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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Welcome to the Ask the Experts Show on W FOURCY
Radio and Talkboard TV, where we bring you educational information
from top local experts in the fields of legal, health,
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along with many other topics. Now Here are your hosts,
Spevo and Sophia.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Hey, good morning, Welcome to another Asked the Experts show.
We bring you the finance experts in the field of legal, health,
financial and home improvement. This is our third teenth year
with the ass the Expert Show, and with our first
expert we are doing something that we really haven't done before,
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but this topic, this expert is so important. We decided
to make this nationally so this show will be seen
in her throughout the country. It's a very important show.
We were so blessed a couple of years ago to
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find one of the I say, one of the greatest
doctors when it comes to especially with weight loss. We
found a doctor and it was really kind of crazy
because there was two people who wanted this spot on
our show. And I guess I'll call myself spiritual, but
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something led me to bring this expert on this MD,
this doctor, and it has been the greatest decision I
made with the help above, and we are so blessed
to have him. Let me introduce you to doctor Eldred
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Taylor of the Taylor Medical Group. Good morning, doctor Taylor, Hey,
good morning, Thanks so much for the introduction. I appreciate
it well deserved. We just we get more letters from
listeners just thanking us for your show, and we always
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make it the first Wednesday, so it's easy to find
you're on with us the first win say of the month.
We started off in Atlanta, then we kind of built
that out till Georgia and now you have one of
my few national shows, and it's perfect because you offer
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so much great information, Doctor Taylor. But we find also
like people are finding the show every week every day,
and once they hear your show, they can't wait to
hear the next show. So tell people you're the greatest story.
Tell people about how you got into you're an MD.
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He went to one of the finest medical schools in
the country. Tell people how you got to where you
are today.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Yeah, well, I'm from Nashville, Tennessee, with the Vanderbilt undergrad
and came to get an emory to go to medical
school and did a residency in upstatist and gnecology and
practiced routine OBGYN for about six seven years. And then
my wife was also a physician. Uh, you know, we
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just you know, as you age, you start to have issues,
and women start to have issues with hormones and things,
and so my wife was having those issues and I
was doing what I was taught, and I was seeing
that it wasn't really helping. So I had a patient
who came in told me about the natural hormones and progesterone,
and I thought that it couldn't make sense because I
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didn't learn it in medical school, so you know, how
could this be? So anyway, I listened to a the
set tape that tells you how long ago it was,
and he was talking about all hormones and biodentical hormones,
which I really didn't know what that meant and anyway,
but I listened to it, and my whole life changed
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that day. I listened to that tape and my wife
really had to coerce me into listening to it because
I thought I was, you know, already knew everything. But anyway,
it changed the course some my life. I start to
understand how to measure HORMONESY measure hormones through saliva, not
through blood. I started to learn really how the body
actually works, and not how drugs affect the body, but
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how the body functions, and that if you give the
body what it needs to function, it will do all
kinds of miraculous things for you. So it'll help you
maintain your weight, it will help you to survive cancer,
it'll help you to fight off infections, it'll heal things
that are broken. But the body has to have what
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it needs, and if you provide it, man, it functions great.
And that's why I call myself a functional medicine doctor.
I try to help the patient get what their body
needs so that they can function properly.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You know, it's amazing, doctor Taylor. Your patients have gone
to other doctors and have gotten no relief and then
they come to you. That is a story in itself. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Well, you know, you know, my favorite patient is the
doctor is the patient who's gone to all the other
doctors and they said they don't really find anything wrong.
And those doctors are more than likely correct is that
they do not find any disease that the patient has.
But I'm not looking for diseases. I'm looking for dysfunction,
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and that's a whole different ballgame. And so you know,
if you do disease testing, that patient may not have
a disease. But if you look at function, you can
identify and you can treat dysfunction because dysfunction is their
precursor for disease. You have help, you have dysfunction, and
then you have disease. So I'm trying to identify the
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dysfunction so we can return the patient back to help
and not wait till they have a disease, when it's
much more difficult to get them back to the health
starting point.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And from this you also developed a supplemental company too. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Well, well, the reason why we started the supplement company
is that when I first started doing this, I would
speak for different nutraceuticals, I said, pharmaceuticals, I think nutraceutical companies,
different supplement companies. And what I found is that you know,
they would they wanted you to sell the B five,
the B six, the Ashraganda, everything in a separate bottle.
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And what happens is is that you know, patients have
to take like ten different supplements. You know, you see
them with a handful of supplements trying to choke them down,
and most people aren't going to do that long term.
So what we discovered is that it's better if you
take smaller amounts of several of those put them together,
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and the sum is greater than parts. And so if
you put them together, they work together better together then
they do separately, and also saves the patient a lot
of money. We try to make it where we can
help the patient by giving them more, no more than
two to three supplements, because that's the only thing the
patient is really going to do on a consistent basis.
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So we have combination products that try to create a
specific outcome. It's not just a multi vitamin. No, it's
something to correct cortisol. There's something to correct hormone balance,
something to correct liver detoxification problems. So it's directed at
a certain system and not just one individual supplement or vitamin.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Well, let's let's talk about the dreaded cancer. Yeah, and
you know, I know that a lot of people pass
because of cancer. What are a lot of these? Is
there a way, doctor Taylor, that maybe we can minimize? Answer?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Well, you know, you know cancer is such a difficult subject.
And you know, we talk about what causes cancer, what
prevents cancer. This is what I can say is that
the healthier your body is if you do happen to contract,
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you know, some type of cancer, the healthier you are
at the beginning and through the process, the better off
you're going to be. Yeah, you know, we let me
tell you why I've gotten interested in the subject. My
sister passed away in twenty sixteen from breast cancer. She
had a long fight with breast cancer, and I saw
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her just just to teary, miserably over the last four
or five years of her life. And I tried to
convince her and her family that you know, why don't
we try some things not necessarily stop the chemo, but
they help her get through it. We do a lot
of IV vitamin C and IV vitamin C. It's over
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fifteen hundred articles talking about vitamin C and cancer and
how it increases the efficacy or the ability of the
chemotherapy to actually kill the cancer cells and to protect
the normal sales. The vitamin C helps to helps the
normal cells to be strong enough to withstand and recover
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from the chemo therapy. So we do a lot of
vitamin C ivs. We have seen patients who had stayed
four triple negative cancer, which is the worst, be able
to do chemo therapy, and the oncologists are amazed at
how well they're doing the chemotherapy and how well the
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cancer is responding to it. Now, the problem is is
that a lot of times when the patients say that
they're doing IVY vitamin C, they kind of disregard that
that it couldn't be from that. But that's that's definitely
is what's going on. And it's too simple. It's too simple,
And my problem is is that, and I'm not saying
all on collegests are like this, but the oncologists are
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so focused on killing the cancer they don't recognize that
the patient is deteriorating right before their eyes. But they're
so focused on that the cancer gets removed, but they
don't see how it's sucking the life out of the patient.
And so what we do is we talk about the
vitamin C IV's and we talk about how dose vitamin
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C fifty two, one hundred grams of vitamin C on
a weekly or a biweekly basis. There's other things that
patients can do. I'll tell you what the most important
thing a patient can do is to decrease their consumption
of meat. That's kind of what got me on this
plant based diet is that there are several studies to
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talk about how meat, especially processed meat, can stimulate the
cancer cell growth and that if you take it away
the cancer sales diet. So I saw a lot of
the patients that came in post cancer, they immediately went
to a plant based diet. So I started looking at
is there any real validity in that? And again, you
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can look at plant based diets and cancer and survival
from cancer and you'll see that that you know, that
is a real avenue that patients should go down because
when you're finding cancer, you have to depend on the
doctors and their wisdom. But a lot of it is
the patient changing their mindset and their lifestyle. There's another
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book that I love to tell paces about is Anti
Cancer a New Way of Life. And it's a doctor
who had a brain tumor, got all of the routine
treatments and the brain can you know, it wasn't responding.
So he started looking at other ways to treat cancer.
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And so he started looking at Eastern and Western medicine,
all these things, and he started making all of these
changes when it was about his diet, decreasing stress, doing
all these other things, and he lived for another twenty
five years. He wrote a book called Anti Cancer, a
New Way of Life. He started traveling all around the
world promoting his book, and his cancer came back. You
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know why, And he says it in a subsequent book
that he wrote, is because when he started flying around,
you know, promoting his book, he stress came back into
his life. He had a schedule, all of that stuff,
and he attributes that recurrence to how he went against
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his principles that he had been living by for twenty
five years and the cancer came back and he passed away.
So it really is a new way of life. It's
something that you have to constantly be on the you know,
be on the offensive.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
And I'll tell you and I'm just so I'm excited
about this because I've seen it over the last two
or three years that these patients have improved. And I'll
tell you another thing that is happening. There's a company
called Signatara, and Signatara what they do is is that
they if a patient has cancer, they get the pathology report,
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look for that specific cancer cell, and you can do
blood tests and they can see if there's fragments of
DNA from that cancer in the blood. So any cancer
is going to start to shed fragments of their DNA
as they continue to grow and whatever. So this is
like an early early sign of one. If you had
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surgery or radiation, did they get it all? Is there
no cancer DNA around? And if if you are quote
unquote cured or you're done with treatment and you're waiting
for that five years to say that you're quote unquote
great cured, you can actually what they do is you
do the test and then you do it three months
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later to make sure is it going up or down?
And then you continue to monitor them every six months
and if you see that there's fragments of DNA, then
it's time to start some type of treatments. Do we
start back with the vitamin C? Do we add something else?
But it's a great test and the patients love it
because they're not sitting around scared for five years hoping
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that the cancer doesn't reoccur. And a lot of times,
five years later it doesn't recur in a small amount.
It's you know, it ends up as being spread in
the brain and the bone and all that. So this
gives some you know, give us some heads up that hey,
things may be starting to stir up again. So so
all of that is helpful. And you know, the treatment
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and the monitoring of cancer paces and I think it
helps decrease their stress when they know that there's active
monitoring going on and they're not sitting around biting their nails, right,
you're just hoping that, you know, hoping that everything is okay.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
What about people who have a history of family members
with cancer? Yeah, what can they do on an early stage?
Because I mean, I mean, I know, I think about
that because I had to. My mother and father both
passed from cancer, and what can Is there anything people
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can do?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Yeah, you know, there's there's another test called Gallery g
A L l A r I Gallery, and it looks
for signs for like fifty different cancers. That's another test
and if you go to gallery dot com or we
have it here, uh, it looks for signs of early
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signs of fifty types of cancers. So that's one thing
you can do. And if you have a strong family
history of a certain type of cancer, this test that signatory.
They have another test called Empower, which it looks for
genetic signs of cancers of your family history. So it's
a yeah, it's a you know, it's just like you know,
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you're saying, now, everybody's afraid of this and they don't want,
you know that meeting with the doctor in the office
and you know, everybody's looking, you know, sheepish and saying, hey,
you've got cancer. That's everybody's nightmare.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
So yeah, you can.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
If you can find these signs early, it's a lot
easier to treat, whether it's chemo, whatever it is, because
just the pure you know, whenever you see someone with
a cancer. You know, a lot of times they want
to remove the cancer, the biggest part of the cancer
before they start the chemo, because the less cancer sales
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you have to deal with, the better the treatment that
is going to be.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
And the more the healthier your immune system is, the
better your cancer prevention chances are going to be.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Because your immune system is your primary defense against cancer.
There's things called natural killer sales that come out when
you sleep to make sure that it's like a surveillance
camera that's looking for signs of cancer sales, and they
kill it. It's called a natural killer cell. And that's
why sleep is so important because if you don't sleep well,
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your risk of cancer goes up because you don't make
these you don't give the natural killer sales enough time
to go and survey for cancers, so that so your
you know, your risk of cancer can go up just
from not having good rest will sleep, so you know,
So all of those things are involved in what your
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answer risk are and what you can do to try
and decrease those. And I know, doctor Taylor, you put
a lot of emphasis on stress, whether it's now we're
talking cancer, we're talking weight loss.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
When I was younger, I would say twenty to about
fifty this thirty years, I really took care of my body.
And I'm talking supplements. I'm talking about a diet and exercise,
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and I here so many times people passing away and
there's early sixties, you know, early seventies, and I almost
feel guilty. Is like, is that the reason why that
maybe I have stayed healthier than other people in my
age group because of how I took care of myself
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early in life.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
You know.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
I tell people, hey, look, you can wear your body
out in twenty thirty years if you abuse it, you know,
if you drugs, don't eat right, you know, gain you
know too, you know you're walking around four or five
hundred pounds. Yeah, you've abused your body. You're us You're
abusing your cardiovascular system making it have to go to
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four hundred pounds of you know, of tissue or whatever.
And I say, your body can only take so much
and you have to refuel. You have to refuel, you know.
So now a lot of people like you said, you
know what they do. They've abused their body for twenty
thirty years and now they're fifty sixty seventy and everything
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starts to break down because they didn't do maintenance. You know,
it's just like you know your car, if you don't
do maintenance on a periodic basis, it is going to
break down on you. So if you are doing maintenance
by making sure you're eating correctly, by making sure that
you're moving, you're exercising, you're actually putting your body to work.
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You know that you're you're sleeping, and that you're eating
you know appropriately, So all of those things are you know,
are important. Uh, you know for any kind of stress
type issue.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Doctor Taylor, you know I'm gonna tell people, you really
walk the walk. I mean, I know you had to
give up very lucrative uh area of medicine, giving up
your ob gen practice. I mean, I know you you
work long hours, late hours, but it's a very lucrative
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very and you gave that up to practice an area
of medicine that was still new. But you actually you
your your lifestyle, the way you and your wife exercise
and eat, even growing your own food. I mean, you
really walk the walk. Yeah, well you know I had to.
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You're You're right, I did, ob June. I was working
long hours and I was also at that time promoting
our books, and I was traveling, I was speaking, it
was raising, you know, trying to help raise a family,
and I was like, I can't do this. This is
going to kill me.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
And uh so that was kind of my empatus that
I can't do this for another twenty years. It's gonna
it's definitely gonna kill me. And so we just kind
of reinvented ourselves. My wife had a psychiatry practice and
that was, you know, very challenging. After we had our
second child, so we were like, okay, we've got yeah,
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we you know, we've got children to raise. We've got
to take care of ourselves. So we started down this journey.
Initially it was about understanding hormones, and then it was
about understanding the gut, understanding the you know, the brain
and how that works. Then understand and cancer and then
so on and so forth. And you know, I'll tell you, uh,
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medicine is so regimented and it's kind of it's almost
cult like, is that you have to think a certain
way and you cannot look to the left or right.
And so what's so great about functional medicine is that
it's ever expanding. I mean, you're ever. You know, there's
always something new and exciting to learn, and it's not
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you know, we've done it like this for fifteen years
and we're going to keep doing it like that. Uh,
you know, functional medicine is open. It's it's trying to
find new ways and trying to understand now that you
knew it, just understanding the body better so that you
can help help it function better. And uh, you know,
it's very exciting. I think that's what keeps me going.
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You got to have something that makes you want to
get out of bed in the morning. And yeah, when
I was doing O B and they called me a
two or three in the morning, I didn't want to
get out of bed, you know.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
So but this makes me, you want to.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Get out of bed and go see what I can
do to help these patients who a lot of them
feel like they're at the end of their at the
end of the road. Yes, you know, I'll tell you
just one of my patients yesterday who got diagnosed with
stage four cancer in twenty twenty and they told her
get your affairs in or you got stage four cancer's metastatic.
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You know, just you know, prepare, prepare, so this is
twenty twenty. She came in yesterday. She comes in for
like riting to see like once a month, and we
did that signatory test on her and it was negative.
It shows us no cancer DNA anywhere. So that allows
me to tell her, hey, look, uh, you need to
go to your on colleges and say they don't need
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to be giving you some strong drug to kill a
cancer that's not there. Now, I'm not saying, you know,
you have to stop what you're doing, but it's just saying, hey,
we don't have to be so aggressive right now. It's
no cancer sales there, but will monitor you every three
to six months and we see any sign, then you know,
maybe we'll start back, you know. So now I'm in
a kind of a battle, not a battle, but I
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want to try and convince the psychologists that we don't
have to be so aggressive with her. She's doing great.
But this is the lady this is four almost five
years later, who they told her to get her affairs
in order and now there's no sign of any cancer anywhere.
And that doctor he's so amazed that she's doing so well,
and he said, I don't know what you're doing, but
you just need to keep doing it. And is she
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doctor Taylor. Yeah, yeah, she was doing it more often.
Now she just comes in every you know, one or
two times a month or once every month or two.
And as long as that signatory tests is negative, we
don't have to go crazy and give her vidings to her.
So it allows me to adjust what I'm doing for her,
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and also to help her with her pocketbook so that
she's not spending so much money trying to fight something
that's not even there. And it gives her reassurance that
she can go along ago on with a life.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
She's actually a.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
School teacher, been a school teacher for twenty eight years,
and it allows her to freely live her life without
having this constant worry about what's going on.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Doctor Tay. I can't believe the time always goes by
so fast. We are again, we're so lucky to have it.
You're on the first Wednesday of each month at ten
am Eastern time. Let's give everybody your phone number and
how they can reach your office. Yeah, well, probably the
best way to reach the office is that the is
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on the website is info at Taylor Medical Group dot net.
You can book an appointment there there's all types of
information educational information there for you. And then if you
do want to call a six seven eight four four
three four thousand. But if this is going nationally, trying
to figure out what times on we're in the Eastern
time zone, if you go to our website. Also you
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can email us there at info at Taylor Medical Group
dot net. But really, with this, since this is a
national show, I want you know, anybody anywhere to know
that there are uh I won't say alternatives, but there
are additional things you can do along with whatever your
conventional therapy choice is for any type of cancer, and
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just patients need to be educated on what they can
do to help themselves. And you also do telemedicine too.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yeah, yeah, we can do consultations through telemedicine.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
You know, the COVID kind of loosened up those rules
about crossing state line, so as long as that's you know,
still viable, we can do that also.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Yeah, beautiful, doctor Taylor, thank you so much. We'll see
you again next month, I ask the experts.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Okay, all right, great, all right, great, all right, bye bye,
Thanks doctor Taylor.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
He is amazing. I mean, if your doctor, if you
feel in your body, there's something's not right, and your
doctors saying you're okay, I am, I'm telling you. Give
doctor Eldred Taylor, he's in the Atlanta, Georgia area. Give
him his office.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
A call and he's actually treated a friend of mine
that has through telemedicine that he has helped im mensely amazing.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
So that's we're going to go have our next show
coming up. Stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
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Welcome to the Ask the Experts Show on W FOURCY
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from top local experts in the fields of legal, health,
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Speaker 3 (00:56):
Hey, good morning, Welcome to another Asked the Experts show.
We bring you the finance experts in the field of legal, health,
financial and home improvement. This is our third teenth year
with the ass the Expert Show, and with our first
expert we are doing something that we really haven't done before,
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but this topic, this expert is so important. We decided
to make this nationally so this show will be seen
in her throughout the country. It's a very important show.
We were so blessed a couple of years ago to
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find one of the I say, one of the greatest
doctors when it comes to especially with weight loss. We
found a doctor and it was really kind of crazy
because there was two people who wanted this spot on
our show. And I guess I'll call myself spiritual, but
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something led me to bring this expert on this MD,
this doctor, and it has been the greatest decision I
made with the help above, and we are so blessed
to have him. Let me introduce you to doctor Eldred
(02:30):
Taylor of the Taylor Medical Group. Good morning, doctor Taylor, Hey,
good morning, Thanks so much for the introduction. I appreciate
it well deserved. We just we get more letters from
listeners just thanking us for your show, and we always
(02:54):
make it the first Wednesday, so it's easy to find
you're on with us the first win say of the month.
We started off in Atlanta, then we kind of built
that out till Georgia and now you have one of
my few national shows, and it's perfect because you offer
(03:14):
so much great information, Doctor Taylor. But we find also
like people are finding the show every week every day,
and once they hear your show, they can't wait to
hear the next show. So tell people you're the greatest story.
Tell people about how you got into you're an MD.
(03:38):
He went to one of the finest medical schools in
the country. Tell people how you got to where you
are today.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Yeah, well, I'm from Nashville, Tennessee, with the Vanderbilt undergrad
and came to get an emory to go to medical
school and did a residency in upstatist and gnecology and
practiced routine OBGYN for about six seven years. And then
my wife was also a physician. Uh, you know, we
(04:08):
just you know, as you age, you start to have issues,
and women start to have issues with hormones and things,
and so my wife was having those issues and I
was doing what I was taught, and I was seeing
that it wasn't really helping. So I had a patient
who came in told me about the natural hormones and progesterone,
and I thought that it couldn't make sense because I
(04:30):
didn't learn it in medical school, so you know, how
could this be? So anyway, I listened to a the
set tape that tells you how long ago it was,
and he was talking about all hormones and biodentical hormones,
which I really didn't know what that meant and anyway,
but I listened to it, and my whole life changed
(04:50):
that day. I listened to that tape and my wife
really had to coerce me into listening to it because
I thought I was, you know, already knew everything. But anyway,
it changed the course some my life. I start to
understand how to measure HORMONESY measure hormones through saliva, not
through blood. I started to learn really how the body
actually works, and not how drugs affect the body, but
(05:13):
how the body functions, and that if you give the
body what it needs to function, it will do all
kinds of miraculous things for you. So it'll help you
maintain your weight, it will help you to survive cancer,
it'll help you to fight off infections, it'll heal things
that are broken. But the body has to have what
(05:36):
it needs, and if you provide it, man, it functions great.
And that's why I call myself a functional medicine doctor.
I try to help the patient get what their body
needs so that they can function properly.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You know, it's amazing, doctor Taylor. Your patients have gone
to other doctors and have gotten no relief and then
they come to you. That is a story in itself. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Well, you know, you know, my favorite patient is the
doctor is the patient who's gone to all the other
doctors and they said they don't really find anything wrong.
And those doctors are more than likely correct is that
they do not find any disease that the patient has.
But I'm not looking for diseases. I'm looking for dysfunction,
(06:29):
and that's a whole different ballgame. And so you know,
if you do disease testing, that patient may not have
a disease. But if you look at function, you can
identify and you can treat dysfunction because dysfunction is their
precursor for disease. You have help, you have dysfunction, and
then you have disease. So I'm trying to identify the
(06:52):
dysfunction so we can return the patient back to help
and not wait till they have a disease, when it's
much more difficult to get them back to the health
starting point.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And from this you also developed a supplemental company too. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Well, well, the reason why we started the supplement company
is that when I first started doing this, I would
speak for different nutraceuticals, I said, pharmaceuticals, I think nutraceutical companies,
different supplement companies. And what I found is that you know,
they would they wanted you to sell the B five,
the B six, the Ashraganda, everything in a separate bottle.
(07:36):
And what happens is is that you know, patients have
to take like ten different supplements. You know, you see
them with a handful of supplements trying to choke them down,
and most people aren't going to do that long term.
So what we discovered is that it's better if you
take smaller amounts of several of those put them together,
(07:57):
and the sum is greater than parts. And so if
you put them together, they work together better together then
they do separately, and also saves the patient a lot
of money. We try to make it where we can
help the patient by giving them more, no more than
two to three supplements, because that's the only thing the
patient is really going to do on a consistent basis.
(08:21):
So we have combination products that try to create a
specific outcome. It's not just a multi vitamin. No, it's
something to correct cortisol. There's something to correct hormone balance,
something to correct liver detoxification problems. So it's directed at
a certain system and not just one individual supplement or vitamin.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Well, let's let's talk about the dreaded cancer. Yeah, and
you know, I know that a lot of people pass
because of cancer. What are a lot of these? Is
there a way, doctor Taylor, that maybe we can minimize? Answer?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Well, you know, you know cancer is such a difficult subject.
And you know, we talk about what causes cancer, what
prevents cancer. This is what I can say is that
the healthier your body is if you do happen to contract,
(09:31):
you know, some type of cancer, the healthier you are
at the beginning and through the process, the better off
you're going to be. Yeah, you know, we let me
tell you why I've gotten interested in the subject. My
sister passed away in twenty sixteen from breast cancer. She
had a long fight with breast cancer, and I saw
(09:53):
her just just to teary, miserably over the last four
or five years of her life. And I tried to
convince her and her family that you know, why don't
we try some things not necessarily stop the chemo, but
they help her get through it. We do a lot
of IV vitamin C and IV vitamin C. It's over
(10:17):
fifteen hundred articles talking about vitamin C and cancer and
how it increases the efficacy or the ability of the
chemotherapy to actually kill the cancer cells and to protect
the normal sales. The vitamin C helps to helps the
normal cells to be strong enough to withstand and recover
(10:39):
from the chemo therapy. So we do a lot of
vitamin C ivs. We have seen patients who had stayed
four triple negative cancer, which is the worst, be able
to do chemo therapy, and the oncologists are amazed at
how well they're doing the chemotherapy and how well the
(11:02):
cancer is responding to it. Now, the problem is is
that a lot of times when the patients say that
they're doing IVY vitamin C, they kind of disregard that
that it couldn't be from that. But that's that's definitely
is what's going on. And it's too simple. It's too simple,
And my problem is is that, and I'm not saying
all on collegests are like this, but the oncologists are
(11:24):
so focused on killing the cancer they don't recognize that
the patient is deteriorating right before their eyes. But they're
so focused on that the cancer gets removed, but they
don't see how it's sucking the life out of the patient.
And so what we do is we talk about the
vitamin C IV's and we talk about how dose vitamin
(11:45):
C fifty two, one hundred grams of vitamin C on
a weekly or a biweekly basis. There's other things that
patients can do. I'll tell you what the most important
thing a patient can do is to decrease their consumption
of meat. That's kind of what got me on this
plant based diet is that there are several studies to
(12:06):
talk about how meat, especially processed meat, can stimulate the
cancer cell growth and that if you take it away
the cancer sales diet. So I saw a lot of
the patients that came in post cancer, they immediately went
to a plant based diet. So I started looking at
is there any real validity in that? And again, you
(12:28):
can look at plant based diets and cancer and survival
from cancer and you'll see that that you know, that
is a real avenue that patients should go down because
when you're finding cancer, you have to depend on the
doctors and their wisdom. But a lot of it is
the patient changing their mindset and their lifestyle. There's another
(12:52):
book that I love to tell paces about is Anti
Cancer a New Way of Life. And it's a doctor
who had a brain tumor, got all of the routine
treatments and the brain can you know, it wasn't responding.
So he started looking at other ways to treat cancer.
(13:14):
And so he started looking at Eastern and Western medicine,
all these things, and he started making all of these
changes when it was about his diet, decreasing stress, doing
all these other things, and he lived for another twenty
five years. He wrote a book called Anti Cancer, a
New Way of Life. He started traveling all around the
world promoting his book, and his cancer came back. You
(13:36):
know why, And he says it in a subsequent book
that he wrote, is because when he started flying around,
you know, promoting his book, he stress came back into
his life. He had a schedule, all of that stuff,
and he attributes that recurrence to how he went against
(13:56):
his principles that he had been living by for twenty
five years and the cancer came back and he passed away.
So it really is a new way of life. It's
something that you have to constantly be on the you know,
be on the offensive.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
And I'll tell you and I'm just so I'm excited
about this because I've seen it over the last two
or three years that these patients have improved. And I'll
tell you another thing that is happening. There's a company
called Signatara, and Signatara what they do is is that
they if a patient has cancer, they get the pathology report,
(14:32):
look for that specific cancer cell, and you can do
blood tests and they can see if there's fragments of
DNA from that cancer in the blood. So any cancer
is going to start to shed fragments of their DNA
as they continue to grow and whatever. So this is
like an early early sign of one. If you had
(14:54):
surgery or radiation, did they get it all? Is there
no cancer DNA around? And if if you are quote
unquote cured or you're done with treatment and you're waiting
for that five years to say that you're quote unquote
great cured, you can actually what they do is you
do the test and then you do it three months
(15:15):
later to make sure is it going up or down?
And then you continue to monitor them every six months
and if you see that there's fragments of DNA, then
it's time to start some type of treatments. Do we
start back with the vitamin C? Do we add something else?
But it's a great test and the patients love it
because they're not sitting around scared for five years hoping
(15:36):
that the cancer doesn't reoccur. And a lot of times,
five years later it doesn't recur in a small amount.
It's you know, it ends up as being spread in
the brain and the bone and all that. So this
gives some you know, give us some heads up that hey,
things may be starting to stir up again. So so
all of that is helpful. And you know, the treatment
(15:57):
and the monitoring of cancer paces and I think it
helps decrease their stress when they know that there's active
monitoring going on and they're not sitting around biting their nails, right,
you're just hoping that, you know, hoping that everything is okay.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
What about people who have a history of family members
with cancer? Yeah, what can they do on an early stage?
Because I mean, I mean, I know, I think about
that because I had to. My mother and father both
passed from cancer, and what can Is there anything people
(16:37):
can do?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Yeah, you know, there's there's another test called Gallery g
A L l A r I Gallery, and it looks
for signs for like fifty different cancers. That's another test
and if you go to gallery dot com or we
have it here, uh, it looks for signs of early
(17:00):
signs of fifty types of cancers. So that's one thing
you can do. And if you have a strong family
history of a certain type of cancer, this test that signatory.
They have another test called Empower, which it looks for
genetic signs of cancers of your family history. So it's
a yeah, it's a you know, it's just like you know,
(17:22):
you're saying, now, everybody's afraid of this and they don't want,
you know that meeting with the doctor in the office
and you know, everybody's looking, you know, sheepish and saying, hey,
you've got cancer. That's everybody's nightmare.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
So yeah, you can.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
If you can find these signs early, it's a lot
easier to treat, whether it's chemo, whatever it is, because
just the pure you know, whenever you see someone with
a cancer. You know, a lot of times they want
to remove the cancer, the biggest part of the cancer
before they start the chemo, because the less cancer sales
(18:00):
you have to deal with, the better the treatment that
is going to be.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
And the more the healthier your immune system is, the
better your cancer prevention chances are going to be.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Because your immune system is your primary defense against cancer.
There's things called natural killer sales that come out when
you sleep to make sure that it's like a surveillance
camera that's looking for signs of cancer sales, and they
kill it. It's called a natural killer cell. And that's
why sleep is so important because if you don't sleep well,
(18:38):
your risk of cancer goes up because you don't make
these you don't give the natural killer sales enough time
to go and survey for cancers, so that so your
you know, your risk of cancer can go up just
from not having good rest will sleep, so you know,
So all of those things are involved in what your
(19:00):
answer risk are and what you can do to try
and decrease those. And I know, doctor Taylor, you put
a lot of emphasis on stress, whether it's now we're
talking cancer, we're talking weight loss.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
When I was younger, I would say twenty to about
fifty this thirty years, I really took care of my body.
And I'm talking supplements. I'm talking about a diet and exercise,
(19:37):
and I here so many times people passing away and
there's early sixties, you know, early seventies, and I almost
feel guilty. Is like, is that the reason why that
maybe I have stayed healthier than other people in my
age group because of how I took care of myself
(19:59):
early in life.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
You know.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
I tell people, hey, look, you can wear your body
out in twenty thirty years if you abuse it, you know,
if you drugs, don't eat right, you know, gain you
know too, you know you're walking around four or five
hundred pounds. Yeah, you've abused your body. You're us You're
abusing your cardiovascular system making it have to go to
(20:23):
four hundred pounds of you know, of tissue or whatever.
And I say, your body can only take so much
and you have to refuel. You have to refuel, you know.
So now a lot of people like you said, you
know what they do. They've abused their body for twenty
thirty years and now they're fifty sixty seventy and everything
(20:45):
starts to break down because they didn't do maintenance. You know,
it's just like you know your car, if you don't
do maintenance on a periodic basis, it is going to
break down on you. So if you are doing maintenance
by making sure you're eating correctly, by making sure that
you're moving, you're exercising, you're actually putting your body to work.
(21:08):
You know that you're you're sleeping, and that you're eating
you know appropriately, So all of those things are you know,
are important. Uh, you know for any kind of stress
type issue.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Doctor Taylor, you know I'm gonna tell people, you really
walk the walk. I mean, I know you had to
give up very lucrative uh area of medicine, giving up
your ob gen practice. I mean, I know you you
work long hours, late hours, but it's a very lucrative
(21:45):
very and you gave that up to practice an area
of medicine that was still new. But you actually you
your your lifestyle, the way you and your wife exercise
and eat, even growing your own food. I mean, you
really walk the walk. Yeah, well you know I had to.
(22:07):
You're You're right, I did, ob June. I was working
long hours and I was also at that time promoting
our books, and I was traveling, I was speaking, it
was raising, you know, trying to help raise a family,
and I was like, I can't do this. This is
going to kill me.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
And uh so that was kind of my empatus that
I can't do this for another twenty years. It's gonna
it's definitely gonna kill me. And so we just kind
of reinvented ourselves. My wife had a psychiatry practice and
that was, you know, very challenging. After we had our
second child, so we were like, okay, we've got yeah,
(22:45):
we you know, we've got children to raise. We've got
to take care of ourselves. So we started down this journey.
Initially it was about understanding hormones, and then it was
about understanding the gut, understanding the you know, the brain
and how that works. Then understand and cancer and then
so on and so forth. And you know, I'll tell you, uh,
(23:05):
medicine is so regimented and it's kind of it's almost
cult like, is that you have to think a certain
way and you cannot look to the left or right.
And so what's so great about functional medicine is that
it's ever expanding. I mean, you're ever. You know, there's
always something new and exciting to learn, and it's not
(23:27):
you know, we've done it like this for fifteen years
and we're going to keep doing it like that. Uh,
you know, functional medicine is open. It's it's trying to
find new ways and trying to understand now that you
knew it, just understanding the body better so that you
can help help it function better. And uh, you know,
it's very exciting. I think that's what keeps me going.
(23:48):
You got to have something that makes you want to
get out of bed in the morning. And yeah, when
I was doing O B and they called me a
two or three in the morning, I didn't want to
get out of bed, you know.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
So but this makes me, you want to.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Get out of bed and go see what I can
do to help these patients who a lot of them
feel like they're at the end of their at the
end of the road. Yes, you know, I'll tell you
just one of my patients yesterday who got diagnosed with
stage four cancer in twenty twenty and they told her
get your affairs in or you got stage four cancer's metastatic.
(24:22):
You know, just you know, prepare, prepare, so this is
twenty twenty. She came in yesterday. She comes in for
like riting to see like once a month, and we
did that signatory test on her and it was negative.
It shows us no cancer DNA anywhere. So that allows
me to tell her, hey, look, uh, you need to
go to your on colleges and say they don't need
(24:44):
to be giving you some strong drug to kill a
cancer that's not there. Now, I'm not saying, you know,
you have to stop what you're doing, but it's just saying, hey,
we don't have to be so aggressive right now. It's
no cancer sales there, but will monitor you every three
to six months and we see any sign, then you know,
maybe we'll start back, you know. So now I'm in
a kind of a battle, not a battle, but I
(25:07):
want to try and convince the psychologists that we don't
have to be so aggressive with her. She's doing great.
But this is the lady this is four almost five
years later, who they told her to get her affairs
in order and now there's no sign of any cancer anywhere.
And that doctor he's so amazed that she's doing so well,
and he said, I don't know what you're doing, but
you just need to keep doing it. And is she
(25:28):
doctor Taylor. Yeah, yeah, she was doing it more often.
Now she just comes in every you know, one or
two times a month or once every month or two.
And as long as that signatory tests is negative, we
don't have to go crazy and give her vidings to her.
So it allows me to adjust what I'm doing for her,
(25:48):
and also to help her with her pocketbook so that
she's not spending so much money trying to fight something
that's not even there. And it gives her reassurance that
she can go along ago on with a life.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
She's actually a.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
School teacher, been a school teacher for twenty eight years,
and it allows her to freely live her life without
having this constant worry about what's going on.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Doctor Tay. I can't believe the time always goes by
so fast. We are again, we're so lucky to have it.
You're on the first Wednesday of each month at ten
am Eastern time. Let's give everybody your phone number and
how they can reach your office. Yeah, well, probably the
best way to reach the office is that the is
(26:33):
on the website is info at Taylor Medical Group dot net.
You can book an appointment there there's all types of
information educational information there for you. And then if you
do want to call a six seven eight four four
three four thousand. But if this is going nationally, trying
to figure out what times on we're in the Eastern
time zone, if you go to our website. Also you
(26:54):
can email us there at info at Taylor Medical Group
dot net. But really, with this, since this is a
national show, I want you know, anybody anywhere to know
that there are uh I won't say alternatives, but there
are additional things you can do along with whatever your
conventional therapy choice is for any type of cancer, and
(27:15):
just patients need to be educated on what they can
do to help themselves. And you also do telemedicine too.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yeah, yeah, we can do consultations through telemedicine.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
You know, the COVID kind of loosened up those rules
about crossing state line, so as long as that's you know,
still viable, we can do that also.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Yeah, beautiful, doctor Taylor, thank you so much. We'll see
you again next month, I ask the experts.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Okay, all right, great, all right, great, all right, bye bye,
Thanks doctor Taylor.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
He is amazing. I mean, if your doctor, if you
feel in your body, there's something's not right, and your
doctors saying you're okay, I am, I'm telling you. Give
doctor Eldred Taylor, he's in the Atlanta, Georgia area. Give
him his office.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
A call and he's actually treated a friend of mine
that has through telemedicine that he has helped im mensely amazing.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
So that's we're going to go have our next show
coming up. Stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
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