Episode 40 - Foundational Truths about Health, Wellness, & Habit - Dr. Chris Murphy

Dr. Chris Murphy shares his journey into chiropractic and the importance of taking a holistic approach to health. He emphasizes the five foundations of health: function, food, fitness, filter, and freedom. Dr. Murphy discusses the power of response versus reaction and the need to find balance between adaptation and one's natural state. He also highlights the importance of intentional planning and regular date nights to maintain a healthy and fulfilling life. In this conversation, Dr. Chris Murphy and Kevin Davis discuss the importance of values, habits, and consistency in creating a balanced and healthy life. They emphasize the need to have a strong foundation and to align actions with personal values. They also discuss the importance of being fluid and adaptable while still maintaining consistency. Dr. Murphy highlights the five foundations of health and the importance of addressing the underlying causes of health issues. They encourage listeners to prioritize their health and live life to the fullest.

Takeaways

• Align actions with personal values to create a balanced and healthy life.
• Be consistent in habits and routines while also being adaptable and fluid.
• Address the underlying causes of health issues rather than just treating symptoms.
• Prioritize health and live life to the fullest.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Technical Difficulties

02:15 Background and Journey into Chiropractic

08:39 Chiropractic as a Holistic Approach to Health

13:30 The Importance of Stress and Physical Activity

19:33 The Five Foundations of Health

25:19 The Power of Response vs Reaction

29:38 Balancing Adaptation and Natural State

36:01 Intentional Planning and Date Nights

39:04 The Importance of Values and Habits

40:10 Finding Balance and Being Fluid

42:19 Consistency and Showing Yourself Grace

44:11 Creating Experiences and Memories

45:40 The Mental Battle of Productivity

47:36 Finding Individual Balance

50:09 Building a Strong Foundation

53:22 The Fallacy of Work-Life Balance

55:57 Getting Started on Health Improvement

59:16 The Importance of a Holistic Approach

01:04:25 Living Life and Prioritizing Health

01:09:49 Taking Action Now

About Dr. Chris:

Owner of NewEdge Wellness Center & Synergy Weight Loss Center. He is a professional speaker, and International Best Selling Author.

www.thesynergychallenge.com

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Transcript

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Welcome to maxed out man helping you

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become the man you were made to be hey guys this Kevin Davis from the

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max out man podcast this is episode number 40 I'm here with Dr Chris Murphy

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who is the owner of New Edge Family Chiropractic he's a professional speaker International bestselling author uh one

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of which is the five what is it five foundations of remarkably healthy people

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I'm hoping as we go through that I hit maybe a couple of those so we'll see uh and is also the host of the happy

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healthy hormones podcast so hey thank you so much for taking the time to be here and uh share this knowledge with

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you like I said before we started recording this is you know kind of my not necessarily wheelhouse because I'm

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not a professional at this anymore but uh I I love this stuff so I'm I'm super excited to to learn absolutely man

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thanks for having me I appreciate it so hey one of you know that's your kind of brief LinkedIn you know LinkedIn bio but

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give us a little bit more about your background what you do I know you travel all over the place you you've involved

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in a ton of stuff like me you're an entrepreneur which is kind of cool and uh just kind of walk that walk through

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that with us and then we'll you know hopefully we can kind of cover some of these foundations and and give people

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some of that information as well yeah absolutely you know when I was growing up you know I grew up in a small farming

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Town my parents were farmers my grandpa was a farmer I grew up on the farm and

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in our town we probably had about 200 people in it right and so there was uh you know Sports was everything you know

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there wasn't a whole lot else to do other than work on the farm and play some sports and you know as I got into

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college and trying to figure out where what path I wanted to go down although I I loved being on the farm it wasn't a

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big enough Farm to support you know multiple families and so I started looking at other things and looking at

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health care and you know my path was actually going to go down the road of Dentistry you know like hey that seems

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like a good good thing to do like my dentist only works a couple days a week and uh you know he uh you know has a has

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a nice house and all these things and it's like a good lifestyle so I was like all right let's go down the road of of dentistry and so I spent my whole

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undergrad uh going down that road and and uh I just graduated from undergrad

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and I was in that transition where I was supposed to go into you know studying for the the dental exam and and and

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going down that route and I ended up getting hurt long story short I end up hurting my shoulder and at the time

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this kind of limbo State I was in going between undergrad and applying for uh

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dental schools I was working for my brother at the time and at the time he and still does have a construction

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business and so I was helping with that but I couldn't do that with a bad shoulder and so he ended up talked to

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one of his buddies who had a buddy who was a chiropractor in the area and he got me a job just being his Chiropractic

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assistant right and so I did that for about six months and that whole time you know I told him what I was wanting to do

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and and they were they kept tripping in my ear because it was him and also his brother-in-law they both practiced together and they were always tripping

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in my ear that I should go into Chiropractic instead of uh you know dentistry and I was like yeah yeah

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sounds like a good idea and I didn't really know what Dentistry or I didn't really know what Chiropractic was U when I started with these guys you know I had

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been to a chiropractor a couple of times uh when I was you know in high school gotten injured and my dad took me into

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the chiropractor and um I didn't really realize what it was you know it made me feel better and so I thought more more

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like a a pain relief thing and as I started to work with these guys I realized it was much more than that

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because I would see you know people that come in with you know chronic migraines that were affecting their sleep and

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their quality life like those things disappear I saw people that had digestive issues um that came in for

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back issues and not only their back pain get better but their digestive problems went away I saw you know women that

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struggled with fertility and and menstrual cycle issues that those things you know disappeared and they were able

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to get pregnant I mean this a lot of Miracles that I saw happen in there and I started to realize wow this is a lot

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more than just about pain and and helping feel people feel better and so I was still you know they they had me

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hooked a little bit you know they had my interest but I was already so committed to this vision of of becoming a dentist

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and I gone on all these different roles and put time and internships and all these things like no this is this is my

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path so I need to go down and you know I started to go down that road and I was I was studying and doing the testing and

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everything else and um you know I had taken the test and I was doing fine and

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I wanted to do redo them and and get a little bit higher score before I applied and in that time they the docs had

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reached out to me again and at this point I was starting to question dentistry and if I this is really what I wanted to do just for the fact that you

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know one of the one of the things they they would always tell me I was like you just really want to look in someone's mouth all day long and and uh and and

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then they start talking about just the the quality of life that chiropractors have versus Dentistry as far as not

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quality of life but their their their feeling of being rewarded and and their just joy and their work and at the time

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I don't know if this is still true or not but at the time Dennis had the highest rate of suicide amongst doctors

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and and so I was like okay well maybe it's not everything it's cracked up to be and so um long story short I I

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shifted gears and I just kind of went on this blind faith and and I didn't really

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know still what to expect I just switched gears like something just felt like it was pulling me towards that and

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so I applied to Chiropractic College and got in and went down there and literally

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took my packed up my dog everything I could fit in my little Honda and drove down to California and you know got

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there and I I kind of came at a bad time because it was actually the the their spring break and so there was some

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people that I was living with that I found through the college and they were also Chiropractic students uh couple

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quarters ahead of me but when I got there it was literally like they said Hi and then they were gone because they

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were going back home for for for break and so I was just like here I am alone in California uh don't know anybody uh

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questioning you know everything that I am doing and as I start to get into the

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first quarter and start to get behind the the philosophy and and the why

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behind what we do things and really helping to understand really what Chiropractic is um everything changed

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and you know then I really started to see even even more possibility of how you can help people and transform people's lives instead of just being

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able to help people with this area of their mouth which is say it has its valid validity and is important um

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really could really help people with their whole their whole body and their whole quality of life and so that's when it shifted for me and and grounded in

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that and you know four years later started practice and here we are

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today yeah it's it's interesting because you don't really think about kind kind of this you know work reward balance

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with in dentistry you know because like what do you hear oh are you flossing no you know I told you last time I do

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better and I'm not doing better and you're fixing crazy stuff and you know and obviously Destry has a component of

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Health you know overall good health and and all that which I don't think anybody you know a lot of people don't think

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about but I can imagine with Chiropractic that it's you know like you're saying if you can it's more of a

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wellness approach to the whole body or a holistic approach to the to the body

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versus versus just let's fix this problem pull this too whatever yeah

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exactly you know when people think of Dentistry one thing they do think about is they always think about brushing and

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flossing right it's always in the back of your mind that industry is in a great job of educating the community and and

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people sometimes know why they're's like well that's just what everyone does is we brush and floss our teeth and it's a lot easier to to take care of something

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like our teeth versus our nervous system because every morning when you wake up and you look in the mirror you're seeing

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your teeth right it's a it's a cosmetic thing people can see that they can there's vanity behind it people are

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motivated by that but when it comes to really your true Health your your

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quality of your true health is really a reflection of your inside which you can't see right now we can see things like when we take X-rays we can see if

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there's you know warning signs and subluxation which are interference in the nervous system or degeneration bone

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spurs you know you do an MRI and see Cancers and all these other things but it's not something that we look at on a

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daily basis we look at our outside appearance maybe someone looks and say well it looks like I'm getting older or

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maybe you know maybe I'm a little bit overweight or you know these cause many things on the outside but they

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oftentimes don't even understand what's going on the inside of their body and so they're just constantly putting that off until one

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day it gets so bad whatever the thing is you know at first you know maybe it's

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back pain maybe it's digestive issues Maybe maybe it's you know some high blood pressure and they go it's not that bad and they just keep putting it off

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and putting it off until eventually you know crisis hits or gets so bad they're finally forced to go to the medical

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doctor and then when the medical doctor um figures out what's going on you know maybe it's now they're put on a

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medication or maybe they to have surgery or you know it's a diagnosis of cancer Alzheimer's or some debilitating chronic

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disease and and then it's a lot harder to get back your health and that's was really where the slippery SL comes down

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and if we can start to be more proactive in our health really look at that from an inside out approach man that makes

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all the difference in the world but even when you look at even the industry of Chiropractic as a whole there's still a

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pain-based model and any this is any any industry in any healthcare industry

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there are still like that that pain-based model and then there's that holistic based model even in dentistry there are more pain-based

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doctors that are you know it's hey pull the tooth fill the cavity and sure brush and floss

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um but they don't talk about other things when you go to a holistic dentist they will talk about these other things

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like okay what's your diet look like what else are you doing there do you do we really need to pull this tooth or can

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we do something different um they don't still do root canals oftentimes with a holistic dentist you know that's a

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something that most people realize in holistic Dentistry they'll do other things because things like Rook canals

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can actually create more infection in your body that can have underlying issues so like again different every

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industry is different but even in Chiropractic there is that pain-based model versus is that holistic model and so even if someone's looking to get

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health and that's a good way to start with the foundation of your health your nervous system your skeletal muscular

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system uh you got to understand okay are you just going to someone that's just going to patch the problem or are you

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looking at someone that's really going to help you get some long-term issues fixed and corrected as much as possible

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because you might be the guy that has waited until you're 60 or 70 or even 40 or 50 to start taking care of yourself

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and you might have 40 50 60 years of damage in your body but sight 2020 right

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and the best thing to do is just taking care of yourself now and moving forward yeah it it's interesting that people

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will have especially if and you can speak to this and and disagree with me

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but it would seem like if people aren't really using their body like whether

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they're exercising and working out and you know versus like all I do is walk from my couch to the refrigerator maybe

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to the car maybe walk a little bit to the mall after I park as closely as possible yeah like they're they're not

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actually putting their body under you know much strain so it seems like you could kind of avoid until a avoid quote

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unquote correcting the problem until it just gets to where it's actually affecting your ability to sit on the

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couch it's right yeah absolutely if you don't use it you lose it that's so true

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uh you know there's even different degrees of using it you know so people might say well hey I I walk every day

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I'm like hey that's great but maybe they're still 40 PBS overweight and they saw some other

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chronic issues going on and while it's maybe a good place to start it's a different level than doing a more

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high-intensity exercise right and stressing the body more and maybe that high-intensity exercise has to start

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with them just doing like 20 seconds of a high-intensity exercise and taking a two-minute break and then they finally

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get to the point where they can do a two-minute intense exercise and then take a a 10-sec break but the more we

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stress our bodies and there's a difference between bad stresses and and good stresses but the more we stress our

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body physically the more it allows us to to grow right in life that's I think in

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everything probably something you've experienced in your life is the more

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stress we get the more it helps us grow and when stress becomes really chronic that becomes an issue but spurts of

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stress or are moments of growth and so whether it's a a moment of emotional

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stress some trauma we're going through some you know some life we're going

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through it might be really stressful but it's it's there because it's helping us learn and grow and and get better from

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that thing so we can be able to adapt to that stress better in the future or when something else comes at us it's not as

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stressful we're or equally stressful we're able to handle it easier and it doesn't Rock us and and that's really

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important and that's in even like the activity you're talking about it's like hey walking great place to start then

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maybe push yourself from there because the more you're able to push yourself the more you're going to be able to to grow physically mentally chemically from

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those things and life will just be better not that you have to be an elite athlete to be Optimal Health but hey the

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more you can push yourself in all areas of your life just the better your life's going to be yeah it seems like that our

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I mean especially you know from who whoever the the loudest voice is is telling people okay we have a we have

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the fattest culture in the in the known world you know what I don't know what the latest percentage of 60 65% of

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Americans are obese it used to be 50% or so like I don't that number 50 now yeah

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yeah so 50% of us are not like overweight but like chronically obese

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and so what you know what the quote unquote experts say is well get out and walk 20 minutes three days a week which

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like you said is better than nothing but it's it's at the at the same time that

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burning maybe 200 calories if you're a big person yeah you go eat you go eat an

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Oreo or or an extra pad of butter then then that calorie deficit is completely

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negated you know as someone actually did a video the other day just a short form video where I talked about I'm 50 I've

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been lifting weight since I was 16 and I talked about you know is just is being

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sore kind of a a function of being active and I basically my my stance

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again you feel free to disagree is it is kind of like that delayed onset muscle soreness and all of that I think the

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body is amazing and and going back to what you were saying about stressing your body the the body's been designed

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in such a way that's just completely amazing because if you if you put additional stress on your system your

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body is broken down you know not not completely but at a microscopic level

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and then and then what does it do it literally builds you up so that you can you can face those again with with you

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know the next time so I think that that's and that's with stressing and everything too no absolutely I totally

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agree with you you know if we're not if we're not growing we're dying you know

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and every other every other area of your life you know and some people put really heavy focus on one area of their health

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maybe it's nutrition or maybe it's exercise but they're forgetting those other foundations that we teach our

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patients you know one of those being things like um you know we have the five foundations it's

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function which has to do with the nervous system and making sure that's functioning well because that controls every organ every tissue every cell in

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your body that communication is huge um we talk about food which you just talking about right we talk about

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Fitness which you're just talking about then there's also filter which has to do with toxins we live in a a day and age

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where oh man toxins are are rampid I mean we have the government spraying chemicals in the air to control clouds

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and and weather we have everything we eat that has a pesticide in it I mean

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right now if you tested any single person in America's blood about 90% of people have glyphosate in it which is

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the active ingredient that creat so many problems with people's health and um Roundup right so so I mean that's H and

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that's just a couple things I mean we talk about our food our air our personal products you know we have to be really

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diligent and we can't hide from those things and even if you lived in a bubble like or under a rock you couldn't hide

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from it because you're going to get exposed somehow but we just have to be diligent Under The Rock in the soil yeah

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exactly and I always joke about that because in our area when I talk to patients because we live in an area

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where there's an area called Hanford that's really close in Hanford Washington that's where um they developed like the nuclear bomb and did

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all this stuff and and so there's a lot of cleanup from that and so I always tell people I'm like hey you like you

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can't even hide under a rock around here you're going to be radioactive right so you know there's just so much but we can't paralyze ourselves and and

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paralysis and just do nothing but we can do things that are going to make a big difference in our life so we can help lower that toxic load in our body and

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then there's also the big one which is really freedom and that's our last um

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Foundation but not definitely not the least important and freedom has to do with you know freedom in our spiritual

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life freedom in our finances and our relationships just really um that stress

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component that emotional component that we think of a lot and that's huge and if we're not motivating ourselves or trying

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to make ourselves better in those areas of life too then we're just going to regress into our old bad habits and I

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got to work on those better than anyone because man I can fall back into bad habits really quickly um whether or not

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just be the the the fitness or the nutrition the ones we think of but just

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the the daily habit stuff the things that control our mind that our positive thinking all that aspect of it is is key

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so putting filling our bodies with with good mental food it's just as important as the the physical food we put in our

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body because if we're always on Instagram and social media and all these things and watching the news it just

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fills our mind with fear and bad information and agendas and propagandas

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and everything else and man it's h it can break you down faster than anything yeah which I

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mean the this time that we live in I mean that's constantly bombarding you know so that freedom component

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interesting I I um I kind of keep an eye so Michelle my wife and I we've been married for 28 years um which is kind of

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a side but we we are um she's got me training for a 10K and this 10K is this

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weekend we've done you know full marathons half marathons and I'm really topheavy I am not built to run like I'm

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just I build muscle in my upper body I've got relatively lean legs regardless

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of and I don't skip leg day it's just it's just it's just how God designed my body but I but I I I track a couple of

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things that I find interesting with in regard to what I'm what I'm eating and my stress levels you know the last so we

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can go out and do just a training run I did a I did a 5 and a half mile run on Saturday which is kind of the the last

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long run before this race yeah and I woke up that day even though I was traveling I traveled over the weekend

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and and had little had has less sleeps than I wanted I woke up feeling really good mentally and emotionally kind of

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excited and that run I I did a 9 minute and 15 second um

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average mile which for me is is is fast I'm not fast by any means um but like we

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the week before I'd been stressing about some Finance stuff and you know I've run multiple businesses and all that and

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even my little tw- mile run was a total struggle like it just it just sucked uh

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so that's kind of one of my barometers but interestingly enough so as as a 50-year-old one of the things we deal

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with is is prostate kind of health and BPH and just minor stuff and and it's

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funny because I can use my prostate and this sounds really weird but maybe you could tell me I'm not as weird as I think but I use that as a barometer for

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for my for the inflammation overall inflammation in my in my body it's like hey how am I how am I peeing is it good

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today is it you know and and I'd be like oh well it's kind of you know it's not as good as it should be and I was like

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well you know we had a cheat meal yesterday and I had a bunch of white bread you know or or or whatever and

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then that that causes that so I you know I'm kind of all over the place to your point about Roundup it's really ironic

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that they've literally designed food to make it or design agriculture so that

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they can saturate as much Roundup as possible to to to grow the food right

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like that's that's just kind of an interesting thing so I I just threw a bunch at you so feel free go do your

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thing but no that's I mean I think you're on track you know we can all have indicators in our own life when we know

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we're stressed or we know we're not functioning optimally right so for you're like talking about this PSA

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levels and you know your body's more inflamed absolutely I mean any any test we do it's really a marker of

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inflammation in our body because when our body is it disease not disease but

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disease not function optimally that's going to create inflammation in our body our body's response to try to adapt to

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this stressor on our body and then eventually if that disease and that inflammation says they long enough well

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then that develops into disease as we know it in the common nomenclature which is you know heart disease cancer

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digestive IBS whatever it might be and that at that point it's really just a a

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diagnosis in the in the medical model that we live in it's a diagnosis that the doctor can give you so that they can

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justify giving a medication and a prescription or giving you a surgery and

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it's not a really good place to live from because then we're in a state of always reaction instead of being in a state of

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really being proactive in our life and so just like in everything uh any situation we do we come across in life

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it's really not about how um we res

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react it's about how we respond right so reactions can be just like knee-jerk um

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you know we're going to you know it maybe it's say something like I don't know if you have kids or not but maybe you're yep yeah so like if you're boy or

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girl or I have two I have two girls they're out the the house 25 and 23 so

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that but that that does that doesn't mean the stress that they create has has diminished that much but no right so

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it's like you know maybe you're let's say the scenario where you know one of your your daughters maybe one day they

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they came they're in high school right and they come home late pass their curfew maybe it's like an hour pass their curfew and you have a knee-jerk

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reaction because they broke their curfew they didn't talk to you you don't know what's going on you're you're

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upset that interaction you have with your daughter could be a lot different and the outcome

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of that versus how you choose to respond to it and so if we just react okay maybe

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we're heated she's heated we're yelling there's animosity there it doesn't end well and then everyone's mad at each

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other and then it breaks down some trust a little bit but it breaks down some trust from both parties versus if we

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respond differently and maybe we just ask some good questions well maybe we found out that maybe your daughter was

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late because she got into a situation where people were drinking at a party she tried to make the good choice and

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like get her friends out of there and and drive them home and maybe her cell phone battery died or you know something

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crazy and it's like she was actually making the right choices and making good decisions that you had trained her and

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and educated her and and and wanted her to make and she was making them but it was just that response we had right so

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two different outcomes just based on how we respond to situations and so I think that's really important as we're going through

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our our health making decisions how we respond to things physically but also I

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mean really more so emotionally and that's one thing that I think that I have to work on the most is how I

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respond to situations because I'm a a a type A personality driver go go go cut

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out the fluff I don't want to hear the details just you know get to the point and tell me what's going on and uh that

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can get me in trouble especially with my other team members too something I've really had to work on over the years and you know is is having more empathy and

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right and and listening better and asking better questions and not having those KN jerk

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reactions but just learning to have better responses to things and and that's really that's helped me and it's

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something that I have to continue to work out because it's not my natural state right yeah there's a our natural States and there's adaptive States

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Natural State I'd rather and I I was reading this on your on your podcast um on your platform form there your website

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and it was talking about how as men we're used to being isolated and I was like well that's my

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natural personality like I would rather be isolated I'd rather be you know reclus than be around a bunch of people

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that doesn't feed my energy versus my wife she's the opposite she gets fed her energy by being around people and it is

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the opposite to her when she's more secluded and so there's always that happy balance around that but my

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adaptive State I have to be around people because in my profession I'm always around people and I'm taking on a lot of energy you know sometimes not bad

26:02

not sometimes not good energy because they're they're sick and they they're struggling and and maybe they're cranky and mean because they've been in pain

26:09

for so long and so my adaptive state is I have to be that more extrovert and then when I get home I can be the more

26:16

of the introvert that I want to be so I think it's important people understand like there are adaptive states there are

26:21

natural states trying to live in your natural state as best as possible is going to help you with your stress levels um but knowing your bound too is

26:28

really important yeah because I I'm definitely my both my wife and I are introverts so

26:33

but it's funny because I always joke and say I am an introvert but I play an extrovert on the

26:39

internet like we I I have multiple public facing Brands I I I help with TV

26:45

I do all this stuff that is very like most people don't believe that I'm an introvert whenever I tell them but it's

26:52

that's my natural state like we live out in the country I've gone eight or nine days without leaving the house and I'm

26:58

perfectly content with that you know like that usually involves me skipping church on

27:03

Sunday or something like that but it in order for me to go that long and but yeah that's definitely not my my natural

27:10

state is I'd rather sit and have this conversation or or my wife and I go to dinner with your wife and you and and

27:17

have that versus like I did a training over the weekend that had 15 people in it and I'm you know I'm I'm working

27:24

oneon-one with each one of them and that's by the end of the week like I'm tired yeah first of all it was in North

27:30

Carolina and South Carolina so I had to fly out there and back in two days but um yeah it's uh it's definitely not my

27:37

natural thing so that adaptive side is it's almost like you know what we joke

27:42

and say put your big girl panties on and just and just do do what needs to be done but what's the balance with that

27:48

like how do you um because I know with me I I H I

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can adapt pretty quickly so I can play that role put on that role but then when I get back um you know I don't regress

28:01

and it doesn't take me a week to get back to normal um just because I've learned that strategy how do you how do

28:08

you do that well I don't think I have the perfect answer you know I think every probably depend on each individual

28:13

person and you know if it's men or women that's definitely different scenarios on

28:19

how that happens you know I think for us guys we can bounce back and forth pretty quickly I think for women it takes more

28:27

time for them to kind of adjust back between and kind of ress and do all those things I mean for me I just really

28:33

try to make an effort of taking breaks and take intentional

28:39

time hey guys thanks for listening to this episode I hope you're enjoying it and learning a lot if you're looking for

28:44

extra help don't forget that I do offer one-on-one coaching we can talk through a ton of different issues I can give you

28:50

guides guidelines and logistical help to help you take that next step or go to

28:56

that next level in some of the things that you're dealing with in your life we also have some course content some

29:01

guides uh and a lot of educational materials over at maxed out man.com for

29:07

the coaching go ahead and go to MaxOut man.com coaching and you can learn about that and then just go to maxed out

29:12

man.com for everything else thanks for joining us now back to the episode you know one thing I learned from you know

29:18

my from my grandfather my father and even just that generation is man those

29:24

guys know how to work for sure and that's where I learned a lot of my really all my work ethic probably but

29:31

although I really appreciate that the other thing the flip side of that is I see that generation didn't really take a

29:36

whole lot of time for themselves to enjoy the things that they really are passionate about or the things that that

29:41

fed them to and so you know I really have made it a point in my life to take

29:47

time to stop and smell the roses you know like experience things and go do some things even if that does mean okay

29:53

maybe I'm not making as much money because I'm taking time off from work uh

29:59

money is not definitely everything money solves problems but at the same time

30:04

there's a trade-off too and so it's like okay are you sacrificing time from your family are you sacrificing time for the

30:10

things that feed your soul and you can just push push push and grind grind grind grind and a lot of guys are really

30:16

good at at being able to do that and and have the perception that it's not wearing them down and while sometimes

30:23

mentally it might not be physically definitely is like there's give and take right like you take a medication to take

30:29

away a symptom of a of a problem you have but guarantee it's breaking down some other area of your body and it's

30:35

going to create some other Sy that's going to pop up so it's just like the The Leaky boat right you can put your

30:41

finger in one hole and another W is going to pop up right it's like keeps happening in our own lives that's really

30:46

easy to do so for me what I do is I just try to take intentional time I mean so my wife and I uh we're very intentional

30:52

about planning out uh not just our our day but our week weeks our our quarters

30:59

and our year and so one of the things that my wife and I do on a on a macro level I kind of do it from the macro

31:04

level and work down if that that works for you guys and so like every November

31:11

usually we're pretty consistent November usually we do it over Thanksgiving weekend sometimes it goes into the the

31:16

first week of December but definitely like about a month out before the new year starts is we sit down we do a

31:22

little Retreat sometimes it's just uh you know we go do a little station so we

31:28

might just get a babysitter and go to a hotel and just close ourselves off and

31:35

we will focus on our year we know we'll go over um what we want to accomplish that year we review our past year and

31:42

like hey what were our goals as a family individually as well okay what did we hit what did we not hit if we didn't hit

31:49

okay did we at least improve from where we were was that one thing not really as important in our lives as we thought it was and so that's why we didn't do it

31:55

why didn't we do it like and just kind of help see okay where do we come from this past year and then okay where are

32:01

we going and so like what are our goals that we want to do like what are some bucket list things that we want to maybe check off our bucket list or what are

32:08

some things we want to experience as a family um what are some things we want to accomplish personally maybe we are

32:13

off track on an aspect of our health maybe working out or some of so what what maybe we have a goal around that um

32:20

and so you know we go around that and we we take our time individually apart you know we'll go to our separate corners or

32:27

whatever and we'll we'll we'll work through that and then we'll come back and you know we'll discuss those with

32:33

each other and share those with each other and maybe help each other come up with some Solutions on how to achieve that thing too some brainstorming with

32:40

each other and then make sure basically that our family and each other are on the same page and we're moving in the

32:45

same direction right and so that that helps a lot and like I said sometimes we'll just do a station sometimes we'll

32:51

like travel somewhere and go do it um for a weekend um since we had a a little

32:56

little guy he's about uh he he'll be two years old in December the last couple years we just done it station in our own

33:04

home yeah you right um but uh yeah so it's just like whatever works for you but like I think it's intentional to

33:10

like get out of your home it works better because you're not having the distractions of things so you can really

33:15

dive into that we just L just take 24 hours and then end the you know that night we'll have a little date night make a little date weekend out of it

33:23

right so then from there but we'll we'll plan out also the other component we'll plan out our whole calendar for the year

33:29

so based on what our goals are and what we want to accomplish we'll we'll plan out our calendar and so we'll

33:35

intentionally you know every year at least put two bigger trips so that we go

33:41

at least a week somewhere at least two times during the year to help break that up to help recharge because even my wife

33:49

while she's a stay-at-home mom like they need to break more than us guys do that

33:54

more definitely more than you for sure my wife was St at home mom for yeah for sure yeah and so you know we we plan out

34:01

like our vacations we try to take little trips too so we'll try to block out certain weekends so basically we try to

34:06

average it so about every six weeks at least that we're

34:12

taking some kind of little trip um you know at least twice a year we're taking a bigger trip and then also weekly that

34:20

we have a date night as well so that we can recharge that aspect of our life as

34:26

well and sometimes you know sometimes we combine things and sometimes it's okay well we're going somewhere for a weekend

34:31

so we're not going to have a date night that week because we're going out for you know a little weekend trip and but like just having that balance that's how

34:38

I I try to do it is we really try to plan that out plan out our year plan out our you know our our months our our

34:45

weeks and then every week we on like Sundays we sit down and we plan or not

34:52

say plan but we go over our week so we can see how we can support the other one we know what the other ones got on their

34:57

plate too you know the other one have a lot going on and they're going to be more stressed and they need a little extra support a little extra help um or

35:05

hey when are we going to do our date night because you know having kids it's you got to be fluid on that right

35:11

because sometimes you might not get a babysitter on the day you want to and so it's like just kind of planning those things out so we go over that week and

35:17

that way there's less surprises during the week hopes keep the stress level down helps us plan better as well um you

35:25

know it helps us stay in the page we share our calendars together so we know too what the other one's going to do cuz

35:31

I mean I don't know about you but my my memory sometimes is about 12 hours so

35:36

either way either direction so you know we might go over on Sunday Tuesday rolls around I'm like thinking about maybe

35:44

coming home for lunch or something and I'm like oh I better check the calendar oh sure enough yep my wife and little

35:50

guy they're off doing something so if I came home I'd be coming home to an empty house anyway so you know the point yeah

35:57

yeah so um yeah so just those kind of things and it really helps us to stay on track better and just more of a family

36:02

unit be more on the same page moveing the same direction yeah I really like that because that that kind of expands

36:07

on you know obviously everybody that I know that has a successful marriage does date nights you know and that's you know

36:13

something that we do and it's not you know we're not always we're we're not big on eating out because first of all

36:18

it's expensive second of all it's and I'm cheap second of all it's just it's

36:23

it's for the most part it's difficult to eat healthily you know uh that way we you know we we we like the quote unquote

36:30

cheat Meal which doesn't you know we're not usually going too crazy on that but like we'll go I mean we'll make a date

36:36

night out of doing our weekly shopping which sounds really weird but like just being able to go out and go do those

36:43

things together and hang out and and talk and and and all that and but I love

36:48

the I love the planning aspect of it I'm gonna work on integrating that into my own because and like you I mean you may

36:55

plan out for the year and all that stuff and then you may get a a speaking gig somewhere where you have to go and so

37:01

that CH you know I'm sure that that changes you got to make audibles in life cuz as you know life happens and you

37:08

know but we got to have a a plan because if you as you know if we don't plan life life will plan us and yeah that's why I

37:15

really get around this with our with our patients because if they don't make big

37:21

rocks in their life for the things that are important to them then life is just going to fill in with all the little crap that doesn't matter

37:27

and it's going to throw you off track and so it's like okay if you want to get healthy let's say you want to lose

37:32

weight and you want to lose 20 pounds okay well then you got to have some big rocks that don't change no matter what

37:37

happens so you know working out X number of times a week and for so many minutes

37:43

a day so you need to make sure you're doing that those are big rocks and put that in your calendar make sure those things don't get disrupted maybe you

37:48

need to meal plan and or food prep and so maybe on Sundays you need to do your food prep that has to not change no

37:54

matter what um you know you you got to have those dat nights and they get in there and they don't change no matter

38:00

what so there's big rocks in your life whatever your value system is is important to do that because I'm really

38:05

big on values and like what your values are we have like our family values as

38:10

well um the number one being Freedom actually and and then we base our

38:16

decisions based off of those values and same thing I mean if you don't have those values and if you're if you're

38:21

going to change your habits and create big rocks in your life then you're never going to create that new habit and it's just going to get filled up by by other

38:27

junk too and so um that's just I think that's so important having those those habits and those big rocks not letting

38:34

things shift around yeah I love the idea of the the big rock thing that's that's something I've never heard before I

38:40

really I really like that because it's and we're not even honestly like the Habit thing is people think okay well

38:47

I'm going to get in the habit of doing this for 12 weeks or I'm going to get in the habit until I get to you know

38:53

whatever weight and then they just go back to the previous lifestyle that they had before it's something like I work

38:59

out I lift weights five to six days a week I do cardio every day like it's

39:04

just something this is part of you do it's part of your lify part of what I do I I try to I eat as healthily as I can I

39:10

got a little bit of a sugar thing that I and my wife's a baker so that's you know as a hobbyist so we kind of deal with

39:17

that and the two of us do that and you know I'm I uh you know go through all those things but then so that's like my

39:23

Baseline Rock but you know sometimes I decide hey I'm going to do

39:29

this activity or this trip or or whatever it is and I want to get my body fat down a little bit lower right and so

39:36

then I have to have a short-term plan to to do those things and so but it's it's

39:41

this foundational yeah it's okay to be to be fluid right no one's perfect and so you

39:47

got to have a plan though like you say like you got a plan if you don't have a plan then you're just wandering through

39:53

life and and life's going to you're going to just move with the waves right right yeah like anchoring down like

39:59

drilling a a dock down like 30 ft into the ocean floor away you know a hurricane could coming it's not going to

40:05

move that Foundation might ding it up a little bit but it's not going to move that Foundation you know we were just in

40:10

um Cape Coral Florida for a couple weeks just for a trip to get away and you know

40:16

I was looking at some of the devastation down there from the hurricane that hit last year and but you know there's like

40:22

peers that are just gone right like there's no walkway boardwalk at all but guess what's still there the support the

40:29

support beams y yeah those beams there that Foundation is still there and it's just so important like even if we get

40:35

off track like okayy at least if we have a foundation we get off track it's a lot easier to

40:41

rebuild right versus if you know if those peers didn't even have a good foundation it just wipe it out like I

40:46

don't remember exactly where we put this this pier right like where where do we even put the anchors like and so like I

40:53

think it's the same thing in our life if if we don't start to build a good foundation and once we get that good foundation then when we get off track

40:59

it's a lot easier to get back on track you know I talk about being fluid and having like basically showing yourself

41:04

Grace too because life shifts you might have these big rocks but sometimes life does happen but it's the consistency

41:11

about it right and that's the the intent behind something like what I'm talking about is the consistency and consistency

41:17

is where things change you know whether you're doing marketing for your business it's not about being perfect additive but having consistency in that marke and

41:23

that's what produces your outcomes or you know when it to your health it's like not that you have to work out every single day for those 12 weeks but if

41:30

you're consistent and you're maybe averaging five days a week well you're probably going to make some changes or

41:36

you know you talk about cheap meals I like to call them reward meals I think in your life it's a reward meal you do really good in some areas of your

41:42

lifestyle it's like it's a reward and it's like hey like you can you can do those things you don't have to eat good

41:48

100% of the time it can be 80% of the time but right now if it's foot flopped and you're eating good 20% of the time

41:54

and 80% of the time it's always your reward meal then it's you know it's a whole different aspect too and so you

42:00

know like when we did plan this trip where we were going down there for 2 weeks to to go on a little vacation um and that was a long I this

42:08

trip was like the longest consecutive I've ever gone on before um I think it was closer to like two and a half weeks

42:15

actually and that was tough for me because I'm used to always wanting to do something

42:20

right and to just like kind of step back and and take that time to like literally just kind of do nothing and unplug is is

42:27

not easy and uh but we but there's some fluidity in that right and so like we

42:33

had these two weeks and then um one of my colleagues called me up probably like

42:38

a couple weeks before we were supposed to leave and was like hey there's this great seminar it's in Fort Lauderdale it's like two hours away from you I

42:45

think it really value you get a lot out of it and uh I was like okay maybe maybe

42:50

I I would like to do that and it's like at the end of this two weeks I'm like okay maybe I'll do it so um you know I talked to my wife about it and she's

42:57

like well yeah cuz then I can go visit my friend in Alabama and I've been W to meet her and on the way back and so you

43:02

know we made an audible and so we still got like a pretty much solid two weeks of we did get a solid two weeks of

43:07

vacation in but then we were able to do some other things too it's just being fluid but we're on the same page with

43:12

things too so I think it's you know important to just have fluidity and things and have give yourself Grace but

43:19

at the end of the day you've got to be consistent and hold yourself accountable to that and be honest with yourself and saying okay am I really being consist

43:26

here or am I just giving myself a lot of excuses and letting a lot of excuses build up into things and I mean when I

43:32

was on this trip I I'll be honest with you I was not on my on my best game with my health and people a lot of times will

43:39

say oh you know what I can't work out because I'm going on a trip well you can it's just an excuse like I probably in

43:45

the two weeks that I worked out or that I was down there I probably only worked out maybe four or five times and which

43:53

is not my normal but you know I was enjoying join him I had my family down there my dad my little guy he wanted to

43:59

go swimming every morning and then you know then we didn't have family so it's just me and my wife and it's is like a normal routine and it wasn't ex excuse

44:07

like I knew what I was doing I knew I wasn't doing what I normally do but it was a a trade-off that I was willing to

44:13

do for that short period of time to create an experience with my dad my son and myself to just like absorbing that

44:20

and at that moment in that moment in my life I felt that was more important to my health having that emot

44:27

like building a connection and and memories and connections and all that stuff then getting in a few extra

44:32

workouts hey guys thanks for listening to this episode I hope you're enjoying it and learning a lot if you're looking

44:37

for extra help don't forget that I do offer one-on-one coaching we can talk through a ton of different issues I can

44:43

give you guides guidelines and logistical help to help you take that next step or go to that next level in

44:50

some of the things that you're dealing with in your life we also have some course content some guides uh and a lot

44:56

of educational materials over at MaxOut man.com for the coaching go ahead and go to maxed out man.com coaching and you

45:04

can learn about that and then just go to maxed out man.com for everything else thanks for joining us now back to the

45:09

episode so did you did you did you kind of have a mental battle at all with like oh well I feel cuz what I was telling

45:16

Michelle last night I'm like it's it's 6 o'clock I just traveled 3,400 miles in 2

45:22

days I got in at 1: in the morning but at the same so like I'm tired I it's

45:28

it's I worked all day even after getting back really late last night but it's 6 o' and I'm thinking why do I have this

45:37

this like innate pressure that I put on myself to still be productive which is

45:44

kind of you know my my kids always joke and they they're like I'm pretty sure you're a robot because I just I have you

45:50

know like you very high capacity for productivity and just kind of push push

45:55

push but even when I go on vacation does it take it usually takes me a couple of days to kind of you wind that RP wh the

46:04

RPMs back down to more of an idol it really is funny you're saying that you know right before I left on this trip um

46:11

I was talking to a patient on the table and her and her husband they're retired but they're going to they were going to

46:17

they were leaving pretty much the same time but they were going for like five weeks to Portugal and some other areas there and she was asking where I was

46:23

going and I was like she like is that the longest been I was like yeah and she's like she's like just remember

46:29

it'll take you a few days to get into your vacation mode it always happens

46:35

like and her I think her husband and her I think they own their own business and stuff too right and so she knew and so I

46:40

I I thought about I was like yeah you're right you know it usually does take before you really feel you're like can relax it takes at least a couple of two

46:48

three days before you're like all right like the the the business isn't going to collapse like things are going to be

46:53

fine um but I don't depends on where you're at in life I think too and what

46:59

your stress levels are Etc I think it's okay with our personalities to still have some things

47:06

turned on like there were a couple days where I might not have done any business but I would say most days there was I

47:12

was probably doing something even if it was just like a phone call check like maybe tune in with

47:18

a team meeting just something because it helps like on the on the flip side If it

47:23

creates more stress in your life not doing the thing then you got to have a little bit of that back in because it

47:29

helps create some balance in your life too because this like how you're wired so I think it's okay as long as it's not

47:35

interfering with your your planned family time on a vacation or things like that like I was doing those things when

47:41

my little guy was down for a nap my wife wanted to go just rest and relax by the pool and read a book and I'm like I

47:46

can't sit and rest by a pool and read a book like I need to be doing something so I was like hey I can work on this

47:51

thing I can check in with the team I can make this phone call and that actually energized me me it was just a little bit

47:57

you like half an hour an hour and that was maybe just a couple times sprinkled out throughout and it gave me more

48:04

energy so uh and then like the workout thing too was like my wife she was

48:10

working out every single day and it was like I there was like that self feel like ah I should probably be

48:16

working out too but at the same time it's like okay what are your value systems is it is it a short-term thing

48:23

is is it a bad habit is a good habit what are area of those five foundations is is fulfilling right now too so for me

48:30

I just I had I had to try something new so I I actually made a lot more of an effort to just try to do literally

48:38

nothing like let my brain kind of recharge because we had a lot we like slam right before we left like the whole

48:43

month like we were making some big changes in our offices and different things and it's like go go go so you

48:49

just got to pull back and it's not easy for us to do is as guys to like just pull back and not do anything and so it

48:55

was a good learning curve for me it let me realize like hey guess what um I I can do those things not that I always

49:01

like necessarily want to but it was a good like emotional recharge for me mentally spiritually and so yeah I think

49:07

it's you got to be aware of that in your own life yeah it's it's funny because there's a meme there's a meme that you

49:13

that I've seen where it's got a guy that's like you know you know super ripped and fit and muscular and it says

49:20

and then he's it's next to another shot that is like this huge like it that same

49:26

guy's gain like 30 lbs and it'll say like you know it basically is alluding to you you

49:32

think if you take a week off from vaca and then it's got the same the same initial picture in the third slot but

49:39

it's like what you think is going to happen on by taking a week off from working out and what actually happens

49:45

from taking a week from working out like your your system is you know it's not like you're and I mean you may put on a

49:51

couple of pounds if you eat like crap on vacation and don't burn those calories and all that stuff but it's you know it it all it all does that I'm

49:58

fortunate or unfortunate but I'm I'm I'm kind of a low sleep guy that's how my my

50:05

system is is naturally six and a half to seven an hours and I'm I'm good like literally if I don't set an alarm which

50:11

I hardly ever do that's my that's my kind of Sweet Spot Michelle my wife is

50:17

more of a nine hours eight eight and a half nine hours and so when we're on vacation um I get up you know we do a

50:25

lot of Caribbean Vacations so I get up I do my walk on the beach listen to my worship music and kind of have my quiet

50:31

time and those kind of things but then I'll go back and like checking on emails and checking on orders and see whether

50:37

or not there's anything I need to be involved in but then I'm free pretty much the rest of the day and it just it

50:43

works out really well no that's good you found the know some balance right and so people always talk about you read about

50:49

hey life balance and work life balance and all these things and you know I think it's so individual to the person

50:57

know for what works for you or me might not work for the next guy and you just got to find what's going on you just got

51:02

to make sure that whatever your balance is is really feeding your values and and not just your own values too but

51:09

hopefully your family's values and hopefully your own values and your family values match up too um yeah

51:14

because I think that's huge because if you're if you have a different set of values and you're doing these things and

51:20

they're feeding your soul but they're taking away from your family's values and what's important to your family then

51:25

that's a problem I believe but yeah 100% you know like right now you empty nester

51:30

you you know just you and your wife it's like okay you can do all these things before she wakes up you don't have to

51:36

worry about spending time with the kids or whatever right now it's like okay you have that time and you can feed your

51:41

soul and it's a value to you and helps keep your energy up keeps your stress levels down because you're not worrying about all the things that might be going

51:47

wrong while you're on trip and then when your wife finally wakes up great then you can roll and you have that

51:53

intentional time and you know it works for you guys guys and so I think everyone has to find their own balance but I think it all has to start with the

51:59

values I always come back to that it's like what are your values anchor things around that create your big rocks around

52:06

that will there be your habits with your health with your relationships your finances whatever and it doesn't have to

52:11

your values don't have to be my values or the person that's listening to this um but then you you create your balance around that yeah and I think that's

52:18

probably the best formula for work life balance yeah because I mean at the end

52:24

of the day balance is is this whole work life balance thing is a little bit of a of a fallacy

52:30

because you're you're you at any point during the day you're probably going to be out out of balance one one way or

52:37

another but you kind of come back to that equilibrium um because you know like

52:42

when you're when you're at work you're at work you're doing these things and you know so like you're not feeding in

52:47

necessarily other than like the support and and you know security and all that of your family but then when you're at

52:53

home you know it you're not working on work so it's like there's there's it's really more of like a it's almost a

52:59

teeter totter yeah a little bit with this work life balance and it's not something that you can perfectly align

53:06

which which honestly it's the up it's the up and downs that kind of make life and the Teeter Totter fun in my in my in

53:12

my mind but you know to your to your foundation point you know there's a Biblical principle that there's a story

53:18

a parable that talks about you know building your house on Sand versus building your house on on the Rock and

53:25

to your point about the dock and those support systems if they just set that dock on top of the sand and then you

53:31

know build long enough structures to reach it as the beach goes down you know you it doesn't even take a hurricane to

53:37

blow that thing away a high tide will carry that thing away yeah exactly uh so

53:42

having that strong foundation and I think it it it speaks to the freedom and

53:47

the and the value system and all of those foundational things I I want to kind of just and I

53:54

want to be respective of your time but if you have someone that comes in one of the things I talk about a lot with maxed

54:01

out man and just in my own life and just engaging people is like you have to we all have we all have a work with what

54:08

you've got is kind of the it is kind of where that that starts and let's let's

54:13

go from there and try to do more be better you know in my in my mind we talk

54:19

about you know be who you were made to be and I know in your in your bio you know using your god-given talents and

54:25

blessings to kind of make them make the most of make the most of those things if someone comes in to your you know your

54:33

practice they're maybe 20 or 30 pounds overweight and they're stressed and they have back pain and maybe they have my

54:39

wife had sibo which is you know we learned a lot about the MMC uh you know with with that and then

54:46

you know the what's what's the first word of MMC oh put me on the spot I'm drawing

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blank right now motor Motor complex it's the something Motor complex anyway it's the I can't I didn't mean to put you on

54:59

the spot sorry but like all of those things so if they're facing some of these issues kind of what is your like

55:05

hey well here's what we've got and here's where we start because there may be people listening to this that are like yeah I definitely need better

55:11

balance I definitely need some of those foundational things you know I'm curious

55:17

kind of what you tell people when they to kind of get them started you know we're not here to yeah diagnose and

55:22

solve this these problems but where do you where would someone just even get started you know that's a it's a tough

55:29

question sometimes in people's situations for instance I mean somebody might live in a really rural area and

55:36

they might not have the same kind of resources of someone that lives in a big city too um with that said though

55:41

there's some there's some things you can do in both situations for instance if someone literally someone's coming into our office then we're we're doing things

55:49

to try to help them get to the cause of their problem so we always start off evaluating their nervous system because

55:55

that's what allows you to adapt to stress what kind of stress you're in um and that's going to compound into other

56:01

things and so a lot of times that can be the reason why you're not able to lose weight or that could be the reason why you're having the back pain so we look

56:07

at that first and that's where we start with that Foundation right we start okay that's your foundation to your health let's see how that is first because even

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if you start exercising or eating better or taking some supplements like it might

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not do anything just because your nervous system is so stressed out that it can't adapt and do things very well

56:25

those other resources you're giv it and then from there then we can look at the other aspects of their health and so you

56:32

know it might be nutrition we might do more specific things though than just nutrition or exercise you know we might

56:38

look at there specific things they're dealing with maybe it's a gut health thing they got to start to repair repair

56:43

their gut health and obviously there nutrition that comes around that uh but maybe they have the toxicity issue too

56:49

and so maybe we do some testing for the toxicity versus the gut um those are some big ones right and so really we

56:55

just try to get to the the underlying cause and like start to rebuild the foundation and so I won't usually start

57:01

somebody on a on a different body system program if their nervous system is shot and they need to get that first so like

57:07

a lot of times we'll start there and start to get that functioning better and then we start to do the other things and

57:13

start to get them you know the other aspects of their health the nutrition the the fitness the maybe we need to get

57:18

toxins out of their body or rebuild their gut health and so it's just a dance now someone who maybe doesn't have that access because they don't have a

57:24

doctor um a holistic doctor like myself around maybe they have a chiropractor

57:29

around but maybe the chiropractor just adjusts and that's that's it and it's just more of a pain-based model well

57:35

then there's a lot of things you can do online too where you can find docs I mean I work with people online I work

57:40

with people across the the country on those types of things too because a lot of times it's just trying to figure out

57:46

okay what what is the body system that's breaking down the most and then what can you do to help restore that and again

57:51

not just throwing supplements at it like you would a medication because a lot oftimes people confused by you know they're going to take a medication and a

57:57

supplement they're doing the same thing they're trying to cover up a symptom and that's the reason they're taking that thing I mean sure the supplement is better than the medication because it's

58:03

not going to have the the bad side effects but still we can get in this this same hamster wheel where we're

58:08

still just treating symptoms and we're never getting right anything fixed and so it's a difference between doing

58:14

taking supplements for that reason versus taking supplements to help restore body systems give our other body

58:20

systems and organs a break so that it can start to heal it and prepare itself to where you don't have to be dependent

58:27

on those medic on those medications or on those supplements too right and now there are some supplements I just

58:32

recommend that everyone be on because they're just we don't get them in the food supply chain like we used to like our our nutrients is robbed of so much

58:40

of the Vitality that it once had we just don't get the same kind of superfoods that we used to get from Basic Foods we eat today and so there's there's

58:46

essential nutrients that just everyone needs especially if we live in the part of the latitude that you and I live in

58:52

like you're only getting the sun oh man yeah um midday first off you're only getting like vitamin D midday Sun

58:58

certain times of the year so like right now that's already gone like even if you're outside the midday you're not getting that vitamin D like you like you

59:04

should be so like vitamin D is one that I recommend for everyone to be on Omega Omega-3s are another huge one that we

59:11

don't get um especially because that's so important for brain health and and inflammation our body um I mean our

59:17

brain is like 60% fat we're starting to that that's a big one too and so there's

59:22

just like some some basic things we should be taking but then sometimes we got have to do some more advanced

59:27

nutrition for people to have you know chronic issues that are going on too yeah that's um how would so if I'm

59:35

I'm obviously not in your area are there certain things that I need to because

59:40

Chiropractic is one of those things where like and I'm sure you face this kind of as a as an uphill battle in

59:46

education but you have you have the chiropractors that b you know they're trained but they have they like you said

59:52

they only do adjustments so they maybe have the the little table where they step on the thing and it drops down and

59:59

you know they do their 25 minutes and they go through the same routine with everybody and then they say okay we'll see you next week and then we're GNA

1:00:05

keep seeing you for the rest of your life my my father-in-law kind of has has gone to one of those guys for a really

1:00:11

long time and I'm like yeah but you you you don't exercise you don't lift weights you eat like crap you you know

1:00:19

and so like why do those things in absentia of all these other why do

1:00:24

packet and absenti you how like if I want to find somebody that would at least be closer to the Continuum of what

1:00:31

you offer how do I you know is there a place to go to kind of find that or Google search words or things to look at

1:00:39

on their website you know yeah it's tough because you know you're right like when you go into a chiropractic office

1:00:45

you don't know what you're going to get you know it's it's all around the table and that's one of the the downfalls of

1:00:51

our profession is that there's there's so much Variety in and what holistic health is and the the Chiropractic is

1:00:58

this you know you never know what you're going to get exactly when you go into a chiropractor's office and so there are

1:01:03

some things you can look for for sure like if you're just looking on online and looking at their website or asking them questions I mean number one is you

1:01:10

want to find somebody particularly that that does x-rays especially like pre and

1:01:16

post x-rays because that's a sign right there that they're looking at the inside they're not just guessing what's going

1:01:21

on the inside of your body so they're already taking a more internal look at what's going on and they're looking for

1:01:27

a an outcome so a pre and a post right versus just taking the pre to find oh

1:01:32

yeah there might be an issue going on and this is why you should do it but then are they really delivering on the goods right so that's that's a that's a

1:01:39

thing right there and then obviously too you can look on their website and okay do they do they incorporate other things that that you're wanting I mean are they

1:01:45

talking about nutrition and exercise or take more of a holistic approach to things too if that's what you're looking

1:01:51

for well then you know usually that's going to be pretty apparent or you can just even ask them too too right you're like no we just do adjustments and we

1:01:57

don't take X-rays and hey that's fine nothing wrong with that but if you're looking for that other level to get to

1:02:02

in your health that's huge and then you know do you have to go to a chiropractor for the rest of that's a question I get

1:02:08

a lot and I always ask people a counter question which is hey do you need to eat

1:02:13

healthy the rest of your life do you need to exercise the rest of your life do you need to brush your teeth the rest of your life and everyone always answers

1:02:20

yes to those things and the real answer isn't yes yes the answer is actually no you don't have to do any of those other

1:02:27

things only as long as you want the benefit of those things right and so a lot of times our patients they'll choose

1:02:33

to go into Wellness care and do some kind of maintenance care you know whether that's once a month or once a week um just depending on what works

1:02:41

well for them because they they want to maintain their nervous system because they want the benefit of having a nervous system that's functioning

1:02:47

optimally um throughout their life and so that's key but at the same time if you're just dependent on just the

1:02:53

adjustment think and that's going to be the magic pill because that's how our society's been really trained to think is that hey they're always looking for

1:02:59

the next magic pill the one thing I can do that'll just allow me to to just ignore the other foundations that we

1:03:05

talk about and and just hope that's going to be the the golden ticket and while the adjustment is very powerful and keeping that nervous system strong

1:03:11

is very powerful if I have somebody who is constantly eating junk food they're

1:03:16

constantly stressed out at work they're taking medications and they're getting

1:03:22

vaccines and they're doing they're like all these other stress they're never working out and they're just expecting

1:03:28

the adjustment to to do everything and that's a that's a tough uphill battle right and it's like you know I I could

1:03:34

adjust that person until they're blue in the face and we might get some some changes with them but eventually man

1:03:40

that's they're going to hit a wall or they're just going to regress backwards and they're going to develop some disease so in anything we don't have to

1:03:46

do any of the five foundations of Health only as long as we want the benefits of those things and so that's why I say

1:03:52

those five foundations are not a uh Buffet line like you can't just pick and choose once you want expect the best

1:03:58

results you just got you gotta you got to live all those foundations not perfectly but just as consistently as

1:04:05

you can and then that's going to give you the best outcome in your life it doesn't mean that you're not going to ever get a diagnosis of a chronic

1:04:11

disease cancer Alzheimer's whatever like I mean we have a lot of stressors in our in our life that keep coming at us and

1:04:17

while genetics are only responsible for less than 5% of a chronic disease like

1:04:23

there's certain things we just are out of our control but there's a lot that is control like 95% of our environment and

1:04:28

our lifestyle is in our control and so I'd rather even if I'm only going to live to be 50 years old I'd rather be

1:04:35

able to live that best quality life until I'm 50 right I don't want to live like hey Chris you can live to be 50 and

1:04:41

have an amazing quality of life and do all things you want to do up to 50 or you can live to be 80 have an extra 30

1:04:47

years but those next 30 Years you're going to have poor quality life you're going to be limited you're not going to

1:04:53

be able to do the things you enjoy but you're going to be alive like you have a pulse um I I choose the live to 50 and

1:05:00

have the quality of life every time and in our society you see it a lot us guys

1:05:05

especially will push push push trying to make a living trying to save all this money have all these things to get to

1:05:11

retirement having this Nest Egg but we've neglected our health and all these other things in our life and then I see

1:05:17

patients all the time they spend those next however many years I have left trying to get back their health and

1:05:24

they're spending all their wealth trying to do that so it's it's counterproductive so yeah and they

1:05:31

haven't and they haven't I I'm more of a and I kind of went through a situation

1:05:36

in my own life and my own family and I I was blessed to kind of turn all that away turn all that around to where it's

1:05:42

like money and wealth and success those are those are a component to help me live a life not the other not not the

1:05:49

other way around and and yeah and I I'm very thankful for that cuz I have friends like well if I I save 80% of my

1:05:56

income and I never go on vacation and we never eat out and you know I I work 75

1:06:01

hours a week and oh by the way I'm divorced my kids don't talk to me I'm 50 pounds overweight I'm in chronic pain

1:06:08

it's like first of all the there's an there's an arrogance as humans to where

1:06:13

we we somehow believe that this mystical future that we're putting everything off

1:06:19

for actually exists and that and that some and that some we we have ultimate

1:06:25

control over that so like I I'm 50 about to be 51 in December and I could drop

1:06:31

dead in January so like am I doing the things today to live the life that I've

1:06:36

been given and make the most of it um you know not recklessly but make the

1:06:42

most of it with my health and nutrition and and all mental health and spiritual

1:06:48

and marriage and kids and all of those things yeah because I don't know if I live to I may live to a 100 my grand

1:06:54

grandm mother both my grandmothers were 102 years old both of them were fit and

1:06:59

happy and their bodies just wore out after a while just because just because of the miles yeah but like I I want that

1:07:06

my 92y old neighbor is cutting firewood today I can hear him out there with his chainsaw yeah like I want I want that I

1:07:12

don't want to be 60 and feel like crap so I think that's a great um I think

1:07:18

that's a great philosophy that you're talking about yeah absolutely I think that's key you know I just this last

1:07:24

week you know we on this trip and my my uh parent in-laws they uh in-laws they

1:07:31

were supposed to come on this trip with us and uh my mother-in-law did end up coming for a few days but only for a few

1:07:37

days of this bigger trip my parents were able to come for like a whole week with us and the thing was is um her husband

1:07:45

was getting having health issues and wasn't able to come and and and then she

1:07:51

felt bad CU she didn't want to you know leave him for very long or whatever and came for a few days and the same

1:07:59

couple they're in their their second marriage and so you know he had a had a

1:08:05

wife he took care of for years that was sick and she finally passed away and then and then he met um my mother-in-law

1:08:12

and then they got married maybe like four or five years ago and uh they're both retired like basically within a

1:08:18

year of them getting married they retired and you know worked hard he took care of his wife like literally she was

1:08:23

like this abled for years and years and then he was taking care of her parents who are also elderly and and having

1:08:29

issues too and so just like work work work serve these other people do these

1:08:34

things and uh you know never take the time for himself and and they they my

1:08:41

in-laws they they talked about wanting to go to Hawaii right and go travel and do these things but here they are four

1:08:47

years later still haven't taken that trip to Hawaii now he's having these these health issues they don't know

1:08:53

what's going on with them and already missing out on family things because of his health right and it's

1:08:59

like not taking the time to like you said live live life as we go through it not waiting until we get to a certain

1:09:06

point in life and then enjoying life and while he started to take care of himself better because he met my mother-in-law

1:09:12

and she's learned from from myself and my wife some things to improve her health like he still had 55 years or 60

1:09:21

years where he wasn't living that way too right and so it's like you know the point of that story is is I just

1:09:26

encourage people to not wait until they get to a certain point in their life before they start enjoying life is like

1:09:32

you said like live life now do the things that that are important to you live as best you can to your value

1:09:38

system and um yeah just do the best you can to be consistent so you can have things you want and have the quality of

1:09:44

life you want well I think that's a great place to to wrap this thing up I could

1:09:50

probably do a Joe Rogan level uh length podcast with you just cuz I find super

1:09:56

super super interesting I know you got work to do hey uh how do we find you how do we learn more about you uh and what

1:10:03

you got going on I know that your book's probably on Amazon and everywhere else so how they find that if they're interested so yeah the five foundations

1:10:10

of remarkably healthy people U that's on Amazon you can check that out um you know you can also um you can even email

1:10:17

me if you have questions or anything like that I'm an open book so people can get access it's uh Dr Chris which is is

1:10:23

Dr c r i s new edgew wellness.com um you can always shoot me an email there if

1:10:29

you want more questions or need help with something too or if you want someone me to help direct you to a place to go in your area that you can get some

1:10:34

help and I'll do my best I can for that as well so yeah that's awesome Dr Chris I appreciate you taking the time buddy I

1:10:41

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