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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, welcome back to another week Maximize Living
Radio with your host, doctor Greg O'Neil. Today, I'm going
to be talking about getting new results, new results, which
I think anyone could be down with that. Whatever change
you want to make, we're making the change to get
a desired outcome or to hit a goal. Now, my language,
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I always like to ask what are you to patients?
What are your goals? What are your goals? And then
people will tell me that. Now, my wife is also
a chiropractor. I practice alongside her. She does not like
the word goals and some of you might be like
that too, because the word goals that can come with
some pressure, it sounds a little bit intense. So she
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uses the word desired outcome. So now when patients sit
down and they're a new patient and I go through everything,
I'll say, what are your goals or your desired outcomes
coming here? And I've just said that for years and
years and yeah, so you can think of it like
getting your result. Is it your goal or is it
your desired outcome? Either way, you have to make change
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in order to do that, and really it's not about
your willpower, like getting these results is not so much
about your willpower and your stick to itiveness, and those
things are important. Yes, it is about consistency and persistence
and positivity, and we'll focus on those things, but at
the end of the day, it's about making a decision
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and deciding to make different choices. If here's the big
hook of the show, here is you can't get new
results with old habits. You can't get new results with
old choices. You can't keep doing the same thing over
and over and over again and expect something different. You're
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gonna drive yourself what You're gonna drive yourself crazy. And
we've all been there before, where maybe you get to
the start of the year, or maybe it's before the summer,
or you're like a change of the season. You want
something different, you want to lose a few pounds. One
of the biggest eye openers for me is you go
to put on, say in the springtime, you go to
put on your shorts again, and they're like, uh, oh,
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did these things shrink. It's funny that our brain, my
brain would even think that. It's like to think that
my short shrunk over the winter, or did I get bigger?
But how good of a feeling it is when you
put on those shorts and they fit really well, and
they actually fit loose. That's the biggest That's the biggest
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thing for me. I don't care so much about the
number on the scale so much as I like putting
on my clothes that I know should fit well, that
are the right size, and they fit, they fit good.
But the problem becomes is that instead of changing, we
make adaptations. Okay, we make adaptations to excuse ourselves into
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making the same decisions. So the easiest example of this is, well,
if my shorts don't fit or my shirt is too tight,
I can just get a bigger size. I can move
from a thirty four waist. I can move up to
a thirty six. I can move from a large to
an extra large, from an extra large to two X.
I can move from a thirty six to thirty eight.
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I can get a bigger belt. I can get a
cane to walk on. I can use a walker, I
can use a mobility scooter. Do you see what I'm
getting at is that we get stuck into figuring out
adaptatis versus just facing the problem head on and changing it.
And that's my biggest gripe with healthcare and the way
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people think. And that's where I immediately when someone comes
into our office, that's the first thing I do is
instill in them that God put a power in their
body to heel that the root cause of the issue
is the root cause. We need to figure out what's
causing it, what's causing the problem, getting to that, moving
it and the body will start to heal. Instead. Healthcare
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has become about adaptation. Adaptation, Well, I just need this
brace for my knee. If I have neuropathy or diabetes,
I need to wear these extra special compression socks. I
need to wear these certain stretchy pants. Or I need
to have a walker or a cane. Like I said earlier,
I can't walk uphill, I can't walk downhill. I need
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a chair to go up the stairs. Actually, you know what,
I need no stairs whatsoever. I need to move into
a different home. I need a car where I can
get into and my back won't hurt. I need a
new mattress, I need a new pillow. I need to
change everything else around me except for me. And so
what we want to do is start to look at
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the man or the woman in the mirror and realize
that the thing you need to change is yourself, because
it's easy to just sit there and make all these adaptations.
It is easy. It may seem hard. You may seem
like you're doing your quote unquote research about this supplement
or this medication, or taking this or taking that. But
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in reality, all you're doing is excusing yourself from changing
the familiar, from moving out of the comfortable into the uncomfortable,
going out into the wilderness. From a biblical standpoint, now,
the allegory with the Bible is that when the Israelites
were under captivity, and you know, we all know this,
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the you know, Moses and the Red departing of the
sea and moving out into the wilderness, and they were
in the wilderness for forty years. And when they started,
when they were out there, many of them wanted to
go back. They wanted to go back into slavery. They
wanted to go back because at least they had they
had their familiar things that they could do. They had food,
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they knew when they were getting their food, they knew
when they would work, they knew what was going on.
It was predictable, even though they were enslaved. And that's
really a good allegory or illustration of life. In general
is that many times we can become enslaved by what
we're doing now and not wanting to change. So that
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moving out into the wilderness, so to speak, is moving
out into the unknown, and that's where change happens. That's
where transformation happens. But guess what. It can be uncomfortable,
it can be difficult, it can be all those scary
things because our nervous system, our body, we are creatures
of habit. We like to be in our own bed,
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we like to eat our own food, We want to
drive our own car, we want to sit out of
our own coffee cup. We all have our creature comforts,
so to speak, and I get those things. Those are great.
But what we have to do is is we have
to change our creature comforts to be things that are
good for our health. So that if our habits, if
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our every day routines are things that build our health,
then you're going to do it subconsciously, unconsciously and move
towards those desired outcomes and those goals and those things
that you want to achieve. Or you can choose to
stay the same, or you can choose not to play
the game at all, and by doing so, you're playing
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the game. There's no there's no reality here where you're
not making a decision, Like some of you are listening
to me right now and it's like in the in
one ear out the other. Or you might think this
is this guy's just talking a lot, maybe this isn't
for me, or that's all well and good for him
or for her or for this other person, but not me.
And by not making a decision, you're making a decision.
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You're deciding not to act, You're deciding to stay the same.
So if you want new results, if you want to
change what you see in the mirror, if you want
to change your waist size, or if you want to
change the pain that you're dealing with you don't want
to deal with the symptoms that you're dealing with, or
really the signal which we'll talk about, you need to
start changing the actions that you make on a daily basis.
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And again that can be difficult to do, but all
it takes is making one small little change, one little change.
I tell people all the time, just pick one thing,
not one hundred things, not six things, not even five things,
not even two things. Pick one thing to change in
your life. Start changing that and you'll see a domino
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effect over the course of time of good, positive, optimistic
things starting to happen in your life that you can
start to control and feel proud of and feel a
sense of momentum. And that's when you start to notice
the goals. That's when you start to notice the results.
That's when you start to notice the desired outcomes. They're
coming to light and you start to see the light
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at the end of the tunnel, so to speak, and
you start moving towards what they call the land of
milk and honey. And that can happen by making change.
So stay tuned. We're going to talk about that. All right, guys,
welcome back to the show Maximized Living Radio Doctor Greg O'Neill. Yeah, today,
I'm talking about getting new results. So in order to
get new results, you have to make different choices. You
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have to do things that are different, and that can
be difficult because your nervous system is attuned to what
you're doing on an everyday basis, and you become habitual
ritual and you become a creature of habit and we
have our creature comforts and food for the most part,
is very emotional. It's tied like so much neurochemistry, neuro
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like brain chemistry and things like that is just ingrained
in our gut. And we have as many neurons or
more neurons, which are like brain. Everyone thinks that the
neuron is like a brain cell. We have as many
or more in our gut as we do in our brain.
So there's a huge connection between the brain to gut access.
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And so food becomes very emotional for us, and we
can become emotionally driven with our food. And because of that,
we're going to turn to things that we deem our
comfort foods. Now societally, our comfort foods are not good
for us. They're carbohydrates typically and fats. So when you
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put carbs and fats together like cheese and chips as
that would be like my go to, not a good
mix at all. Remember the gym that I used to
go to, They had a great chart. It just it
just said eating like one oh one, protein plus fat
equals good protein plus carb equals good protein plus protein bad.
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And then it moved into the other one. It's like
or sorry, protein plus protein good. So anything with protein
and you're adding it with something that's what you want
to do you want to couple that? And then it
was like fat and fat not good? That'd be like
what gravy and cheese or something fat and carb not good?
And then obviously carbon carbor fat and fat. So you
want to you want to balance the macros out. Our
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comfort foods are centered around carbs and fat. Why is that?
Why is that the case? So we have stress hormones
in our body and they are centered around our adrenal glands.
So these are called the cordico steroids of the body.
So did you know that when you get injected with
the courtico steroid, you're essentially injecting stress hormone into the body.
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That's wild when you think about it, it's like, I
don't need any more stress in my life. But when
we take things like preadnozone or you're getting a cortico
cortical steroid, cortizone as an example, put into your body,
that is the stress hormone cortisol going into your body.
It's activating that cortical system and so it increases stress hormone.
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So some of the positives of stress hormone is it's
going to increase your blood pressure, it's going to increase
your awareness, Like when you drink caffeine that increases cortisol
in your body for a short amount of time nor
at an effort as an example, another hormone, and you
become more aware, you become more engage, your nervous system
is on alert, and so that can kind of feel
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good for a short period of time, but over a
long period that's going to cause muscle wastings. So you
lose muscle mass and it's gonna cause fat building. You
start to store fat, especially around the mid section and
especially along the cheeks in the face, the two areas
where we don't want fat to be, and it goes
somewhere else, right, So what happens is is that these
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cortical steroids they get depleted in the body and they're
repleted again or they're replenished again through carbohydrates essentially, so
you're adrenal glands. They release different hormones to do to
do with the metabolism of carbohydrates, to do with stress,
and then also with sex hormones as well. So people
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when they feel stressed out, they want to drink things
like wine. They want to they want to try to
calm down through things like sugar because that's kind of
fueling the replenishment of those stress hormones, so it feels
kind of good in the short term. The problem with
that is that if you have stress hormones all through
your body and then you're eating a bunch of carbs
and sugars and fats and things like that, you're gonna
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gain weight, and you're gonna gain weight very quickly, and
that's gonna happen around the mid section and around the face,
and this can become a very fast spiral into rapid
weight gain and to not fitting in your clothes and
to not feeling good. This is also going to increase
areas of inflammation in your body. Now, inflammation is your
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body's response to an injury. Now most people think injury,
they think of like car accident, fall down off a ladder,
hit your head, concussion, sports injuries, something like that. Most injuries,
eighty plus percent of injuries are what are called repetitive
microtrauma sitting at a desk, looking on a phone, repetitive
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movements at work, like picture a cashier who's you know,
scanning items, or someone working in retail folding clothes, or
someone's stocking shelves, or someone lifting things like a delivery driver.
These repetitive motions put wear and tear abnormally on the
back and the neck and the shoulders and the hands,
and the wrists and the elbows and the knees and
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the ankles, and these become areas where inflammation is going
to take hold. Because inflammation in and of itself is
a good thing. It's your body's repair mechanism, so it's
going there to repair those issues. The problem is it
is if there's long standing inflammation, and now you're going
to start to deal with extreme pain and soreness and swelling,
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and it doesn't feel good. And so picture the different
areas of your body like a bucket, okay, and inflammation
is what fills the bucket. If there's already an injury
in your knee, like say you hurt your knee in
high school, or you deal with stress in your neck
because you're looking at a computer all day, picture that
bucket being already halfway full or three quarters full, or
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already ready to fill up over the brim because that
area has already had a problem. Now you add inflammation
to the mix through food as an example carb sugar.
You add inflammation through things like stress. Then those areas
are going to spill over. And this is why when
some people they go to eat sugar or they eat preservatives,
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or they're not feeling well, they get run down, they
get sick, they get pain in their back, they get
pain in their knee, they get pain in their neck, Like,
why is it happening there? Why isn't it happening somewhere else?
Because that's where those areas of inflammation were already high,
and now you're adding more to it and it's spilling over.
So what do we have to do. Well, you got
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to figure out what those areas where the bucket's already full,
those trouble areas. So this would be like I'm a chiropractor.
That's where I would do a spinal examination, check someone's neck.
They're low back. They tell me about their knees, their wrists,
things like that, so we figure out what's going on.
Then you find out why that is, what the cause is. So,
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for example, if there's an issue in the neck because
someone's sitting on a computer and their head is coming forward,
there's abnormal stress and pressure, there's lack of motion that's
going to lead to inflammation and problems and pain. We
got to get the spine moving again. We got to
get you up. We've got to get you moving. We
got to do adjustments to put motion into the spine
so it restores the normal motion of the vertebrae. Because
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here's the thing, and I've shared this a lot for
those of you listen to this radio show, is your
brain interprets lack of motion the same as pain. Your
brain does not like when the spine is not moving. Well,
your brain is very interested in what the spine is
doing in space and time because your spine is protecting
your nervous system. Your spine is protecting a vital part
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of the brain, of your central nervous system. So if
your spine is under stressed, your nervous system is going
to be under stressed. And your nervous system is very
acutely aware of that. And so if the spine's not moving,
it detects it as a problem and that it's going
to let you know that there's a problem through a
signal which society has lied to us and told us
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that it's a symptom and told us that it's a problem.
The fire alarm is not the problem. The neck pain
is not the problem, the knee pain, the hip pain,
the back pain, the neuropathy, the numbn's entingling, the stiffness,
anything that you're dealing with right now, that is not
your problem. Now some of you are like, what is
this guy talking about. I'm gonna flip the station here,
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I'm gonna turn this off. What is he saying? It's
I'm saying it's not your problem. There's something else that's
causing that. That's the problem. If the fire alarm is
going off in your house, I don't go in there
and snip the fire alarm off or cover it up,
or go in and break it, although you may want to.
You have to figure out what's causing that. It's the smoke.
Where there's smoke, there's what there's fire. We need to
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fight the fire. We need to fight the source of
the inflammation. Remove that through your lifestyle. How you're taking
care of your spine, how you're taking care of your mind,
how you're taking care of your nutrition, your exercise. What
kind of toxins are you putting into your body, on
your body, on your clothing right where are you like
what kind of chemicals are you using to clean with
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All these examples of the five essentials, and we start
to change these things, change your environment into a healthy environment,
change your internal environment in a healthy environment, and guess
what beautiful thing happens. The body begins to reregulate, begins
to heal, and those the inflammation starts to come down,
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and you start to feel looser and lighter and more flexible.
And the cool part is is over time, those thigs,
those symptoms, those fire alarms, they will turn off. I
promise you they will turn off. Because I get it.
I understand. People come in and I'm talking about cause
and all this root cause and getting another problem and
blah blah blah, and they're like, listen, buddy, my back hurts.
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It's hurt for thirty years. I want it to go away.
I get it. I understand that. But if all we
ever do is look for a quick fix and try
to shove a pill down your throat and an injection
in your arm and put your body full of chemicals
and garbage, it's not fixing the problem. In fact, it's
making it worse. It's making it worse because now you
don't feel the issue, you don't hear the fire alarm anymore.
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There's still a fire and it's burning down your house,
and it's burning down your body. And there's a problem.
There's a deteriorating disk in your neck, in your lower back,
there's pinching on the nerves in your neck or your
lower back or your mid back. There's blood sugar issues
and metabolic dysfunction that's causing you not be able to
feel your feet anymore from things like diabetic neuro empathy.
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You've injured your body so much with the food that
you're eating. You're putting bad food in your body that
hurts your body. Like it's not funny, it's not cool
to suck down sodas and just inundate your body with
high frictus corn syrup and GMOs, genetically modified organisms and
pesticides and preservatives and ultra processed foods that just literally
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hurt the body. And I see this with kids, and
I see this with schools where they just hand out
crap the kids all the time, these treats, Oh, we're
having a fun treat, we're fellowshipping our with the kids.
Stop giving them garbage. It's hurting them. It's hurting them,
and it's teaching them that food is a reward. It's
teaching them that food is emotional versus food being a
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fuel source for your body like gasoline. Like gasoline is
not like this fun thing I put in my car
and makes my car run. Food has to be the
same way we want to eat to live, not live
to eat. They tune. We'll talk about more of that
after the break. All right, guys, welcome back to the
show Maximize Living Radio Doctor Greg O'Neil, your favorite chiropractor,
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maybe the only chiropractor you ever hear or listen to.
Come on out to lit Its check out our office
Litits Family Chiropractic so Liditsfamily Chiropractic dot com. We're also
on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook. I don't manage the pages, so
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I'm off social media now, which has been great. I've
been off that for years. It's a mess. It's a
total mess. And people will say, you know, oh, it's
good to be on social media, engage people and this
and that. No, no, thank you. Hasn't changed my life
for the negative one iota. It's only changed my life
for the positive. The people that I know and care
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about and love, if I want to connect with them,
I can connect with them. I can call them, I
can text them. I can send do video message, I
can do share photos if I want to do that.
Do I need to know what's going on with someone
from third grade one hundred years ago? No, I don't,
like it's just not in my in my realm. I
believe as humans were meant to have a smaller kind
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of circle than what we have. I don't think we're
meant to know as much as we're being shown. I
think some of that is biblical too. I mean, like,
look at the knowledge of good and evil, and we're
always wanting to be like God or to know like God.
And I don't know. I'm not saying social media is
like a sin or anything like that. I'm not saying that.
I think for me it's not good because for me
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when I went on social media, there was a lot
of strife. There's a lot of arguments because you know,
if you remember the pandemic, a lot of that going on.
A lot of comparison too. You know, you're looking at
people's highlights, highlight reels of their life and you start
to compare someone else's situations where they're not even in
the same situation as you to yourself, and then it
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also steals your time. I believe steals my I should
say my time steals my time, talk about myself. Like
the shorts, the reels, those like TikTok kind of things
where you're just swaping and swiping and swaping. It's designed
to hijack your neurochemistry. It's designed to manipulate hormones like dopamine,
to make you want to do it again, to do
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it again, to do it again. Dopamine is a very
powerful hormone in your brain. It can be very powerful
for the good, it can be very powerful for the bad.
So dopamine is that hormone that makes you want to
do something again, to learn it again. You see a child,
they're they're like starting to regulate their dopamine levels, like
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a young child, like maybe a toddler up to maybe
age five, where they do something and they want to
do it again and again and again and again. Like
I think of my kids when I'd wrestle with them
and I'd like throw them on the bed and we'd
have fun and do all that rough and tumble play
and you know that whole again Daddy again and they
want to experience it again, and we do it again
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and then again and again. And then if we say okay,
now we're gonna be done. Ah, they get that like
let down. Oh I want to do it again. They
get upset. So you got to kind of give kids
that warning, right, because that's how strong that dopamine cycle is.
It just wants to do it again and again again. Now,
if you put that kid at that same age on TV,
on screen time, it's disastrous for the brain because it
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leads them into what's called sensory deprivation. Is they get
as much and they've done studies on this, you get
as much sensory input of looking at a phone, a
tablet or a screen like a TV as you do
staring at an incandescent light bulb. You put your brain
in this sensory deprivation, this lowered, zombie like state. And
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if you don't believe me, look at your husband watching
TV today, looking at the phone, look at your wife
on your phone, look at the kids or the grandkids
on the TV. They just they zone right out. Now, parents,
I trust me, I'm the first one understanding to get it. Yeah,
it's nice every once in a while to stick the
kids on the TV and they're a little easier for
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ten twenty thirty forty minutes. I get that, I understand that.
But the problem is is when you go to get
them off the TV, what happens? It's freak out? Why,
especially if they're really young. Okay, we're all done with
the TV? Now, click? What do they do? No? Why
are they saying no? Because their brain their dopamine levels
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dumped down. They want to get that hit if you
will again. They want it to come up again. They
want to see those specific shows and things, and those
shows out there are really bad the way that they
use color manipulation, and there's not really a set end
point like you see those shows on YouTube where it's
just one continuous song for little kids where they go
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from one song to the next. Kids have to have
and adults too. There's got to be a beginning, a middle,
and an end like a story, so that there's a finality.
Because when there's no finality, you just want to keep
watching and watching and watching. There has to be beginning,
a middle, and an end. So we only let our
children watch shows that are actual shows where it starts
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with an instruction, the middle, the end, and then it's over,
so that when it's over, it's a lot easier for
them to realize, Okay, this is done. Now, that was fun.
We always say that was fun, and now it's done.
Now we need to move on. But when you stick
a kid on something like YouTube, it's terrible for their brain.
Now it's also terrible for your brain too, to be
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sitting and scrolling and to get stuck in the reels
and the Instagram and just scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. It
hijacks your brain. It hijacks your brain. It's a time thief,
and it's also a joy thief, I believe, and it
can really steal a lot of that. So if you
want to make a first change for yourself or your family,
for your kids, for your grandkids, start reducing technology time
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and then maybe you'll get to the point like me
where you totally deactivate your social media accounts and get
off that stuff and try. I'm telling you you won't
miss it. You won't miss it, at least I didn't.
So that's just for what it's worth. But if you
want to, if you're not like that, you want to
check us out on social media. After my big rant,
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get notifications, all that good stuff. All right, So I
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just want to kind of switch back into what we're
talking about here today. So I'm talking about getting new
results by making different changes, performing different actions in your life.
And it all starts with the moment of decision to
decide to do something different. And I want to share
this in a story. There's a patient of mine who's
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been coming in for two three years now. Her name's Kathy.
She comes with her husband. Now, her husband was coming
in for quite a while and she would come in
and see his adjustments, say hello. So I got to
get to know her overtime, and she wasn't my patient.
I would just see her in the office. But she
was very nervous and she even used the word afraid
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of getting adjusted. She dealt with bad back pain, hip pain,
and neck pain, and she was just getting adjusted was
just something that would didn't feel right for her. And
she had a lot of apprehension about it. I was like, listen,
I understand, you know. I'm not going to push you
to do anything. But when you're always say this, when
you're ready to change, when you're ready to see something different,
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I'm here to help you because I know that I
can help you. I'm not going to hurt you. I'm
going to help you because what obviously you're doing now
is not working now. At that time, Kathy dealt with
such bad back pain that walking up hill was out
of the question. So this is years ago. She would
go to weight watchers in Hershey, I forget the name
of the building, but the parking lot was on an
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inclined and she stopped going to that because her back
would hurt so bad. Because her back would hurt so
bad and you had to walk on an incline to
get up this parking lot, She's like, I can't do
this anymore. So fast forward, she decides to come in
as a patient. I get her adjusted. I even modified
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the adjustment to you know, go really light, just a
nice light adjustment for those of you like you know,
you watch you watch on TikTok or YouTube and you
see these huge hulking chiropractors, given these big adjustments and
all the noise, and it looks all dramatic and stuff
they're doing that they're putting. There's microphones under the table.
A lot of that is they're using guys who are
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like their friends, who have been adjusted a thousand times.
It's not reality. It's very polished. It's done for Instagram.
It's done for views basically, so like real I adjust
real people, real people with real problems who may need
real adaptions or modifications in order to make things as
comfortable as possible. And that's why I do specific exams
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at the office. There's no guesswork here. I have an
X ray unit at my office to worry able to
take X rays if necessary to see where the problems are.
So if people have had surgeries in their spine, I
can see that and avoid that if needed. I can
see where there's dis degeneration, where there's arthritis. I can
start to rule out different adjustments. It's okay with this person,
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I'm not going to do X y Z. I'm going
to do ABC instead, and then that way it becomes
a comfortable adjustment for them versus just here lay down,
I'm going to adjust you not really seeing what's going on.
Hope that makes sense, And that puts the patient at
east too. Because for Kathy, she was able to see
I pulled up her X rays and I was able
to show her exactly what was going on, why she
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was dealing with the back pain while she was dealing
with the neck name, and it made sense to her.
And it becomes he's like a social contract or social
agreement of like, yeah, I get this, I understand, let's
move forward here. That's the definition I believe of informed
consent when the patient is empowered to understand what's going
on with their spine, understand the benefits the risks of
the treatment or the procedures that they're about to go through,
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and then making the best decision for themselves moving forward.
So for her getting adjusted and almost immediately like when
then a few adjusts, started to feel a little bit better,
started to feel a little better. Like I said, she's
been a long time patient patient of mine. She's like,
I just want to let you know. I rejoined weight
Watchers in Hershey, and I didn't even think about it
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till I got in. She's like, I walked all the
way up the hill, no pain. And then she remembered, like,
oh my gosh, Because do you ever have this happen
where you go back to a certain setting or situation
and you remember how you felt before and you don't
really think about it until you think about, you know,
the past, And she's like, oh my gosh, I used
to not be able to even walk up this hill,
and she was able to walk up with no pain whatsoever.
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And that's through chiropractic care. But really it's through her
making the decision this little step forward to decide to
at least take an exam, to take an X ray
to see what's happening, to get an adjustment, just to
stick to it and to see those changes, those results.
To get new results, you have to make new choices.
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So for some of you, the next best choice for you,
the next best action is to make a first appointment
at our office. You can understand exactly what's going on
and how we can help you and then move on
from there. So stay tuned. All right, guys, Welcome back
to the show, Doctor Greg O'Neal, Maximize Living Radio. Going
to close out the week here talking about getting new results.
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In order to do that, got to make new changes.
I'm and tell a really cool story. Women came Linda,
who's coming in just recently, and she's one of the
nicest just very pleasant I'll use that word pleasant people,
just very calm presence, bring in a grandkid or two
with her, and just just obviously a great grandmother. I mean,
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the kids behave so well for her. She's just really yeah,
great person. And so you wouldn't realize this, but she
for years, like years and years and years, if not decades,
dealt with constant headaches like I can't imagine. Like I
sometimes I'm like, man, I gotta I gotta fix my
attitude when I'm around You were around certain people and
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they're just such like a good person. You're like, she's
just like inspiring. It's a good thing. I'm like, wow,
Like she's dealing with like a seven or an eight
at a ten headache like all day, but still being
kind and courteous and polite. I mean, that's that's an
inspiration to me. I'm like, geez, I gotta I wake
up out of bed groggy, and I'm like, I gotta
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like check myself, right. So, anyways, she's very pleasant person.
When I saw her her, she was coming in because
her daughter in law was coming in and bringing her grandchildren.
So she decided to come in and get some help
because she's dealing with headaches, like just constantly, constantly, constantly. Now,
she had had years ago, about twenty years ago, had
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a cervical fusion in her neck where they put a
plate and two sets of screws. They fuse the disc together,
the bones together star it. So how does that work?
As well, they go they usually going through the front
of the neck, they separate you know, the muscles and
the ligaments, and they move through all the arteries and
everything like that. They spread everything out of the way
to get to the spine. Then they separate the bones
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to open up the disc and they basically pull out
all the disk material, all the arts, rights, they shave
down the bone, do all this kind of stuff. Then
they put a plate there in the front and they
put like two screws and one vertebrate two screws in
the other so that vertebrate, those two vertebrates are now fused.
So what that can do for someone, well, it can
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it can help to take away pain if there's pressure
on the spinal cord. But when you put those plates
and screws in like. That's it. There's no like changing,
there's no going back because you physically permanly altered your spine.
Now I can understand if someone's dealing with horrific neck
pain and headaches why they might want to do that.
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What I'm going to caution people is is that you
always want to start conservatively first. You want to move
your way up to a surgery, not starting at a surgery.
So how many people I wonder have had surgeries in
their back and their neck and those could have been
completely preventable through chiropractic care. I would say almost all
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of them, outside of like a major injury like you know,
sports injury or a fall or car accident. I get that,
But the vast majority of these problems are not those
traumatic injuries. They are again, like I said earlier, repetitive microtrauma.
Sitting at a computer, putting your head forward, looking at
a phone, just these little things that add up overtime, overtime, overtime,
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overtime that leads you to where you're at now. So
there's no changing that for her, there's no change in that.
For Linda, she's had the cervical fusion it's in there.
There's no changing that. So we need to work around
these things. Now. For me as a chiropractor, I don't
shy away from that. That's where I want to see
what I do want to see imaging. So we did
her initial exam taking X trays. We found that the
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cervical fusion was at the base of her neck. So
I told her, I'm like, listen, we're not touching this.
This is the way that it is. We're not going
to mess with that. We're not going to do anything
that's going to increase pain or bother that area. We're
going to leave that alone. She's like, yeah, absolutely, I said,
but what I can do is work on the top
two bones in the neck, which is multiple levels up,
well out of the way, several inches away from that area,
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and we're going to work on that because that's where
most headaches come from. I'd say eighty percent of headaches
at least come from the top two bones in the
neck being out of alignment. Why because they sit right
where the brain stem is and where these little muscles
are called the sub occipital muscles. So the sub occipital
muscles attach the occiput, which is the base of your
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skull to the vertebrae the C one and C two
otherwise known as the atlas and the axis, and it
kind of holds and stabilizes in place. They're like little
posture or core muscles that you do not control, and
they will they'll hold things together. Now, they're also known
as a stress muscle because when your neck is stressed,
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these muscles will activate and try to hold on. They guard.
They're like guarding muscles. And when those muscles fire up
and they don't let go, and you have a muscle
not like you think of a muscle not in your shoulder,
in your back, and you feel localized pain or referred pain, well,
what happens up there is that can generate a headache,
usually up into the eyes or the sides of the head.
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For her, she just felt it all over her head
like all the time, And so I started to work
with her getting her adjustment. She's been a patient of
mine for about three four weeks now, and I can
tell you I just the other day I knew things
were getting better for her, and I hadn't asked her
about it. I said, hey, how's your how have the
headaches s been? And She's like, I haven't had one
in least two weeks now. She again dealt with them
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for years constantly, like all the time, and the headaches
are starting to go away now. Getting with her, I
have to ask most people I can tell they're feeling
better just because they're like nicer to me. They're I'm serious,
They're like they're smiling more, they're more polite, they're more pleasant.
And then I'm like, okay, something's better here. Hey, how's
the headache? Oh? I feel great? You know. I'm like, yeah,
I can tell because before you're a little rude or whatever.
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I get that that would probably be me if I
had a nine out of ten headache all day long.
But for Linda, I had to literally ask her, I'm like,
how are you feeling? Because I can't tell because you're
so nice all the time and pleasant and smiling, and
it's like, good for her, But she's feeling so much
better and that that just really warms my heart because
she's able to be just as much a more present
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with her grandkids, with her husband, doing the things that
she wants to do in her hirement age, which is
really cool. So if you're listening to this, maybe you're
dealing with headaches or have dealt with headaches, whether it's
neck tension, maybe it's back pain or stiffness, numbness and
tingling down the legs, down the arms, or up into
the head with a headache or a migraine. Please please
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allow me to help if you're ready to make change
in your life. And for some of you, the first
change is just picking up the phone, calling our office
or scheduling appointment online. For many of you, that's your
first step, that's your first thing to do. And by
doing that, I'm able to walk with you and help
guide you to where you want to go. So let
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me know where you want to go, what results you want,
and then we can help to navigate that by having
a plan, having a roadmap, having a GPS so that
you can move towards where you want to go. And
I love the word, I love the idea of having
a GPS because even if you get off track, like
when you have your GP yes on in your car,
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you're never lost. You're just recalculating, recalculating, recalculating, And that's
where someone coming to someone like me and having the
guidance of a chiropractor like me and a lifestyle coach,
if you will, is that we can always be recalculating
because life is going to happen. We can get off track.
You can have a weekend where you don't eat as well,
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or maybe something happens. Like me personally, and I've shared
this a million times, I go to play ice talking
and I strain my back. It's like I'm not just
going to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I
need to recalculate and rechange, change some things so that
I can keep getting and move towards the results that
I want to get to. So it's constantly evolving and
changing your actions to get to the results that you
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want to go to. And there's many different roads that
you can travel. But here's the cool part is we've
traveled those roads with hundreds, if not thousands of people,
and I can help you do that wherever you're at.
If you'd like to give other office a call, what
we're offering. What I'm offering is a final examination your posture,
your range of motion, help patient of your spine, taking
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any necessary X rays at our office. You do get
half off to fifty percent off for a first examination
and any necessary X rays, so you know exactly what's
going on. By your follow up visit, we'll let you
know what's happening with your spine and how we can
help and get started with the first adjustment. Many people ask,
you know what about insurance? Bring your insurance along with you.
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We will call to verify and let you know again
by your second visit what's going on with that. Just
so you know, I am in network with Medicare, with
High Mark, with Blue Cross, Blue Shield, also a few
other Medicare plans. So it's the easiest thing to do
is just when you come in, we'll take your insurance cards,
we'll make a photocopy of those, we will call and
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verify and let you know by the following visit exactly
what's going on. So it's just seventy dollars for the
first visit. Again, that includes the fifty percent off discount.
If you listen to the radio show of the podcast,
just let us know that you're doing that. So the
number to call is seven one seven six two seven
zero three six five seven one seven six two seven
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website lit Itsfamily Chiropractic dot com and click on requests
and appointment. Fill out the information. We will get back
to you as soon as we can. But again seven
one seven six two seven zero three six five. All right,
I want to close out the week here just with
some good motivation talking about getting better results, making different changes. Uh.
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There's this old saying that I just love. It's if
they knew what you knew, they would do what you do.
If they knew what you knew, they would do what
you do. Is that we're all I believe. I believe
that people are trying to do the best that they
can in many areas, but they just maybe don't have
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the tools or the knowledge or the action steps of
the plan in order to pull it off. So what
do I mean by that is that I was if
I knew what you knew, I would do what you do? Okay,
because and then if you knew what I knew, you
would do what I do. Is that we all have
to live in our own little lane here, but we
have to in order to get different results, we got
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to move out of that. And that's where help comes in.
That's why there's teachers, That's why there's professors, That's why
there's doctors and counselors and therapists because they know things
that you may not know, and they can help impart
wisdom so that you can start to change things, so
that you can do different things to get to help.
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So what I always caution people with is that when
you go to see someone, make sure that they're living
the lifestyle that you want to live too. That it's
not just something they're saying, it's something that they're doing.
So however that lands for you, I hope it helps
guys have a great week. Signing off, doctor Greg
All right, guys, welcome back to another week Maximize Living
Radio with your host, doctor Greg O'Neil. Today, I'm going
to be talking about getting new results, new results, which
I think anyone could be down with that. Whatever change
you want to make, we're making the change to get
a desired outcome or to hit a goal. Now, my language,
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I always like to ask what are you to patients?
What are your goals? What are your goals? And then
people will tell me that. Now, my wife is also
a chiropractor. I practice alongside her. She does not like
the word goals and some of you might be like
that too, because the word goals that can come with
some pressure, it sounds a little bit intense. So she
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uses the word desired outcome. So now when patients sit
down and they're a new patient and I go through everything,
I'll say, what are your goals or your desired outcomes
coming here? And I've just said that for years and
years and yeah, so you can think of it like
getting your result. Is it your goal or is it
your desired outcome? Either way, you have to make change
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in order to do that, and really it's not about
your willpower, like getting these results is not so much
about your willpower and your stick to itiveness, and those
things are important. Yes, it is about consistency and persistence
and positivity, and we'll focus on those things, but at
the end of the day, it's about making a decision
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and deciding to make different choices. If here's the big
hook of the show, here is you can't get new
results with old habits. You can't get new results with
old choices. You can't keep doing the same thing over
and over and over again and expect something different. You're
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gonna drive yourself what You're gonna drive yourself crazy. And
we've all been there before, where maybe you get to
the start of the year, or maybe it's before the summer,
or you're like a change of the season. You want
something different, you want to lose a few pounds. One
of the biggest eye openers for me is you go
to put on, say in the springtime, you go to
put on your shorts again, and they're like, uh, oh,
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did these things shrink. It's funny that our brain, my
brain would even think that. It's like to think that
my short shrunk over the winter, or did I get bigger?
But how good of a feeling it is when you
put on those shorts and they fit really well, and
they actually fit loose. That's the biggest That's the biggest
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thing for me. I don't care so much about the
number on the scale so much as I like putting
on my clothes that I know should fit well, that
are the right size, and they fit, they fit good.
But the problem becomes is that instead of changing, we
make adaptations. Okay, we make adaptations to excuse ourselves into
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making the same decisions. So the easiest example of this is, well,
if my shorts don't fit or my shirt is too tight,
I can just get a bigger size. I can move
from a thirty four waist. I can move up to
a thirty six. I can move from a large to
an extra large, from an extra large to two X.
I can move from a thirty six to thirty eight.
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I can get a bigger belt. I can get a
cane to walk on. I can use a walker, I
can use a mobility scooter. Do you see what I'm
getting at is that we get stuck into figuring out
adaptatis versus just facing the problem head on and changing it.
And that's my biggest gripe with healthcare and the way
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people think. And that's where I immediately when someone comes
into our office, that's the first thing I do is
instill in them that God put a power in their
body to heel that the root cause of the issue
is the root cause. We need to figure out what's
causing it, what's causing the problem, getting to that, moving
it and the body will start to heal. Instead. Healthcare
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has become about adaptation. Adaptation, Well, I just need this
brace for my knee. If I have neuropathy or diabetes,
I need to wear these extra special compression socks. I
need to wear these certain stretchy pants. Or I need
to have a walker or a cane. Like I said earlier,
I can't walk uphill, I can't walk downhill. I need
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a chair to go up the stairs. Actually, you know what,
I need no stairs whatsoever. I need to move into
a different home. I need a car where I can
get into and my back won't hurt. I need a
new mattress, I need a new pillow. I need to
change everything else around me except for me. And so
what we want to do is start to look at
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the man or the woman in the mirror and realize
that the thing you need to change is yourself, because
it's easy to just sit there and make all these adaptations.
It is easy. It may seem hard. You may seem
like you're doing your quote unquote research about this supplement
or this medication, or taking this or taking that. But
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in reality, all you're doing is excusing yourself from changing
the familiar, from moving out of the comfortable into the uncomfortable,
going out into the wilderness. From a biblical standpoint, now,
the allegory with the Bible is that when the Israelites
were under captivity, and you know, we all know this,
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the you know, Moses and the Red departing of the
sea and moving out into the wilderness, and they were
in the wilderness for forty years. And when they started,
when they were out there, many of them wanted to
go back. They wanted to go back into slavery. They
wanted to go back because at least they had they
had their familiar things that they could do. They had food,
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they knew when they were getting their food, they knew
when they would work, they knew what was going on.
It was predictable, even though they were enslaved. And that's
really a good allegory or illustration of life. In general
is that many times we can become enslaved by what
we're doing now and not wanting to change. So that
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moving out into the wilderness, so to speak, is moving
out into the unknown, and that's where change happens. That's
where transformation happens. But guess what. It can be uncomfortable,
it can be difficult, it can be all those scary
things because our nervous system, our body, we are creatures
of habit. We like to be in our own bed,
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we like to eat our own food, We want to
drive our own car, we want to sit out of
our own coffee cup. We all have our creature comforts,
so to speak, and I get those things. Those are great.
But what we have to do is is we have
to change our creature comforts to be things that are
good for our health. So that if our habits, if
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our every day routines are things that build our health,
then you're going to do it subconsciously, unconsciously and move
towards those desired outcomes and those goals and those things
that you want to achieve. Or you can choose to
stay the same, or you can choose not to play
the game at all, and by doing so, you're playing
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the game. There's no there's no reality here where you're
not making a decision, Like some of you are listening
to me right now and it's like in the in
one ear out the other. Or you might think this
is this guy's just talking a lot, maybe this isn't
for me, or that's all well and good for him
or for her or for this other person, but not me.
And by not making a decision, you're making a decision.
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You're deciding not to act, You're deciding to stay the same.
So if you want new results, if you want to
change what you see in the mirror, if you want
to change your waist size, or if you want to
change the pain that you're dealing with you don't want
to deal with the symptoms that you're dealing with, or
really the signal which we'll talk about, you need to
start changing the actions that you make on a daily basis.
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And again that can be difficult to do, but all
it takes is making one small little change, one little change.
I tell people all the time, just pick one thing,
not one hundred things, not six things, not even five things,
not even two things. Pick one thing to change in
your life. Start changing that and you'll see a domino
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effect over the course of time of good, positive, optimistic
things starting to happen in your life that you can
start to control and feel proud of and feel a
sense of momentum. And that's when you start to notice
the goals. That's when you start to notice the results.
That's when you start to notice the desired outcomes. They're
coming to light and you start to see the light
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at the end of the tunnel, so to speak, and
you start moving towards what they call the land of
milk and honey. And that can happen by making change.
So stay tuned. We're going to talk about that. All right, guys,
welcome back to the show Maximized Living Radio Doctor Greg O'Neill. Yeah, today,
I'm talking about getting new results. So in order to
get new results, you have to make different choices. You
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have to do things that are different, and that can
be difficult because your nervous system is attuned to what
you're doing on an everyday basis, and you become habitual
ritual and you become a creature of habit and we
have our creature comforts and food for the most part,
is very emotional. It's tied like so much neurochemistry, neuro
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like brain chemistry and things like that is just ingrained
in our gut. And we have as many neurons or
more neurons, which are like brain. Everyone thinks that the
neuron is like a brain cell. We have as many
or more in our gut as we do in our brain.
So there's a huge connection between the brain to gut access.
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And so food becomes very emotional for us, and we
can become emotionally driven with our food. And because of that,
we're going to turn to things that we deem our
comfort foods. Now societally, our comfort foods are not good
for us. They're carbohydrates typically and fats. So when you
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put carbs and fats together like cheese and chips as
that would be like my go to, not a good
mix at all. Remember the gym that I used to
go to, They had a great chart. It just it
just said eating like one oh one, protein plus fat
equals good protein plus carb equals good protein plus protein bad.
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And then it moved into the other one. It's like
or sorry, protein plus protein good. So anything with protein
and you're adding it with something that's what you want
to do you want to couple that? And then it
was like fat and fat not good? That'd be like
what gravy and cheese or something fat and carb not good?
And then obviously carbon carbor fat and fat. So you
want to you want to balance the macros out. Our
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comfort foods are centered around carbs and fat. Why is that?
Why is that the case? So we have stress hormones
in our body and they are centered around our adrenal glands.
So these are called the cordico steroids of the body.
So did you know that when you get injected with
the courtico steroid, you're essentially injecting stress hormone into the body.
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That's wild when you think about it, it's like, I
don't need any more stress in my life. But when
we take things like preadnozone or you're getting a cortico
cortical steroid, cortizone as an example, put into your body,
that is the stress hormone cortisol going into your body.
It's activating that cortical system and so it increases stress hormone.
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So some of the positives of stress hormone is it's
going to increase your blood pressure, it's going to increase
your awareness, Like when you drink caffeine that increases cortisol
in your body for a short amount of time nor
at an effort as an example, another hormone, and you
become more aware, you become more engage, your nervous system
is on alert, and so that can kind of feel
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good for a short period of time, but over a
long period that's going to cause muscle wastings. So you
lose muscle mass and it's gonna cause fat building. You
start to store fat, especially around the mid section and
especially along the cheeks in the face, the two areas
where we don't want fat to be, and it goes
somewhere else, right, So what happens is is that these
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cortical steroids they get depleted in the body and they're
repleted again or they're replenished again through carbohydrates essentially, so
you're adrenal glands. They release different hormones to do to
do with the metabolism of carbohydrates, to do with stress,
and then also with sex hormones as well. So people
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when they feel stressed out, they want to drink things
like wine. They want to they want to try to
calm down through things like sugar because that's kind of
fueling the replenishment of those stress hormones, so it feels
kind of good in the short term. The problem with
that is that if you have stress hormones all through
your body and then you're eating a bunch of carbs
and sugars and fats and things like that, you're gonna
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gain weight, and you're gonna gain weight very quickly, and
that's gonna happen around the mid section and around the face,
and this can become a very fast spiral into rapid
weight gain and to not fitting in your clothes and
to not feeling good. This is also going to increase
areas of inflammation in your body. Now, inflammation is your
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body's response to an injury. Now most people think injury,
they think of like car accident, fall down off a ladder,
hit your head, concussion, sports injuries, something like that. Most injuries,
eighty plus percent of injuries are what are called repetitive
microtrauma sitting at a desk, looking on a phone, repetitive
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movements at work, like picture a cashier who's you know,
scanning items, or someone working in retail folding clothes, or
someone's stocking shelves, or someone lifting things like a delivery driver.
These repetitive motions put wear and tear abnormally on the
back and the neck and the shoulders and the hands,
and the wrists and the elbows and the knees and
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the ankles, and these become areas where inflammation is going
to take hold. Because inflammation in and of itself is
a good thing. It's your body's repair mechanism, so it's
going there to repair those issues. The problem is it
is if there's long standing inflammation, and now you're going
to start to deal with extreme pain and soreness and swelling,
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and it doesn't feel good. And so picture the different
areas of your body like a bucket, okay, and inflammation
is what fills the bucket. If there's already an injury
in your knee, like say you hurt your knee in
high school, or you deal with stress in your neck
because you're looking at a computer all day, picture that
bucket being already halfway full or three quarters full, or
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already ready to fill up over the brim because that
area has already had a problem. Now you add inflammation
to the mix through food as an example carb sugar.
You add inflammation through things like stress. Then those areas
are going to spill over. And this is why when
some people they go to eat sugar or they eat preservatives,
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or they're not feeling well, they get run down, they
get sick, they get pain in their back, they get
pain in their knee, they get pain in their neck, Like,
why is it happening there? Why isn't it happening somewhere else?
Because that's where those areas of inflammation were already high,
and now you're adding more to it and it's spilling over.
So what do we have to do. Well, you got
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to figure out what those areas where the bucket's already full,
those trouble areas. So this would be like I'm a chiropractor.
That's where I would do a spinal examination, check someone's neck.
They're low back. They tell me about their knees, their wrists,
things like that, so we figure out what's going on.
Then you find out why that is, what the cause is. So,
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for example, if there's an issue in the neck because
someone's sitting on a computer and their head is coming forward,
there's abnormal stress and pressure, there's lack of motion that's
going to lead to inflammation and problems and pain. We
got to get the spine moving again. We got to
get you up. We've got to get you moving. We
got to do adjustments to put motion into the spine
so it restores the normal motion of the vertebrae. Because
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here's the thing, and I've shared this a lot for
those of you listen to this radio show, is your
brain interprets lack of motion the same as pain. Your
brain does not like when the spine is not moving. Well,
your brain is very interested in what the spine is
doing in space and time because your spine is protecting
your nervous system. Your spine is protecting a vital part
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of the brain, of your central nervous system. So if
your spine is under stressed, your nervous system is going
to be under stressed. And your nervous system is very
acutely aware of that. And so if the spine's not moving,
it detects it as a problem and that it's going
to let you know that there's a problem through a
signal which society has lied to us and told us
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that it's a symptom and told us that it's a problem.
The fire alarm is not the problem. The neck pain
is not the problem, the knee pain, the hip pain,
the back pain, the neuropathy, the numbn's entingling, the stiffness,
anything that you're dealing with right now, that is not
your problem. Now some of you are like, what is
this guy talking about. I'm gonna flip the station here,
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I'm gonna turn this off. What is he saying? It's
I'm saying it's not your problem. There's something else that's
causing that. That's the problem. If the fire alarm is
going off in your house, I don't go in there
and snip the fire alarm off or cover it up,
or go in and break it, although you may want to.
You have to figure out what's causing that. It's the smoke.
Where there's smoke, there's what there's fire. We need to
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fight the fire. We need to fight the source of
the inflammation. Remove that through your lifestyle. How you're taking
care of your spine, how you're taking care of your mind,
how you're taking care of your nutrition, your exercise. What
kind of toxins are you putting into your body, on
your body, on your clothing right where are you like
what kind of chemicals are you using to clean with
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All these examples of the five essentials, and we start
to change these things, change your environment into a healthy environment,
change your internal environment in a healthy environment, and guess
what beautiful thing happens. The body begins to reregulate, begins
to heal, and those the inflammation starts to come down,
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and you start to feel looser and lighter and more flexible.
And the cool part is is over time, those thigs,
those symptoms, those fire alarms, they will turn off. I
promise you they will turn off. Because I get it.
I understand. People come in and I'm talking about cause
and all this root cause and getting another problem and
blah blah blah, and they're like, listen, buddy, my back hurts.
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It's hurt for thirty years. I want it to go away.
I get it. I understand that. But if all we
ever do is look for a quick fix and try
to shove a pill down your throat and an injection
in your arm and put your body full of chemicals
and garbage, it's not fixing the problem. In fact, it's
making it worse. It's making it worse because now you
don't feel the issue, you don't hear the fire alarm anymore.
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There's still a fire and it's burning down your house,
and it's burning down your body. And there's a problem.
There's a deteriorating disk in your neck, in your lower back,
there's pinching on the nerves in your neck or your
lower back or your mid back. There's blood sugar issues
and metabolic dysfunction that's causing you not be able to
feel your feet anymore from things like diabetic neuro empathy.
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You've injured your body so much with the food that
you're eating. You're putting bad food in your body that
hurts your body. Like it's not funny, it's not cool
to suck down sodas and just inundate your body with
high frictus corn syrup and GMOs, genetically modified organisms and
pesticides and preservatives and ultra processed foods that just literally
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hurt the body. And I see this with kids, and
I see this with schools where they just hand out
crap the kids all the time, these treats, Oh, we're
having a fun treat, we're fellowshipping our with the kids.
Stop giving them garbage. It's hurting them. It's hurting them,
and it's teaching them that food is a reward. It's
teaching them that food is emotional versus food being a
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fuel source for your body like gasoline. Like gasoline is
not like this fun thing I put in my car
and makes my car run. Food has to be the
same way we want to eat to live, not live
to eat. They tune. We'll talk about more of that
after the break. All right, guys, welcome back to the
show Maximize Living Radio Doctor Greg O'Neil, your favorite chiropractor,
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maybe the only chiropractor you ever hear or listen to.
Come on out to lit Its check out our office
Litits Family Chiropractic so Liditsfamily Chiropractic dot com. We're also
on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook. I don't manage the pages, so
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I'm off social media now, which has been great. I've
been off that for years. It's a mess. It's a
total mess. And people will say, you know, oh, it's
good to be on social media, engage people and this
and that. No, no, thank you. Hasn't changed my life
for the negative one iota. It's only changed my life
for the positive. The people that I know and care
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about and love, if I want to connect with them,
I can connect with them. I can call them, I
can text them. I can send do video message, I
can do share photos if I want to do that.
Do I need to know what's going on with someone
from third grade one hundred years ago? No, I don't,
like it's just not in my in my realm. I
believe as humans were meant to have a smaller kind
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of circle than what we have. I don't think we're
meant to know as much as we're being shown. I
think some of that is biblical too. I mean, like,
look at the knowledge of good and evil, and we're
always wanting to be like God or to know like God.
And I don't know. I'm not saying social media is
like a sin or anything like that. I'm not saying that.
I think for me it's not good because for me
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when I went on social media, there was a lot
of strife. There's a lot of arguments because you know,
if you remember the pandemic, a lot of that going on.
A lot of comparison too. You know, you're looking at
people's highlights, highlight reels of their life and you start
to compare someone else's situations where they're not even in
the same situation as you to yourself, and then it
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also steals your time. I believe steals my I should
say my time steals my time, talk about myself. Like
the shorts, the reels, those like TikTok kind of things
where you're just swaping and swiping and swaping. It's designed
to hijack your neurochemistry. It's designed to manipulate hormones like dopamine,
to make you want to do it again, to do
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it again, to do it again. Dopamine is a very
powerful hormone in your brain. It can be very powerful
for the good, it can be very powerful for the bad.
So dopamine is that hormone that makes you want to
do something again, to learn it again. You see a child,
they're they're like starting to regulate their dopamine levels, like
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a young child, like maybe a toddler up to maybe
age five, where they do something and they want to
do it again and again and again and again. Like
I think of my kids when I'd wrestle with them
and I'd like throw them on the bed and we'd
have fun and do all that rough and tumble play
and you know that whole again Daddy again and they
want to experience it again, and we do it again
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and then again and again. And then if we say okay,
now we're gonna be done. Ah, they get that like
let down. Oh I want to do it again. They
get upset. So you got to kind of give kids
that warning, right, because that's how strong that dopamine cycle is.
It just wants to do it again and again again. Now,
if you put that kid at that same age on TV,
on screen time, it's disastrous for the brain because it
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leads them into what's called sensory deprivation. Is they get
as much and they've done studies on this, you get
as much sensory input of looking at a phone, a
tablet or a screen like a TV as you do
staring at an incandescent light bulb. You put your brain
in this sensory deprivation, this lowered, zombie like state. And
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if you don't believe me, look at your husband watching
TV today, looking at the phone, look at your wife
on your phone, look at the kids or the grandkids
on the TV. They just they zone right out. Now, parents,
I trust me, I'm the first one understanding to get it. Yeah,
it's nice every once in a while to stick the
kids on the TV and they're a little easier for
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ten twenty thirty forty minutes. I get that, I understand that.
But the problem is is when you go to get
them off the TV, what happens? It's freak out? Why,
especially if they're really young. Okay, we're all done with
the TV? Now, click? What do they do? No? Why
are they saying no? Because their brain their dopamine levels
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dumped down. They want to get that hit if you
will again. They want it to come up again. They
want to see those specific shows and things, and those
shows out there are really bad the way that they
use color manipulation, and there's not really a set end
point like you see those shows on YouTube where it's
just one continuous song for little kids where they go
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from one song to the next. Kids have to have
and adults too. There's got to be a beginning, a middle,
and an end like a story, so that there's a finality.
Because when there's no finality, you just want to keep
watching and watching and watching. There has to be beginning,
a middle, and an end. So we only let our
children watch shows that are actual shows where it starts
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with an instruction, the middle, the end, and then it's over,
so that when it's over, it's a lot easier for
them to realize, Okay, this is done. Now, that was fun.
We always say that was fun, and now it's done.
Now we need to move on. But when you stick
a kid on something like YouTube, it's terrible for their brain.
Now it's also terrible for your brain too, to be
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sitting and scrolling and to get stuck in the reels
and the Instagram and just scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. It
hijacks your brain. It hijacks your brain. It's a time thief,
and it's also a joy thief, I believe, and it
can really steal a lot of that. So if you
want to make a first change for yourself or your family,
for your kids, for your grandkids, start reducing technology time
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and then maybe you'll get to the point like me
where you totally deactivate your social media accounts and get
off that stuff and try. I'm telling you you won't
miss it. You won't miss it, at least I didn't.
So that's just for what it's worth. But if you
want to, if you're not like that, you want to
check us out on social media. After my big rant,
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let its family chiropractic The best thing to do, honestly,
you want to listen to this podcast again. You want
to re listen to the radio show, Get on the
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get notifications, all that good stuff. All right, So I
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just want to kind of switch back into what we're
talking about here today. So I'm talking about getting new
results by making different changes, performing different actions in your life.
And it all starts with the moment of decision to
decide to do something different. And I want to share
this in a story. There's a patient of mine who's
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been coming in for two three years now. Her name's Kathy.
She comes with her husband. Now, her husband was coming
in for quite a while and she would come in
and see his adjustments, say hello. So I got to
get to know her overtime, and she wasn't my patient.
I would just see her in the office. But she
was very nervous and she even used the word afraid
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of getting adjusted. She dealt with bad back pain, hip pain,
and neck pain, and she was just getting adjusted was
just something that would didn't feel right for her. And
she had a lot of apprehension about it. I was like, listen,
I understand, you know. I'm not going to push you
to do anything. But when you're always say this, when
you're ready to change, when you're ready to see something different,
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I'm here to help you because I know that I
can help you. I'm not going to hurt you. I'm
going to help you because what obviously you're doing now
is not working now. At that time, Kathy dealt with
such bad back pain that walking up hill was out
of the question. So this is years ago. She would
go to weight watchers in Hershey, I forget the name
of the building, but the parking lot was on an
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inclined and she stopped going to that because her back
would hurt so bad. Because her back would hurt so
bad and you had to walk on an incline to
get up this parking lot, She's like, I can't do
this anymore. So fast forward, she decides to come in
as a patient. I get her adjusted. I even modified
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the adjustment to you know, go really light, just a
nice light adjustment for those of you like you know,
you watch you watch on TikTok or YouTube and you
see these huge hulking chiropractors, given these big adjustments and
all the noise, and it looks all dramatic and stuff
they're doing that they're putting. There's microphones under the table.
A lot of that is they're using guys who are
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like their friends, who have been adjusted a thousand times.
It's not reality. It's very polished. It's done for Instagram.
It's done for views basically, so like real I adjust
real people, real people with real problems who may need
real adaptions or modifications in order to make things as
comfortable as possible. And that's why I do specific exams
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at the office. There's no guesswork here. I have an
X ray unit at my office to worry able to
take X rays if necessary to see where the problems are.
So if people have had surgeries in their spine, I
can see that and avoid that if needed. I can
see where there's dis degeneration, where there's arthritis. I can
start to rule out different adjustments. It's okay with this person,
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I'm not going to do X y Z. I'm going
to do ABC instead, and then that way it becomes
a comfortable adjustment for them versus just here lay down,
I'm going to adjust you not really seeing what's going on.
Hope that makes sense, And that puts the patient at
east too. Because for Kathy, she was able to see
I pulled up her X rays and I was able
to show her exactly what was going on, why she
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was dealing with the back pain while she was dealing
with the neck name, and it made sense to her.
And it becomes he's like a social contract or social
agreement of like, yeah, I get this, I understand, let's
move forward here. That's the definition I believe of informed
consent when the patient is empowered to understand what's going
on with their spine, understand the benefits the risks of
the treatment or the procedures that they're about to go through,
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and then making the best decision for themselves moving forward.
So for her getting adjusted and almost immediately like when
then a few adjusts, started to feel a little bit better,
started to feel a little better. Like I said, she's
been a long time patient patient of mine. She's like,
I just want to let you know. I rejoined weight
Watchers in Hershey, and I didn't even think about it
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till I got in. She's like, I walked all the
way up the hill, no pain. And then she remembered, like,
oh my gosh, Because do you ever have this happen
where you go back to a certain setting or situation
and you remember how you felt before and you don't
really think about it until you think about, you know,
the past, And she's like, oh my gosh, I used
to not be able to even walk up this hill,
and she was able to walk up with no pain whatsoever.
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And that's through chiropractic care. But really it's through her
making the decision this little step forward to decide to
at least take an exam, to take an X ray
to see what's happening, to get an adjustment, just to
stick to it and to see those changes, those results.
To get new results, you have to make new choices.
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So for some of you, the next best choice for you,
the next best action is to make a first appointment
at our office. You can understand exactly what's going on
and how we can help you and then move on
from there. So stay tuned. All right, guys, Welcome back
to the show, Doctor Greg O'Neal, Maximize Living Radio. Going
to close out the week here talking about getting new results.
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In order to do that, got to make new changes.
I'm and tell a really cool story. Women came Linda,
who's coming in just recently, and she's one of the
nicest just very pleasant I'll use that word pleasant people,
just very calm presence, bring in a grandkid or two
with her, and just just obviously a great grandmother. I mean,
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the kids behave so well for her. She's just really yeah,
great person. And so you wouldn't realize this, but she
for years, like years and years and years, if not decades,
dealt with constant headaches like I can't imagine. Like I
sometimes I'm like, man, I gotta I gotta fix my
attitude when I'm around You were around certain people and
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they're just such like a good person. You're like, she's
just like inspiring. It's a good thing. I'm like, wow,
Like she's dealing with like a seven or an eight
at a ten headache like all day, but still being
kind and courteous and polite. I mean, that's that's an
inspiration to me. I'm like, geez, I gotta I wake
up out of bed groggy, and I'm like, I gotta
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like check myself, right. So, anyways, she's very pleasant person.
When I saw her her, she was coming in because
her daughter in law was coming in and bringing her grandchildren.
So she decided to come in and get some help
because she's dealing with headaches, like just constantly, constantly, constantly. Now,
she had had years ago, about twenty years ago, had
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a cervical fusion in her neck where they put a
plate and two sets of screws. They fuse the disc together,
the bones together star it. So how does that work?
As well, they go they usually going through the front
of the neck, they separate you know, the muscles and
the ligaments, and they move through all the arteries and
everything like that. They spread everything out of the way
to get to the spine. Then they separate the bones
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to open up the disc and they basically pull out
all the disk material, all the arts, rights, they shave
down the bone, do all this kind of stuff. Then
they put a plate there in the front and they
put like two screws and one vertebrate two screws in
the other so that vertebrate, those two vertebrates are now fused.
So what that can do for someone, well, it can
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it can help to take away pain if there's pressure
on the spinal cord. But when you put those plates
and screws in like. That's it. There's no like changing,
there's no going back because you physically permanly altered your spine.
Now I can understand if someone's dealing with horrific neck
pain and headaches why they might want to do that.
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What I'm going to caution people is is that you
always want to start conservatively first. You want to move
your way up to a surgery, not starting at a surgery.
So how many people I wonder have had surgeries in
their back and their neck and those could have been
completely preventable through chiropractic care. I would say almost all
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of them, outside of like a major injury like you know,
sports injury or a fall or car accident. I get that,
But the vast majority of these problems are not those
traumatic injuries. They are again, like I said earlier, repetitive microtrauma.
Sitting at a computer, putting your head forward, looking at
a phone, just these little things that add up overtime, overtime, overtime,
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overtime that leads you to where you're at now. So
there's no changing that for her, there's no change in that.
For Linda, she's had the cervical fusion it's in there.
There's no changing that. So we need to work around
these things. Now. For me as a chiropractor, I don't
shy away from that. That's where I want to see
what I do want to see imaging. So we did
her initial exam taking X trays. We found that the
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cervical fusion was at the base of her neck. So
I told her, I'm like, listen, we're not touching this.
This is the way that it is. We're not going
to mess with that. We're not going to do anything
that's going to increase pain or bother that area. We're
going to leave that alone. She's like, yeah, absolutely, I said,
but what I can do is work on the top
two bones in the neck, which is multiple levels up,
well out of the way, several inches away from that area,
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and we're going to work on that because that's where
most headaches come from. I'd say eighty percent of headaches
at least come from the top two bones in the
neck being out of alignment. Why because they sit right
where the brain stem is and where these little muscles
are called the sub occipital muscles. So the sub occipital
muscles attach the occiput, which is the base of your
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skull to the vertebrae the C one and C two
otherwise known as the atlas and the axis, and it
kind of holds and stabilizes in place. They're like little
posture or core muscles that you do not control, and
they will they'll hold things together. Now, they're also known
as a stress muscle because when your neck is stressed,
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these muscles will activate and try to hold on. They guard.
They're like guarding muscles. And when those muscles fire up
and they don't let go, and you have a muscle
not like you think of a muscle not in your shoulder,
in your back, and you feel localized pain or referred pain, well,
what happens up there is that can generate a headache,
usually up into the eyes or the sides of the head.
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For her, she just felt it all over her head
like all the time, And so I started to work
with her getting her adjustment. She's been a patient of
mine for about three four weeks now, and I can
tell you I just the other day I knew things
were getting better for her, and I hadn't asked her
about it. I said, hey, how's your how have the
headaches s been? And She's like, I haven't had one
in least two weeks now. She again dealt with them
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for years constantly, like all the time, and the headaches
are starting to go away now. Getting with her, I
have to ask most people I can tell they're feeling
better just because they're like nicer to me. They're I'm serious,
They're like they're smiling more, they're more polite, they're more pleasant.
And then I'm like, okay, something's better here. Hey, how's
the headache? Oh? I feel great? You know. I'm like, yeah,
I can tell because before you're a little rude or whatever.
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I get that that would probably be me if I
had a nine out of ten headache all day long.
But for Linda, I had to literally ask her, I'm like,
how are you feeling? Because I can't tell because you're
so nice all the time and pleasant and smiling, and
it's like, good for her, But she's feeling so much
better and that that just really warms my heart because
she's able to be just as much a more present
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with her grandkids, with her husband, doing the things that
she wants to do in her hirement age, which is
really cool. So if you're listening to this, maybe you're
dealing with headaches or have dealt with headaches, whether it's
neck tension, maybe it's back pain or stiffness, numbness and
tingling down the legs, down the arms, or up into
the head with a headache or a migraine. Please please
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allow me to help if you're ready to make change
in your life. And for some of you, the first
change is just picking up the phone, calling our office
or scheduling appointment online. For many of you, that's your
first step, that's your first thing to do. And by
doing that, I'm able to walk with you and help
guide you to where you want to go. So let
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me know where you want to go, what results you want,
and then we can help to navigate that by having
a plan, having a roadmap, having a GPS so that
you can move towards where you want to go. And
I love the word, I love the idea of having
a GPS because even if you get off track, like
when you have your GP yes on in your car,
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you're never lost. You're just recalculating, recalculating, recalculating, And that's
where someone coming to someone like me and having the
guidance of a chiropractor like me and a lifestyle coach,
if you will, is that we can always be recalculating
because life is going to happen. We can get off track.
You can have a weekend where you don't eat as well,
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or maybe something happens. Like me personally, and I've shared
this a million times, I go to play ice talking
and I strain my back. It's like I'm not just
going to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I
need to recalculate and rechange, change some things so that
I can keep getting and move towards the results that
I want to get to. So it's constantly evolving and
changing your actions to get to the results that you
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want to go to. And there's many different roads that
you can travel. But here's the cool part is we've
traveled those roads with hundreds, if not thousands of people,
and I can help you do that wherever you're at.
If you'd like to give other office a call, what
we're offering. What I'm offering is a final examination your posture,
your range of motion, help patient of your spine, taking
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any necessary X rays at our office. You do get
half off to fifty percent off for a first examination
and any necessary X rays, so you know exactly what's
going on. By your follow up visit, we'll let you
know what's happening with your spine and how we can
help and get started with the first adjustment. Many people ask,
you know what about insurance? Bring your insurance along with you.
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We will call to verify and let you know again
by your second visit what's going on with that. Just
so you know, I am in network with Medicare, with
High Mark, with Blue Cross, Blue Shield, also a few
other Medicare plans. So it's the easiest thing to do
is just when you come in, we'll take your insurance cards,
we'll make a photocopy of those, we will call and
(41:50):
verify and let you know by the following visit exactly
what's going on. So it's just seventy dollars for the
first visit. Again, that includes the fifty percent off discount.
If you listen to the radio show of the podcast,
just let us know that you're doing that. So the
number to call is seven one seven six two seven
zero three six five seven one seven six two seven
(42:16):
zero three six five. You can also go on our
website lit Itsfamily Chiropractic dot com and click on requests
and appointment. Fill out the information. We will get back
to you as soon as we can. But again seven
one seven six two seven zero three six five. All right,
I want to close out the week here just with
some good motivation talking about getting better results, making different changes. Uh.
(42:41):
There's this old saying that I just love. It's if
they knew what you knew, they would do what you do.
If they knew what you knew, they would do what
you do. Is that we're all I believe. I believe
that people are trying to do the best that they
can in many areas, but they just maybe don't have
(43:03):
the tools or the knowledge or the action steps of
the plan in order to pull it off. So what
do I mean by that is that I was if
I knew what you knew, I would do what you do? Okay,
because and then if you knew what I knew, you
would do what I do. Is that we all have
to live in our own little lane here, but we
have to in order to get different results, we got
(43:24):
to move out of that. And that's where help comes in.
That's why there's teachers, That's why there's professors, That's why
there's doctors and counselors and therapists because they know things
that you may not know, and they can help impart
wisdom so that you can start to change things, so
that you can do different things to get to help.
(43:46):
So what I always caution people with is that when
you go to see someone, make sure that they're living
the lifestyle that you want to live too. That it's
not just something they're saying, it's something that they're doing.
So however that lands for you, I hope it helps
guys have a great week. Signing off, doctor Greg
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