for that initial appointment. What should
they bring along if they have access to.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
Yeah, if they have any labs or imaging, bring that with.
We'll actually do a records request so we can all
obtain that ourselves too, because we'll want that in our
records so that we are not missing anything.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
Okay, any use for I know all of us have
some type of wearable these days, whether it's a watch,
a ring. I know, even our phones to some degree
track some of our sleep and steps. That type of data,
which I love. That stuff is useful as well, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
Absolutely? I think I want to leverage as much data
as possible, and that way we cannot take things out
of contact of one biomarker. We can track this thing
over days to weeks, to months to even years, and
that is very very powerful.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Sorry was it called data driven?

Speaker 4 (18:09):
I mean just I'm not picking on supplements because I
have a supplement business.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
I love supplements. I sleep with my supplements.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
But like the approach, you know, you have somebody coming
in they're sort of suffering from X y Z, and
so you come around them you ask a bunch of
questions like, okay, what nutrients could help with this? With
supplements inflammation is probably a thing. You know, well, maybe
mitochondria too, so we charge a little. You know, creb
cycle is a big So then you can do so
much of the supplements.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
It's really fun.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
But you don't have their data, their lab, their DNA,
their genetics, all of that which you're going to run.
Our four practitioners when we start in January will be
running with your data. And so that's what changes everything.
And then the other thing that changes everything is that
battle plan. So the data data driven, and then a

(18:58):
battle plan based.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
On your story.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
It's your story, and what that means is it's patient driven.
Like you might sure doctor Bradley might be concerned about
your gut problems, but if you're like, hey, I'm okay,
I don't really want to give up dairy to fix
my gut problems, but can you help, you know, And
then and then you have that battle plan in your
back pocket. So then the other six things that doctor
Bradley recommended have impacted or maybe even changed your life

(19:24):
positively forever. But now in your back pocket you have
this battle plan. So then as the months go by,
the holidays, you know, as you consume dairy and your
problems like increase or whatever. At least you know that
it's dairy, because right now the customers I'm talking to,
they're like, I don't know what it is, you know,
And then I'll be like, well, could be a could
be dairy, could be gluten, could be corned. I mean,
there's a list. And so then to have the data

(19:47):
and to have the plan to take the next steps
for your life. And I just think it's so appropriate.
We didn't plan for this. In fact, it's way later
than we wanted to open the clinic January New Year's Resolution.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Let's go today is the day book right online the
Healthy Placeclinic dot com. That's the Healthy Placeclinic dot com.
Don't forget Black Friday starting off early at the Healthy
Place as well. All the details online finds your Healthy
Place dot com even better, get on and they'd love
to see you with this.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Gown of the year. We love to see our community
pop on by today. Doctor Bradley and I will be there.
Black Friday is going to be killer, It's gonna be fun.
Stop on, Bye bye online.

Speaker 4 (20:22):
Do it back up on your health the clinic the
clinic to clinic to clinic New Year Foundational Care. That's
what you're missing, and you're missing a plan, the plan,
make the appointment.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
The website and right now the Healthy Placeclinic dot com,
The Healthy Placeclinic dot com, Doctor Bradley, Tim, great seeing
both of you guys.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Enjoy this great day.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Thank you Johnny Boy, See you guys.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Vicky mckeach comes your way next year on thirteen ten.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
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