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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, welcome to another week Maximize Living Radio
with your host, Doctor Greg O'Neill, lit Its Family Chiropractic,
the beautiful town of Lititz America's coolest small town. I
think that was voted on in twenty thirteen. Anyways, let's
get started so that I'm going to be talking about
results with your health, that whatever you're doing, you want

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to make sure that you're getting positive results. Now, the
majority of people are not really focused on the results.
They're just focused on the day to day or not
really thinking about it. So let's just back up. When
I say results with your health, what do most people
think of They think of the scale, like weight. Okay,

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so if I'm trying to lose weight, the result is
the scale. And I could talk a whole hour about
how that's the wrong way to think. And there's more.
It's more to do with body composition. That's important. As
we all know, muscle weighs more than fat, et cetera,
et cetera. It's good to get to a to a
good healthy weight, but basing your health completely on the

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scale is wrong. Any people or people who don't weigh
a lot can still be very sick. Okay, So that's
one result people think of. The big result is blood work.
That's what people focus on their blood work. They're like,
I got my CDC, my complete blood count with differential,
my check my cholesterol, check my kidneys, check my liver,

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check my blood. If the results are good or close
to good, then people think they're fine, and people get
lulled into this false sense of security. What I want
to focus on today is that your results are from
the daily actions that you take. So the results, it's
kind of like the saying, what have you done for

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me lately? It's not about the blood work that you
got three years ago, or how much you weigh in
high school, or how old you are you know recently.
It's like, it's about what you're doing now and how
you're taking care of yourself now. And then the other
aspect of this show that I'm going to really hit
home is that many of you listening to this right

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now are getting poor results and you've come to accept
that as normal, and you've come to accept that as okay,
and you even think that the doctor that you're going to,
the physical therapist that you're going to, the specialist, the chiropractor, whomever,
that doctor is you think they're good doing a good job,

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when you could be having a disservice done to you,
or you could not be doing things properly, and that's
why you're getting bad results. And I if I've seen
it once, I've seen it a hundred times where people
will come into my office. They'll have a big stack
of paperwork. They'll have discs like whether it's MRI discs,

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X rays that have been done, all this testing they've
had done, blood work, vitamin testing, metabolol testing. I've had
people come in with like paletts of notes right from
their doctors and they're like, here's all this stuff that
I have have had done to me. And then I'm
looking at that person and I see a person who's
not well, who's essentially sick, who has disease. There's a

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difference between disease or disease. Their nervous system is not healthy,
they're not adapting properly. Their posture, their spine, their nutrition,
all these aspects of health are completely out of balance,
even just to the naked eye. Yet that person keeps
going to the same doctor, to the same medical doctor,
to the same specialists, to the same physical therapists, same chiropractor. Meanwhile,

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they're not getting good results, but they've accepted where they're at.
They've accepted mediocrity or poor results as good or the
best that can happen because they think their body's broken.
They think that something's wrong, and if that doctor can't
help them, then nothing can help them. And I see this.

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You know, this is personal to me, you know, in
the in healthcare system in general, but especially for me
being from Canada and the Canadian healthcare system. I was
shocked to see that one in twenty deaths in Canada
are due to youth in Asia, one in twenty. So
it's sent euthanasia. The CREUW term is assisted suicide. Now

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I'm not getting into the politics of that at all.
I realize that this is a touchy subject. It's a
major touchy subject. I'm going to talk about it from
my own perspective and opinion on healthcare. Here's my opinion.
And the thing that people don't think about is people
go through let's say they're diagnosed with a terrible disease. Now,

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first of all, let me let me just back this
up here, because the number one argument people say is, well,
that person is so sick, they're so far gone, the
best thing for them is just to pass away. You
don't understand the pain that they're in, the infirmity that
they're in, the morbidity that they're in, the suffering that
they're dealing with, and listen, like, I can't understand. I'm

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not in that situation. I have not had a close
I know people who have had it done. I've not
had a close family member or anything like that go
through it. So no, I can't sit there and say
I know exactly what that person's going through. But what
I can say is this is that by and large,
the healthcare system has failed that person. And I'm not

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just talking about in Canona. I'm talking about basically the
Western world. Is that the healthcare system, public health included,
prevention included, has failed that individual. That the only choice
that they have is assisted suicide, the only choice that
they think they have. That is sad, and from my perspective,

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it's sick. It's sickening to hear that, is that people
are in so much despair, are so far gone that
the only thing that they would think to do is
to suicide. It's very sad, and like I said, one
in twenty deaths in Canada are due to that, And
I'm going to tell you right now, it's because of

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the healthcare system up there that has failed that person.
So I would ask, if that person is suffering, if
that person is dealing with X, Y, and Z, why
is that? How did they get to that point? How
did their body get full of cancer? How did their body?
You know, how are they dealing with Alzheimer's disease or
type two diabetes, all these things that precurse this. What happened?

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What happened to that person? Well, it's not just me saying,
as research shows it's ninety five percent of this, guys,
is lifestyle. It's the choices that we make that add
up over time. So I can sit here and blame
healthcare systems and doctors, medical doctors, medications, big form, all
that stuff. And yes, there's a look, there's a big

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part of that with the advertising and the corruption and
the insurance company and everything. We can go down that road,
but at the end of the day, we have to
maintain control of our health. You have to be in
control of your health, not the medical doctor, not the specialist,
not jumping into the medical merry. Go round that so

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many people are in that. I've had close family members
and friends be in that medical merry go round where
they go from one doctor to the next, to the
next specialist, to the next drug, to the next drug,
and their health continues to fail, continues to fail, continues
to fail, and they're dealing with they're in such suffering
on all these different prescriptions, dealing with all kinds of

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disease process. And then in a place like Canada, the
solution that they offer you is assistant suicide. That's not right,
that's not right. What they should What they're basically saying
is we can't help you, so you should die. That's
what they're basically saying. Where they should be saying, we
can't help you. You should try something different. It's not

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going to come from them, not going to come from
big Pharma, not going to come from the government. It's
not going to come from Superman is not coming to
help you. It is you. It is you who has
to change. It is you who has to change to
remove yourself from that medical marriag around, look yourself in
the mirror, and start asking yourself the tough questions that

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no one wants to ask. Why am I dealing with
this condition? Why is it here? Why is my body
giving me this symptom? Why am I dealing with so
much pain? Why am I dealing with blood sugar issues?
Why am I dealing with memory loss or dementia or
tremors or trouble walking or stiffness, whatever it is. You
have to figure out what is that, What is my

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body trying to say? What is the problem, What is
the cause of the problem, and how we can get
to that route and start to change things. Because the
cool part is, guys, your body is designed to heal
and if we just stop interfering with our body, we
can start to get better. So stay tuned. All right, guys,
welcome back to the show Maximize Living Radio with your host,

(09:04):
doctor Greg O'Neill. Talking about some heavy topics today, like
I realized, don't worry. Things will lighten up later, I promise.
I was talking about assisted suicide youth in Asia and
how in candidates, one in twenty people, one in twenty deaths, sorry,
one in twenty deaths are assisted suicide, which you could

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look at it from a political perspective of spiritual morality.
I'm not really doing It's not my place to do that.
I'm doing it from a healthcare perspective, and my opinion
on that is that the healthcare system has failed that person,
not providing proper preventative services, things of that nature. But

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here's the big butt and this is the number one
with a bullet. That person has failed themselves. That's almost
hard to say, it's hard to hear. I get it.
It's a tough statement to say. You have to be
in control of your health. If you're not getting good

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results with your health, you have to change. You have
to change, and it takes that personal responsibility. Like you
look at the majority of cancer's, heart disease, diabetes, the vast,
vast majority in some cases, over ninety five percent for
certain conditions is lifestyle induced. Like we all know, Okay,

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what causes someone's diagnosed with lung cancer? What's the number one?
People think, Oh, they were a smoker. That person knowingly
put toxins into their body, knowingly causing a disease process. Okay,
so we can say that it's like oh that you
could go down multiple avenues like wow, that's kind of irresponsible,

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or maybe that's selfish, or that's neglect or that's ignorance,
and you could go down all those things. But that
same thinking where people now have we understand that was
smoking to the lungs. I want you to do that
same thing with like eating for your liver, eating for
your pancreas, the food that you eat for the organs
inside your body. That just as much as someone can

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damage their lung tissue by smoking, based on the food
that you're eating, you will damage your body the inside
of your body. So like people, as an example, can
eat so much refined carbohydrates and sugars that they will
damage their pancreas, injure it so bad that it cannot
produce a hormone anymore. They can that's diabetes. They can

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injure their body so bad by the food that they're
eating that the insulin receptors are injured and damaged and
can no longer recognize insulin anymore. That's type two diabetes.
This isn't like a funny joke of like, oh, I
ate too many donuts, right, I did this, and that
people laugh it off. It's not funny because now you're
setting yourself up for a lifetime of going to medical

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doctors specialists, taking drugs, taking injections. And then if you
look at the long term statistics, whether it's diabetic neuropathy,
whether it's numbness entingly in the feet, whether it's obesity,
whether it's skin issues, early death. And then the other
thing is many types of dementia Alzheimer's are now being

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linked do things like having pre diabetes or full on
diabetes because of these blood sugar issues eventually affecting how
the brain functions, memory, cognition, and things of that nature.
So by the time that person is way down the
road okay, and they're sitting in that hospital bed and

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they're being fed through a tube or they're being strapped
to a chair and they don't even know what their
name is, those things happen years ago, decades ago, And
that's where that's like my calling is to help people
way down the line, way upstream, so that we can

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catch these things early. That's why children are it's so
important education understanding the food that you're putting in your body,
because there's a whole there's mechanisms out there, whether it's
on TV especially, every other advertisement is a drug commercial,
or a pizza commercial or a soda commercial. By this

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and you'll be happy type of commercial and that gets
ingrained and repeated, and that we become just these little consumers.
We're just consume, consume, consume, and people aren't creating. We
want to be able to create, We want to be
able to inspire. We want to do something different. I
was at a career day recently at my children's school.

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It wasn't for my children, it was for the upper school,
so like eight the ninth grades, and I was I
learned quickly, Number one, how much I forget how much
like seventh graders, eighth graders, how much they don't really
pay attention because I'm used to talking to adults, like
when I do my little health talks and things like that,

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Like people are generally paying attention. They're nodding their head,
they're there, they're present. My style of teaching is like
it's like a responsive lecture where I'll ask like maybe
a rhetorical question or kind of an easy question and
then people can answer it like out loud. So I
started out my ID five sessions each a half an

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hour each and it was back to back, so this
is a big day. By the end, I was like whoa,
it was like five you know, I call them doctors'
reports where I review X rays and what things should
look like. But I also threw in like why I
became a chiropractor, What chiropractic is, what it's not, how
we help people. I had a video over our office
all these different elements. But the first one that I did,

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I was like I was treating them adults, and that
didn't go well. And what I mean by adults but
like people who I treated them like people who would
pay attention. And I forgot what it was like to
be in seventh grade where they're just kind of looking.
They're just free, frozen there, nervous thinking about god knows what.
It was funny, like the boys are all sitting on

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one side, the girls and the other. They're so awkward
with each other. It was kind of funny. But as
we went on it got better. I did different things
with them and got them up and participating, doing like
charades type of thing. But it was pretty cool because
I had I taxed two students out and I'd say, okay,
just with your body, like your body language, Show me

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someone who's not happy, and they sloush forward. Show me
someone who's sad. Show me someone who's depressed. Show me
someone who's not feeling confident and nervous. All these different aspects,
and then they all made the same posture. And I'm like, now,
show me someone who's feeling joyful today, happy today, confident today,

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Like they woke up and they put their the right
shirt on, type of thing, like you're feeling your confidence?
How does that? How does that person look? Everyone stands
up nice and tall, their chests out, their head back
over their shoulders. They're they're in a good posture. And
I had the kids sit down. I said, so what
was what was the difference there? What did they change?
They changed their posture, they changed how they stood, they

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changed how they presented themselves. And I said, and what
what did they really like? What part of the body
was the core of that or what part of their
body were they moving in order to do that? It
was the spine. They weren't you know, flexing their muscles
or you know, flexing their biceps or their abs or
anything like that. They were getting their spine into an erect,
proper position. And that's really what good posture does, is

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that good posture it not only signified, it's not only
good for you, good for your back, good for your neck.
You know, your mom said, sit up straight, you'll you'll
be swaush all this stuff. But you present yourself as
a confident, competent person when you have good posture. More
than fifty five percent of it's even more than that,

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it's fifty five percent of body language is nonverbal and
just by your posture. So people aren't really listening so
much as to the words that you're saying. It's how
you're saying them, and how you're standing, how you're sitting,
how you're presenting yourself. So your posture is the number
one element in body language. And that's the thing is, like,

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you can look at this from many different perspectives, But
I remember listening to this study where they asked criminals
who were in jail about why they would attack a
police officer. Like, these people are in jail for attacking
a police officer with no weaponry, and you would think, like,
why would they do that? These police officers are trained,
they're armed, they have batons, pepper spread in many cases,

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they have a gun on them. Why would they do that?
And they asked these people in jail, like, why did
you think you could attack that police officer, and they
all said the same thing. They said because he had
a scuff on his shoes. Once said that the polish
wasn't done properly on his shoes, his lace was untied,
his belt wasn't buckled all the way like properly, was

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kind of loose. And then most of them said because
of the way they were standing, they were slouched forward.
And it was pretty amazed. I'll never forget I learned that.
And it's like the way that you present yourself, are
you so as a dad you want to be threatening
basically when to other people when you're when you're you're

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with your kids. Now that might sound a little intense,
but it's it's just how it is. It's like, as
a dad, you want to present yourself as a threat
to bad actors out there, and that comes from your
situational awareness, the way that you're dressed, the way that
you're looking around, the way that you're standing, the way
that you're acting. And they've also done these interviews and

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it's kind of again hard to hear with people who
were like child predators, people who were abductive children. And
they said, how did you choose the children? They asked
this guy who was in jail. He says, I didn't
I chose the father, and like that makes just hearing
that made my blood boil, even me saying that what
do they mean by that? It's like they either chose

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children who had a father who was absent or a
father who looked as though he was weak and not
a threat to those children. What am I getting at here, guys,
is that you like when you want results with your health,
like this isn't this isn't just about like Okay, I want, like,
you know, my back not to hurt and my neck

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not to hurt. Like I want to look like presentable
to society, and I want to be like I always
tell my kids all the time, fit up straight, stand
up tall, be confident, shoulders back, chest out, head up,
looking people in the eyes, shaking their hands Like that's
the kind of kids that we want to kind of
foxter up and grow up. Otherwise people are just like

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this whole home, you know, go through the motions, go
through life, be in the passenger seat, not be leaders,
being followers. And this is what I was really touching
on at this career day. I said, guys, if you
get nothing else out of this be confident. If you
have a dream, if you want to go for something,
go for it. And if things are in your way,

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that's where you address them head on. You know, not
everyone believes you know. I thought it was a good
idea for me to become a chiropractor in my life
or to open my own business. Who cares. It's my decision,
it's my dream, that's what I want to do. So
for kids of today, for adults, it's like what I'm
going to change gears here after the break is like,

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if you want something in your life, if you want
better results with your health, then you have to go
for it. You have to set your mind to it
and nothing else mattered. You put your head down and
you work towards it, and you get the right people
around you. So stay stay tuned. All right, guys, welcome
back to the show Maximize Living Radio with your host,
doctor Greg O'Neill, talking today about getting results, being confident,

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knowing what you want, believing that you can do it,
and then at the end of the day, just doing it.
Washrints and repeat one plus one, E plus two, going
for it like a dog on a bone because you
have to do it. What I was talking about today
is that people get to the point where they're in
such bad shape they're going and run in different specialists, running,
different doctors, running around driving hours. I have patients and

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have had patients where they were driving two hours. Now
they go be oh, I went down to this hospital
and then I went to go see this doctor, and
I flew out to see this guy and this and that,
and I always it's like, Okay, that's wonderful, good for you.
How's that working out for you? Is it working? Oh, crickets,
maybe it's not working. Is it working? Are things getting better?

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Are things getting worse? Do we even stop to think
of that? Or do we just listen to what the
medical doctor or the chiropractor whomever it is tells us
how we should think if you're doing something, it should work,
it should work. Now there's realities to things too. Things
can take time, and that's where that type of doctor

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can use their clinical judgment and let you know how
long things should take. And I'll often tell people like,
depending on what's going on, a funny story, not really funny,
but I think I should this more. I'm not sure,
but there was a woman who comes in, she's in
her seventies. She brought in her granddaughter who had like

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a backage hurt herself playing volleyball, and I went to
an exam, did everything got her adjusted? This young teenage girl,
and the grandma's like, how long will it take for
her to feel better? I said, uh, probably about twenty minutes,
if not already now, and she just kind of looked
at me like she was almost like really, like I

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was coming off a little cocky or something like that.
It's like really, And anyways, this this grandmother who comes in,
she sees my wife as who's her doctor? So the
next time I'm next door, I'm adjusting a patient and
she's next door getting adjusted by my wife. She said,
your husband, I brought in my granddaughter the other day.

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My wife said, yeah, how did that go?

Speaker 2 (23:24):
She goes, well, I asked your husband, doctor Greg, how
long this would take. He said twenty minutes. And I
was going to say, come on, doctor, twenty minutes, like
she's going to be completely better than twenty minutes.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
She goes.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
By the time we got home, I asked her, I said,
how do you feel?

Speaker 1 (23:38):
She says, oh, I feel completely better. My shoulder feels
a necker pain. Her gone, she's like, I thought, twenty
minutes and I went around the corner and I said, well,
she's also how old is sixteen? Seventeen years old? Like,
and with what was going on, I knew she was
going to be better right away. I said, if it
was me who had that injury, or even you, And

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I'm kind of joking whether because she's, you know, in
her late seventies, I might have said it would have
taken a couple of weeks or a few adjustments and
things like that. She's like, wow, And I said, isn't
that cool though, Like how amazing it is how quickly
children teenagers can rebound. That's why it's so good, guys
to get like the kids to come into the chiropractor.
I love seeing teenagers probably my favorite patient, like that

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age group, probably like once they're like seven years old,
maybe till about eighteen years old. They're just so like
they're just fun. I like to have fun with kids
that age. They're really focused on themselves, which I understand.
I remember that you're like the center of the universe
when you're a teenager for the most part. But when
you adjust them, they just get better, like fast, and
their spine rebounds quickly, and if we take X rays

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and retake X rays, they get amazing fast changes. So
it's it makes it my job a lot easier. And
I'm able to tell them that too. That's why it's
so important that kids not wait. If they're dealing with
migraines or headaches, and even just a few couple adjustments,
they're gonna be feeling so much better. But I'm also
able to let people know if they've been dealing with something.
Let's say they come in and there's some there's somewhere

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on the tires, so to say, so to speak, there's
some rust on the hinges, and the problem's been there
a long time. I'll let people know, like, listen, this
you're going to be feeling better here in about you know,
it might take four or five visits, might take a month,
might take a couple months. Some people will say, listen,
we we're going to manage these symptoms. We're going to
reduce them as much as possible. I can't guarantee that
they're going to completely go away, but I'm very confident

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that they will, so I always let people know. But
a lot of times people go to these other health
care facilities, and it's really just like aimless. They don't
even know what They don't really know what's going on,
it seems like, or at least they're not telling the
patient because I'll say, like, what did they use did
they have any metrics? Are they telling you what's going
on or how much, how long it will take or

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if you should be get They're like, now, they don't
really say anything like that. I'm like, well, then I
amost feel like them, why you go there? I mean,
I wouldn't want to go there, Like it seems like
pretty like if you're getting a rent of done at
your house, you be Okay, here's what we want done,
here's what it's going to take. There's so much going
to cost, and then the next logical question is like

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how long will it take to do it? And if
the answer is I don't know, I'm not using that
contractor because I want to have a very clear outline
if you're going to be in my house and doing
a renovation doing all this stuff, I want to have
a clear outline when this is going to be done
so I can prepare accordingly. Well, it's the same thing
with healthcare, guys. You've got to have a general idea.
I know there's no guarantees in healthcare, I understand that,

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but you should have a general idea based on previous
clinical outcomes, clinical experience of that practitioner, how long things
should take for you to start knowing and seeing results.
And that's why when people come into my office, it's
very simple, it's very logical, it flows really well, and
you wouldn't believe the number of people who just say, wow,

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this is just the best compliment that I get. They're like,
this is just like you guys are like a well
oiled machine here. Now I take that as a compliment.
Yes we are. We're a health machine because we know
exactly like how to help people predictably and how to
get them from point A to point B predictably, and
tend to let them know that so that they can

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play a part in their health. They can do their exercises,
they can understand that what they're doing is actually matters
and is going to make a difference. And best yet,
they can see the changes rather quickly and quick story.
I have a patient just recently where she was dealing
with very bad back pain. Now she's a runner, so
she could run. Used to running eight to ten miles,

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like three four times a week. And she's in her
early sixties. She's also a nurse, very active, very very
in shape, very fit, but her back was in bad shape,
and she was at the point where she hadn't ran
in about two weeks. And she's like, that doesn't sound
like much. Like I'll tell my friends this and tell people, oh,
two weeks, it's not too bad. She like, you don't
understand when you run three four times a week and

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you don't run for two weeks, She's like, I feel terrible,
like my mood, I'm not sleeping as good. I just
don't have the same energy. I'm like, I get it.
Like for me, if I don't work out for two weeks,
I have to feel like junk. Like it just when
you're so used to doing that. Now I'm not as
much of the obviously as committed as her to her cardio,
But if I don't work out for two weeks, I

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wouldn't be feeling too good. I can just imagine if
you're used to running three four times a week for years,
if not decades, that would take a toll. And so
she not only wanted herself to feel better for her back,
but also to exercise. Again that helps you lift up
your mental spirits, helps you feel good, have energy for
the day. And so we go through so when someone

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comes in, we go through what the concerns are. So
we have people fill up paperwork. I go through that
with them. That's called the consultation. I then go through
what their goals are. What would you like to achieve? Now,
I'll ask that question and people sometimes look at me
funny because they'll name all the things they have. They're
like, I have this back pain, this neck dan, I have
these headaches. And I'll say, what are your goals coming here?

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And that kind of look at me like did you
not hear what I said? But even though that question
can seem a little obvious, I'll always ask that question. Now,
sometimes people will just say, so I can be I
can be pain free. I'm like, okay, I want to elaborate.
Let's dig deeper. And I'll say, imagine you are pain free,
what things would you do now that maybe you're not doing,

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or you're not doing as well or not enjoying as much.
Then we get to the real heart of the issue.
Then we can start seeing some real goals. Then we
can start scratching the surface on the potential where we
want to go, and people will say things like, well,
since my back has been hurting, i haven't been able
to garden as much. I'd like to get back to
doing that, or I'd like to get back to walking outside.

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For this lady that I was telling you about, I'd
like to get back to running three four times a week,
she said, Even if I go to once or twice
a week to start, that would be great. So we're
talking about the lifestyle because it's not just about getting
out of pain. That's important, but it's like, what are
you going to do with it? What's the real motivation?
Because if your goal is to just get out of pain,
you could go down the street, take a full bottle,

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take a bottle, advil on and all your percoset, whatever,
and you'd be out of pain technically, Now, would you
have the same quality of life? No, you'd become like
an addict. But that's a whole other story. So if
people come in I don't believe they really just want
to get out of pain. They want to resume their
lifestyle or enhance their lifestyle. They may not just know

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it yet. And part of The reason is is because
people have such lowered and altered and I would even
say damaged expectations from other healthcare facilities. They've gone to
other doctors before, medical doctors, chiropractors, physical therapists. They haven't
gotten results, so they become jaded. And when you get

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that way, you start hampering your expectations. And instead of
saying things like I want to get rid of this
pain and resume active lifestyle, they start saying, well, if
I could just reduce it a little bit, if it
could just be more manageable, if I could just this
just that. So I don't allow people to say the
words just I just want a little bit of this.
I had someone say recently, like if I could just

(31:10):
manage this pain. I'll say, listen, I hear you want
to be out of pain. We're not here to manage
the pain. I'm not here to manage the symptoms. Be
like if there's a fire in your house, I'm not
here to manage the fire alarm. I'm here to fight
the fire. So we're going to find the cause of this,
get to the root cause of this issue, work to
remove that. Because the cool part is this, your body's

(31:30):
designed to heal itself. This is not said enough or
if at all, in healthcare today. Is that God put
an amazing healing power in your body. If you cut
your hand, you have a small cut in your hand,
it knows how to heal up. That same power heals
your lower back, your neck, your headaches, whatever else is
going on and will be healed so long as you

(31:51):
remove interference from the body. Get whatever is in the
way out of the way. Now, for most of that
is you got to get yourself out of the way,
the way that you're eating, the way that you're thinking,
the way that you're exercising or not exercising. And for
most people, the missing link in their health is their
spinal alignment, how well their spine is moving, how their postures,

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how it's functioning, because that affects and negatively affects the
health of the nervous system, which will then go down
to all the other fell's tissues organs in your body.
So basically, you get your spine nice and healthy, it's
going to help everything else to be able to flow
and you feel yourself feel better. So stay tuned. We'll
talk about this morn after the break. All right, guys,

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welcome back to the show. We're going to close out
the week here Maximize Living Radio with doctor Greg O'Neil
talking about getting results. Being results focused with your healthcare
is important, but being focused on the actions that garner
those results is more important. Okay, So someone can go
get blood work done and they see XYZ is wrong.

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You can take medications that change the blood work so
that you don't have to change the lifestyle that caused
the problems with the blood work. And it's crazy. These
things are so simple. And again I was saying earlier,
I was at this career day and talking to kids
about this, and I don't know, I was just I

(33:20):
just kept repeating it, repeating it, repeating. I said, this
symptom is not the problem. It's the fire alarm. So
I put up the picture. It showed a fire in
the kitchen, and it showed the fire alarm next to
the kitchen going off, and I said, what's the problem here,
I said, let me lay out the scene. You're in
your home, the fire alarm, You're in your bed, and

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the fire alarm just starts blaring out. It's so loud,
it's annoying, it's flashing everything like that. Is that good
or bad? And I would just wait. Now, most of
the kids would all say bad or something like that.
The one class that I had, no one spoke like.
They sat there. Now, this was the fourth session that
I did in a row. This again for career Day
that I did, and there was five half hour sessions.

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By the fourth one, it was just this class. I
think they were seventh grade. It's, you know, a little awkward.
No one wanted to speak out. They're nervous about what
their friends are going to think or whatever. And I
was like, is that good or bad that the fire
alarm is going off? And no one spoke, and I
just said, I'll wait, and I said, you guys, you know,
you guys a little quiet whatever. But you even if
you're not going to be a chiropractor, even if it's

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the only time you ever hear me speak in your
entire life, you have to understand this that the fire alarm,
the symptom is not the problem. It can be allowed
and annoying, and in your body that can mean back
pain or neck pain, or stiffness or blood sugar issues
or trouble concentrating or walking into the room and you're
you don't know where you are. These are all precursors

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to different disease processes. Okay, so we have to focus
on what that symptom means. So when the fire alarm
is going off, what is it indicating, Well, where there's smoke,
there's fire, that there's there's a problem. You got to move,
You've got to do something different. So when the fireman
comes to the house. So the next slot I shows
showed the fireman should he go to the fire alarm

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or go to the fire. He's got to go to
the fire and fight that. Get it out. The fire
is out, And now what's the fire alarm going to do?
It's going to turn off. It's going to go away,
just like when you remove interference from your body, when
you start correcting these issues with your lifestyle and your
spine and taking care of yourself over time might not

(35:30):
happen overnight, but guess what, I'm going to start to
feel better. The back pain will go away, the stiffness
will go away. You're going to start to loosen up
eventually over time. I know it's it can be difficult.
You will lose weight. You will. As I'm recording this
right now, I'm focusing on losing a couple pounds for
an upcoming vacation, upcoming trip, and it reminds me. I'm like, ooh,

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it's difficult. Like you might be able to lose the
first three, four or five pounds you you lose that
water weight, and then it gets down in a nitty
gritty and you're down to trying to lose a hat
For me, half pound to one pound a week if
I can. Yeah, it's difficult because it's every day you're
trying to do it. You're trying to do it, you're striving,
and you don't see that scale. Moving can get frustrating.

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But I don't want to focus on the result. I
don't want to focus on the scale. I want to
focus on what I'm doing each day, my next meal,
my next snack, making sure that I'm making the proper
choice so that over time, add it up. Over time,
If I keep doing that washerints and repeat, it's going
to get better. Things are going to improve, and I

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know that. But when you're in the middle of it,
when you're just starting out, can be difficult. And I
was sharing this story earlier. I forget if I even
finished it. It was about the woman who's in her
early sixties, is a nurse, is a runner, and she
was only able. She wasn't able to run for about
two weeks because her back pain was so bad. I
got her to finish the story out. I got her
adjusted the one time. She came back in a couple

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of days later to review her X rays and go
over everything with me, I said, uh, how are you feeling?
And she's just like, I'm amazed how much better I feel.
She's like, I know you told me not to do
too much because I said just take it easy. I
could see she was a go getter with her running
and stuff. I said, just take it easy for a
couple of days. Listen to your body. If you feel
like you can run, just do like a little bit

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of a They call it a wog, not a job,
not a walk, but a wog where you do you
walk a little bit, jog a little bit, walk a
little bit, just kind of ease your body into it
so you're not overdoing it. She's just like, well, the
next day, after you adjust me again, she hadn't ran
in two weeks because of the pain, I ran four miles. Sorry,
I felt great. I'm like that's awesome, Like that's great.

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I mean, and that's the power of chiropractic that when
you get a specific adjustment, you remove interference, you get
the hips in alignment, you get the back in alignment.
Those muscles are gonna calm down. Now people ask me
this a lot. Is it? The muscle, is that, the
joint is this? It's everything? Okay, it's the neuro muscular
skeletal system. The muscular skeletal system, I believe it is

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your most influential system on your entire body. Sorry, your
neuromuscular skeletal system. Because you have your nervous system, you
have the skeletal system which supports all the muscles in
your frame and being standing up erect and then also
your muscular system. Now, did you know that your muscular
system not only is just for like movement and strength,

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but more than just about any other system is going
to influence your metabolic health. Your muscle is an active tissue.
Fat tissue like the fat on your body, kind of
a dead tissue, not really doing anything, it's just sitting there.
But your muscle is active. It burns, it's burning calories.

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That requires calories to burn, and it requires a source
of blood. It just it. It's like the furnace it's
burning off the wood, if you will, the furnace that
burns the wood, that wood is your food. So the
more muscle you have on your body, the higher muscle percentage,
the more efficient your body's going to run. The faster

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you're going to burn fat, as an example, the faster
you're going to trim up, and that's going to influence
your overall metabolic health, your energy levels, your sleep levels.
So that's where getting spinal adjustments helps to get the
spine and proper alignment so the muscles don't have to
work extra. Many of you listening to this, you feel

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like your back's being overworked, your neck is being overworked,
your shoulders are tired, they're stiff. It's because they're doing
extra work than they should be doing throughout the day.
Because you're for many people, their head will jut forward,
so now that your peziest muscles in the back have
to hold on for dear life to pull the head
back into support it in a more of an awkward,

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cumbersome position. As an example, if you were to take
a bowling ball and hold it close to your center
of mass, like pull it close to your chest. You
can hold it for a long time. Take that same
bowling ball and extend your arm out. Try to hold
it with one arm. You're lucky you can hold it
for a minute. Why because you increase the moment arm

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it's called or you have the full rum and the inertia.
You increase the mass by increasing the distance from the
center of mass. So when you increase the distance from
the center of mass, that object will get heavier because
you lose you're losing leverage over it. It's the same
thing with your head and your neck. The further your

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head comes forward, the more that your head will weigh,
and so you can increase the weight of your head
up to fifty pounds of pressure more on your neck.
So as an example, when someone looks straight ahead, their
head weighs about ten to twelve pounds. If you put
your head all the way down like people looking at
a cell phone, their head now weighs sixty pounds. So

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if you put fifty more pounds of pressure on the
base of the neck, what are those muscles going to
have to do while they go into protection mode. They
want to protect your neck, they want to protect the joints.
So those muscles will fire they try to guard that area.
So this is your upper trapeziis and also your levator
scapula where so many people feel tension in their shoulders.

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Those muscles will fire up and they won't let go.
And over time those muscles will dysfunction. It'll become so tight,
so taut, and they'll also deal with muscle knots. The
muscles will not up and people say, I got all
these muscle knots on my shoulders. I'm stressed this and that.
It's because your postures off. You're not sitting properly, you're

(41:41):
not sitting straight, and the spine goes out of alignment.
So as a chiropractor, what we do is we introduce
an adjustment. We introduce proper motion to the base of
the neck, to the upper neck, wherever that person needs that adjustment,
and that's going to help to free things up so
the muscles can actually relax. And when the muscles relax
and the joints can move, guess what, You're not going

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to be in pain. You're gonna move freely. You're gonna
feel more flexible. And when you move freely, when you're
more flexible, that's those neurons the nervous system is going
to feedback to your brain. Signals of health. Signals are
basically happiness. Is that it's proven that when you get adjustments,
cortisol levels, which your stress hormone, goes down, Serotonin levels

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go up. That's your happy more hormone. Testosterone, which is
your motivation hormone, also goes up, so people feel in
general happier, healthier, and more motivated. Who wouldn't want that.
I have a patient who listens to the show, and
she'd be happy for me to share this. Her name's Brenda.
She's been coming to see me just for about three weeks,

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and she said, just yesterday, she said, every time I
leave this, she's like, I'm feeling so much better. It's
like every time I leave your office, I just feel happy.
After I get adjusted. What is that? It's like I
almost feel giddy, like I'm smiling. I just feel happy.
I told her, I'm like, well, one is like you're
in a place that we're caring for you, and you're
you're you know, you're in a healing environment. That's that's one.

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That's a smaller percentage. The main percentage is this is
that when you get adjustments, lowers the cortisol, increase the serotoniny,
increases testosterone. So you feel that people feel that as
a sense of wellness, sense of calm, and for her
a sense of happiness. And that's that's my wish for
so many people is if they only knew, if they

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can only try, go, get adjusted, attempt to do something
different rather than what they're doing now, rather than running
to the same medical doctor, the same specialists, the same drug,
the same medicine cabinet, the same over the counter, over
and over and over again, getting zero to no results,
hurting their body, and then blaming their age, blaming their genetics,

(43:47):
blaming whomever else other than themselves. It takes us looking
in the mirror saying what can I do to help?
And that's what we're here to help. So again, let
its family Chiropractic doctor Greg O'Neill, guys, I hope you
have a great week. Signing off here, I just urge
you give us a call. The hardest thing to do
for so many people is making that first apployment, so
I urge you to do it. Have a great day,