May 7, 2025 • 28 mins
Functional Medicine Weight Loss Hormone Replacement
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
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Speaker 3 (00:55):
Hey, good morning, Welcome to another Ask the Expert show
where we bring you the top experts in the field
of legal, health, financial and home improvement. You know what
this morning. This is the first Wednesday in May, and
I got to tell you that this is a very
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special show to me, and it's amazing how the Lord works.
I got a phone call early this morning from a
doctor's office who's interested in becoming an expert on our show.
And somehow our expert who's coming on with us here
in just a few minutes, his name came up and they.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Went on and on what a.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Wonderful doctor, doctor Eldred Taylor is, and that he is
so important to the field of functional medicine. It just
went on and on and we shared a lot of things.
This has become such an important show to us that
we run. We played the show every week. We don't
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do that with any of our shows, but this is
such an important show. Let me introduce you to our expert,
my friend that I am so blessed to have on
our show, doctor Eldred Taylor.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Hey, hey, Hey, how are you doing, Steve?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
How about that for an opening?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Hey, man, I appreciate that's that's funny that the guy
calls you today, you know, like I told you for
your show. Yeah. So, you know what happens is is
that ten years ago, when I was doing conferences and
speaking in person, a lot of doctors came and they,
you know, got that spark. They say Hey, maybe I
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should try and do functional medicine. And so a lot
of doctors may know me, and I may not necessarily
know that person's name, but I may remember seeing them
at a conference if they tell me, hey, I saw
you in Seattle or whatever. So hopefully I've made an
impact on the positions well, you know, and what I'm
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trying to do with this and with my podcast is
to continue to create that impact. To be honest with you,
when I was speaking and going around and playing around
and staying in hotels, it actually the stress burnt me out.
And you know, I'm supposed to be talking about stress,
and I let stress burn me out. Yeah, I let
it burn me out. So I kind of, you know,
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kind of retreated for a little while and just did
office work. And now when I see that I can
sit in my basement and I can continue to make
an impact, I'm like, Okay, let me get started again. So, uh,
that's why I'm happy that. I don't know, it was
three years ago that you kind of said, hey, you
want to do this podcast, and that kind of got
me in the mood of, hey, I can I can
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still make an impact and I don't have to go anywhere.
So so yeah, I appreciate you even, you know, bringing
that up to me as a possible ability about you know,
being on this show.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And it's like, I believe the Lord had something to
do with this. I always believe there's a reason, yeah
for everything. And doctor Taylor, you know, I tell you
how important our show is, but you know, just the
fact that we replay your show every week, uh, or
shows how important your show is. Now you have your
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own podcast. What when when your podcast is it?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Well, hey, I just finished it. It's nine o'clock and
yours is at ten. And yeah, I told you because
you gave me my start, I wasn't gonna, like, you know,
throw you out with the baby with the bathwater, uh,
just because I started this on my own podcast. Yeah,
it's called Ageless Blueprint. It's at nine o'clock every Wednesday.
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And if you see there, you know, I'll tell you
what this is about. I just really talk about how
the blueprint of how to have an abundant life has
been around for ages. You can create a blueprint for
your life, and the basics of that is timeless. They've
been talking about the blueprint for life to live a
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great life since you know, ten thousand years ago and beyond,
everybody wanted to know the meaning of life and how
why am I here and what am I supposed to
be doing. So that's what we talk about, is that
ageless blueprint. And the other thing I talk about is,
you know, my story is that I was raised in
the home of a Baptist minister, so I have this
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spiritual part of me. But then I became a doctor
and then that's a lot of science and physiology and
all of this stuff. So back in the sixteen hundred,
this doctor named the cart He said, hey, the body
is separate from the spirit. The spirit will be handled
by religious leaders, and the body is going to be
handled by doctor. Well, I'm calling myself the spiritual MD,
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because I don't believe that I believe that the spirit
affects the man and the man expects it affects the body.
And so instead of just focusing on the body, I've
kind of expanded my knowledge to say, how can I
understand more about the mind. And you know, in the
past we've talked about meditation, will continue to talk about
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and that's how you kind of connect your man with
the spirit is through meditation, is by quieting your man
so you can actually hear what the spirit is saying
to you. If you are constantly thinking about all of
your problems and all of your issues, you can't be
quiet enough to actually hear what the spirit is telling you.
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It's just you know, It's like in the Bible it says,
be still and know that I am God. You got
to be still, and we always active in doing stuff.
You have to be still so you can listen to
that quiet voice that tells you what your purpose is.
So that's what I'm trying to get people to to understand,
is that no, all this is connected. Don't believe that
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whatever your mind thinks that your body doesn't react to.
Because if you think you're sick, you're going to be sick.
If you think you're going to die, And I'll tell
you this, when a person loses their will to live,
if you have some and you probably have seen this.
You have some relative or somebody you're close to, and
they've been fighting fighting this battle of cancer or some
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other you know, like very serious illness, and as long
as they have that spirit that they want to live,
they will live. But when they lose that will to live,
when they start thinking I am going to die, you
can might as well just get your black suit out,
because they're going to die when they lose that will.
So that's that's how your mind can affect your body.
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And I've seen it. I've seen it with my relatives, Okay,
that once they lose that will to live, I start
getting my black suit ready and start figuring out how
I'm going to arrange my schedule to get to the funeral.
So I didn't I didn't talk about well, I didn't
tell you what we're going to talk about. But on
my last podcast, I talked about how people carry around
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these badges of honor to say, like chronic fatigue and
attention deficit, and I wanted to explain that most of
that is caused by stress. But let me what I
talked about then, is that how a lot of times
we think we have a diagnosis, but really it's only
just describing our symptoms, and a lot of people carry
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that thought around and they label themselves and they begin
to live that label. You understand what I'm saying. I
can give you some questions, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
So I want to know what do you tell people,
doctor Taylor? How do you you're absolutely right, I know
when someone is so negative that this is gonna happen
or you know, I call DeBie Downer. What do you
say to those people who turn them around to think
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more positive if not be so negative?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Hey, well you know what I tell you, I'm the
spiritual MD or whatever is that job said, what I
feared the most has come upon me. So if you
focus on negative things, that is exactly what's going to
happen to you. Okay, is that? Yeah, it's when we
talk about quantum physics and all this mind's you know,
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uh stuff, whatever you think will be created in your reality. Okay,
if you think there's going to be a negative outcome
by God, that's what's going to materialize. If you think
that something's will be positive? Right, if you just if
you can reframe, reframe, uh frame f R a M.
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Reframe something and frame it in a positive manner. You
know how people say, you know, uh, you know a
few years from now, we'll look back on this and
we'll laugh about it. Well what people say, laugh about
it now? Don't wait two or three years. You know that,
you know, you know that a lot of things that
you thought were awful five years ago, you're like, oh wow, Hey,
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I'm glad that happened, because if it hadn't happen, this
hadn't happen. So if you can reframe your thinking to say, hey, look,
I know this seems bad right now, but I know
in the future, I'm gonna have learned something from this
and it's going to help me in the future. So
it's all about how you frame your circumstances, okay, And
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don't be a victim to what is happening right now. Okay,
because the only way you can change tomorrow is you
have to change what's going on today in your mind. Okay.
You can't predict the future based on your past. Okay,
you can't do that. Rebel, did we lose Steve.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yes. It seems like he had to freeze a little bit.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Yeah, yeah, I saw that, So I guess I can
just keep talking. So now here he comes here it
comes all right. Good you left us there for a while.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
So you know, you talk about stress and you talk
about meditation. All right. First of all, you've written some
books that people might not know about. Yeah, what are
the titles through those books?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Yeah, so we wrote a book on all your hartmones,
making you sick because being an obgu I n you know,
I was supposed to know about hormones. But when my
wife started having hormone issues, I figured out I didn't
know much about hormones at all, because what I learned
about hormones was to give people birth control pills if
they complain of anything and they're young, and if they're old,
you give them estrogen or progesterone. Really was estrogen, it
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was primarent and you just gave them these pills. You
didn't really try and figure out what was wrong. Well,
what I learned is that you can measure hormones through
saliva and you can balance them with natural hormone are
biodynical hormones. But then what happened is after about two
or three years, we saw that some of these people
would get better, about twenty percent of them, they'd still
have all these issues. They were tired, they couldn't sleep there,
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you know, they had stomach issues, all this. And I
started when I was starting to speak at conferences about hormones.
I heard these guys talk about stress and how important
it was, and then how seventy five to ninety percent
of all visits to primary care physicians are for stress
related complaints or disorders. So I'm like, wow, if I
can focus on stress, I'm gonna be right seventy five
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to ninety percent of the time with my patience. And
by God, that's what happened, is that I focused on
stress and I'm right seventy five to nine percent of
the time. And that was a study back in two
thousand and two. I just asked chat GDP chat g ET,
just give me an updated impact of stress, and it
says now it's over ninety percent. It's not seventy five
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to ninety it's ninety percent of visits to primary care
physicians stress related complaints and disorders. So if I can
fully understand stress, I can make a big difference in
people's lives. And so that's been my primary focus. Now
I was talking about this twenty years ago. We wrote
this book. Now people are I see it all over
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the internet, people talking about stress and stress. My thing is,
you have to be able to measure it in order
to manage it. Okay, so it's not about me. It
is about therapy and all that stuff. That's all that
stuff is great and it's a big part of it.
But also you need to understand what has this stress
done to you? What systems have been damaged due to stress?
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And stress causes damage in every system in your body, Okay,
And my job is to figure out what damage has
been done, how to repair it, and how to prepare
you for future stress, and also tell you how to
get rid of this Stressers are if their emotional stresses,
you got to get rid of those. If you get
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in a bad relationship, you got to get rid of that. Okay.
But if there's some other stressor like your carmones are
out of balance or your gut is out of balance,
then I have to help you get rid of that stress,
and I have to repair that. I have to help
you repair the damage and help to teach you how
to not let that stress re enter. Okay. Is that
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even though we repair it, you've got to be prepared
for future stress so you can't go down that same
road again that got you into this situation. Okay. So
that's that's that's what came out of those two books
is harmones and stress. And I'm going to tell you,
if you understand those two, seventy five to ninety percent
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of the issues that you're going to the doctor for
would be resolved. Okay if you just fix those two
And I've seen it in my practice and my goal
through you know, through this platform, through Asi's blueprint in
my school group is to is to educate people and
empower them to take control of their health. You have
to be your own health advocate. You have to filter
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everything you hear or see through your understanding to see
if it's right for you. It's not a one size
fits all. That is, you know, in medicine, they have
all these algorithms. If they have this, you do this,
or they have this, you do that. You can't follow
those algorithms. You have to understand the function of every
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system in your body. You don't have to understand it.
Somebody has to understand, but you have to see how
it all relates. And if you understand it, it's so
it's much easier to deal with the patient who understands
what's going on with them instead of you just telling
them to blindly do something. So I always want patients
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to understand. I tell them, don't ever do anything that
you're not comfortable with. If you don't fully understand it
and fully understand why you're doing it, then don't do it.
I don't care if I tell you, I don't care
if the chief of surgery and Mayo Clinic tells you,
if it doesn't feel right, don't do it. Okay, And
if you will, if you will, honor that inner intuition,
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especially women have it and men can have it if
they understand it is that intuition is trying to guide you,
give you a blueprint of what you should and should
not do.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You know what's amazing, doctor Taylor. You went to one
of the finest medical schools, one of the finest hospitals
to do your internship and residency, and now in your
practice you are basically finding what doctor's missed.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
That's why I tell you what it comes down to. Yeah, Hey,
I lost you that for a minute. I know you
said I went to Emory and what was the final
part of that.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I said, you did your internship and residency and uh,
one of the finest hospitals, and now here you are.
You got you know, you were an obigen doctor for
many years, but here you are. Now patients come to
you because the doctors couldn't find anything wrong with them,
and you find out what's actually causing their health issues.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Yeah, because these people don't have diseases. They have dysfunctions.
And I was taught to treat diseases. So when I
was Obi Juyane, Hey you had an abnormal pathsmere Okay,
that's a disease. Okay, I'll do you know another paths mirror.
I'll do a cryo where you freeze the ah R.
You have big fibroids. Oh all right, well I'll cut
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them out. Okay. But the real reason they have fibroids
is because their hermones are out of balance. But I
didn't know that. I just, you know, if their fibroids
got bigger though. Forget oh you're bleeding all the time.
Oh well, let's just take the u to us out
whether they're bleeding all the time because their hormones are
out of balance. Okay. So I was taught to diagnose
and treat diseases. And if you didn't have a disease,
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because even if you're bleeding all the time, I'm not
going to really treat it unless your blood count gets
so low then I'm going to give you more blood. Okay.
But the problem is your hormones are out of balance. Okay.
So that's why doctors say, hey, I don't see anything wrong.
You go year after year after year after year, and
all the while you have a functional problem, but then
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it takes five years or so before it actually registers
as a disease. So that's why you keep going for
your yearly check ups. Oh do the routine labs. They
do that. Oh, your fan, your fan, your fan, your fan.
Then all of a sudden, oh gosh, look at this,
and they act like it happened last night. No, it
was developing over the course of years. But because you
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weren't doing tests to identify this function, you were only
doing tests to identified disease, you never saw it. So
I don't I know that the doctor, if they've been
to another doctor, I know they've done all the disease testing.
So I don't even have to worry about do they
have a disease, because they've already ruled all that out.
So now I can focus on dysfunction, and that dysfunction
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seventy five to ninety percent of the time going to
be stress. I do cortisol, I do saliviatesting for harmost
seventy percent of the time. I'm right, it's probably ninety
percent of the time because it's gotten a lot worse
over the last ten or fifteen years since I've been
talking about this.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Tell me what a lot of people don't even understand stress.
They might know they have it, but they don't understand it. Yeah, hey,
what stress does?
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Yeah? Well, so here's stress. Stress is anything that throws
your internal or external environment out of balance. Okay, So
any disruption, Okay, the temperature is too hot. Okay, your
body's out of balance. It has to try and balance
its temperature. And even though it's hot outside, it has
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to try and cool you down. So you start to sweat,
and you start to do all these things. So all
of the so, anytime your body is thrown out of balance,
that is a stressor all right, So it can be
mental stress. Hey you lost your job. Wow, your finances
are out of balance. Okay, that's a stress. The problem
is your body reacts to stress the same way, no
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matter what it is. It manifests stress through the stress response,
and that stress response is fight or flight. So you
just lost your job, and your body thinks that you're
ready to run or fight. So now what happens. Your
heart starts to race because it thinks you start to fight. Okay,
your your body thinks, I gotta shift blood to the muscles,
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so it shifts away from your gut. So now your
gut's not getting the blood that it needs. So it
doesn't work, is right? It doesn't work right anymore. Your
brain is saying you got to go straight off of instinct,
so it takes some of the blood from your that
would go to your brain so that you could actually focus.
And now it's saying, no, you got to pay attention
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to everything because you don't know where the danger is
coming from. So you begin to be unable to concentrate.
So that's what I was talking about on my podcast before. Now,
if your body is constantly in this run mode, even
though you're not running, you're going to get fatigued even
though you haven't done anything. And that's chronic fatigue. And
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so I would tell you, is it a diagnosis or
a description? Patients come in, they say I'm tired all
the time. They run all of these disease testing, they
say your blood count is okay, this is okay. I
don't know what's wrong with you, so they label you
with chronic fatigue. Well, chronic fatigue is just a description
because you came in and said I'm tired all the time.
And what does chronic mean. Chronic mean all. It means
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all the time. What does fatigue mean? It means tired.
So you say I'm tired all the time. The patient
says me, and the doctor says, you have chronic fatigue.
But they didn't tell you why you have while you're tired.
They just regurgitated what you said to them. But they
put it in a fancy name, and you go around
for the rest of your life saying I have chronic fatigue.
So that's why I can't work, That's why I can't
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take care of my children, That's why I can't do
all this because I have chronic fatigue. But you label yourself,
you know what, it's never treated. So your body is
going to keep staying in this fight of flight and
you're going to keep thinking, I have chronic fatigue, and
you know what, You're going to have more and more
and more fatigue because you have absorbed that label, I
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have chronic fatigue. What is attention deficit disorder? It means
a patient comes in and says, I have trouble concentrating,
I can't focus. Well, what is that? That's a deficit
in your attention. Well, why do I have a deficit
in my attention? Okay, it's because you're in this fight
of flight and you're you're looking around everywhere for the
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threat and there's no threat there. So that's called panic
attacks and anxiety disorders. Okay, So you know I have
another person says, my gut, I have all this diarrhea, indigestion.
It feels like my bowels are irritated. And what do
they what do they say you have? You have irritable bow.
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You told them your bowels are irritated, and then they say, yeah,
your bowels, that's just And people go around and tell everybody, well,
you know, they go to the restaurant. Oh you know,
I have irritable bow. Oh okay, I have irritable bow.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Nothing is done about it.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Nothing's done about it. Okay. So why do you have
irritable bow Because all of the blood floyd is gone
away from your gut, so it's not absorbing things. So
you have diarrhea. You're not absorbing any nutrients, so you're tired.
It all came from the stressors that you have. So
it's it's I used to give this like the doctors
and they would laugh at themselves. They were like, man,
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you're exactly right. I'm just repeating what the patient said it.
And so hopefully that doc who called you this morning
started laughing at himself and decided to change. And that's
what doctors have to do. And I talk about this
on my podcast. We are taught see one, do one,
teach one. Okay, So that's that's the rule in medicine.
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If you see a hysterectomy, then you're gonna do a hysterectomy,
and then you're going to teach a hysterectory. But also
if you see somebody giving your patients, you know, a
higher level resident giving a patient burke control pills for
a certain set of symptoms, then I'm gonna do that,
and then I'm going to teach that. So that doesn't
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allow anything to change. That's why they tell you is
that in medical school they say ten years from now,
everything you have learned is going to be obsolete. But
most docs hear that, but they never change. They never change.
They're doing the same thing that they saw, did and
talked when they were a resident. And I've been out
of my residency over thirty years, and thank god I
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had the sense to change how I thought about things,
because as science developed, science is always expanding and it's
always has new knowledge. You have to be able to
take that new knowledge and apply it and get experience
with it, and then you can see how the old
ways no longer serve you. And the old ways I
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was doing something didn't serve my wife. The old ways
I was doing things did not serve my patience. So
I had to change. And that's what I'm trying to
That's what I'm trying to get across.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
The people run out of time, but I got the homework.
I've got a homework assignment for you next time. Okay,
we have gotten at least seven people writers. People really
trust you, listen to your show and really trust your word.
These people want to know what you think about what
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our FK Junior is coming up with about food, and
I think we could possibly make that on our next show.
This show is going to be repeated every Wednesday for
the rest of this month, same time, and then your
podcast is at nine o'clock and time on Wednesdays.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Yeah, and right now I'm doing it live, so it's
not pre recorded. If they want to ask questions, they
can the phone lines Open Rebel is handling that. So yeah,
every Wednesday morning at nine o'clock on the same station,
I can have the link for people who want to
join in love. But also you can go to as
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Less Blueprint podcast dot com and all of my podcasts
are there A's Less Blueprint podcast dot com.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
All on your website. Also, you're at your clinic yea.
What is your website?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Yeah, Taylor Medical Group dot net. But what I really
want you to join is my school group school dot com.
Ford last agelest s K O O L and uh yeah.
So please you know I'm glad that you trust me.
I promise you I'll always give you the the the
down and dirty and what you need to know in
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order to take charge of your health.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
People love your show. We'll see you next month. Make okay,
talk about our FK Junior what he's coming out with
with food products. I'll see you again. Okay, I'll do
my homework. God bless you doctor. Okay, all right, see
you ex Doctor Eldrick Taylor. He's our functional medicine. We're
gonna go to a quick break. We'll be right back.
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Welcome to the Ask the Experts Show on W four
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your hosts, Spevo and Sophia.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Hey, good morning, Welcome to another Ask the Expert show
where we bring you the top experts in the field
of legal, health, financial and home improvement. You know what
this morning. This is the first Wednesday in May, and
I got to tell you that this is a very
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special show to me, and it's amazing how the Lord works.
I got a phone call early this morning from a
doctor's office who's interested in becoming an expert on our show.
And somehow our expert who's coming on with us here
in just a few minutes, his name came up and they.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Went on and on what a.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Wonderful doctor, doctor Eldred Taylor is, and that he is
so important to the field of functional medicine. It just
went on and on and we shared a lot of things.
This has become such an important show to us that
we run. We played the show every week. We don't
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do that with any of our shows, but this is
such an important show. Let me introduce you to our expert,
my friend that I am so blessed to have on
our show, doctor Eldred Taylor.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Hey, hey, Hey, how are you doing, Steve?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
How about that for an opening?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Hey, man, I appreciate that's that's funny that the guy
calls you today, you know, like I told you for
your show. Yeah. So, you know what happens is is
that ten years ago, when I was doing conferences and
speaking in person, a lot of doctors came and they,
you know, got that spark. They say Hey, maybe I
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should try and do functional medicine. And so a lot
of doctors may know me, and I may not necessarily
know that person's name, but I may remember seeing them
at a conference if they tell me, hey, I saw
you in Seattle or whatever. So hopefully I've made an
impact on the positions well, you know, and what I'm
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trying to do with this and with my podcast is
to continue to create that impact. To be honest with you,
when I was speaking and going around and playing around
and staying in hotels, it actually the stress burnt me out.
And you know, I'm supposed to be talking about stress,
and I let stress burn me out. Yeah, I let
it burn me out. So I kind of, you know,
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kind of retreated for a little while and just did
office work. And now when I see that I can
sit in my basement and I can continue to make
an impact, I'm like, Okay, let me get started again. So, uh,
that's why I'm happy that. I don't know, it was
three years ago that you kind of said, hey, you
want to do this podcast, and that kind of got
me in the mood of, hey, I can I can
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still make an impact and I don't have to go anywhere.
So so yeah, I appreciate you even, you know, bringing
that up to me as a possible ability about you know,
being on this show.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And it's like, I believe the Lord had something to
do with this. I always believe there's a reason, yeah
for everything. And doctor Taylor, you know, I tell you
how important our show is, but you know, just the
fact that we replay your show every week, uh, or
shows how important your show is. Now you have your
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own podcast. What when when your podcast is it?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Well, hey, I just finished it. It's nine o'clock and
yours is at ten. And yeah, I told you because
you gave me my start, I wasn't gonna, like, you know,
throw you out with the baby with the bathwater, uh,
just because I started this on my own podcast. Yeah,
it's called Ageless Blueprint. It's at nine o'clock every Wednesday.
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And if you see there, you know, I'll tell you
what this is about. I just really talk about how
the blueprint of how to have an abundant life has
been around for ages. You can create a blueprint for
your life, and the basics of that is timeless. They've
been talking about the blueprint for life to live a
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great life since you know, ten thousand years ago and beyond,
everybody wanted to know the meaning of life and how
why am I here and what am I supposed to
be doing. So that's what we talk about, is that
ageless blueprint. And the other thing I talk about is,
you know, my story is that I was raised in
the home of a Baptist minister, so I have this
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spiritual part of me. But then I became a doctor
and then that's a lot of science and physiology and
all of this stuff. So back in the sixteen hundred,
this doctor named the cart He said, hey, the body
is separate from the spirit. The spirit will be handled
by religious leaders, and the body is going to be
handled by doctor. Well, I'm calling myself the spiritual MD,
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because I don't believe that I believe that the spirit
affects the man and the man expects it affects the body.
And so instead of just focusing on the body, I've
kind of expanded my knowledge to say, how can I
understand more about the mind. And you know, in the
past we've talked about meditation, will continue to talk about
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and that's how you kind of connect your man with
the spirit is through meditation, is by quieting your man
so you can actually hear what the spirit is saying
to you. If you are constantly thinking about all of
your problems and all of your issues, you can't be
quiet enough to actually hear what the spirit is telling you.
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It's just you know, It's like in the Bible it says,
be still and know that I am God. You got
to be still, and we always active in doing stuff.
You have to be still so you can listen to
that quiet voice that tells you what your purpose is.
So that's what I'm trying to get people to to understand,
is that no, all this is connected. Don't believe that
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whatever your mind thinks that your body doesn't react to.
Because if you think you're sick, you're going to be sick.
If you think you're going to die, And I'll tell
you this, when a person loses their will to live,
if you have some and you probably have seen this.
You have some relative or somebody you're close to, and
they've been fighting fighting this battle of cancer or some
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other you know, like very serious illness, and as long
as they have that spirit that they want to live,
they will live. But when they lose that will to live,
when they start thinking I am going to die, you
can might as well just get your black suit out,
because they're going to die when they lose that will.
So that's that's how your mind can affect your body.
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And I've seen it. I've seen it with my relatives, Okay,
that once they lose that will to live, I start
getting my black suit ready and start figuring out how
I'm going to arrange my schedule to get to the funeral.
So I didn't I didn't talk about well, I didn't
tell you what we're going to talk about. But on
my last podcast, I talked about how people carry around
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these badges of honor to say, like chronic fatigue and
attention deficit, and I wanted to explain that most of
that is caused by stress. But let me what I
talked about then, is that how a lot of times
we think we have a diagnosis, but really it's only
just describing our symptoms, and a lot of people carry
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that thought around and they label themselves and they begin
to live that label. You understand what I'm saying. I
can give you some questions, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
So I want to know what do you tell people,
doctor Taylor? How do you you're absolutely right, I know
when someone is so negative that this is gonna happen
or you know, I call DeBie Downer. What do you
say to those people who turn them around to think
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more positive if not be so negative?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Hey, well you know what I tell you, I'm the
spiritual MD or whatever is that job said, what I
feared the most has come upon me. So if you
focus on negative things, that is exactly what's going to
happen to you. Okay, is that? Yeah, it's when we
talk about quantum physics and all this mind's you know,
(09:25):
uh stuff, whatever you think will be created in your reality. Okay,
if you think there's going to be a negative outcome
by God, that's what's going to materialize. If you think
that something's will be positive? Right, if you just if
you can reframe, reframe, uh frame f R a M.
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Reframe something and frame it in a positive manner. You
know how people say, you know, uh, you know a
few years from now, we'll look back on this and
we'll laugh about it. Well what people say, laugh about
it now? Don't wait two or three years. You know that,
you know, you know that a lot of things that
you thought were awful five years ago, you're like, oh wow, Hey,
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I'm glad that happened, because if it hadn't happen, this
hadn't happen. So if you can reframe your thinking to say, hey, look,
I know this seems bad right now, but I know
in the future, I'm gonna have learned something from this
and it's going to help me in the future. So
it's all about how you frame your circumstances, okay, And
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don't be a victim to what is happening right now. Okay,
because the only way you can change tomorrow is you
have to change what's going on today in your mind. Okay.
You can't predict the future based on your past. Okay,
you can't do that. Rebel, did we lose Steve.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yes. It seems like he had to freeze a little bit.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Yeah, yeah, I saw that, So I guess I can
just keep talking. So now here he comes here it
comes all right. Good you left us there for a while.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
So you know, you talk about stress and you talk
about meditation. All right. First of all, you've written some
books that people might not know about. Yeah, what are
the titles through those books?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Yeah, so we wrote a book on all your hartmones,
making you sick because being an obgu I n you know,
I was supposed to know about hormones. But when my
wife started having hormone issues, I figured out I didn't
know much about hormones at all, because what I learned
about hormones was to give people birth control pills if
they complain of anything and they're young, and if they're old,
you give them estrogen or progesterone. Really was estrogen, it
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was primarent and you just gave them these pills. You
didn't really try and figure out what was wrong. Well,
what I learned is that you can measure hormones through
saliva and you can balance them with natural hormone are
biodynical hormones. But then what happened is after about two
or three years, we saw that some of these people
would get better, about twenty percent of them, they'd still
have all these issues. They were tired, they couldn't sleep there,
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you know, they had stomach issues, all this. And I
started when I was starting to speak at conferences about hormones.
I heard these guys talk about stress and how important
it was, and then how seventy five to ninety percent
of all visits to primary care physicians are for stress
related complaints or disorders. So I'm like, wow, if I
can focus on stress, I'm gonna be right seventy five
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to ninety percent of the time with my patience. And
by God, that's what happened, is that I focused on
stress and I'm right seventy five to nine percent of
the time. And that was a study back in two
thousand and two. I just asked chat GDP chat g ET,
just give me an updated impact of stress, and it
says now it's over ninety percent. It's not seventy five
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to ninety it's ninety percent of visits to primary care
physicians stress related complaints and disorders. So if I can
fully understand stress, I can make a big difference in
people's lives. And so that's been my primary focus. Now
I was talking about this twenty years ago. We wrote
this book. Now people are I see it all over
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the internet, people talking about stress and stress. My thing is,
you have to be able to measure it in order
to manage it. Okay, so it's not about me. It
is about therapy and all that stuff. That's all that
stuff is great and it's a big part of it.
But also you need to understand what has this stress
done to you? What systems have been damaged due to stress?
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And stress causes damage in every system in your body, Okay,
And my job is to figure out what damage has
been done, how to repair it, and how to prepare
you for future stress, and also tell you how to
get rid of this Stressers are if their emotional stresses,
you got to get rid of those. If you get
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in a bad relationship, you got to get rid of that. Okay.
But if there's some other stressor like your carmones are
out of balance or your gut is out of balance,
then I have to help you get rid of that stress,
and I have to repair that. I have to help
you repair the damage and help to teach you how
to not let that stress re enter. Okay. Is that
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even though we repair it, you've got to be prepared
for future stress so you can't go down that same
road again that got you into this situation. Okay. So
that's that's that's what came out of those two books
is harmones and stress. And I'm going to tell you,
if you understand those two, seventy five to ninety percent
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of the issues that you're going to the doctor for
would be resolved. Okay if you just fix those two
And I've seen it in my practice and my goal
through you know, through this platform, through Asi's blueprint in
my school group is to is to educate people and
empower them to take control of their health. You have
to be your own health advocate. You have to filter
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everything you hear or see through your understanding to see
if it's right for you. It's not a one size
fits all. That is, you know, in medicine, they have
all these algorithms. If they have this, you do this,
or they have this, you do that. You can't follow
those algorithms. You have to understand the function of every
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system in your body. You don't have to understand it.
Somebody has to understand, but you have to see how
it all relates. And if you understand it, it's so
it's much easier to deal with the patient who understands
what's going on with them instead of you just telling
them to blindly do something. So I always want patients
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to understand. I tell them, don't ever do anything that
you're not comfortable with. If you don't fully understand it
and fully understand why you're doing it, then don't do it.
I don't care if I tell you, I don't care
if the chief of surgery and Mayo Clinic tells you,
if it doesn't feel right, don't do it. Okay, And
if you will, if you will, honor that inner intuition,
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especially women have it and men can have it if
they understand it is that intuition is trying to guide you,
give you a blueprint of what you should and should
not do.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You know what's amazing, doctor Taylor. You went to one
of the finest medical schools, one of the finest hospitals
to do your internship and residency, and now in your
practice you are basically finding what doctor's missed.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
That's why I tell you what it comes down to. Yeah, Hey,
I lost you that for a minute. I know you
said I went to Emory and what was the final
part of that.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I said, you did your internship and residency and uh,
one of the finest hospitals, and now here you are.
You got you know, you were an obigen doctor for
many years, but here you are. Now patients come to
you because the doctors couldn't find anything wrong with them,
and you find out what's actually causing their health issues.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Yeah, because these people don't have diseases. They have dysfunctions.
And I was taught to treat diseases. So when I
was Obi Juyane, Hey you had an abnormal pathsmere Okay,
that's a disease. Okay, I'll do you know another paths mirror.
I'll do a cryo where you freeze the ah R.
You have big fibroids. Oh all right, well I'll cut
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them out. Okay. But the real reason they have fibroids
is because their hermones are out of balance. But I
didn't know that. I just, you know, if their fibroids
got bigger though. Forget oh you're bleeding all the time.
Oh well, let's just take the u to us out
whether they're bleeding all the time because their hormones are
out of balance. Okay. So I was taught to diagnose
and treat diseases. And if you didn't have a disease,
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because even if you're bleeding all the time, I'm not
going to really treat it unless your blood count gets
so low then I'm going to give you more blood. Okay.
But the problem is your hormones are out of balance. Okay.
So that's why doctors say, hey, I don't see anything wrong.
You go year after year after year after year, and
all the while you have a functional problem, but then
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it takes five years or so before it actually registers
as a disease. So that's why you keep going for
your yearly check ups. Oh do the routine labs. They
do that. Oh, your fan, your fan, your fan, your fan.
Then all of a sudden, oh gosh, look at this,
and they act like it happened last night. No, it
was developing over the course of years. But because you
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weren't doing tests to identify this function, you were only
doing tests to identified disease, you never saw it. So
I don't I know that the doctor, if they've been
to another doctor, I know they've done all the disease testing.
So I don't even have to worry about do they
have a disease, because they've already ruled all that out.
So now I can focus on dysfunction, and that dysfunction
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seventy five to ninety percent of the time going to
be stress. I do cortisol, I do saliviatesting for harmost
seventy percent of the time. I'm right, it's probably ninety
percent of the time because it's gotten a lot worse
over the last ten or fifteen years since I've been
talking about this.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Tell me what a lot of people don't even understand stress.
They might know they have it, but they don't understand it. Yeah, hey,
what stress does?
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Yeah? Well, so here's stress. Stress is anything that throws
your internal or external environment out of balance. Okay, So
any disruption, Okay, the temperature is too hot. Okay, your
body's out of balance. It has to try and balance
its temperature. And even though it's hot outside, it has
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to try and cool you down. So you start to sweat,
and you start to do all these things. So all
of the so, anytime your body is thrown out of balance,
that is a stressor all right, So it can be
mental stress. Hey you lost your job. Wow, your finances
are out of balance. Okay, that's a stress. The problem
is your body reacts to stress the same way, no
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matter what it is. It manifests stress through the stress response,
and that stress response is fight or flight. So you
just lost your job, and your body thinks that you're
ready to run or fight. So now what happens. Your
heart starts to race because it thinks you start to fight. Okay,
your your body thinks, I gotta shift blood to the muscles,
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so it shifts away from your gut. So now your
gut's not getting the blood that it needs. So it
doesn't work, is right? It doesn't work right anymore. Your
brain is saying you got to go straight off of instinct,
so it takes some of the blood from your that
would go to your brain so that you could actually focus.
And now it's saying, no, you got to pay attention
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to everything because you don't know where the danger is
coming from. So you begin to be unable to concentrate.
So that's what I was talking about on my podcast before. Now,
if your body is constantly in this run mode, even
though you're not running, you're going to get fatigued even
though you haven't done anything. And that's chronic fatigue. And
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so I would tell you, is it a diagnosis or
a description? Patients come in, they say I'm tired all
the time. They run all of these disease testing, they
say your blood count is okay, this is okay. I
don't know what's wrong with you, so they label you
with chronic fatigue. Well, chronic fatigue is just a description
because you came in and said I'm tired all the time.
And what does chronic mean. Chronic mean all. It means
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all the time. What does fatigue mean? It means tired.
So you say I'm tired all the time. The patient
says me, and the doctor says, you have chronic fatigue.
But they didn't tell you why you have while you're tired.
They just regurgitated what you said to them. But they
put it in a fancy name, and you go around
for the rest of your life saying I have chronic fatigue.
So that's why I can't work, That's why I can't
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take care of my children, That's why I can't do
all this because I have chronic fatigue. But you label yourself,
you know what, it's never treated. So your body is
going to keep staying in this fight of flight and
you're going to keep thinking, I have chronic fatigue, and
you know what, You're going to have more and more
and more fatigue because you have absorbed that label, I
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have chronic fatigue. What is attention deficit disorder? It means
a patient comes in and says, I have trouble concentrating,
I can't focus. Well, what is that? That's a deficit
in your attention. Well, why do I have a deficit
in my attention? Okay, it's because you're in this fight
of flight and you're you're looking around everywhere for the
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threat and there's no threat there. So that's called panic
attacks and anxiety disorders. Okay, So you know I have
another person says, my gut, I have all this diarrhea, indigestion.
It feels like my bowels are irritated. And what do
they what do they say you have? You have irritable bow.
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You told them your bowels are irritated, and then they say, yeah,
your bowels, that's just And people go around and tell everybody, well,
you know, they go to the restaurant. Oh you know,
I have irritable bow. Oh okay, I have irritable bow.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Nothing is done about it.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Nothing's done about it. Okay. So why do you have
irritable bow Because all of the blood floyd is gone
away from your gut, so it's not absorbing things. So
you have diarrhea. You're not absorbing any nutrients, so you're tired.
It all came from the stressors that you have. So
it's it's I used to give this like the doctors
and they would laugh at themselves. They were like, man,
(24:03):
you're exactly right. I'm just repeating what the patient said it.
And so hopefully that doc who called you this morning
started laughing at himself and decided to change. And that's
what doctors have to do. And I talk about this
on my podcast. We are taught see one, do one,
teach one. Okay, So that's that's the rule in medicine.
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If you see a hysterectomy, then you're gonna do a hysterectomy,
and then you're going to teach a hysterectory. But also
if you see somebody giving your patients, you know, a
higher level resident giving a patient burke control pills for
a certain set of symptoms, then I'm gonna do that,
and then I'm going to teach that. So that doesn't
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allow anything to change. That's why they tell you is
that in medical school they say ten years from now,
everything you have learned is going to be obsolete. But
most docs hear that, but they never change. They never change.
They're doing the same thing that they saw, did and
talked when they were a resident. And I've been out
of my residency over thirty years, and thank god I
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had the sense to change how I thought about things,
because as science developed, science is always expanding and it's
always has new knowledge. You have to be able to
take that new knowledge and apply it and get experience
with it, and then you can see how the old
ways no longer serve you. And the old ways I
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was doing something didn't serve my wife. The old ways
I was doing things did not serve my patience. So
I had to change. And that's what I'm trying to
That's what I'm trying to get across.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
The people run out of time, but I got the homework.
I've got a homework assignment for you next time. Okay,
we have gotten at least seven people writers. People really
trust you, listen to your show and really trust your word.
These people want to know what you think about what
(26:04):
our FK Junior is coming up with about food, and
I think we could possibly make that on our next show.
This show is going to be repeated every Wednesday for
the rest of this month, same time, and then your
podcast is at nine o'clock and time on Wednesdays.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Yeah, and right now I'm doing it live, so it's
not pre recorded. If they want to ask questions, they
can the phone lines Open Rebel is handling that. So yeah,
every Wednesday morning at nine o'clock on the same station,
I can have the link for people who want to
join in love. But also you can go to as
(26:47):
Less Blueprint podcast dot com and all of my podcasts
are there A's Less Blueprint podcast dot com.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
All on your website. Also, you're at your clinic yea.
What is your website?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Yeah, Taylor Medical Group dot net. But what I really
want you to join is my school group school dot com.
Ford last agelest s K O O L and uh yeah.
So please you know I'm glad that you trust me.
I promise you I'll always give you the the the
down and dirty and what you need to know in
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order to take charge of your health.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
People love your show. We'll see you next month. Make okay,
talk about our FK Junior what he's coming out with
with food products. I'll see you again. Okay, I'll do
my homework. God bless you doctor. Okay, all right, see
you ex Doctor Eldrick Taylor. He's our functional medicine. We're
gonna go to a quick break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
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