July 1, 2025 • 46 mins
In this episode, Dr. Alfred Alessi and Matt Tack introduce Health Decoded, highlighting the challenges of traditional medicine and the significance of patient empowerment through education. Matt shares his health journey, leading into a discussion on the three pillars of health: physical medicine, functional medicine, and lifestyle medicine. They delve into pain management, comprehensive blood panels, and regenerative medicine, offering insights into innovative therapies. Practical advice on implementing these pillars in daily life is provided, with guidance on starting with Alessi Functional Health. The episode wraps up with final thoughts.
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But it's lifestyle, right?
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And it's like, you know, traditional medicine,you go in, maybe they draw a couple blood
panels or they do something real basic and thenthey just recommend something like a like a
medication Where a lot of docs can go wrongwith functional medicine is they think they're
doing functional medicine because they'redrawing your blood and then they're giving you
supplements.
But it's literally just the same model justwith natural interventions.
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So it's like a little bit better, but it'sstill missing the piece of the why and like the
root cause.
And so like, yeah, if you're chronicallystressed out because your life is just a is
just madness, then like, I'm gonna dig intothat a little bit.
Welcome to Health Decode, your number onesource for real health information with your
host, doctor Alessi and Matt Tack.
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Hey, Health Decoded listeners.
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Let's protect it proactively.
Welcome back to another episode of healthdecoded.
I am your host, doctor Alessi.
And your co host here, Matt Tack.
Matt Tack.
Man, coming in hot.
How are doing?
Good.
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How are you?
I'm doing well, man.
I'm doing well.
I'm excited.
This is a it's a good day.
It's been a good month.
We just there's a lot of cool things happeningwithin the clinic and kind of what we've been
doing.
And these programs we've put together and it'sreally cool to see, you know, people are like
excited about it, right?
Like patients coming in the office and they're,they're excited to be there.
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They're excited to learn.
And it's just awesome, man.
I feel like it's really like a healthrevolution that that we're seeing nowadays
people like wanting to take control rightwanting to get ahead of things and we talked
about that a couple weeks back is like theproactive versus reactive right and think
people are people are understanding theimportance and actually starting to subscribe
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to that.
It's been good, man.
What's new to you?
It's control, At the end of the day, likepeople, know, when you can have some element of
control over your life, it's empowering.
And I think that's what like ultimately you'regiving to somebody with through the process of
the education when you can have control overwhat you're putting into your body.
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It's a it's a beautiful thing.
Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
I literally just talked to a patient yesterdayand we're sitting in there in a functional
medicine consultation and I'm like, hey, thegoal here is for me to teach you how to read
your own blood work so that in the future youcan run labs on yourself.
You can see what's going on.
You can stay ahead of things and then you know,I'm here to guide you if you need help, but you
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can tweak things as you need as well, right?
Oh, my it looks like my cortisol is high thismonth.
Oh, yeah, last month was pretty stressful.
Now what do I got to do, right?
I got to change up some things maybe in mydaily routine, maybe in my sleep, maybe in my
lifestyle.
So being able to get the knowledge base therebecause most people have no clue or how to read
lab work.
So it's really important, know, it's like, youknow, just rely on someone for that forever.
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Or can we guide you to then, you know, like ateacher give you an idea of how to do it for
yourself.
So we're all about that.
And look who the guinea pig was, me.
Yeah.
Was the first functional medicine patient, Ithink at well, won't say the first.
But I was a guinea pig in that person of like,hey, I want to learn more about what's going
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on.
Like, what what are my symptoms?
And how can we get to a root cause of this?
Because I want to feel better.
And so we did that.
You know, you guided me through that.
We dug in, and I just constantly want to learnmore and more now, right?
Put new habits in place, you know, dialing innutrition, micro supplementation, you know, and
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then even understanding my blood work.
Like I'm, I'm able to educate people on bloodwork now because of the time that you to just
basically take me through what, hey, this iswhat this means, and this is how we basically
need to put the micro supplementation together.
And then maybe let's look at your habitstructure.
All those things really do play a huge role inan understanding of, you know, hey, how do I
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just get feel a little bit better tomorrow?
And it's that 1% improvement.
Yeah, yeah.
And that's awesome.
And yeah, now you don't I don't even look atyour blood work really anymore.
You run it yourself and you do it yourself andlike, it's awesome, man.
It's it's good stuff.
And so I think you took initiative, right?
Like that's a good point is like you tookaction on that and you were very proactive
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about it.
You're like, man, I want to learn these thingsbecause you do care about your health and you
are, you know, very much focused on that andnot just for you, it's for your family too.
So that's what we're trying to create, man.
Again, you're like the you're like the rolemodel for our patients.
Know, today, we're unpacking the three pillarsof health we call it, right?
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That basically is like the foundation of how wehelp people, how we get great results without
relying on pills and really like guesswork iswhat we call it.
Like a lot of places, a lot of docs you go toand it's like guesswork.
They just, oh, let's try this medicine.
Let's see what happens.
Come back in six months.
That's that's pretty, you know, basic andhonestly fruitless.
So really like our mission statement and I'lljust read it here.
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Our goal is to educate and empower you to takeownership of your health.
We believe healthcare should fix problems atthe root, not just mask symptoms.
And so that's really what the three pillars arebuilt to do.
And so when you kind of came up with the ideafor this this episode, I was like heck yeah,
let's do that because we want to let ourpatients kind of know like how we operate.
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Obviously, they've probably been to the clinicpeople listening or they've you know, met us at
some point and they know what we do, but likethe foundation of how we operate and why.
And I think that's really cool.
And so yeah, we do have these three pillars andit is important because it's like a roadmap or
it's like a guideline.
And so unless you have like structure in place,you're gonna be all over the place.
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And so why don't we just go through them andkind of we'll just you know, keep this open
conversation man and and talk stuff.
Maybe talk about like experiences we've had andkind of what it is.
Explain some of this and then you know, keepthis keep this fun.
So I'll do this.
I'll I'll just start it.
Number one, the first pillar we have is what wecall physical medicine.
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And so, you know, think of your body as ahouse, right?
If the foundation of the house is crooked,everything else is going to suffer.
And so the first pillar is what we callphysical medicine.
So think of your body as a house, right?
If the foundation of the house is crooked,everything else is going to suffer or have
issues.
And so pillar one is really about thestructure, but then also the function and the
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movement of that structure.
And so there's a few different key componentsand let's just kind of get into this, right?
Number one and patients who have experiencedthis know, we practice what's called
chiropractic biophysics.
And so this isn't just routine adjustment pop,crack your back.
Oh, I feel better.
See you next week when it comes back, right?
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This is correction based.
And so, it's not pain based.
So yeah, you might have pain, but why are youin pain?
Because your spine is far from alignment or youhave a reverse curve in your neck should be
bending this way.
It's bending forward, right?
And so, things over time, these structuralspinal changes lead to degeneration, lead to
arthritis and ultimately lead to pain.
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And so, we're very focused on that because weget better results than anyone else because we
take that extra added step to focus on thecorrective, not just the let me get you out of
pain for the week, see you next week, you know,kind of I guess routine, right?
And you kind of experienced that too in thepast with some chiropractic care you did.
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Yeah, for sure.
And I think that's one of the big things ofjust the biophysical element is the ongoing
maintenance of it, right?
A lot of people think of it's like an acute,Hey, I have an acute injury or something
happened and I'm gonna, that's my lifeline,right?
I just don't treat chiropractic care that way.
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I treat it as like a long term maintenanceproactive type healthcare approach for me
because, I do.
I like, I take my body through, a lot, youknow, on a daily basis.
I still play sports.
We were talking about sports before thisepisode, right?
We wanna play sports as long as physicallypossible.
And I think we're able to do that, but we haveto take the proper measures.
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And the chiropractic biophysics, along with theother therapies that we have are instrumental
in that.
Yeah.
Well, it's like, what other things in life doyou ever just, like, do it once?
And it's you know what I mean?
It's like, to maintain results like you got tohave some level of like effort in exercise is a
great synergy to it because you go to the gymand say you're more dialed in routinely at the
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beginning maybe you're going four or five daysa week really with a goal in mind you get to
that weight.
Then you got to maintain that you don't juststop, right?
And so, you know, but the cool thing is withthe protocols we use is we do get really good
permanent results.
The patients just have to maintain that ontheir own, right?
It's like, you come to us for a fix.
We fix whatever problem it is.
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And now it's just it's up to you like if youmaintain the things we've shown you, which a
lot is done at home.
Yeah, come in for an adjustment maybe oncetwice a month, but other than that, like you
can maintain a lot of these results with thestructural things we teach you the right the
orthotics like the dental is awesome tool, andeven like exercises to mitigate having to
relapse and then end up being more on acorrective program again.
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And so it's like the phases of care that weoften see with the physical medicine side is
like very much like people come to us withpain.
So there's like that acute pain relief phasethat they got to go through.
We got to get you out of pain.
That's why you're here.
And it's limiting things.
Usually that's pretty short man.
That's four to six weeks is that is aboutaverage what we see we get people out of pain
pretty quick.
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Keeping them out of pain is the hard part andthis is where a lot of chiropractors don't have
like an answer or a plan.
They just keep doing the same things.
And so it's like, that's where we build in nowthe next phase, which is like the corrective
phase, right?
The corrective phase is what keeps people whatactually makes structural change in the spine.
And so some of the instruments we use in theoffice, which you know, you can talk about, but
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that's where we get like actual change that isvisibly seen on like an X-ray.
And then from there, the maintenance like youwere just talking about.
And so, why don't you talk about like some ofthe chiropractic things we use in the office,
obviously, the adjustments or things that wehave Doctor.
Rennie doing adjustments.
I do some adjustments from time to time.
But like the protocol, right?
And like what it looks like to do a correctiveplan.
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Yeah, so when Doctor.
Alessi actually came up with this, you know,complete phased out protocol, I, you know, it's
been revolutionary in terms of like how we carefor our patients and actually take them through
the lifeline of what maybe an acute injurymight be, but also like the maintenance on that
maintenance side as well.
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So what we have primarily right now outside ofour other three pillars, but specifically just
within our protocol is soft tissue therapy,which is our soft wave therapy, which is
essentially is kind of targeting acute areas,mainly that fascia, that soft tissue, tendons,
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whatever it might be, and in the spine, right?
So the central nervous system is gonna feedback on any level of inflammation, but the
Softwave technology basically kind of likeartificially targets, not kind of, it does,
targets in that area of inflammation and throwsstem cells at it.
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So naturally produces stem cells in the regionthat it needs to.
So we can use that in spinal regions, can usethat in shoulders or knees or whatever it might
be.
So it's a beautiful thing in runningcombination, especially like in a, with a
sciatic injury, where you're gonna be feelingthat in that hip, you know, lower lumbar region
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all the way down to your potentially yourankle.
So we can utilize it for that to reduce theamount of pain you're having in one region
while we're adjusting through spinaldecompression your spine, right?
So that's kind of the structure or theelongation of the Rhine, you know, giving room
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for those discs in the chiropractic biophysicphase to be put back into place.
So that's what I love about the three thingsthat we use in terms of the protocol is because
they're also utilized very specifically, butthey synergize together.
So the three things we obviously do is softwave therapy, spinal decompression, and
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chiropractor biophysics.
So that's it.
That's what we call affectionately the painfree future protocol.
Yeah, and so essentially it was where it camefrom is, know, I've been doing this for going
on six, seven years now.
And I've always been chiropractic, right?
That was where I started.
Was adjustments, adjustments, adjustments.
And I was like, alright, there's how do we helppeople more?
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And then I worked in a clinic where we hadspinal decompression.
Was like, Okay, this is awesome.
Like, this is now getting people fantasticresults with disc injuries because before then
it was really more like passive stretches andstuff like that.
And then three years ago investing in the inthe soft wave technology, I found that we can
take a disc injury which discs are very slowregenerative, so are nerves, they take a long
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time to heal.
And if there's compression on it, it's going totake even longer.
And so normally, you know, we are looking atsomewhere around like six to eight months for
like a full recovery.
We're accelerating that with the soft wave, youknow, somewhere between like three to six
months patients are getting awesome results andlike permanent results, right?
And so, basically we took that plus thecorrective chiropractic plus the spinal
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decompression, those three things bundle themtogether.
It's like, now it's like a home run, right?
That's like that summative effect you get ofall these modalities.
And so then we're like, Okay, like let's nowlet's put a name on it because it's a protocol
is always better.
It's like, we follow this protocol, we getresults.
And so, it might look mildly different frompatient to patient like how many treatments
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they'll need like the severity of maybe theneuropathy but for the most part, it's going to
be heavy with the soft wave and decompressionon the front end, phasing into more of the
decompression and corrective chiropractic inthe mid and then on the back end, the
maintenance chiropractic to keep the results.
And so you go through this protocol and thesephases of care.
And again, it's just if you do it and you dokind of how we instruct it, it works.
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Like it just, I want to say a % of the time,but I can't.
But like it is, it's going to work, right?
And so again, there's always that buy incomponent like some patients fall off or they
get distracted or life events, right?
Like they have something come up and they so a% would be nice to say because we do get in the
high 90s success rates with our protocol if youdo it correctly.
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So then let's go into kind of the next piece ofthe physical medicine, which is the spinal
decompression that you mentioned.
So spinal decompression is basically it's likea bed, you're laying on it either on your back
or sometimes you can go prone, it's mostly onyour back and it's pulling your body axially.
So like straight versus like some othertherapies are going to flex your spine.
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When you pull it straight, think of like theexample I use is like a like a sandwich, So you
got like two pieces of bread and you got abunch of deli meat and avocado and stuff in
there and you squish it, everything shoots outthe side, right?
That's like the disc pushing out.
You can't just stuff that back in.
Have to open that sandwich up to let that thethe contents come right back in.
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And that's kind of the crude example for like aspinal disc is like if we can open that up
naturally the disc wants to go back into whereit came from.
And then with the therapy, the soft wave andstuff like that, we can then let that heal.
But as long as it's being squished, that thinghas no chance.
Right?
So we have to do the decompression to alleviatethat.
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Yeah, I think and that's both obviously in thecervical and the lumbar.
So the table's actually positionedappropriately based on where you're seeing the
compression in your discs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it's awesome.
It even if you don't have like severelyherniated discs, it just feels good too.
The you and I are on that thing prettyregularly.
Least once every other week.
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I mean, that's part of reason of you utilizingit for kind of the ongoing maintenance
component.
Right?
Because naturally, of course, there's gonna besomething that happens through the either the
playing of sport or working out that you youjust generally need it.
So it's that maintenance portion that'sextremely critical.
Yeah, that's a good point.
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A lot of patients come in and unfortunately,they've gotten themselves to a point where like
it is pretty, you know, severe and so like,yes, we do get them great results and we get
them out of pain.
But it's like, maintenance is going to morethan likely be something you need to do.
Or we're going to highly highly recommend rightagain optional always optional but gravity and
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the way we sit all day it just puts pressure onthe discs again.
Discs are tough man they they're not easy todeal with You take a spinal disc injury to an
orthopedic surgeon, they're going to tell youthe only fix is surgery.
Obviously, don't know the kind of stuff that wehave.
So, this is out of their wheelhouse, but whenwe do it right again, we can heal that, then
it's a matter of like maintaining that overtime.
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And so, that's where like kind of the next partcomes into is like the strengthening piece
right and so we very much focus on strength,you know, I'd say our population of patients
tend to be maybe 40 and above and so how do webuild up a level of core strength and deep
strength that's going to prevent furtherinjury, make you more resilient, right?
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And prevent obviously relapse and these thingshappening again.
Because what we see is it's not like you wokeup one day, your spine was perfect, and then
you your disc just explodes out the back.
Doesn't it doesn't happen that way.
More more than likely people are walking aroundwith some level of disc bulge or compromise
that's it's there.
It's waiting for an event, right?
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And then maybe the events a car accident.
Maybe the event is you fell or you picked upyour kid and your kid moved weird and you
twisted, right?
It's always something super random.
And then boom, that disc just pushes back hitsthe nerve and now you're in excruciating pain.
And so, okay, how do we like fix that but thenlike bulletproof your low back, right?
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And that's where we use a lot of the exercisepiece.
So functional movement screens is awesome onethat we use.
It's very focused on like that deep core.
And then again, like building up those likefunctional patterns too.
So you're a big component of or a big proponentof the deep core and I'm like you do core work
twice a day every day.
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I mean, you're just like
Yeah.
So focused on it.
But and it's it you know, it's more than just asix pack, man.
It's like, how does how does your deep coreactually keep you healthy?
Mhmm.
Yeah.
I mean, I I do.
And one of the things that, you know, is reallybig is when you're able to and it's not just
like the core work.
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It's the postural stuff, that comes along withthat because you notice that when you don't
have a strong core, you're tenderly you'rerotating those shoulders over when you're
sitting down.
And a lot of people are sitting down for work.
Right?
And that's where that tech net comes into playbecause when your shoulder starts becoming
rounded, your head starts becoming rounded.
And what we look at, you know, as we see Hannahdoing all these leg X rays and writing out, you
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know, how straight these necks are getting,that come in every single day to our office
over these X rays.
So that's one of just the major things is whenyou have a stronger core, you're naturally able
to hold yourself up a little bit straighter,and you're not you don't have that roundedness
to your body, which, you can see that as youage.
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You know, I see that even in my dad, has a veryrounded postural look.
That's just over time has naturally like keepsgoing forward right now at 70 years old.
So that naturally happens unless you weren'tcognizant of it in building strong core related
activity.
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You can't really put yourself up.
And honestly, I think it, you know,neurologically, that's a confidence thing too,
right?
I, you know, we can do a whole other episode onthis, but like portray somebody that has this
like kind of rounded figure.
Right?
And then like how you perceive them and theirlevel of like confidence when they're rounded
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like that.
But if you can sit up straight, you're almostlike your chest is coming out.
Your appearance, you you know, takes on a muchdifferent look.
So that's just being extremely candid is thatyou're like the your brand is somebody else.
You know, when you're like this versus you'reable to your shoulders are straight, you know,
says a lot about you.
So, you know, that's what we're, we want tobuild your confidence up, along with everything
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else.
So those, the structural exercises are equallyas important, but they are more at home based,
right?
So they're, they're relied on something that wecan control as in clinic activities.
Then we send you home with exercise activities.
Those tend to become a little bit harder, butman, they important?
They are.
Yeah.
And like the cool tools that we use and stuff.
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But you made a good point there because, yeahwhen you're in that rounded posture, there's
obviously the mental emotional kind ofcomponent to that like you maybe like exude
less confidence or feel less.
But there's also a physiological component tothat is you are compressing your brainstem and
your your spinal cord.
And so the flow between the brain and the bodyis diminished, right?
And so that can lead to that, right?
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Less feeling of like energy and stuff like thatand you feel more kind of, I guess off or down
or, or you have less vitality.
And so it's very much a physical and emotionalcomponent to that's that's actually pretty
cool.
So yeah, I mean again, the concept with withthe physical medicine piece and really which
was like the foundation of our practice and andwhere it all started with me was, you know,
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it's this is the pillar where we focus onobviously getting rid of pain, keeping you out
of pain, but then improving function as well.
But it's you know, it's really just a piecebecause then there's oftentimes patients who
come in and we have to take it deeper.
It's like, yeah, you have chronic pain, butyour body seems pretty inflamed, right?
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Like why are you so inflamed?
Oh, like you have this massive brain fog andnow you have all these digestive issues too and
there's more to the puzzle, right?
And like, we're not just a we're not just a bagof organs, right?
Like we're a we're a system that functions inunison in tandem.
All these systems have to be talking andcommunicating all the time.
The best example is really like the way ourhormones work, right?
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Like your pineal gland secretes a hormone thattells your hypothalamus to secrete a hormone
that tells your thyroid and your adrenal glandsto secrete another hormone that either tell
them to do more or less and it's this wholecascade and if one thing's off, everything's
going to get kind of haywire, right?
And so, that's where like now, know, our secondpillar really comes into play which is the
functional medicine.
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And I like this concept and this is one becauseI think this is something that we do really
well that obviously Western medicine doesn'tand a lot of other docs who are trying to don't
do it either.
There's not enough of that like connectioncomponent.
Think we connect really well with our patients.
So, you know, because the truth is dude, mostpeople don't need more meds.
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They need better data, right?
They're not getting enough data.
They're getting a snapshot which we talkedabout in many episodes already.
A snapshot of what their blood work looks likeand then they're getting put on medicine with
this vague information.
And so, it's all about understanding why, likewhy are these things happening?
Because then once we know why, we know how wecan fix it and then we know what we need to do,
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right?
And so that's really the approach.
So, why don't we talk a little bit about it,man?
Like talk a little bit about like our program,what we call Total Care and, you know, kind of
what it is and, you know, the I guess the thefruition of it.
Yeah, I mean, the antithesis of, like, whatthis program is is there is a driving force.
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I mean, I think a significant driving forceright now in, health care.
I guess we could say, preferably now beingknown as sick care.
Right?
Think people have figured it out at this pointof, like, what it actually means.
And so and now it's good versus evil.
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And I'm not gonna lie.
Like, you know, for a lot of for a long periodof time, I
think
that functional medicine was considered morewoo woo.
Like, oh, they're they're out there a littlebit more, but what now it's just good medicine,
right?
At the end of the day, because I think when youcan be more educated about yourself, and this
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is something that we have more mentioned, and Iwas the guinea pig, right?
And so then what does that look like?
And what does a lessee total care program looklike?
And basically it's an educational resource, youknow, for you to empower you.
We want to educate and empower each individualto take ownership for themselves of what's
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going on internally within their the humanexistence at which they operate, right?
And so how do we do that?
Well, number one, it's data.
Like you have to understand like where yourblood works at.
So like, that's the first thing we do is acomprehensive blood panel.
And so you'll sit down, we'll kind of digthrough things, but then step number one is a
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comprehensive blood panel.
So we actually had our phlebotomist come in anda bunch of people came in yesterday and had
their blood work drawn.
And so we'll collect data based off of that.
We'll be able to read that.
And then the next step is really, all right,well, what do we do with that?
And so then that becomes like, alright, we havea baseline.
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But how do we improve this?
And so there's going be a couple differentfactors.
You're going to be able to sit down with adoctor, number one, and you're kind of give
that rubric, right?
Well, what are my habits?
Know, why would my cortisol levels be high?
Why do maybe, I have a dysfunctional thyroid?
Where are my vitamin D and what are evenvitamin D levels, right?
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You know, cardiovascular risk.
Oh, yeah, like, how do I understand mycardiovascular markers?
And what are lipid proteins at the end of theday?
So you might have a lot of questions and theremight be just like some things that we answer
along the way.
But like, all those things come into play ofreally getting a better understanding of what
you're able to do with now the information thathas come back from a comprehensive blood panel.
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So sitting down with the doctors is really justbuilding out habit structures of how you can
better align, what maybe some risk factors thatyou currently have.
And then number two is some maybe some microsupplementation.
Maybe you're extremely healthy and you don'tneed anything, but the likelihood is, you know,
I thought I was extremely healthy, and I lookedextremely healthy, but I was deficient in a lot
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of micro supplementation and, I get my bloodwork done on a quarterly basis.
Now, what came back from last time was I hadhigh cardiovascular risk right?
Well, I wanna get ahead of that game.
And what do we need to do to build those intoplay?
So my microsuplementation became a big factorin that.
And then how I just adjusted a few things interms of my habits.
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I have pretty solid habits, but I've added afew things to help me from a cardiovascular
standpoint.
One of which is the sauna, right?
And that might be a recommendation, but Iroutinely get in the sauna because of the
factor that came back in my blood workrecently.
So those are just some of the early steps andthen it's ongoing maintenance, right?
So what does that look like?
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Well, it's likely getting blood work done everysix months.
That's a great way to kind of really have datadriven effects that reverberate off of your
baseline.
So when you get it done more consistently, youhave an understanding of where you're
progressing from that baseline.
And then what things need to be added in.
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So you would come in probably two to even threetimes a year to meet with either Doctor.
Alessi or one of our functional medicine docs,really to, hey, to be coached and be
disciplined and maybe some new habits that needto be formed or new supplementation that needs
to be built in.
It's really, you know, at the very baseline ofit, it's education.
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How can we empower you to really just inspireyour human existence?
Yeah, that's so good.
And something you said there that I want topoint out because I love that you are this way,
but it's lifestyle, right?
And it's like, you know, traditional medicine,you go in, maybe they draw a couple blood
panels or they do something real basic and thenthey just recommend something like a
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medication.
Where a lot of docs can go wrong withfunctional medicine is they think they're doing
functional medicine because they're drawingyour blood and then they're giving you
supplements.
But it's literally just the same model justwith natural interventions.
Okay, so it's like a little bit better, butit's still missing the piece of the why and
like the root cause.
And so like, yeah, if you're chronicallystressed out because your life is just a is
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just madness, then like, I'm going to dig intothat a little bit.
I'm gonna be like, Hey, man, how's your sleep?
Okay, your sleep's not great.
Let's come up with some habits that are betterfor you.
Let's put the phone outside the bedroom twohours before you go to bed.
That's going to help, right?
Of scrolling, right?
All these things, right?
Like so, the sauna is an awesome one becauseagain, you took a data from blood work and you
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did a lifestyle intervention that you can nowimplement that's going to benefit you in that
way.
It wasn't just another thing, right?
It wasn't just like, let me take more stuff.
And so that's the cool part of how we practiceis we call the lifestyle medicine piece.
And I have, I mean, a plethora of guides that Igive patients.
Sometimes I'm like, hey, do you want the do youwant the whole thing all at once?
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You want the shotgun?
Or do you want me to just drip this to you?
Because like, sometimes it can overwhelm them.
We have all these guides like how to shop forfood, right?
Like what to look for in your food.
Detox your lifestyle, what things to eliminatefrom your home.
Home doctor kit, we call it.
Like what things should you have that you cancheck every now and then?
Maybe a blood pressure cuff, maybe checkingyour pulse ox, like all those things.
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And so it's like, again, giving them the tools,giving the patient the tools to be the doc and
then like, I'll just be the guide to kind ofgive you more information and tell you kind of
what you need to do.
Probably obviously heavier on the front end,but then on the back end, like you just now you
do it, right?
And so that's the cool part, man.
We definitely are changing the model with howmedicine is.
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And you know, when you when you got into likewhere this started from, was like a lot of it
was like you and I were having a real deepconversation and it's like, man, when I became
a doctor, I took an oath and the beginning ofthat oath is like first do no harm, right?
That's like every doctor takes that Hippocraticoath.
And that oath is being broken every single daywhen a doctor sits with you for five minutes.
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Here's your thing and then just throws medicineat you.
They are doing harm because they're not gettingthe full story And they're not giving you like
what you deserve and what your body reallyneeds.
And then they're just giving you a poison,honestly.
And so like, I'll be super blunt about that andsuper forward to that, like, yeah, that's harm.
Right?
That is doing harm.
And so, many people die?
I don't know the statistics, but how manypeople die from what's called iatrogenic death,
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which is doctor induced, whether it's a surgerythat didn't need to be done and there was an
infection or a wrongly prescribed medication orsomething, right?
And it's crazy.
The stats are nuts.
And so, I mean, I don't want to get too off therails here with this, but a lot of, I want to
just talk real quick about like referenceranges and how that works and where functional
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medicine takes a different approach, right?
Like the best example is like hormones.
You look at testosterone in a man, thereference range is like two fifty to like a
thousand.
It is huge.
And so if you're like 300 or three fifty, yourdoc's gonna be like, yeah, you're on the lower
end but you're you're in range.
You're good.
It's like that is insane.
Right?
And so like that range to be optimal, what wecall like the optimal or the functional range
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is a lot tighter.
Right?
Like functional range is probably like closerto like 500 to a thousand or even more.
Like we want to get that number up.
And obviously it depends on the marker thatwe're looking at but again, even like vitamin
D.
They you got like a 30 on a vitamin D, they'regoing say you're in range, you're good.
Ideal scores for vitamin D is somewhere likemore like 75 to 80.
You want to have that higher level because thatis a pro hormone that is an immune modulator
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that is a co factor that does so many things tothe body.
And so, again, taking a different look at it,looking at it more functionally and more
optimally of like, like how does your bodyactually going to perform?
And so like, do you want to put just standardbasic stuff into your car so that like
hopefully it runs, but like, know, you know,it's not operating great.
No, most people are going to take really goodcare of their vehicle.
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They spend a lot of money on it.
So it's like your body is a little bit moreimportant than your car.
Think, You get one of them, right?
You can buy a new car, but how are we takingcare of ourselves proactively in that way?
And that's again, not to harp on it, but that'swhere we definitely I like the approach we take
because it's a when you say it that way, peopleare like, oh, that does make sense.
Like, why wouldn't I do that?
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Right?
It's like, why wouldn't I care for this thisbody I have?
Yep.
So you know, it's really like the functionalmedicine builds off of the physical medicine in
that it can help with inflammation.
Can help with these other symptoms and youknow, more like internal things that are going
on within the systems that may be preventinghealing on the physical side.
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If you have all this dysfunction, your body'sgoing to prioritize that versus healing your
joint pain.
And so then like you're doing all this stuffand your joint pains not go away.
We got to take a deeper look.
Hey, what's going on here?
Right?
Like how do we dig?
And how do we figure this thing out?
And so that's really good man.
And thanks for saying all that and kind oftelling your story too.
Let's get into now like the third pillar,right?
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So we got into pillar one, two.
The third pillar that we have and this one isit's cool.
This is like the cool one, right?
It's regenerative medicine.
And this is just more like on the cutting edgeside of science, you know, falling into this
category is that soft wave therapy that fallsinto the physical as well as the regenerative
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because it is a stem cell therapy.
It does help obviously on the physical sidetoo.
So it's a really cool, really cool system wehave.
But let's get into, you know, some of pillarthree, which is that regenerative piece and
some of the therapies that we're doing toreally, I mean, optimize and enhance patient
outcomes like nothing else.
So why don't you start with kind of like theMSC therapy?
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Yeah, I mean, is some of the really cool stuffthat is coming along from a regenerative
standpoint.
But to be honest, is like the little, you know,is just being extremely honest, little bit more
on the expensive side.
So there's maintenance occur to this one.
But still is a great way, holistic way toreally enhance an outcome of maybe an acute
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injury or just an elongated injury.
So mesenchymal stem cell therapy.
Stem cell therapy is embryonic in nature,right?
So they're pulling the stem cells, but it'sinjected into joints in stimulated tissue
repair.
So you can do this both intravenous and you cando it in direct site repair, but is really,
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really cool way.
So if you have like you're having a kneeinjury, a shoulder injury, maybe even an elbow
from playing sports in college or high school,for a long period of time, right?
Those are some ailing ailments that can help.
It also for the spine, is a great way, right?
So like direct injection to right in the spinalcolumns is a great way for these mesenchymal
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stem cells to approach and enhance just thereproduction of cartilage and joint repair and
all these things that are necessary for you tojust get naturally stronger.
Right?
So like joints, you only can hold as muchmuscle as your joints will allow.
That's what really people don't understand too,is like you, your joints are almost more
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important, you know, and muscle is so importantfor longevity, but your joints are probably the
most important things because those are what'sholding on to those muscles.
So, they're amazing for as an anti inflammatoryand regenerative properties.
And then they're typically location based.
So they're gonna be in the spine, the knees,the shoulders.
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You know, those are the areas in the region.
They also are actually implanted, which I needto look into this.
A lot of people are using it for hair.
So you actually can get stem cells actuallylocated within your hair for hair regrowth.
I'm obviously losing my getting a little thin.
I told you I would shave my beard and let youput it on your head, man.
I already told you that.
Please do.
You know, our family's looking for anotherredhead.
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So so that's, the MSC therapy, which, you know,is we do in clinic, which is amazing add on.
So what when I say add on is you still need touse the structural piece.
So the biophysical standpoint of like whatwe're using utilizing in the chiropractic care,
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the decompression, even the soft wavetechnology.
So those goals were hand in hand, right?
Yeah.
Because it enhances the productivity of thestem cells that are location based or
intravenous, right?
So you wanna make sure that you're utilizingboth properties.
It's definitely, you need to get the structuralcomponent first.
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The regenerative side, comes second, but theybut they run-in tandem together.
So they're really awesome.
And to explain a little bit more about what theSoft Ape therapy, again, those are the acoustic
sound wave therapy that stimulate the stem cellrecruitment.
So as you get ejected with MSCs, it's gonnarecruit more natural homeopathic stem cells in
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the body to just keep moving at a more rapidpace as an anti inflammatory approach.
So it's great for obviously the pain, theinflammation, and then extended recovery time
where it shortens the gap to that recoveryperiod, right?
Those are some crucial things to know aboutwhat we're doing on the regenerative side.
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And really honestly, last but not least, whatwe love is the peptide.
There's a number of different peptides that wecould recommend that we actually utilize.
But if you don't know about peptides, there arebio identical signaling molecules that promote
healing, right?
And regenerative repair.
So improves soft tissue repair, immuneimbalance, metabolism, and even cognition.
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Some of the examples of like what we've used isBPC-one hundred fifty seven, TB five hundred,
it's a maximize, that's more muscular andstructural component.
And then CJC with blended with ipamorelin.
You can also blend all of those together.
So BPC one hundred fifty seven, you can blendpeptides.
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Typically peptides, are better and bestperformed through subcutaneous measures,
meaning they're injectables, but they also haveoral and suppository suppository, peptides as
well that you can utilize.
Nonetheless, I use the SubQ along with myhormone replacement therapy.
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I find it being the best, but this is where wego from managing pain to actually rebuilding
tissues and patients love it because theyactually feel the difference throughout the
process.
That's a little bit about our third pillar inthe regenerative side if you want to add on.
Yeah, well, I just wanted to kind of talk aboutlike what it would look like for a patient, you
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know, we're on a little long here, let's not gotoo much more, but and then the other thing is
like the peptides are awesome because, youknow, yes, you mentioned stem cells tend to be
a little bit more on the expensive range, butobviously, massively effective and that's why.
But the peptides are great because there's theycan be so they're like a Swiss army knife.
You can use the BPC injectable for joint rightin the joint.
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You can inject it sub q in the abdomen for moreof a global effect.
Or you can even take it orally because it is agut peptide and so it will heal leaky gut.
So we use that in our leaky gut healing likefive hours program the repair.
BPC Orly is it's amazing.
And so it's like next level for healing the gutif there's any inflammation.
And so, you know, it's cool because okay, wejust talked about these three pillars now it's
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like, what does it look like for someone,right?
For like all of those to kind of come intoplay.
And you kind of mentioned it, right?
Like say someone comes in, they've got backpain, an old injury, their body's massively
inflamed, maybe some digestive things.
They could benefit from like one of our likemore premier programs or packages where they
get maybe a stem cell injection at thebeginning, right?
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They pair that with some peptides maintenancewise, they're doing the corrective chiropractic
and decompression with the soft wave over thearea.
And then on the functional medicine side, we'regetting them the supplementations and the
nutraceuticals to rebuild joint tissue, right?
We use a ton of different really cool productsthat have nutrients that will go in and
actually stimulate rebuilding of the tissue,that synovial tissue in the joint.
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And then obviously lowering the inflammation,fixing gut dysfunction because that's at the
root cause of many things.
And so then like this three pronged approachjust like getting after it but it's all on the
natural side.
None of it's actually causing any side effectsor down, you know, downward effects.
And so it's all just positive.
And again, just like shotgun approach like likegetting people like crazy tremendous results
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with it, man.
It's awesome.
So that's why we like it's like we're good atwhat we do.
Like that's why we focus on what we do, right?
Like we're not gonna try to do something wedon't know.
And so it's like we focus on these three thingsand we just really, really optimize the way
they work together.
So again, it's like the three pillars and howthey work together.
It's like structure, function, regeneration,like you're hitting all the bases, right?
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And so, know, you're not gonna detox your wayout of a structural problem.
You're not gonna rehab your way out of atoxicity problem.
You need kind of a little bit of both, right?
And so, that's why the model works because it'shitting it from all sides.
And so, you know, if you're listening and youfeel like you've tried everything, how many
times have I heard that?
Oh, I've tried everything or they triedeverything.
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right?
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And it's like, you know, traditional medicine,you go in, maybe they draw a couple blood
panels or they do something real basic and thenthey just recommend something like a like a
medication Where a lot of docs can go wrongwith functional medicine is they think they're
doing functional medicine because they'redrawing your blood and then they're giving you
supplements.
But it's literally just the same model justwith natural interventions.
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So it's like a little bit better, but it'sstill missing the piece of the why and like the
root cause.
And so like, yeah, if you're chronicallystressed out because your life is just a is
just madness, then like, I'm gonna dig intothat a little bit.
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Let's protect it proactively.
Welcome back to another episode of healthdecoded.
I am your host, doctor Alessi.
And your co host here, Matt Tack.
Matt Tack.
Man, coming in hot.
How are doing?
Good.
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How are you?
I'm doing well, man.
I'm doing well.
I'm excited.
This is a it's a good day.
It's been a good month.
We just there's a lot of cool things happeningwithin the clinic and kind of what we've been
doing.
And these programs we've put together and it'sreally cool to see, you know, people are like
excited about it, right?
Like patients coming in the office and they're,they're excited to be there.
(02:54):
They're excited to learn.
And it's just awesome, man.
I feel like it's really like a healthrevolution that that we're seeing nowadays
people like wanting to take control rightwanting to get ahead of things and we talked
about that a couple weeks back is like theproactive versus reactive right and think
people are people are understanding theimportance and actually starting to subscribe
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to that.
It's been good, man.
What's new to you?
It's control, At the end of the day, likepeople, know, when you can have some element of
control over your life, it's empowering.
And I think that's what like ultimately you'regiving to somebody with through the process of
the education when you can have control overwhat you're putting into your body.
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It's a it's a beautiful thing.
Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
I literally just talked to a patient yesterdayand we're sitting in there in a functional
medicine consultation and I'm like, hey, thegoal here is for me to teach you how to read
your own blood work so that in the future youcan run labs on yourself.
You can see what's going on.
You can stay ahead of things and then you know,I'm here to guide you if you need help, but you
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can tweak things as you need as well, right?
Oh, my it looks like my cortisol is high thismonth.
Oh, yeah, last month was pretty stressful.
Now what do I got to do, right?
I got to change up some things maybe in mydaily routine, maybe in my sleep, maybe in my
lifestyle.
So being able to get the knowledge base therebecause most people have no clue or how to read
lab work.
So it's really important, know, it's like, youknow, just rely on someone for that forever.
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Or can we guide you to then, you know, like ateacher give you an idea of how to do it for
yourself.
So we're all about that.
And look who the guinea pig was, me.
Yeah.
Was the first functional medicine patient, Ithink at well, won't say the first.
But I was a guinea pig in that person of like,hey, I want to learn more about what's going
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on.
Like, what what are my symptoms?
And how can we get to a root cause of this?
Because I want to feel better.
And so we did that.
You know, you guided me through that.
We dug in, and I just constantly want to learnmore and more now, right?
Put new habits in place, you know, dialing innutrition, micro supplementation, you know, and
(05:05):
then even understanding my blood work.
Like I'm, I'm able to educate people on bloodwork now because of the time that you to just
basically take me through what, hey, this iswhat this means, and this is how we basically
need to put the micro supplementation together.
And then maybe let's look at your habitstructure.
All those things really do play a huge role inan understanding of, you know, hey, how do I
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just get feel a little bit better tomorrow?
And it's that 1% improvement.
Yeah, yeah.
And that's awesome.
And yeah, now you don't I don't even look atyour blood work really anymore.
You run it yourself and you do it yourself andlike, it's awesome, man.
It's it's good stuff.
And so I think you took initiative, right?
Like that's a good point is like you tookaction on that and you were very proactive
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about it.
You're like, man, I want to learn these thingsbecause you do care about your health and you
are, you know, very much focused on that andnot just for you, it's for your family too.
So that's what we're trying to create, man.
Again, you're like the you're like the rolemodel for our patients.
Know, today, we're unpacking the three pillarsof health we call it, right?
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That basically is like the foundation of how wehelp people, how we get great results without
relying on pills and really like guesswork iswhat we call it.
Like a lot of places, a lot of docs you go toand it's like guesswork.
They just, oh, let's try this medicine.
Let's see what happens.
Come back in six months.
That's that's pretty, you know, basic andhonestly fruitless.
So really like our mission statement and I'lljust read it here.
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Our goal is to educate and empower you to takeownership of your health.
We believe healthcare should fix problems atthe root, not just mask symptoms.
And so that's really what the three pillars arebuilt to do.
And so when you kind of came up with the ideafor this this episode, I was like heck yeah,
let's do that because we want to let ourpatients kind of know like how we operate.
(07:01):
Obviously, they've probably been to the clinicpeople listening or they've you know, met us at
some point and they know what we do, but likethe foundation of how we operate and why.
And I think that's really cool.
And so yeah, we do have these three pillars andit is important because it's like a roadmap or
it's like a guideline.
And so unless you have like structure in place,you're gonna be all over the place.
(07:24):
And so why don't we just go through them andkind of we'll just you know, keep this open
conversation man and and talk stuff.
Maybe talk about like experiences we've had andkind of what it is.
Explain some of this and then you know, keepthis keep this fun.
So I'll do this.
I'll I'll just start it.
Number one, the first pillar we have is what wecall physical medicine.
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And so, you know, think of your body as ahouse, right?
If the foundation of the house is crooked,everything else is going to suffer.
And so the first pillar is what we callphysical medicine.
So think of your body as a house, right?
If the foundation of the house is crooked,everything else is going to suffer or have
issues.
And so pillar one is really about thestructure, but then also the function and the
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movement of that structure.
And so there's a few different key componentsand let's just kind of get into this, right?
Number one and patients who have experiencedthis know, we practice what's called
chiropractic biophysics.
And so this isn't just routine adjustment pop,crack your back.
Oh, I feel better.
See you next week when it comes back, right?
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This is correction based.
And so, it's not pain based.
So yeah, you might have pain, but why are youin pain?
Because your spine is far from alignment or youhave a reverse curve in your neck should be
bending this way.
It's bending forward, right?
And so, things over time, these structuralspinal changes lead to degeneration, lead to
arthritis and ultimately lead to pain.
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And so, we're very focused on that because weget better results than anyone else because we
take that extra added step to focus on thecorrective, not just the let me get you out of
pain for the week, see you next week, you know,kind of I guess routine, right?
And you kind of experienced that too in thepast with some chiropractic care you did.
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Yeah, for sure.
And I think that's one of the big things ofjust the biophysical element is the ongoing
maintenance of it, right?
A lot of people think of it's like an acute,Hey, I have an acute injury or something
happened and I'm gonna, that's my lifeline,right?
I just don't treat chiropractic care that way.
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I treat it as like a long term maintenanceproactive type healthcare approach for me
because, I do.
I like, I take my body through, a lot, youknow, on a daily basis.
I still play sports.
We were talking about sports before thisepisode, right?
We wanna play sports as long as physicallypossible.
And I think we're able to do that, but we haveto take the proper measures.
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And the chiropractic biophysics, along with theother therapies that we have are instrumental
in that.
Yeah.
Well, it's like, what other things in life doyou ever just, like, do it once?
And it's you know what I mean?
It's like, to maintain results like you got tohave some level of like effort in exercise is a
great synergy to it because you go to the gymand say you're more dialed in routinely at the
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beginning maybe you're going four or five daysa week really with a goal in mind you get to
that weight.
Then you got to maintain that you don't juststop, right?
And so, you know, but the cool thing is withthe protocols we use is we do get really good
permanent results.
The patients just have to maintain that ontheir own, right?
It's like, you come to us for a fix.
We fix whatever problem it is.
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And now it's just it's up to you like if youmaintain the things we've shown you, which a
lot is done at home.
Yeah, come in for an adjustment maybe oncetwice a month, but other than that, like you
can maintain a lot of these results with thestructural things we teach you the right the
orthotics like the dental is awesome tool, andeven like exercises to mitigate having to
relapse and then end up being more on acorrective program again.
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And so it's like the phases of care that weoften see with the physical medicine side is
like very much like people come to us withpain.
So there's like that acute pain relief phasethat they got to go through.
We got to get you out of pain.
That's why you're here.
And it's limiting things.
Usually that's pretty short man.
That's four to six weeks is that is aboutaverage what we see we get people out of pain
pretty quick.
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Keeping them out of pain is the hard part andthis is where a lot of chiropractors don't have
like an answer or a plan.
They just keep doing the same things.
And so it's like, that's where we build in nowthe next phase, which is like the corrective
phase, right?
The corrective phase is what keeps people whatactually makes structural change in the spine.
And so some of the instruments we use in theoffice, which you know, you can talk about, but
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that's where we get like actual change that isvisibly seen on like an X-ray.
And then from there, the maintenance like youwere just talking about.
And so, why don't you talk about like some ofthe chiropractic things we use in the office,
obviously, the adjustments or things that wehave Doctor.
Rennie doing adjustments.
I do some adjustments from time to time.
But like the protocol, right?
And like what it looks like to do a correctiveplan.
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Yeah, so when Doctor.
Alessi actually came up with this, you know,complete phased out protocol, I, you know, it's
been revolutionary in terms of like how we carefor our patients and actually take them through
the lifeline of what maybe an acute injurymight be, but also like the maintenance on that
maintenance side as well.
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So what we have primarily right now outside ofour other three pillars, but specifically just
within our protocol is soft tissue therapy,which is our soft wave therapy, which is
essentially is kind of targeting acute areas,mainly that fascia, that soft tissue, tendons,
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whatever it might be, and in the spine, right?
So the central nervous system is gonna feedback on any level of inflammation, but the
Softwave technology basically kind of likeartificially targets, not kind of, it does,
targets in that area of inflammation and throwsstem cells at it.
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So naturally produces stem cells in the regionthat it needs to.
So we can use that in spinal regions, can usethat in shoulders or knees or whatever it might
be.
So it's a beautiful thing in runningcombination, especially like in a, with a
sciatic injury, where you're gonna be feelingthat in that hip, you know, lower lumbar region
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all the way down to your potentially yourankle.
So we can utilize it for that to reduce theamount of pain you're having in one region
while we're adjusting through spinaldecompression your spine, right?
So that's kind of the structure or theelongation of the Rhine, you know, giving room
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for those discs in the chiropractic biophysicphase to be put back into place.
So that's what I love about the three thingsthat we use in terms of the protocol is because
they're also utilized very specifically, butthey synergize together.
So the three things we obviously do is softwave therapy, spinal decompression, and
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chiropractor biophysics.
So that's it.
That's what we call affectionately the painfree future protocol.
Yeah, and so essentially it was where it camefrom is, know, I've been doing this for going
on six, seven years now.
And I've always been chiropractic, right?
That was where I started.
Was adjustments, adjustments, adjustments.
And I was like, alright, there's how do we helppeople more?
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And then I worked in a clinic where we hadspinal decompression.
Was like, Okay, this is awesome.
Like, this is now getting people fantasticresults with disc injuries because before then
it was really more like passive stretches andstuff like that.
And then three years ago investing in the inthe soft wave technology, I found that we can
take a disc injury which discs are very slowregenerative, so are nerves, they take a long
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time to heal.
And if there's compression on it, it's going totake even longer.
And so normally, you know, we are looking atsomewhere around like six to eight months for
like a full recovery.
We're accelerating that with the soft wave, youknow, somewhere between like three to six
months patients are getting awesome results andlike permanent results, right?
And so, basically we took that plus thecorrective chiropractic plus the spinal
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decompression, those three things bundle themtogether.
It's like, now it's like a home run, right?
That's like that summative effect you get ofall these modalities.
And so then we're like, Okay, like let's nowlet's put a name on it because it's a protocol
is always better.
It's like, we follow this protocol, we getresults.
And so, it might look mildly different frompatient to patient like how many treatments
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they'll need like the severity of maybe theneuropathy but for the most part, it's going to
be heavy with the soft wave and decompressionon the front end, phasing into more of the
decompression and corrective chiropractic inthe mid and then on the back end, the
maintenance chiropractic to keep the results.
And so you go through this protocol and thesephases of care.
And again, it's just if you do it and you dokind of how we instruct it, it works.
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Like it just, I want to say a % of the time,but I can't.
But like it is, it's going to work, right?
And so again, there's always that buy incomponent like some patients fall off or they
get distracted or life events, right?
Like they have something come up and they so a% would be nice to say because we do get in the
high 90s success rates with our protocol if youdo it correctly.
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So then let's go into kind of the next piece ofthe physical medicine, which is the spinal
decompression that you mentioned.
So spinal decompression is basically it's likea bed, you're laying on it either on your back
or sometimes you can go prone, it's mostly onyour back and it's pulling your body axially.
So like straight versus like some othertherapies are going to flex your spine.
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When you pull it straight, think of like theexample I use is like a like a sandwich, So you
got like two pieces of bread and you got abunch of deli meat and avocado and stuff in
there and you squish it, everything shoots outthe side, right?
That's like the disc pushing out.
You can't just stuff that back in.
Have to open that sandwich up to let that thethe contents come right back in.
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And that's kind of the crude example for like aspinal disc is like if we can open that up
naturally the disc wants to go back into whereit came from.
And then with the therapy, the soft wave andstuff like that, we can then let that heal.
But as long as it's being squished, that thinghas no chance.
Right?
So we have to do the decompression to alleviatethat.
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Yeah, I think and that's both obviously in thecervical and the lumbar.
So the table's actually positionedappropriately based on where you're seeing the
compression in your discs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it's awesome.
It even if you don't have like severelyherniated discs, it just feels good too.
The you and I are on that thing prettyregularly.
Least once every other week.
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I mean, that's part of reason of you utilizingit for kind of the ongoing maintenance
component.
Right?
Because naturally, of course, there's gonna besomething that happens through the either the
playing of sport or working out that you youjust generally need it.
So it's that maintenance portion that'sextremely critical.
Yeah, that's a good point.
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A lot of patients come in and unfortunately,they've gotten themselves to a point where like
it is pretty, you know, severe and so like,yes, we do get them great results and we get
them out of pain.
But it's like, maintenance is going to morethan likely be something you need to do.
Or we're going to highly highly recommend rightagain optional always optional but gravity and
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the way we sit all day it just puts pressure onthe discs again.
Discs are tough man they they're not easy todeal with You take a spinal disc injury to an
orthopedic surgeon, they're going to tell youthe only fix is surgery.
Obviously, don't know the kind of stuff that wehave.
So, this is out of their wheelhouse, but whenwe do it right again, we can heal that, then
it's a matter of like maintaining that overtime.
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And so, that's where like kind of the next partcomes into is like the strengthening piece
right and so we very much focus on strength,you know, I'd say our population of patients
tend to be maybe 40 and above and so how do webuild up a level of core strength and deep
strength that's going to prevent furtherinjury, make you more resilient, right?
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And prevent obviously relapse and these thingshappening again.
Because what we see is it's not like you wokeup one day, your spine was perfect, and then
you your disc just explodes out the back.
Doesn't it doesn't happen that way.
More more than likely people are walking aroundwith some level of disc bulge or compromise
that's it's there.
It's waiting for an event, right?
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And then maybe the events a car accident.
Maybe the event is you fell or you picked upyour kid and your kid moved weird and you
twisted, right?
It's always something super random.
And then boom, that disc just pushes back hitsthe nerve and now you're in excruciating pain.
And so, okay, how do we like fix that but thenlike bulletproof your low back, right?
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And that's where we use a lot of the exercisepiece.
So functional movement screens is awesome onethat we use.
It's very focused on like that deep core.
And then again, like building up those likefunctional patterns too.
So you're a big component of or a big proponentof the deep core and I'm like you do core work
twice a day every day.
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I mean, you're just like
Yeah.
So focused on it.
But and it's it you know, it's more than just asix pack, man.
It's like, how does how does your deep coreactually keep you healthy?
Mhmm.
Yeah.
I mean, I I do.
And one of the things that, you know, is reallybig is when you're able to and it's not just
like the core work.
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It's the postural stuff, that comes along withthat because you notice that when you don't
have a strong core, you're tenderly you'rerotating those shoulders over when you're
sitting down.
And a lot of people are sitting down for work.
Right?
And that's where that tech net comes into playbecause when your shoulder starts becoming
rounded, your head starts becoming rounded.
And what we look at, you know, as we see Hannahdoing all these leg X rays and writing out, you
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know, how straight these necks are getting,that come in every single day to our office
over these X rays.
So that's one of just the major things is whenyou have a stronger core, you're naturally able
to hold yourself up a little bit straighter,and you're not you don't have that roundedness
to your body, which, you can see that as youage.
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You know, I see that even in my dad, has a veryrounded postural look.
That's just over time has naturally like keepsgoing forward right now at 70 years old.
So that naturally happens unless you weren'tcognizant of it in building strong core related
activity.
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You can't really put yourself up.
And honestly, I think it, you know,neurologically, that's a confidence thing too,
right?
I, you know, we can do a whole other episode onthis, but like portray somebody that has this
like kind of rounded figure.
Right?
And then like how you perceive them and theirlevel of like confidence when they're rounded
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like that.
But if you can sit up straight, you're almostlike your chest is coming out.
Your appearance, you you know, takes on a muchdifferent look.
So that's just being extremely candid is thatyou're like the your brand is somebody else.
You know, when you're like this versus you'reable to your shoulders are straight, you know,
says a lot about you.
So, you know, that's what we're, we want tobuild your confidence up, along with everything
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else.
So those, the structural exercises are equallyas important, but they are more at home based,
right?
So they're, they're relied on something that wecan control as in clinic activities.
Then we send you home with exercise activities.
Those tend to become a little bit harder, butman, they important?
They are.
Yeah.
And like the cool tools that we use and stuff.
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But you made a good point there because, yeahwhen you're in that rounded posture, there's
obviously the mental emotional kind ofcomponent to that like you maybe like exude
less confidence or feel less.
But there's also a physiological component tothat is you are compressing your brainstem and
your your spinal cord.
And so the flow between the brain and the bodyis diminished, right?
And so that can lead to that, right?
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Less feeling of like energy and stuff like thatand you feel more kind of, I guess off or down
or, or you have less vitality.
And so it's very much a physical and emotionalcomponent to that's that's actually pretty
cool.
So yeah, I mean again, the concept with withthe physical medicine piece and really which
was like the foundation of our practice and andwhere it all started with me was, you know,
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it's this is the pillar where we focus onobviously getting rid of pain, keeping you out
of pain, but then improving function as well.
But it's you know, it's really just a piecebecause then there's oftentimes patients who
come in and we have to take it deeper.
It's like, yeah, you have chronic pain, butyour body seems pretty inflamed, right?
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Like why are you so inflamed?
Oh, like you have this massive brain fog andnow you have all these digestive issues too and
there's more to the puzzle, right?
And like, we're not just a we're not just a bagof organs, right?
Like we're a we're a system that functions inunison in tandem.
All these systems have to be talking andcommunicating all the time.
The best example is really like the way ourhormones work, right?
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Like your pineal gland secretes a hormone thattells your hypothalamus to secrete a hormone
that tells your thyroid and your adrenal glandsto secrete another hormone that either tell
them to do more or less and it's this wholecascade and if one thing's off, everything's
going to get kind of haywire, right?
And so, that's where like now, know, our secondpillar really comes into play which is the
functional medicine.
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And I like this concept and this is one becauseI think this is something that we do really
well that obviously Western medicine doesn'tand a lot of other docs who are trying to don't
do it either.
There's not enough of that like connectioncomponent.
Think we connect really well with our patients.
So, you know, because the truth is dude, mostpeople don't need more meds.
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They need better data, right?
They're not getting enough data.
They're getting a snapshot which we talkedabout in many episodes already.
A snapshot of what their blood work looks likeand then they're getting put on medicine with
this vague information.
And so, it's all about understanding why, likewhy are these things happening?
Because then once we know why, we know how wecan fix it and then we know what we need to do,
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right?
And so that's really the approach.
So, why don't we talk a little bit about it,man?
Like talk a little bit about like our program,what we call Total Care and, you know, kind of
what it is and, you know, the I guess the thefruition of it.
Yeah, I mean, the antithesis of, like, whatthis program is is there is a driving force.
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I mean, I think a significant driving forceright now in, health care.
I guess we could say, preferably now beingknown as sick care.
Right?
Think people have figured it out at this pointof, like, what it actually means.
And so and now it's good versus evil.
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And I'm not gonna lie.
Like, you know, for a lot of for a long periodof time, I
think
that functional medicine was considered morewoo woo.
Like, oh, they're they're out there a littlebit more, but what now it's just good medicine,
right?
At the end of the day, because I think when youcan be more educated about yourself, and this
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is something that we have more mentioned, and Iwas the guinea pig, right?
And so then what does that look like?
And what does a lessee total care program looklike?
And basically it's an educational resource, youknow, for you to empower you.
We want to educate and empower each individualto take ownership for themselves of what's
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going on internally within their the humanexistence at which they operate, right?
And so how do we do that?
Well, number one, it's data.
Like you have to understand like where yourblood works at.
So like, that's the first thing we do is acomprehensive blood panel.
And so you'll sit down, we'll kind of digthrough things, but then step number one is a
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comprehensive blood panel.
So we actually had our phlebotomist come in anda bunch of people came in yesterday and had
their blood work drawn.
And so we'll collect data based off of that.
We'll be able to read that.
And then the next step is really, all right,well, what do we do with that?
And so then that becomes like, alright, we havea baseline.
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But how do we improve this?
And so there's going be a couple differentfactors.
You're going to be able to sit down with adoctor, number one, and you're kind of give
that rubric, right?
Well, what are my habits?
Know, why would my cortisol levels be high?
Why do maybe, I have a dysfunctional thyroid?
Where are my vitamin D and what are evenvitamin D levels, right?
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You know, cardiovascular risk.
Oh, yeah, like, how do I understand mycardiovascular markers?
And what are lipid proteins at the end of theday?
So you might have a lot of questions and theremight be just like some things that we answer
along the way.
But like, all those things come into play ofreally getting a better understanding of what
you're able to do with now the information thathas come back from a comprehensive blood panel.
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So sitting down with the doctors is really justbuilding out habit structures of how you can
better align, what maybe some risk factors thatyou currently have.
And then number two is some maybe some microsupplementation.
Maybe you're extremely healthy and you don'tneed anything, but the likelihood is, you know,
I thought I was extremely healthy, and I lookedextremely healthy, but I was deficient in a lot
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of micro supplementation and, I get my bloodwork done on a quarterly basis.
Now, what came back from last time was I hadhigh cardiovascular risk right?
Well, I wanna get ahead of that game.
And what do we need to do to build those intoplay?
So my microsuplementation became a big factorin that.
And then how I just adjusted a few things interms of my habits.
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I have pretty solid habits, but I've added afew things to help me from a cardiovascular
standpoint.
One of which is the sauna, right?
And that might be a recommendation, but Iroutinely get in the sauna because of the
factor that came back in my blood workrecently.
So those are just some of the early steps andthen it's ongoing maintenance, right?
So what does that look like?
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Well, it's likely getting blood work done everysix months.
That's a great way to kind of really have datadriven effects that reverberate off of your
baseline.
So when you get it done more consistently, youhave an understanding of where you're
progressing from that baseline.
And then what things need to be added in.
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So you would come in probably two to even threetimes a year to meet with either Doctor.
Alessi or one of our functional medicine docs,really to, hey, to be coached and be
disciplined and maybe some new habits that needto be formed or new supplementation that needs
to be built in.
It's really, you know, at the very baseline ofit, it's education.
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How can we empower you to really just inspireyour human existence?
Yeah, that's so good.
And something you said there that I want topoint out because I love that you are this way,
but it's lifestyle, right?
And it's like, you know, traditional medicine,you go in, maybe they draw a couple blood
panels or they do something real basic and thenthey just recommend something like a
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medication.
Where a lot of docs can go wrong withfunctional medicine is they think they're doing
functional medicine because they're drawingyour blood and then they're giving you
supplements.
But it's literally just the same model justwith natural interventions.
Okay, so it's like a little bit better, butit's still missing the piece of the why and
like the root cause.
And so like, yeah, if you're chronicallystressed out because your life is just a is
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just madness, then like, I'm going to dig intothat a little bit.
I'm gonna be like, Hey, man, how's your sleep?
Okay, your sleep's not great.
Let's come up with some habits that are betterfor you.
Let's put the phone outside the bedroom twohours before you go to bed.
That's going to help, right?
Of scrolling, right?
All these things, right?
Like so, the sauna is an awesome one becauseagain, you took a data from blood work and you
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did a lifestyle intervention that you can nowimplement that's going to benefit you in that
way.
It wasn't just another thing, right?
It wasn't just like, let me take more stuff.
And so that's the cool part of how we practiceis we call the lifestyle medicine piece.
And I have, I mean, a plethora of guides that Igive patients.
Sometimes I'm like, hey, do you want the do youwant the whole thing all at once?
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You want the shotgun?
Or do you want me to just drip this to you?
Because like, sometimes it can overwhelm them.
We have all these guides like how to shop forfood, right?
Like what to look for in your food.
Detox your lifestyle, what things to eliminatefrom your home.
Home doctor kit, we call it.
Like what things should you have that you cancheck every now and then?
Maybe a blood pressure cuff, maybe checkingyour pulse ox, like all those things.
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And so it's like, again, giving them the tools,giving the patient the tools to be the doc and
then like, I'll just be the guide to kind ofgive you more information and tell you kind of
what you need to do.
Probably obviously heavier on the front end,but then on the back end, like you just now you
do it, right?
And so that's the cool part, man.
We definitely are changing the model with howmedicine is.
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And you know, when you when you got into likewhere this started from, was like a lot of it
was like you and I were having a real deepconversation and it's like, man, when I became
a doctor, I took an oath and the beginning ofthat oath is like first do no harm, right?
That's like every doctor takes that Hippocraticoath.
And that oath is being broken every single daywhen a doctor sits with you for five minutes.
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Here's your thing and then just throws medicineat you.
They are doing harm because they're not gettingthe full story And they're not giving you like
what you deserve and what your body reallyneeds.
And then they're just giving you a poison,honestly.
And so like, I'll be super blunt about that andsuper forward to that, like, yeah, that's harm.
Right?
That is doing harm.
And so, many people die?
I don't know the statistics, but how manypeople die from what's called iatrogenic death,
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which is doctor induced, whether it's a surgerythat didn't need to be done and there was an
infection or a wrongly prescribed medication orsomething, right?
And it's crazy.
The stats are nuts.
And so, I mean, I don't want to get too off therails here with this, but a lot of, I want to
just talk real quick about like referenceranges and how that works and where functional
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medicine takes a different approach, right?
Like the best example is like hormones.
You look at testosterone in a man, thereference range is like two fifty to like a
thousand.
It is huge.
And so if you're like 300 or three fifty, yourdoc's gonna be like, yeah, you're on the lower
end but you're you're in range.
You're good.
It's like that is insane.
Right?
And so like that range to be optimal, what wecall like the optimal or the functional range
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is a lot tighter.
Right?
Like functional range is probably like closerto like 500 to a thousand or even more.
Like we want to get that number up.
And obviously it depends on the marker thatwe're looking at but again, even like vitamin
D.
They you got like a 30 on a vitamin D, they'regoing say you're in range, you're good.
Ideal scores for vitamin D is somewhere likemore like 75 to 80.
You want to have that higher level because thatis a pro hormone that is an immune modulator
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that is a co factor that does so many things tothe body.
And so, again, taking a different look at it,looking at it more functionally and more
optimally of like, like how does your bodyactually going to perform?
And so like, do you want to put just standardbasic stuff into your car so that like
hopefully it runs, but like, know, you know,it's not operating great.
No, most people are going to take really goodcare of their vehicle.
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They spend a lot of money on it.
So it's like your body is a little bit moreimportant than your car.
Think, You get one of them, right?
You can buy a new car, but how are we takingcare of ourselves proactively in that way?
And that's again, not to harp on it, but that'swhere we definitely I like the approach we take
because it's a when you say it that way, peopleare like, oh, that does make sense.
Like, why wouldn't I do that?
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Right?
It's like, why wouldn't I care for this thisbody I have?
Yep.
So you know, it's really like the functionalmedicine builds off of the physical medicine in
that it can help with inflammation.
Can help with these other symptoms and youknow, more like internal things that are going
on within the systems that may be preventinghealing on the physical side.
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If you have all this dysfunction, your body'sgoing to prioritize that versus healing your
joint pain.
And so then like you're doing all this stuffand your joint pains not go away.
We got to take a deeper look.
Hey, what's going on here?
Right?
Like how do we dig?
And how do we figure this thing out?
And so that's really good man.
And thanks for saying all that and kind oftelling your story too.
Let's get into now like the third pillar,right?
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So we got into pillar one, two.
The third pillar that we have and this one isit's cool.
This is like the cool one, right?
It's regenerative medicine.
And this is just more like on the cutting edgeside of science, you know, falling into this
category is that soft wave therapy that fallsinto the physical as well as the regenerative
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because it is a stem cell therapy.
It does help obviously on the physical sidetoo.
So it's a really cool, really cool system wehave.
But let's get into, you know, some of pillarthree, which is that regenerative piece and
some of the therapies that we're doing toreally, I mean, optimize and enhance patient
outcomes like nothing else.
So why don't you start with kind of like theMSC therapy?
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Yeah, I mean, is some of the really cool stuffthat is coming along from a regenerative
standpoint.
But to be honest, is like the little, you know,is just being extremely honest, little bit more
on the expensive side.
So there's maintenance occur to this one.
But still is a great way, holistic way toreally enhance an outcome of maybe an acute
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injury or just an elongated injury.
So mesenchymal stem cell therapy.
Stem cell therapy is embryonic in nature,right?
So they're pulling the stem cells, but it'sinjected into joints in stimulated tissue
repair.
So you can do this both intravenous and you cando it in direct site repair, but is really,
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really cool way.
So if you have like you're having a kneeinjury, a shoulder injury, maybe even an elbow
from playing sports in college or high school,for a long period of time, right?
Those are some ailing ailments that can help.
It also for the spine, is a great way, right?
So like direct injection to right in the spinalcolumns is a great way for these mesenchymal
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stem cells to approach and enhance just thereproduction of cartilage and joint repair and
all these things that are necessary for you tojust get naturally stronger.
Right?
So like joints, you only can hold as muchmuscle as your joints will allow.
That's what really people don't understand too,is like you, your joints are almost more
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important, you know, and muscle is so importantfor longevity, but your joints are probably the
most important things because those are what'sholding on to those muscles.
So, they're amazing for as an anti inflammatoryand regenerative properties.
And then they're typically location based.
So they're gonna be in the spine, the knees,the shoulders.
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You know, those are the areas in the region.
They also are actually implanted, which I needto look into this.
A lot of people are using it for hair.
So you actually can get stem cells actuallylocated within your hair for hair regrowth.
I'm obviously losing my getting a little thin.
I told you I would shave my beard and let youput it on your head, man.
I already told you that.
Please do.
You know, our family's looking for anotherredhead.
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So so that's, the MSC therapy, which, you know,is we do in clinic, which is amazing add on.
So what when I say add on is you still need touse the structural piece.
So the biophysical standpoint of like whatwe're using utilizing in the chiropractic care,
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the decompression, even the soft wavetechnology.
So those goals were hand in hand, right?
Yeah.
Because it enhances the productivity of thestem cells that are location based or
intravenous, right?
So you wanna make sure that you're utilizingboth properties.
It's definitely, you need to get the structuralcomponent first.
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The regenerative side, comes second, but theybut they run-in tandem together.
So they're really awesome.
And to explain a little bit more about what theSoft Ape therapy, again, those are the acoustic
sound wave therapy that stimulate the stem cellrecruitment.
So as you get ejected with MSCs, it's gonnarecruit more natural homeopathic stem cells in
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the body to just keep moving at a more rapidpace as an anti inflammatory approach.
So it's great for obviously the pain, theinflammation, and then extended recovery time
where it shortens the gap to that recoveryperiod, right?
Those are some crucial things to know aboutwhat we're doing on the regenerative side.
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And really honestly, last but not least, whatwe love is the peptide.
There's a number of different peptides that wecould recommend that we actually utilize.
But if you don't know about peptides, there arebio identical signaling molecules that promote
healing, right?
And regenerative repair.
So improves soft tissue repair, immuneimbalance, metabolism, and even cognition.
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Some of the examples of like what we've used isBPC-one hundred fifty seven, TB five hundred,
it's a maximize, that's more muscular andstructural component.
And then CJC with blended with ipamorelin.
You can also blend all of those together.
So BPC one hundred fifty seven, you can blendpeptides.
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Typically peptides, are better and bestperformed through subcutaneous measures,
meaning they're injectables, but they also haveoral and suppository suppository, peptides as
well that you can utilize.
Nonetheless, I use the SubQ along with myhormone replacement therapy.
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I find it being the best, but this is where wego from managing pain to actually rebuilding
tissues and patients love it because theyactually feel the difference throughout the
process.
That's a little bit about our third pillar inthe regenerative side if you want to add on.
Yeah, well, I just wanted to kind of talk aboutlike what it would look like for a patient, you
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know, we're on a little long here, let's not gotoo much more, but and then the other thing is
like the peptides are awesome because, youknow, yes, you mentioned stem cells tend to be
a little bit more on the expensive range, butobviously, massively effective and that's why.
But the peptides are great because there's theycan be so they're like a Swiss army knife.
You can use the BPC injectable for joint rightin the joint.
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You can inject it sub q in the abdomen for moreof a global effect.
Or you can even take it orally because it is agut peptide and so it will heal leaky gut.
So we use that in our leaky gut healing likefive hours program the repair.
BPC Orly is it's amazing.
And so it's like next level for healing the gutif there's any inflammation.
And so, you know, it's cool because okay, wejust talked about these three pillars now it's
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like, what does it look like for someone,right?
For like all of those to kind of come intoplay.
And you kind of mentioned it, right?
Like say someone comes in, they've got backpain, an old injury, their body's massively
inflamed, maybe some digestive things.
They could benefit from like one of our likemore premier programs or packages where they
get maybe a stem cell injection at thebeginning, right?
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They pair that with some peptides maintenancewise, they're doing the corrective chiropractic
and decompression with the soft wave over thearea.
And then on the functional medicine side, we'regetting them the supplementations and the
nutraceuticals to rebuild joint tissue, right?
We use a ton of different really cool productsthat have nutrients that will go in and
actually stimulate rebuilding of the tissue,that synovial tissue in the joint.
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And then obviously lowering the inflammation,fixing gut dysfunction because that's at the
root cause of many things.
And so then like this three pronged approachjust like getting after it but it's all on the
natural side.
None of it's actually causing any side effectsor down, you know, downward effects.
And so it's all just positive.
And again, just like shotgun approach like likegetting people like crazy tremendous results
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with it, man.
It's awesome.
So that's why we like it's like we're good atwhat we do.
Like that's why we focus on what we do, right?
Like we're not gonna try to do something wedon't know.
And so it's like we focus on these three thingsand we just really, really optimize the way
they work together.
So again, it's like the three pillars and howthey work together.
It's like structure, function, regeneration,like you're hitting all the bases, right?
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And so, know, you're not gonna detox your wayout of a structural problem.
You're not gonna rehab your way out of atoxicity problem.
You need kind of a little bit of both, right?
And so, that's why the model works because it'shitting it from all sides.
And so, you know, if you're listening and youfeel like you've tried everything, how many
times have I heard that?
Oh, I've tried everything or they triedeverything.
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You probably haven't.
And like this is your sign to stop treatingsymptoms and really like start fixing problems,
right?
And so if you want to learn more about how wehelp diagnose, reverse, heal chronic disease
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consultation with me or one of our providers,and let's create a personalized program for
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