Maximized Living Radio with Dr. Greg O'Neill 11.23.25

Timeless Health!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, welcome to another week Maximize Living Radio
with your host, doctor Greg O'Neill. This week, I'm going
to be talking about timeless health. I don't know if
you're anything like me, you know, being the age that
I am and how long I've been doing chiropractic, I've
seen a big change in the world. And the other
day I was just reflecting on that at the time

(00:23):
I'm recording this. There's chiropractic offices have the ability to
be like a preceptorship or an internship for young chiropractice
as they come out of school. And so there's a
student that I know that it's in chiropractic school and
they're thinking about doing that next year. So anyways, it
takes time. As a chiropractic office, you have to apply

(00:45):
to the chiropractic college to be a preceptor. So you
have to show them that you're in good standing in
your notes and your facility and just that you'll be
a good place for that. And you know, one of
the basic questions was when did you graduate and and
where did you graduate from? And I'm like, oh, my gosh,
it was December one, twenty twelve, and that I've always

(01:08):
felt like that was yesterday, But at the time of recording,
that sells like thirteen years ago. That's that's crazy. Like
time in many ways, time flies. In some ways, I
feel like I just graduated. In some ways, like I've
been a chiropractor forever. There's been a lot of life
lived in thirteen years, whether it's practicing in three different locations,

(01:28):
having my own practice, getting married, having three children, having
a home, all that good stuff. But yeah, time goes
by and time changes or people change and things change.
And the biggest thing that I was kind of looking
into was just how society, how different it is. And

(01:49):
it came across this video, you know, like YouTube. It
YouTube's changed as well, like it. Social media used to
be about like you would log in, Like I remember
when I first got Facebook, like two thousand and six.
You would log into Facebook and you check it out
for a little bit. You would log out. Okay. It
wasn't like on your phone. There wasn't algorithms deciding what

(02:10):
you looked at. You decided what you looked at. It's
almost hard to think of that. It was like that,
like you went and looked at some people's pictures or
something and they're like, you know, thumbs up or a
great job, and you logged out and now it's just
crazy like Facebook, you go on there ready for war,
like it's this, here's all the politics, and here's all
this social justice this and that like it it's crazy.

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And anyways, long story start. It came across this video
and it was people in an airport in the nineteen
seventies and there was this man kind of like a
man on the street interviewer was interviewing people at Dulles
International Airport. I believe it was nineteen seventy nine, and
just like they're panning people in line, and yes, it's busy,
like there's a lot of people there. It's not like

(02:53):
it's slower or anything like that, but just the pace
that people walk like people were just walking slowly, calmly.
When they spoke to the camera, they were like smiling,
they were happy. They were like talking about where they
were going, how less they were to go on an airplane,
and how they had saved up for their trip and
they were going on a vacation and how excited they were.

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And people just look like lighter, like they just look calmer,
and it was slower and you see that when you
see these old videos, like I'll even look up like
you can type in high school videos from and then
you punch in the year that you graduated. Now I graduated.
I'm not like old man Winter here, like I graduated
in two thousand and five. When you go back and
look at those videos, like, things just were different. People

(03:34):
were I think a little more bored. There was a
little more downtime. So time has changed. Time has changed, well, technically,
time hasn't changed. We still have the same twenty four
hours in the day, we still have the same one
hundred and sixty eight hours in a week. It's just
that our time has been filled. Our time has been filled.
And so what's happened what I've noticed is over the

(03:56):
last you know, thirteen years, he said, it's no longer
I think money is much that drives people's decisions. Although
that's a huge thing, don't get me wrong. It's time.
It's time. Do people have the time for it? Because
when I first start out, and again this is just me,

(04:16):
this is my opinion. Okay, some people might be listening
to this and you're like, oh, well, money's a problem
for me, and this is okay, I get that. I'm
just talking about my own life my space. I would
talk about organic foods, I would talk about exercise, I
would talk about.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Making these changes in your life. Most people would say
the same thing. Oh, I don't have the money for that.
I don't have the money for organic food I don't
have the money for this. I don't have the money
for gym membership. I don't have the money for that.
Now can people still say that? Yes?

Speaker 1 (04:42):
But it was like it was like every other conversation.
I felt like, now, what do people say, I don't
have the time for that. I don't have the time
to exercise. I don't have the time to get up
earlier and do all these things. And I don't have
the time to prep meal prep and do all of
these things. It's all time time time. People don't have
the time like I even have. I'm almost surprised. Like

(05:05):
when I was twenty years old, you know, I didn't
have two nickels to rub together, like I'm in school.
I mean hundreds of thousand dollars a debt. But like
I see kids now, like the coming they have jobs
and they're like they're paying for the chiropractic care. They're
able to get organic food. Like I think in general,
though times can be tight, people in general have access

(05:25):
the money. But then you ask that same person to
commit their time, it's a different conversation. It's a much
different conversation. And if you're anything like my wife and I,
it's like tithing your money is not as difficult as
tithing your time. It's it's a big one across the board.
And so what changed. What happened in twenty twelve, Well,

(05:47):
you start to dig a little bit, and that was
basically when statistically about fifty percent in that year, about
fifty percent of American switch to having a smartphone. And
then from twenty twelve almost think of it like a
fault line. There's like the before and the after of
having smartphones. And it literally changed the world and over

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the coming years slowly and actually slowly in some ways,
but quickly in other ways, very quickly changed how people
relate to each other, how people spend their downtime, how
people fill up their time, and how people set the
priorities because we're just there's no downtime. Like think of
it now, you go into a waiting area, before, what
would you've done, Maybe you would have sat like at

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the airport, get a magazine, relax, get a bite to eat,
grab a cup of coffee. What do people do now?
They have the earbuds are in and they're on their phone. Okay,
they're watching TV, they're watching movies, they're watching videos, they're
listening to podcasts, they're scrolling TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, I
mean all of it. And it's just this constant, constant,

(06:52):
constant stimulation, especially with the younger generation who doesn't know
any different, like I do remember a time before smartphones
and search of you do as well, and so it
just fills up that space and it creates this false
reality that you don't have time, when in reality you do.
So there's perception reality. The perception people have is that

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time is running short, they don't have time to crunch
things in the reality is is that when we if
we can start to remove time on the smartphone and
get reconnected to one another, and I would say more importantly,
reconnected to your own body and what your body is
telling you and what you need to do, that's when

(07:36):
real health and freedom can come. Because what I've found
is that not only are people disconnected from each other,
that's like well known, and I think the pandemic really
accelerated that. But people become and this has been happening
for a very long time, even before smartphones, disconnected from
their bodies. Because they see their bodies, they see the
symptoms as like a nuisance or a problem that needs

(07:58):
to just go away. This headache, take a pill, This
menstrual cramp, take a pill, acid reflux, take this pill, obesity,
take this injection. Okay, Like it's just insert pill, insert drug,
insert cream, insert vaccine. Everything is just towards convenience, and
we've become a culture obsessed with convenience. Now, is it

(08:23):
nice to have the monern conveniences, Absolutely absolutely it is.
But the problem is that when they start to rule
our life and dictate our life and change how the
way we see the world, that becomes a problem. Then
we're not the masters of our own fate. We're the
slaves of our conveniences, and we're a slave to our time.
So I want to flip the script on that today,

(08:43):
just like little steps that you can do and how
even something as simple as chiropractic care can help to
reconnect you to your body, reconnect each other people, and
bring really connection to others. And that's something that I
feel like I get to do every day. So stay tuned.
I want to talk about that.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
All right, guys, welcome back to the show doctor Gregor
Neil Maximize Living Radio.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Please check out our website Lititzfamily Chiropractic dot com been
newly updated, new pictures of our staff members and myself,
my wife, doctor Christa. It's funny sometimes when people come in,
you know, you listen to someone on the radio and
you get like a mental picture of what they look like,

(09:25):
and then you see them in real life and you're like, oh,
they don't look like that, and I've made the mistake.
I've corrected this because oftentimes I'll go into the room,
you know, when someone comes in as a new patient
and they're sitting there waiting the examin and for me,
and I'll come in, Hey, how are you nice to
see you? And usually they'll say they listen to the
radio show. And sometimes people say, oh, you look much

(09:48):
different than I imagined. Now. The mistake that I would
make is I would say, oh, what did you imagine? Now?
That's just setting yourself up, right, setting yourself up now.
A few times when this was years ago, so When
I first started this radio show, I was twenty nine
years old, about to turn thirty, so it looked a

(10:08):
lot younger than I look now. And I remember people say, oh,
you look you're so young. You know, you're you're youthful
and you're vibrant, and I was not picturing someone so young,
like wow, congratulations, and I'm like feeling on cloud nine.
I'm like, great, they think I'm young. I got all
my hair, all this kind of stuff. And I had
someone recently They're like, oh, I thought you were going

(10:30):
to look different than how you look, and I made
them as soon as I said, I'm like, oh, why
do I say that? I just said, oh, what were
you expecting? And he goes, oh, I was expecting like
a six foot eight tall, big strong guy, like a linebacker.
And I'm like, oh, thanks, because I'm like, I'm five
foot eight, Like I'm not very tall. You know. I
like to think I'm in decent shape, but I'm not.

(10:53):
I'm not a linebacker or you know, completely muscular or
anything like that by any means. I just thought that
was funny. I had a good laugh. I'm like, well,
I'm not sure if I'm going to take that as
a compliment or not. But I'm just going to be quiet.
And then Alex, who is our X ray text So
she'll sit in the room with me at times and
you know, notate put down the notes and she's trying.
She's about laughing out of her seat, like she's literally

(11:15):
out of the corner of mine, my periphery. I see
her like shaking with laughter covering her face. I'm like,
oh great, it was good, good times. Anyways, what was
I talking about? Okay, getting back to timeless health principles,
talking about my journey as a chiropractor from twenty twelve
all these years later, and how the world has changed.

(11:37):
And you know, I could talk about the negatives all
day long, but what good is that? Right? One thing
I want to bring here is some optimism and positivity.
You know, in the last twelve years, we've gone through
the smartphone and all the political unrest and all the
social media. Look at the pandemic, all of those negatives,

(11:58):
distrusting institutions. Yeah, it's been if you look at it
one way, been tough times. Here's a blessing for you,
all right, So in the last almost thirteen years, I'm
no longer looked at as a crazy chiropractor. Now I'm
very blessed to have to be a chiropractor at the
time that I am a chiropractor. You know, chiropractors, especially

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back in the seventies, the eighties into the nineties, they
were looked at as Charlatans and quacks. And there's a
reason for that. And I've done a whole radio show
on this. There was a conspired effort by the American
Medical Association to quote unquote maintain and eliminate the profession
of chiropractic. And you can look this up. This one
all the way to the Supreme Court. So there was

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a group of chiropractors. The main one was Chester Wilke,
who's from Pennsylvania. I consider him a hero in the
chiropractic profession. So Chesterwilke from Pennsylvania sued the American Medical
Association for defamation an unwrongful restrict basically restriction of trade

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like you're not supposed to just like if you own
a hardware store. And there was a hardware store across
the street and a customer came over like, oh, I
was thinking, I'm going to the one across the street.
You legally can't be like, oh, there are a bunch
of crooks over there. They're quacks. They're no good. You
don't want to go over there. Okay, you get that's
defamation and restriction of trade. That's against the law. Can't
just say that. The medical world does that now, not

(13:27):
as much as they used to, but they did that
all the time. They say, don't go to chiropractor, they
could kill you. Don't go to chiropractor, they'll hurt you.
They're quacks, they're charlatans. So that's what they're saying is
it's actually illegal. And I know many of chiropractors who
would write letters to people's family doctors and threaten legal
action if they're saying stuff like that, because there's just
baseless claims. They're saying this out of fear, because of competition,

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because the chiropractor might be doing a better job than them.
So Chester Wilke again from Pennsylvania in the nineteen seventies,
he sues the American Meta Association. This goes on for
years and for a while. I mean, he put up
you know, you can imagine tens of thousands of dollars,
hundreds of thousands of dollars in his own money for
lawyer fees. At first, the American Medical Association was just

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going to use was just going to crush them with
the legal bills, which just appeals draw things out, you know,
suffocate them with the legal bills. So they stopped. What
happened was is the chiropractic profession pretty much came together
and donated scores of money to get to really push
this through, to get after it. This ended up going
all the way to the Supreme Court. You can look

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this up. It's called the Wilk versus AMA Wilk like
Wilk versus Amadical American Medical Association, and the Supreme Court
in the United States of America found the American Medical
Association guilty of conspiring to contain and eliminate the profession
of chiropractic. They would have base this claims. They what

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they would do is when a medical student would graduate,
they would give them gifts, which you're not supposed to
do that anymore, to give them monetary gifts or scholarships,
different things like that. The associations, the drug companies, and
they would also hand them what they called a quack pack.
They called it a quackpack. It was like a booklet
like imagine a bag with a booklet in it, and

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it showed this is who you'll refer to, and this
is who you'll not refer to. And they called you
will not refer any of your patients to chiropractors. Chiropractors
are quacks. They're going to kill your patients. They said
all these things, baseless claims, and went all the way
to Supreme Court and under oath, all these people admitted

(15:42):
that what they said was wrong and not true. So
what started happened. Though Unfortunately, even though chiropractors were vindicated
from like a legislative standpoint, there was a lot of
damage done in the public's eye, and so people still
were wary of chiropractors. Now, some of you know my
own personal story in that my mom, who is a

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nurse for forty three years, like old school nurse, When
I told her I was going to chiropractic school, she said,
I didn't know my son was going to be a quack.
Like that's where she's kind of half joking, not joking,
but like that's where her mindset was. That old school
kind of meant mindset. Now, she was supportive of me,
and she's come around obviously and in chiropractic's great and

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helped her and all that stuff. I share that story
a million times. But what I've noticed though, in the
last what thirteen years or so, is that chiropractic natural
healthcare has become more mainstream and accepted, and the medical world,
especially through the pandemic, has come in under scrutiny and questioning,
and people are flocking towards natural health care like never before.

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And this is reflected in the marketplace. So the marketplace
will provide for consumers what they want to buy or
what they need. So like places like Costco or Whole Foods, Walmart,
grocery store, big box stores, if something sells it. If
something sells, then they're going to sell it basically, And

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so now you know ten fifteen years ago you had
to search niche niche websites forms to find organic food,
grassed beef, or functional medicine. Now, Whole Foods, Costco, restaurants, Walmart,
they all carry organic. They carry kibucha and probiotics, gluten
free products. Parents in general, in general, although they can

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be a lot better, they understand that reading labels is important,
sleep quality, gut health. Basically, I don't sound like the
crazy chiropractor anymore, because people's baseline health IQ is a
lot higher. That's the thing that I noticed the most.
People's baseline IQ and understanding of natural health is drastically

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different than what it was for me in twenty twelve.
And yeah, I'll know this because I do what's called
a doctor's report for my patients. When they've come in
we take X rays to get adjusted. At a follow
up visit, I'll sit down and go over X rays
and explain them, usually in a group setting. It's almost

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like a mini seminar, like an introduction and what we're doing. Hey,
here's what X rays should and shouldn't look like, here's
how we correct this mine. I also go over what
chiropractic is, what it is not natural healthcare, and juxtapose
that to our current healthcare system. I used to take
a lot longer like this doctor's report that I used
to do used to take. Now I was on the

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shoulder end. Some people would take an hour. I was
at like forty minutes, fifty minutes. It was gone down
over the years. Now I'm at like twenty minutes if that.
If that twenty minutes tops, and I touch on the
medical world for maybe one minute. I just say, hey, like, listen,
this is how health insurance is designed. Here's how our
healthcare system works. Here's how what we do is different.

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It's very quick and people nod their head like they
get it. People understand more than ever before. What I'm
trying to get at, though, is that all the excuses
that we've had before of people not knowing, people being ignorant,
people not having the right information. I believe that those
excuses are gone in that we do know better now.

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You know better now. The trick is actually doing it.
And that's where again I was talking about at the start,
is carving out the time to do it and making
it a priority. That's the important one, because you'll always
have time for the priorities in your life. You'll always
have time for the most important things in your life.

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Like for me, my kids are one of the most
important things in my life. I could be at work,
I could be in the middle of talking to like
a patient. I could be in the middle of doing
like a really high end meeting pack. I could be
in the middle of recording this radio show right now.
If there was an issue my kids, I drop everything.
I'm running out of that office. I'm getting off the

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radio show. I'll drop everything I'm doing to make sure
my kids are okay. My wife like my number one priority.
Anything's wrong with her Boom radio show, gone money, anything,
it doesn't matter. It's the people that you love. It's
your highest priorities. If you have to sit and look
at what are your highest priorities, and a lot of

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people don't think about that. One of the quickest ways
to see what your highest priorities are is where you
store up your treasure. Okay, I believe in I'm going
to paraphrase drastically, but in the Bible, it's like where
you store up your treasure, there your heart is as well.
It's like where you're putting your money is where your
priorities are. So you can look at your credit card bill.

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I can look at your credit card bill and tell
you pretty quickly where your priorities are and how those
may need to be changed in order for you to
start getting better health outcomes and spending more time on
your health. Well, stay tuned, we'll talk about that all right, guys,
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time to do anything. But we still have the same
twenty four hours as we did fifty years ago, as
ten years ago, as yesterday, We still have the same
one hundred and sixty eight hours in the week. We
can do it. It's just whether or not our health
becomes a priority for us. Is whether or not your
health becomes a priority for you. And unfortunately, most people's

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health does not become a priority until they lose it,
and once that person loses their health, it becomes the
most important thing in their life. And people will fill
their house with their job, get all the money in
the world. They'll fundraise hundreds of thousands of dollars, they'll
move across the country to a place like the Male Clinic,

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and they'll get the best doctors in the world, and
they'll do everything in their power just to get their
health back. We all know someone like this. Actually, I'll
never forget this. When I was younger again growing up
in Canada, playing hockey. Growing up, there was one of
our hockey coaches who was, you know, say, I'm twelve
and he's maybe in his late thirties or something like that,

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and he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Now,
the Canadian healthcare system has its limitations. I'm saying that nicely.
And so when people would his health care is free,
but when people would have a real, actual problem, a
lot of people would want to go to the United
States for care because to give the medical system their due,

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we do have the best emergency care in the world,
like the Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins in different places
like that, like that's where all the best doctors go.
So those patients tend to want to go there, but
it costs money. And I'll never forget. They had fundraisers
at the local arena and fundraisers. He was a you know,
part of the fire department, and all these different fundraisers

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they did so that he could save up and go
to the Mayo Clinic to get treatment. And thank goodness
he I think it turned out he didn't need treatment.
It was something like that. But anyways, it just it
made that impression at a young age. Like looking back,
I'm like, man, people will just literally just quit their job.
As important as your job is for you, you get
stricken with a disease, you'll drop it in a second. Okay,

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You'll pick up your whole family. As important as your
house is. You'll sell your house, move everything, just to
get well again. Like imagine your child, your grandchild, how
this problem. You'd do anything to get them better. The
health Your health is the most important thing in the world,
the world league where we're at. Obviously, your relationship with
Christ and your spiritual health that's more important, but as

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far as your physical health, it's right up there. And
so yeah, we have to do Imagine you just did
ten percent of that twenty percent of that half of that.
Imagine you had just a little bit of that effort
now to take care of it so that you never
got in that situation. And you talk to people who
are in those situations, like, man, I wish I took

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care of myself back then. May I hear it every day?
By the way, as a chiropractor, I see people who
are in their sixties and seventies and their spines are
a literal wreck, and they're just like, man, I wish
I took care of this when I was in my
twenties or in my thirties. I have a patient who
comes in. His name's Johnny's in his seventies. If he
sees younger people in there, he gets like excited and
he'll tell him. He'll be like, good for you for

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taking care of your spine now. Like I heard him
talking to a guy who is a roofer out in
the out in the waiting area. He's like, good for
you for taking your spine now. I should have been
in here when I was your age, and I didn't.
So that's good that you're doing this now. And it's
a good reminder because like when you're in your your twenties,
your thirties, even your forties, you can feel pretty good.
You can feel youthful, and your your.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Youth can kind of offset a lot of the bad
lifestyle activities that you might be doing.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
But eventually that catches up for you. And just because
you're diagnosed when you're older, does not mean that the
problem started when you're older. I'm going to repeat that.
Just because you got diagnosed at sixty years old does
not mean that the problem is there because you're sixty
years old. That's the big mistake. That's the big mistake
people make is they blame their age. And when you

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blame your age, I've said this in a million times.
It's like all I share on this radio show, but
it's so true. If you just blame your age, you
can't control that. You can't get a time machine, you
can't go back. You're where you're at right now. Okay,
you cannot control your age. You cannot control your genetics.
You can't. Now here's the cool part though, this is

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really cool. So there's your genetics, the things that are
wired in that are written in pen Like for me,
my mom was five foot one, my dad was five
foot four. I'm lucky to be five foot eight. Okay,
I'm I'm like I walk around when I go visit
family at home, I'm like the tall guy and five

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foot eight. I'm very lucky that I'm a height Some
people like, you know, if I ever got a comment
that I wasn't very tall, I'm like, hey, I'm just
happy I made it. So there's there's certain things that
are written in pen If my dad's five foot four,
my mom's five foot one, what are the chances of
me getting a six foot two. It ain't happening. Okay,

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it's not happening. There's reality to that situation. Now, there's
things that I can control. I control the food that
goes in my body. I control the air that I breathe.
I control what I consume as far as through my eyes,
like through TV or social media, smartphone, all that stuff.
So I get to decide what my health is. That's

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called your epigenetics. So there's a concept called epigenetics that
actually influences your genetics. So your genes can get turned
on or off based on your environment. The decisions that
you make will influence your genetics. And there's I could
tell you numerous studies about this, but essentially if that

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is you're eating while you're taking care of yourself. And again,
this is one of these things. People kind of understand
this now, like just because your parents were obese doesn't
mean that you're destined to be obese. Does that make sense?
Just because your parents have type two diabetes, you might
have a predisposition for it, but it doesn't have to
be your destiny if you take care of yourself. These
are what we call timeless principles. These are timeless principles

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and we need to start focusing on them. Again. The
purpose of this show is timeless health. I want to
get into that now. When I was at my graduation
in twenty twelve, there was a speaker I'll never forget this,
and he shared it. It was kind of like a
preview to this radio show. He said, we're at a
crossroads right now in that our society is becoming more digitalized,

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more hands off. Chiropractic remains one of the few professions
that is hands on, that focuses on where human connection
is inherent to chiropractic. It's a hands on approach. There's
a human element to it, and there's an authenticity to it.
There's an integrity to it. That's why I love chiropractic,

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one of the reasons in our world more so now
where we're at now, I mean, look at artificial intelligence
and our smartphones. Everything is going to be done for us.
There's going to be professions and jobs coming in the
next few years or a few decades that we can't
even think of right now. Your kids will have a
job that you couldn't even imagined when you were younger.

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It's hard to even think of that because I remember
when we were younger and they said, some of you
will have jobs that haven't been invented yet. It's hard
to even describe what that would be. But if someone
when I was ten years old, they're like, yeah, when
some of you will have a job as a YouTube influencer,
It's like, what, what's YouTube? It's not even invented yet
on the internet. I mean, that's just coming around. So

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things change, society changes, but principles don't change. And one
of the principles of chiropractic is is that your spine
has to be in a normal alignment. That's never going
to change. Okay, people are always going to need a
healthy spine. People are always going to need to eat well.
People are always going to need to exercise, to think
the right thoughts to minimize toxics. These are what we

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call the five Essentials. They do not, will not, and
cannot change. Because your body is it ain't changing in
ten twenty years. Like everything else in the world, You're
still gonna have to take care of yourself. So if
you're waiting on the next great invention, the next great
artificial intelligence follow up, it's not going to change you.
In fact, it's probably going to make things worse in

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our society. In many ways, some things will be better
and more convenient, but as far as people's health, we
have to be the ones that step up and take
care of ourselves. And so again that's what chiropractic is
all about. When people come into our office, they're greeted
by name. We know who you are, We show you
around the office, you get to meet everyone. We have

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a brand new facility, five adjusting areas, two exam areas,
X ray suite. I mean, we have put in time
and money to make sure that we're giving the best
care possible. When you come in again, I'm doctor Greg O'Neill.
It's called Lyditz family chiropractic. We'll go through your exam,
do an examination, go through a consultation, exactly what's going on,

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how we can help you, what your goals are, how
your spine can be connected to the health concerns that
you're dealing with, and then how we can help you
over time. You know, some of the most common conditions
people come in with that we're able to help are
things like neck pain, headaches, migraines, dissness in the back
and the neck and the shoulders, shoulder concerns. Neuropathy is

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a big one. It's an emerging issue. Obviously, lower back issues, diattica,
shooting pain down the leg, knee pain, ankle and hip problems.
These things can all be corrected through chiropractic care because
chiropractic gets to the root cause of these issues by
figuring out where your spine is that compared to normal,

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setting a course of action to get it back into
its normal position. The cool part is is our body
has an inherent intelligence, not artificial intelligence. It's real intelligence.
Oh there's a good radio show idea. You have real
intelligence in your body. It's not artificial. It's the real deal.
It's the real thing. You are made by God to heal.

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It will happen if you take care of yourself. It's
not artificial, it's real, it's authentic, it's inside of you.
You just have to take care of yourself and do
your part. And for most of us, we just need
to get out of get ourselves out of the way,
remove the interference. That's what chiropractic does, take pressure off
the nervous systems so the body can heal. So stay tuned.

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All right, guys, welcome back to the show. Doctor Greg O'Neal.
Going to close out the week here Maximize Living Radio.
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We have supplements for sale as well through our website.
Supplements are come from three main companies, Pure Path, which

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is source from regenitive organic forms MAX Living, which is
again made in the United States. Very high quality certified GMP.
Certified GMP basically means that it's a third party is
certifying that what the supplement is stating that is in
there is actually in there. So if it says it has,

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you know, two thousand milligrams of vitamin C from a
certain source, it's certified that that's actually the case. So
it's certified GMP, and that's that's really cool. That's a
good thing. I also liked that it's made the United States,
non GMO, non genetically modified, and then also from Designs
for Health. Designs for Health is another reputable company made

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in the United States. This high end, good quality stuff.
It's certified, it's third party certified, so that you know
you're getting the right stuff because a lot of times
you go out there, you go get your vitamins and supplements. Okay,
they can have all the marketing in the world, but
what else is in it? What are the other ingredients?
That's what you want to read. So when you look
at a supplement, you're looking at what are the other ingredients?

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Because if you're looking at binders and fillers and food colorings,
sugars and fake sugars and sukerlos and sweeteners and stuff
like that. It's junk, not good. And then they've done
so many studies on the cheaper supplements to study. Years ago,
they were studying supplements at Target and found that it
didn't even contain a lot of what it said it

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was containing. Like it showed that multivitamins didn't even contain
iron and things of that nature. So you want to
make sure that it's third party certified. So that's certified
GMP or c GMP on the label. So again, Liditzfamily
Chiropractic dot Com click on the shop out icon. If
you're not a patient of mine, you can also order
supplements from there and it'll ship directly to your home.

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If you do get supplements at our office, you'll notice
that we sell our supplements. It's just something that I
decided to do years ago. We sell them for at
least ten to fifteen percent off the MSRP that the
manufacturer suggested retail price. I don't know. I just don't.
I'm from a small town, Okay, I'm from a small

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blue collar town. Grew up in a little rancher house.
My mom was a nurse, my dad was a teacher.
I just I don't know. I don't need to be
a multi billionaire here selling supplements people like want to
give people a break. Times are tough, and like I
always look at prices of things as a business owner,
and some people are like, what's the price point? What's

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the profit margin? All this kind of stuff. I always think, Okay,
would I pay that price for that? Would I buy that?
And if the answer is no, then I can't. I
just there's something about it. I just can't put it
on the shelf or I can't put it at that price.
Now here's some of my favorite supplements. This is cool
so bone brot, the pure Path bone broth protein my

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favorite so pure Path it's it again. Source from Regenitive Farms.
For their goal is every year they put more soil
in the ground in America than taking it out. So
there's an issue, Like, I'm not a big climate change
guy global warming. I'm not getting into the politics of it,
but there's a reality in that it's better for the

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carbon to be in the earth than in the air.
Everyone can agree with that it's better for the carbon
to be in the earth than in the air, because
what happens is through this the industrial farming, due to
all the chemicals that they use and the runoff and
waste and everything like that, is that the popsil gets stripped.
And in the United States States, we've lost over the

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last hundred years about twenty five hundred years worth of
top soil. It's just a crazy amount that's being stripped
off every year, and we're losing the quality of soil.
So what regenerative farming does, and it uses a lot
of Biblical principles, is the goal is to put more
get more soil back into the ground than they take
out through regenerative farming. So that that's cool and it's

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and it's it supports its local farmers. A lot of
them are in like Tennessee, Missouri area. The cattle raised
there again all in the United States of America. So
it's it's it's a wonderful product because it's it's local.
It's great. It supports real people on a real mission
to not only help the earth and the environment, but
more importantly, what's going in your body. Okay, because there's

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a lot of companies out there like, oh, it's good
for the earth. It's like, okay, but it's it good
for me. I want to know it's a good quality
and the bump rock protein is great. So it's it's
I like the chocolate flavored. It tastes the may. I
think it tastes like almost like that hot chocolate type taste.
And I put it in some water and I just

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mix it up and drink it. Now, some people are like, ooh,
that's gross. I think it tastes good. Okay, I think
it tastes good. That's just my opinion. Now, a lot
of people they like it and smoothie. So you take
a scoop of that, you put it in with some
milk or I use coconut milk, some frozen berries, maybe
some greens powder if you have some of that, maybe
a little peanut butter, maybe a little half a banana,

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and you mix that up. My kids love that. They
drink that in the morning. So right away, when my
kids are drinking that in the morning, they're getting the protein.
They're getting their good fats from the coconut milk, they're
getting their good fresh carbohydrates from the organic berries and
the banana. I mean, I know they're getting better nutrition
than every kid in their school. Because most kids, what
are they doing. They're eating either nothing or they're grabbing

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a little bar or eating cereal that's full of junk
and sugar, is no protein, no nutritional content at all.
But this stuff. I use these supplements myself. I'm not
just like pedaling them. The stuff I use myself. So
my favorite is the bone broth protein. I also like
the co q ten, So co q ten most people

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hear of that it's great for your energy. So how
COQ ten works in every cell in your body. There's
this process called the electron transport chain. It's this series
of events that happens that produces energy and one of
the two well, there's a few limiting factors to that.
The main limiting factor is oxygen. It needs oxygen to work.

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It's kind of like combustion happening inside your body. It's
just like event that creates energy. Well, it doesn't create energy,
it's transformed. Energy can never be created or destroyed. But
it transfers energy from your food to mechanical to your
to your to your body, your muscles and your heart
and everything like that. So it needs oxygen. Another thing
that it needs another rate limited step that it needs

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is called COQ ten, so it needs that in order
for that to happen. So when coke ten levels are low,
like if you have stress, oxidative stress in your body,
coke ten levels start to go down, and that can
affect people's energy. They feel lower energy, they don't feel
as good, they don't feel that same pep in their step.
So coke ten is really good. You hear people say
it's really good for your heart, for your brain, for

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your organs. It's also really good for your general energy.
And that's something that I notice when I take my
coke ten. I take it in the morning and I
take it at lunch. I notice more steady energy, feel
just a lot better. So it's an awesome supplement. Vitamin
D three So vitamin D three is another great supplements
at sake that I take myself. And that's good because

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I tend to skew lower. Like when I get my
vitamin D levels tested, my wife tends to score higher
and or vitamin D scores. Mine's always a little low.
So it's between obviously zero and one hundred. You want
to be I would say at least above eighty you
want to be between eighty and one hundred for your
vitamin D level on a blood test. Now I'm always
I score in the forties a lot. It's frustrating because

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but I'm also not as good as you know maintaining
my taking my vitamin D throughout the year, especially in
the winter. So I'm making sure this winner this fall
to really take my vitamin D. Three supplements that really
helps to push up your vitamin D levels and that
helps to boost your immune system. There's so many functions
that vitamin D helps with, but the big one is
your immune function. Another great supplement to take that I

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take on a daily basis is also vitamin C. Vitamin
C is a powerful antioxidant. Most people think vitamin C
is for the immune system as well, and you be
right in thinking that, but it's a very powerful antioxidant.
So it's an anti aging for the inside of your body.
So your cells just love when you give it that
vitamin C because it gives them kind of the armor

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that it needs to withstand oxidative stress and oxidative damage
that can happen through a lot of chemical stress or
physical stress things that you put your body through. So
those are the main supplements that I like. I could
go through some others, but those are the main ones
that I like. Again Lydittz Family Chiropractic dot Com, click
on the shop icon, or if you're a patient of mine,
you can pick up the supplements directly at our office.

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It's a super simple process. All right. So finishing out
the week here, I'm talking about timeless principles with your
health and I'm talking about chiropractic now in that one
of the main reasons I love chiropractic is that it
doesn't change. It's the same thing. Medicine is always changing.
It's always changing. Why because it doesn't work. It doesn't work.

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I mean, you see one one pill comes on the market,
goes off the market. Another one comes on the market,
goes off the market. The miracle pill of today will
be tomorrow's lawsuit. Okay, I could say, you could name
hundreds of examples. One of the big ones would be
like viox. Biox was a drug that was pushed for arthritis.

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It ended up killing that they know of fifty thousand
people and maybe even more. There's been other medications that
kill many thousands of people. So today's miracle drug is
tomorrow's lawsuit. So we don't want to focus on what's
the next best drug coming out. We want to focus
on timeless principles and that's where chiropractic comes in. You're

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always going to need a healthy spine, You're always going
to need to eat well, You're always going to need
to minimize talking in your body, exercise, and think the
right thoughts. So that's what we're talking about, the five
essentrals of health. If you'd like to learn more about
this again, hop on our website lit Its Family Chiropractic
dot com, Liditsfamily Chiropractic dot com, give our office a call.

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You'll get the number here in just a few seconds.
Just want to close out the show just that, like,
although the world can change and all the world can
seem like it's speeding up, we're really making a point
that our office is still focused on calling people by name,
human connection, human touch. It's very important in these kind

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of crazy, the busy times that we're living in. So
stay focused, remember who you are. Guys, have a great week.