March 16, 2026 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, welcome back to another week Maximize Living
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Radio with your host, doctor Greg O'Neal, your favorite chiropractor,
probably the only chiropractor you hear on the radio, who
knows it's exciting. It's a good day, all right. Today,
I'm going to be talking about putting out the fire
that in order for you to get well, in over
for you to overcome the obstacles that are facing you
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right now, you have to put out the fires in
your life. Because when the fires are blazing in your
life and they continue to smolder and get worse, then
you can start to get choked out by the smoke,
and you can start to feel the symptoms, and then
that can eventually overtake you. And our culture is obsessed
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with taking out the fire alarm, with taking out the indicator,
the thing that's telling us that there's a problem. We
want that gone. We don't want any pain, we don't
want any tingling, we don't want any depression, we don't
want any guilt, shame, all these negative feelings that we have.
We don't want those things. We don't want any type
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of discomfort. We want things easy, we want things convenient.
We want to push the tap of a button in
at that our house, you know in two days or less.
We want meals to be fast. We want food to
be cheap, we want travel to be easy. We want
life to be convenient. We live in a convenient culture
where we want things and we want it right now. Now.
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That can work in some areas of life, maybe a
business or finance, or maybe even education or school. You know,
you got to be go, go, go, get things done.
I understand that probably more than a lot of people.
But there's a big butt here. You cannot apply those
principles to your health. You cannot. The other aspect I'll
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talk about today is that people apply the mechanical world.
I would say especially men, because men are more mechanical thinking.
Problem solution. Fix the part, it fixes the whole thing.
It's kind of like a car. Okay, So like the
wheelbaring goes out, You fix the wheelbaring. You know you've
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got to check the alignment. You just do the alignment.
You're done. You fix one part and you're good to go.
You can just replace it. Your body doesn't work like
that either, It just doesn't. So we can't silence our problems.
We can't do a quick fix to our problems. We
can't just ignore them either, because that's the other response,
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which probably the most of the people will do. Most
people will hear my voice right now. It'll just go
one ear out the other, just through the ether. Right
But for those of you with ears to hear and
ready to listen, there's a difference between hearing and listening.
This is going to really help you because it's for
some of you. It's time to start paying attention. It's
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time to start playing the game. It's time to start
realizing that there is a fire going on in your
health that needs to be put out now. It might
be smoldering, it might have been there for a long time.
You could be so used to it that you don't
even notice it anymore. I don't even care to notice
it anymore. Maybe you've given up. Maybe you're blaming your age,
your genetics, your circumstances in life. But I'm here to
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tell you today that change is not only possible, but
it's necessary. I'm going to repeat that change is not
just possible, it's necessary. This needs to happen. You need
to change. You have to do something different, because if
you want different results, you have to do new actions.
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That's where I believe the crux of frustration comes in
with your health is that you do old actions and
expect new results. That's hard, that's frustrating. That's when you
see you go to step on the scale and the
scale is not moving. That's when that back pain. You
get up in the morning and you're still stiff, even
though maybe you've changed your mattress, or you're still dealing
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with foot paint even though you've changed your shoes, or
you're still doing neck pain, but you got a new
pillow and you're like, what the heck is going on here?
You're just scratching the surface. You're just looking for a
quick fix. So we want to we want to look
at how the body works, what the principles are of
the body, and then how we play a role in that.
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In that realizing it's it's really it's surrender in a way,
and it's and I believe it's spiritual in that God
created our body to heal. We are fearfully and wonderfully made.
From one thirty nine, We're I'm fearfully, wonderfully, wonderfully made.
And that's how we want to focus on our body,
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is that we're created for a reason. You're called for
a purpose. God put a power inside of you to heal.
That's the cool part is that all the doctors, all
the medicine, all the AI, all the computers, all the geniuses,
all the think tanks, all the pharmaceuticals, yes, even all
the chiropractors, physical therapists, everything all together in the whole world,
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all of human knowledge, couldn't heal a blade of grass.
It can't impossible, can't do it. Only life heals. And
what the new thing that people are doing now because
I talked about trying to fix the problem or ignore
the problem, even the younger generations, whether it's millennials or
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gen z, is that you're trying to bio hack the problem.
You're trying to supplement it. I'm gonna give my body this,
I'm going to give it that, and I'm gonna coax
it this way. I'm gonna help the body. Meanwhile, you're
missing the foundational pieces. Now, those things can be important,
whether it's nutrition, whether it's supplementation. I'm not saying those
things are wrong, but when we're trying to just hack
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the body while living a life, that's not congruent with
how the body's designed, you're still going to have that
fire in your life. Let me give you a quick example.
I could just tell you my own story, like if
I I have three young children, I have a business,
I have eight employees. You know, there can be a
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lot going on. Sometimes there's a read that's that can
be an understatement, and so there's there's a lot of
balls up in the air. I have over a thousand
active patients. I have a lot of things that I'm
that I'm managing, that I'm responsible for. I'm a needed person,
which is it's a blessing. And that's the thing that
I have torn myself, and some of you need to
remind yourself. It's a good thing. It's a good thing
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to have responsibility. You know, how dare I or how
dare you? You know, accomplish your goals, to accomplish your
dreams and then get there and pout about it. I mean,
that's not I don't believe anyways. That's very honoring to God,
and that's something I need to be better with, and
I am being better with. By the way, sixty percent
of this radio show is psychotherapy for me. But if
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let's say I just push, push, push, go go go.
I forego sleep. I'm stressed out, I'm getting bags under
my eyes and I'm exhausted. I'm just push push push,
go go go. Okay, what does my body need? Does
my body need the next best supplement. Does my body
need the next energy boost, the next caffeine or creatine
or tourine. Does it need more melatonin or more magnesium,
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or more vitamin D or vitamin C or vitamin A?
What does it need? My body needs rest. Many of
you right now we're trying to just try to pack
our body into just go go go. It doesn't work
like that. Body needs rest, need to sleep, You need
to get to bed on time. You need to get
your head out of your phone. You need to stop
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engaging your nervous system and frying your nervous system with
constant stimulation. And trust me, I've been there. I know
what that's like. To work all day and you go
go go and the kids and you get them to bed.
And what's the first thing we want to do? Hop
on our phone and stare at a screen, Hop on TV,
hop on the computer, frying your nervous to them, buying
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your brain, not allowing it to rest. And we wonder
why we can't sleep. We wonder why so many people
are on antidepressants and sleep medications and sleep baids and
melatonin and supplements and all of this stuff. We need rest.
So what I'm getting at here with that story is
that we want to look at our life, look at
the concerns, the fires, if you will, and then the
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real solutions to put out those fires. That the fire
alarm can be loud, and we'll talk about this after
the break here. The fire alarm can be loud and
annoying and extremely piercing to your ears, Like if you've
ever had been around like an industrial fire alarm with
the flashing and the lights and the piercing noise, like
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it's wildly you just want it to turn off more
than anything in the world. But that fire alarm is
there to save your life. It's there to literally wake
you up and get you moving out of the building
so that you can be safe. And that's what it's
trying to do with your health. So stay tuned. We'll
talk about that all right, guys, welcome back to the show,
Doctor Greg O'Neil. Here Maximize Living Radio. We're gonna get
right back into it here talking about putting out the
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fire in your health, in your life, addressing the issue.
The first thing to do is to realize you have
a problem. Isn't that like the alcoholics anonymous thing. It's
like step one is admitting you're like at fault or
that you have a problem, or that you're powerless to
the situation. So it's a good thing. So you have
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power when it comes to your health as a human being.
Your power is choice, Your power is free will. Now
I believe much of the rest of it is up
to God. What I mean by that is that your
body is already for the good helping you right now.
Your heart is beating, your lungs are breathing, your livers
doing millions of processes right now. You don't even have
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to think about it. I mean, your joints are being
lubricated by synovial fluid. Your spine is moving, and there's
water and nutrients going into the discs of your spine
and out like billions of the processes are happening in
your body right now that you have zero control over,
in zero sayover. The only thing you have to say
over is the choices that you make your lifestyle. There's
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a few factors for your health. One is your age.
You can't control that. I know people like to talk
about it. I talk about it a lot here on
the show. There's realities to getting older, but you can't
control it. So I mean, you can complain if you want,
it's just not going to get you anywhere. But yeah,
your age is you can't control that. Number two, your genetics.
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My father is five foot four, my mother is five
foot one. I am five foot eight. I consider myself
grateful to be five foot eight looking at my parents.
Growing up, I was not making any basketball team. There's
realities to the genetics that you're given, whether it's your
eye color, your hair color, your height, you know, your
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bone structure, your metabolism in certain ways, there's certain things
in your body that are written in pen that you
can't change. You know, your hair and all this kind
of stuff. Now there's the other aspect of genetics. So
the other factors of lifestyle here called epigenetics, so EPI
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meaning above genetics. And what this means is that there's
aspects of your life that are written in pen, but
there's other aspects in your life that are written in pencil. Okay,
so these are the lifestyle risk factors, which good news
is well good news and bad news. Bad news is
you're in control of a lot of your destiny in
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terms of morbidity immortality, like your life expectancy and how
you're going to live your last ten years, whether you're
going to be in sickness, much of that is up
to you. Okay, So that could be bad news depending
on how you're living now, but I believe it is
overpowering good news because you're not a slave, or you're
not predestined to what your mom dealt with or your
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dad dealt with, our grandma or grandpa. So like heart disease,
for example, is a major player in my family of origin,
like my grandfather had strokes and heart attacks and things
of that nature. So I could look at that and
be afraid and be fearful, or I could just say, okay,
if those there's could be genetic predispositions, I need to
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make sure that I'm much more active with my exercise
and stress relief. And also back then a lot of
people did what most people smoked. I don't smoke. I
don't know if I've ever had a puff of cigarette.
Maybe I did when I was young, and dumb. When
I was a teenager, I never inhaled it. But yeah,
I never smoked in my life, So that's one aspect
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that's going for me. So you want to look at
those risk factors, but then and mitigate it through your
lifestyle and just obvious things like we shouldn't be doing
those things anyways. Even if my grandfather lived till one
hundred and smoked every day of his life, I'm not
going to do that. We don't want to bank on that.
Everyone has some great uncle that smoked, drank, swore, did
everything wrong, ate a canna beans every day for his
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whole life, you know, had a big pop dealt and
he lived to ninety four years old. Okay, that might
most likely that's not going to be the case for you,
And I wouldn't want to live that lifestyle anyways. Personally,
I'd rather live it a little more full than that. Anyways.
What was I getting at? Oh, yes, you're epigenetics. So
the influence that you have over your genetics through your
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lifestyle factors that you can change literally change the genes,
change the chrome you know, aspects of the chromosomes and
how they mutate through your lifestyle. Now, for the good
and the bad. Okay, So the good part is you
eat good clean nutrition. You know, you follow the five
essentials of health, which we talk about. You want to
learn more about the five essentils hop on our website
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Lititzfamily Chiropractic dot com you can read about those. So
it's your mindset chiropractic care like your spinal column and
a nervous system, nutrition, exercise, and then minimizing toxes. So
if you're like a B student or better across the
board on those aspects, you're gonna have amazing health. Now,
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if you're a C student, an F student, did not
turn in the paper student, A lot of people out
there or do not even showed a class, student, didn't
even attend the class or the coursework, don't even know
what's going on student, Yeah, then you're going to be
in trouble with your with that because you could have
been handed a loaded gun with your genetics though for example,
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say a parent or grandparent, or someone had heart disease
or cancer and things of that nature, and there could
be these genetic predispositions. That's like being handed a loaded gun.
So if you're handed a loaded gun, what do you
got to do. Keep your finger off of what number
one at the keep your finger off the trigger. Okay,
don't pull the trigger. So lifestyle, the saying is, your
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genetics loads the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger. Your
genetics loads the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger. Don't
pull the trigger. Okay, before we go down that rabbit
hole here anyway, So you want to look at those aspects. Okay,
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here's what my family had, here's my parents, blah blah blah.
Do you know what? I don't even like focusing there.
The only things you can control are what you control,
so focus on that, otherwise you're just gonna drive yourself nuts.
But the end of the day, it's pretty simple. We
look at these five essentials and we see, Okay, where
am I at? I give myself a rating like abcd RF,
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and then what can I do to be a B
student an A student and start to have all these
things start to come together and to see more changes
in my health. That's pretty much what it is. Now.
Some of you are listening to You're like, where do
I even start? Well? If that's where, like, there's so
many resources out now that it can be empowering and relieving,
but can also be absolutely overwhelming. But this is what
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I do for a living like I can help you.
This is what I do all day long. I help
people who have goals, who have concerns with their health,
who want to see change in their health, but they
maybe don't know what to do, or they feel like
they're stuck. I'm here to unstuck you, if that's a word.
So again, if you want to get a hold of
our office, my name is doctor Greg O'Neill. I'm a
chiropractor quasi health coach, although not official, but I do
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it all day long and I'm here to I'm here
to help you move from point A to point B
in your health. And the first step is figuring out, okay,
where you want to go, what your goals are, where
you're at right now, what your concerns are, and then
how we're going to get there. So it's where you
are now and where you want to be, and there's
a space in the middle. I'm going to help you
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walk across that space. It can seem dark, it can
seem scary, it can seem overwhelming, it can seem like
it may take for ever, or may not happen, or
maybe you've tried different all this stuff in the past.
Blah blah blah. You can cycle, babble or cycle analyze
all you want. At the end of the day, if
you want change, you've got to make change. So the
first change for many of you listening right now is
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to pick up the phone and give our office a call.
Make a first appointment. Start there. So to make an
appointment our office, it's it's super simple. When you come in,
we'll have already sent you paperwork ahead of time, so
basic you'll do this. You can call our office or
text seven one seven six two seven zero three sixty five.
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We will schedule you in the morning, afternoon, early evening
you know, whenever stooits your availability in our schedule. We
will send you an email that outlines what will occur
on your appointment. We'll sit down, we'll go through an exam, consultation,
do any necessary imaging or X rays at the office,
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and then at your following visit, explain exactly what's going
on and then how we're in a correct it. Now,
for radio and podcast listeners, you do get fifty percent
off your first exam evaluation and any necessary X rays.
So just let us know that you listen to the
radio show or the podcast. And then also if you
have insurance, just bring your insurance cards with you. We'll
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call Verify and let you know by your next visit
exactly what's going on with that. So it's pretty simple, like, hey,
here's what's going on with your spine. Here's how it
can be affecting the symptoms that you're dealing with. Here's
how I'm going to help you. Here your choices moving forward.
Here's how much your insurance will cost or will pay.
Here's how much you will pay. It's very simple. We
lay it all out now. A lot of you, I
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understand maybe you're a little skeptical or you're not sure
this is the first time going to a chiroproductor trust me,
I see all kinds people, whether they're skeptical, whether they're
ready to go. I can deal with that. I've been
doing this for thirteen years. Like I said, at our
office we have over a thousand active patients, so we
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can help. I'm not trying to sound cocky or over
the confident, but when you do something day in day out,
just like you guys do it your jobs, it's it's
it's pretty simple. Now, funny story with that. We had
someone call in and they wanted to speak with me
over the fonts. I give them a call back and
they're like, can you help someone with lower back pain
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and sciatica? And like the way that they said it
was funny because it's like they were trying to read it,
like like it was a foreign word or something. Can
you help someone lower back pain and sciatica? And I said,
does McDonald sell Hamburgers? And they just started laughing like
of course, like this is this is what we do
all day, Like I can help you. And anyways, that
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person has come in and they're doing better already. It's
just exciting. I understand that the problems you can deal
with can seem like novel and new, maybe a little scary.
Maybe another doctor hasn't put the finger on it for you.
But I just want to let you know that I'm
here to help and I can help you. So give
our offs call seven one seven six two seven zero
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three six five. All right, let's switch gears here. Just
getting back to putting out the fire. Is that when
a fire alarm is going off, that what I mean
by that, because some of you are listening, like what
is this guy talking about? Is this like a fireman
or something like fire prevention hotline radio show. Now, the
fire alarm is the signal of your body, the symptom
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letting you know that there's a bigger problem going on
underneath the surface. So the common fire alarms in your
life are the symptoms that you're dealing with, the concerns
that you have. Whether it's back pain, whether it's neck pain,
whether it's tension, stiffness, tightness, loss of range of motion, headaches, migraines.
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These are all the signals that there's something else going
on underneath the surface that needs to be corrected. And
after the break, we're going to talk about how to
put out those fires. So stay tuned. All right, guys,
welcome back to the show Maximize Living Radio with your host,
doctor Greg O'Neill, talking about putting out the fire today,
So figuring out what those underlying causes are for the symptoms,
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the signals that you're dealing with. Story time. Everybody loves
the stories. It's fun. I like how people come in
to my office that listen to the radio show patients
and they're like, Oh, I love your story about your
son playing hockey or this and that at your pool,
and I'm like, do you guys listen to the other
stuff now? So when I was younger, there's a big
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deal to go on a family trip. So this was
like the ultimate nineties trip. So we had the blue
Chrysler minivan, think of like the Lei what was the
guy's name who kind of reinvigorated Chrysler Lei a Coca
And we had that old school minivan where you had
to like, you know, open the door. It took like
so much strength to open it and you had to
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like fly it open on the side, and it only
opened on one side, not two sides like the vans
of today. So we pile in. And again I'm from
eastern Ontario, Canada, so like I live in Lancaster County now,
and driving from Lancaster County to say, Pittsburgh is like
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the equivalent of driving from my hometown to the big
city of Toronto. Americans would say Toronto, but did you
know that you don't pronounce the second T if you're
you know, a local, just like we don't say Landcaster,
we say Lancaster. So it's Toronto, and some people really
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are into it say Toronto. But I'm not going to
do that, okay. So fun fact, the busiest one of
the busiest highways the last time I checked, and there's
a whole like there was a whole Netflix show on this.
It was called like Highway four Old one whatever. Anyways,
it's called Highway four O one. And when you go
through Toronto it merges off. There's like an express lane
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and a collector's lane, so like there's people who are
you know, you go in this part if you're just
kind of going through and there's just a couple exits
where you go in the Collector's one and that's where
you can hit all the exits and each like highway
is like no joke, like at least six or eight
lanes wide. It is crazy. You're ever seeing this like
on YouTube or these different shows where they show how
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they do these snow removal and they'll have like like
six or eight or sometimes ten of these snowplows in
a row, and they're all in this diagonal formation and
the snow hits one and it goes to the next,
to the next, to the next, and it pushes all
along the side and then they have multiple of these
machines that then pick up the snow and put it
into these huge back of these huge dump trucks and
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totally remove it. Pretty amazing logistics that go into it.
So anyways, this is the nineties and the vans, especially
maybe that type of van wasn't as reliable as the
ones today, especially that this van was knowing that known
to have problems with transmission. Now we were driving along
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for one and getting to our destination. We were going
to go to like the Hockey Hall of Fame and
just kind of going to the city for like I
believe it was for a weekend in the summer. I
think it was nineteen ninety two. I'm not sure, maybe
ninety four. My memory's not that great. I was I
was pretty young. Maybe I was six seven years old,
so probably nineteen ninety four. All I remember is us
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pulling over on the side of the road and there's
cars like you can imagine the number of cars just
whizzing by, seventy miles an hour, just whizz whiz whiz
wiz going by, and my poor dad is out there.
You know. It's just the scene with like the hood
open and back then you didn't there was no cell phone,
like very few people would have a cell phone. I
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can't even remember how he got to a phone. I
think someone came over to help and they got to
someone called a payphone. I remember the tow truck guy
coming and they did something that got the van at
least enough to go to the destination. But I just remember,
I just picture. It's funny you like, look back in
your life. I just pictured my poor dad, like his
face is looking so stressed out on the side of
the highway and the cars are just whizzing by. And
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but yeah, he did a great jump for that. I
mean now, I'm probably that same age as him now,
and I couldn't imagine. I could not imagine being on
a big vacation like that. You got all the stuff,
all the kids, it's the middle of summer, it's hot,
and then your vand breaks down on the side of
like one of the busiest highways in the whole world.
So anyways, we go on our trip and we go
stay at this hotel, and that same night, I kid
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you not, the fire alarm goes off in the whole
hotel like the loudest noise I've probably ever heard of
my life, outside of like airplanes near being near like
you know, big vehicles and stuff like that, but just
this like piercing noise in the middle of the night
that just gets you up. And I remember my parents
like scrambling, like get up, and the lights are going
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off in the room, like the big strobe lights, and
the sound is just deafening. And we get out in
the hallway and there's just people in their pajamas, just
little kids holding their stuffed animals, and people bring in
some bags and stuff like that. And I remember the
people who work there like, no, just leave your bags,
you gotta go downstairs. We're not sure if this is
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a drill or not, so like is the building on fire?
If you can imagine again my poor parents. I'm able
as I'm older to put myself in their shoes. They're
trying to go away on a trip with their kids.
The cars breaking down, the fire alarms are going off.
But the fire alarm was deafening. It was so loud
everywhere you went in the stairwells, all the way down
the stairs. I think we went down twelve plus flights
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of stairs out into the street. This is the middle
of the night, like one in the morning. I remember
seeing the fire trucks there, the firemen there, they clear
the building, oh for false alarm, and we go back in.
So what I'm getting at with this story is when
those fire alarms were going off and the lights and
the strobe lights, and I'm a little kid, and you
can imagine it's the middle of the night and you're
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tired and your grumpy, and your car broke down that day.
I can just imagine what was going through my parents'
mind with three young kids. What do you want? You
want those fire alarms off, You want that noise out
of your life. You want that strobe light to stop
flashing and annoying you. But the purpose of those things
is to get you moving. It's to encourage you to
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get out of your room, to go down the hall,
and to start walking your butt down the stairs, because
the only way that these fire alarms are going off
is for you to basically get out of that situation.
And then it's the fireman's job to go in and
assess what's happening here. Is there a fire And their
job is to go in and fight the fire or
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determine that it was a false alarm or not. And
that's what happened. So this is very different in how
we deal with symptoms, especially in our culture, in Western culture,
because we see the fire alarm not as the signal
or the solution or the indicator, but is the problem.
And we want nothing more than to just get that
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pain that you're dealing with, that stiffness, the insomnia, the depression,
the pain, whatever else. We just want that gone now.
I want to here's my disclaimer here. As a chiropractor,
I am not telling you to go home and flush
all your pills down the toilet. I'm not saying that
at all. What I'm saying is to take a look
at those aspects of your life, those symptoms of your life,
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and ask yourself, is that the fire or is that
just the signal? Is that the fire alarm? What's the
deeper rooted issue that can be addressed? And that's something
that I help people deal with all the time. So
if someone's dealing with siatica and it goes down to
their knee and it goes into their foot, I don't
rarely do I ever look at the leg, look at
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the foot, and I'll tell them. I'll say, listen, the
fire is in the kitchen, but the fire alarms in
the bedroom and I'm like pointing like the bedroom, you know,
down here, the kitchen up here, and they're like, okay,
that makes sense. But I have some patients that are
like I heard here, Like people will lay down and
they'll and by the way, one of the biggest no
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chiropractor would ever tell their patients this face to face.
They would never say it, but I'm going to say
it over the radio. The biggest pet peeve of every
chiropractor is when the patient lays down and they start poking,
like they say, oh, I hurt right here, it's right here, doc,
and they start touching that I've had a patient in
the past grab my hand and start moving their hand
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and like I was trying not to be too rude,
but I like with drew my hand so quickly. I
was like, I listen, person, I know exactly where these
problems are. I not only know where you're hurting, but
I know where the fire is. So it'd be like
if there if my firearm is going on my house,
the firemen come and I'm like, oh, come on in,
I'll show you what's going on. What would they say?
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They'd be like, get out of the way, Like we're
the professionals. Get out of the way. You're about to
You're just going to cause problems. You're going to be
in our way and cause us to slow down when
the fireman comes to the house. Get out of the way. Okay,
Now I'm not I'll never say it to someone face
to face. I'm just staying over the radio. Just pet
peeve of chiropractors. And it's not just me, another fun story,
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just for fun. My wife is also a chiropractor. We
adjust each other. I get adjusted. I would say between
ten and fourteen days, you know, about once a week.
Came with her and for fun. Every once in a while,
I want to be a bug. I'll say, oh, it
hurts right here. Then I'll go to point on my
back and every time she will grab my thumb and
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threaten to break it, like she'll bend my handback and
I'll laugh like it'll hurt. She's like try to She's like,
where does it hurt? And she'll be like bending my
thumb back. I'm like, oh, never mind, that's just the
fun of having your spouse to be a chiropractor. So
we want to figure out where the fire is, not on,
where the fire alarm is. Okay, So how do we
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do that, Well, we need to do testing. When the
fire fire company comes to your house, sometimes it's pretty
obvious they can see the flames and the smoke and
it's billowing out. That would be like if someone comes
in and their limp thing they got a walk or
they're like inexcruciating pain. Okay, that's pretty obvious. The building's
on fire, all right. But many times people come in
they're like, I'm like, how are you feeling? What are
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your concerns? Oh, I'm fine, you know, I'm good. Now. Meanwhile,
you can see the smoke is billowing out of the
windows or out of the basement or in places unseen.
That's what the fireman kind of looks for. I'm like, okay,
I'm glad you're feeling okay, but we're going to get
to the bottom of liss. Do you notice that your
head comes forward like this? Do you see how your
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head tilts this way, your shoulders high, your hip is rotated,
And people say almost every they're like, how do you
notice all that? Well, it's my job. It's what I
do all day long. Just like at the building inspector
comes to your house, they're going to know how to
decipher everything, even though they've never walked in your house before,
they walk in other houses before, they've done at a
time or two in the past, and they'll know how
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to set it correct it. So we decipher where posturally
you're out of place and move to the next test test,
which is your range of motion, how well your spine moves,
and people are surprised how little their spine can actually
move because they rarely test it. Then we do pop
pati of the spine where we feel what's going on.
And then most importantly, if necessarily taking extras at the office. Now,
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stay tuned, have to break and I'll tell you how
this testing really drives the point home for people.
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Speaker 1 (33:02):
All right, guys, doctor Greg O'Neal Maximized Living Radio. We're
going to close out the week here talking about putting
out the fire. So finding, you know, the symptom, which
is the fire alarm, getting to the root cause of it,
and we do that with a common muscul little skeletal
musculo skeletal. I can't speak today, concerns that people have,
whether it's neck tension, whether it's stiffness, whether it's back pain,
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whether it's neck pain, headaches, migraines, some more emerging problems
like sciatica and neuropathy. These are all signs that your
nervous system is under stress. Stress would be the light
word or duress, and for some of you, I would
say neglect, and then for some of you, I would
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even say injury or severe pinching or problem. Okay, So
we don't want to wait until the smoke turns into fire.
Whether they say where there's smoke, there's fire. So the symptoms,
where there's a symptom, there's a cause. There's always a
cause to the symptom. We have to discern that. Yeah,
sometimes it's pretty simple, like someone has back pain and
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I'm able to it could be right there, right around
that same area. I'm like, yeah, you can see how
your hip is rotated. This is happening. When a few
adjustments here, that person's feeling better. Now. When someone comes
in and their feet are numb and I'm working on
their lower back, I don't touch their feet at all.
They're kind of like looking at me, like, don't you
want to look at my feet? I'm like, no, that's
not where the problem is. Again the symptom. Okay, the
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indicator which is like the fire alarm that could be
going off in the bedroom, but the fire is in
the kitchen. So the kitchen is your lower back, the
bedroom is your feet. That makes sense. You want to
put out the fire now. Eventually that problem will go away.
And sometimes you do have to address the feet. Sometimes
you do have to address the ankles, and there's things
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that we can do for that. But the end of
the day, you always want to figure out what's causing
these issues and start to remove them. And that's where
the adjustment comes in. Like how does the adjustment do that? Essentially,
most people are lacking proper motion of the spine. When
you look at someone and they have poor posture. You
see their shoulders like a child. You look at a child,
that's pretty obvious they're slouching forward. Doesn't it just bother
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you as an adult when a child slouches? I think
it's just a natural instinct that we just want to say, what,
sit up straight, sit up straight. We always say that
to children. How come we don't say that to adults?
Sit up straight, sit up straight? Might come off as rude.
We say that to kids because we know if a
child slotches all the time, they're growing so quickly, what's
going to happen. They're gonna be slatching the whole life.
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They're going to grow that way. It's like a young tree.
Young tree is starting to grow and it's a throwing
crooked or off to one side. They got to guide
that thing straight to make sure that it's going to
go that way, because if it starts growing crooked and
that green, let's say the greenwood turns into the brown
wood and it all hardens. The trees kind of set. Now,
we can do things to help kids with curvatures and
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things like that, but the goal is is when they're
very young, they have a good posture, they have good
spinal hygiene, taking care of themselves, so we don't have
to do these big procedures later on. We could just
get them healthy. Now. For an adult who sits at
a computer, who's on their phone, who sits in a recliner,
that's a big one. Driving a lot, crossing their legs,
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crossing their ankles, sleeping improperly, sleeping in weird positions, using
too thick of a pillow as an example, pushing their
head forward. This is all going to lead to misalignment
of the spine and lack of normal motion of the spine.
And when your spine doesn't move well, your brain does
not like that at all. It just doesn't like it.
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The same signals of stress go to your brain as pain,
so it's like your brain sees the same thing. It's
like pain versus lack of motion. So okay, to get
a little technical, there's two main types of nerve receptors
around a joint. There's your pain receptors, which most people
know about. You know, if you poke yourself or you
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hit yourself, that's gonna hurt ouch. That's a pain receptor.
There's also what's called a motion receptor. That's where I
can have you you know, close your eyes and I
can lift your arm up and place it, place it
on your head, and I'll say, where's your where's your arm?
You'd be like, oh, it's on my head. But you
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can't see it. You can feel it. How do you
feel it? Through motion receptors your body? Your brains are.
It wants to know where your body is at all times.
It doesn't have to see it. It just it knows
it through all these millions and billions of neurons and
receptors called mechano receptors. And it's so vitally important to
your brain. Your brain cares a lot about it. Fun fact,
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your brain cares more about motion than it does pain.
It's more interested if you're not moving well, it is
more about that than if you're in pain. I'll prove
it to you if you were to you know, you're
putting a nail under the wall. You accidentally hit your
thumb with a hammer. What's the first thing people do? Well?
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Two things. They either grab it and they squeeze it
so they're applying pressure, which again stimulates mechano receptors. Or
they shake it really quickly they move it and by
doing that it doesn't totally take away the pain, but
it reduces it's giving your brain a different input that
it cares more about, so it feels less of the
pain or gives you Actually it doesn't really feel it less.
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It provides you your conscious Being's the whole other thing.
That's the part of biology where I'm like, whoa, where
are you in your mind? Are you outside of your mind? Anyways,
we're not going to get into that. We'll be here
all day. Okay, So your brain will tell you is
more likely to tell you your conscious self more about
motion or lack of motion than it is pain. Okay,
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So what does that have to do with all this
is that chiropractor's main job is to introduce proper motion
into the spine. So when a joint is not moving
well or fixated, it gets stuck again, it's your brain
is going to send your spine. Those neurons are going
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to send distress signals to the brain, so it's going
to say not moving, well, I'm stuck, and your brain's like,
oh no, that's not good. Okay, I'm going to let
them know pain, neck pain, back pain. Okay. Maybe they'll
change something, maybe they'll stop sleeping that way or sitting
that way. H they're not listening. Ramp up the pain more.
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Oh no, they took a medication. They're telling me not
to pay attention to it. Ramp up the pain more.
We need to let this guy know, we need to
let this lady know. But there's a problem. Oh my gosh.
Now they're going and doing all these weird stretches and stuff.
Now I'm even more sore. Okay, now they're just ignoring it.
Now they're just sitting on their client or they're given up,
they're eating a lot of ice cream, they're getting big.
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It's all going down now. People like, how do you
come up with these radio show ideas? Isn't this fun?
All right? So we want to look at that and
we say, okay, there's pain. That means there's a problem.
We need to address it because if you don't, it
will get worse and worse and worse and worse. So
a chiropractor assess the spine regardless of how you feel
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about different areas. Like some people say, my back hurts,
it's just my back, and I'll start feeling along their
neck and going down. They're like, no, no, no, it's
just it's just down here. I'm like, okay, number one,
I'm the doctor. No, I don't say that, but okay.
You go to a dentist and you say, it's just
this twoth rade here that hurts. Do they just look
at that tooth? They look at all of them? Why
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to make sure that there's not other there's not other issues?
Like those teeth, they coexist with one another. They have
connection to one another. If one's going bad, they could
mean issues other ways. Now, your spine is much more
intimately connected and much more of a group unit than
even your teeth. You can pull out your teeth. You
can pull out all your teeth. You could use a
hammer to brush your teeth today and like, yeah, it wouldn't
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be fun, it would hurt like heck, but you could
replace your teeth. You can't go in there and replace
your spine. Now. Some people say, oh, but there's all
these different surgeries. Yeah, how does that work out for people? Okay,
what would you rather have the discs that God gave
you or these titanium discs made? God knows where that
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go in your body? And you can't even move You
lose it at least fifty percent of motion. It's not
just me says that surgeons tell people that all the time.
They'll say, I'm the last person you want to see.
Make sure we do everything. You know. You only want
to come see me is your very last resort. They'll
tell people that if you don't want them just jumping
into surgery, like a lot of times I'll hear people
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don't and I get it. I can get on medical
doctors here and there, but I'm not talking about people.
I'm talking about the systems. But many times it's a
patient who is demanding a service that they should not
be getting. They're like, I think I need surgeon my
neck or back, and people will tell me this. They'll
come in they're like, I went to the surgeon and
I told him I need this and this, and they
told me no, they told me to come to you,
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or they told me to go to physical therapy. I'm like, well, good,
yeah you should. One of my good friends growing up,
medical dad was a medical doctor. Was a great medical doctor.
Loved to work in the er, but every now and
then he had to do his regular rounds as a
general practitioner and people would come in who were, you know,
very overweight, not eating well, obviously not exercising and they
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would say, I want that drug on TV about weight loss,
or I want that one about diabetes, and he would
pull out his prescription pad after doing all his tests
and everything like that, so you know he has back
into this and he would write exercise on the prescription
pad handed to the patient, walk out of the room,
and I'm like, man, that's so good. Like that's that's
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what Sometimes people need to hear that they need to
hear the truth. And for some of you right now,
what you need to hear is that you cannot just
keep ignoring your problem. You can't just keep pushing it
off to the side. You can't keep blaming time or
your schedule or how busy your life is, or that
the kids are in school or they're out of school,
or you're running here or running there, that you just
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want to take the next best biohack or the next
best supplement or the nextpect medication and cover these things up.
You need to figure out what's causing this. So when
you come in to see me, I'm able to assess
where you're out of alignment, and through the chiropractic adjustment,
it introduces normal motion to that area. So if an
area of the spine is stuck. We basically get it unstuck.
We introduce movement and motion to the neck, to the
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mid back, to the lower back, and when that segment
starts to move free and clear of restriction, your brain
it gets happy like it because it's not being sent
these stress signals all day. There's a problem, there's a problem,
there's a problem, there's a problem. Not hearing that anymore,
so that frees your nervousness them up, and that adds
more wax to the candle. If you will, I've used
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this analogy. You burn the candle on both ends, add
more wax to the candle, and your nervous system is
able to adapt more to the other stresses, so that
people will say things like, Hey, I'm sleeping better, or
my kids aren't bugging me as much. I'm feeling like
I'm able to take on the day better. I hear
that all the time, and that's because their nervous system
is better able to adapt because it's not being put
under constant stress from a spine that's been neglected, abused,
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and out of alignment. So if this sounds like something
you want to take advantage of, give her off as
a call. Guys signing off Doctor Greg, have a great week.
All right, guys, welcome back to another week Maximize Living
(00:03):
Radio with your host, doctor Greg O'Neal, your favorite chiropractor,
probably the only chiropractor you hear on the radio, who
knows it's exciting. It's a good day, all right. Today,
I'm going to be talking about putting out the fire
that in order for you to get well, in over
for you to overcome the obstacles that are facing you
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right now, you have to put out the fires in
your life. Because when the fires are blazing in your
life and they continue to smolder and get worse, then
you can start to get choked out by the smoke,
and you can start to feel the symptoms, and then
that can eventually overtake you. And our culture is obsessed
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with taking out the fire alarm, with taking out the indicator,
the thing that's telling us that there's a problem. We
want that gone. We don't want any pain, we don't
want any tingling, we don't want any depression, we don't
want any guilt, shame, all these negative feelings that we have.
We don't want those things. We don't want any type
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of discomfort. We want things easy, we want things convenient.
We want to push the tap of a button in
at that our house, you know in two days or less.
We want meals to be fast. We want food to
be cheap, we want travel to be easy. We want
life to be convenient. We live in a convenient culture
where we want things and we want it right now. Now.
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That can work in some areas of life, maybe a
business or finance, or maybe even education or school. You know,
you got to be go, go, go, get things done.
I understand that probably more than a lot of people.
But there's a big butt here. You cannot apply those
principles to your health. You cannot. The other aspect I'll
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talk about today is that people apply the mechanical world.
I would say especially men, because men are more mechanical thinking.
Problem solution. Fix the part, it fixes the whole thing.
It's kind of like a car. Okay, So like the
wheelbaring goes out, You fix the wheelbaring. You know you've
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got to check the alignment. You just do the alignment.
You're done. You fix one part and you're good to go.
You can just replace it. Your body doesn't work like
that either, It just doesn't. So we can't silence our problems.
We can't do a quick fix to our problems. We
can't just ignore them either, because that's the other response,
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which probably the most of the people will do. Most
people will hear my voice right now. It'll just go
one ear out the other, just through the ether. Right
But for those of you with ears to hear and
ready to listen, there's a difference between hearing and listening.
This is going to really help you because it's for
some of you. It's time to start paying attention. It's
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time to start playing the game. It's time to start
realizing that there is a fire going on in your
health that needs to be put out now. It might
be smoldering, it might have been there for a long time.
You could be so used to it that you don't
even notice it anymore. I don't even care to notice
it anymore. Maybe you've given up. Maybe you're blaming your age,
your genetics, your circumstances in life. But I'm here to
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tell you today that change is not only possible, but
it's necessary. I'm going to repeat that change is not
just possible, it's necessary. This needs to happen. You need
to change. You have to do something different, because if
you want different results, you have to do new actions.
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That's where I believe the crux of frustration comes in
with your health is that you do old actions and
expect new results. That's hard, that's frustrating. That's when you
see you go to step on the scale and the
scale is not moving. That's when that back pain. You
get up in the morning and you're still stiff, even
though maybe you've changed your mattress, or you're still dealing
(04:01):
with foot paint even though you've changed your shoes, or
you're still doing neck pain, but you got a new
pillow and you're like, what the heck is going on here?
You're just scratching the surface. You're just looking for a
quick fix. So we want to we want to look
at how the body works, what the principles are of
the body, and then how we play a role in that.
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In that realizing it's it's really it's surrender in a way,
and it's and I believe it's spiritual in that God
created our body to heal. We are fearfully and wonderfully made.
From one thirty nine, We're I'm fearfully, wonderfully, wonderfully made.
And that's how we want to focus on our body,
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is that we're created for a reason. You're called for
a purpose. God put a power inside of you to heal.
That's the cool part is that all the doctors, all
the medicine, all the AI, all the computers, all the geniuses,
all the think tanks, all the pharmaceuticals, yes, even all
the chiropractors, physical therapists, everything all together in the whole world,
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all of human knowledge, couldn't heal a blade of grass.
It can't impossible, can't do it. Only life heals. And
what the new thing that people are doing now because
I talked about trying to fix the problem or ignore
the problem, even the younger generations, whether it's millennials or
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gen z, is that you're trying to bio hack the problem.
You're trying to supplement it. I'm gonna give my body this,
I'm going to give it that, and I'm gonna coax
it this way. I'm gonna help the body. Meanwhile, you're
missing the foundational pieces. Now, those things can be important,
whether it's nutrition, whether it's supplementation. I'm not saying those
things are wrong, but when we're trying to just hack
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the body while living a life, that's not congruent with
how the body's designed, you're still going to have that
fire in your life. Let me give you a quick example.
I could just tell you my own story, like if
I I have three young children, I have a business,
I have eight employees. You know, there can be a
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lot going on. Sometimes there's a read that's that can
be an understatement, and so there's there's a lot of
balls up in the air. I have over a thousand
active patients. I have a lot of things that I'm
that I'm managing, that I'm responsible for. I'm a needed person,
which is it's a blessing. And that's the thing that
I have torn myself, and some of you need to
remind yourself. It's a good thing. It's a good thing
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to have responsibility. You know, how dare I or how
dare you? You know, accomplish your goals, to accomplish your
dreams and then get there and pout about it. I mean,
that's not I don't believe anyways. That's very honoring to God,
and that's something I need to be better with, and
I am being better with. By the way, sixty percent
of this radio show is psychotherapy for me. But if
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let's say I just push, push, push, go go go.
I forego sleep. I'm stressed out, I'm getting bags under
my eyes and I'm exhausted. I'm just push push push,
go go go. Okay, what does my body need? Does
my body need the next best supplement. Does my body
need the next energy boost, the next caffeine or creatine
or tourine. Does it need more melatonin or more magnesium,
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or more vitamin D or vitamin C or vitamin A?
What does it need? My body needs rest. Many of
you right now we're trying to just try to pack
our body into just go go go. It doesn't work
like that. Body needs rest, need to sleep, You need
to get to bed on time. You need to get
your head out of your phone. You need to stop
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engaging your nervous system and frying your nervous system with
constant stimulation. And trust me, I've been there. I know
what that's like. To work all day and you go
go go and the kids and you get them to bed.
And what's the first thing we want to do? Hop
on our phone and stare at a screen, Hop on TV,
hop on the computer, frying your nervous to them, buying
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your brain, not allowing it to rest. And we wonder
why we can't sleep. We wonder why so many people
are on antidepressants and sleep medications and sleep baids and
melatonin and supplements and all of this stuff. We need rest.
So what I'm getting at here with that story is
that we want to look at our life, look at
the concerns, the fires, if you will, and then the
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real solutions to put out those fires. That the fire
alarm can be loud, and we'll talk about this after
the break here. The fire alarm can be loud and
annoying and extremely piercing to your ears, Like if you've
ever had been around like an industrial fire alarm with
the flashing and the lights and the piercing noise, like
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it's wildly you just want it to turn off more
than anything in the world. But that fire alarm is
there to save your life. It's there to literally wake
you up and get you moving out of the building
so that you can be safe. And that's what it's
trying to do with your health. So stay tuned. We'll
talk about that all right, guys, welcome back to the show,
Doctor Greg O'Neil. Here Maximize Living Radio. We're gonna get
right back into it here talking about putting out the
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fire in your health, in your life, addressing the issue.
The first thing to do is to realize you have
a problem. Isn't that like the alcoholics anonymous thing. It's
like step one is admitting you're like at fault or
that you have a problem, or that you're powerless to
the situation. So it's a good thing. So you have
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power when it comes to your health as a human being.
Your power is choice, Your power is free will. Now
I believe much of the rest of it is up
to God. What I mean by that is that your
body is already for the good helping you right now.
Your heart is beating, your lungs are breathing, your livers
doing millions of processes right now. You don't even have
(09:47):
to think about it. I mean, your joints are being
lubricated by synovial fluid. Your spine is moving, and there's
water and nutrients going into the discs of your spine
and out like billions of the processes are happening in
your body right now that you have zero control over,
in zero sayover. The only thing you have to say
over is the choices that you make your lifestyle. There's
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a few factors for your health. One is your age.
You can't control that. I know people like to talk
about it. I talk about it a lot here on
the show. There's realities to getting older, but you can't
control it. So I mean, you can complain if you want,
it's just not going to get you anywhere. But yeah,
your age is you can't control that. Number two, your genetics.
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My father is five foot four, my mother is five
foot one. I am five foot eight. I consider myself
grateful to be five foot eight looking at my parents.
Growing up, I was not making any basketball team. There's
realities to the genetics that you're given, whether it's your
eye color, your hair color, your height, you know, your
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bone structure, your metabolism in certain ways, there's certain things
in your body that are written in pen that you
can't change. You know, your hair and all this kind
of stuff. Now there's the other aspect of genetics. So
the other factors of lifestyle here called epigenetics, so EPI
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meaning above genetics. And what this means is that there's
aspects of your life that are written in pen, but
there's other aspects in your life that are written in pencil. Okay,
so these are the lifestyle risk factors, which good news
is well good news and bad news. Bad news is
you're in control of a lot of your destiny in
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terms of morbidity immortality, like your life expectancy and how
you're going to live your last ten years, whether you're
going to be in sickness, much of that is up
to you. Okay, So that could be bad news depending
on how you're living now, but I believe it is
overpowering good news because you're not a slave, or you're
not predestined to what your mom dealt with or your
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dad dealt with, our grandma or grandpa. So like heart disease,
for example, is a major player in my family of origin,
like my grandfather had strokes and heart attacks and things
of that nature. So I could look at that and
be afraid and be fearful, or I could just say, okay,
if those there's could be genetic predispositions, I need to
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make sure that I'm much more active with my exercise
and stress relief. And also back then a lot of
people did what most people smoked. I don't smoke. I
don't know if I've ever had a puff of cigarette.
Maybe I did when I was young, and dumb. When
I was a teenager, I never inhaled it. But yeah,
I never smoked in my life, So that's one aspect
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that's going for me. So you want to look at
those risk factors, but then and mitigate it through your
lifestyle and just obvious things like we shouldn't be doing
those things anyways. Even if my grandfather lived till one
hundred and smoked every day of his life, I'm not
going to do that. We don't want to bank on that.
Everyone has some great uncle that smoked, drank, swore, did
everything wrong, ate a canna beans every day for his
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whole life, you know, had a big pop dealt and
he lived to ninety four years old. Okay, that might
most likely that's not going to be the case for you,
And I wouldn't want to live that lifestyle anyways. Personally,
I'd rather live it a little more full than that. Anyways.
What was I getting at? Oh, yes, you're epigenetics. So
the influence that you have over your genetics through your
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lifestyle factors that you can change literally change the genes,
change the chrome you know, aspects of the chromosomes and
how they mutate through your lifestyle. Now, for the good
and the bad. Okay, So the good part is you
eat good clean nutrition. You know, you follow the five
essentials of health, which we talk about. You want to
learn more about the five essentils hop on our website
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Lititzfamily Chiropractic dot com you can read about those. So
it's your mindset chiropractic care like your spinal column and
a nervous system, nutrition, exercise, and then minimizing toxes. So
if you're like a B student or better across the
board on those aspects, you're gonna have amazing health. Now,
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if you're a C student, an F student, did not
turn in the paper student, A lot of people out
there or do not even showed a class, student, didn't
even attend the class or the coursework, don't even know
what's going on student, Yeah, then you're going to be
in trouble with your with that because you could have
been handed a loaded gun with your genetics though for example,
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say a parent or grandparent, or someone had heart disease
or cancer and things of that nature, and there could
be these genetic predispositions. That's like being handed a loaded gun.
So if you're handed a loaded gun, what do you
got to do. Keep your finger off of what number
one at the keep your finger off the trigger. Okay,
don't pull the trigger. So lifestyle, the saying is, your
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genetics loads the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger. Your
genetics loads the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger. Don't
pull the trigger. Okay, before we go down that rabbit
hole here anyway, So you want to look at those aspects. Okay,
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here's what my family had, here's my parents, blah blah blah.
Do you know what? I don't even like focusing there.
The only things you can control are what you control,
so focus on that, otherwise you're just gonna drive yourself nuts.
But the end of the day, it's pretty simple. We
look at these five essentials and we see, Okay, where
am I at? I give myself a rating like abcd RF,
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and then what can I do to be a B
student an A student and start to have all these
things start to come together and to see more changes
in my health. That's pretty much what it is. Now.
Some of you are listening to You're like, where do
I even start? Well? If that's where, like, there's so
many resources out now that it can be empowering and relieving,
but can also be absolutely overwhelming. But this is what
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I do for a living like I can help you.
This is what I do all day long. I help
people who have goals, who have concerns with their health,
who want to see change in their health, but they
maybe don't know what to do, or they feel like
they're stuck. I'm here to unstuck you, if that's a word.
So again, if you want to get a hold of
our office, my name is doctor Greg O'Neill. I'm a
chiropractor quasi health coach, although not official, but I do
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it all day long and I'm here to I'm here
to help you move from point A to point B
in your health. And the first step is figuring out, okay,
where you want to go, what your goals are, where
you're at right now, what your concerns are, and then
how we're going to get there. So it's where you
are now and where you want to be, and there's
a space in the middle. I'm going to help you
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walk across that space. It can seem dark, it can
seem scary, it can seem overwhelming, it can seem like
it may take for ever, or may not happen, or
maybe you've tried different all this stuff in the past.
Blah blah blah. You can cycle, babble or cycle analyze
all you want. At the end of the day, if
you want change, you've got to make change. So the
first change for many of you listening right now is
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to pick up the phone and give our office a call.
Make a first appointment. Start there. So to make an
appointment our office, it's it's super simple. When you come in,
we'll have already sent you paperwork ahead of time, so
basic you'll do this. You can call our office or
text seven one seven six two seven zero three sixty five.
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We will schedule you in the morning, afternoon, early evening
you know, whenever stooits your availability in our schedule. We
will send you an email that outlines what will occur
on your appointment. We'll sit down, we'll go through an exam, consultation,
do any necessary imaging or X rays at the office,
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and then at your following visit, explain exactly what's going
on and then how we're in a correct it. Now,
for radio and podcast listeners, you do get fifty percent
off your first exam evaluation and any necessary X rays.
So just let us know that you listen to the
radio show or the podcast. And then also if you
have insurance, just bring your insurance cards with you. We'll
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call Verify and let you know by your next visit
exactly what's going on with that. So it's pretty simple, like, hey,
here's what's going on with your spine. Here's how it
can be affecting the symptoms that you're dealing with. Here's
how I'm going to help you. Here your choices moving forward.
Here's how much your insurance will cost or will pay.
Here's how much you will pay. It's very simple. We
lay it all out now. A lot of you, I
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understand maybe you're a little skeptical or you're not sure
this is the first time going to a chiroproductor trust me,
I see all kinds people, whether they're skeptical, whether they're
ready to go. I can deal with that. I've been
doing this for thirteen years. Like I said, at our
office we have over a thousand active patients, so we
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can help. I'm not trying to sound cocky or over
the confident, but when you do something day in day out,
just like you guys do it your jobs, it's it's
it's pretty simple. Now, funny story with that. We had
someone call in and they wanted to speak with me
over the fonts. I give them a call back and
they're like, can you help someone with lower back pain
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and sciatica? And like the way that they said it
was funny because it's like they were trying to read it,
like like it was a foreign word or something. Can
you help someone lower back pain and sciatica? And I said,
does McDonald sell Hamburgers? And they just started laughing like
of course, like this is this is what we do
all day, Like I can help you. And anyways, that
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person has come in and they're doing better already. It's
just exciting. I understand that the problems you can deal
with can seem like novel and new, maybe a little scary.
Maybe another doctor hasn't put the finger on it for you.
But I just want to let you know that I'm
here to help and I can help you. So give
our offs call seven one seven six two seven zero
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three six five. All right, let's switch gears here. Just
getting back to putting out the fire. Is that when
a fire alarm is going off, that what I mean
by that, because some of you are listening, like what
is this guy talking about? Is this like a fireman
or something like fire prevention hotline radio show. Now, the
fire alarm is the signal of your body, the symptom
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letting you know that there's a bigger problem going on
underneath the surface. So the common fire alarms in your
life are the symptoms that you're dealing with, the concerns
that you have. Whether it's back pain, whether it's neck pain,
whether it's tension, stiffness, tightness, loss of range of motion, headaches, migraines.
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These are all the signals that there's something else going
on underneath the surface that needs to be corrected. And
after the break, we're going to talk about how to
put out those fires. So stay tuned. All right, guys,
welcome back to the show Maximize Living Radio with your host,
doctor Greg O'Neill, talking about putting out the fire today,
So figuring out what those underlying causes are for the symptoms,
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the signals that you're dealing with. Story time. Everybody loves
the stories. It's fun. I like how people come in
to my office that listen to the radio show patients
and they're like, Oh, I love your story about your
son playing hockey or this and that at your pool,
and I'm like, do you guys listen to the other
stuff now? So when I was younger, there's a big
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deal to go on a family trip. So this was
like the ultimate nineties trip. So we had the blue
Chrysler minivan, think of like the Lei what was the
guy's name who kind of reinvigorated Chrysler Lei a Coca
And we had that old school minivan where you had
to like, you know, open the door. It took like
so much strength to open it and you had to
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like fly it open on the side, and it only
opened on one side, not two sides like the vans
of today. So we pile in. And again I'm from
eastern Ontario, Canada, so like I live in Lancaster County now,
and driving from Lancaster County to say, Pittsburgh is like
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the equivalent of driving from my hometown to the big
city of Toronto. Americans would say Toronto, but did you
know that you don't pronounce the second T if you're
you know, a local, just like we don't say Landcaster,
we say Lancaster. So it's Toronto, and some people really
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are into it say Toronto. But I'm not going to
do that, okay. So fun fact, the busiest one of
the busiest highways the last time I checked, and there's
a whole like there was a whole Netflix show on this.
It was called like Highway four Old one whatever. Anyways,
it's called Highway four O one. And when you go
through Toronto it merges off. There's like an express lane
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and a collector's lane, so like there's people who are
you know, you go in this part if you're just
kind of going through and there's just a couple exits
where you go in the Collector's one and that's where
you can hit all the exits and each like highway
is like no joke, like at least six or eight
lanes wide. It is crazy. You're ever seeing this like
on YouTube or these different shows where they show how
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they do these snow removal and they'll have like like
six or eight or sometimes ten of these snowplows in
a row, and they're all in this diagonal formation and
the snow hits one and it goes to the next,
to the next, to the next, and it pushes all
along the side and then they have multiple of these
machines that then pick up the snow and put it
into these huge back of these huge dump trucks and
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totally remove it. Pretty amazing logistics that go into it.
So anyways, this is the nineties and the vans, especially
maybe that type of van wasn't as reliable as the
ones today, especially that this van was knowing that known
to have problems with transmission. Now we were driving along
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for one and getting to our destination. We were going
to go to like the Hockey Hall of Fame and
just kind of going to the city for like I
believe it was for a weekend in the summer. I
think it was nineteen ninety two. I'm not sure, maybe
ninety four. My memory's not that great. I was I
was pretty young. Maybe I was six seven years old,
so probably nineteen ninety four. All I remember is us
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pulling over on the side of the road and there's
cars like you can imagine the number of cars just
whizzing by, seventy miles an hour, just whizz whiz whiz
wiz going by, and my poor dad is out there.
You know. It's just the scene with like the hood
open and back then you didn't there was no cell phone,
like very few people would have a cell phone. I
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can't even remember how he got to a phone. I
think someone came over to help and they got to
someone called a payphone. I remember the tow truck guy
coming and they did something that got the van at
least enough to go to the destination. But I just remember,
I just picture. It's funny you like, look back in
your life. I just pictured my poor dad, like his
face is looking so stressed out on the side of
the highway and the cars are just whizzing by. And
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but yeah, he did a great jump for that. I
mean now, I'm probably that same age as him now,
and I couldn't imagine. I could not imagine being on
a big vacation like that. You got all the stuff,
all the kids, it's the middle of summer, it's hot,
and then your vand breaks down on the side of
like one of the busiest highways in the whole world.
So anyways, we go on our trip and we go
stay at this hotel, and that same night, I kid
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you not, the fire alarm goes off in the whole
hotel like the loudest noise I've probably ever heard of
my life, outside of like airplanes near being near like
you know, big vehicles and stuff like that, but just
this like piercing noise in the middle of the night
that just gets you up. And I remember my parents
like scrambling, like get up, and the lights are going
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off in the room, like the big strobe lights, and
the sound is just deafening. And we get out in
the hallway and there's just people in their pajamas, just
little kids holding their stuffed animals, and people bring in
some bags and stuff like that. And I remember the
people who work there like, no, just leave your bags,
you gotta go downstairs. We're not sure if this is
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a drill or not, so like is the building on fire?
If you can imagine again my poor parents. I'm able
as I'm older to put myself in their shoes. They're
trying to go away on a trip with their kids.
The cars breaking down, the fire alarms are going off.
But the fire alarm was deafening. It was so loud
everywhere you went in the stairwells, all the way down
the stairs. I think we went down twelve plus flights
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of stairs out into the street. This is the middle
of the night, like one in the morning. I remember
seeing the fire trucks there, the firemen there, they clear
the building, oh for false alarm, and we go back in.
So what I'm getting at with this story is when
those fire alarms were going off and the lights and
the strobe lights, and I'm a little kid, and you
can imagine it's the middle of the night and you're
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tired and your grumpy, and your car broke down that day.
I can just imagine what was going through my parents'
mind with three young kids. What do you want? You
want those fire alarms off, You want that noise out
of your life. You want that strobe light to stop
flashing and annoying you. But the purpose of those things
is to get you moving. It's to encourage you to
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get out of your room, to go down the hall,
and to start walking your butt down the stairs, because
the only way that these fire alarms are going off
is for you to basically get out of that situation.
And then it's the fireman's job to go in and
assess what's happening here. Is there a fire And their
job is to go in and fight the fire or
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determine that it was a false alarm or not. And
that's what happened. So this is very different in how
we deal with symptoms, especially in our culture, in Western culture,
because we see the fire alarm not as the signal
or the solution or the indicator, but is the problem.
And we want nothing more than to just get that
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pain that you're dealing with, that stiffness, the insomnia, the depression,
the pain, whatever else. We just want that gone now.
I want to here's my disclaimer here. As a chiropractor,
I am not telling you to go home and flush
all your pills down the toilet. I'm not saying that
at all. What I'm saying is to take a look
at those aspects of your life, those symptoms of your life,
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and ask yourself, is that the fire or is that
just the signal? Is that the fire alarm? What's the
deeper rooted issue that can be addressed? And that's something
that I help people deal with all the time. So
if someone's dealing with siatica and it goes down to
their knee and it goes into their foot, I don't
rarely do I ever look at the leg, look at
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the foot, and I'll tell them. I'll say, listen, the
fire is in the kitchen, but the fire alarms in
the bedroom and I'm like pointing like the bedroom, you know,
down here, the kitchen up here, and they're like, okay,
that makes sense. But I have some patients that are
like I heard here, Like people will lay down and
they'll and by the way, one of the biggest no
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chiropractor would ever tell their patients this face to face.
They would never say it, but I'm going to say
it over the radio. The biggest pet peeve of every
chiropractor is when the patient lays down and they start poking,
like they say, oh, I hurt right here, it's right here, doc,
and they start touching that I've had a patient in
the past grab my hand and start moving their hand
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and like I was trying not to be too rude,
but I like with drew my hand so quickly. I
was like, I listen, person, I know exactly where these
problems are. I not only know where you're hurting, but
I know where the fire is. So it'd be like
if there if my firearm is going on my house,
the firemen come and I'm like, oh, come on in,
I'll show you what's going on. What would they say?
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They'd be like, get out of the way, Like we're
the professionals. Get out of the way. You're about to
You're just going to cause problems. You're going to be
in our way and cause us to slow down when
the fireman comes to the house. Get out of the way. Okay,
Now I'm not I'll never say it to someone face
to face. I'm just staying over the radio. Just pet
peeve of chiropractors. And it's not just me, another fun story,
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just for fun. My wife is also a chiropractor. We
adjust each other. I get adjusted. I would say between
ten and fourteen days, you know, about once a week.
Came with her and for fun. Every once in a while,
I want to be a bug. I'll say, oh, it
hurts right here. Then I'll go to point on my
back and every time she will grab my thumb and
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threaten to break it, like she'll bend my handback and
I'll laugh like it'll hurt. She's like try to She's like,
where does it hurt? And she'll be like bending my
thumb back. I'm like, oh, never mind, that's just the
fun of having your spouse to be a chiropractor. So
we want to figure out where the fire is, not on,
where the fire alarm is. Okay, So how do we
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do that, Well, we need to do testing. When the
fire fire company comes to your house, sometimes it's pretty
obvious they can see the flames and the smoke and
it's billowing out. That would be like if someone comes
in and their limp thing they got a walk or
they're like inexcruciating pain. Okay, that's pretty obvious. The building's
on fire, all right. But many times people come in
they're like, I'm like, how are you feeling? What are
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your concerns? Oh, I'm fine, you know, I'm good. Now. Meanwhile,
you can see the smoke is billowing out of the
windows or out of the basement or in places unseen.
That's what the fireman kind of looks for. I'm like, okay,
I'm glad you're feeling okay, but we're going to get
to the bottom of liss. Do you notice that your
head comes forward like this? Do you see how your
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head tilts this way, your shoulders high, your hip is rotated,
And people say almost every they're like, how do you
notice all that? Well, it's my job. It's what I
do all day long. Just like at the building inspector
comes to your house, they're going to know how to
decipher everything, even though they've never walked in your house before,
they walk in other houses before, they've done at a
time or two in the past, and they'll know how
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to set it correct it. So we decipher where posturally
you're out of place and move to the next test test,
which is your range of motion, how well your spine moves,
and people are surprised how little their spine can actually
move because they rarely test it. Then we do pop
pati of the spine where we feel what's going on.
And then most importantly, if necessarily taking extras at the office. Now,
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stay tuned, have to break and I'll tell you how
this testing really drives the point home for people.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Hi, it's r Jay Harris. I've been listening to doctor
Greg O'Neil from Lidits Chiropractic for years. He makes so
much sense. I've become a patient. His adjustments have made
a big difference in my life. If you're in pain
at back or neck issues, or just want to feel
and function better, call doctor Greg today. He'll give you
fifty percent off your first visit and any necessary X
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race like he did for me. Call Lyditzs Family Chiropractic
seven one seven six two seven zero three six.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
All right, guys, doctor Greg O'Neal Maximized Living Radio. We're
going to close out the week here talking about putting
out the fire. So finding, you know, the symptom, which
is the fire alarm, getting to the root cause of it,
and we do that with a common muscul little skeletal
musculo skeletal. I can't speak today, concerns that people have,
whether it's neck tension, whether it's stiffness, whether it's back pain,
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whether it's neck pain, headaches, migraines, some more emerging problems
like sciatica and neuropathy. These are all signs that your
nervous system is under stress. Stress would be the light
word or duress, and for some of you, I would
say neglect, and then for some of you, I would
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even say injury or severe pinching or problem. Okay, So
we don't want to wait until the smoke turns into fire.
Whether they say where there's smoke, there's fire. So the symptoms,
where there's a symptom, there's a cause. There's always a
cause to the symptom. We have to discern that. Yeah,
sometimes it's pretty simple, like someone has back pain and
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I'm able to it could be right there, right around
that same area. I'm like, yeah, you can see how
your hip is rotated. This is happening. When a few
adjustments here, that person's feeling better. Now. When someone comes
in and their feet are numb and I'm working on
their lower back, I don't touch their feet at all.
They're kind of like looking at me, like, don't you
want to look at my feet? I'm like, no, that's
not where the problem is. Again the symptom. Okay, the
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indicator which is like the fire alarm that could be
going off in the bedroom, but the fire is in
the kitchen. So the kitchen is your lower back, the
bedroom is your feet. That makes sense. You want to
put out the fire now. Eventually that problem will go away.
And sometimes you do have to address the feet. Sometimes
you do have to address the ankles, and there's things
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that we can do for that. But the end of
the day, you always want to figure out what's causing
these issues and start to remove them. And that's where
the adjustment comes in. Like how does the adjustment do that? Essentially,
most people are lacking proper motion of the spine. When
you look at someone and they have poor posture. You
see their shoulders like a child. You look at a child,
that's pretty obvious they're slouching forward. Doesn't it just bother
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you as an adult when a child slouches? I think
it's just a natural instinct that we just want to say, what,
sit up straight, sit up straight. We always say that
to children. How come we don't say that to adults?
Sit up straight, sit up straight? Might come off as rude.
We say that to kids because we know if a
child slotches all the time, they're growing so quickly, what's
going to happen. They're gonna be slatching the whole life.
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They're going to grow that way. It's like a young tree.
Young tree is starting to grow and it's a throwing
crooked or off to one side. They got to guide
that thing straight to make sure that it's going to
go that way, because if it starts growing crooked and
that green, let's say the greenwood turns into the brown
wood and it all hardens. The trees kind of set. Now,
we can do things to help kids with curvatures and
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things like that, but the goal is is when they're
very young, they have a good posture, they have good
spinal hygiene, taking care of themselves, so we don't have
to do these big procedures later on. We could just
get them healthy. Now. For an adult who sits at
a computer, who's on their phone, who sits in a recliner,
that's a big one. Driving a lot, crossing their legs,
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crossing their ankles, sleeping improperly, sleeping in weird positions, using
too thick of a pillow as an example, pushing their
head forward. This is all going to lead to misalignment
of the spine and lack of normal motion of the spine.
And when your spine doesn't move well, your brain does
not like that at all. It just doesn't like it.
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The same signals of stress go to your brain as pain,
so it's like your brain sees the same thing. It's
like pain versus lack of motion. So okay, to get
a little technical, there's two main types of nerve receptors
around a joint. There's your pain receptors, which most people
know about. You know, if you poke yourself or you
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hit yourself, that's gonna hurt ouch. That's a pain receptor.
There's also what's called a motion receptor. That's where I
can have you you know, close your eyes and I
can lift your arm up and place it, place it
on your head, and I'll say, where's your where's your arm?
You'd be like, oh, it's on my head. But you
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can't see it. You can feel it. How do you
feel it? Through motion receptors your body? Your brains are.
It wants to know where your body is at all times.
It doesn't have to see it. It just it knows
it through all these millions and billions of neurons and
receptors called mechano receptors. And it's so vitally important to
your brain. Your brain cares a lot about it. Fun fact,
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your brain cares more about motion than it does pain.
It's more interested if you're not moving well, it is
more about that than if you're in pain. I'll prove
it to you if you were to you know, you're
putting a nail under the wall. You accidentally hit your
thumb with a hammer. What's the first thing people do? Well?
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Two things. They either grab it and they squeeze it
so they're applying pressure, which again stimulates mechano receptors. Or
they shake it really quickly they move it and by
doing that it doesn't totally take away the pain, but
it reduces it's giving your brain a different input that
it cares more about, so it feels less of the
pain or gives you Actually it doesn't really feel it less.
(38:35):
It provides you your conscious Being's the whole other thing.
That's the part of biology where I'm like, whoa, where
are you in your mind? Are you outside of your mind? Anyways,
we're not going to get into that. We'll be here
all day. Okay, So your brain will tell you is
more likely to tell you your conscious self more about
motion or lack of motion than it is pain. Okay,
(38:59):
So what does that have to do with all this
is that chiropractor's main job is to introduce proper motion
into the spine. So when a joint is not moving
well or fixated, it gets stuck again, it's your brain
is going to send your spine. Those neurons are going
(39:20):
to send distress signals to the brain, so it's going
to say not moving, well, I'm stuck, and your brain's like,
oh no, that's not good. Okay, I'm going to let
them know pain, neck pain, back pain. Okay. Maybe they'll
change something, maybe they'll stop sleeping that way or sitting
that way. H they're not listening. Ramp up the pain more.
(39:42):
Oh no, they took a medication. They're telling me not
to pay attention to it. Ramp up the pain more.
We need to let this guy know, we need to
let this lady know. But there's a problem. Oh my gosh.
Now they're going and doing all these weird stretches and stuff.
Now I'm even more sore. Okay, now they're just ignoring it.
Now they're just sitting on their client or they're given up,
they're eating a lot of ice cream, they're getting big.
(40:03):
It's all going down now. People like, how do you
come up with these radio show ideas? Isn't this fun?
All right? So we want to look at that and
we say, okay, there's pain. That means there's a problem.
We need to address it because if you don't, it
will get worse and worse and worse and worse. So
a chiropractor assess the spine regardless of how you feel
(40:26):
about different areas. Like some people say, my back hurts,
it's just my back, and I'll start feeling along their
neck and going down. They're like, no, no, no, it's
just it's just down here. I'm like, okay, number one,
I'm the doctor. No, I don't say that, but okay.
You go to a dentist and you say, it's just
this twoth rade here that hurts. Do they just look
at that tooth? They look at all of them? Why
(40:47):
to make sure that there's not other there's not other issues?
Like those teeth, they coexist with one another. They have
connection to one another. If one's going bad, they could
mean issues other ways. Now, your spine is much more
intimately connected and much more of a group unit than
even your teeth. You can pull out your teeth. You
can pull out all your teeth. You could use a
hammer to brush your teeth today and like, yeah, it wouldn't
(41:09):
be fun, it would hurt like heck, but you could
replace your teeth. You can't go in there and replace
your spine. Now. Some people say, oh, but there's all
these different surgeries. Yeah, how does that work out for people? Okay,
what would you rather have the discs that God gave
you or these titanium discs made? God knows where that
(41:31):
go in your body? And you can't even move You
lose it at least fifty percent of motion. It's not
just me says that surgeons tell people that all the time.
They'll say, I'm the last person you want to see.
Make sure we do everything. You know. You only want
to come see me is your very last resort. They'll
tell people that if you don't want them just jumping
into surgery, like a lot of times I'll hear people
(41:51):
don't and I get it. I can get on medical
doctors here and there, but I'm not talking about people.
I'm talking about the systems. But many times it's a
patient who is demanding a service that they should not
be getting. They're like, I think I need surgeon my
neck or back, and people will tell me this. They'll
come in they're like, I went to the surgeon and
I told him I need this and this, and they
told me no, they told me to come to you,
(42:12):
or they told me to go to physical therapy. I'm like, well, good,
yeah you should. One of my good friends growing up,
medical dad was a medical doctor. Was a great medical doctor.
Loved to work in the er, but every now and
then he had to do his regular rounds as a
general practitioner and people would come in who were, you know,
very overweight, not eating well, obviously not exercising and they
(42:35):
would say, I want that drug on TV about weight loss,
or I want that one about diabetes, and he would
pull out his prescription pad after doing all his tests
and everything like that, so you know he has back
into this and he would write exercise on the prescription
pad handed to the patient, walk out of the room,
and I'm like, man, that's so good. Like that's that's
(42:56):
what Sometimes people need to hear that they need to
hear the truth. And for some of you right now,
what you need to hear is that you cannot just
keep ignoring your problem. You can't just keep pushing it
off to the side. You can't keep blaming time or
your schedule or how busy your life is, or that
the kids are in school or they're out of school,
or you're running here or running there, that you just
(43:19):
want to take the next best biohack or the next
best supplement or the nextpect medication and cover these things up.
You need to figure out what's causing this. So when
you come in to see me, I'm able to assess
where you're out of alignment, and through the chiropractic adjustment,
it introduces normal motion to that area. So if an
area of the spine is stuck. We basically get it unstuck.
We introduce movement and motion to the neck, to the
(43:42):
mid back, to the lower back, and when that segment
starts to move free and clear of restriction, your brain
it gets happy like it because it's not being sent
these stress signals all day. There's a problem, there's a problem,
there's a problem, there's a problem. Not hearing that anymore,
so that frees your nervousness them up, and that adds
more wax to the candle. If you will, I've used
(44:04):
this analogy. You burn the candle on both ends, add
more wax to the candle, and your nervous system is
able to adapt more to the other stresses, so that
people will say things like, Hey, I'm sleeping better, or
my kids aren't bugging me as much. I'm feeling like
I'm able to take on the day better. I hear
that all the time, and that's because their nervous system
is better able to adapt because it's not being put
under constant stress from a spine that's been neglected, abused,
(44:27):
and out of alignment. So if this sounds like something
you want to take advantage of, give her off as
a call. Guys signing off Doctor Greg, have a great week.
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