Christian Elliot: The Myth of "Unbalanced Hormones" + 7 Related Misinterpretations of Your Symptoms

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SPEAKER_00 (00:52):
Hello everyone.
Welcome to episode number 59.
I have a whopper of a monologueepisode for you today.
I recently hosted a webinarcalled The Myth of Unbalanced
Hormones.
And judging by the number ofregistrants and people asking
for a replay of the event, Ithink I struck a chord.
It seems the topic of so-calledhormone balance is an issue a

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lot of you are curious about,and it is certainly one of the
darlings of the medicalcommunity.
And there's also a lot ofchatter about how to balance
your hormones in the alternativeand coaching worlds as well.
And what I've found so far isthat no one seems to question
the premise of trying to testhormone levels and externally
balance them.
So given the interest in thetopic, I thought I'd make an

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audio version of that event.
So those of you who don't wantto sit in front of the screen
for this long can still hearwhat I had to say.
If you've been to any of mywebinars, you know I like to
make them visually rich with alot of metaphors to help the
concepts make as much sense aspossible.
So I'll do my best to describewhat was on the screen during
the webinar.
But if you want to watch thereplay of the event, you can

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find that at our website athealingunited.today.
Just look for the resourcessection and you'll find it in
the drop-down.
By the way, we now have all ofmy episodes of this podcast on
the website, as well as thevideo recordings and transcripts
for all the interviews I'vedone.
I'm also happy to say I finallyhave somebody helping me manage
social media so I can focus onwhat I do best, and that is

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coaching and attempting tostretch your thinking.
And so if YouTube doesn't kickus off, you can find us there,
as well as on Odyssey.
And we also have snippets ofthis interview or other
interviews on other platforms.
So you can find links to thosechannels in the footer of our
website at healingunited.today.
As I was preparing for thiswebinar, I got more and more
excited.

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In fact, I don't know if I'veever been more excited to teach
than I was going into thatevent.
I don't know anybody who istalking about hormones the way I
see it.
And I think I'm about to giveyou a feast of clarity and help
you avoid wasting a lot of timeand experiencing a lot of
unpleasant symptoms from all ofthe hormone-balancing nonsense.
So, as some of you know, I'mworking on a new book, and The

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Myth of Unbalanced Hormones willbe one of the topics I cover
there.
So this webinar was kind of achance to stress test some of
the concepts and invite feedbackfrom those hearing it for the
first time.
So, for anyone interested, knowthat I would welcome your
feedback on my work and on thistopic in particular.
I am under no illusion that Iknow everything and I appreciate
it when you all reciprocallywork to respectfully stretch my

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thinking as well.
So, to give you an overview ofwhere we're going in this
episode, I'll start with a fewdisclaimers to frame the
discussion.
I'll also give you someinformation on my background and
review my top three theses forthis conversation.
After that, we'll talkphysiology.
It would be inappropriate totalk about hormones without
setting the table to define whatthey are and how the body uses

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them.
Then I'll spend some timeunpacking what I call the lab
testing trap and especially helpyou see through the ruse of
test, don't guess.
Then I'll do, I'm going to do uhwhat most people never do, and
that is give you real informedconsent regarding hormone
therapy.
I think that section might shockyou.
And after that, I'll step backand show you a simplified way to

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help have your endocrine systemrebalance itself much more
efficiently.
From there, I'll use thefoundation we have laid to show
you seven additional ways themedical system completely
misinterprets your symptoms andhow the narrative constructs of
hormone balancing fits into thestories they spin for us.
So, by the way, the sevencategories, in case you want to

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know what they are, are cancer,autoimmunity, obesity, the
common cold, cholesterol, hotflashes, and so-called erectile
dysfunction.
Lastly, I'll tell you aninspiring story and we'll wrap
up with some philosophicalcomments that will probably
offend some people.
Anyway, as a little bonus forall of you loyal listeners,
since this is a longer formatshow, about 25% of this episode

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is new material I didn't havetime to cover in the webinar.
So here we go with the audioversion of the myth of
unbalanced hormones.
All right, I'm calling it a mythbecause I think the way the
healthcare world talks abouthormones, it's a narrative
construct that's actually notdescribing what's happening.
And I want to teach you how yourhormones work, how your

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endocrine system works, and tellyou what the so-called hormone
experts will not tell you andgive you a window into how to
sanely take back agency of yourhealth.
So a few disclaimers before Iget into the meat here.
Obviously, nothing in thispresentation is personal.
Health advice, I don't know yoursituation.
I'm not making any suggestionsabout what you should do.

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And so if we're going to f ifyou're gonna follow anything I
say, you do so at your own risk.
But here are some otherimportant disclaimers pertinent
to this episode.
Uh, if you're hoping I'm goingto tell you the next thing you
need to swallow to get well, youcan probably skip this episode
because there is so much more togetting well than focusing on
what pills you can swallow.
I've covered some amazing hiddenor forbidden health information

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on various episodes of thisshow, but I will always stand by
the notion that there are nosilver bullets when it comes to
your health.
But if you're interested in howyour body works and how you can
help it heal, stick aroundbecause I'm probably gonna blow
your mind more than a few timesbefore I'm done.
Another important disclaimer isthat my critique in this episode

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is of the system itself.
I'm critiquing a mindset, aparadigm, or a narrative
framework for how the bodyoperates.
And while I'm also doing gonnaI'm gonna challenge some sacred
cows, that doesn't mean I'mthrowing the baby out with the
bathwater.
I am not here to tell you thateverything pharma, everything
hormone, everything lapt test isstupid and you'd be silly to try

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any of that.
That is not what I'm saying.
But I do think by the time I'mdone, you'll agree we don't need
most of it.
So another disclaimer is thatI'm not here to make any
judgments about you or yoursituation.
I have not walked a mile in yourshoes.
I don't know what you're goingthrough, but one thing I will
say as I start to challengeconcepts, especially if you're

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in the healthcare profession orand or you use hormone therapy
as one of your tools, if youfind yourself getting frustrated
with me or even defensive, Iwould just encourage you to get
curious about why.
Ask yourself, what is it I'mactually defending here?
Or am I defending a businessmodel?
Am I defending a revenue stream?
Am I am I defending areputation?

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Or am I just frustrated that Ifell for something, maybe again,
and now I see things moreclearly?
You're allowed to be frustratedwith me, and that's fine.
You wouldn't be the first.
But try to approach this episodefrom humility and curiosity like
I will.
If you want to engage with me,do so on the merits of my
arguments.
Don't just call me names.
Okay, another disclaimer is I'mnot really going to focus in

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this talk on some of the moreextreme hormonal interventions,
things like androgen deprivationtherapy.
But since I brought it up, letme pick on that one for a
second.
So androgen deprivation therapyis another name for wrecking a
man's ability to producetestosterone.
In other words, it istestosterone deprivation, i.e.,
it is an intervention designedto blunt a man's ability to make

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it.
So if they spoke plain Englishand told men that, they'd
probably have a harder timeselling the idea.
So they use words like androgen,which no lay person really
knows, and therapy to make itsound beneficial.
But let's just unpack the termfor a second.
Someone please make it makesense.
Can you take the wordsdeprivation and therapy and put

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them in a sentence next to eachother and have it make sense?
Can think about it for a second.
Can you put anything before thatand sound logical?
Try it for a second.
Oxygen deprivation therapy,sleep deprivation therapy, water
deprivation therapy, parentingdeprivation therapy, deprivation

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therapy, community deprivationtherapy.
No, friends, that's calledsolitary confinement.
That's the way you break ahuman.
It's called trauma.
And the system has the gall tocall deprivation a therapy.
It's one of many medicaloxymorons.
I think it's a lot more accurateto call androgen deprivation
therapy targeted medicalviolence.

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Another funny oxymoron in themedical world is medically
supervised diets, but you'llhave to wait for my book where
I'll tear that one apart.
Okay, so other extremeinterventions that I think are
that are not really focus ofthis episode, but that are
biological trauma that I won'tbe covering are things like
insulin potentiated therapy,which you can apply what I just

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said to that one.
I'm really not going to get intocortisone shots too much, or
ablasions, also known asmutilations or radiating, also
known as burning your glands, orthe practice of removing glands
altogether, which in thatinstance you have an unbalanced
endocrine system because you'remissing one of your parts.
And that does change theconversation we're about to
have.
So in this presentation, I'mgoing to be sticking mostly with

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common ways hormones, likeantibiotics and painkillers, are
handed out like candy whenpeople experience symptoms.
Okay, with those disclaimers outof the way, let me ask you this.
Can you relate to any of thefollowing?
Especially when it comes to thetopic of hormones.
So maybe you've been told thatyou need hormones for some

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reason.
That could be a painful period,hot flashes, erectile
dysfunction, poor sleep, pain,hypothyroid, etc., or you've
been on hormones and you feelbetter for a while, and you then
you realize they don't seem towork so well, and you develop
some other symptoms that youthink might be related, and so
your doctors just keep tinkeringwith the dose and swapping out

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different brands of hormones.
Maybe somewhere on that journeyyou've also noticed that there
are a lot of opinions out therewhen it comes to hormones.
So maybe you went and looked fora second opinion within the
medical world and you foundthere's really a lot of
infighting about whichtreatments are best.
And the so-called hormoneexperts, they just quietly tell
you that the other doctors don'tdo it right and you need to try

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their new way.
But at the end of the day,you're kind of just left to
practice your own integratedmedicine and hope whoever you
pick does a better job managingyour symptoms.
So if you had enough spinsaround the medical
merry-go-round, it may havefinally occurred to you that the
medical world isn't in thehealth business, which may sound
funny to hear, but it is reallyin the symptom management
business.

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And they can't really spare athought to go about the business
of identifying root causes.
In reality, they are in a highlyprofitable sickness management
system that is a conveyor beltof more and more meds, leading
to more extreme intervention.
So if that's you, the secondscenario that you may have
pivoted away is you pivot youpivot away from the medical

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world to the so-calledfunctional or integrative or
alternative world, and youprobably ended up with sticker
shock and a practitioner who hasone main modality, who wants to
run a bunch of expensive tests,and after those tests come back,
the doctor has a suitcase worthof pills for you to swallow.
You're told to swallow all thepills, eat a complicated diet,

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and get back to him or her inthree to six months, and they'll
run another test, at which pointthe alternative Mario go round
continues to spin.
Why?
Because for the most part, theintegrative or functional world
isn't looking for root causeseither.
It's the same model withdifferent pills.
People tend to find me afterthey've been through that phase

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and they feel like they've triedeverything, they've wasted
thousands of dollars.
Some of you have spent a healthyfive figures worth of money on
practitioners and lab tests andsupplements, and it all seems
fancy.
And then you realize it'sbasically the same medical
model, but they swap out medsfor supplements and they call it
functional.
All right, the last scenariothat may be used that maybe
you've learned enough to seethrough both of those first two

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scenarios, but perhaps withlittle to no success, you've
tried a lot of shiny objectsthat are pedaled by the
so-called influencers on socialmedia.
You've probably seen thelong-form ads from Captain
Infomershall, or got caught upin the shamwow effect and had an
emotional hangover from tryinganother silver bullet.
And at this point, it's such atorrent.

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You kind of just feel likeyou're throwing darts in the
dark and you don't really havean idea of what's a gimmick and
what's not, or how to put allthe pieces together.
And if that's you, boy, can Isympathize because I've lived a
lot of this.
It's how I've learned what I'velearned.
And I can say that if health isnot your profession, if
marketing scripts are notsomething you're familiar with,
if you don't know how to seethrough the Shamwow presentation

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or a celebrity infomercialdisguised as a breakthrough, it
is really hard to get above thenoise and find what works
because it all soundsconvincing.
So I say all that to say thatthe topic of hormones is flooded
with similar nonsense.
Every symptom you have canlogically be blamed on hormones
in some way.
And once a marketer can describeyour symptoms better than you,

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they have your attention.
So my theses for thispresentation, I've actually got
three, is first, I'm going tosay that hormones have been
falsely assigned a causal rolein your health conditions, and
they are not a causal factor.
Whatever your hormone profile,it is a response to a causal
factor.
They're not the causethemselves.
They don't just magically becomeunbalanced.

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And similar to the chemicalimbalance marketing slogan
invented by Eli Lilly to sell uspsychiatric medications, hormone
balance is the same thing.
It's another marketing gimmickwith an overly simplified story
designed to sell you a pill or apatch or a cream or even a
pellet inserted into your rearend.
In the medical world, hormonebalancing is an unquestioned

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therapeutic darling, and thesame applies for so many of the
so-called functionalpractitioners or naturopathic
type practitioners as well.
I find this to be a topic thatjust doesn't get much critique
or criticism, just marketingabout who has the best mallets
for playing hormone whack-amole.
And frankly, I think the wholeconstruct is faulty.
So, my second thesis is thatyour hormones are never

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unbalanced.
In fact, I would argue that theyare perfectly balanced for the
situation your body finds itselfin, and given the challenges
it's facing and the resources ithas to work with, your body
knows what it's doing and it'sdoing the best it can.
And third, I would say that itis hubris, that it is shocking,
off the charts, arrogant toattempt to manage or balance

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hormones externally.
And doing so is the path tounwanted side effects and
glandular problems and evenglandular atrophy or glandular
trauma.
And if you want to change thebalance of your hormones, here's

what you do (15:19):
you change your situation.
You do that, and your hormoneswill work much more efficiently.
So there's my thesis.
That's where I'm taking you.
Now let's see if I can back itup.
Okay, a quick introduction forthose of you who have not met
me.
In case this is your firstepisode, my name is Christian
Elliott.
I'm a husband, I'm a father ofsix homeschooled kids.
I've logged about 20,000 hoursof one-on-one coaching since

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2005.
I have been in the trenches fora long time where I get paid for
outcomes, not prescriptions.
So, like I said, a lot of peoplecome to me after they've tried
so many different things, whichI have no formal medical
training.
Um, I see that both as an assetand a limitation.

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So, my critique that what I giveyou today is from outside the
system, which in many ways Ithink helps be me, helps me be
more objective because I reallydon't have a dog in this fight.
I also don't know everything.
I don't know all the insiderlingo that doctors use, but I do
reason from first principles,which I think you'll see as I go
along, makes most of the lingothey use totally irrelevant.

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Okay, another thing to knowabout me that some people find
interesting is that along withvarious health certifications, I
also have a Master's of Divinitydegree from Fuller Theological
Seminary, and I come from aChristian perspective.
There is a minister's heartbehind what we do here.
Uh, I feel like the work I do ismy calling.
I'm the co-owner of HealingUnited, which is a private
membership association where Iget to work with other doctors

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and coaches, and I get tointerview some of them on it on
my podcast and spar with them,and we sharpen each other.
And even though I say meanthings about the medical system,
there are some great doctors outthere that I really respect and
they do tremendous work, and itis an honor to know them.
Okay, here we go.
Let's talk a little bit ofphysiology.
How do hormones work?
Well, if we were why if you werewatching the presentation I did,

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you'd be able to see a pictureof the human body with 10
glands.
Those glands are collectivelyknown as your endocrine system.
The 10 we're talking about areyour pituitary hypothalamus,
pineal gland, or pineal,depending on who taught you how
to say it, thyroid, parathyroid,thymus, adrenals, pancreas, and
ovaries, or testing.

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So that's 10.
But if we're going to becomprehensive, we're talking
about, and when we talk abouthormones, we had we should also
talk about the liver because itmakes hormones and puts them
into the blood.
We should also be talking aboutthe kidneys because they make
important hormones, and we couldalso talk about adipose tissue
or your fat tissue because itmakes hormones that helps the
body know how much it has instorage.

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So that's your endocrine system.
But let's be more specific here.
Let me give you an analogy.
You can think of your body as acity with branches of
government.
There's a mayor, which is yourbrain and your gut.
They are more or less in chargeof what goes on in the rest of
the body.
And the city council is yourendocrine glands that I just
mentioned.
And then you have the publicworks department, which is like

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the systems of the body, yourrespiratory, musculoskeletal,
circulatory, et cetera.
And then you have the cells thatare the citizens of this city.
So you could think of your bodyas the city with trillions of
cells and citizens that haveneeds, and they all contribute
to the whole.
It's magnificent.

So, quick recap (18:28):
there's a mayor, city council, public
works, and citizens.
And so the city council is thefocus of this episode.
The city council is made up ofthe glands, and their job is to
communicate with the rest of thebody to make things happen.
To do that, they use messagescalled hormones.
And you can think of hormoneslike carrier pigeons if you

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want.
The job of a hormone is to takethis message around the body and
make sure the public worksdepartment and the citizens are
aware of what's happening andwhat to do in response to what's
happening.
But it gets more interesting.
The city council, theseregulators, they don't just sit
back and bark orders.
There is three-way communicationgoing on.
They take in information aswell, and they respond to what's

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happening when they communicatewith the citizens about how to
manage your mood and your energyand your sleep and your hunger
and your focus and sleep and sexdrive and a whole lot more.
Your glands are making thesemessages and sending them out
through the blood to help thebody know how to function in
real time all of the time.
Okay, with so with that basicanatomy in hand, here is a

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fundamental principle.
So if you've been halflistening, don't miss this
nugget because it's important.
The fundamental principle isthat everything the body does is
directed toward healing.
I'm going to say that againbecause I want it to sink in.
To build an effective strategyto manage your health, we have
to work from first principles.
So to restate the principle,everything the body does is

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directed toward healing.
From individual cells to largersystem, everything works
together to build health andkeep the whole system nimble and
able to adjust to life.
You could say the body isworking toward homeostasis or
toward functioning optimally allthe time.
But the body has to constantlyadjust to your day in real time.

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And the systems work together toclean and repair you as you go
about your day.
So said differently, there is nomutiny going on ever.
It's not like your thymus glandis like, screw it.
I don't like what you guys aredoing.
I'm tired of this.
This is so unbalanced.
I don't like the way the city isbeing run, and I'm gonna go do
my own thing.

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That does not happen.
The whole system works together,and your glands have these
products, these hormones thatthey make in order to help
orchestrate what your body isdoing.
So, with that in mind, anothermetaphor for your endocrine
system is that of a symphony.
You could think of each gland asrepresenting a different section

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of the orchestra, right?
You've got the horn section andthe drum section and the wind
instruments and so on.
Your different sections, yourdifferent glands, perform
different functions.
And without all of them, themusic starts to sound funny.
But like orchestra members thatare all responding to the
conductor, to the brain and thegut, who are in charge of
monitoring the system, they doeverything they can to keep the

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music beautiful.
The different orchestrasections, the glands, help
regulate your body throughinformation they gather from the
conductor and they play off ofeach other.
They don't just all startplaying whatever music they feel
like or play music out of turn.
That is not how the systemworks.
So the question becomes whatkind of information is the

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conductor taking in?
Let's think about thispractically.
So for starters, you've got thefive senses, right?
If you're looking at somethingfear-inducing, your glands are
going to be told to produce aspecific type of hormones.
Those hormones would bedifferent from what your body
would make if you were lookingat something beautiful or
erotic.
If you smell somethingdelicious, your glands will make
different hormones.

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And if you smell something foul,your glands will also make
something different.
So what else do your glandsrespond to besides senses?
Well, it's not a stretch to saythat the gut and the brain are
taking in real-time informationfrom what you could say is
basically an infinite number ofinputs.
And the glands are also talkingto each other.
But it's way more complicatedthan that.

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You have trillions of cells,right?
Your glands respond to what'sgoing on with the citizens and
how well they're working.
They take in real-timeinformation, and the nutrients
the cells need are relevant towhat the glands are supposed to
do.
So just try to get your headaround this.
There are over a hundreddifferent nutrients and
different combinations thatdifferent types of cells need

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constantly.
There are over 5,000 enzymesyour body works with, and
enzymes are these littlescissors that your body uses to
take one product and turn itinto something else.
You also have 100-plusneurotransmitters, which are
chemical messages your nervesends between each other at
lightning speed to make thingshappen.
Your glands play music inresponse to those inputs.

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Your liver, by the way, has over500 functions, and I admit I
can't name all of them, butthat's a lot of functions.
The gut and the brain alsocoordinate with the 14 different
systems in the body,respiratory, musculoskeletal,
etc.
Oh, and by the way, there's thisthing called your microbiome.
So if it wasn't complex enough,take the complexity I just gave

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you and multiply it by 10.
Or you might as well multiply itby infinity.
For every cell you have, youhave roughly 10 microbes that
inhabit you.
And these microbes have theirown needs and agendas.
So your brain and yourmicrobiome, largely based in
your gut, monitor what is goingon in your body and they
communicate at lightning speedto your glands, who in turn

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communicate and eat with equallyimpressive speed to the various
cells in your body.
It's amazing, right?
Your glands are part of amasterful orchestra that helps
conduct the symphony of life.
Okay.
Let me give you a few examplesof and to add some context here
of hormones you you probablyhave heard of, but they'll lead
to the point I'm making here.

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So collectively, your glandsmake and distribute about 50
hormones.
That's roughly five differenthormones per gland.
Some people argue there's up to200 different hormones that our
bodies use to help regulate us,but whatever the number is, it's
a lot.
So we're gonna get to the ideaof externally balancing this in
a second, but let's just circleback to the point I made

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earlier.
Your hormones are a response tothe situation your body finds
itself in.
So, for example, there are twohormones called insulin and
glucagon.
You probably know these thattheir job is to regulate your
blood sugar.
So the pancreas makes uh insulinin response to too much sugar,
and it makes glucagon if thesugar gets too low.
There's cortisol or cortisone,and those are the hormones your

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adrenal glands make to help yourbody regulate your stress
response.
Do you need more energy?
Are you in danger?
Do you need to run away?
The adrenal glands help withthat.
Uh, your hunger hormones areghrelin and leptin.
They are like there, you'relike, okay, I'm hungry, please
feed me, or we're good.
I'm full.
You can stop eating.

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Thank you.
That's what those hormones do.
Then there's aldosterone, that'sa hormone that your body makes
to help regulate how much saltyour body retains and how much
to get rid of.
There's calcitonin, yourparathyroid, uses that hormone
to make sure your bones know howmuch calcium to take up and what
they don't need.
There are your thyroid hormones.

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They control how quickly yourcells run your engine.
And if you're low on resources,they will turn down the speed
with which your engine runs, orthey can turn up the metabolism
in response to a differentscenario.
So, side note on the thyroidhere, I've only ever heard of
one doctor who talked about T1and T2.
Most doctors seem to fixate onthe T3 and T4, as if the other

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two hormones are not relevant.
I'm not sure why they do that,but if you wanted a complete
picture, why would you not talkabout so that's some physiology
geek out part of what yourglands and hormones are doing?
But what is the takeaway?
Why did I bother to lay all ofthat out for you?
Well, there's not going to be aquiz later.
My hope is that you go, wow,that's a lot.

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That is an infinitely complexsystem.
The point is, there are a lot ofdifferent hormones, and I've
just scratched the surface ofsome of the ones you probably
have heard about.
But here's the weird part.
As I just laid out, yourhormones are responding to your
body's situation, but they getblamed for your symptoms.

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And so here are some of thethings your hormones get blamed

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hot flashes, poor sleep, painful periods, high blood
pressure, mood swings, lowenergy, low or no libido,
diabetes, inflammation, pain, orthat fun marketing gimmick I
mentioned before, erectiledysfunction.
So those are things that yourhormones get blamed for when
it's actually their job torespond to and regulate what's
going on inside.

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So here's the thing about blameit's a narrative construct.
There's a villain and there's avictim, and your hormones are to
blame, and you are the victim,you poor soul.
You are the victim of these rudevillains with these mean things
called hormones that aren'tdoing their job properly.
And so now we have avillain-victim narrative.

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Ha ha! We've found the cause,and therefore we've got to do
something.
We need to intervene chemically.
So allopathy, which is a fancyword for the medical system, and
most of healthcare, like anyother effective marketing
construct, it relies on thatblame-shifting narrative for you
to buy into the idea that yourhormones are not, quote,

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balanced.
And so to keep the story going,most of healthcare has to rely
on obfuscation and fear.
They rely on you not quiteunderstanding what they're
talking about.
So they use fancier terms likeaxis.
You've got your HPA axis, youknow, your hypothalamus
pituitary adrenal axis.
You know, it's it's complicated.
But I'm the doctor and I just Iknow what to do.
You've got dominance, there'sinsufficiency or dysfunction.

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Pause that for a second andponder the idea, the emotional
reverberation of labeling aperson's body as insufficient or
dysfunctional.
Think about that.
Okay, so the system will alsouse terms like unbalanced or
adrenal fatigue or exhaustion.
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
I'm glad to know I'm exhausted.

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I already knew that.
But at least now I know I canblame my adrenal glands because
they're the ones that areexhausted and they're not making
enough hormones, and I can blamemy hormones for not helping me
get through my day and cope withlife.
That's the real villain here.
That's the story, the narrative.
Now, in fairness, there is aplace for simplification or

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simplifying narratives.
But I want to help you tellaccurate stories when it comes
to your body.
So before I get to some of theelegant practical simplicity,
let's shift to a differentstory.
And this story might sound likeyour story.
What is the typical response,the typical story that unfolds
when you present symptoms to adoctor?

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Well, let's run some tests andsee what's going on.
Right?
That's not an illogical thing todo, but it's what we've been
conditioned to expect.
I would say we have been trainedlike dogs to expect that.
It is Pavlovian at this point.
If you experience a symptom,quickly go find a doctor and
then sit in the waiting room foran hour.
And then whatever you do, expectthe doctor to come in and tell

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you that you're likely going toneed to go somewhere else and
get a test.
And after the test, don't doanything.
Oh my goodness, wait for acouple of weeks or however long
it takes for the test results tocome in.
Otherwise, you might dosomething, you might even heal.
If you heal, then we that wouldmess up the test results and we
would have to do it again.
So wait for the tests and thenexpect some pills to swallow.

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Friends, that's that's reallythe whole show.
Go to doctor, expect testing,wait for test results, expect
pills to swallow.
We've just been conditioned thatwhen we have a symptom, I go
find doctor, because otherwise,how would I know what to do?
We've outsourced thinking, we'veoutsourced intuition, and the
system is happy to take thataway from us so we can blindly
follow.

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So let's recap for a second whattesting is really all about.
Well, tests, for the most part,they're a way to sound
scientific.
They're cloaked in this luminousgarment of science and
specialized knowledge.
They are a mostly chemistrycentric.
So most tests stay in theconfines of the periodic table
to try to make your healthpuzzle a chemistry equation.

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They're a chemistry centricrevenue stream, which I don't
have a problem with peoplemaking money helping, great, but
at least tell us that, right?
And lastly, tests are designedto sell you something else.
You don't get a test in Thedoctor says, okay, perfect.
I hope you feel better.
Right.
Right?
The test is just the waypoint tothe next intervention, which
sometimes is another test andanother test.

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And then finally you get to dosomething.
And most of the do something isswallow pills.
Do you see it?
So here's the important point.
Tests tend to trap us intothinking, like, you can't figure
this out.
Test results are usually full ofinsider lingo.
Instead of the English words foryour symptoms, they use Greek
and Latin, which I can onlyassume is because it sounds
fancier.

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Multiple sclerosis means manyscars or many hard scars.
Athlorosclerosis means arteryscars or hard scars in your
arteries.
Osteoporosis means bones porousor porous bones.
Arthritis means jointinflammation.
Lupus means wolf.
That's a helpful one for that.
It's the wolf-looking rash youget on, some people get on their

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face, et cetera, et cetera, etcetera.
We give the system the power ofnaming us and naming our
symptoms.
And because they switchlanguages when they do that, we
think they've discovered what'swrong.
No, all they've really done isname your symptom in a different
language.
Why you're having that symptomwasn't part of the test.

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Tests obfuscate.
They give it, they give youcharts and graphs and numbers
and Greek and Latin and abstractmolecular explanations to
separate you from yourintuition.
In other words, tests inparticular and the system in
general disempowers.
I don't know how to read Greekand Latin.
I don't know what these chartsand graphs mean.
There's so many pages here andso many terms and numbers.

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I just need an expert tointerpret these things for me.
I need an oracle to just knowwhat to do.
Friends, that is not a bug ofthe system of so-called
healthcare.
That is a design feature.
That is what the model issupposed to do when it was set
up by monopolists back in 1910.
It may sound crazy to some ofyou to hear this, but I would go

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so far as to argue that themedical system more closely
resembles a religion, a beliefsystem, or dare I say, a cult,
than it does an honestscientific business.
If you heard episode two of myshow, then you know the word
pharmacia, which is where we getthe word pharmaceutical or
pharmacy.
Pharmacia literally meanswitchcraft or sorcery.

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The two sacraments of thehealthcare are, or healthcare
religion, are typically testsand pills or potions.
And if you stick around longenough, you can graduate to the
sacrament of surgery or knives.
Now, again, hear me.
I'm not critiquing the system,not individual doctors.
I'm not throwing the baby outwith the bathwater.
But once you see the healthcarereligion through that lens, it's

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hard not to see the similarity.
The system uses fear andobfuscation and oracles and high
priests and sacraments andoracles with access to
specialized knowledge.
And they want your unquestionedobedience.
If you've ever tried to questiona doctor and found them to be
defensive or dismissive orarrogant, you've experienced

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what I'm talking about.
So let's talk about this testingsacrament for a few minutes
because it's an important partof how they take away your
agency and get your consent.
And there's this fun, I call itthis cheeky, arrogant bluff out
there.
It's great marketing, it almostrhymes.
You may have heard of it.
It's called test don't guess.

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Now, it sounds logical.
I mean, who wants to guess whenyou could know, right?
Who wants to throw darts in thedark when it comes to being
healthy?
Nobody.
But let me back up, and before Iexplain why test don't guess is
a bluff, let me ask you this.
Imagine for a second, what woulda doctor visit look like if
there weren't any tests and youweren't offered any pills?

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I think a lot of doctors wouldgo out of business.
They'd have to start doing whatI do.
Without tests and pills, they'dbe lost.
They wouldn't know what to do.
They too are fallible people andthey are far from independent
thinkers.
They rely on printouts andso-called standard of care, if X
prescribe Y.
And without someone telling themwhat to do, they don't know how

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to doctor.
Now, in fairness to them, that'swhat they were taught in school.
And we've taught them that atest and pills is what we expect
when we go to the doctor.
And that comes back to thisunquestioned reverence we have
for the construct of sciencethat I don't have time to get
into here today.
But the point is, no one wantsto go to a doctor and walk away

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with nothing, but about the onlything they can hand you is a
pill, a chemical potion, afterthey give you a test.
That's what 90% of doctor visitsI just described with that right
there.
But let's get back to the biggerpoint.
Tests don't guess, whilelogical, is a false binary.
Friends, there's a third option.
It's not take a test and haveabsolute clarity, or take wild

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stabs in the dark and hope forthe best.
There's the third option.
Are you ready?
This is gonna blow your mindhere.
I'm going to take you back tothe old school days of the
family doctor before Lab Coreand Quest diagnostics started
doing most of a doctor'sthinking for him or her.
Here's the third option.
Are you ready?
How are you?

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How are you doing?
Seriously, that's that's that'sa sincere question.
How have you been?
Oh, you mean it's just like it'sjust just me and you talking?
You really want to know?
Yes.
Oh, okay.
Well, thanks for asking.
Um, to be honest, I'm a littleanxious.
I feel like I've got some heartpalpitations.
Um my other doctor tells me myblood pressure is high.

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Um, I'm really frustrated Ican't lose this weight.
I've um I've got some what iswords I sometimes lose there.
I've got this um brain fog.
That's it.
Sometimes I lose my train ofthought.
Um my digestion is gurgly.
This reflux is killing me,especially when I try to sleep.
I've got a recurring infectionand I don't want any more
antibiotics.

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I take them and I I feel betterfor a few days and then I feel
worse.
Or I guess while I'm at it, myback hurts and it kind of makes
it hard to sleep.
I mean that's probably why Ihave reflux, and anyway.
I just am irritable because I'mnot sleeping as well.
So I mean, if I can be honest, Ijust feel like I'm letting my
family down.
Wow, that sounds like a lot.
But here's the point you weren'tguessing.

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You do know how you feel.
Well, well, shoot, thank you forthat information.
I so I have a few more questionsfor you.
Let's let's just start with someof the big whoppers so we can
rule out anything obvious thatmight be causing your symptoms.
So, do you have any root canalsor metal fillings?
Okay, do you have any implantsin your body of any kind,

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especially breast implants?
Got it.
Okay, do you have any swirlinganxiousness?
Do you have any traumas or abusein your past?
Okay, a tender topic here.
But do you have any bitternessor grudges or unforgiveness?
Do you have any sort ofinadequacy or unworthiness
thoughts running through yourhead often?

unknown (37:51):
No.

SPEAKER_00 (37:51):
Okay, are you on any medications?
Those can be a big monkey wrenchin your physiology.
And you know, it says here yourdoctor's trying to balance your
hormones and they have you on astatin, which actually messes up
your ability, body's ability toproduce hormones.
Anyway, did you did you take anyof the um you know the safe and
effective vaccines that came outlately?
That maybe that's part of what'sgoing on.

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Okay, so those are the big heavyhitters, but you know, if you
don't mind, let me go one layerdeeper and see if I can figure
out what's going on.
Uh, how many times have youpooped today?

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Okay.
Uh how many times have youpooped in the last week?
For context, if if you're notaveraging about two bowel
movements a day, you know, we'vegot a lot more of an issue here.
I already know what to do.
So if you you're like, you know,I can't remember the last time I
pooped, or you've got like, Idon't know, five, six, sometimes
ten times a day, I already knowwhat to do.

(39:24):
Great.
So we've got an important placeto start.
So let me let me probe a littlebit more.
So it's getting easier thelonger we talk.
What time did you go to bed lastnight?
Is that a normal bedtime?
Okay, what is it that keeps youup that late?
Okay, how much water have youhad today?
Are you drinking tap water?

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What have you been eating?
When was the last time you howmuch by the way, how much fat
are you eating?
What kind of fat is it?
How much salt is in your diet?
How much screen time are yougetting in an average day?
Have you gone for a walk orworked out much lately?

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Do you enjoy your work?
Does it fill you with a sense ofpurpose?
Okay, this is maybe this soundsfunny, but when was the last
time you had a hug?
By the way, when I did thatlive, I stopped the presentation
and I asked those attending ifanyone had ever had an
experience like that at thedoctor, and it was cricket.

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Not one person raised theirhand.
Everyone shook their head no.
Do you see the point?
What I just did was notguessing.
Compare what I did, that thirdoption, to whatever your last
experience was at the doctor'soffice.
Have you ever had an experiencelike that?
And how long did that take me?
Five minutes?

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I would wager that a commonsense guess is likely way more
actionable than whatever a labtest is going to tell you.
And an educated guess, like whatsome of the questions I just
asked you, could prove way morehelpful at helping you figure
out how to feel better quickly.
Getting well isn't somethingthat only happens on the other

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side of a lab test.
Most of our health isn'tmysterious, or at least it isn't
mysterious for those of us whostudy it.
But there's so much actionableinformation we can leverage in
an honest conversation and inhonest moments with yourself.
Healing is not mysterious.
But the system has told you thatit's fancy, it's Greek, it's

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Latin, it's A1C, it'striglycerides, it's TSH, it's
T3, it's T4, it's estradiol,it's cholesterol, it's PSH or
PSA, it's it's MTHFR, it's it'scomplicated.
It's, oh my gosh, how am I goingto know what to do if I don't
have a person and a printout?
Friends, that's why tests don'tguess is disempowering.
Now, in fairness, we have tohave simple answers.

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If we overcomplicate healing,people give up.
Bedding Weld can't bemysterious, or it disempowers
people.
We don't need overly simplifiednonsense answers like your
hormones aren't balanced.
We need foundationally sound,accurately aimed simplicity.
So stay tuned.
I'll get to that in just alittle bit.

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So again, I'm not here to takeaway your tests, but if you but
I do want you to have arealistic sense of what tests
can or can't do for you.
And I would argue that testsdon't guess is equal parts
arrogant bluff, and it's anemotional trap.
So we tend to give testing, forwhatever reason, the emotional
weight as if it accounted forall of the factors

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synergistically influencing ourhealth, your mental, emotional,
relational, physical, andspiritual.
So let me say this differently.
See if you can relate to this.
Imagine you just did somethingmeaningful and you have a whole
bunch of people saying reallynice things about you.
But there's this one person whosays something mean.
And that's all you can thinkabout.

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This is what this onemean-spirited person said.
And what's what's happeninghere?
Well, in other words, you justlost context.
You got 99% praise and 1%criticism, and it's the critics
whose comments stick out in yourmind.
My experience with clients isthat our fixation on testing is
similar.
We fixate on that one data pointwhere the test says something

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was supposedly a little off.
There's that is the trap.
You get stuck in this emotionalloop thinking that the test is
unveiling some sort of mystery.
And since the system doesn'tbother asking the question why
something is happening, thatambiguity induces even more
anxiety because you don't knowwhere the so-called problem is
coming from.
Or you don't know the insiderlingo or even what the test

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means.
Does that make sense now?
That's why tests can be sodisempowering, even when you
have an oracle present to readthe results.
So, by the way, if you'resomeone who really appreciates
tests, you could go on toownyourlabs.com right now and
order dozens of tests and spendthousands of dollars and get all
sorts of potentially fascinatingand potentially useless

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information about what was goingon in your blood or your hair or
your spit or your stool at themoment of the test.
But let me say this payattention in the months and
years ahead.
The healthcare cartel, I meanthe healthcare industry knows
that so-called precision testingis all the rage, especially
genetic testing.
I think the whole thing is aruse, but that's a topic that

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would deserve its own episode.
My point here is simply thattesting as a revenue stream is
big business and it's growing.
There will be a push for so manymore tests in the days ahead.
And the new test will promise tosolve the mystery that the last
test couldn't solve.
And so you've been preemptivelymade aware.
Brace yourself for more and moredoctors and influencers pedaling
a lot of shiny new tests.

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So, in a couple minutes, I'llgive you four key questions you
can ask before you agree toanother test.
So those four questions willprobably save you a lot of money
and spare you a lot of needlessphysical and emotional
headaches.
But before I do that, since weare talking about the myths of
hormones or hormones that areunbalanced, let me give you one

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last analogy here about testingand relate it to hormones
specifically.
So I call this the footballcoach hormone testing analogy.
I don't have a better name forit, but you're welcome to
suggest one.
So this imagine you are afootball coach or you could
soccer coach would work too, andyour team didn't play that well
in the last game, and you'retrying to figure out how to help

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your team play better, but allyou have to work with is a
photograph from the sidelines ofone moment of the game.
So you have no idea what part ofthe game you're looking at, you
don't know what play your teamis running, you don't know how
tired your players might be, howmany timeouts are left, and
there are no fans in the standsto jog your memory about any of

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that.
In other words, you have nocontext for the photo.
So here's the analogy in caseyou're not tracking with me.
The 11 players on your teamrepresent your 11 hormones.
Now, to do the analogy justice,you'd need 50 players on the
field at once, but let's notovercomplicate it.
So the photograph representsyour standard blood test, which
is a snapshot, a moment in time.
And the blood test also happensto be examining the cleanest

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parts of your body.
So all you have is a photograph,and it's a busy photo with 22
players on the field, 11 fromyour team and 11 from the other.
And it's kind of hard to figureout what's going on.
So to simplify the test for you,the photographer scrubbed the
other team's players out of thephotos.
Now you can't see what yourplayers are responding to, but
you can see all 11 of yourplayers' 11 hormones.

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But you know what?
That photo is still toocomplicated.
So the photographer took sevenof your players out of the photo
as well.
So now you're just left withfive of them, five hormones, to
see if you can figure out what'sgoing on in the game and how to
make your team play better.
So you've got this photo and youkind of tilt your head and you
fixate on one or two players,and you see the freeze frame and

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you go, oh, there it is.
Those two guys are not balanced.
I mean, why would the heck wouldthey be doing that?
We have to get those two guysrebalanced so we can play better
next week.
Do you see the point?
You have no context for thatjudgment.
You don't have any idea whatyour players are responding to.
Did they just get shoved?
Did they pull a muscle?
Are they gassed and out ofbreath?

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And remember, my analogy onlyhad 11 players on the field.
You have over 50 hormones thatare responding to something in
real time all the time.
Does it make sense that yourdoctor could cherry pick a few
hormones out of 50 and know howto rebalance a system with
external hormones back to theway they should be based on a
photograph?
You've lost me.

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That's hubris.
And perhaps I'm displaying myown ignorance here, but maybe
there is such a test that has 50hormones tested at the same time
and watches them in real time,but I've never heard of it, nor
had any of the people at thewebinar who have ever had their
hormones tested.
So I'll ask you guys have youever had 50 hormones tested at
once?

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My guess is no.
But here's the point or thepayoff of what I'm laying out
for you.
The idea of unbalanced hormonesis a narrative construct brought
to you by pharma and the drugrepresentatives that went
through the indoctrinationsystem called medical school.
Medical doctors are trained inthe paradigm of a pill for every
ill, a pill to mask anysymptoms.

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But here's the important pointintervening in the human body
with external hormones createsan imbalance.
It doesn't correct one.
Now, I'll readily admit thattaking a hormone can make you
feel better, sometimes a lotbetter.
But then again, so can heroin ora painkiller or an antacid.
But do those things correct aproblem or mask one?

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I'm sure you know the answer tothat by now.
Friends, the idea of correctinga hormone imbalance in your
blood is the same flawed logicas correcting a chemical
imbalance in your brain.
Both are marketing constructs.
You cannot intervene in aninfinitely complex system and
balance it externally.
That is God-level, infinitelycomplicated math.

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No human could ever computethat, nor could they do any
better than the real-timehormonal adjustments your body
makes moment by moment.
What hormones therapy does islead to a whole series of risks
and side effects that I'll goover in just a few minutes so
you can get real informedconsent.
But before I leave the testingtopic, let me give you four

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questions you can use as afilter to see if you still want
the lab test next time it'soffered.
So the first question is foryou, and the other three are for
your doctor.
So the first question is what doyou hope the test will tell you?
It's a sincere question.
So what it probably won't tellyou is to revisit your lifestyle

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choices or forgive that personor let go of that grudge.
It probably won't prescribe thatyou get exercise or go to bed on
time.
You may be surprised to hearthis, but I found it's easier to
get people to swallow a pillthan it is to get them to
exercise or go to bed on time.
Not that any of you listening tothis are guilty of that.
It's just a problem other peoplehave.

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But sincerely, what do you hopethe test will tell you that you
don't already know?
And maybe there's a good answer.
It may prove insightful on somelevel.
So I'm not saying that you're anidiot for getting a test.
I'm encouraging you to see ifyou're using a test as a way to
avoid or delay doing somethingyou already know you need to do.
Okay, so the next question isthe first one for your doctor,

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and it's this.
So, how accurate is the testyou're proposing, doctor?
It's it's not uncommon forpeople to experience the, hey,
good news, your test came backnormal.
And maybe some of you arelistening have had that happen,
and you're like, great, except Idon't feel normal, but I'm glad
to know the test is normal.

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Guess what happens in thatscenario?
Congratulations, you can haveanother test.
Sometimes this approach justkeeps going and you're running
tests until the doctors findsomething they can justify
treating and billing yourinsurance for.
But here's the kicker.
Tests can also have falsepositives and false negatives.
See mammograms as a greatexample.
If you didn't hear my interviewwith Dr.
Kelly Reese about mammograms,you might check out episode

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number 39.
For what it's worth, my wife anddaughter will never get a
mammogram because, first, do noharm.
Uh, parasite testing is anothergreat example of false
negatives.
I had classic symptoms of aparasite infection myself, so I
had two stool tests done.
Both times they came backnegative.
Yet after finally figuring outhow to cleanse parasites, it
turns out I had so many wormsand the tests just couldn't find

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them.
So if you want to hear moreabout parasites, you can check
out my interview with KimRogers, which is episode number
47.
Another great example I have isa friend uh Robin Openshaw, who
had three food sensitivity testsin a short amount of time.
All three of them came back withcompletely different foods she
was supposedly sensitive to andneeded to stay away from.
So the point I'm making israrely do we question whether

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the test is even worth itsweight.
How insightful is it, really?
Or would it just be a waste ofresources and a source of
anxiousness?
So that's your first questionfor the doctor.
How accurate is the test you'reproposing?
And just see what kind of answeryour doctor has.
Uh the next question, the thirdone, or second for the doctor,

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is okay, doc, regardless of whatthe test tells me, what kind of
recommendations would youpropose based on the results of
the test?
So here's the first thing theywon't tell you.
Well, the first option is wecould do nothing.
We call that service monitoring.
Essentially, we just don't doanything except let more time go
by and we bring you back in foranother test.

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It's part of our recurringrevenue model.
You know, it's you'll be oldereach time we test.
So eventually there'll besomething we can, some sort of
symptom you have, something wecan treat, and then we can make
some money off you.
That's not what they're going totell you.
But what's actually happening isyou'll they'll they'll give you
a, well, you know, depending onwhat the test says, we could
give you this hormone.
Maybe your hormones areunbalanced if that, and if that

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doesn't work, or if your bodydoesn't like that pill, we could
give you a different version ofpretty much the same thing from
another company.
Or, you know, if you happen tobe uh talking to a functional
medicine doctor, they willlikely tell you that, well,
after all the tests come back,we can give you a boatload of
supplements.
You know, you can swallow awhole bunch of pills that are
mostly the same pills,regardless of what the test
results are, but you couldswallow a bunch of pills.

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In either case, functional ordysfunctional doctor, the third
option is if you really scorewell on the test, and we can
talk about scalpels, maybe evenradiate you.
Friends, that's that's typicallythe whole show.
That's that's the payoff oftesting.
And knowing ahead of time whatsolutions would be after the
test is worth knowing before youeven bother with the test.

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That's the magic of asking thisquestion.
It can give you space to thinkand examine, like fast forward
to where is it?
Okay, so yeah, I get the test.
Where is it going?
Ask the question so you can knowthat.
And if that question is answeredand the options offered still
sound appealing, the nextlogical question is this.
Okay, can you tell me, Doc, uh,what are the risks associated

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with that medication or thatintervention?
And what you'll probably get ifyou ask that question is some
sort of word salad about safeand effective, one in a million.
I do this all day.
It's gonna be a really low dose.
We'll monitor it and we canchange medication if you have
any unwanted side effects.
Okay, pause right there.
If you have heard anything likethat, that is not informed

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consent, not even close.
That is a mockery of informedconsent.
The doctor just dodged yourquestion.
At this point, most people don'tknow to or know how to push back
and get real informed consent.
And so this is the part wherethey simply just stop thinking
and defer to the doctor.
Oh, he said it's safe andeffective.
I mean, he wouldn't lie to me,and I don't know what else to

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do.
So strangely, it often falls tome, an obscure health coach, and
to offer people informed consentbecause it seems to be a relic
in the medical system.
And frankly, a lot of thealternative world isn't much
better sometimes.
So, what are the risks?
Since this is an episode abouthormones, let's talk about
informed consent and hormonetherapy.

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So, during the webinar, I had aslide where I searched for
pharma companies being sued bypeople harmed after taking
hormone drugs.
I just picked three easy-to-findheadlines and put them on a
slide.
One was a common contraceptivelinked to brain tumor risk.
Another was a story of pharmapaying out$13 million in a
settlement for hormonereplacement lawsuits related to

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Premarin, which stands forpregnant mare urine, literally
horse pea therapy.
The third one was aboutthousands of men suing for
damages due to an androgeltestosterone drug.
So you can look up such thingson your own if you want to see
court-level evidence ofdemonstrated harm from hormones.
But at this point in thepresentation, I stopped the

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slideshare and I just did areal-time search on the internet
to show people the risksassociated with taking hormones.
So please feel free to duplicatewhat I'm about to tell you and
see what you find.
So the first place I went wasthe Cleveland Clinic, which is a
reputable medical institution.
On the page I showed them, ithad a list of potential benefits

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and risks of taking hormones formenopausal symptoms.
Now, the benefits includedthings like reducing vaginal
dryness and uncomfortable sexand reducing hot flashes.
It also said that therapy mayreduce the risk of developing
osteoporosis.
It might improve your sleep, itmight lower your risk of colon
cancer or reduce your risk ofdiabetes.

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Fantastic.
Okay, so what about the possiblerisks of taking hormones for
menopausal symptoms?
Well, when you scroll down, yousee risks might include things
like heart disease, blood clots,stroke, gallbladder infections,
uterine cancer, and breastcancer.
So, said differently, it mightdecrease your risk of one type
of cancer, but increase yourrisk of two other types.

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So, interestingly, below therisks section, they also had an
alternative to hormone therapy.
What a concept! So, what aresome suggested alternatives from
the Cleveland Clinic?
Well, you could do anover-the-counter lubricant if
you have vaginal dryness.
That's probably less toxic.
Uh, for hot flashes, you couldtake an antidepressant.

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I'm not making that up.
Or read on, and you could take anervous system depressant called
gabapentin.
Antidepressant, depressant,maybe just flip a coin.
Does a psych medication, amedication for your head, sound
like a mismatched remedy for ahot flash to anyone besides me?

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By the way, I'm going to tellyou what hot flashes are in just
a little bit, but appreciatethat the Cleveland Clinic just
told you what I told you.
I.e., inside their model ofhealth, you are a chemistry
equation.
Hormone balancing is the samething as chemical balancing.
If the hormone chemical doesn'tagree with your body, they can
give you a neurotransmitterchemical, which is riskier and

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has potentially even worse sideeffects.
But besides an over-counter thelubricant, over-the-counter
lubricant, yeah, finding adifferent chemical is their
version of an alternative tohormone therapy.
I can think of so manyalternatives, but the system
doesn't know how to thinkoutside the periodic table.
But let's talk about specifichormones and specific risks.

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So I just picked a few commonlyprescribed hormones in this part
of the presentation, and I justdid a quick search for the risks
of blank hormone therapy.
So try that yourself.
The first one I started with wasthyroid hormones.
So what you'll find if you do asearch for that is things like
increased risk of cardiovasculardisease, mortality, you know,

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you could die, adverse skeletaleffects, whatever those are,
anxiety, depression, cognitiveimpairment, metabolic slowdown
leading to weight gain,irregular menstruation,
decreased libido, stroke, andvision problems.
It goes on to say thatover-the-counter, or sorry,
over-treatment with thyroidhormones increases the risk of

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bone loss or fracture,especially in postmenopausal
women.
There's also a risk ofmyocardial infarction, that's a
heart attack, arrhythmias,that's a heart that can't quite
find a regular beat.
You could also have a coma, andthere's also the pesky, or maybe
annoying problem that thyroidmedications, you have to make
sure you don't eat certain foodswith them because it might

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interfere with the chemicalprofile the medicine is trying
to set up in your body.
And so, you know, you have toplan your meals and particular
foods around the intake ofhormones.
Did your doctor tell you aboutthose risks of thyroid hormones
for any of you who are on them?
Anybody?
Okay, moving on.
How about the risks of cortisoneor prednisone therapy?

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That's an interesting one.
So cortisone therapy istypically given for pain.
This crazy crazy.
Again, I'm not making it up.
Side effects include wait forit, getting a buffalo hump, or
truncal obesity due to the wayit redistributes your fat.
I mean, who doesn't want a goodbuffalo hump?
You might be disfigured, but atleast your hip pain will go away

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for a while.
Um, other risks includeincreased blood sugar leading to
hypertension.
That's another way of saying itincreases your risk of type 2
diabetes and hypertension.
Long-term use of cortisone riskis associated with significant
complications such as decreasedbone density, tendon ruptures,
osteoporosis, and an increasedrisk of fractures.

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Oh, okay.
But what about prednisone,another steroid hormone?
That's a common one if you haverheumatoid arthritis or any sort
of chronic inflammation.
They often put you on prednisoneto suppress your immune system
because who doesn't want tosuppress the immune system?
Prednisone comes with anincreased risk of infections,
not surprisingly, or cataractsand glaucoma, particularly with

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daily doses of 10 milligramsover the course of a year.
It can delay wound healing,increase anxiety, skin
fragility, bruising, and hearsuitism.
I actually had to look that oneup.
That's a fun one.
That means prednisone could giveyou the ability to grow hair in
places you don't normally growit.
So, women, you could have chinhair or back hair, or maybe even

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get lucky and grow hair on thepalm.
Of your hands or the soles ofyour feet.
Fun.
Prednisone also has the commonshort-term effects, including
fluid retention, increasedappetite, weight gain, insomnia,
mood changes, and elevated bloodpressure.
They even have a warning thatthe risks include risks of
short-term use, such as threedays or less, have been linked

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to an increased risk of seriousadverse events, including
gastrointestinal bleeding,sepsis, which is where your
blood is toxic and you mightdie, and heart failure, with
quote, risks persisting forweeks or months after you
discontinue.
Seriously, I did not make thatup.
If you've been prescribedprednisone, did your doctor tell

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you about any of that?
Besides maybe saying you'relikely to catch a cold, and if
you do, we have a differentmedication for that.
On the medical conveyor belt.
Okay, probably not.
But the next search I did forthose in attendance was the
risks of a commonly prescribeduh hormone for women, and that
is progesterone.
So, quote, there are severalsignificant risks, particularly

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when used in combination withestrogen for menopause.
So here they are.
Heart attacks, strokes, invasivebreast cancer, which I guess is
different from regular breastcancer, pulmonary emboli, which
means growth in your lungs, deepvein thrombosis, which is, wait
for it, the Greek word forclotting.
So deep vein clotting.
You also risk dementia.

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So, you know, you might forgetwho your family members are, but
at least you'll have fewer hotflashes, hopefully.
Okay, the last medication Ilooked up was more of a
category, but it is one of thedarlings of many in the health
of healthcare practitioners, andit is the so-called bioidentical
hormones.
So that search turned up riskslike increased likelihood of

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blood clots, gallbladderdisease, heart disease,
cardiovascular events, whichcould be in a number of things,
and breast cancer.
There's that cancer one again.
So if you keep reading aboutbioidential hormones, you'll
find that they are basically notregulated.
In other words, they're notdependably standardized.
Yet you can get one dose that isdifferent from one pill to the

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next or one bottle to the next,which could create any number of
side effects depending on whatbioidentical hormone or hormones
they are giving you.
So, what I found looking intothis topic is there's actually a
lot of infighting in thehealthcare world between those
who want to prescribebioidentical hormones or those
trying to get bioidenticalhormones or compounding

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pharmacies to not be able tomake them.
Not surprisingly, Pharma wouldlike a monopoly on hormone
products, but what you won'tfind, what's not happening, is
no one is questioning thepremise of hormone interventions
in the first place.
Like painkillers, hormones canmake people feel better.
And performing that trick is adependable moneymaker where

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multiple parties want a piece ofthe pie.
So the idea with bioidenticalhormones is it's the exact same
thing as your hormones, the onesyour body makes, which even if I
took that at face value, whichwould take some convincing, we
still have the pickle of using ahubristic intervention and
overriding how the body istrying to manage itself.
Here's the bottom line.

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If you are on or consideringtaking hormones, I would
strongly encourage you to dothese searches on your own.
Have these conversations withyour doctor if they won't dodge
the question.
Start asking questions, get realinformed consent.
So at this point in thepresentation, I looked around
the room and I said, in aneffort to get real informed
consent, did anyone's doctorever take the five minutes to do

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what I just did, to pull out thepackage answered on the hormone
therapy they suggested and lookat the risks?
Or even more, did they reasonthrough the logic and end game
of the medication?
Have you ever had that happenwith any medication?
Not surprisingly, no one raisedtheir hand.
So just on the off chance thatyour doctor did tell you about

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the risks and tried to give youan honest informed consent, and
for some reason you're stillinterested in the hormone
therapy, there's a bonusquestion here that you can stump
your doctor with every singletime.
So here it is.
Okay, Doc, I I know you wouldn'trecommend something that's bad
for me.
So can I just ask how would youknow that my body isn't

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susceptible to the risks of thatmedication?
Okay, so if you choose to askthat question, be prepared for
an awkward silence, for anotherword salad, maybe even a
condescending tone.
But an honest doctor would tellyou there's no way to know for
sure that your body isn'tsusceptible to those side
effects.
Friends, drugs always have sideeffects.

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Always.
Some side effects show up soonerand some later.
I think that's got to be thedrug advertising over the last
few decades that hasdesensitized us to the risks.
We're in a trance when we seethese ads now.
We we see the commercials withpeople who look like they're
living the life we want, thislife on permanent vacation.
And it's like we don't even hearthem list the side effects

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anymore.
Pharmaceuticals are a toxic formof roulette.
And if you really want to makeyour doctor feel the heat, you
can ask this one.
Okay, I'm I'm just curious, Doc.
I saw mortality was listed asone of the side effects.
Um, how many people die eachyear from a properly prescribed
drug?
Pause.
Here's a hint.

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The answer is at least asix-figure number.
Friends, that is roulette,right?
So just like the medicalapproach to other health out
health conditions, hormonetherapy is a form of
chemical-based symptom-focusedwhack-a-mole.
Hardly anyone questions thepractice, and instead, they
argue about who has the bestmallet or who hits too hard and
who doesn't hit hard enough.

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Your symptoms are not moles tobe whacked, they are
communication from your bodyasking you for support.
So, unlike some medication,hormone therapy is the path to
endless monitoring.
There's no finish line.
Once you throw a hormone intothe system, now your whole body
has to respond to thatintrusion.
Now all your other glands aretrying to figure out what in the

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world is going on?
Where did that come from?
And so they're adjusting whatthey do in response to the
external substance they didn'tmake.
They are, you have created achemical imbalance.
And instead of your body havingthe reins to your endocrine
system, now the system has thereins.
Do you see that?

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That scenario creates this peskyand profitable thing called
chemical dependency with no pathoff of it.
That is the medical conveyorbelt.
And it is a diabolicallybrilliant business model.
They get you on the treadmill ofendless monitoring and adjusting
doses based on side effects.
But perhaps here's the moreimportant point hormonal
whack-a-mole leads to glandularatrophy.

So think of it this way (01:08:16):
if you stop using your muscles, what
happens to them?
Do they get stronger?
If you outsource your muscles'job to something else, maybe an
electric bike, what happens toyour muscles?
Does your cardiovascular systemimprove?
No.
Your muscles shrink if theydon't have to work.
It's no different with ourglands.

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If you outsource the productionof a hormone to an external
source at some random schedulethat is not at the
moment-by-moment purview of thebody, what happens to the gland?
It atrophies.
The system doesn't even disputethat.
They just hope you don't thinkto ask that when they tell you
that you'll be on hormones forthe rest of your life.
They manage your health.

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They manage your hormones.
They accelerate your declinewhile stitching you together
with medical duct tape calledhormones.
And they tell you that it's justpart of aging.
Isn't it great?
We have these medications.
We're all aging, so we should beglad for these potions.
Friends, that is how they makeyou chemically dependent.
And it's also how they slowlyincrease the number of
medications you're on.

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Each new side effect generatesanother pill, and so on.
I'm pausing here for a dramaticeffect.
Do you see it?
It all starts with the storythat your body can't figure it
out.
It's unbalanced.
There's a revolt, a dominance,an insufficiency going on inside
you, and you're the victim ofyour glands, your hormonal

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shortcomings.
Baloney.
Interestingly, I've lost trackof how many times I've I've
broken that medical spell, onlyto have people take their next
lab test and see their nextanxiety-inducing headline or a
fear-inducing doctor visit, andit puts them right back into
that malleable trance wherethey're told medicine is their

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only option.
Oh, wait, they're bioidentical?
It's bioidentical, it's safe andeffective.
Doctors have their talkingpoints down.
They are trained how to handleyour objections.
Super low dose.
We're gonna put it in the name.
Low dose now trexone.
That sounds better.
People will go for that.
We just need to give you just alittle bit of poison to help you

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heal.
Do we?
That's like saying, I just needyou to poop a little bit in the
bathtub while you bathe.
You know, just a little bit.
Well, we can monitor how muchpoop you use.
Ew.
No, monitor it.
You're gonna monitor that?
Everything's gonna be fine.
Safe and effective.
I do this all day.
Friends, that is not informedconsent, and it's not health
care.

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If you want to go that route,God bless you, but at least see
the wizard behind the curtainfor what it is.
If you're hearing this andthinking, oh my gosh, I've been
on hormones for a long time, mypoor gland, where would I even
start to help them?
I'll get to that in a littlebit, but just know that the
longer you've been on amedication, the longer it
typically takes to come off ofit.

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You just have to calibrate yourmindset to that journey.
And that's part of why we have agreat doctor on our team to help
people safely wean off meds.
Okay, so let me summarize whatI've covered so far.
So during the webinar, I showeda pie chart visual of modern
healthcare.
And on the chart, 95% of the pieis lab tests, pills, injections,
surgery, and radiation.

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The other 5% of healthcare isthings like, you know, you try
not to be so negative, work onyour mindset.
Uh, maybe don't eat so muchsugar, try to stay up too late,
and maybe do some hyperbaricoxygen or ozone or any other
fancy device the FDA blesseswith an approval.
That's what we sign up for whenwe engage the medical system.
And unfortunately, if you go toan alternative doctor, the main

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difference is often just thepills.
They give you supplementsinstead of medications, as I've
said before.
Okay, so let's just boil itdown.
If lab tests and pills were theanswer, if being stabbed with
medicine was the path to astrong immune system, if
healthcare spending equated topositive health outcomes, the US
would be the healthiest nationin the world.

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We test more, we swallow morepills, we allow ourselves to be
injected more, and we spend somuch money per person on
healthcare more than any nationin the world.
Yet in most categories, we arethe sickest, fattest, and most
disabled nation in the world.
At some point, we have to say,what is the definition of
insanity again?
Is this model of intervening andchemically balancing a system

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what I want to do?
For me, I opted out a long timeago once I saw that.
So there's two methodologicalstarting points when it comes to
your health.
Two paradigms, two competingnarrative constructs.
There's first a treatmentparadigm, and there's a healing
paradigm.
A treatment paradigm is amindset and it carries this

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unspoken or subconsciousassumption that the body's
making mistakes.
It doesn't know what to do, andit's not capable of healing
without an intervention.
A treatment paradigm looks tothe intervention to be the
solution and attempts to fightthe body's battles for it.
This paradigm esteemsspecialization.
Every new symptom we canidentify represents a special

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new problem in need of a specialsolution.
Thus we have specialists forevery part of the body.
What I encourage you to do whenyou hear the word specialist is
replace it with the wordpartialist.
A specialist is someone whointerestingly, intentionally
ignores context, looks at a partof the body, usually through a

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chemistry lens, and attempts tointervene in that part and bring
your body back into quotebalance.
Not surprisingly, there are alot of so-called hormone
partialists out there.
They often see themselves as orcall themselves endocrinologists
or a thyroid specialist or anovarian specialist.
They look at a tiny part of yourphysiology and imagine it to be

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the key to better health.
But think about it.
If I see myself as a hormoneexpert, and the main tool I have
is hormones, not surprisingly,since hormones regulate so many
physiological functions, everyproblem can in some way be
framed as a hormonal problem.
If the only tool I have is ahammer, everything looks like a
nail.
Welcome to whack-a-mole.

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I'm a specialist.
Therefore, let's use my specialmallets.
Friends, specialization hasruined healthcare.

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In this model, every effort ismade to find what is burdening
the body and what resources itwould need to be empowered to
heal.
A healing paradigm thinksholistically way beyond just the
periodic table, and it knowsdoing interventionist biological
math is impossible.
So a healing paradigm looks tothe body's innate intelligence

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to be the solution.
I'll sum up the differencebetween the two paradigms with
this.
A treatment paradigm operatesfrom a place of hubris, which
means endless interventions.
And a healing paradigm operatesfrom a place of stewardship.
It knows and respects that thebody is the healer.
Okay, so let me just give you apractical path to healing, to a

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healthy endocrine system.
So I went through all of thatcomplexity so I could contrast
it with some elegant simplicity.
So first, we need to get theparadigm right.
As I'm sure you can tell by now,I would argue for a healing
paradigm.
But second, we also need alogical and methodical plan of
action.
If we have the right principlesand we have a plan based on

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solid principles, we can heal.
So your job really is just tocreate the scenario that fosters
healing.
That is all you're tasked withdoing.
You don't need someone to sortthrough complex math and charts
and Greek and Latin and so on.
So first, let's get theprinciples right.
So we have to ask, what is itthat makes us sick before we can
attempt to say what helps usheal?

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So the short answer to why weget sick is susceptibility.
Not everyone gets sick at thesame time.
Some people are susceptible andothers are not.
So the question becomes whatmakes us susceptible to
sickness?
Well, the answer is quitesimple.
There are two main things thatmake us susceptible.
The first thing is poison.
Poison can come in variousforms, like man-made chemicals

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or natural substances likevenoms or heavy metals.
Other sources, other sources ofpoison is overgrowths or
bacteria like yeast, fungi,parasites, or worms.
And the microbiome is an areawhere the term unbalanced
actually fits.
You can have an unbalanced soilthat doesn't have enough
nutrients for your plants togrow.
And you can we have our ownsoil.

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You can have your own unbalancedmicrobiome.
And other things that poison usare things like toxic thoughts
or things like EMFs or unnaturallighting.
Those are the categories of thethings that poison the human
body.
The second category of thingsthat make us susceptible is
malnourishment.
Now, nourishment is more thanfood.
Obviously, that's important, butit's not just food, it's water,

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it's movement.
Movement can be very medicinal.
By the way, you can haveunbalanced muscles that create
stress on your skeleton orcreate movement deficiencies,
and that can make it harder toheal.
Other things that nourish us aresleep and hope and time in
nature and communion with Godand other people.
Those are the things thatnourish the body.

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And without them, we demonstratethe signs of poor health.
So those are the two reasons weget sick.
We're poisoned, malnourished, orsome combination of both.
But to be comprehensive here,let me do a hat tip to trauma
and aging.
So is trauma real?
Yes.
I had two clients years ago,about 18 years ago, who were in

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a traumatic car accident.
They were the pedestrian thatwas hit by a car, and that was
the straw that broke their back.
Their body had too many fires toput out, and strangely, two
people who didn't know eachother, not the same accident,
both developed multiplesclerosis after they were hit by
a car.
So that's one example wheretrauma can be a source of poor
health.
Another type of trauma isvarious forms of abuse, which

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can lead to swirling self-doubtor anxiousness or feelings of
inadequacy or unworthiness.
Those are real biologicaltoxins.
And those types of poisons canbe harder to understand because
you can't find them on a test.
You can just feel the way yourthoughts of inadequacy or
feeling misunderstood leaves youfeeling physically unsettled.

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The point is trauma can alsoburden the body.
And aging is a real thing.
It's funny to me that there issuch a thing as an anti-aging
movement if it's as if somehowwe're going to stop it.
We're not going to stop it.
So, in case you didn't knowthis, none of us gets out of
that out of this alive.
So sorry to break that to you,but how about if we just became
pro-aging gracefully?

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Let's go that way.
So, can aging increase oursusceptibility?
Yes, it can.
And aging, what aging does is itslows down various processes our
body has.
And in an effort to maintain ourhealth, we will have to expand
what we do to take care of ourhealth.
And so, since our physiologicalprocesses slow down, aging will

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also dictate that healing willtake more time.
The older you are, the lesslikely you are to heal like a
five-year-old or an 18-year-old.
But the cleaner your body andthe more nourishment it has, the
faster you can heal.
So, by the way, if we're talkinghospice or someone has had their
will broken, meaning they justthey won't try anymore, that's a
totally different animal.
But other than that, the bodyhasn't forgotten how to heal.

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It hasn't given up.
There are just things in the wayof it doing so.
So those are the two things thatmake us sick poison and
malnourishment with a hat tip toaging and trauma.
Okay, but let me drive home thispoint about the importance of
detox with another visual.
So during the presentation, Ishowed a picture of two fish
tanks with one fish in eachtank.

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So one tank had dirty water andthe other had clean water.
So the question on the slide washow would you treat a sick fish?
Pointing to the one in the dirtytank.
In theory one, about treating asick fish, one in a dirty tank,
you have a lot of differentoptions.
So different ways you couldtreat this sick fish.
You could medicate it, right?
I mean, this look at that fish.

(01:20:25):
His hormones are probably notbalanced.
He probably has low T, right?
Poor guy.
Let's let's give him sometestosterone.
Uh, or maybe this uh fish is inneed of some supplements, right?
He's his his hormones need to bebalanced some other way.
Maybe we could give him wild yamand a multivitamin.
That'll balance his hormones.
Or you know what?

(01:20:45):
This is it's probably his fault.
He's probably eating too muchsugar.
That's why he's sick.
That's why his pancreas won'twork.
We just need to put this fish ona diet.
He's probably consuming too muchsugar.
Or it could just be that itmight just be this fish is lazy.
Let's get this guy an exerciseroutine.
Make the guy swim laps.
I mean, look at him.
He's just sitting there.

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Time to get in shape, buddy.
Or you know what?
We could biohack this fish,right?
Let's put some red light on thetank.
Maybe put a penth mat under it,give him a new electrical
current, maybe a resonancemachine, that'll perk him right
up, right?
Or you know what?
This can't be this poor guy'sdepressed.
Look at him.
He's just moping around in thetank.

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Let's get this fish a therapist.
He just needs a few sessionswith the shrinks, but it's
probably all in his head anyway.
Do you see the insanity of that?
Or or here's the other option.
We could clean the tank.
Option two.
In case you didn't catch it, youare the fish.
The system prefers that younever address the source of your
health challenges and insteadendlessly chase your symptoms of

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being poisoned and malnourished.
With poisons just resulting inmore malnourishment.
Do you see it?
That's the game.
But if you clean the tank, thisis where it gets fun.
Guess what your endocrine systemdoes?
Thank you.
I can breathe.

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Which hormones do you need moreof?
Okay, I can help with that.
I can do that.
That's what happens.
Guess how much more beautifulyour endocrine symphony becomes
with a clean tank.
Am I making sense now?
Okay, so let's summarize ourfirst principles here.

Let me state it this way (01:22:25):
you can't dry off while you are in
the shower.
So translated.
You can't heal yourself whileyou are still poisoning
yourself.
You have to figure out where thepoisons are getting in you.
And one of the ways they get inyou is the is the form of
chemical monkey wrenches calledhormone therapy.
So you have to get, you have toturn off the flow so you can

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heal.
And you also have to, whileturning off the influx of
poisons, you can also heal, youalso can't heal rather, while
your body is still full ofpoisons.
Meaning we all have to deal withthe poisons that are already
inside us, tucked away in ourtissues.
So I'll circle back to thatconcept in just a little bit.

But think of it this way (01:23:04):
if your exits are clogged and the
public works department has beengummed up, you can change your
diet, you can swallow all thepills, and you can try all the
hacks.
You can put good food in a dirtysystem, or you can clean your
inside so your food can finallynourish you.
How's that for simple?

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Okay, a little sidebar here.
So I want to talk to healthcareprofessionals for a second, or
at least help you talk to them.
So interestingly to me, I foundmore than once, I've never
really lost this argument.
No one has ever said to me,Christian, that doesn't make any
sense.
Yet I'll hear some doctors, forwhatever reason, especially
hormone specialists, and they'llreadily admit that endocrine

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disruptors are real.
When asked about causal factors,sometimes they can point them
out better than I can.
They know about the chemicals,the heavy metals, the PFAS, and
preservatives and plastics andestrogen mimicking chemicals in
our environments.
But very few of them will evertalk about detoxification.
And often they kind of poo-poothe idea as if it's somehow

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riskier than all the medicationsthey're prescribing.
So I'm only left to speculateabout why that happens.
But I think the reason is theyavoid the topic is largely
because they're in such tightprofessional handcuffs and
they're not trained in detox.
They're trained in pharmacology,they're trained in
pathophysiology, they're trainedin spotting clusters of disease

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symptoms, naming them with Greekor Latin, and intervening with a
drug.
They weren't trained in healingor nutrition for that matter.
They were trained to appeal toauthority.
They were trained to wait forscience, whatever that means, to
expect double-blind placebos onthings that pharma would never
pay to study.
And so detox and healing areoutside their scope of practice.

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So they either wait for theoracles at pharma and the
regulatory agencies and thetesting laboratories to tell
them what to do, what standardof care is.
Thinking is strangely notsomething doctors are trained to
do.
And as soon as something getsoutside their scope, it seems
like they become nervous orscared to think.
I guess that's why so many ofthem just roll over during

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COVID.
They either tend to stay silent,or since they are conventional,
they just throw shade at theidea that maybe we should learn
how to clean the body out of allthese heavy metals and
hormone-disrupting chemicals.
So I've seen doctors and nursesdo that enough time.
I genuinely don't know whetherto give them a tongue-lashing or
feel bad for them.
So if you are a doctor listeningto this, please learn how to

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help people safely detox.
Get creative if you have to.
Find a way to make healing partof your scope.
Make it a niche if you want.
Yes, there are a lot of gimmicksout there.
Boy would I know that.
But you didn't survive medicalschool because you're stupid.
Use your intelligence to learnthis practice.
If you want to have aconversation about it, reach
out.
I'm happy to talk.
I don't know everything, but I'mdoing my best to turn healthcare

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on its head, and I'd love tolearn from you and teach you
what I know too.
We can compare notes.
So hopefully by now you know Idon't bite.
Okay.
Sidebar over.
Back to the reality that thepath to healing is to undo
toxicity and nourish the bodydeeply.
We all have a boatload of toxinsin us, as I have covered in
other episodes.
Most of us have worms in us anddon't know it.

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So how do you clean the tank?
How does a fruitful healingjourney start?
Okay, this is the part whereit's hard to do justice in an
audio format.
So I'm going to give you anabridged version of what I
covered in the webinar so youcan see, and but you can go see,
look for that presentation inthe show notes if you want to
see it.
So let's get a little moretactical here because I want to

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inspire you with how this works.
Health begins or ends in yourgut.
Detoxing and healing firststarts with optimizing your
digestion.
If you're trying to go afteryour hormones first and you
haven't addressed yourdigestion, you're going to be
chasing your tail.
If your gut is distended andleaky, if you can't disassemble
your food and absorb your food,everything else is secondary or

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tertiary, i.e., downstream fromthat, especially including your
hormones.
So the first thing you have todo to heal is clean out and
optimize your digestive tract.
You have to get the tuberebalanced, to get the tube
humming.
To do that, we remove layers ofimpacted feces.
If you're overweight, you'reimpacted.

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Even if you're not overweight,there's a good chance you're
impacted.
We can start, after that, wejust start to gently beat back
overgrowth.
We dislodge plaques andbiofilms.
We bring in a deeply nourishingdiet, which usually involves a
mix of good quality plant andanimal foods.
We diligently work to repopulatethe gut.
That doesn't mean justswallowing a bunch of probiotic

(01:27:46):
pills either.
We help you diversify yourmicrobiome so they can do their
thing and reduce yoursusceptibility.
As their communication getsbetter, you heal even more.
So after we heal the gut, thenwe focus on your liver and
gallbladder.
And there's a lot I could sayhere, but let me give you two
fascinating physiologicalnuggets.
Your liver is your body's majordetoxification organ.

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It helps you filter so muchtrash out of your body.
One of the ways it filterstoxins is by building a stone
around anything it can't breakdown.
So normally all the time we justpass these little gravel-like
things through our gallbladderinto the digestive tract for
elimination, and that happenswithout our conscious awareness.
But in an impacted system,especially if you're constipated

(01:28:30):
or if you're eating a low-fatdiet, these stones can get
backed up and can eventuallyclog the gallbladder, which, if
you've had gallstones, you knowhow uncomfortable that can be.
So, though there are differentmethods for cleansing the liver,
but the short version is youclean it and you rest it and you
repeat that.
And with each time, healing getsfaster and easier because your

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GI tube is efficient, your liverfunction is improved, and then
fasting is another great exampleof a detoxification process your
body can run.
And there are a lot of differentways to fast, but in the right
scenario, fasting is one of thedeepest forms of cellular
cleaning you can do.
So relevant to this episode,fasting also resensitizes your
hormone signaling.

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So if you I have a whole episodeabout fasting, if you want to
check it out, it is episodenumber nine.
Okay, so that's the shortversion of what I covered in
more detail in the webinar.
If you want to heal your body,fix your food, heal your gut,
cleanse your liver and yourgallbladder.
Do those things, give it time,and focus on lifestyle rhythms
that keep you clean.
Once you understand this basicphysiology of what's actually

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going on in your body, once youget familiar with a handful of
basic tools, you can completelychange your health profile in a
relatively short period of time.
Okay, so with what I've coveredso far, I want to help you see
seven other ways your doctorlikely misinterprets your
symptoms.
And you'll see how thisrepeatedly ties back into the

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topics of hormone or whyso-called hormone experts think
everything is a hormone problem.
So to set the table for thissection, I just want to step
back for a second and ask, whatare symptoms?
Again, we have to work from theright principles.
Well, symptoms are your bodycommunicating a need.
Your body does not presentsymptoms because it's bored.

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It's like I don't have anythingelse to do.
Oh, I'll give her a backache.
Maybe let's, I don't know, justgive her a hot flash just for
kicks.
No.
Symptoms are your bodycommunicating, letting you know
that it has a need and it is onus to figure out what it needs.
If you don't listen to yoursymptoms, if you ignore them or
suppress them with a hormone orany other drug, your body is
going to communicate to you andpresent you more symptoms until

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you listen.
Eventually the bill comes dueand your body will force you to
pay attention if you wait toolong.
So, side note, there's probablysomebody on here who needs to
hear this.
Your body is not your nemesis.
It is your ally.
It is actually fighting for you.
It is not fighting you.
Despite everything you've everdone to it, all the late nights

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and abuses, perhaps, it's stillshowing up for you.
It's doing the best it can withthe scenario you are in.
And sickness is your body'sfeedback that it's overburdened
and it needs to detoxify.
So remember the fundamentalprinciple everything your body
does is directed toward healing.
Okay, with that said, here areseven other ways medicine

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misinterprets your symptoms.
The first one is tumors.
You may have heard of lipomas,those are little fatty deposits.
Or little bumps that are justunder the skin.
Most commonly they're found onyour midsection.
They're like a little hard balland they're often tender to the
touch.
Another example of tumors wouldalso be cysts.
They could be visible on yourwrists or other places.
More for ladies, you could havecysts or fibroids in your

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ovaries.
And of course, there arecancerous tumors.
So let me give you a contrariantheory alert here.
Dr.
Tom Cowan is where I learnedthis one, but it makes a lot of
sense to me.
He sees tumors not as a disease,but as the body's attempt to
contain and isolate harmfulmaterial it can't otherwise
eliminate.
Think about what I just talkedabout regarding the liver.

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It builds stones around thingsthat can't break down.
Could it be that things likeparasite eggs and parasite parts
and heavy metals that are inliver stones could also be
something your body is buildinga stone around or a tumor
around.
What if tumors represent anintelligent response of the body
to prevent greater systemicdamage?
Now, Dr.
Tom Cowan actually uses theanalogy of a lily pad and or

(01:32:32):
lily pads in a lake.
He says if you have lily pads ina lake, it's not a clean lake,
it's dirty water.
And lily pads are nature's wayof scooping up toxicity into
pads so it can encapsulate thetoxins and break them down and
keep the water from becoming sofull of filth that nothing can
live there.
Different plants, as manybotanists know, absorb different

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types of toxins.
Nature, like our bodies, isbuilt around cleaning and
repairing itself and promotinglife.
So, as you can imagine, thatunderstanding of tumor, tumors
certainly reframes cancer from adisease attacking the body to
the body's attempt to protectitself from an overwhelming
toxic burden.

(01:33:13):
That is a different way to lookat it.
So Tom Cowan goes on to say, I'mquoting him here, physical
toxins are obvious, but toxicthoughts, toxic emotions, and
unprocessed trauma fromchildhood or adulthood are
equally real burdens on thesystem.
And these non-physical toxinscan be as damaging as physical
ones, disrupting the body'senergy pathways and normal

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functioning.
Fascinating, right?
That's a very different way tolook at something like tumors or
cancers or cysts.
Okay, so think back a fewminutes ago when I talked about
the risks of blank hormonetherapy.
Cancer was mentioned severaltimes as a possible risk of
taking hormones, and I onlymentioned a few of the hormones.
Hormones and cancer are notseparate topics.

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Your body uses hormones to,among many other things, help
regulate your detoxificationprocess.
Maybe throwing a hormonal monkeywrench into your system to
suppress a symptom is more thana bit short-sighted.
Maybe shifting your body'sdelicate endocrine balance could
cause other processes to not runas smoothly, and maybe having

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free-floating toxins in yoursystem could force your body to
try to encapsulate toxins withtumors.
Maybe that's why cancer is oneof the risks of taking hormones.
Maybe tumors are your body'slast-ditch effort to save you.
Food for thought.
Okay.
Second contrarian alert here,another minority opinion.
I'll start this one with aquestion.

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Does an intelligent systemattack itself?
Maybe, but not likely.
It wouldn't be very intelligent.
So the second way your doctormay be misinterpreting your
symptoms is the entire categorycalled autoimmunity.
There's this notion that thebody's confused and that the
immune system has startedattacking various types of
otherwise healthy tissue.
And we've been told that yourimmune system misfires, it got

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its wires crossed, it doesn'tknow what it's doing.
And depending on which tissue itattacks, we have a different
name for the disease, but it'salways the same problem.
But what if that perspectivemisunderstands what the body is
doing?
Maybe the immune system knowsexactly what it's doing.
Maybe it's actually performingsurgery at a cellular level.

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Maybe it knows with surgicalprecision where the toxins are
and where the body needs supportto clean out the cells.
So here's a question.
Does surgery feel good?
Especially without anesthesia?
Okay, let me try to reframethat.
If you roll your ankle and itswells up, is your immune system
active?
Yes.
It cordons off the area and theimmune system goes in to clean

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up all the cellular debris thatjust spilled out into your
interstitial fluid.
Does the ankle feel tender tothe touch while that's
happening?
Yes, it does.
Does it like pressure?
No.
Would it appreciate it if youstarted doing jumping jacks?
No.
Obviously.
So when the immune system isbusy cleaning up a mess, that
part of the body tends to betender.

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Same thing happens in your lymphnodes and your neck.
They're tender when you'refighting a cold.
Your body uses pain to let youknow to slow down because the
immune system cells are at work.
Now, would that be a good timeto take a hormone like
prednisone to manage anautoimmune condition and tell
your immune system to knock itoff?
If your body needs inflammationto heal, do we want to take

(01:36:30):
anti-inflammatories?
By the way, the giveaway is inthe name when it comes to
medication.
So look past the weird namesthey come up with for their
potions and look at the classesof medication.
They're suppressors, they'reantis, they're blockers, they're
inhibitors, they're monkeywrenches in our physiology
intervening, saying your bodydoesn't know what it's doing and

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we need to fight its battles forit.
This paradigm of autoimmunitymakes way more sense to me.
And I mentioned this one with adegree of confidence because
I've helped people reverseautoimmune conditions.
I didn't do it by talking tothem about their immunoglobulins
or by hacking their DNA andforcing it to make a different
antibody or run a differentantibody program.

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I didn't treat or cure anything.
I didn't even attempt that.
No, I just helped them cleantheir body out and rheumatoid
arthritis and grave disease andMS symptoms slowly fade.
I just helped people learn howto not have their blood be so
sticky or how to make theirwater wetter or learn what foods
bring healing and teach them howto use movement medicinally.

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If we help people get back tothe basics, any number of
autoimmune conditions can justslowly fade away because the
body starts cleaning itself andthe immune system can focus on
other matters.
So maybe so-called autoimmunityis more about clusters of
various toxins that have anaffinity for particular types of
tissue, and maybe helping thebody clean itself and give the

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immune system the tools it needsto perform the surgery would be
what heals the body.
It's a different way to look atautoimmunity, isn't it?
Okay, the third way the medicalsystem misinterprets your
symptoms.
What if excess weight andobesity is the cure for your
health condition?
What are you talking about,crazy man?
How is weight, gain, and obesitythe cure for anything?

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Good question.
Okay, here's a question inreturn.
Does your body want to storeexcess toxins and excess food?
No, it doesn't.
So why would it do that?
The short answer is because ithas to.
It is protecting you.
What is the primary place yourbody stores toxins?
You may remember me saying this.
The primary places your bodystores toxins are your fat

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cells, your connective tissue,and your liver.
That's where most of the toxinsgo because your body can't have
them gunking up the blood.
So let me ask you this.
Have you ever been frustratedwith low calorie dieting?
Okay, weight loss is caloriesin, calories out, right?
No, it's not.
If that worked, there would bevery few people who wouldn't
have figured out how to do that.

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Why doesn't low calorie dietingwork?
Or why doesn't it worksustainably?
Hello to the biggest loser.
Have you seen the contestants ayear after the show?
You may have noticed that witheach successive time you try low
calorie dieting, it's less andless effective.
It's my thyroid, it's notfunctioning well, my T3 and T4
are insufficient, my body'sfighting me.
No, it's not.

(01:39:19):
Why does low calorie dieting notwork?
Well, for one, your brilliantendocrine system knows how many
resources are available and howfast it can go through them
before you have a much biggerproblem.
And you might be thinking, lookat me, I'm overweight, I've got
plenty of resources right herein my midsection.
Why doesn't it use thoseresources?

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Great question.
Beyond resource management, thesecond and possibly bigger
reason you don't lose the weightis because your body knows the
exits are clogged.
Your purging systems are backedup.
If you're a man and you lookpregnant, your body knows it
would be too dangerous to letthe contents of your fat cells
back into the blood.
That's the reason you've beenstoring the toxins in the first

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place.
If it emptied the fat cells whenyour exits aren't working well,
it would poison you.
You would become septic.
So your body holds on to excessweight to protect you.
And in that scenario, it doesn'tmatter what the calorie count
is.
That's an irrelevant data point.
Keeping you alive is moreimportant.
So you can take all the thyroidhormones you want, or you can

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try to take yourhypounderperforming thyroid and
make it run faster.
You can blame your ovaries fornot having the right estrogen
balance.
But in reality, low caloriedieting, especially repeated
low-calorie dieting, is a traumastate for your endocrine system.
It's not fasting and it's nothealthy eating.
It's this confused middle state.

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Now, on top of your toxic loadthat you have, the body also has
the stress of working withstarvation-level resources.
Does that make sense now?
Okay, so here's a tip.
One reason you probably don'twant a medically supervised diet
is because they think of you asa caloric chemistry equation.
And after that doesn't work,they bring out the scalpels, but
I digress.
Okay, the point here is thatyour body will do everything it

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has to to keep the toxins out ofyour blood.
It will engorge your fat cellsto overcome a toxicity problem
if it has to.
And until you get your digestionoptimized and your liver can
clean house, your body will keepthe weight on.
Excess weight and obesity areyour body protecting you from
your own choices.
Your thyroid, tired as it maybe, is not your problem.

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Okay, the fourth way the medicalsystem misinterprets your
symptoms.
Here's one of the sacred cows ofmedicine, actually.
What if high cholesterol is alsoyour body's way of curing you?
What?
Okay, let's just let's step backagain and look for the first
principle.
Why does your body, your liverin particular, make cholesterol?
You can't eat enough from yourfood, so your body has to make

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it.
So there's several reasons itdoes that, actually.
So it first is it does it torepair tissue.
You can't make a new cellanywhere in your body without
cholesterol.
Cholesterol is like a waxysubstance.
It's about the consistency of asoft candle, and it gives your
cells rigidity so they canresist pressure and not collapse

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on themselves.
So when your cholesterol ishigh, guess what?
That's also a sign of.
So if you're taking a statin tointerrupt your body's production
of cholesterol, what else areyou also interrupting?
Answer your body's ability toproperly synthesize your

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hormones.
Let me let me say that again.
By blunting your body'scholesterol production, you're
diminishing your endocrinesystem's ability to regulate
your functions.
Your endocrine system needscholesterol.
Do you want to stop your bodyfrom making it?
Your body also uses cholesterolto synthesize vitamin D, and you
can't do it without it.

(01:42:50):
So some people believe vitamin Dis actually a hormone, but
that's a different conversation.
Many believe people also believethat everyone is low in vitamin
D, and so do you want to stopyour body from making the raw
material your body uses to makevitamin D?
Once you start interpreting highcholesterol as a sign that of
your body's attempt to heal you,instead of shooting the

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messenger like statins do andassuming your liver is just dumb
and it's out to ruin your day,it's bored, and it's just making
cholesterol to clog yourarteries.
Once you realize that's not thecase, what you can say is, wow.
Thank you for my wonderfulliver, for protecting me, for
helping me heal.
Let me see what I can do toreduce the amount of cholesterol

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I need to make.
By the way, statins are a doubleinsult.
Like all drugs, statins poisonyou and they rob you of
nutrition.
Statins deplete CoQ10, which isintimately important for wait
for it, heart health.
But I'm not a doctor, so maybeyou can ask your doctor to make
it make sense.
Okay, the fifth way the medicalsystem misinterprets your

(01:43:54):
symptoms.
Have you ever wondered why isthere no cure for the common
cold?
I mean, think about it.
All these differentinterventions the system has,
and we can't even cure thebasics.
I got the sniffles, a sorethroat, a cough.
Why can't we make it so the bodydoesn't do that?
There's no cure for the commoncold because the cold is the
cure.
By the way, this applies whetherwe're talking germ theory or

(01:44:16):
terrain theory.
So if you have no idea what thatmeans, that's fine too.
Because the point here is thesame.
Whether you believe a microbehas invaded you or that your
insides have just hit a tippingpoint of needing to be
aggressively cleaned, theoutcome is the same.
Your immune system knows you hita susceptibility tipping point,
and it needs to turn on thepublic works department so it
can cordon off the area andclean up the parts of your body

(01:44:38):
that need cleaning.
And so we keep this top, this uhwebinar episode on topic.
Your thymus gland in particularis part of the cleanup crew,
right?
It's part of your endocrinesystem.
Friends, the cold is the cure.
Why would your body use a fever?
Why make your nose run?
Why expel things through yourlungs?
Why sweat?
Why would your body createsticky sinus congestion to

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cordon off an area?
Maybe it's protecting you andcleaning house.
Maybe it's trapping microbes anddebris to munch them out and get
or munch them up and get themout of the body.
You could think of catching acold more like an unscheduled
detox.
That's how you know your bodyburden bucket is full.
Your stress burden bucket isfull.
And your body is telling youthat all the normal pathways are

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backed up, and I can't keep upvia normal means, so we're gonna
have to borrow resources andenergy from other processes so I
can clean you out and keep youalive.
In reality, you didn't catchanything.
You exceeded your toxin storagecapacity.
So your body turns on fever andmucus and rash and nausea and
diarrhea to clean house.
That's what it's doing.

(01:45:43):
It's emptying you out of thethings that are poisoning you.
And if you if your body didn'tgive you a cold, if it didn't
start a cleansing response andturn on the immune system bells
and whistles and clean up themess, you would become septic.
So thank you to my wonderfulimmune system.
Or, you know, you could take ahormone to suppress your immune
system.
You could take something thatsuppresses your ability to

(01:46:04):
create congestion, or takesomething that blunts your
ability to produce a fever.
But your body's not turning onthose processes for no reason.
Take good care of it, and itwill take good care of you.
Okay, misinterpreted symptomnumber six.
Some of you have been patientlywaiting the whole time for this
one.
Hot flashes.
What in the world is going on?

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Again, you may have spotted apattern here.
Let me ask you a question.
What happens at menopause?
Something changes.
By the way, I learned this onefrom Dr.
Jennifer Daniels.
If you want to check out herbook, The Lethal Dose, you can
find this nugget in there.
I'm just passing on her insighthere.
So, what changes at menopause?
Ladies, you know this, you stopbleeding every month, right?

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Women have the advantage of abuilt-in rhythm of a special
detox they do every month.
At menopause, you discontinuethat natural rhythm of
detoxification.
And so your body finds adifferent way to offload the
toxins.
It was used to being able tojust eliminate them in your
monthly flow.
Now it doesn't have that.
So it turns on a differentpathway and gives you a whoosh

(01:47:09):
of heat to sweat out some of thetoxins.
That's why some women sailthrough menopause and other
women don't.
The more toxic you are, the morelikely you are to get hot
flashes.
By the way, male or female, youcan lose a lot of toxins,
including heavy metals, via yoursweat.
Okay, so let's review.
You could take some sort ofhormone concoction to try to

(01:47:30):
stop your hot flashes, but wealready looked at where that
goes.
You could just assume it's yourdumb hormones or not balanced,
you need some sort of cream orpotion.
You got to find the right mix ofDHEA or pregnanolone or
progesterone or estrogen.
But if you do that, you're rightback to playing whack-a-mole and
hoping you can get the right theamounts right to make the hot
flashes stop and not giveyourself some sort of awful
cancer or other disease inreplacement of that.

(01:47:54):
Or so, as the cure for hotflashes, you could level up your
detox game.

So think of it this way (01:48:00):
you can put your body through a detox
and sweat on your own terms, orlike getting a cold, you can
have your body dictate hotflashes to you and turn on the
oven when it needs to open adetox pathway to keep you alive.
Okay, that's number six.
Last one misinterpreted symptomnumber seven, erectile

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dysfunction, another brilliantmarketing scam.
This one originated when Pharmawas testing a heartburn
medication, and it turned outthat one of the side effects was
erection, and they were like,yeah, we gotta figure out a way
to market this.
But first, they had to make up adisease before they could launch
a whole new category ofmedications.
Well, we all know what anerection is, but the question

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here is are erections a vitalfunction?
No.
Similar to a woman having aperiod, an erection is not a
vital function.
Most women know if her body fatgets too low or if she starts
doing way too muchcardiovascular exercise, her
period will just stop.
She won't be able to have one.
Or at the other extreme, insteadof not bleeding regularly, a

(01:49:08):
woman might have an experienceof heavy bleeding, which is how
you, which, as you now know, isone of the ways your body can
leverage the ability to detoxvia the blood.
Okay, but back to the men.
We also have a built-inbarometer of our health and it
hangs between our legs.
Guys, if you can't get it up,you don't have erectile

(01:49:28):
dysfunction.
You're simply not in goodhealth.
Erections are a luxury, not avital function.
They are far down the list ofvital function.
And if other processes takeprecedent, your body won't do
it.
If you can't get it up, you havea symptom of poor health.
And that your symptom might bethat you're just overweight and
out of shape, but it also mightbe that you're stressed, or

(01:49:50):
maybe you're even feelingemasculated.
Any one of those things could doit, but what you're experiencing
isn't a sign that we need toexternally balance your
testosterone for the rest ofyour life and play roulette with
side effects.
You can do that.
Does it work?
Yeah, you'll probably be able toget it up, but at what cost?

(01:50:10):
That's the question we don'toften ask.
So, guys, you can take a hormonefor a made-up disease or you can
work on your health.
Detoxing is important, but letme do one better for you,
gentlemen.
In addition to auditing whatmight be blunting your
testosterone, here's how you canget your testosterone back up.
Go do manly things.

(01:50:32):
Create the stimulus your bodyuses to produce the hormones you
want.
If you want to feel like a man,act like one.
Pick up some heavy thingsrepeatedly.
Go kiss your wife aggressively.
Make a big decision.
Go buy a gun, hunt something,get a punching bag and hit it.
Study martial arts, or at thevery least, don't be a whiner.

(01:50:53):
Nothing about whining is manly.
It's playing the victim.
And if that's you, stop it.
Don't do it.
If you want to feel like a manand get your man parts working,
then act like a man.
Eat fatty meats and don't drinksoy lattes, by the way.
Okay, so there you have it.
There are seven ways that, in myopinion, medicine misinterprets
your symptoms and therebymismanages your health.

(01:51:15):
Again, those are a lot ofcontrarian opinions, but at
least they're logical ones.
What I'm teaching you won't sella lot of drugs, but it does have
a much higher chance of helpingyou correct a problem instead of
masking it.
Okay, I figured out maybe as Iwas wrapping up, or like, think,
how do I end this?
I thought maybe the best way towrap up an episode like this is

(01:51:36):
just to tell you a story and tryto make it personal.
So during the webinar, I showeda picture of one of my favorite
stories of 2025, or at leastfavorite stories so far.
It's about a woman named Carrie,and some of you may have seen
her before and after photos onour website.
So I met Carrie right beforeThanksgiving of last year.
She was experiencing very heavymenstrual bleeding daily.

(01:51:58):
She had been through the medicalescalation ladder.
She had a surgery scheduled forMarch.
That was the earliest they couldget her in.
So they were going to mutilateher ovaries so she couldn't
bleed anymore.
And as you might imagine, shewas desperate.
So her dad had actually been acustomer of ours for a while,
and he said, you know what?
I've got something I think mighthelp you.
So I met with Carrie.

(01:52:18):
And in addition to heavybleeding, Carrie also had a
raging lifelong eczema.
She had terrible energy.
She was overweight.
And she's a mom and a teacher.
And she was barely able tofunction or make dinner for her
family.
So she would crawl to the finishline of pretty much every day.
And so if you go to our homepageat healingunited.today, you can
see the two photos of her takenuh three months apart.

(01:52:41):
And I didn't even ask her forthe photo.
She was just so delighted withwhat we did for her that she
sent me the photo.
So in three months, Carrie lost36 pounds.
Her surgery was canceled.
Her eczema was gone, except forjust a little bit left on her
forearms.
Her energy came back.
She even told me, I don't knowwhat to do with myself after
eight o'clock in the eveninganymore.

(01:53:01):
I'm not used to being awake atthis part of the day.
All we did for her was threethings.
We changed how she ate.
We put her through apersonalized cleanse, and we
taught her how to fast.
That's it.
She had good support from herfamily, but three months was all
it took.
Were her hormones unbalanced?
No.
That's what her doctors toldher.

(01:53:22):
Were her ovaries in need ofmutilation in order to stop the
bleeding?
No.
She was toxic and malnourished,and we taught her how to fix
those two things.
And her story is really it's atestament to what's possible
when you create a plan based onfirst principles.
And remember the timeline.
She pulled off hertransformation during the
holidays.

(01:53:43):
So if her body is capable ofthat, friends, what are you
capable of?
I call this podcastdeconstructing conventional
because I feel like we need asane way to audit what we've
come to call conventional.
Somehow, the tools of cut, burn,and poison, and in this episode
we've largely focused on poison,somehow those tools have
wrestled control of the termconventional.

(01:54:05):
But once you see the system forwhat it is, you can't unsee it.
Which brings up a philosophicalquestion.
Do you want to participate in asystem that systematically
extracts your life force?
That is the system's plan.
It's to get you to become aquest a customer for life on one
of their favorite tools, and orone of their favorite tools to

(01:54:27):
do that is hormones.
Now, there's nothing wrong withcreating lifelong customers, but
there's something morallybankrupt about making people
chemically dependent while youaccelerate their decline for
profit and trade the originalset of symptoms they had for
another and another and another.
In its current form, thehealthcare system is a model

(01:54:48):
that operates by slowlyweakening the human body.
They want you sick but stable.
They want you tired butfunctional and alive enough to
just keep showing up for thenext round of symptom
suppression in their recurringrevenue model.
If the system worked in ourfavor, it would look for root
causes, not symptoms tosuppress.

(01:55:09):
If it worked in our favor, thesystem would teach us how to
manage our health and wewouldn't be customers for life.
If a prescription worked, youwouldn't need to refill it every
month for the rest of your life.
Do you want to participate inthat business model?
Okay, I'll wrap up this episodewith one more example of
linguistic sleight of hand thatthe system uses to obfuscate who

(01:55:33):
they really are and what theydo.
So my suggestion is we stopusing the term medical doctor.
That is redundant.
Medical is the Latin word fordoctor.
So instead of calling MDs doctordoctor, let's refer to them as
they really are, allopathicdoctors, ADs.
I imagine the system prefersmedical because they'd rather we

(01:55:56):
not get curious about theorigins of the word allopathy.
Allopathy comes from two Greekwords, alos and pathia, which
mean other suffering.
The method behind conventionalmedicine today is that it adds a
different form of suffering tothe suffering you already have.
That is the business model.
Because their potions canprecisely and temporarily

(01:56:18):
interrupt our body's ability tocommunicate symptoms, they've
hoodwinked us into believingthat their potions heal us.
They've cast a spell over ourculture and fear of the unknown
and deference for thepronouncements of experts is how
they keep the trance going.
From one symptom to moresymptoms, from one pill to many,

(01:56:39):
from pills to injections, frominjections to surgeries, and
from surgeries to the burningand removal of our body parts.
It is an anti-health pro-revenuemodel of its extraction.
And all it takes is an honestlook at our health statistics to
see the beast for what it is.
In my opinion, outside of traumaand emergency care, the system

(01:57:01):
needs to be scrapped.
The business model isanti-flourishing.
It is an ethically constipatedprofession that uses repurposed
poisons.
It mocks informed consent, andnearly every intervention
violates the oath to do no harm.
It is by definition harmful.
Again, the word allopathy meansyou inflict other suffering.

(01:57:23):
If you've really been payingattention, you may have noticed
that the word allopathic wasrecently redefined on Wikipedia.
Don't look at the definition,which those in power love to
tinker with to suit theiragendas.
Look at the root meaning of theword.
Look at the fruit the systemhas.
Look at the disempowered mindsetin this system produces.

(01:57:44):
You will know the system by itsfruit.

So my question to you is (01:57:47):
do you want to choose a different way?
Do you see the man behind thecurtain now?
Do you want to learn how toclean your body and heal your
body?
Do you want to stop wasting timeand money feeding the system?
Friends, the average Americangoes to the doctor between 280
and 300 times in their life.
Think of all the time you canget back and the stress you

(01:58:08):
could skip when you opt out.
Yes, you will have things tolearn, things we should have
learned in high school healthclass.
But do you want to become soconfident with natural remedies
that you can cut the cord andnever look back?
If so, maybe we should talk.
We teach people how to heal andstay healthy and we bless them
to go live the life they'recalled to live.

(01:58:30):
So for transparency, I dopromote things I believe in, but
I don't sell any lab tests orany supplements.
People pay me for my expertise.
And let's just say I don't havethe hammer nail problem.
My toolkit, our toolkit, is wideand deep.
And it is our delight to helppeople see a wildly different
model for health care.

(01:58:51):
Your body is the healer.
No doctor is coming to save you.
Your hormones are notunbalanced.
You can learn how to earn goodhealth and how to keep it, or
you can let the system manageyour accelerated decline for
you.
The choice really is yours.
You do not have to obey adoctor.
Doctors and to be fair, coachesare fallible people too.

(01:59:13):
But very few people inhealthcare are teachers.
So if our approach resonateswith you, I'll put a link in the
notes where you can see andcompare our programs, and you
can even book a call to chat ifyou want to.
So in the meantime, if you wantto under better understand our
method, I'll put a link in theshow notes where you can see a
36-minute presentation I did afew months ago called How to
Reverse Any Chronic Illness inThree Steps.

(01:59:35):
In that video, I get into muchmore detail about both the
method and tools we use to helppeople take back the reins of
their health.
And as you can imagine, it's anapproach that works from first
principles.
It's also a high-touch approachwhere we personalize your path
to healing based on your healthhistory, your budget, and your
lifestyle.
Good luck getting that from theAllopathic Systems.

(01:59:58):
Okay, friends, that's all I havefor you today.
I told you it was going to be alittle punchy.
If you like this kind ofcontent, it's a fraction of what
I'm going to cover in the newbook I'm writing.
So if you want to stay up todate on the progress of the book
and join me on future webinarswhere I tease out some of the
content, then you can join themailing list.
You can find that in the footerof our website at
healingunited.today.

(02:00:19):
Okay, I'll see you in the nextepisode.

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