January 24, 2024 • 28 mins
There are many ways to lose weight
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FOURCY Radio. Welcome to the Askthe Experts Show on W four CY Radio
and Talkboard TV, where we bringyou educational information from top local experts in
the fields of legal, health,financial, and home improvement. Now sit
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back and listen to experts in familylaw, association law, hearing laws,
business brokers, home care, alongwith many other topics. Now here are
your hosts, Steve O and Sophia. Hey, good morning, Georgia.
Welcome to another SCA Exports show wherewe bring you the top experts in the
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fields of health, legal, financial, and home improvement. If you all
only knew what goes on behind thescenes, but we're here live with you,
and I think we're going to becoming on video within the next video
two or three minutes. I thinkwe're there. Talk to massive. I'm
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waiting to hear if we are onair right now. We are? Okay,
here we okay, I think we'rein business. Are you there,
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Doctor Taylor? Bring you and allwhat they've just been a mess. I'm
going to come back on our phonelines, Rebel, because it doesn't look
like this is gonna work for ustoday at all. Okay, Well,
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how are you doing, doctor Taylor? Oh? I'm doing fat Hi Steve
okay, Oh okay, now weare, so we're going to leave it
like this. Keep your computer onand your phone on. So we're great.
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Okay, very good. Good morning, doctor Taylor. Hello, Hello,
how are you doing? We're doit well? We have better.
This has been a little crazy morningfor some reason. The download has not
been working properly. But those thingshappen because our show is live. See
a lot of the shows you seeare we recorded. So Doctor Taylor,
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first of all, I want tothank you because you give up your time
several times a month to educate ourlisteners and viewers about weight loss, about
functional medicine, and this is justsuch an easy show to do because we
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have one of the top physicians inthe state of Georgia. So I just
wanted to tell you we are soblessed to have you. Well, thank
you. I appreciate it. Ienjoy being here. And you know what,
I had a lady which I'm goingto send you the letter who wrote
that she doesn't miss any of yourshows. She's in it's the city where
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University of Georgia is, Athens.Athens, Yeah, Athens, Yes,
and she listens to the show andshe's getting her friends to listen because you
just you've got such a world ofknowledge, and you know, we usually
spent the first part of the showintroducing you. A lot of people know
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who you are. We have justthe first thing years. So we're talking
about weight loss and doctor Taylor.You've got so many things in your bag
to help people to lose weight.And I love that about you because it's
not a cookie cutter thing when itcomes to weight loss. Well's true,
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yeah, yeah, it's you know. I tell my patience, she's usually
by the time that you come toa physician looking for a weight loss solution,
you've already tried all the popular diets, you know, you've probably done
actings, keto paleo, you probablyyou know you've had gym membership about pelotons.
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You've done all of that stuff bythe time you come to a doctor
seeking weight loss. So if thetraditional methods, like you know, let
fewer calories and burn calories, youknow that that whole thing, if that
doesn't work. And again, itworks for a lot of people, and
it seems to work a lot betterthe younger you are. You know,
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when you're young, you can eatyou know, crystal burgers and met big
Max and whatever, and you don'tgain a pound as you get older because
your physiology changes. As you getolder, sometimes those traditional things that you
used to do to lose weight don'twork anymore. And that's usually because again
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your physiology change. Either your gutis not working right, your hardmones are
not where they should be. Yearsof a bad diet finally catches up with
you and you have insulin resistance.So all of those things can prevent weight
loss. And one of my sayingsthat I really believe is that you can't
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diet, your diet or exercise yourway past a hormone problem, whether that
be estrogen, progesterone, testosterone,cortisol, thyroid, it's it's not gonna
work. And your gut is alsothe center of one hormone. Well,
it's not really a hormone, it'sa neurotransmitter called serotonin. And serotonin is
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what makes you happy or feel good. So if your gut is not working,
a lot of times your serotonin isdown, so you are forced to
eat carbs because carbs increase serotonin.And so even if your gut is malfunctioning,
are you're not absorbing things correctly.All of those things could be the
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reason why the routine exercise more,eat less, they don't work. And
a lot of times stokes think thata patient is lying. Oh you must
be sneaking food. You must notbe you're really not working out three times
a week. Most of the timethose people aren't. They're not they're not
lying to you. They're really puttingin the work that should result in weight
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loss, but it doesn't. Youknow, doctor Taylor, when we first
started a couple of years ago,we talked about doing the show on anti
aging, and I got to tellyou that, and I'm not going to
repeat it again, but you toldeverybody your age one time on the show,
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and I got to tell you,I was shocked because you look like
you're in your early forties. Youdo, You've got the energy. You've
got to look at it, soyou know, you walk the walk for
sure. And another thing I've learnedabout you, doctor, is that you
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might have a health issue and noone seems to be able to help you
out. But you know what,there's times that you can go see doctor
Taylor and he's going to find outwhat's causing the problem first. And I
love that about you. It's justit's about you know, I can if
I came to you versus G andC, he and C's gonna have me
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a bill. You don't even knowanything about my body nothing. You are
going to take the time to findout what's causing the problem so you can't
treat it. Yeah. Yeah,So you know again, if you go
to uh, G and C,more than likely they're going to push on
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you whatever they are. They havean overstock of you know, because the
man is going to say, hey, look, we got too many of
these bills. You need to pushthese up front. I mean, so
you're really going in there and thepeople going to benefit as GNC because you
go, they're gonna unload stock onyou. But I'll give you example.
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Yesterday, I had a patient whocame in. She had just moved from
Arizona, had been out in Arizonafor like eighteen years or something. So
anyway, she had been here fora year, and all of a sudden,
she gained like twenty pounds and she'slike, my body's falling apart.
I'm reacting all these things, anda lot of that can be from the
environment. But then she also talkedabout how she had been to all these
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dogs and she had gained these twentypounds like within the year, and they
were like, well, everything's fine. Well, she brought her lab results
in and I don't want to gettoo technical, but overall you can understand
what I'm saying. So they werelooking at her thyroid function. So they
look at something called TSH. Anormal TSH is anywhere between two and five.
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Okay, so, uh well,I always say like one in five
souh. A year ago, thispatient, her her TSH was like one
point eight or one point two,and then now it's like three point eight.
So what I'm getting at is thateven even though that her thyroid function
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was in the normal range, itwas really three times worse than what it
was a year ago. Okay,so a lot of times NOx just see
it's it's in the normal range,it's between one and five. But if
she was at one and now it'sthree and with the TSH the hiring goes,
that means your thyroid's not working aswell. So even though it's in
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the normal range, it's three timesworse than what it was a year ago.
So that can explain her weight gain. All of a sudden, her
thyroid function has has decreased by twothirds. So that's a different way of
looking at medicine. I don't carewhat the normal range is, what have
you been living at. She's beenliving at a one or one point five,
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and now all of a sudden,in the last year is up to
three something almost four. So that'show functional medicine people think, Wow,
your function has decreased even though you'rein the normal range. That can cause
her to not function normally and notbe able to control her weight. So,
you know, she was excited thatsomebody actually explained to her what those
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lab results really meant and that weshould look further into that so that's what
we did. So that's the differencein how traditional positions think. As long
as you're in the normal range,you're normal. I don't care if you
gain thirty pounds, it's still normal. But functional medicine we look at oh
wow, I see even though you'rein the normal range, but this is
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a big difference from where you were, so you know, that can be
the cause of a big change inher physiology. Also, know you talk
about stress a lot when it comesto UH weight gain. How does the
person does everybody know that they're stressedout? That? Do you actually know
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you're stressed out? I guess,well, because you know, I M
not know why you're gaining weight?Yes, and you you have talked about
stress. Yeah, so so let'ssay you know, I told you she
moved from Arizona, and you knowshe's like, my body's falling apart,
you know, moving and changing jobsand all that stuff that's very stressful.
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So this patient, now here's whatquotason was. When you're under stress,
it actually slows down thyroid function becauseyour quartosol wants to be the energy producer,
not your thyroid. So one ofthe reasons why her thyroid function may
have deep diminished is because he hadthe stress of moving across the kind of
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tree, you know, and movingaway from somewhere she had been for eighteen
years, and she feels like herwhole body is falling apart, and that
can all be due to stress.We wrote a book called The Stress Connection.
How stress is connected to everything.So it can screw up your thyroid,
it can screw up her female hormones, estrogen, progesterone, cortisol,
can screw up your gut. So, yeah, do people know they're stressed
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out? People feel it and peoplesay, oh, I think it's due
to stress, but you can actuallymeasure that. We measure cortisol and stress
in the saliva, and a lotof times people think they have one issue
and really it's all starts and endswith cortisol. So yeah, people may
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not know they're stressed out, butI see a lot of patients they think.
They may think it's the thyroid.The men think it's their testosterone.
Women think, you know, it'syou know, some kind of other hormone.
But it's very important, it's veryvaluable to be able to see black
and white. This is what thisstress has done to me and The other
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thing is a lot of times youdon't gain the weight that you don't feel
bad why you're going through the stress. Your body may make enough quartersol to
get you through the stress, butthen after the stress is gone, cortisol
or adrenal gland function starts to decline, and that's when you get the fatigue,
you get the cravings for carbohydrates becauseyou're wanet to increase your energy.
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And that's what's confusing to patients.They're like, well, I'm not under
stressed now. You know that ladymay not be understressed now she's already moved,
but then that aftermath is where shebegins to feel the effects of the
stress that she's been through. DoctorTaylor, can't you get people to lose
weight that have a hard time gettinginto the gym? Are staying? You
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know, on a certain regimen,can you still lose weight? Yeah?
Uh yeah, Well one, ifyou get your heartmone straight. I always
tell patients, hey, look,if you've been trying to lose weight and
your only problem is we need toget your heartmone straight. If we get
your heartmone straight and you go backand do what you were doing to lose
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weight or going to the gym orwhatever. It should begin to give you
some results. And that's what Isee. Now, you're right. Some
people they travel a lot, theycan't get to the gym, they got
kids, they got whatever. NowI'll tell you the the weight loss drugs,
the samagulatabe which is what ozimpic andwagov is, and then uh tersip
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attack which is manjuro. Those injections, uh, they help a lot,
even if people can't get to thegym or have a hard time uh staying
on the diet. The way thosedrugs work, they really work on the
brain to curbs. It slows downstomach emptying so that you feel full quicker.
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It drives glucose into the cell soit's not in the blood where it
can store fat. So even thoughyou eat less, your glucose is used
more efficiently, and it seems tobe able to steer you away from things
that you shouldn't be eating. Itmakes it where sweets aren't appealing to you
a lot of times, alcohol isnot appealing to you anymore. And with
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those patients, a lot of times, if they just take those injections once
a week, it leads to significantamount of weight loss the key to it.
And you'll hear these stories about patientshaving all these bad gr problems,
and that is true. If youhave too big of a dose too soon
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you start off, you have totachrate the dose up over the course of
months. They stay on one dosefor one month. They don't have any
issues. You increase it. Butthey don't have any issues you increase it.
In my practice, as long asyou you ta trate that dose up
slowly. Monitor them once a week, and I mean, I'm sorry,
monitor them once a month. Wedo a body composition analysis to make sure
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that they're losing fat and not muscle. They also read an article they talk
about ozepic face or with GOVI face, where you have this drooping skin.
That's when people lose muscle. Soit's very important. I think when we
do our weight loss program is wemake sure people aren't losing muscle. You
don't want to lose that. You'retrying to lose fat, So all weight
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loss is not good weight loss.I tell patients, you have a cancer
patient who lost twenty pounds, andyou have somebody else who lost twenty pounds.
You know, of fat. Thecancer patient will look awful. Because
they're losing muscle. The other patientthey'll look great. So that's why we
think is very important that you needto monitor these patients. Make sure they're
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not having you know, awful GIsymptoms and the other thing is to make
sure that they're losing what you wantthem to lose, the fat and not
the muscle. Well, I wanteverybody to know, because we're all over
Georgia and I want people to knowthey can contact you. They can actually
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whether it's zoom or tell the medicineto what we call it, and you
can actually send them out a salivatest and you can do certain tests through
the mail. So even if you'renot in the Atlanta area, doctor Taylor
can still help you. Yeah,yeah, we can. Yeah, my
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whole appointment program allows for telehealth andwe send out a link. We can
see each other just like you knowwe're doing here. And yeah, we
can send out things and we canlook over lab results. I can share
my screen and we can go overlab results, so you you know,
understand what's going on and what weneed to do. So uh yeah,
uh. COVID kind of loosened upthose telemedicine rules that we had, so
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it opens us up to be ableto provide some services, uh, you
know, even through telemedicine. Andagain, you know, we we see
ourselves as a consultant. We don'tdo primary care. So you need to
still have your regular routine doctor whereveryou are. We're just to add on.
We're just so you need to getyour routine screenings, all that stuff
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with your doc. Uh, Andwe're just a little add on to try
and fill in the gap where yourdoc may not be able to help you.
You're too humble doctor. You know. We're getting a lot of people
writing about the injections you had broughtup and one of the questions people want
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to know is do you or canyou stay on it for the rest of
your life? Now we'll give youstop taking it? Do you gain the
way back? Well, it's twosets of people, I see, because
we've been doing this now for likea year and a half almost two years,
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so we can kind of can seewhat happens if you have somebody who
is dedicated to exercising and eating rightor whatever, and we help them along
to lose the twenty pounds that theygained because of mental pause and all that
stuff. But they're dedicated, theyjust kind of got stuck. Then a
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lot of times they can lose theweight and go and start doing what they
were doing to maintain their weight before, and they're fans. We have other
patients who what they do is theyget to an ideal weight or close to
an ideal weight, and it seemsto work best if you're not going to
just you know, really go atit and try and make sure you don't
gain the weight back. Is thatWhat they do is they take the doses
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and they stretch them out. Theymay stretch them out initially and do them
every two weeks, and if theyfeel like their weight is pretty stable,
they stretch it out there every threeweeks, and then they may stretch it
out to once a month. Sowe have patients who who do that.
Uh, if you don't do somethingto try and keep your weight down,
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then you're probably gonna gain the weightback. So uh, it's it's one
of those too. But it seemslike you do need to be on some
maintenance. But it seems also likesome of the changes are more permanent.
Uh. I get a lot ofpeople say, you know, they used
to drink wine at dinner and thenthey don't really enjoy it that much.
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And and that's even after they've beenoff of it for a while. They
don't regain, uh, they don'tregain a lot of their bad habits.
Some people do, but a lotof people will say, you know,
I still you know, don't likemeat as much. You'll see that patients
are more apt to become plant basedor whatever. It's. It's it's it's
it's a hodgepodge of things. Butyeah, well, some people need to
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stay on it in some form foran extended period of time, it seems
like that. And then some peoplecan can do pretty well after they finally
lose that last fifteen to twenty twentyfive pounds or whatever, and they can
keep it off within a range ofyou know, four or five pounds one
way or the other. Well,I'm going to tell him that I'm kind
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of telling this Doctor Taylor for thefirst time. But we have a restaurant
dining show that we do in SouthFlorida, and we actually had doctor Taylor
on because he eats a plant basedfoods Adagate, He walks to the walk.
He even has his own guarden,and it was like one of our
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most popular shows. Doctor Taylor.So we are going to invite you back,
and I think because the amount ofletters that are coming in, we're
going to do our next show alot of it about the injection, what's
safe, what's not safe? Okay, you actually have the most experience in
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this and you've been doing it fora year and a half. Yeah.
Yeah, because compounding pharmacies allowed meto be able to do it, and
it's not so expensive. If youget it from a compounding pharmacy, will
get the generic, but it worksjust as well, but it's about half
the price if your insurance doesn't pay. And insurance companies have gotten a lot
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more strict. There used to beeasier that you could get them to pay
for the brand name, but nowbecause of shortages or whatever, they're real
strict. You need to be ableto prove that you have type two diabetes
before they'll let you use it.Yeah, and you know that's kind of
the the craziness of our insurance system. They want you to wait until you
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actually have a significant problem. Thenthey want to try and fix it instead
of trying to a person from gettingto that point. It's just I don't
understand it, you know, justkeep gaining weight keeping. Well, now
you have type two diabetes. Okay, now we'll treat it. So yeah,
that's the difference. Then a lotof things are a lot of health
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issues are related to weight, andwhy the insurance companies would save them a
lot of money in the long run. I know it's short term thinking.
I mean it really is. Youknow, weight gain or weight loss has
been associated with Alzheimer's, with cardiovascardisease, with kidney function, hypertension,
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yeah, sleep apnea, all ofthat stuff. I mean every I would
tell you seventy percent of our chronicdiseases are associated with weight loss or can't
be helped by maintaining a decent weight. So yeah, it's a it's an
epidemic, it's a it's a medical, you know, h emergency. You
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know, we're just we're the mostobese country in the world and it causes
a lot of our uh you know, our health issues. And the reason
why we are not ranked is youknow, even I don't think we're even
ranked in the top twenty healthiest nationsbecause we have such a problem with obesity.
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Well, doctor Taylor, I gotyour shows always go by so fast.
Say you've actually kept you a littlelonger today. You're going to be
back with us again next month.Everybody, the best way to set up
an appointment with you, well,if the best way is to go to
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our website www. Dot Taylormedicalgroup dotnet. And on each page, I
think it's at the upper right,it has a button says book now,
so you can book there. Youcan click on that and you can book
appointment. You can book a telehealthappointment. Uh. It'll have different categories
based on you know, what kindof service you're looking for. And even
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if you click on the wrong service. Once we talk, we'll figure out
what we need to do. Uh, or you can call it six seven
eight four four three four thousand.Uh. But again, you know,
booking online is probably the easiest thingto do. But uh, you know,
we'll be happy to accept your phonecall during our business hours. Now,
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I gotta tell people, you havesome of the most amazing We don't
talk about it a lot, butyou have some of the most amazing supplements.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, wea our supplement companies called Tailor MD
Formulations dot com. Tailor MD Formulationsdot com. Uh, yeah, we
have Uh, we've been in thatbusiness for about twelve years, and our
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our goal was to simplify the supplementbusiness. Is to not give you a
bunch of single into the products likeB five, B six, Viba and
see. We tried to combine thingsthat would work to help a system to
function. So we try to beable to help people with the minimal amount
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of supplements. You know, Iwas under the impression dealing with patients for
a long time. The patient's onlygoing to do two or three things on
a regular basis, So you needto figure out the top two to three
things you need to have the patientwork with so they get the maximum result.
And that's how you look at it. You can't try and get somebody
to take ten things for ten monthsbefore they get better. You've got to
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make a difference pretty quickly. Well, doctor Taylor, you are so beloved
by this show. I'm so blessedthat we have you. Have a good
weekend and again, happy in thatyear to you and your wife, and
we'll see you again next month.Okay, all right, all right,
good good, all right. Byebye. It's doctor Eldrid Taylor. He
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is amazing. Anyway, that's itfor us today. We'll be back again
with you next month with more.I'm sorry next week. Next week,
we'll be back with you with moreas the Experts. See you soon.
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FOURCY Radio. Welcome to the Askthe Experts Show on W four CY Radio
and Talkboard TV, where we bringyou educational information from top local experts in
the fields of legal, health,financial, and home improvement. Now sit
(00:41):
back and listen to experts in familylaw, association law, hearing laws,
business brokers, home care, alongwith many other topics. Now here are
your hosts, Steve O and Sophia. Hey, good morning, Georgia.
Welcome to another SCA Exports show wherewe bring you the top experts in the
(01:03):
fields of health, legal, financial, and home improvement. If you all
only knew what goes on behind thescenes, but we're here live with you,
and I think we're going to becoming on video within the next video
two or three minutes. I thinkwe're there. Talk to massive. I'm
(01:42):
waiting to hear if we are onair right now. We are? Okay,
here we okay, I think we'rein business. Are you there,
(02:04):
Doctor Taylor? Bring you and allwhat they've just been a mess. I'm
going to come back on our phonelines, Rebel, because it doesn't look
like this is gonna work for ustoday at all. Okay, Well,
(02:30):
how are you doing, doctor Taylor? Oh? I'm doing fat Hi Steve
okay, Oh okay, now weare, so we're going to leave it
like this. Keep your computer onand your phone on. So we're great.
(02:52):
Okay, very good. Good morning, doctor Taylor. Hello, Hello,
how are you doing? We're doit well? We have better.
This has been a little crazy morningfor some reason. The download has not
been working properly. But those thingshappen because our show is live. See
a lot of the shows you seeare we recorded. So Doctor Taylor,
(03:16):
first of all, I want tothank you because you give up your time
several times a month to educate ourlisteners and viewers about weight loss, about
functional medicine, and this is justsuch an easy show to do because we
(03:37):
have one of the top physicians inthe state of Georgia. So I just
wanted to tell you we are soblessed to have you. Well, thank
you. I appreciate it. Ienjoy being here. And you know what,
I had a lady which I'm goingto send you the letter who wrote
that she doesn't miss any of yourshows. She's in it's the city where
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University of Georgia is, Athens.Athens, Yeah, Athens, Yes,
and she listens to the show andshe's getting her friends to listen because you
just you've got such a world ofknowledge, and you know, we usually
spent the first part of the showintroducing you. A lot of people know
(04:23):
who you are. We have justthe first thing years. So we're talking
about weight loss and doctor Taylor.You've got so many things in your bag
to help people to lose weight.And I love that about you because it's
not a cookie cutter thing when itcomes to weight loss. Well's true,
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yeah, yeah, it's you know. I tell my patience, she's usually
by the time that you come toa physician looking for a weight loss solution,
you've already tried all the popular diets, you know, you've probably done
actings, keto paleo, you probablyyou know you've had gym membership about pelotons.
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You've done all of that stuff bythe time you come to a doctor
seeking weight loss. So if thetraditional methods, like you know, let
fewer calories and burn calories, youknow that that whole thing, if that
doesn't work. And again, itworks for a lot of people, and
it seems to work a lot betterthe younger you are. You know,
(05:32):
when you're young, you can eatyou know, crystal burgers and met big
Max and whatever, and you don'tgain a pound as you get older because
your physiology changes. As you getolder, sometimes those traditional things that you
used to do to lose weight don'twork anymore. And that's usually because again
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your physiology change. Either your gutis not working right, your hardmones are
not where they should be. Yearsof a bad diet finally catches up with
you and you have insulin resistance.So all of those things can prevent weight
loss. And one of my sayingsthat I really believe is that you can't
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diet, your diet or exercise yourway past a hormone problem, whether that
be estrogen, progesterone, testosterone,cortisol, thyroid, it's it's not gonna
work. And your gut is alsothe center of one hormone. Well,
it's not really a hormone, it'sa neurotransmitter called serotonin. And serotonin is
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what makes you happy or feel good. So if your gut is not working,
a lot of times your serotonin isdown, so you are forced to
eat carbs because carbs increase serotonin.And so even if your gut is malfunctioning,
are you're not absorbing things correctly.All of those things could be the
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reason why the routine exercise more,eat less, they don't work. And
a lot of times stokes think thata patient is lying. Oh you must
be sneaking food. You must notbe you're really not working out three times
a week. Most of the timethose people aren't. They're not they're not
lying to you. They're really puttingin the work that should result in weight
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loss, but it doesn't. Youknow, doctor Taylor, when we first
started a couple of years ago,we talked about doing the show on anti
aging, and I got to tellyou that, and I'm not going to
repeat it again, but you toldeverybody your age one time on the show,
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and I got to tell you,I was shocked because you look like
you're in your early forties. Youdo, You've got the energy. You've
got to look at it, soyou know, you walk the walk for
sure. And another thing I've learnedabout you, doctor, is that you
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might have a health issue and noone seems to be able to help you
out. But you know what,there's times that you can go see doctor
Taylor and he's going to find outwhat's causing the problem first. And I
love that about you. It's justit's about you know, I can if
I came to you versus G andC, he and C's gonna have me
(08:24):
a bill. You don't even knowanything about my body nothing. You are
going to take the time to findout what's causing the problem so you can't
treat it. Yeah. Yeah,So you know again, if you go
to uh, G and C,more than likely they're going to push on
(08:45):
you whatever they are. They havean overstock of you know, because the
man is going to say, hey, look, we got too many of
these bills. You need to pushthese up front. I mean, so
you're really going in there and thepeople going to benefit as GNC because you
go, they're gonna unload stock onyou. But I'll give you example.
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Yesterday, I had a patient whocame in. She had just moved from
Arizona, had been out in Arizonafor like eighteen years or something. So
anyway, she had been here fora year, and all of a sudden,
she gained like twenty pounds and she'slike, my body's falling apart.
I'm reacting all these things, anda lot of that can be from the
environment. But then she also talkedabout how she had been to all these
(09:30):
dogs and she had gained these twentypounds like within the year, and they
were like, well, everything's fine. Well, she brought her lab results
in and I don't want to gettoo technical, but overall you can understand
what I'm saying. So they werelooking at her thyroid function. So they
look at something called TSH. Anormal TSH is anywhere between two and five.
(10:00):
Okay, so, uh well,I always say like one in five
souh. A year ago, thispatient, her her TSH was like one
point eight or one point two,and then now it's like three point eight.
So what I'm getting at is thateven even though that her thyroid function
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was in the normal range, itwas really three times worse than what it
was a year ago. Okay,so a lot of times NOx just see
it's it's in the normal range,it's between one and five. But if
she was at one and now it'sthree and with the TSH the hiring goes,
that means your thyroid's not working aswell. So even though it's in
(10:43):
the normal range, it's three timesworse than what it was a year ago.
So that can explain her weight gain. All of a sudden, her
thyroid function has has decreased by twothirds. So that's a different way of
looking at medicine. I don't carewhat the normal range is, what have
you been living at. She's beenliving at a one or one point five,
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and now all of a sudden,in the last year is up to
three something almost four. So that'show functional medicine people think, Wow,
your function has decreased even though you'rein the normal range. That can cause
her to not function normally and notbe able to control her weight. So,
you know, she was excited thatsomebody actually explained to her what those
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lab results really meant and that weshould look further into that so that's what
we did. So that's the differencein how traditional positions think. As long
as you're in the normal range,you're normal. I don't care if you
gain thirty pounds, it's still normal. But functional medicine we look at oh
wow, I see even though you'rein the normal range, but this is
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a big difference from where you were, so you know, that can be
the cause of a big change inher physiology. Also, know you talk
about stress a lot when it comesto UH weight gain. How does the
person does everybody know that they're stressedout? That? Do you actually know
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you're stressed out? I guess,well, because you know, I M
not know why you're gaining weight?Yes, and you you have talked about
stress. Yeah, so so let'ssay you know, I told you she
moved from Arizona, and you knowshe's like, my body's falling apart,
you know, moving and changing jobsand all that stuff that's very stressful.
(12:39):
So this patient, now here's whatquotason was. When you're under stress,
it actually slows down thyroid function becauseyour quartosol wants to be the energy producer,
not your thyroid. So one ofthe reasons why her thyroid function may
have deep diminished is because he hadthe stress of moving across the kind of
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tree, you know, and movingaway from somewhere she had been for eighteen
years, and she feels like herwhole body is falling apart, and that
can all be due to stress.We wrote a book called The Stress Connection.
How stress is connected to everything.So it can screw up your thyroid,
it can screw up her female hormones, estrogen, progesterone, cortisol,
can screw up your gut. So, yeah, do people know they're stressed
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out? People feel it and peoplesay, oh, I think it's due
to stress, but you can actuallymeasure that. We measure cortisol and stress
in the saliva, and a lotof times people think they have one issue
and really it's all starts and endswith cortisol. So yeah, people may
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not know they're stressed out, butI see a lot of patients they think.
They may think it's the thyroid.The men think it's their testosterone.
Women think, you know, it'syou know, some kind of other hormone.
But it's very important, it's veryvaluable to be able to see black
and white. This is what thisstress has done to me and The other
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thing is a lot of times youdon't gain the weight that you don't feel
bad why you're going through the stress. Your body may make enough quartersol to
get you through the stress, butthen after the stress is gone, cortisol
or adrenal gland function starts to decline, and that's when you get the fatigue,
you get the cravings for carbohydrates becauseyou're wanet to increase your energy.
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And that's what's confusing to patients.They're like, well, I'm not under
stressed now. You know that ladymay not be understressed now she's already moved,
but then that aftermath is where shebegins to feel the effects of the
stress that she's been through. DoctorTaylor, can't you get people to lose
weight that have a hard time gettinginto the gym? Are staying? You
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know, on a certain regimen,can you still lose weight? Yeah?
Uh yeah, Well one, ifyou get your heartmone straight. I always
tell patients, hey, look,if you've been trying to lose weight and
your only problem is we need toget your heartmone straight. If we get
your heartmone straight and you go backand do what you were doing to lose
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weight or going to the gym orwhatever. It should begin to give you
some results. And that's what Isee. Now, you're right. Some
people they travel a lot, theycan't get to the gym, they got
kids, they got whatever. NowI'll tell you the the weight loss drugs,
the samagulatabe which is what ozimpic andwagov is, and then uh tersip
(15:39):
attack which is manjuro. Those injections, uh, they help a lot,
even if people can't get to thegym or have a hard time uh staying
on the diet. The way thosedrugs work, they really work on the
brain to curbs. It slows downstomach emptying so that you feel full quicker.
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It drives glucose into the cell soit's not in the blood where it
can store fat. So even thoughyou eat less, your glucose is used
more efficiently, and it seems tobe able to steer you away from things
that you shouldn't be eating. Itmakes it where sweets aren't appealing to you
a lot of times, alcohol isnot appealing to you anymore. And with
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those patients, a lot of times, if they just take those injections once
a week, it leads to significantamount of weight loss the key to it.
And you'll hear these stories about patientshaving all these bad gr problems,
and that is true. If youhave too big of a dose too soon
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you start off, you have totachrate the dose up over the course of
months. They stay on one dosefor one month. They don't have any
issues. You increase it. Butthey don't have any issues you increase it.
In my practice, as long asyou you ta trate that dose up
slowly. Monitor them once a week, and I mean, I'm sorry,
monitor them once a month. Wedo a body composition analysis to make sure
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that they're losing fat and not muscle. They also read an article they talk
about ozepic face or with GOVI face, where you have this drooping skin.
That's when people lose muscle. Soit's very important. I think when we
do our weight loss program is wemake sure people aren't losing muscle. You
don't want to lose that. You'retrying to lose fat, So all weight
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loss is not good weight loss.I tell patients, you have a cancer
patient who lost twenty pounds, andyou have somebody else who lost twenty pounds.
You know, of fat. Thecancer patient will look awful. Because
they're losing muscle. The other patientthey'll look great. So that's why we
think is very important that you needto monitor these patients. Make sure they're
(17:53):
not having you know, awful GIsymptoms and the other thing is to make
sure that they're losing what you wantthem to lose, the fat and not
the muscle. Well, I wanteverybody to know, because we're all over
Georgia and I want people to knowthey can contact you. They can actually
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whether it's zoom or tell the medicineto what we call it, and you
can actually send them out a salivatest and you can do certain tests through
the mail. So even if you'renot in the Atlanta area, doctor Taylor
can still help you. Yeah,yeah, we can. Yeah, my
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whole appointment program allows for telehealth andwe send out a link. We can
see each other just like you knowwe're doing here. And yeah, we
can send out things and we canlook over lab results. I can share
my screen and we can go overlab results, so you you know,
understand what's going on and what weneed to do. So uh yeah,
uh. COVID kind of loosened upthose telemedicine rules that we had, so
(19:07):
it opens us up to be ableto provide some services, uh, you
know, even through telemedicine. Andagain, you know, we we see
ourselves as a consultant. We don'tdo primary care. So you need to
still have your regular routine doctor whereveryou are. We're just to add on.
We're just so you need to getyour routine screenings, all that stuff
(19:30):
with your doc. Uh, Andwe're just a little add on to try
and fill in the gap where yourdoc may not be able to help you.
You're too humble doctor. You know. We're getting a lot of people
writing about the injections you had broughtup and one of the questions people want
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to know is do you or canyou stay on it for the rest of
your life? Now we'll give youstop taking it? Do you gain the
way back? Well, it's twosets of people, I see, because
we've been doing this now for likea year and a half almost two years,
(20:11):
so we can kind of can seewhat happens if you have somebody who
is dedicated to exercising and eating rightor whatever, and we help them along
to lose the twenty pounds that theygained because of mental pause and all that
stuff. But they're dedicated, theyjust kind of got stuck. Then a
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lot of times they can lose theweight and go and start doing what they
were doing to maintain their weight before, and they're fans. We have other
patients who what they do is theyget to an ideal weight or close to
an ideal weight, and it seemsto work best if you're not going to
just you know, really go atit and try and make sure you don't
gain the weight back. Is thatWhat they do is they take the doses
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and they stretch them out. Theymay stretch them out initially and do them
every two weeks, and if theyfeel like their weight is pretty stable,
they stretch it out there every threeweeks, and then they may stretch it
out to once a month. Sowe have patients who who do that.
Uh, if you don't do somethingto try and keep your weight down,
(21:17):
then you're probably gonna gain the weightback. So uh, it's it's one
of those too. But it seemslike you do need to be on some
maintenance. But it seems also likesome of the changes are more permanent.
Uh. I get a lot ofpeople say, you know, they used
to drink wine at dinner and thenthey don't really enjoy it that much.
(21:38):
And and that's even after they've beenoff of it for a while. They
don't regain, uh, they don'tregain a lot of their bad habits.
Some people do, but a lotof people will say, you know,
I still you know, don't likemeat as much. You'll see that patients
are more apt to become plant basedor whatever. It's. It's it's it's
it's a hodgepodge of things. Butyeah, well, some people need to
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stay on it in some form foran extended period of time, it seems
like that. And then some peoplecan can do pretty well after they finally
lose that last fifteen to twenty twentyfive pounds or whatever, and they can
keep it off within a range ofyou know, four or five pounds one
way or the other. Well,I'm going to tell him that I'm kind
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of telling this Doctor Taylor for thefirst time. But we have a restaurant
dining show that we do in SouthFlorida, and we actually had doctor Taylor
on because he eats a plant basedfoods Adagate, He walks to the walk.
He even has his own guarden,and it was like one of our
(22:47):
most popular shows. Doctor Taylor.So we are going to invite you back,
and I think because the amount ofletters that are coming in, we're
going to do our next show alot of it about the injection, what's
safe, what's not safe? Okay, you actually have the most experience in
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this and you've been doing it fora year and a half. Yeah.
Yeah, because compounding pharmacies allowed meto be able to do it, and
it's not so expensive. If youget it from a compounding pharmacy, will
get the generic, but it worksjust as well, but it's about half
the price if your insurance doesn't pay. And insurance companies have gotten a lot
(23:32):
more strict. There used to beeasier that you could get them to pay
for the brand name, but nowbecause of shortages or whatever, they're real
strict. You need to be ableto prove that you have type two diabetes
before they'll let you use it.Yeah, and you know that's kind of
the the craziness of our insurance system. They want you to wait until you
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actually have a significant problem. Thenthey want to try and fix it instead
of trying to a person from gettingto that point. It's just I don't
understand it, you know, justkeep gaining weight keeping. Well, now
you have type two diabetes. Okay, now we'll treat it. So yeah,
that's the difference. Then a lotof things are a lot of health
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issues are related to weight, andwhy the insurance companies would save them a
lot of money in the long run. I know it's short term thinking.
I mean it really is. Youknow, weight gain or weight loss has
been associated with Alzheimer's, with cardiovascardisease, with kidney function, hypertension,
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yeah, sleep apnea, all ofthat stuff. I mean every I would
tell you seventy percent of our chronicdiseases are associated with weight loss or can't
be helped by maintaining a decent weight. So yeah, it's a it's an
epidemic, it's a it's a medical, you know, h emergency. You
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know, we're just we're the mostobese country in the world and it causes
a lot of our uh you know, our health issues. And the reason
why we are not ranked is youknow, even I don't think we're even
ranked in the top twenty healthiest nationsbecause we have such a problem with obesity.
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Well, doctor Taylor, I gotyour shows always go by so fast.
Say you've actually kept you a littlelonger today. You're going to be
back with us again next month.Everybody, the best way to set up
an appointment with you, well,if the best way is to go to
(25:47):
our website www. Dot Taylormedicalgroup dotnet. And on each page, I
think it's at the upper right,it has a button says book now,
so you can book there. Youcan click on that and you can book
appointment. You can book a telehealthappointment. Uh. It'll have different categories
based on you know, what kindof service you're looking for. And even
(26:08):
if you click on the wrong service. Once we talk, we'll figure out
what we need to do. Uh, or you can call it six seven
eight four four three four thousand.Uh. But again, you know,
booking online is probably the easiest thingto do. But uh, you know,
we'll be happy to accept your phonecall during our business hours. Now,
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I gotta tell people, you havesome of the most amazing We don't
talk about it a lot, butyou have some of the most amazing supplements.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, wea our supplement companies called Tailor MD
Formulations dot com. Tailor MD Formulationsdot com. Uh, yeah, we
have Uh, we've been in thatbusiness for about twelve years, and our
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our goal was to simplify the supplementbusiness. Is to not give you a
bunch of single into the products likeB five, B six, Viba and
see. We tried to combine thingsthat would work to help a system to
function. So we try to beable to help people with the minimal amount
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of supplements. You know, Iwas under the impression dealing with patients for
a long time. The patient's onlygoing to do two or three things on
a regular basis, So you needto figure out the top two to three
things you need to have the patientwork with so they get the maximum result.
And that's how you look at it. You can't try and get somebody
to take ten things for ten monthsbefore they get better. You've got to
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make a difference pretty quickly. Well, doctor Taylor, you are so beloved
by this show. I'm so blessedthat we have you. Have a good
weekend and again, happy in thatyear to you and your wife, and
we'll see you again next month.Okay, all right, all right,
good good, all right. Byebye. It's doctor Eldrid Taylor. He
(28:03):
is amazing. Anyway, that's itfor us today. We'll be back again
with you next month with more.I'm sorry next week. Next week,
we'll be back with you with moreas the Experts. See you soon.
Thanks for tuning in today to theAsk the Expert Show on the W four
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