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Your Internal Locus of Control
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If you believe you're in control of your recovery and life,, you will be. This is the most well reserached concept in determining who gets well following a back injury.
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Miraculous Recovery of a Firefighter
00:00:02
Speaker
Okay, so just decided to do this on the spur of the moment, and this is a friend of mine who is actually a patient, and I only met him a couple months ago. And I'm not really here to talk about the uniqueness of his recovery and what we did for his recovery, which was actually nothing short of a miracle. I'll probably try to cover that at the end.
00:00:26
Speaker
Just to give you a little intro, he came in here. He was, he's a firefighter, he hurt his back deadlifting at the gym before he came in to see me. It had been, oh, four to eight weeks of not having any improvement. He was doing some physical therapy.
00:00:44
Speaker
had seen some other doctors, and I thought it was going to be a slam dunk case because he just wasn't doing some of the things that I felt he needed to plug in, but then he started not It's, you know, he wasn't getting better with my care. We tried every possible thing we could think of.
00:01:00
Speaker
And, you know, working with another spine specialist, specialist after having injections and trying basically every approach, you know, we were forced with the possibility of having to do with the spinal fusion. He was so bad he could barely walk in my office and it really wasn't changing. He couldn't walk more than five minutes.
00:01:19
Speaker
We introduced ah just as a Hail Mary, this new therapy, CO2 therapy. And literally he went from not being able to walk hardly at all to walking and running the bridle trail over two hours and then basically never looked back and trained heavy. And it was just the most, it probably was the most miraculous, one of the most miraculous recoveries I had seen in my 40 years of practice.
00:01:44
Speaker
But I don't want to talk about that right now. What i want to talk about is what he brought coming in, which I think is actually one of the reasons he had this recovery.
00:01:54
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because he has what we call an internal locus of control. He was determined that he was going to find a way to get well and not have surgery and give back his life. And he's always been very physically active before he came in here.
00:02:08
Speaker
So your psychological profile is actually probably the most important thing when I see a patient. If they have the knowing that they can trust the process and if they think they're in the right place and they're in control of their recovery,
00:02:25
Speaker
But I want to just go talk to Miguel here in terms of his
Challenging Upbringing and Personal Growth
00:02:30
Speaker
background. And so when you came in here, you were pretty motivated. You came from a very, very, you were physically fit. You've done CrossFit for years, but you weren't always that way. You said that you were overweight in the past. You kind of grew up in a...
00:02:46
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rough way, you know, and yeah you say you grew up in Portland, Oregon, was it? Yep. Yep. Grew up in Portland, Oregon. Yep. Uh, kind of a, you know, poverty, low poverty, kind of a bad dude, maybe would you say? Yep. Yep. Pretty much. Uh, tell me about that part of your life, you know, like, and then we'd go to what changed you and what brought you that change to make you this person that you are today?
00:03:11
Speaker
Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So like you said, Portland, Oregon, and grew up, um, You know, I would say, um, I would say we weren't the richest family. So yeah, we, we had a lot of just processed foods, um, cheap food and, and, and kind of got what we can, food banks just, you know, we got, we got to eat what we, what we had. So, um, I was pretty heavy, uh, child. I would call myself the obese child when I was in, uh,
00:03:42
Speaker
I would say when I got into high school, freshman year is when I started got introduced to sports and signed up for football and and I would ride my bicycle everywhere. So that's when I started losing weight just because I was moving more and I got to choose what I was eating more.
00:04:00
Speaker
Grew up with chronic migraines and knowing now what caused those were it was processed foods and and just being unhealthy. And then like you mentioned too, I did grow up in a I would say unstructured lifestyle with a mother always gone because she was working. And then I had i did have a period where I did i had did have an abusive stepfather that was in our life. So that physically changed my brain mentality of of when I was a child of just being in that like scared mode all the time.
00:04:44
Speaker
And maybe that was part of my obesity. So did you act it out as a tough guy or anything? No. Or was it like, what you know like what was your teenage years like? Were you troubled and getting into trouble? Oh yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good point. I was. I was a pretty troubled young child and learned everything the hard way. I got in trouble a lot.
00:05:07
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um I was sent you know smoking pot and just making bad choices, staying up late down in Portland, caus causing mischief and getting in trouble with police.
00:05:21
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So yeah, I definitely was a troubled child and and made a lot of bad choices and learned the hard way, but I always didn't make the mistakes twice. i have i did notice that when I was making mistakes and doing bad decisions,
00:05:35
Speaker
I never really did it twice. I was like, okay. So you kind of got the idea that this is, I got a choice between that and this, and you chose that that direction. So it was a progressive way. did you You didn't have like one aha moment that you changed, or was it kind of a progressive thing? Yeah, i that was a good way of thinking of it. I never thought of it that way. yeah it was more progressive. It was more like,
00:05:58
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man, if I continue this, this is what's going to happen. And I just decided to myself that I don't like doing this. I want to start doing something different or better.
00:06:11
Speaker
Um, the aha moment, you bringing that up, thinking about it now, I think, uh, when I was, I would say, uh, 20, about in my twenties is when I was like, you know, i don't, I want to, I want to,
00:06:29
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change my, ah want I want to get out of that that same rhythm that my family grew up in and I wanted to change my own stars and not continue what everyone else is doing in my family and I want to get out of that what would you call that? The cycle. The cycle, thank you. Yeah, the cycle. I wanted to break that cycle. So this was a conscious thing you thought back then? Yeah, I'm going break this cycle. It wasn't something that just happened. You actually kind of
00:06:59
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knew that you had to change, go on different path. Yeah, I did. I did. i really did because I saw a lot of my own siblings struggle to get out of that cycle. And I would say still in some of those patterns of our past.
00:07:15
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And I wanted to completely remove everything. I wanted to change everything about what I grew up in and be this new person. Did you have to disassociate yourself from that?
00:07:31
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Yeah, yeah, you know, I did. I guess, ah yeah, you're right, I did. i I really just did my own thing. Did you have to isolate and actually not see those people in your family, or were you still able to interact with them?
00:07:46
Speaker
I would ah would still interact with them, but it would it would it was building my callus of... your ability to tolerate discipline yeah discipline and then I started getting into podcasts and working out I think working out really structured myself and working on a farm with a mentor that i got introduced back in 2016 he really she actually worked on a farm and we're connected with nature yeah yeah yeah so I was I was outside all the time and understood that work needed to come first and then
00:08:21
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play later. So he really taught me structure of work and, and my morals. And I think that's where I built, started building my foundation of. So he was he like this pivotal guy that came into your life? This, I mean, cause lot of times if if you just have one pivotal person,
00:08:37
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would you say that that is him or yeah yeah I would I would say he saved me yeah and built my work ethic believed in you right yeah yeah yeah he did he he didn't give me any shortcuts or gave me any break to slack or if I did a bad job, he would say redo it. Like, for instance, he told me to dig a hole because there was a pipe down there and i dug like three feet and
00:09:09
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I grabbed them, I'm like, hey, I'm still not hitting it, it's about three feet down. And he's looking down the hole and he's like, well, I guess it's over there. So go start digging there. And you know, I could have got pissed. I could have got upset. I could have been like, screw this. You know, I just dug this hole. But you saw some value in what he was teaching you. Yeah, no, I just trust the process. Yeah, being connected with nature, think is so important So in that process, now you mentioned that you were, you know, graduated high school,
00:09:39
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you know school was not really your thing you had a you know a little bit of a hard time academically but but there's so many people like you that are you know really really bright they are emotionally intelligent and they just don't fit into that one system that we have, so you you became a mechanic, right?
Lifestyle Changes and Career Choices
00:09:58
Speaker
Yep, yep, diesel mechanic. And did you enjoy that?
00:10:00
Speaker
Yeah, it felt easier doing that because I almost got to work at my own pace and understand at my own pace, opposed to like meeting at a deadline at an office or something or yeah or whatnot. or sitting at the computer. i just I just always had to move around and I'm good at working on multiple things at once.
00:10:26
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So you can multitask. You don't have that typical male brain that has to be straight on. No, I can multitask for sure. And that's the problem with my multitasking is I'll get too many projects, but I'll work on them all, but it won't stress me out.
00:10:43
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i I didn't know I was doing it at the time, but like it you know busy hands is good hands so like so it kept you focused and it kept you moving forward and you're working out at this time and you were starting to kind of go out click and you were getting fit right now you're feeling feeling better eating better eating diet was and so you're clearing up your migraines right yeah I've cleared up my migraines I noticed that it was a lot of my sugars and you're losing weight I was losing weight so you kept on that path of moving forward in getting
00:11:15
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choosing those movements that took you in the right direction. Yeah, yeah, yeah I really, I enjoyed working out twice a day and noticed that endurance was really my thing. So like just trying to keep that in the process of working in school and everything. So this is what taught when I mentioned internal locus of control. He had control of the direction he was going in. So that means that his process was organic and he was making those choices to move his move his well-being forward.
00:11:50
Speaker
So then, so after this, were you still kind of once in a while smoking pot and doing some stuff and you know, or were you pretty much... I Yeah, but you felt like you didn't have, you were getting a handle on it then? Yeah, I mean... It wasn't a big deal then? Smoking pot wasn't like an addiction thing. It was just something I enjoyed doing.
00:12:12
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honestly, when I was working out, I enjoyed it. Like a lot of people do. Yeah. So then did you, when did, when you got married, right? Yeah. So I, met who is my wife now,
00:12:25
Speaker
I have my girlfriend, which is my wife now, at in 2012. And that's when i I would, I guess, say I stopped smoking pot because I guess just adulting and wanting to build this relationship and she didn't feel like it. So you didn't feel it was positive for your relationship, right? Yeah. Well, I guess it was more she didn't enjoy it. and And I was like, okay, well, I don't need pot to succeed in anything. Yeah.
00:12:51
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you know, I have control of everything of how I succeed. So I was like, okay, I'll remove that. And then, I was drinking, I guess I would say I drink, I drank beer pretty consistently and, and then I just stopped drinking that as well. And I guess I'm pretty good at just turning the switch off or on. And when it's on off, I can keep it off.
00:13:13
Speaker
Um, and you, and so this was a progressive thing. yeah And then you had your kids and you know, you're working as a mechanic out there, right? Yup. So so he he just recently moved to Casper and so when I met him he took a job out here to bring his family out of the city because he didn't feel it was a safe place for your kids, right? Safe and just better environment. Stimulus of being in the city and and society radio society and raising your kids in a more, just a
00:13:44
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slower paced lifestyle where there was safety and you know and the nature's nature's yeah so tell me about that process as you instigated that again another internal locus of control So he decides, I'm going to change my career yeah and look for a job, basically. and And you took firefighting because it allowed you to have more time with your kids, right? ye Yeah. Tell me about that. Yeah. So I'm 35. So I decided, you know, as an older adult that i want to change career. So I looked into
00:14:19
Speaker
firefighting. I was a fire truck mechanic and i was like okay this is pretty I'm familiar with the fire service and it since 2019 is when I started this process so i I just got recently hired on this year in March and five six years it took me to become a firefighter and and I could have gave up but
00:14:44
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I have to give my wife and most of the credit, she wouldn't let me give up. But also, again, with my mindset, giving up is something i have never done i've always so tell me you had a lot you do a he does a lot of health um that i would say are you know things he takes a lot of steps that he has put in so what are the some of the basic principles that you live in your life you know from diet sleep all the basics you know just and kind of give us a rundown because he developed these coming from where he was and so tell me what you did yeah what you do never grew up
00:15:27
Speaker
of anyone telling me to take take care of your body, take care of your mind, take care of your gut, take care of how you think and and improve and see things. so how and what how do i get that and how did i build that you know it's funny a lot of people ask me do i have a nutrition background do i have a a chemistry background and i don't this is all self-taught um i just really gravitated to all this biohacking and and mental health and gut health and and just spiritual health of how you see things um
00:16:03
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And really it was just, I listened to a lot of podcasts and audio stuff and I just, i continue to listen to it when I find a subject I like and, and then I love implementing
Biohacking and Health Improvements
00:16:14
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it.
00:16:14
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ah So I, um, so you were basically self experimenting and see what works. Right. And I was just going to get to that. That's kind of what i do. Yeah, exactly. Uh, we are our own experiment, right?
00:16:24
Speaker
And I love seeing what works and doesn't work. Um, And it's not like it's going to hurt me. It's just going to not work sometimes or or whatnot. So that's how I built that mindset and lifestyle because it was so new to me.
00:16:41
Speaker
it was so foreign because i was never taught anything like that. And I enjoyed it. I was like, wow, you know, I'm feeling good. I'm thinking good. I have clarity. I have good sleep.
00:16:52
Speaker
My hormones, I'm in tune with my body and my hormones. and and things are working right yeah yeah things are working right yeah migraines was this the biggest thing like like man i don't feel like crap my head hurts and and because you got off the junk the processed junk food you probably yeah feel was the biggest thing right yeah then i just started asking you were sick of feeling sick right yeah yeah 100 yeah um that's awesome because you know what i see is that so many people go you know I swear college ruins people because education ruins people because they get so dogmatic and they listen to somebody that says all food's the same. Organic is no different than non-organic.
00:17:34
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um You know sunlight is so harmful for you. You know, even just these things that people get and they go and they go to their doctor for advice that and their doctor's 80 pounds overweight, never gets outside, is not, is sleeping like a crap. So they, you know, it's just, we all fall into that routine. And so what,
00:17:53
Speaker
So what brought you here at this point with all the things you did and now you're you're bringing your family you've been here what six months uh yes since months so my family's coming in the so so tell us about you got hurt at the gym dead lifting which was something you've done all the time right it was nothing nothing different than you've done right no no and so unfortunately now the fire department doesn't allow dead lifting from the training which is not which is not good because dead lifting is not
00:18:23
Speaker
ah bad thing. So right anything can happen at any one particular time. So you just tell us about that injury that brought you into my office and ye just what happened there. Yeah, yeah. 2005, May 28th, we were in my fire academy and we were doing our workout PT and I was doing a deadlift with a with a strap on it or a resistance but yeah strap yeah and i was doing a deadlift I was feeling good i wasn't fatigued I I did it there was three three reps to
00:19:04
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four sets or two sets on three reps and it was heavy. i mean, I'm not gonna lie, oh it was heavy, but when I lifted it, it wasn't like, oh shoot, this is, yeah I need to put this down. yeah No, i li I did three reps of it. I did the whole set.
00:19:19
Speaker
Um, felt good, had good form. I knew my, about my form. Uh, and then just after that deadlift, I just felt tightness in my lower back.
00:19:30
Speaker
Um, knowing what I know now, I would say my L5, um, area lower, lower back. And, um, uh, and then I went on a run after that and just felt more tightness. And the next day i I could not get out of bed. and I thought this was the weirdest thing because never been injured like this, never broken any bones.
00:19:52
Speaker
Worked out intensely. like I've worked out pretty hard before in my past, but this I knew was some type of injury. I wasn't sore. It wasn't soreness.
00:20:02
Speaker
Yeah, this was it was this new enough. By the time you it Between that injury and when you saw me, I think we saw you maybe like July 10th or something. Yeah, went to... I mean, i don't know. It was like five weeks in between there. So you had gone to PT, gone to the...
00:20:18
Speaker
A primary, or I'm sorry, a specialist. Specialist orthopedist specialist. And it wasn't, mean, and and when you came in to me, you were functioning, but it wasn't great. And so, and and I originally remember thinking, oh, well, this is going to be a piece of cake because this is just, but they haven' they haven't really treated you right because we've got to reduce that disc. I've seen this type of thing a million times.
00:20:42
Speaker
And I just, I felt so confident that we were just going to turn you right around because I'd seen cases like this a million times where, you know, the the PT and the approach wasn't working because it just was more of a cookie cutter approach.
00:20:56
Speaker
But then we started working and he wasn't getting better. And i remember how frustrating it was for me. It's like, this guy is in shape. There's no reason that this, that he's not responding to anything I'm doing, you know? So, so then it wasn't more than a couple of weeks, I believe that we said, okay, we got ah You had already had an MRI. Did you have an MRI already? Yes, yeah I had an MRI and then you're like, okay, nothing's, something's going on. I wanted to look into it. I looked at your MRI and I remember thinking, i remember seeing, oh geez, this doesn't look good because I was like, and I think I even asked you, have you ever had a back injury before? Yeah.
00:21:33
Speaker
And I was like, and I, you know what, I try not to, I try not to use imaging to manage my patients because I tell you, I've seen the worst imaging on patients and no pain and nothing wrong on the image and severe pain. So, so I looked at that and I thought, gee, there's a degenerative change. You've got this shift here, which, you know, which is indicative that there was some sort of stress fracture in the past. And there's probably, and there's some bulging of the disc here.
00:22:02
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And i was like, nah, it doesn't look good. So we sent you over to Hammond. We tried an injection. He told me that he thought that stress fracture was active by how it took up the uptake. There's a specific way he looks at things. And I, you know I agree with him that that was probably an active stress fracture where that thing had shifted. Okay. So we got an active stress fracture.
00:22:24
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We've got some really shifting posture and we've got a lot of inflammation and some herniations of the disc in this area. So at that point, I'm like, oh, geez, I'm trying not to, you know, let on that.
00:22:37
Speaker
I think that this is a little bit, quite a bit more serious, but you could tell, and you could tell my frustration. It's like we were trying every avenue, you know, there was. and and several more weeks go by and i think we... So my injury, the actual diagnosis was three bolstice, or yeah, three bolstice in three different locations and a spondylolisthesis. Spondylolisthesis, which is a slippage. Yeah. And and then Hammond thought it was a spondylolisthesis, which is the active part that causes the slippage. Spondylolisthesis, okay. Okay, so they're just different terms, but when you have a, a lot of times if we see a really big slippage,
00:23:16
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in the vertebra and there's no pain, we know the stress fracture had a lot taken place and a lot of them actually take place completely asymptomatic. And then we look, we see them incidentally years later. Okay. And the spondylolisthesis is basically just a, below this thesis is's just picture sure it's just a description of the slippage of that vertebra. And it's slipping because it's fractured. Well, it was at some time. It was at some time. Right. And so Hammond's telling me, no, this is recent. Okay. So that means that you had an actual fracture at that time you deadlift. That's what we think. Yeah. So, and then I'm thinking, okay, this is a non-healing stress fracture, okay?
00:23:54
Speaker
So, you know, that clued me into it because talking hammond was Dr. Hammond was in my office, we were talking about you and and Dr. Hammond is a spine specialist. Yeah, he works for a hospital. He does all their imaging and and injections and all of the diagnostic aspects.
00:24:12
Speaker
So, you know, we were talking and I said, you know, i i i said, I got this, I do CO2 therapy and it brings oxygen into the tissue. And it was kind of like, and then he goes, oh, that's kind of a holy grail, you know And I thought,
00:24:26
Speaker
gee, I wonder if we could bring oxygen into his system. And I had just bought this body suit. It's called BodyStream. Hadn't used it on anybody prior to that. It was for you, actually. had tried it myself. always try everything before I actually use it with patients. And I had seen a couple of other cases using the breathing, have these just amazing recovery from some very difficult disorders.
00:24:49
Speaker
One's called Raynaud's disease. Anyway, so I said, well, it was kind of a Hail Mary because we were, we Hammond and I, had said, you know, the only thing left is a fusion. We gotta to fuse this because it's not healing.
00:25:00
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This guy is really just in agony. He couldn't walk. He couldn't do anything. because We couldn't we we couldn't but couldn't implement any rehab because of this active stress fracture all the inflammation. So yeah I said, let's you know, it's a Hail Mary. i am you know i didn't I really truly thought this was just a Hail Mary.
00:25:19
Speaker
I didn't think it was gonna have the results. So you know, he came in, I think on a Tuesday, Monday or Tuesday, we did the first hour, did any left and then the next day, I think you did another session was Yeah, day yeah, yeah. yeah was It was a two day, I don't know remember, but then he left again, it was pretty back to back. Yeah, yeah.
00:25:38
Speaker
But then he comes in the next day and he says, you know, i don't have hardly any pain. And I just walk the whole bridle trail, which is over two miles on a mountain, up and down a very steep. yeah And he goes, I actually was able to run a little bit. And I was like, what?
00:25:52
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I said, wait a minute. You know, it is only a week. This is only three days after the first, um, the first CO2 session. Okay. And I was like, su yeah. And I was like,
00:26:05
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That's just not, I said, that's just not possible. well you You didn't want to believe it. You're like, okay, well, let's continue the sessions. Let's see if this is real. You wanted to be really confident that it was a CO2, but you're like, I want to play it safe and be like, let's give it a couple more sessions. I was like, i' had seen other cases, but I never liked that dramatic. Okay.
00:26:25
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So he does some more sessions and he's like, you know, he's telling me he's running, he's lifting weights he's doing all this stuff walking and walking and he's pain-free and he's sleeping now and he's you know sleeping was a huge thing you couldn't sleep because he was in agony and i'm like on this is crazy and i was looking at him then i just looked at him physically and his his mobility was good and it was like this this guy this guy was you know he was it was day and night literally in three days yeah and i don't think i've ever seen a case in my 40 years of practice go between point a and point c like that with
00:26:59
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you know, without a a long drawn out process. And I called up Hammond, Dr. Hammond, you know, and he, you know, he goes, I gotta come over and see this thing. So he came over and looked at we talked, and we were like both stunned, you know, and, and, you know. He saw me in it. He saw you in it. And, you know, we've we've talked, we've had other cases, I won't go into those, but you know and so i'm not here to say that co2 is the holy grail for everybody but i do think it is has a universal application because it works with the physiology of the body and it's better than a hyperbaric chamber but i really wanted to know what happened with him was his desire he was determined to find a process that worked and you know when you're and then i feel like when you're work when you're working with a person
00:27:53
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and you're trying different things, the process is mutual. And so i was determined too, because he was determined. i I even told him, told you, I don't think I've had a patient go into back surgery for two or three years, you know, in my office. you know So I like the fact that I hardly ever have patients go into surgery. You know, I don't even remember the last patient that of mine that I gave up on that went into surgery. It might be five, seven years. I have no idea who the last person was, you know?
00:28:21
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There's been a few over the years, but I, you know, I really think, I mean, I've had, and't I don't, have no idea how many people have canceled their surgeries because of conservative care. Cause it's a lot of them, you know, and I'm not here to tell that, but you know, what I was like saying to you, had, you know, this was frustrating me.
00:28:41
Speaker
And so, but his, in interest of the process that I'm describing that he went through each step, he wasn't satisfied with who he was and changed something to become something better than he is. And then he he's got this almost really life-changing process that almost anybody that is not in his physical fitness or his mindset would have ended up in surgery. I guarantee you 99.9% if they would have been doing some other care someplace else and or if we never would have implemented that you know maybe you would have you know well you were scheduled for going to the surgeon to get surgery so you know you had to visit just like couple of days and you went in there and he was like no just keep doing so
00:29:29
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I can't tell you how important it is in life to have that internal locus of control if you have dis-ease. is Dis-ease is dis-ease.
00:29:41
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So he made choices because of dis-ease. okay He didn't like being overweight, made choices. He didn't like having migraines, made choices. didn't like being a you know ah kind of the wrong side of the track, made choices.
00:29:53
Speaker
you know and gave up things that were not healthy in his life that is the internal locus control and if there's one psychological factor that predicts you getting well with any disease process is that and we don't teach that enough kids need to know that they have control and can make choices to move in the direction that's going to make them a better person well when you said that i was like I was like, I guess ah you put a name to something that I, how I think or how I live my lifestyle. I'm like, oh wow. You know, it kind of made me think about like, like, wow, this is a thing that I'm doing. I'm not, this this is not just, yeah this is not just me. This is actually you know scientifically proven that yeah the way I'm thinking is actually something that could make or break
00:30:46
Speaker
who you are, what you do. Actually, it is scientifically proven. It is. Because yeah there have been, you know, you know, sorry, did I say it's not? Not. Yeah. Okay. Okay. okay Like, oh wow, this is actually something scientifically proven to have a mindset like this has proven to shown people's outcomes negatively or positively.
00:31:05
Speaker
So that was really, it made me think more like more, more, puts it more in concrete of like, like keep on doing what I'm doing. This is real. and And I'm always the weird one because I'm always focused on sunlight and sleep
Mindset and Recovery Outcomes
00:31:22
Speaker
and in tune with my body and I'm eating healthy You're the weird one when you eat healthy because you're not eating that standard American diet.
00:31:31
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So I'm going to say that in the back world, and it's the untalked about um aspect, is that there is nothing, no scientific study that has the positive results more than looking at psychological profile for a patient coming in.
00:31:52
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And so that's why i like to work with patients that go to the gym, that are eating healthy. You know, I do not want Walmart patients, although they need to be in, if I could ever change them, but you know,
00:32:05
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So I just wanted you as the general public to to hear his story. I can't predict that his story is your story, but whatever illness you have, whatever dis-ease you have, it is completely within your realm to get rid of that. If you have the mindset that it's not just some drug out there, it's not like, you know, I don't want a patient coming to me going,
00:32:33
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you fix me, okay? Because I can't fix that person. You know what brought you here. Your circumstances, you you know, the person comes in and their health is so poor because of all the choices and they're not willing willing to make any choices, do the exercises, maybe change your diet, get out in the sunshine, get better sleep, you know, get rid of toxic relationships, all those things.
00:32:54
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And they will have subpar recovery. Oh yeah. And I get, my whole office is filled with people with subpar recovery. and you know they that's okay i can give them relief but for you you know you've recovered we're here we're gonna we're gonna work out we've been working out we lift weights you know he actually became my friend you know he's brand he's he's doing everything and this was only about three weeks post that or i don't even remember so so no pain at all complete recovery yeah bad nerve pain i you know i felt like
00:33:29
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you were You were in rough shape. I was, and I'm not going to look at you and say that I recovered with 100% strong mindset. I had dark times. Yeah, and i would but you battled it, right? Yeah, and that's what I would let everyone else know is like...
00:33:45
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yeah you know, living this lifestyle or even living in this mindset lifestyle, it's it's not all going to be high. You're going have lows, but you need to hit those lows to know that this is not where you want to be. You want to be in that.
00:34:00
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you remember me saying when I knew you were going through this, I remember I kept saying, focus on your recovery, visualize your recovery. Yeah. You know, because I knew that you didn't want surgery and i didn't want you to have surgery.
00:34:11
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And I was like, you know, you got to keep that. that in your mind and he did he worked on it yeah so i saw that so this is a very i told myself that i'm feeling better when i didn't feel better right so i told myself i'm feeling better today's a good day today's positive day and i wrote it on chart and i also looked in the mirror and said it to myself so i felt his thought process of doing that triggered my thought process of that hail mary which was a part of you know i believe there's you know communication with thoughts and so yeah
00:34:43
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I totally believe that I was able to pick up on that and and and was able to continue trying to think out of the box in every possible way because of his thinking. I didn't i didn't want to give up on him, so my were thinking was the same way.
00:34:59
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We were in tune, and that's the kind of mindset that I would like all of you that are listening to this to bring to the table in whatever dis-ease you have, whether it's relationship, chemical, bad food, if you have a physical symptom, there's a metaphysical reason often.
00:35:20
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And so what I mean by that, there is something in your life that is causing dis-ease. And believe me, I've had many of those. And so I feel like I've had my own journey, but I'm not here to talk about that.
00:35:32
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So I really appreciate it. He came here to just work out. I said, let's just sit down and talk about this prior to our workout and put it on. I just threw up my camera and i hope it turns out because I think it's really important video for people to watch.
00:35:46
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Anyone. Because, yeah you know, there wasn't like... oh, he did this one exercise and it was it you know I think that even the CO2 and somebody else that didn't have your mindset would not have had that type of recovery. Yeah, and I think I would i end on, for...
00:36:00
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for end on what I would want to say is, uh, I always tell people that you're always one meal away of being healthy and that could be anything. not just your meal. It just, your one thought of being stronger mentally.
00:36:16
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You're one, um, one step, one, yeah, whatever it is. So you put that anywhere. You, you, you know, uh, you can implug that into anything in your life to be, Hey, I'm,
00:36:27
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I had a crappy meal or I cheated on my meal or I'm eating bad, but that's okay. You know, you're one meal away from being healthy. So it's okay if I had pizza for breakfast. As long as it's cold. Yeah, I'm just kidding. You know, we're not saying, we're not even saying you have to be perfect. Right? No, we were talking about 80, 20, 90 to 10 or whatever.
00:36:46
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i mean, it's all good. and so We're human. You just can't do 90, 10, or 100, 0. No, you can't. I always like to say you've got to mimic your ancestral biology in a modern world that does not give you the parameters to live that. So I've been lucky that my job, I'm physically active. i know I've been outside. i get outside every day.
00:37:08
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ah you know and so you know i've and I've made choices that probably think helped my health overall but then there was things that you know lingered on for years that I finally kind of even figured out now so it's always that it's always that direction you're going so i appreciate you yeah no I appreciate you and i it's fun always nerding out like this and and uh working out but I would love to I always like trying to educate people or just i don't like telling people what to do I like telling them my story and then if they want to take pieces from it they can but I love helping people with this whole process of mindset and health so like if you want to do another episode or video of like more going in depth of of mindset I want people to try to
00:37:57
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But I have a feeling feeling there's going to be something that evolves here. And, you know, because that message, your message is so, you know there's so many people that have lived out what you just went through and may have not understood that process. And so they can start making those choices. So now you have an example yeah of somebody that, you know, it you know.
00:38:20
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wasn't in the best shape years ago. and And you don't need to be smart to do this. know I might get in a car accident tomorrow, so hopefully I bring a healthy body to that yeah so that I can recover. yeah know so Because if I'm in a healthy state and I have an injury, I'm going to have a lot worse recovery. you know And you can't always predict everything that's going to happen. so that's you know Bad things happen to good people sometimes. just you know and You just got bounce back harder yeah because bad things are always going to happen. It's just, how are you going to handle that bad thing?
00:38:50
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Are you going to let it kick you down? Because if you do, it's going to keep you down. yeah It's going to push you down there as hard as they can. Oh, that evil wants to keep you there. yeah yeah It's like, oh, you can't this. Yeah, it's easy. it's It's easy to eat unhealthy. It's easy to think negative. You know, but our culture keeps us addicted to everything, you know, whether it's Looking at screens or you know that all the foods we eat are highly stimulative and it full of the processed crap You know so everything is pulls us into these addiction cycles and so we all get into that I mean I'll tell the people now I'll be honest. I had some chips the Sun chips ah totally processed bad ingredients yeah and
00:39:30
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from someone that is really in tune with my body and I understand when I have processed things or bad ingredients or whatnot. So was like, you know, I've been good. I just want to have a bag of chips. Yeah. Yeah. That fired my brain. hmm.
00:39:43
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so much to where i just started being like a addicted at addict person where I was looking for more processed food, more crappy food, more. yeah And I was like, and I totally was telling myself.
00:39:55
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Brain inflammation is real. i mean, so, you you know, that goes on. Basically I think our whole culture right now, you can see it in people. yeah They're just walking around their brain, their brains are on fire because the depression and anxiety and all that psychological stuff is basically an inflammatory process in the brain. yeah And if their gut health is leaking stuff through the vagus nerve up into the brain, again, their you know theirs seed oil composition of their cell membranes is too high.
00:40:21
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you know They funnel down into a process of being very pro-inflammatory. So when they have an injury, it just blows up on them yeah with excessive inflammation. and And that's what we see all the time where people get small injuries and they can't recover because they're filled with the wrong ratio of types of you know ah oils in their so in their cell membrane. So what happens is it funnel down into a horrible inflammatory. You're always fueling that fire. right When you have a basement fire that you're trying to put out, you're trying to put it out by being, you know,
00:40:57
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giving them care and fixing whatever they they injured. But when they leave your office, they keep fueling that fire. Oh yeah, they can't wear they can't recover because they're in such a pro-inflammatory state. We only get them a little bit of relief they're just endlessly... So like you said, the contributed to my health or my recovery, but i would let everyone know too this was a whole, a whole full circle of, I fasted. I, uh, kept oils, uh, processed oils out of my diet. You know, I get and put healthy but fats in my diet.
00:41:32
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Um, I stayed on a good, healthy, um, you were getting sun too. you're getting I was getting tons, tons of sun and you kept drilling it into me. Get more. Yeah. Get out in the sunshine. You know, people want to read people. Oh, should I buy a red light at home? It's like,
00:41:47
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the worst day, the cloudiest day in the middle of winter, you're going to get 100 times more red light just getting outside than you are in front of a red light. Not that it's bad, but it's like, you know, do you don't understand what that just sunshine does.
00:42:00
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So I should, you know, I'm going to keep this video. We'll do another one. You know, people have an attention span that probably and need to cut it off, but I so appreciate you doing this. yeah Let's do another one, and we'll talk about some other aspects of his life and and and things and just kind of bring them into perspective. So yeah once again, thank you so much. Yeah, of course. That was fun. Yeah. Thank you. Thanks for watching and spread this around because this kind of concept is free. You know, I'm putting this out free. So please do.