Wait, what?! I thought that symptoms only showed up once something was wrong. You mean they only show up AFTER something has been wrong for a while? Symptoms are a warning sign that something is malfunctioning in the body even when EVERYONE seems to have the same symptom. They should NEVER be considered normal or just part of the “getting older” process. What does this all mean? Have a listen for the rest of the details and learn that how you feel really is a choice that YOU get to make.
002 – How You Feel Is Not The Best Indicator
Today we’re going to talk about. How you feel is not the best indicator of how healthy you are stay tuned.
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Alright, let’s get started. So we’re going to continue on with the story that we began yesterday. And really we’re going to segue into this concept of how you feel is not the best indicator of how healthy you are. So continuing my journey as a healthcare professional. And what actually got me into Chiropractic for those of you who missed that story it was not because of your classic aches and pains.
I actually was a very sick kid and chronic sinus problems and it wasn’t until I went to dr. John Brimhall down in Arizona who opened up my eyes to the whole world of Alternative Health Care. He was not just a straight chiropractor. He did not just do purely Chiropractic with me. We went through and did a lot of lifestyle changes and actually found.
That my sinuses were not the cause of my problem. It was because my gut had been destroyed and it was leaking toxins back into my system. So super short version of yesterday story, but just to get you guys new listeners on board with kind of how I became the chiropractor that I am and why I’m doing what I’m doing in my office now.
So through a while since 2005 I’ve continued on this journey, and I’ve wanted to be able to do more of what I experienced as Chiropractic. That’s really what my passion has been is restoring health and helping people get well and have high quality of life again. I don’t know what I’d be doing right now had I not had my experience back in high school with dr.
John. I definitely wouldn’t be having the quality of life that I am able to have now. I’m only alter marathon runner and I hiked on a regular. This very active and really don’t have any health issues to speak of other than some injuries here and there from being a very active outdoor Enthusiast.
But at any rate, I want to be able to do that for everybody else and. Allopathic or Western medicine has its place. It’s not necessarily the best place for us to work at restoring our health. We don’t have high cholesterol because of a lack of a particular prescription drug. There’s a lot of different reasons why we may actually have cholesterol being elevated whether it’s diet or your body’s protective mechanism for a very.
Um variety of reasons. So at any rate I’ve continued on this path and continued on my journey of how am I going to be able to do this with the knowledge I have and the experience is that I have had how am I going to do this for my patients? So it’s been probably about a handful of years ago after I’ve been really researching and training and I’ve been doing nutrition since we opened back in 2005, but back then all that I had available to me were you know, just my knowledge that I had gained from chiropractic school, which we go through a.
Nutrition classes in chiropractic school so very well equipped with that but still I wasn’t. I’m really confident. I mean it’s a continuing changing developing field of medicine and I just always want to make sure I’m doing exactly what my patients need from me so that we can get the best benefit for them out of the whole process.
So, you know, there’s different nutrition companies and we had developed different types of symptoms surveys, but then everything again was going off of that patient symptoms like there’s got to be a better more concrete. Way that’s more accepted by everybody in the community medical and not to really determine what is going on.
So about 5 years ago. Dr. John actually introduced me to dr. Van Merkel. He is the founder of science-based nutrition, which is essentially a reporting system that has changed my world and many of my patients lives. Essentially. We’re using comprehensive lab analysis by doing a lot of blood work and hair and your challenges.
Will you test School whatever I need to do comprehensive lab analysis that you can’t really have done anywhere else. It’s very different than what you actually get from your primary care doc, but this is concrete information like. Not just based off of symptoms. If we purely based life off of symptoms.
We’re going to be missing a lot of the pieces of the puzzle. So here’s where I am today. These are the types of things that I’m doing my patients which will help segue into now how healthy you are how you feel is not the best indicator of how healthy you are. So. They’re your body’s warning signal that something is not right.
They are never ever be accepted as something normal and that we’re just supposed to experience as we get older. No. No that is not the case. It’s your body’s warning that something is not right even as they seem to be incredibly common. So say females dealing with PMS. Sorry, if I offend any of you guys but it’s not normal.
There’s many women who suffer from those types of symptoms and they can be horrific not discounting that at all. But if everything was working right about your body, you would have no symptoms at all. So just because so many females experience it it’s been written off and accepted as being normal.
It’s just part of it. No, I’m here to tell you that it’s not. It’s your body actually telling you that there’s a problem and it’s not normal. It has become very common. So I’m just one of the many examples but here’s the other thing about symptoms and why judging how healthy you are based just purely off of symptoms is not the best way to go about.
Really evaluating that process you don’t get symptoms and tell something’s been wrong for a period of time. So let’s use pain example. I have many patients who come to me with being a chiropractor obviously looking to get out of some sort of pain whether it’s neck or back or headaches, you know, and I’m sport certified as well.
So lots of different extremity types of issues you name. Well many a times my patients will tell me like yeah, you know, I have had this problem. Normally it comes and goes maybe it’ll last for a couple of days, but then it resolves itself. Everything is fine and I just go about life. They think that it fixes itself, but oftentimes what brings them into my office is because they’re now experiences and less ache or pain that is just unrelenting.
It’s not going away and they have no idea what’s wrong. And so of course they chalk it up to being older because why would we want to actually believe something else? That’s how we’ve been conditioned. We just leave as we get older things are going to fall apart and we’re going to be more miserable.
Thankfully I’m here to tell you that that’s not the case whatsoever. So those aches and pains that come and go. First off they don’t show up until your body is not been working correctly for a period of time and it’s the body’s way of saying hey, we’ve been working in this haphazard fashion. We weren’t designed to do this you need to pay attention and actually fix some of these things.
Otherwise, it’s going to create more problems. So what happens when you get those aches and pains and then they go away a few days later your body didn’t fix itself. It has the full capability of doing so but you didn’t give it the good input that it needed in order to do so, so it found. A way to compensate as long as it has some reserves left in its reserve tank.
It can continue to compensate so is when it compensates it starts doing something in a different manner to still be able to accommodate what you’re asking it to do. So what that does is it redirects stresses and forces through the body into different tissues that have the capacity to absorb that that’s a lot of technobabble.
So essentially your body just finds a new way to do something and your symptoms go away when the symptoms come back. It’s because body feels like hey you haven’t fixed this problem. We can’t do this in this manner anyway, so you need to fix us because there’s an issue and if you don’t take care of it, we’re going to have a bigger problem.
So these patients who come in to me who’s aches and pains have now not decided to go away. Like they always have it simply their bodies completely run out of ways to compensate. So now it’s like hey, all right, there’s no other way that we can actually go about and do this. You’re going to have to fix this or we’re going to have even bigger issues.
So if we have. Essentially, we have the ability to start giving the body back reserves by unwinding those compensation patterns and how you feel not just aches and pain wise but like chronic digestive types of issues that maybe it was periodically were experiencing some GI complaints, but now it’s like every single time you eat something your stomach’s upset and you’re uncomfortable and just everything else that you can experience with the GI symptoms.
It’s the same type of thing. Your body has run out of ways to compensate. So another example. Say let’s talk about the flu or some other nasty bacteria, especially because we’re sitting right in that season right now still in people have been really sick this year. Did you know there’s an incubation period so we all know that like you go and you’re around somebody who’s sick.
You don’t get sick immediately upon contact with that person. What’d you find out a few days later like. I did get sick because eventually then the symptoms show up so you may have been exposed and he got the bacteria or some crazy virus in your system and has to brew for a while and the immune system is trying to do his job of fighting it off, but eventually maybe it takes over and there’s a bigger fight that’s happening.
And now you have symptoms. So what happens again, you don’t have symptoms immediately as soon as you’re infected with some sort of bacteria or a virus. It’s after a few days of that. Fight happening that then eventually you start feeling the effects of it. And then I’m also here to tell you that, you know, same thing with aches and pains or anything else that we’re trying to heal up with a body when you’re trying to get over a sickness.
Let’s say you did have a bacterial infection and you went in and you got some antibiotics. What is it that we now hear all of the time? Make sure you finish your prescription and the reason being is because you’re going to feel better in a couple of days, but that doesn’t mean the infections gone.
So what is that telling us tells us that symptoms actually go away before the problems actually resolved. So if we just live life based off of symptoms were missing so much and we may actually end up. Not finding out information until it’s too late. So this is where preventive medicine really plays a big part in people’s worlds mean how many of you have actually known somebody who went in for a routine physical exam, which I don’t even know if everybody is doing that anymore, but there is some validity and doing that because if you’re again if you’re waiting for something to show up.
You’re not going to catch something until maybe it’s too late. So back to these people that I’m sure you’ve probably had in your life or at least know somebody who’s had this happen where they go in for a routine checkup, and the next thing you know, they’re handed a major. Bike stage 4 breast cancer where it’s already metastasized all over the body, but I feel fine is what people will say or they fell find they appeared healthy.
How can that be or what about classically with heart disease, you know, the first symptom of heart disease often is a heart attack. So yeah 50 year old seems to be fine, you know, even active outdoor Enthusiast maybe or in the gym all the time eats right and drops dead of a heart attack. There are things going on in the body.
If you had a way a system to actually ask those questions to figure that out before those and results actually happened or before stage 4 cancer diagnosis actually was given so what I’m telling you is even if you feel healthy you still should and owe it to yourself and your family and kiddos and anybody else that’s meaningful in your life.
You owe it to yourself to have it checked out and see really how healthy are you those symptoms surveys. This is where they said, they don’t work. Also, not just because symptoms does it don’t show up until down the road a ways but also because symptoms don’t tell us where the actual cause of the problem really is.
This is where I come back to all the lab analysis that we do something that’s different about the lab analysis that I’m allowed to actually do because I don’t sit in the same box as a standard of care. I can order whatever I want to considered investigational medicine. I don’t have to wait for you to have a symptom in order to order series of tests.
So it was really cool as what I recommend with my patients and have been doing this now for years. Is that once a year? We do a full systems check. Not only do we do the basic panel blood work, but we add in you know, the cancer panel and hormone panel and the Cleveland heart panel so we can really check these other systems in full capacity and see where are you at now?
I sit I did just throw out the c word and I’m not going to. Glaze right over that for you guys because it’s like a taboo topic and it really shouldn’t be unfortunately depending on what stats you read either one in three or one and two individuals now in the u.s. Is going to have a cancer diagnosis at some point in their life heart disease since I threw in the Cleveland heart panel, it’s still the number one killer in females and males and the US big deals guys big deal.
And there are ways that we can test and check. How is the body doing long before symptoms ever come into fruition? And that’s when we want to really work on improving our overall health. So since I threw out the cancer word just to touch on that real quick like. In the US. We do not use cancer markers as diagnostic for cancer meaning if I run a cancer panel and I have patients who have had markers that come back way out of range that does not mean purely based off of those results that they in fact have cancer.
OK the medical population in the US Does not use those as diagnostic criteria. However, my question is if those are way off kilter way out of range can they actually say that that person does not have cancer. So I don’t use as a diet as diagnosis. I use them to get a baseline of where are my patients at know everybody’s bodies are fighting cancer every single day.
And as long as our immune system is able to do what it needs to it keeps it in check and it doesn’t become an issue. However on Down the Line depending on different life factors our immune system sometimes can get distracted and now that systems of checks and balances is not doing what it needs to anymore.
If there is a problem starting to brew whether it’s cancer heart disease or you know diabetes or what have you it’s going to show up in the blood a long long before it shows up on a biopsy or scan or much less alone symptom. So whole overall point being guys is stop judging how healthy you are based off of how you feel.
It’s really the worst indicator and if you’re not doing some sort of evaluation that’s in depth in very different than what you could get at your primary care doc. Then you need to add that. Okay, I am more than happy to help you and guide you and give you more information. I am going to be delving into this much in much more detail in upcoming episodes as well.
So you can have a better idea of what it is that I’m talking about. But if you haven’t even been in to see a doctor and a very long period of time you probably should do that just say now whether or not you go on any form of treatment. That’s a whole different story. But at least get yourself checked out.
Don’t wait for something to actually show up because by then it might be too late. So hopefully I have conveyed you this message have changed up some of the thought process and you’re going to continue to hear me more about this. So if you’re not quite there, but you I’ve got you intrigued come back and let me continue to feed this information to you and.
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