Maximized Living Radio with Dr. Greg O'Neill 2.15.26

True Wellness!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And reverse disease, overcome common health obstacles, and live to
your fullest God given potential. This is Maximized Living Radio
with Doctor Greg O'Neil Healthcare on a mission sponsored by
Litit's Family Chiropractic.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hey, guys, welcome to another week Maximize Living Radio with
your host, Doctor Greg O'Neil, co owner and operator Liditz
Family Chiropractic. And Yeah, you've been doing this radio show
now for what almost ten years. It's crazy. So it's
I really enjoy doing it. People always say like, wow,
you're really people coming from the radio, like you sound
like you're having fun. I'm like, yeah, it's like sixty

(00:38):
percent venting, forty percent advertising, you know, maybe another ten
percent fun. Whatever the math is on that, I'm giving
it one hundred and ten percent. All right, So this
week I'm going to be talking about true wellness care.
That's a buzzword that gets thrown around a lot, like
what is to be truly well? What does that look like? Now?

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The true additional standpoint would be free of symptoms. Now
this is where the allopathic or the medical model comes
into play, and they've tried to hijack this word. And
I'm not gonna let them. Don't take it medicine, You've
taken a lot other things, and they start calling your
doctor visits well checks. Worst part is they call children's

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pediatric visits well checks, and they check their height, they
check their weight, they check their ears, eyes, ears, nose, throats,
and I get it for some of those things, But
then the main purpose of a well visit for kids
is what getting a vaccine? You go to adulthood, what's
the main purpose of a well check? For adults? They go,

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especially once they get over the age of fifty five.
A lot of people go over like three months. Well
you get blood work done, and if there's any issue
with that blood work, what are you getting medications? And
then at certain times of the year, what are they
trying to give you vaccines? In my estimation, in my opinion,

(02:03):
well checks are a way to funnel people into the
pharmaceutical drug system, to get people and babies and kids
on drugs at a young age, dependent on the medical
system for their health, and calling that wellness. Now that
I get out many words for that, but at so

(02:25):
many levels that's just wrong. From a logical standpoint, that's wrong,
which we'll focus on From a social standpoint that's wrong
and just like yeah, it's First of all, one of
the reasons is long logical standpoint. Not doesn't work. Okay, medicine, chemicals, vaccines,
they can't just automatically make you healthy. It might change

(02:46):
your blood work, it might change your scores and blood
levels and things like that, but it's not fixing underlying
issues that can only be done by you through your
healthy lifestyle. Your healthy lifestyle. So there's main contributors to
your lifestyle. The two of those contributors are age and genetics. Okay,

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those are two things you cannot control, but those are
the two things that medicine, the medical world will bring
up a lot, and people want to fall into those
two things as excuses because it's easier that way. They say, well,
you're getting older now, so you'd recommend this flu shot,
or you're at this age, I'd recommend this vaccine, or
at this age, i'd recommend this medication. And then you

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look at genetics. While your father had heart disease, so
i'd recommend this pill, or your mother had diabetes, i
would recommend this. You can't control those things. What can
you control? You control your lifestyle. So that's the way
that you're eating, obviously exercising, the way that you think
through your mindset, the way that you're avoiding different toxins

(03:56):
like with household cleaners or with cookwaar, things like that.
Chiropractic care in the nervous system, taking care of your
spine and nervous system. These are all factors that you
play a part in to notice when people come to
our officeer talk on my radio show, it's very different.
It's not just about age and genetics. You're old and
you're defective. That's what the medical system says. We say,

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God created your body to heal. God put an amazing
healing power in your body. Our job is to remove
interference from the body and give the bodies the best
ability to heal itself. We can't help the body. All
we can really do is get in the way, and
that's for our lifestyle. So what we want to do
is not just get out of the way, but actually
give our body what it needs so that it can

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thrive in the best environment. One famous example, I love
this story. In Death Valley in California, otherwise known as
the Mojave Desert, there's a place called the Devil's Furnace,
the hottest place on planet or a highest recorded temperature.
I believe it got up to one hundred and thirty
four degrees fahrenheit or one hundred and thirty six somewhere there,

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super hot. So nothing grows there. It's hot, dry, arid,
it's a desert. There's many years, there's been many separate
years where it does not rain a single drop throughout
the year, not one millimeter, which is almost hard to
think of for me living in Lancaster County where we
get plenty of precipitation. That goes with my joke. It's like,

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what follows two days of rain in Lancaster County Monday.
I'll repeat that. That's a good one. What follows two
days of rain in Lancaster County Monday? One of my favorites.
Rains a lot on Saturdays around here, by the way,
just my observation. Okay, getting back to Death Valley, so
nothing grows completely, hot, dry, arid, dreamly hot, torching heat.

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December two thousand and four. You can look the stuff
if you'd like. It rains seven inches in about a
five week period. They'd never seen them much rain before.
In over one hundred and fifty years. So they're wondering,
what's gonna happen here? You got all this rain, what's
going to happen? Sure enough, April two thousand and five.
You can look this up, the two thousand and five
wildflower bloom of Death Valley. The wildlife just explodes, the wildflowers,

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grasses explodes everywhere, beautiful colors. You can see these pictures.
It's just amazing. You know, a few months earlier, you
see a hot, dry desert where nothing's there. Then all
of a sudden, it just looks like a beautiful meadow
with a valley and hills and everything. It's wonderful. Well,
what happened? The seeds were already there. The genetics, if

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you will, were already there. God put those seeds of
possibility are there in the ground. What did it need?
It needed the nourishment, it needed, the rain, It needed
to be in the right climate. It's the same thing
with your body. You're not defective, you're not broken just
because mommy and daddy had something, just because grandma and
grandpa had something. Just because you look at the calendar

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and you see a certain age or your birthday, that
doesn't mean that you're broken and that nothing good can happen.
God put a power in you to heal. But you, you, you,
you must put yourself in the right conditions and take
care of yourself in a certain way for your body
to thrive. For your body to thrive. Now, human beings,

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we've become so disconnected from our natural environment, so disconnected.
Like you see animals somehow, and a dog knows to
go eat grass when it's feeling sick, or that a
dog knows to stretch before it goes on a long walk.
They have built in instincts that they're very attuned to.
As human beings, we have become so disconnected from our
natural inclinations that we don't It seems like scientists can't

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even agree on what we should eat for breakfast. It's
like we can tell if there's water on a planet
tillions of white years away, but we can't. Hey, what
do we what should eat for breakfast? We don't know,
We have no idea, say, how is that the case? Well,
there's there's principles that we need to focus on, not fads,
not trends, Principles bedrocks of information that we have to

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know in a lot of ways, biblical principles too, of
how our bodies are designed to work and what are
the things our bodies need, what are the things they
don't need? And one of the big building blocks of
that is through our nutrition, the way that we're eating
and choosing to take care of our body through our
food and blessing our body through our food, because our

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body is a temple and we don't want to tarnish
it with the food that we're eating. Now, in biblical sense,
you know, can food defile the body and the Bible?
In many ways it says no. There's many different interpretations,
but at the end of the day, here's the thing
is that you want to eat foods that your body
is designed to use. It's not about defiling your body

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through food. I'm not going to go down that road
like some other people do. But it's about having bodies
that are having bodies that are healthy through the nutrition
that you're eating, and eating good quality nutrition that your
body needs so your body can heal and function at
one hundred percent. So that comes from carbohydrates, that comes
through fat, that comes through protein, and when you get

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the right quantity and quality of each of those three,
you're going to see amazing things happen to your body,
not only with how you feel, but your wakefulness, your energy,
and also yeah, you can start to lose weight, shed pounds,
get in the best shape of your life just through
the food that you're eating. So stay tuned, we'll talk
about that.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
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Speaker 2 (09:22):
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Speaker 2 (09:28):
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staff and better yet new pictures of our office. We
have a newly renovated office, so it's spacious. Yeah, it's
been great. I've been saying this for the last few weeks,

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but it's state of the art. It's really cool. There's
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has a good vibe to it, and you just feel
like it's a healing environment. Now. One thing that we
do is when new patients come in, we show them
around kind of like a tour, kind of like you know,
you go to someone's house and you ever go to
someone's house, maybe you just met them and invite you over,

(10:13):
and you walk in, You're like, do I leave my
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(10:35):
opportunity to not feel that awkwardness of like where do
I go? What do I do? What are the expectations here?
So one thing that we do that I implemented, you know,
years and years ago, was giving people like a brief
tour of the space. I'd show people around. It's like welcome,
you know, here's our adjusting areas, here's the kids play areas,
here front desk, reception, here's the bathroom, here's X ray room,

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here's exam room. Let me show you everything that's going on.
So they kind of get the lay of the land
and in our old space, people are like okay, cool, Yeah,
but in the new space, it's kind of it's nice.
I've been doing the tours lately because one of our
staff members was out on maternity leave, and I'm showing
people around and not really mentioning any more that we

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did in renovation because this was done months ago. Because
I used to be like, oh, the space is newly
renovated and everything like that. I don't say that because
it's just kind of normal now, right, But man, I'll
look at people like, Wow, this is like, this is
a really nice space. This is beautiful office. Like every
single person this week that I was showing around so like,
was good, good affirmation. I just want to share that

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it's like the facilities like we've when you come, you'll
you'll notice it's like we're not just your Joe Blow
chiropractic office. I'm not trying to make fun of anyone
or put myself above, but it's like we put a
lot of time, energy, and yes, money and resources into
making sure that our chiropractic office, I believe is one
of the best in the state. Are none. And the

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reason I say that is because my wife and I
we've both been adjusted at a young age. I've been
adjusted since I was thirteen years old. My wife's been
adjusted it since she was a baby, since she was
ten days old. We met in chiropractic school. We have
three young children at home who have all been adjusted
the first day of their lives. They get adjusted weekly.
I get adjusted weekly, my wife gets adjusted weekly. Our

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whole staff. This isn't just like some thing that we do.
It's not just some job. It's a mission. It's a lifestyle.
It's the way that we take care of ourselves. And
anything that I'm telling you to do or recommending that
you do, I've already done. I've already done thousands, if
not millions of times to take care of myself and

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my own family. And how many doctors can say that.
How many doctors when they're telling you to take this
pill or take this shot or do all these things,
how many of them are doing that themselves. I don't know.
I don't know the case. But it's just it's called integrity,
and that's a big one for me. I think that's
my love language. Integrity is like, you mean what you
say and say what you mean, And so I just

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I'd recommend just calling. So it's seven one seven six
two seven zero three six five. All right, let's get
back into true wellness care. True wellness care, I was
going over definitions at the start, is not just going
to a medical doctor every three months and stucking down
a bunch of pills. That's not wellness care. That's allopathic.
That's taking care of things after the fact. That's emergent care,

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where you're trying to find problems and then covering up
those problems with pills. Now, those things that you think
are problems are not really problems. They're symptoms. Okay, So
if you have high blood pressure or high cholesterol, or
back pain or neck pain, or headaches, or neuropathy or
fibromyalgia or type two diabetes, they're all symptoms. They're all symptoms.

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They're sig There are fire alarms letting you know that
there's something else going on that needs to be addressed.
So there's two approaches here. You can either cover up
the symptom and you feel better short term. You hurt
your body long term and it just doesn't work. And
when I've talked about that ad nauseum on this show.
Or you can find out what's causing those symptoms, address

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those underlying factors and lifestyle issues, correct those issues so
that your body can heal and function at one hundred percent.
Now it's logical, it makes sense, and it seems like
everyone kind of knows that now, like this isn't like
a new thing. Like when I explain this to people,
you know, medicine covers things up and taking these things,
people nod their head like they know. But there's a

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difference between knowing and doing, and so we got to
go from the knowing or thinking that you know, to
the doing. And this reminds me of my dad. Even
when I would say this, like if I was getting
in trouble, my dad would be like, don't do it,
Like why are you doing that? You know you shouldn't
be doing that. I say, oh, I know, I know,

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I know, I can't I shouldn't do that, And then
he would always say that the famous lines no you
don't know, No you don't know, because if you knew,
then you would do better, and that you know that
always stuck with me, and it's true. It's like if
you actually knew it, you would do it. If you
knew it, you would do it, So don't let's not
lie to ourselves here, because then you create what's called incongruencies,

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and then you're at odds with your body, and that
can lead to I believe things like elements of guilt
and shame and depression is when you believe or think
one thing and then do do another thing. Now, the
big heady language for this is it's called I believe.
It's called cognitive dissonance, the difference between your subconscious mind
and your conscious mind, and if they're at odds with

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each other, you can have all sorts of symptoms. So
if you truly believe that you should be eating while exercising,
all this kind of stuff, but yet with your actions
you're taking pills, you're ignored in your body, you're too
busy or too whatever, then you're not You're at odds
with yourself and that becomes a problem. Biblically, you know,

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the double minded man is wicked in all his ways.
Obviously that's coming from a spiritual sense, but moving that
to a biological physiological sense. Want to make sure that
you're congruent there, because when you are, you're like you're on,
you're on, and there's a change you're ever around someone
who's like losing weight and they're they're just like on
a mission with their health and they've changed things. Don't

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you notice there's a different like frequency or vibration to them.
You're like, oh my gosh, this person's like they're all
over it. I'm around people like that all the time,
so it's cool for me to see. I see a
lot I can tell. I can just tell when people
when it's kind of clicking for them, when things are
are and groove for them and they're doing well. I'll
see patients where they're just like everything they touch turns

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the gold. They're sleeping better, their energy is better, they're
eating well, they're meaning what they say. They're saying what
they mean, and things start to click and improves all
areas of your life. You just feel better. Like that's
what for me, that's what true wellness is. True wellness
is congruency and taking care of yourself so that you
can be the best version of yourself. And then that

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spills over another people because then other people like, man,
I want that I want to feel like you feel.
I want that energy, I want that mojo. I want
those results that you're getting. Maybe you're losing weight or
exercising more. But when you first start, it's very difficult.
And this is where so many people fall off. What
do they say, like sixty seven percent of New Year's

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resolutions are gone by January third because it's hard. It's
hard to get started. I should say, once you get going,
it's easy because you have habits in your life. You
have the habit of brushing your teeth, you have the
habit of washing your face or having a shower. All
the routines that you do throughout the day, those are habit.
You don't even have to think about it. But when

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you try to introduce a new habit the food that
you're eating. Maybe you're getting rid of SODA's or you're
getting rid of bread or pasta, and you start trying
to eat more, eat eggs, meat, fish, vegetables. You're trying
to incorporate better foods into your body and into your kitchen.
That can be difficult. And the moment you hit that resistance,
whether it's cravings or whether it's a family member who

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despaired just what you're doing. Why can't we just eat
this food we want to eat. When you have that resistance,
your body your nervous system is going to turn the
other way naturally. It's kind of how our bodies work.
Our bodies love homeostasis. It loves to be in kind
of a groove and get into a habit, and we
move out of that, our bodies will automatically resist that.

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For me, I'll notice this almost instantly whenever I start
to exercise. This is why treadmills and me do not work.
I'm going to tell you why. So if I go
for a walk, like in our neighborhood, we have a
pretty good walk around the block. It's about a mile,
maybe a little bit more. Actually it takes about a
good forty minutes, so maybe it's closer to two miles.

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There's this big like around the block that a lot
of people do. Now it's easier for me to do
that because if I start walking, I'm walking away from
my house. It's a lot harder for me to just like,
oh I don't want to work out, I'm on a turnaround,
a walk back. You don't see that happen a lot. No,
It's like, once you start walking, you're going somewhere, you
have to finish the loop. You're committed to it. But

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when you're at treadmill. At least when I'm on a treadmill,
I start walking, how easy it is it just to
turn it off or to slow down or to stop
doing it, because all of a sudden, when I start
doing it, there's this urge for me. If you're anything
like me, like getting out of bed when it's cold outside,
or getting up and movie in the morning, it's like
your body or your nervous system almost resists that. So

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you have to put yourself in situations to thrive. And
that's what I'm going to talk about, is that your
nervous system will associate different things in the outside world
with different activities. So your bedroom is associated with sleeping,
bathroom go into the bathroom, your kitchen with eating. So
you want to put yourself in situations so that you

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don't sabotage your wellness habits. And then the opposite end,
put yourselves in situations to enhance your wellness habits. We'll
talk about that after the break, so stay tuned.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
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Speaker 2 (21:24):
The icy conditions roads are about wellness care, taking care
of your body so that it can take care of
you and you talking about it just before the break
there that you really got to put the work in,
especially at the start, and that's that's the hardest part, guys,
and listen, I get it. Do you ever go to
like lose weight, and you know, you lose the first

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few pounds, maybe the water weight you start, the scale
starts moving, and then you get in those next two, three,
four weeks where you're just like, oh my gosh, I
still feel the belly, or I still notice my cheeks,
or I still notice the scale is not moving, like
this is freaking hard, Like it's it is like it is.

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So the main thing with weight loss is consistency. It
just takes time. But then when you look back at it,
like say it you're six months in or five months
and you're like, oh, that wasn't too bad. But but
when you're in it, it's tough. Think of young kids, right,
So when you have young young kids, it's the days

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are long, right, they say the days are long, the
years are short, and you're up at night and you're
just exhausted and they need you every five seconds. Like
I have three young kids. Every year gets a little easier,
every day gets a little easier. But like bedtime is
still like it's it's difficult. They want to stay up,
they don't want to go to bed, Go brush your teeth,
go do this. You go through all these routines and

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you're like, oh, my gosh, I just want to go
to sleep, like I'm you're you're tired. But then when
you look back, right, you're like, oh, those are the best,
those are the best years. Like you do any you
look at any survey of people who are in like
nursing homes or elder care homes and things like that,
and they ask them what were the best years of
your life? They say when they were raising young kids,

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almost all of them. And they actually had asked. There
was a big survey that was done in an elder
care facility and they said, if you could be any age,
if you could be any age, what age would that be.
You go back and the any age and the answer
surprised me. It was thirty six. You'd think it'd be like, oh,

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I want to be eighteen again or twenty or whatever. No,
thirty six. And it's like, did why did they pick
thirty six? Because you're not you're young, you're young, but
you're not like that young you know, you're a little older,
you're whatever. It's maximum responsibility is that when people look
back at their life, the times that they treasure the

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most is when they had the most responsibility in their life.
Because when you're thirty six, that's when usually what you're
building your career. The kids are very young, like, people
really need you at that age, and that's what people want.
People naturally want that responsibility. So what I'm trying to
say is is that you can shoulder more. You can

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take it on. You can absolutely do it, because when
you look back on it, you're gonna be so proud
of yourself. You're gonna look back and you say, I
did that and it wasn't easy at first, but then
it was easy. You hear people say that all the time,
like oh, I just this is just how I eat,
this is just how I exercise. And when you're first starting,
you're like, man, is that person better than I am?

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Is that person more disciplined? Does that person have skills
that I don't know? They're just in a different place
than you are right now. They were once where you
were at. I tell this to my son, my middle boy, Jake.
He's plays ice hockey now, and he's he's improved leaps
and bounds. Like at the time recording this, he's about

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maybe week eight or nine into the season, and if
you were to see videos of him now versus when
he started, it's like night and day. Now I'm with
him at the practices and I'm at every game and stuff.
My wife because she's with the other kids, she doesn't
see every practice, every game, so there was a big difference.
She came to like game number one, then she came

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to like game number six or seven. She's like, oh
my gosh, they've improved so much, all the kids and
including Jake. It's just it's such a big leap. But
when he first started, he would be hard on himself.
He's like, this is like really hard, and it's hard
to skate and put on all this equipment and the
helmet squeezes your head and the skates are sore because

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you're getting used to them. And I'll tell them, I'll
tell them the different hockey players that are in the NHLD.
I'm like, listen, when they started, they were just like you.
They had the same thing. They probably would lay on
nice and cry. They didn't want to do that and
he's like really, I'm like yeah, I'm like, no one
starts out perfect. No one is like Gretzky at six
years old. It just it doesn't happen. And you have

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to take that same thinking to your own life. It's like,
think of that person in your life that you might
look up to for help, and you're like, man, they
got it all going on. They can do this, they
can do that. They didn't start that way. It was
built over time. So the first step you have to
do is first step you just have to put yourself.
What I say is in that first couple months, you

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got to put yourself in the right situations and the
environment to suit yourself for success. So I'll just tell
you some things that I do. I already shared one earlier.
If I'm going to go for a walk, I got
to get out of the house and go for a walk,
because I you know, my wife can do it, you know,
God bless her. She can go on the treadmill and

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be on there for half an hour or an hour.
I can't. I'm going to go on there and if
I'm staring at the wall, I'm going to get off
in like two minutes. And I'm not going to get
the exercise because my brain just the way that it works.
I don't know if it's add or I don't know
what it is. It just doesn't work that way for me.
I got to feel like I'm moving and accomplishing something.

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So when I'm out in the road and I go
for a walk, I'm I'm hitting different landmarks and goals
and I'm moving along. And then the other part is
you can't really turn around, like once you start, you
got to finish the loop. So do the loop. So
get outside. If you're gonna go for a walk, you
can get outside. That's the best way to do it,
so that you can actually move and there's no turning
around or there's no stepping off the treadmill. Another one

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is if you don't want to cheat on your food
on your plan is get out of the kitchen. So
here's my saying is get out of the kitchen. So
when I get home, my hardest part, and I've shared
this before, I'm trying to trim up lose some weight,
which I am now. I tend to gain weight in

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the summer, you know, pool all that stuff, vacations. When
I get home, we do leftovers a lot, so get
home from the office, put the leftovers into the oven.
It's heating up. I don't use the microwave. I could
do a whole show on that, so it's heating up.
Say it takes ten minutes. I have to get out
of the kitchen while that's heating up. I'm telling you

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right now, get out of the kitchen. I have to
hang out there, because what are you going to do?
What is your brain associate the kitchen with food. So
if I'm standing there looking at my phone or you know, loitering,
what am I gonna do? I'm gonna start snacking. So
I have to get my you know what out of
the kitchen. I'll go upstairs, you know, get into my

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comfortable clothes, get out of my work clothes, go be
with the kids, go to the playroom. Do get out
of that environment so that I'm not putting myself in
that situation where temptation can really take hold. So that's one.
Here's another rule for you is set a kitchen's closed time,
kitchens clothed. My dad would always say this once it
hit a certain time, and because kids, when they're tired,

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they will often be mistaken for hungry. Mistake themselves for hungry.
Same with adults. You get to the end of the
night and kids naturally want to have high energy. When
their energy goes down, what do they start doing. They say,
I'm hungry. That's when I know we've not done our
job with getting them upstairs on time. Is they'll be like,
I'm hungry, I want this food, I want that food

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just before bedtime. And I always say the same thing,
You're not hungry, you're tired. So I'm going to say
that to us as adults. Now, if it's at the
end of the night, you're past seven o'clock, eight o'clock
and you get hungry, you're not hungry, you're tired. You
might want to think about winding down for the night,

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maybe going upstairs, getting yourself out of the kitchen, like
I said, maybe reading a book, relaxing, getting off the
screens and technology so that your body can wind down,
so that you can naturally be tired and give yourself
permission to be tired and not try to amp yourself
up through more food or caffeine and things of that nature.

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And one of the easiest ways to do that is
to set a kitchen's closed time, Like I was saying.
So when I was little, I would go to my
dad and say I'm hungry, and he'd say, oh, kitchen's closed.
Your kitchen's closed at day at seven o'clock or eight o'clock,
whatever time you pick, there's a kitchens close time. And
once the kitchen's closed, you cannot go get more food.

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You're done for the night. And what that does is
that gives your body an opportunity to just start fasting.
So the best time to fast, the easiest time to fast,
is through the night when you're sleeping, so not waking
up and eating and doing all that. Do you want
to give yourself a good twelve hour fast? At least
start out with a good twelve hour fast. It's going

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to start resetting so many different aspects of your health,
whether that's blood sugar, insulin levels, influence sensitivity. Also, it's
going to help to reduce inflammation in your body, and
you're not constantly gorging yourself on food and constantly eating.
It gives your body ability to digest the food that
you've already eaten and then start paying attention to other

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areas of your body and start to heal those things.
And anecdotally, I can tell you so many different stories
of people who have stopped and reversed things like degeneratve arthritis,
like in their hands, like pain has gone away in
their knees and their joints, in their neck and their shoulders,
just by fasting, by giving their body a break not

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eating so often. You can eat good amounts of food,
but just not eating so often. So recently, for me,
I've been doing some intermittent fasting. In fact, at the
time recording this right now, I'm intermittent fasting. So my
goal is to be done eating at seven o'clock and
then to resume eating again the next day at ten

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or eleven o'clock. So it's about what a fourteen fifteen
hour fast, depending on the time of day. Now you
can build yourself up and get up to sixteen hours,
some people get up twenty hours. I would recommend if
you're considering doing intermittent fasting is again start with twelve hours,
so say go twelve, seven to seven or six to six.
It's pretty simple to start with twelve and then build

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up from there and you'll notice a big difference. One
of the biggest differences for me, which I'll focus on
after the break here is Fasting is a tool, a
God given tool, and one that God commands, as you
know many times in the Bible commanded different people to do.
It allows us to push back not only at the flesh,

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but also spiritually, to sharpen our swords spiritually. And I've
noticed that my body and my mind have become more
attuned with one another through fasting. And I'm not just
relying on the next snack or next piece of food.
So stay tuned, Hi, It's R. J.

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It you're going to want to listen to. This this
is true wellness and how you're going to start taking
care of. Yourself i'm want to focus on. Chiropractice. Here
there's three phases to chiropractic. Care there's acute, phase there's
the acute chiropractic. Care and this is WHERE i would
say seventy percent of chiropractice hangout is just like an

(33:47):
acute care Chiropractic, like you're in, Pain i'm going to adjust.
You you're going to get out of. Pain see you
later when you're in pain. AGAIN i have a few
issues with. That the main issue is THEN i just
become a, walking talking bottle of. Advil now it would
be a healthy side effect free bottle of, advil but
it's still treating the. Symptom, this in my, estimation is

(34:09):
the path of least resistance for chiropractors because it takes
virtually it takes zero patient, Education it takes basically zero
effort to do anything else other than just, say, hey
you're in, pain come in And i'll adjust. You see you.
Later like that's kind of. Easy, now from WHAT i
know about how chiropractic schools are set, up HOW i

(34:29):
know about how a lot of people, PRACTICE i, mean
this might be firing some shots. WHATEVER i just know
it's kind of the easy way out because it's not
how the majority of chiropractors take care of themselves in their.
Kids BECAUSE i know chiropractors personally where they'll practice this,
way they just see people when they're in. Pain yet
that same chiropractor they themselves get adjusted once a week

(34:53):
or adjust their kids on a regular. Basis and that
was something that stuck out for me because here's the
other one, too is a lot of acute care. Chiropractors
they'll use, modalities so they're using a hot pack or
a tens unit or electric, stimulation you, know maybe hot,
packs all kinds of different, things and they still spend thirty,

(35:13):
minutes sixty minutes with the. PATIENT i had one lady
come in and she, said you, know you don't spend
that much as much time with. Me my previous chiropractor
spent two hours with me at the, appointments and it
was one of the funnier moments in. PRACTICE i just blurted,
OUT i, go would you guys do watch a movie
together or? Something other people in the waiting area just.
LAUGHING i wouldn't even know what to do with someone

(35:36):
for two, hours, okay like you don't need to Be
AND i remember in school because they kind of they
teach you that to spend all this time to all the,
testing and you're so slow when you're in. School BUT
i remember once getting out in the real world and people,
like if you're spending that much time with, someone you're
wasting that person's. Time and you're doing that just for
yourself to try to impress the. PATIENT i was at

(35:57):
one conference one time and the chiropractice, said if you're
hooking your patients up to electrical stimulation and hot pack
and doing massage and doing all these, things what are
you doing when your family comes into. Office because this
speaker was, saying like he went to a chiropractor's, office
he was hooking the patients up to all this. Stuff
then that chiropractic's family came into the. Office the wife

(36:19):
brought the kids in to get their. Adjustments they laid
on the, table the chiropractor addressed, them he adjusted his,
wife and they. Left they were in and out in
just a few. Minutes and he, Said i'll never get.
This he, goes if you're doing stuff like, that.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
You're being a.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
Fraud i'm, LIKE, Whoa because if you're doing one thing
for yourself and your, family then another thing for the,
patients that's not. Congruent why are you adding in all
the Extras, Anyways that's just What i'm trying to. Say,
listen you want to go to a chiropractor that has
your best interest in. Mind AND i believe that the
vast majority of do. That i'm not saying that they,

(36:53):
don't but there's got to be some. Congruency there. Is
this how they get, adjusted this is how they take
care of them their. Stuff so that's where knowing their,
backstory knowing where they're coming, from that's Where i'm very
open AND i share with every. PATIENT i do a
patient education class three about three visits in the care
WHERE i share my, story my wife's, story how we

(37:13):
came up with our office and everything like, that and
then the philosophy behind what we're. Doing and the philosophy
is is that you want to correct your spine and
that's part two of chiropractic. Care so part one is symptom,
relief which we do. Do we're focused on. That we
want you to be at a. Pain trust, ME i
want those headaches gone. Back paying gone one visit would

(37:34):
be great if you're feeling that much better? Now is
that the case for every? Person of, course not takes
time to get the problem, there it takes time to
get rid of. It base two is, correction where we're
correcting the underlying, issue the structural issue that's there that
caused the symptoms in the first. Place so if your
neck is out of, alignment your, back your, pelvis your,

(37:55):
hips if there's misalignment of the, spine that needs to
be physically corrected to ameliorate the, symptoms but then also
make sure that they're not coming back later, on because
a lot of times people you go to a chiropractor
or physical, therapist medical, doctor, wherever you get the, treatment
you get the, adjustment you get the, stretch you feel

(38:16):
better a few months, later a few weeks, later, whatever
it comes. Back why because that underlying structure was not.
Corrected and then the other the other reason why is
if you don't correct the underlying structure and all you're
doing is trying to ameliorate the, symptom then that structure
will begin to degenerate and get. Worse so here's a quick,

(38:37):
example is from the side of the lower, back you
want to have the nice lumbar, curve and a lot
of people lose that, curve especially from sitting too. Much
SO i see a lot of truck. Drivers truck drivers
tend to lose the curve in the lower. Back AND
i have a patient who comes. In his Name's Trace drives.
Truck showed him his ex rays and again he's in

(38:59):
his mid. Thirties showed him as extray his back had gone.
Straight he's dealing with severe back pain for. Years. NOW
i get him a few. Adjustments he's feeling much, Better
like he can he can walk, better he can sit
to stand. Better he's feeling so much. Better but he's
in it to correct the issue because he told, me
he's like you wouldn't believe the number of people that
he knows that are truck drivers where they blow out their,

(39:20):
back they have bulging, discs her needed, disk spinal, stenosis fist,
degeneration all that stuff later on in. Life he doesn't want.
That so we're not just getting him out of, pain
but correcting that issue so that you can start to
feel even. Better number, two but then also move into
the third phase of chiropractic, care which is true wellness,

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care which we're talking about in this show where we're
not just getting you out of pain correcting the, structure
but we want to maintain want to maintain that structure
through regular chiropractic. Care, now the cool part about that
is once you get the structure where you want it to,
be it just takes maintenance. ADJUSTMENTS i see most people
that you see coming out our office or coming like

(40:02):
every other week or even once a month to maintain
the health of their, spine to maintain the health of their,
spine and it helps to prevent soreness and. Stiffness but
it also helps to. Optimize that's the big thing is
optimization so that you can move into any age of
your life and still be. Flexible you'll have full range of,

(40:23):
motion be able to bend over and touch your, toes
to get out of bed without, pain to get out
out of a chair without. Stiffness and you wouldn't believe
the number of people are, like you, KNOW i went
on a cruise OR i went on a vacation and
a lot of people my, age they were so sore
and they were complaining about their back pain or their
neck pain or their. Stiffness and we don't deal with that.
Anymore my wife has a. Patient her name Is. Sheila

(40:47):
she's been a long time. Patient she's been coming to
our office since twenty, fifteen so just about ten. Years
and she gets regular chiropractic, care coming in every other
week for her adjustments getting now into her you, know
later into her. Sixties they went on a cruise, recently
her and her, Husband. Kevin they both get, adjusted and
she came back she's, LIKE i know you don't you're

(41:09):
not supposed to, compare BUT i just want to let
you know That i'm so grateful for the care that
we're getting. Here because we were the only ones in
our group who weren't complaining about, pain who weren't trying
to find pain medications on the, cruise who were able to.
Walk we were able to do all the excursions and
still go out at night and do everything we wanted

(41:30):
to do without either complaining or not being able to do.
It and, that to me is true, wellness where you
can get to any stage of your life and be
able to actually enjoy your. Life because here's the, thing it's.
Easy your spine's easy to, ignore you, know in your,
twenties your, thirties even like in your forties and. Stuff it's,
Like i'm still relatively. Young i'll be, Okay i'll bounce.

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Back but when you start to add up all of
the you, know improper movement and the pain and the
stiffness and everything starts to accumulate over, time it's just
going to wear you. Down and when you go to
go for a, walk or go on a, cruise or
go on vacation and go, golfing or go pick a,
ball or pull some weeds or go, gardening you're finding

(42:14):
yourself not being able to do it. Anymore and true
wellness is being able to do the things you want
to do when you want to do, them and have
the body to do. It but it takes taking care
of yourself now in order to get. There so where
do we go from? Here WHAT i would recommend the
first step if you are not if you are a
patient of, MINE i would, say if you want, to

(42:36):
if you have anything going, on just let us know
that any goals that you have nutritionally. Exercised there's different
levels that we have at the, office meaning like there's
always somewhere else to go in your, health and if
you want to move to the next, level just let
us know that you're, ready let us know what your
new goals. Are one thing we have on our patient

(42:56):
charts when you come into the, office we not only
have your x ray pulled, up but also your patient
chart with the current things you're dealing with and most,
importantly what your goals, are so we can always update
those goals as we go and you start to hit
goals and then you, know start to work towards new.
Ones my wife doesn't like the word goal because it

(43:16):
makes your feel, pressure so she likes the word desired.
Outcomes she always says to someone instead of, saying what
are your, goals we'll, say what are your desired outcomes
coming in? Here SO i like that. Word if you
want to have, goals, great you want to have desired, outcomes.
Great we can work on. Both but for those of
you who are just getting, started you don't know where to.
Start the best thing to. Do the easiest thing to

(43:36):
do is to make a first. Appointment if you're not
a patient of, mine maybe you've been listening to this
a couple, episodes maybe you've been listening for. Years like
a lot of, people the hardest thing to do is
but also the simplest thing to do is picking up the,
phone hopping on a, computer giving us a, call scheduling
an appointment. Online it's super. Simple so the easiest thing
to do is to give our office call. Again Let

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into the early. Evening it's a super simple. Process we'll
do an, exam take any NECESSARY x race and let
you know exactly what's going with your health and how
you can start to achieve your goals and move into
true wellness where you're in control of your health and
your future by taking care of your, spine, nutrition, exercise,

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Doctor greg O'Neil From Liddit's chiropractic for. Years he makes
so much Sense i've become a patient his adjustments have
made a big difference in my. Life if you're in,
pain have back or neck, issues or just want to
feel and function, better call Doctor greg. Today he'll give
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