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Why your doctors haven't helped you with your health issue | Building health vs. Masking symptoms of disease
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Why Collaborate Without Credentials?
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I feel like it's important to address a question that may be nagging in some people's mind. Namely, why would you ever want to work with someone like me that's not a doctor, that's not a PhD, not a highly educated, intellectual or academic or whatever.
Barriers to Long-term Health Solutions
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To answer that question, I suppose we first have to examine another question. Why have you not been able to get help with your health issue that you've had for three, six, 12 months, three years, five years, 10 years? I know people that had a health problem
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for a decade or more that the system didn't help them in any way, shape or form. And those people were the lucky ones because they at least didn't make them worse, right? A lot of people will be made worse going to the conventional paradigm when they have a chronic health problem.
Critiquing the Medical Education and Paradigm
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And the reason for that is basically because the current
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paradigm teaches doctors that basically disease is genetic in origin for the most part. There's very little that can be done. It will develop. It doesn't matter what you do, right? Things like nutrition diet and so on, lifestyle, environmental factors are paid almost no heed in medical school. And it's a well-known fact that doctors get
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It's, you know, hours or days or like a few weeks of nutrition training, right? So they're not taught how to build health. They're not taught how to address issues at a deep level. Now there is plenty of amazing doctors, functional medicine doctors.
Emergence of Functional Medicine
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natural medicine practitioners and so on. And I've interviewed some of these guys and gals on my podcast. So there's a lot of amazing doctors breaking out of this paradigm. But what is this paradigm? The paradigm is
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You wait until you have some type of problem, health problem, symptom. That could be a headache. That could be a cancerous tumor. That could be a heart attack or calcification of your arteries or, you know, something on your skin, eczema, psoriasis. You wait until that happens. Then you go.
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and you are diagnosed with something you have to be diagnosed because only then can you be given some type of treatment and what is the treatment usually most often that treatment is.
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masking the symptoms. So if you go, let's say you have eczema, you will get some type of corticosteroid to dampen the immune system, to inhibit the immune system, to suppress it. Same story with if it's psoriasis or if it's
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some type of inflammatory bowel disease or asthma. The treatment is suppressing the immune system, so to reduce the symptoms. If it's a headache, just a simpler example, if it's a headache, you will be given ibuprofen, let's say.
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And there's nothing wrong as such with wanting or receiving relief from your symptoms. If you have a headache, you don't want to be in pain. But here's the thing. If you're given some medication for your headache and it goes away, great. But what if it comes back tomorrow? You keep taking the medication.
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Now you keep masking the symptom and what happens is the underlying cause is not addressed, right? So that is obviously when you think about it, when you look at it, there is obviously insanity doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Profit Motives in Medicine
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So that is the, that is the current paradigm that we have been indoctrinated into. And I myself for the longest time would just wait until something goes wrong.
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And then you want to fix the symptom. But as you probably, if you're on my website, if you're watching this video, you probably have experienced this already and you can see that
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really a futile sort of mission of just playing whack-a-mole with symptoms, right? So the reason you have not been helped is not because your practitioners don't want to help you. They want to help you, but they're hamstrung by their training, which for the most part, if it's an allopathic
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conventional paradigm, that training is, like I said already, diagnose, treat symptoms mostly. So they just are operating from an entirely different paradigm. Now there's a big function of medicine movement and there's a lot of amazing doctors out there spreading the word.
Rethinking Health Solutions
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So, you know, the,
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There is change there is change brewing but there's a lot of interest backing the current paradigm mostly by companies selling symptom masking chemicals for profit if you catch my drift right so it's not that.
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your doctor or the multiple doctors you've been to are ill-intentioned. These guys and girls, they go to medical school to help people. So we can't necessarily fault them for not having been taught
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how to actually help people. Basically the only thing they've been taught is how to help the companies setting the symptom masking chemicals for profit to pad their pockets, their wallets, to keep increasing the bottom line. So what is the solution? It's actually a hell of a lot simpler than
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you may be let on to believe, right? So we kind of thought that these diseases, they're this sort of complex process, and they are very complex processes, right? But we don't really need to understand
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the actual pathology of how something is, the pathophysiology and the full, all these etiology, all these fancy sounding terms and so on. We don't actually need to understand all of these little links and mechanisms, how disease develops. What we need to do is understand how health develops.
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You know, this is the thing. And I don't mean to be too critical and so on of doctors, because again, the doctors are well-intentioned people. They're just regular folks that want to help people. But it's the system that they operate in that indoctrinated, trained them,
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and they're now beholden to because we know, especially in the USA, a lot of doctors are coming out of medical school with
Financial Constraints on Medical Practice
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potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, right? And then if you don't use the standard treatment for a specific condition, the insurance company may not reimburse you. The patient may file a complaint and so on. So they're really hamstrung in what they can do to help people, right? Even if they wanted to, or even if they were taught to, which by the way,
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teaching someone how to create health is quite a simple process. So this is what I teach my clients how to do, how to create health in their body.
Functional Lab Tests and Health Insights
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And to do that, we use some functional lab testing to identify any blockages
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like major blockages in the metabolism, the potential health challenges we also call them, right? That could be gut pathogens, that could be some type of deficiencies, toxicities, hormonal imbalances, right? So once we know, it's not again, these lab tests, we don't do the lab tests,
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to diagnose anything, to find something, and then to name it a disease. Doctors may want to do that, but given the current disease stats and trends, especially in the Western world, given how
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how much worse everything is getting. All the biggest killers, you know, from Alzheimer's to heart disease to cancer and so on and so on, everything is increasing. And somehow at the same time, the chemical producing companies, profits are increasing as well. So people are getting sicker
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but those companies are making even more money, but a lot of people are not connecting the two together. Clearly something nefarious is going on there.
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So the first step is to identify blockages, something getting in the way of the body expressing full health, which can be nutrient deficiencies, it can be toxicities, it can be inflammation, stressors, so many things. Really, the modern world has so many
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so many things that interfere with our optimal health and optimal functioning. If you remove those things, even if a person is in a fairly poor state of health, they will naturally start gravitating towards whatever optimal function or optimal health their current
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genetic potential will allow. So obviously a 70 year old person has a certain health potential as opposed to when they were 20 or five years of age. So, and yeah, so the first step is identifying these serious blockages. And we do that with lab tests, but not just with lab tests. You know, if you, when I talk to somebody, usually in that first session that we do together,
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Or even just looking at the intake forms that they complete, which includes what time do you wake up? Do you use an alarm? How many times a night do you wake up to pee? And how quickly do you fall asleep? And where is your Wi-Fi router? And just a ton of stuff.
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Just that alone, talking to a person or even just looking at the intake forms, I'm already bursting with ideas on things we can optimize. Most people, not everybody, but most people just have an inordinate amount of low hanging fruit, diet, lifestyle, nutrition, light optimization, all that stuff, right?
Lifestyle Adjustments for Better Health
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even how you how you sit on the toilet, you know, so many people don't even don't even know that for I think it's like $15 or whatever, you can buy it's called a squatty potty from Amazon. And you basically you sit on the toilet, and you kind of put your feet on it. And
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That just changes your whole biomechanics. So your knees go up higher. You're almost like you're squatting to the ground like you're gonna take a dump and
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But without the actual effort of squatting down to the ground and using all those muscles, you don't have to use the muscles fully. So it just changes the biomechanics. And it's really good for just intestinal health and having a nice healthy bowel movement. So that was a little bit of a digression, but just simple things like that. So many of us
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So many of us are missing these little things that one of these things won't necessarily be a life-changing thing. But when we're talking about literally dozens of things, if you change, like one thing this week,
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Another thing next week, six months, how many weeks is that? Like 24 weeks. Imagine you just change one small little thing like that. Week one or week three, you order some blue blocking glasses. Week four, you
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get a timer for your Wi-Fi router that turns off between midnight and 8am.
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So for those hours, there's less radiation in your home. So many things. When you get your paycheck, you spend 50 bucks on a Faraday bag for your phone. So when your phone is nearby,
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you can put in a Faraday bag and it's not irradiating your balls or your uterus or something like that. So think about these tiny little changes accumulating over weeks and weeks and months and months where you will be in one, two, five, 10 years.
Functional Medicine vs. Symptom Masking
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And so kind of went on a bit of a tangent there. But yeah, so this is kind of
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This is the difference between going to a doctor to get a diagnosis and usually prescription to mask symptoms. And that's the difference between that and then working with someone that understands the functional paradigm is we need to understand how to optimize certain functions in the body
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And by doing so, your body will be able to express better health. So just to kind of make it less esoteric, let's say someone has yeast overgrowth, Candida, some type of gram-negative bacteria overgrowth.
Gut Health and Inflammation
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And just addressing that alone,
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improving gut function that way, how much that would just thinking about the knock on the domino effect of that. So doing that better digestion, less inflammation in the gut, less immune activation, less endotoxin or lipopolysaccharide making it into the bloodstream causing further
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inflammation, so less, even more, even less, even more, less inflammation, if that even makes sense, which includes neuroinflammation, right? It can include vascular or endothelial inflammation that can contribute to atherosclerosis. And this is just by improving gut function. Then we can talk about liver function.
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you know, improving that because the nutrients, most of the proteins, the carbs, some of the fats that you eat, most of them, you know, a large majority of the nutrients you eat have to be processed through the liver.
Liver Function's Importance
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So in the USA, 30% of people
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have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and then there's a bunch that have non-alcoholic steatohepatosis and just people's livers, like a literal third of Americans livers are in bits. So there's so many, so many things that
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we can do to improve a person's health that have nothing to do with diagnosing anything or treating the symptoms. Again, I'm not saying there's anything wrong if you have an ache or a pain. Let's say you're severely constipated, or not severely, but let's say you take a poop twice a week. That's clearly not normal. So if I'm talking to someone like that,
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that is not pooping or is pooping twice a week. Clearly, I'm not going to let that person continue.
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living in that, suffer like that. I'm going to give them tools to decongest themselves. But at the same time, we're going to figure out why, right? So this is actually a good example. If you're of the symptom treating ilk, or what's the word I'm trying to find? It's very late in the day here.
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If you're of the symptom treating propensity, let's say you constipated, you go to the pharmacy and they'll give you like Senna or some other, you know, whatever. Senna is kind of a herbal thing, but whatever medication for constipation, laxative,
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That's one way to quickly solve the problem for the next time, or you can continue taking that laxative every time you have that problem. But what if we did a stool test, we figured out the lay of the land, is there some type of dysbiosis, is there some type of imbalance,
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Is there potentially an overgrowth of certain bacteria that can cause inflammation and so on and so on? And we can look at the diet. Could there be some foods in the diet contributing to this? We can look at the hydration.
Emergency Medicine vs. Chronic Health Management
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That's not to say you shouldn't go to your doctor. If it's something this serious, you should absolutely go to the doctor for their checks. I'm not saying we should completely exclude the medical system. They're really good for emergency care, for scans, for certain
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tests for you know sometimes you need a colonoscopy sometimes it could be cancer sometimes the best thing to do is to take antibiotics the literal best thing that you can do is to take antibiotics sometimes so you can still do that but if they can't help you and they're only providing you symptom relief
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Then someone more functionally inclined would look at like I said, you know, the lay of the land in terms of the, the gut ecology, the.
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you know, the diet content, stress levels, a bunch of other things. So the idea then is instead of giving the person some kind of laxative to manage the issue, let's fix the entire gastrointestinal systems functioning, address any imbalances or whatever, and then that person will just start pooping more regularly.
Tracking Diet and Mood for Health
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It's really, I know it seems oversimplified or whatever,
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But I'll give you an example. I had one client. She, God bless her, she was so good about tracking the diet and all that stuff. So before we even had her initial consultation, she started tracking her diet and the journal also you can optionally
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track your so it's the food and mood journal so you can track how you feel before and after the meal and and so we can see we can actually really zero in on what foods are making you feel like crap a lot of people don't because we are so rushed our lives are so stressful a lot of people don't actually
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have time to reflect oh my god every time i eat xyz food i feel like crap maybe not that day but the next morning or the next day whatever so anyway so i looked at her i think it was just one week maybe i just couldn't i couldn't help myself because
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I was like, okay, I'll bring up these things, these things that we could optimize at the initial consultation. But I could see she was suffering because she was also putting in the how she was feeling. So gas, bloat, blah, blah, blah. So I just told her, you know,
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immediately try to stop eating these particular foods. And yeah, she stopped. So naturally, the journal didn't contain, until we met, the journal didn't contain any of those sort of horrible
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I felt horrible after this one and the so anyway, we did the initial consultation I just told her let's just try these several foods for like a week or two at least and Then that first week bear zero zero got complaints your bloat zero pain zero gas and so on right so It's these things
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we are kind of led to believe are super complicated, you know, autoimmune disease and
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all these things, right? There's so many mechanisms and metabolic derangements and stuff like that. So we're like, oh my God, you know, you have to, we have to appeal to authority only they know how to fix it. And unfortunately, again, the way to fix it is just to mask the symptoms. But the thing is, if you, again, going back to very simple concepts here, and I think Hippocrates, maybe he got this stuff
The Gut as the Health Epicenter
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Without all of this technology now, back in the day, people used to get it, I think. Some people did get it because he would say things like, all disease begins in the gut, right? So when you think about it, autoimmunity, a lot of
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skin problems. So many problems are actually when you kind of, you can pinpoint them to the gut. So if you just focus on getting the person's gut function improved, it's a simple thing, but so many other things and ancillary things seem to go away like headaches or food sensitivities and just a bunch of other different things go away. Right. So it's
Philosophy for Optimal Health
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A lot of these things are actually quite simple, removing the inflammatory, the stressors, the detrimental things, and then adding a bunch of the good stuff, which many of us are missing. So vitamins, minerals, amino acids, protein, enough carbohydrates, the healthy fats, then obviously removing the horrible fats and so on and so forth. So it's literally, it's a game of adding the right things that maybe the modern world has taken out and then removing
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a lot of the bad stuff, which a lot of it is the modern world doing. So it's about knowing what the particular person's current needs are to unblock whatever parts of the metabolism and get them to the next level. That's kind of it. I think I'll end it here. Thanks for tuning in.