October 2, 2024 • 29 mins
Learning about Functional Medicine
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Speaker 3 (00:55):
Hey, good morning, Welcome to another ASC expert show where
we bring you the top experts in the field of legal, health,
financial and home improvement. This is the first Wednesday of
the month we have This is one of the few
shows that we provide on a national basis. Only because
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our expert is so good at what he does and
it has helped so many people. And I just said,
you know what, insin just you doing the Georgia area.
Your show, a show like yours should be done on
a national basis, and we just really don't do that
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with anybody. We're more localized by a city or state.
But this doctor has got such an amazing story. He's
an author, his wife is a doctor, and I want
to welcome to I'm telling you I am such a
huge fan of doctor Elder Taylor. Good morning, doctor Taylor. Hello,
(02:04):
Hello Steve. Hey, how are you doing. I'm doing. You
know what's amazing is we do about sixty shows a
month and your show. Because I'm such a big fan,
I probably take up half the show just telling you
people how much I love doing this show with you.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Oh yeah, well, I mean it's a great opportunity for me.
I appreciate the, uh, the opportunity as a It's another
venue to try and help, you know, educate patients and
just do more of what I like. You know, I
like doing. Uh. This way of practicing medicine has been
you know, very beneficial for me, learning you know, how
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to how to maintain my health, but also to see
the improvements in my patients. And and it's that kind
of gratification that you want from whatever you're doing in life.
You want to feel like you're making a difference. So
there's just another opportunity to help make a difference for
someone else.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Hey, doctor Tad is amazing because the patients you see, yes,
a hugely, patients that all the other doctors had given
up on. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, well you know because and we'll talk about this,
you know more as we go along, because hey, we
are we are educated in how to identify and treat diseases,
and diseases have very specific criteria. For you to have
heart disease, you have to have certain numbers and all this,
you know. So when you get to that point, wow, man,
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they can really you know, kick into high gear, put
you in the hospital, you know, get you do the
cath exam and all that stuff. But that takes time
for you to reach that point. But there's a whole
lot of space in between being healthy and having disease.
And the problem is is that you know, you you
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keep going to doctors during that time period before you
reach disease, and because you haven't reached that point. They
don't know what to do. So that's where functional medicine
or longevity medicine or whatever, that's where that comes in,
is that, hey, we need to find this Winnes's in
the dysfunctional stage, not in the disease stage. So that's
why the doctors throw up their hands because they're not
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meeting any of their criteria. But there's other criteria about
functional health that you can identify, and you can intervene
a lot sooner than waiting until you meet some criteria
that qualifies you for a disease.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Doctor Taylor, you went to one of the finance medical schools.
Did your internship and residency at one of the finest hospitals.
I got a question I cannot believe I've never asked
you before. So doctor Taylor's wife is also an MD. Yeah,
what did and you were a very well known obigen doctor.
(04:59):
And what did your wife say when you told her
that you basically wanted to change your practice? Well?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
It really you know, you got to understand how my homeworks.
I don't make any independent decisions. Okay, So it was
I didn't tell my wife what we were going to do.
We decided what we were going to do. And the
reason why is the reason why I changed is because
my wife was having dysfunction in her hormones and I
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was treating her like she had a disease. And she
didn't buy you know, birketrol, peels, all this kind of stuff.
She was really having dysfunction. So it's actually a patient
who came in and was asking me about bioidentical hormones.
So I listened to a tape. Actually my wife listened
to this tape explaining this. Now, I went through a
whole Objayan residency, and I'm going to tell you I
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didn't understand female hormones after four years of doing YN
and that sounds ridiculous. And I'm not saying anything about emory.
But we were taught how to treat, how to treat diseases, okay,
and so we didn't. We weren't taught how harmones function.
We're like, hey, if they have this, you do this.
So anyway, so how did I make that decision? Well,
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I learned, or we learned. Me and my wife learned
how to treat dysfunction in hormones. And you do that
by testing hermones through saliva, which is something I hadn't
even heard of. But you have to test harmones through saliva.
And I always wondered in my residency, why didn't we
test hormone levels because the blood didn't tell you anything.
And so that was like an AHA moment for me.
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It's like, and it's a lot of things that I
didn't learn in my residency that can help people. And
now I'm going to tell you I probably practice five
percent of what I learned in medical school in my
residency because I'm not interested in treating disease anymore. I'm
interested in treating dysfunction and trying to And then this
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is the new thing that we're talking about, is that
I've been trying to get you from dysfunction and imbalance
to balance. What longevity is or increasing your health span
is taking you from balance to optimize to thriving. Okay,
so it's great. And I realized this when I took
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this class, and we'll talk about this, is that I've
been spending fifteen years getting people from dysfunction to function
and balance. But now people are interested in thriving, you know,
And I'll give you the example is that Tom Brady,
even though I hate him because I live in Atlanta,
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he's with the Patrios, was with the Patriots. How did
he thrive up until age forty five? Of it is lifestyle.
It's not like he was born with a quarterback genie
and to live. He learned how to thrive and what
it was. It was his lifestyle, what he ate, how
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he did all of that. So that is what we
want to do now. Is that a seventy year old
now is not a seventy year old thirty years ago. Okay,
these seventy year olds want to play pickleball and ballroom
dance and go travel and all of that stuff. And
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forty fifty sixty years ago, when you were seventy, you
were thought to be in a rocking chair and a wheelchair.
And that's just how life was. That's how my parents'
life was, last ten years of their life. They just slowly,
you know, steadily declined. Well that's not what people want anymore.
And so how do you change your lifestyle to impact
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your lifespan? And I know I'm going on and on
because I'm kind of excited, but the key is you
don't want to live to be one hundred, but only
be healthy until you're sixty, you'd rather live to eighty
or ninety and be healthy until you're seventy nine and
a half or eighty nine and a half. That's what
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you're really looking for is forever, how long I live?
How can I stay as healthy and thriving for as
long as possible? Because nobody wants to suffer and die.
We all know we have to die, but do we
all have to suffer and die? So that's the change
we want to make is how can we thrive and
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live our best life for as long as possible. And
it's not about taking a bunch of drugs, it's not
about doing some kind of you know, supernatural diet plan
or whatever. It's some simple things that you can do.
And the key is is that you can actually measure
your biologic age. You know, so you may be sixty
but your body is seventy, or you could be sixty
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and your body is forty five or fifty, and there's
ways to measure that. But you're not going to get
that at a tradition doc because they're waiting until you
have disease. So we're trying to figure out how can
we maintain that health as long as possible. So I'm
going to stop and let you ask.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Well, you know, it's amazing they were talking about this
today because last night this is somebody right in your backyard.
I saw Jimmy Carter and they were bragging about how
he's one hundred years old. Yeah, and I got to
tell you, he looked so decrepit. Yeah, he looked like
he was so out of it. Yeah. And there was
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a doctor that came on and said, you know what,
it doesn't have to be that way. And it talked
about exercise and the diet was mostly vegetables and fruits.
But god, when I saw Jimmy Carter, I don't know
if that's called living or not doctor Taylor.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Technically, And that's what and that's that's that's a great example. Yeah,
it's just how how long do you want to live
and how long can you maintain healthy through that whole thing?
And you know, we've always said health is wealth, And yeah,
you can have you can be the former president, you
can have a billion dollars, but if you don't have health,
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you're really you know, it's poor. Poor health leads to
poor everything. You know, you don't you have poor insight,
you have poor uh you know ability to handle your finances.
And really aging is and this is a you know,
this is something that people can relate to too. Really,
aging is your ability to handle a changing environment. Okay,
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is that when you're young, you have a lot of resiliency.
You know these athletes, you know, a twenty year old athlete,
they damage their knee. After a year, Wow, they're right
back to normal. A forty year old damages knee into
the end of the career because he's not able to
adjust to that change. Okay, So just think about COVID
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who died In COVID people who were unable to adjust
to that change in the environment and their immune system
could build a defense against the COVID virus. It was
really young, really old, really sick people who had lost
their ability to change and defend themselves against the environment.
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I always say that the body wants to live even
though you keep trying to kill it. You kill it
with what you're exposed to. You kill it. You know,
how you eat, how you sleep. You keep trying to
kill your body, and it's keeps trying to defend you.
So if you could work in concert with your body,
your body wants to live. So but if you could
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provided the things to help maintain its ability to live.
Then you've got the key to help is that that
can you maintain your body's resiliency to fight against all
of the things in your environment that are trying to
damage it and which are man made and made. I mean,
you know, in the wild, what are you trying to do?
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You're trying to keep from getting eaten by your predator.
You have to be able to adjust to the environment. Well,
our predator is the chemicals that we're exposed to. Our
predator is the stress that we're exposed to. Our predator
is the lack of sleep that we don't get, the
how we push ourselves, you know, to the brink of
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exhaustion on every day and don't give right to sell
times to recover. So those are the predators that we
have to defend against. And there's ways to do it,
and there's ways to see, Hey, how damaged am I?
How many bites out of me that the predator take,
you know, from me? And how do I repair those?
So you can be very specific to each person, you know,
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so you don't treat a twenty five year old like
you treat a seven five year old because their resilience
and their ability to bounce back are totally different.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
You know, I noticed that, you know, we're getting ready
to have an election, and I look at President Trump.
He's just a little bit younger than Biden. But look
at the difference. I mean, the way they walked, the
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way they talked, the way I mean, it's just such
a big difference. And I know you're taking a course now,
a longevity course, and it's just amazing because you know,
when we first started it was we were talking about
anti aging, and you've developed a lot of different treatments
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that you offer your patients, and people are so afraid
of getting old. And in fact, one of the questions
I've noticed because of my age, is you ever think
about suicide? I never remember seeing that before. Yeah. It's
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one of its mindset, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Oh, Oh, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Most of it is how you think about getting old.
If you think that you're going to end up in
a wheelchair and be well that's your you're probably right.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
If you think, hey, look I'm going to do whatever
I can to maintain my health, and your mindset makes
you notice things that get you toward that goal. If
your goal is being healthy. You will notice things that
talk about health.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
If you are thinking, oh, I'm going to be just
like my parents and I'm just gonna you know, wither
away and die and you know, and and suffer and die, well, yeah,
you're that's probably what you're going to do because you
got to You're going to notice. Your brain is going
to notice those things and it's going to grab hold
of those ideas and your brain can make things come true,
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you know, And that's a you know, I'm not I
don't want to get into metaphysical type stuff, but it
definitely is your mindset. And you talk about I'm taking
a course, I'm going to tell you, uh, what people
are worried about is losing their mental capacity. And everybody's
worried about cancer. Okay, so but one thing, you know,
(16:31):
let's talk about mental capacity and why am I taking
a course because I'm going to tell you the best
things to keep your brain functioning is to keep learning.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
You know.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
It's to keep learning, is to keep growing, keep doing something,
learn how to guard and learn the new language, take
a new course whatever. So you know, my mother had dementia,
so I'm concerned about that. You know, and two of
her siblings had it. So I'm doing everything I can
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to keep my brain healthy, you know.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
So that hereditary doctor Taylor.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Now there are genes that will increase your susceptibility to
be awesome. There's a gene called apo E four. If
you have one of those genes, you have a seven
percent chance of having early on set diabetes. I mean,
I'm sorry, Alzheimer's. You have a twenty five percent chance
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of having late on set, which means like seventy five
and older.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
But here's the great.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Thing about that gene. It doesn't mean oh yes, you're
gonna have Alzheimer's. That gene can be turned on or
turned off. What turns that gene on is saturated fats.
So that particular person who has that apo E four
gene needs to avoid saturated fats. Now, someone who doesn't
have that gene, saturated fats probably not going to do
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anything for them. So that's what we can talk about
personalized medicine. What are you susceptible to? How do you
turn that gene on and off? Your genes are not predestined.
There's all this information on there, and you can turn
genes on and you can turn genes off. And there's
certain lifestyle practices that will turn certain genes on, and
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there's certain lifestyle practices that'll turn certain genes off. So
you can have a more personal lifestyle lifestyle plan instead
of thinking that every diet is for you or every
supplement is for you. Is what are you susceptible to?
And how can we decrease the chances of that gene
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being turned on? So that's what we're talking about, is
how can we make all this health information mean more
to a certain individual. Because there's health information all over
the internet and bookstores and whatever, But what does it
mean to you? What are you more likely to be
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susceptible to? And how do you you construct your lifestyle
to prevent that? Are to delay it for as long
as possible. So you know, that's the key. So even
something like a gene, because when I was in at
Emory and at Grady, which is the public hospital here,
we saw sickle cell patients and that was back then,
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it was like it's predetermined they're going to live a
miserable life and die young. Well, you can learn how
to turn that gene on and off, and now people
will sickle sell are living much longer. It's still an issue,
but they're living much longer now. So it's all about, Hey,
even if I have a gene that is actually causing
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a disease, there's a way to delay the onset of
the full expression of that gene. And you just need
to know what that gene is and what facilitates it
being expressed and not being expressed.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
You know, first of all, what is the difference between say,
lifespan and health span?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Yeah, okay, so lifespan is what's on your funeral program
that nineteen thirty six to twenty twenty four. That's lifespan
I was born, I died, That's what's on your birth
and death certificate. Your health span is how long were
you healthy during that lifespan? Okay, so that's what I
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was saying. Do you want to live to be one
hundred but be sick? Since you were seventy so now
you got thirty years of life that you're not going
to be thriving, You're going to be managing a disease.
Are would you rather live to ninety which is still
a great life, but you are healthy and playing pick
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aball till you were eighty nine and a half you know,
you just you know, just laid down one day and
didn't wake up to go play pickleball. That's kind of that.
That's kind of my ideal, and that's what that's my mindset.
So that's what I'm focused on. And so how did
I see this longevity class because I'm I'm focused on
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it and I don't I don't know if it's because
Alexa is listening to everything that I say and all
of a sudden it popped up in my Facebook feed
or whatever, but I.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Really do believe you know, Okay, I've got a heavy
question for you. Because of my age and I am
just turned seventy, I will see people that I went
to school with same age. Yeah, but there the way
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they move is a lot slower than say, the way
I move. They're just their oral function the speaking is slower. Yeah,
what may what makes now? I know that growing up
I worked out every day up until I was maybe
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mid fifties, and really watch you what I ate? Does
that have anything to do with I mean, why is
there such a difference in some people's age.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Well, this is what I will tell you. If you
don't use it, you'll lose it. Okay, Yeah, if you
if you don't move, you're going to lose your ability
to move. Okay, if you you know, whatever you don't do,
you're going to lose it.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
But whatever you.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Do more of So, so it's a it's a it's
talking about you know, I'd love to talk about stress.
But what it says is that Okay, so if you
do a particular workout or whatever. So what you do
is you work out, you have to give your body
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time to recover. But then when you go back and
work out again, you're a little bit stronger. Okay, right,
And so you go do it again, you get a
little bit stronger. So the body needs a little bit
of stress so that it can remain strong or even
get stronger. Okay, So you working out, it allows you
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to be more resilient to the physical stress of lifting weights.
So but if you stop, your resiliency goes down. So
if you slow down your movement or or your movement
against the slow Hey, look I just turned sixty four.
I noticed that I was becoming less flexible. Well then
I went and joined the gym and said, look, I
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want to remain flexible and I want to be able
to be mobile for most of my life. Okay, so
we started doing exercise. Is to increase my flexibility and
increase my mobility, and he measures it and it's increasing. Okay,
so that's.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
What you have to do.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
So but most people, hey, I'm moving slower. What do
they do? They stop moving? They move less? So then
what happens will be slower and what do they do?
They move less? Well, when I started moving slower, I said, look,
I got to move more so that my body will
do it. So that's the thing. So if it's according
to which direction do you want to go, you've got
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to stress your body. You got to teach it how
to be resilient so that it can fight all of
the external forces. Because you're right, the external forces are
trying to slow you down because they are really damaging
the systems in your body. So you've got to reinforce
those with how you move, how you eat. And there's
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certain things like peptads. I'll tell you know now you
see the importance are how strong the effect peptads can
be because you're on the zipic, which is a peptad.
It's just a peptad and it can make all of
those changes in your body and how you think how
you look. Well, there's peptads that do all kinds of
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things that help your body to communicate it to the
different systems better. So that's a part of longevity too,
is how can I introduce these pep pads which are
totally naturally just amino acids, and it can help me
to be more resilient and to fight off these predators
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that are attacking me every day because your body can
do it if you will allow it to communicate and
to tell the body how it can have a strategy
to fight all these things. But when you lose that
ability to communicate that the heart, to communicate with the
brain and communicate with the gut, so all of these
things can be in sync to help you to adjust
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to the stress, then you gotta have a problem. So so,
but anyway, I think I've talked more on this on
this because I guess because it's something new that I'm learning,
I'm more excited and passionate about it. But I really
you know, another thing I'll say, Steve, I know we're
running out of time, is that my practice has aged
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with me. You know, when my wife was having hardmonal problems,
I focused on that in the middle part of my life,
I was stressed and I focused on that. Now I'm
sixty four, I'm trying to figure out, Hey, how can
I keep doing this?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
You know?
Speaker 4 (26:17):
So a lot of these things that I'm presenting to you,
they really have a selfish undertone. I'm trying to, you know,
do something to help me or my wife or whatever.
Then I say, well, what the heck, I'll just tell
you about it too. So I wish I was more altruistic,
but a lot of it is selfish desires.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
So this is like your diet and your garden you've got.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Yeah, yeah, all of that is like how can I
maintain my health? How can I keep doing what I
like doing for as long as possible?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Well, doctor Taylor gut, I just I cannot tell you
how blessedful we are to have you as are. That's
why we've put this on a national basis, and we
will be replaying this show in two weeks. So doctor
Taylor is actually with us twice a month. Tell people
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how they can reach you. And it doesn't matter what
city or state that you're in, because you do telemedicine.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Yeah, and I'm really so I'll tell you I'm in
this course, but I'm really trying to learn how I
can make this available by virtual apartments. But anyway, you
can contact me at my website is Taylor Medical Group
dot net and you can email me there. There's a
lot of information there. And as I go through this course,
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I'm really going to try and have it where it's
a membership where hey, we go through this together, because
longevity is a lifelong thing. So it's something that to
the environment's going to constantly change over the next ten
twenty years and we have to be resilient for that.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Doctor Tedge also tell you've written several books. What are
those books?
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Yeah, are your hormones making you sick? That's all about
our journey and understanding hormones. And then the other one
is the stress connection and how stress is connected to
every system in your body. And you'll see in this
longevity course they talk about stress. And so those are
the two books we've written. And you know that pret
if you understand those two things, you are way ahead
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in understanding how to improve your Help.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Well, doctor Taylor, who's with us first Wednesday of the
month at ten o'clock Eastern time. Doctor Taylor, thank you
so much. And we'll see you again soon.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
All right, thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
That's doctor Eldred Taylor, amazing MD, and he's with us
again every month. We're going to take a sharp break
and we'll be right back.
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your hosts, Spevo and Sophia.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Hey, good morning, Welcome to another ASC expert show where
we bring you the top experts in the field of legal, health,
financial and home improvement. This is the first Wednesday of
the month we have This is one of the few
shows that we provide on a national basis. Only because
(01:17):
our expert is so good at what he does and
it has helped so many people. And I just said,
you know what, insin just you doing the Georgia area.
Your show, a show like yours should be done on
a national basis, and we just really don't do that
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with anybody. We're more localized by a city or state.
But this doctor has got such an amazing story. He's
an author, his wife is a doctor, and I want
to welcome to I'm telling you I am such a
huge fan of doctor Elder Taylor. Good morning, doctor Taylor. Hello,
(02:04):
Hello Steve. Hey, how are you doing. I'm doing. You
know what's amazing is we do about sixty shows a
month and your show. Because I'm such a big fan,
I probably take up half the show just telling you
people how much I love doing this show with you.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Oh yeah, well, I mean it's a great opportunity for me.
I appreciate the, uh, the opportunity as a It's another
venue to try and help, you know, educate patients and
just do more of what I like. You know, I
like doing. Uh. This way of practicing medicine has been
you know, very beneficial for me, learning you know, how
(02:46):
to how to maintain my health, but also to see
the improvements in my patients. And and it's that kind
of gratification that you want from whatever you're doing in life.
You want to feel like you're making a difference. So
there's just another opportunity to help make a difference for
someone else.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Hey, doctor Tad is amazing because the patients you see, yes,
a hugely, patients that all the other doctors had given
up on. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, well you know because and we'll talk about this,
you know more as we go along, because hey, we
are we are educated in how to identify and treat diseases,
and diseases have very specific criteria. For you to have
heart disease, you have to have certain numbers and all this,
you know. So when you get to that point, wow, man,
(03:39):
they can really you know, kick into high gear, put
you in the hospital, you know, get you do the
cath exam and all that stuff. But that takes time
for you to reach that point. But there's a whole
lot of space in between being healthy and having disease.
And the problem is is that you know, you you
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keep going to doctors during that time period before you
reach disease, and because you haven't reached that point. They
don't know what to do. So that's where functional medicine
or longevity medicine or whatever, that's where that comes in,
is that, hey, we need to find this Winnes's in
the dysfunctional stage, not in the disease stage. So that's
why the doctors throw up their hands because they're not
(04:20):
meeting any of their criteria. But there's other criteria about
functional health that you can identify, and you can intervene
a lot sooner than waiting until you meet some criteria
that qualifies you for a disease.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Doctor Taylor, you went to one of the finance medical schools.
Did your internship and residency at one of the finest hospitals.
I got a question I cannot believe I've never asked
you before. So doctor Taylor's wife is also an MD. Yeah,
what did and you were a very well known obigen doctor.
(04:59):
And what did your wife say when you told her
that you basically wanted to change your practice? Well?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
It really you know, you got to understand how my homeworks.
I don't make any independent decisions. Okay, So it was
I didn't tell my wife what we were going to do.
We decided what we were going to do. And the
reason why is the reason why I changed is because
my wife was having dysfunction in her hormones and I
(05:33):
was treating her like she had a disease. And she
didn't buy you know, birketrol, peels, all this kind of stuff.
She was really having dysfunction. So it's actually a patient
who came in and was asking me about bioidentical hormones.
So I listened to a tape. Actually my wife listened
to this tape explaining this. Now, I went through a
whole Objayan residency, and I'm going to tell you I
(05:55):
didn't understand female hormones after four years of doing YN
and that sounds ridiculous. And I'm not saying anything about emory.
But we were taught how to treat, how to treat diseases, okay,
and so we didn't. We weren't taught how harmones function.
We're like, hey, if they have this, you do this.
So anyway, so how did I make that decision? Well,
(06:18):
I learned, or we learned. Me and my wife learned
how to treat dysfunction in hormones. And you do that
by testing hermones through saliva, which is something I hadn't
even heard of. But you have to test harmones through saliva.
And I always wondered in my residency, why didn't we
test hormone levels because the blood didn't tell you anything.
And so that was like an AHA moment for me.
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It's like, and it's a lot of things that I
didn't learn in my residency that can help people. And
now I'm going to tell you I probably practice five
percent of what I learned in medical school in my
residency because I'm not interested in treating disease anymore. I'm
interested in treating dysfunction and trying to And then this
(07:03):
is the new thing that we're talking about, is that
I've been trying to get you from dysfunction and imbalance
to balance. What longevity is or increasing your health span
is taking you from balance to optimize to thriving. Okay,
so it's great. And I realized this when I took
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this class, and we'll talk about this, is that I've
been spending fifteen years getting people from dysfunction to function
and balance. But now people are interested in thriving, you know,
And I'll give you the example is that Tom Brady,
even though I hate him because I live in Atlanta,
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he's with the Patrios, was with the Patriots. How did
he thrive up until age forty five? Of it is lifestyle.
It's not like he was born with a quarterback genie
and to live. He learned how to thrive and what
it was. It was his lifestyle, what he ate, how
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he did all of that. So that is what we
want to do now. Is that a seventy year old
now is not a seventy year old thirty years ago. Okay,
these seventy year olds want to play pickleball and ballroom
dance and go travel and all of that stuff. And
(08:27):
forty fifty sixty years ago, when you were seventy, you
were thought to be in a rocking chair and a wheelchair.
And that's just how life was. That's how my parents'
life was, last ten years of their life. They just slowly,
you know, steadily declined. Well that's not what people want anymore.
And so how do you change your lifestyle to impact
(08:49):
your lifespan? And I know I'm going on and on
because I'm kind of excited, but the key is you
don't want to live to be one hundred, but only
be healthy until you're sixty, you'd rather live to eighty
or ninety and be healthy until you're seventy nine and
a half or eighty nine and a half. That's what
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you're really looking for is forever, how long I live?
How can I stay as healthy and thriving for as
long as possible? Because nobody wants to suffer and die.
We all know we have to die, but do we
all have to suffer and die? So that's the change
we want to make is how can we thrive and
(09:31):
live our best life for as long as possible. And
it's not about taking a bunch of drugs, it's not
about doing some kind of you know, supernatural diet plan
or whatever. It's some simple things that you can do.
And the key is is that you can actually measure
your biologic age. You know, so you may be sixty
but your body is seventy, or you could be sixty
(09:53):
and your body is forty five or fifty, and there's
ways to measure that. But you're not going to get
that at a tradition doc because they're waiting until you
have disease. So we're trying to figure out how can
we maintain that health as long as possible. So I'm
going to stop and let you ask.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Well, you know, it's amazing they were talking about this
today because last night this is somebody right in your backyard.
I saw Jimmy Carter and they were bragging about how
he's one hundred years old. Yeah, and I got to
tell you, he looked so decrepit. Yeah, he looked like
he was so out of it. Yeah. And there was
(10:33):
a doctor that came on and said, you know what,
it doesn't have to be that way. And it talked
about exercise and the diet was mostly vegetables and fruits.
But god, when I saw Jimmy Carter, I don't know
if that's called living or not doctor Taylor.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Technically, And that's what and that's that's that's a great example. Yeah,
it's just how how long do you want to live
and how long can you maintain healthy through that whole thing?
And you know, we've always said health is wealth, And yeah,
you can have you can be the former president, you
can have a billion dollars, but if you don't have health,
(11:16):
you're really you know, it's poor. Poor health leads to
poor everything. You know, you don't you have poor insight,
you have poor uh you know ability to handle your finances.
And really aging is and this is a you know,
this is something that people can relate to too. Really,
aging is your ability to handle a changing environment. Okay,
(11:41):
is that when you're young, you have a lot of resiliency.
You know these athletes, you know, a twenty year old athlete,
they damage their knee. After a year, Wow, they're right
back to normal. A forty year old damages knee into
the end of the career because he's not able to
adjust to that change. Okay, So just think about COVID
(12:06):
who died In COVID people who were unable to adjust
to that change in the environment and their immune system
could build a defense against the COVID virus. It was
really young, really old, really sick people who had lost
their ability to change and defend themselves against the environment.
(12:28):
I always say that the body wants to live even
though you keep trying to kill it. You kill it
with what you're exposed to. You kill it. You know,
how you eat, how you sleep. You keep trying to
kill your body, and it's keeps trying to defend you.
So if you could work in concert with your body,
your body wants to live. So but if you could
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provided the things to help maintain its ability to live.
Then you've got the key to help is that that
can you maintain your body's resiliency to fight against all
of the things in your environment that are trying to
damage it and which are man made and made. I mean,
you know, in the wild, what are you trying to do?
(13:12):
You're trying to keep from getting eaten by your predator.
You have to be able to adjust to the environment. Well,
our predator is the chemicals that we're exposed to. Our
predator is the stress that we're exposed to. Our predator
is the lack of sleep that we don't get, the
how we push ourselves, you know, to the brink of
(13:33):
exhaustion on every day and don't give right to sell
times to recover. So those are the predators that we
have to defend against. And there's ways to do it,
and there's ways to see, Hey, how damaged am I?
How many bites out of me that the predator take,
you know, from me? And how do I repair those?
So you can be very specific to each person, you know,
(13:56):
so you don't treat a twenty five year old like
you treat a seven five year old because their resilience
and their ability to bounce back are totally different.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
You know, I noticed that, you know, we're getting ready
to have an election, and I look at President Trump.
He's just a little bit younger than Biden. But look
at the difference. I mean, the way they walked, the
(14:29):
way they talked, the way I mean, it's just such
a big difference. And I know you're taking a course now,
a longevity course, and it's just amazing because you know,
when we first started it was we were talking about
anti aging, and you've developed a lot of different treatments
(14:52):
that you offer your patients, and people are so afraid
of getting old. And in fact, one of the questions
I've noticed because of my age, is you ever think
about suicide? I never remember seeing that before. Yeah. It's
(15:14):
one of its mindset, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Oh, Oh, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Most of it is how you think about getting old.
If you think that you're going to end up in
a wheelchair and be well that's your you're probably right.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
If you think, hey, look I'm going to do whatever
I can to maintain my health, and your mindset makes
you notice things that get you toward that goal. If
your goal is being healthy. You will notice things that
talk about health.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
If you are thinking, oh, I'm going to be just
like my parents and I'm just gonna you know, wither
away and die and you know, and and suffer and die, well, yeah,
you're that's probably what you're going to do because you
got to You're going to notice. Your brain is going
to notice those things and it's going to grab hold
of those ideas and your brain can make things come true,
(16:10):
you know, And that's a you know, I'm not I
don't want to get into metaphysical type stuff, but it
definitely is your mindset. And you talk about I'm taking
a course, I'm going to tell you, uh, what people
are worried about is losing their mental capacity. And everybody's
worried about cancer. Okay, so but one thing, you know,
(16:31):
let's talk about mental capacity and why am I taking
a course because I'm going to tell you the best
things to keep your brain functioning is to keep learning.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
You know.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
It's to keep learning, is to keep growing, keep doing something,
learn how to guard and learn the new language, take
a new course whatever. So you know, my mother had dementia,
so I'm concerned about that. You know, and two of
her siblings had it. So I'm doing everything I can
(17:01):
to keep my brain healthy, you know.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
So that hereditary doctor Taylor.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Now there are genes that will increase your susceptibility to
be awesome. There's a gene called apo E four. If
you have one of those genes, you have a seven
percent chance of having early on set diabetes. I mean,
I'm sorry, Alzheimer's. You have a twenty five percent chance
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of having late on set, which means like seventy five
and older.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
But here's the great.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Thing about that gene. It doesn't mean oh yes, you're
gonna have Alzheimer's. That gene can be turned on or
turned off. What turns that gene on is saturated fats.
So that particular person who has that apo E four
gene needs to avoid saturated fats. Now, someone who doesn't
have that gene, saturated fats probably not going to do
(17:55):
anything for them. So that's what we can talk about
personalized medicine. What are you susceptible to? How do you
turn that gene on and off? Your genes are not predestined.
There's all this information on there, and you can turn
genes on and you can turn genes off. And there's
certain lifestyle practices that will turn certain genes on, and
(18:17):
there's certain lifestyle practices that'll turn certain genes off. So
you can have a more personal lifestyle lifestyle plan instead
of thinking that every diet is for you or every
supplement is for you. Is what are you susceptible to?
And how can we decrease the chances of that gene
(18:37):
being turned on? So that's what we're talking about, is
how can we make all this health information mean more
to a certain individual. Because there's health information all over
the internet and bookstores and whatever, But what does it
mean to you? What are you more likely to be
(18:58):
susceptible to? And how do you you construct your lifestyle
to prevent that? Are to delay it for as long
as possible. So you know, that's the key. So even
something like a gene, because when I was in at
Emory and at Grady, which is the public hospital here,
we saw sickle cell patients and that was back then,
(19:20):
it was like it's predetermined they're going to live a
miserable life and die young. Well, you can learn how
to turn that gene on and off, and now people
will sickle sell are living much longer. It's still an issue,
but they're living much longer now. So it's all about, Hey,
even if I have a gene that is actually causing
(19:44):
a disease, there's a way to delay the onset of
the full expression of that gene. And you just need
to know what that gene is and what facilitates it
being expressed and not being expressed.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
You know, first of all, what is the difference between say,
lifespan and health span?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Yeah, okay, so lifespan is what's on your funeral program
that nineteen thirty six to twenty twenty four. That's lifespan
I was born, I died, That's what's on your birth
and death certificate. Your health span is how long were
you healthy during that lifespan? Okay, so that's what I
(20:29):
was saying. Do you want to live to be one
hundred but be sick? Since you were seventy so now
you got thirty years of life that you're not going
to be thriving, You're going to be managing a disease.
Are would you rather live to ninety which is still
a great life, but you are healthy and playing pick
(20:51):
aball till you were eighty nine and a half you know,
you just you know, just laid down one day and
didn't wake up to go play pickleball. That's kind of that.
That's kind of my ideal, and that's what that's my mindset.
So that's what I'm focused on. And so how did
I see this longevity class because I'm I'm focused on
(21:14):
it and I don't I don't know if it's because
Alexa is listening to everything that I say and all
of a sudden it popped up in my Facebook feed
or whatever, but I.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Really do believe you know, Okay, I've got a heavy
question for you. Because of my age and I am
just turned seventy, I will see people that I went
to school with same age. Yeah, but there the way
(21:44):
they move is a lot slower than say, the way
I move. They're just their oral function the speaking is slower. Yeah,
what may what makes now? I know that growing up
I worked out every day up until I was maybe
(22:06):
mid fifties, and really watch you what I ate? Does
that have anything to do with I mean, why is
there such a difference in some people's age.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Well, this is what I will tell you. If you
don't use it, you'll lose it. Okay, Yeah, if you
if you don't move, you're going to lose your ability
to move. Okay, if you you know, whatever you don't do,
you're going to lose it.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
But whatever you.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Do more of So, so it's a it's a it's
talking about you know, I'd love to talk about stress.
But what it says is that Okay, so if you
do a particular workout or whatever. So what you do
is you work out, you have to give your body
(22:52):
time to recover. But then when you go back and
work out again, you're a little bit stronger. Okay, right,
And so you go do it again, you get a
little bit stronger. So the body needs a little bit
of stress so that it can remain strong or even
get stronger. Okay, So you working out, it allows you
(23:14):
to be more resilient to the physical stress of lifting weights.
So but if you stop, your resiliency goes down. So
if you slow down your movement or or your movement
against the slow Hey, look I just turned sixty four.
I noticed that I was becoming less flexible. Well then
I went and joined the gym and said, look, I
(23:35):
want to remain flexible and I want to be able
to be mobile for most of my life. Okay, so
we started doing exercise. Is to increase my flexibility and
increase my mobility, and he measures it and it's increasing. Okay,
so that's.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
What you have to do.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
So but most people, hey, I'm moving slower. What do
they do? They stop moving? They move less? So then
what happens will be slower and what do they do?
They move less? Well, when I started moving slower, I said, look,
I got to move more so that my body will
do it. So that's the thing. So if it's according
to which direction do you want to go, you've got
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to stress your body. You got to teach it how
to be resilient so that it can fight all of
the external forces. Because you're right, the external forces are
trying to slow you down because they are really damaging
the systems in your body. So you've got to reinforce
those with how you move, how you eat. And there's
(24:35):
certain things like peptads. I'll tell you know now you
see the importance are how strong the effect peptads can
be because you're on the zipic, which is a peptad.
It's just a peptad and it can make all of
those changes in your body and how you think how
you look. Well, there's peptads that do all kinds of
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things that help your body to communicate it to the
different systems better. So that's a part of longevity too,
is how can I introduce these pep pads which are
totally naturally just amino acids, and it can help me
to be more resilient and to fight off these predators
(25:18):
that are attacking me every day because your body can
do it if you will allow it to communicate and
to tell the body how it can have a strategy
to fight all these things. But when you lose that
ability to communicate that the heart, to communicate with the
brain and communicate with the gut, so all of these
things can be in sync to help you to adjust
(25:41):
to the stress, then you gotta have a problem. So so,
but anyway, I think I've talked more on this on
this because I guess because it's something new that I'm learning,
I'm more excited and passionate about it. But I really
you know, another thing I'll say, Steve, I know we're
running out of time, is that my practice has aged
(26:02):
with me. You know, when my wife was having hardmonal problems,
I focused on that in the middle part of my life,
I was stressed and I focused on that. Now I'm
sixty four, I'm trying to figure out, Hey, how can
I keep doing this?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
You know?
Speaker 4 (26:17):
So a lot of these things that I'm presenting to you,
they really have a selfish undertone. I'm trying to, you know,
do something to help me or my wife or whatever.
Then I say, well, what the heck, I'll just tell
you about it too. So I wish I was more altruistic,
but a lot of it is selfish desires.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
So this is like your diet and your garden you've got.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Yeah, yeah, all of that is like how can I
maintain my health? How can I keep doing what I
like doing for as long as possible?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Well, doctor Taylor gut, I just I cannot tell you
how blessedful we are to have you as are. That's
why we've put this on a national basis, and we
will be replaying this show in two weeks. So doctor
Taylor is actually with us twice a month. Tell people
(27:14):
how they can reach you. And it doesn't matter what
city or state that you're in, because you do telemedicine.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Yeah, and I'm really so I'll tell you I'm in
this course, but I'm really trying to learn how I
can make this available by virtual apartments. But anyway, you
can contact me at my website is Taylor Medical Group
dot net and you can email me there. There's a
lot of information there. And as I go through this course,
(27:42):
I'm really going to try and have it where it's
a membership where hey, we go through this together, because
longevity is a lifelong thing. So it's something that to
the environment's going to constantly change over the next ten
twenty years and we have to be resilient for that.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Doctor Tedge also tell you've written several books. What are
those books?
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Yeah, are your hormones making you sick? That's all about
our journey and understanding hormones. And then the other one
is the stress connection and how stress is connected to
every system in your body. And you'll see in this
longevity course they talk about stress. And so those are
the two books we've written. And you know that pret
if you understand those two things, you are way ahead
(28:26):
in understanding how to improve your Help.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Well, doctor Taylor, who's with us first Wednesday of the
month at ten o'clock Eastern time. Doctor Taylor, thank you
so much. And we'll see you again soon.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
All right, thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
That's doctor Eldred Taylor, amazing MD, and he's with us
again every month. We're going to take a sharp break
and we'll be right back.
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