Live Long and Strong: What Dr. Colbert Discovered

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Hello everyone, I'm Stephen Strang and welcome

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to this special edition of the Strang Report

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podcast. Today is my privilege to be able to

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interview one of our best authors, Dr. Don Colbert.

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We've published his books, I think for over 20

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years. I don't know how many books, I think I

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probably read them all and his new book, Live

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Long and Strong, I think is his best one yet

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and we're gonna hear about it today. And if you

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take this to heart, It can actually literally

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change your life if you can stay in front of

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some of the numbers. So let me first start by

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welcoming you. Thank you for coming into our

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studio. Well, thank you. It's great being here.

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And I was fascinated that you list 12 things

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that if you watch the numbers, the kind of numbers

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that you get when you get your blood work done,

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that it helps you stay in front. So can you kind

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of elaborate on that? Right. Well, again, I do

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many more blood tests than just 12, but these

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are 12 key numbers because a lot of these numbers

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I'm checking are actual silent killers if you

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don't identify and reverse them, such as high

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blood pressure. We know that's a silent killer,

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but most doctors are still following the old

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rules of high blood pressure being greater than

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140 over 90. When it changed in 2017, anything

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greater than 130 systolic and over 80 diastolic

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is high blood pressure. Yet so many people come

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to see me and they say, oh, my pressure's just

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a little high, or it's normal, they'll say. And

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their pressure is 140 over 90. And I said, no,

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that's high blood pressure. And anything over

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130... over 80 is considered high now, but that's

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a silent killer. And just like hemoglobin A1C,

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it tells me what your sugar's been over the last

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three months. It's like your sugar report card.

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And do you know that 49 .6 % of Americans have

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either diabetes or pre -diabetes? It's epidemic.

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And it's like a house with termites. It starts

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to slowly eat away your blood vessels and cause

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plaque to accumulate in your blood vessels. It's

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a terrible disease. And it creates inflammation.

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It creates dementia. It's one of the leading

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causes of dementia. So these are silent, deadly

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killers, as well as belly fat and obesity. Ideally,

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our belly fat, your waist circumference around

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your navel should be half your height. So many

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people are like men, so many men have a waist

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measurement around the umbilicus or belly button

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of 42 and that would be 84 inches and in order

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to, you know, it should be They should be seven

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foot tall if they had a waist circumference of

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42 inches. So again, once we lower that belly

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fat and that waist measurement, it's amazing

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how blood pressure comes down, blood sugar comes

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down, inflammatory markers like CRP, HSCRP and

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homocysteine comes down, and cholesterol comes

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down, triglycerides come down. Almost every marker

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comes down as you lose belly fat, the most toxic

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fat in the body. And so there's other markers

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I do. Like I also checked, I said the inflammatory

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markers, HSCRP, the homocysteine. I checked the

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filters, especially the kidneys and the liver.

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And you know that approximately one quarter of

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Americans have fatty liver. It's the new most

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common cause of liver failure is fatty liver.

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And we have an epidemic because of our sugar

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epidemic. And then also we have the testosterone,

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the PSA, the thyroid, but most doctors never

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check the active thyroid hormone, the free T3.

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And the last is vitamin D, the 25 -OH -D3 level,

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which I believe is the most important vitamin

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in the body, and we need to optimize our level

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to about 50 to 80 is the key. So those are your

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12 numbers, and it's real simple. But again,

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I also check all the different hormones. I check

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the CBC, I check the complete lipid panel, I

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check the chemistries, and I'll check many times

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IGF -1, checking growth hormone levels. So there's

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many other tests I do, but these are 12 key numbers

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that will identify those silent killers. And

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then we can make simple recommendations that

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are natural and dietary mainly, and exercise

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natural things we can do to reverse them. It's

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simple. I liked how practical this book was because

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a lot of the words you're throwing around are

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words that are not familiar to most of us. Or

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we hear them but don't really know what it means.

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But you go through it chapter by chapter. You

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can see how I underline mine. And you even have

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blanks in here where you say what it should be

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and you can write in. And I've actually gone

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back and checked some of my... blood work that

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I've done in the past. I did just kind of see

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where I stand and I encourage people to do this.

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This is the kind of book that you don't want

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to read and give away. Right. You want to keep

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it. You want to keep it. Well, I've got to tell

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you a story. A patient came in with a spouse

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and she was going to see her primary care doctor.

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Well, he had the Alzheimer's gene. And so I told

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him what to do. We checked his homocysteine.

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It was really high. I said, we got to lower your

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homocysteine. We did it naturally with a few

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key supplements. And then the wife says, well,

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can I have that done with my primary care doctor?

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I said, sure, just ask him to run a homocysteine

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level. And so when she came back the next time

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with her husband, I said, well, did you get your

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homocysteine level checked? And he looked at

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me and he says, I don't know what that is. That's

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not important. And I said, that's extremely important.

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That's what her doctor said. That's what her

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doctor said. I said, that's extremely important

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because if you don't get that homocysteine down

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below 10, hers was like when she finally eventually

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had checked, it was like 15 or 16. And that pushes

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your brain toward Alzheimer's. It causes beta

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amyloid to accumulate in your brain, in your

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hippocampus, your short -term memory center,

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and your prefrontal cortex, your long -term memory

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center. And also causes plaque buildup in all

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the arteries in your body, but especially in

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your cerebral arteries. And also eats away your

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bones. Yet most doctors, because they haven't

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heard of it, they don't ever check for it. But

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it's a powerful inflammatory marker that if you

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don't get that down to normal, you're asking

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for dementia and all kinds of health problems.

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Now, it seems that these numbers are like on

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your car, the warning lights. Isn't that right?

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Some of the numbers are not right. We know that

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it might be a problem and you better do something

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about it before it becomes a huge problem. Exactly.

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That's why I check my patient's numbers every

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six months. For example, your HSCRP, most people

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have never heard of that. That's a high -sensitive

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C -reactive protein. That's your inflammatory

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marker. If you have that elevated, there's inflammation

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going on in your body. And you say, well, the

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big deal, a little inflammation won't hurt me.

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Well, if your inflammatory marker is above three,

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which probably 50 % of my patients are, then

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they're increasing their risk of heart attack,

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stroke, peripheral artery disease. type 2 diabetes

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and even cancer. So that's why we want to, when

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you have inflammation run amok, you're inviting

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disease in your body and so it's so important

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to identify these things and then to use natural

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means to lower them. Like one of the major reasons

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why we have elevated inflammatory marker, HSCRP,

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is belly fat. Belly fat makes that thing rise.

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I didn't know that years ago. And I'd have patients

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come in with high CRPs. They'd have a lot of

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belly fat. And I'd run all these autoimmune tests,

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ANA titers, and things like that. But then I

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realized that when they lose the belly fat...

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that goes down to normal for most of them. What

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is it about belly fat that makes it happen? Belly

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fat is one of the most inflammatory fats in the

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whole body and it's a metabolic factory producing

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C -reactor protein, producing all these cytokines

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that are inflammatory mediators and the more

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belly fat you have the more CRP and CRP constricts

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the blood vessels and causes our blood pressure

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to rise. So it's a vicious cycle and so that's

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just one cause. of elevated CRP is belly fat.

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Another cause is hidden infections. Like you

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could have a herpes infection, you know, like

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a fever blister. You could have a chronic sinus

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infection. You could have a tooth infection,

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gingivitis. And I found patients with high CRPs...

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and they don't have the belly fat, so I check

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for hidden infections. And lo and behold, I'll

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find a tooth infection, or I'll find a chronic

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sinus infection, or I'll find something else.

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I may have to check for herpes simplex one and

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two, and lo and behold, they've got that. And

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so you treat it, and many times that CRP will

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come down. So there's many causes of elevated

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CRP, so you have to kind of go through it and

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see what's the thing causing it, because you

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want to bring this to normal. If not, you're

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asking for a disease in the future. You want

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to identify it and then make lifestyle and dietary

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changes in order to bring it down. One of the

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best ways to bring it down are these new GLP

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-1 agonist meds that turn your appetite down.

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And so you only eat one or two meals a day and

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the belly fat goes right away. And a lot of people

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need those, especially if they're morbidly obese

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or have class three obesity with BMI greater

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than 40. Why is it considered morbidly obese?

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Well, we used to say morbidly, I still say it,

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but actually the terminology has changed. It's

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now called class three obesity. There's three

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classes of obesity. There's class one where your

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BMI is 35. And then there's class two, where

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it's between 35 and 40. And then there's class

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three, when it's over 40 BMI. So that's the one

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where they're prone to develop all kinds of morbidity,

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like heart disease, arthritis. It wears out your

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joints when you have that kind of weight. And

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so, so many people now are morbidly obese that

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they're having to have knee replacements, hip

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replacements, disc replacements. and all kinds

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of orthopedic issues due to wearing their joints

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out. They've exceeded the weight limits for their

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frames, quite simply put. I was in Cambodia last

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month, and I noticed that the Cambodian people

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are almost all thin. When I was around Americans,

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even flying home, it dawned on me how many are

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really overweight. I guess I get used to seeing

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it, even though I'm not overweight myself. But

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it's mainly because of our sugar and our processed

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food and fried foods and just the standard American

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diet, which the standard American diet, we take

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in way too much salt, way too much fat, way too

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much sugar, way too many carbs and way too much

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meat. And as a result, so many Americans are

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full of inflammation. They've signed up for inflammatory

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diseases and they're running to their doctor

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getting all these meds, but not getting to the

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root of the problem, which is inflammation due

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to their diet. That's the key thing. You know,

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in the book, you talk a lot about hormone balance,

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especially with testosterone and thyroid. Could

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you elaborate why they're so important? Well,

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the most important hormone for people over 60,

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men and women, is testosterone. And the reason

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being is because as people get older, they lose

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their strength, their vitality. and their energy

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and the two key hormones that boost energy and

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vitality are number one testosterone for men

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and women and just as many women I put on testosterone

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as men I'll use usually the creams for them because

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they women only need one tenth the amount of

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testosterone as a man. And then the other hormone

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is thyroid, because as we get older, our thyroid

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just, it's like our pilot light starts to go

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out and we start to get cold. I can recognize

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it when a person comes in my office, they have

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cold hands, they have cold feet. When I examine

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their feet, their toes are like icicles. They

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usually are just, they have dry skin, they have

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thyroid hair, they lose the outer part of their

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eyebrow. Their face is puffy, their eyelids are

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puffy, and they're constipated. They're cold,

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they're constipated and have no energy. That

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sounds fun, doesn't it? It's not fun. And they

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many times, here's a key sign or symptom they

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give me. They say, I have to wear socks on my

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feet at night when I go to bed so I don't wake

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up shivering. I have to wear gloves on my hands.

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I said, those patients have sluggish thyroid.

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So I check a free T3 level. And that's their

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active thyroid hormone, but doctors rarely check

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it. They'll check their TSH or their T4 or their

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free T4, but they don't check their free T3.

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And I optimize that free T3 up to a level of

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about 3 .0 to 4 .0. If they're older, I have

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to optimize it to only like 3 .0 to 3 .5 because

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they're more prone to... cardiac palpitations,

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so we don't want to give them to them. So when

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we do that, it's like someone just turned up

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their pilot light, and they're having energy,

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vitality, warm hands, warm feet. Their eyebrows

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fill back out. They no longer have that thin,

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brittle, wispy thyroid hair that so many men

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and women get when their thyroid's low or sluggish.

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And so meds can do that too. There's a lot of

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meds that can cause low thyroid like proton pump

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inhibitors, estrogen, lithium, amiodarone. So

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again, I talk about the different meds that'll

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cause that too. You know, this book is so practical.

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So if someone goes through it as I did and filled

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in, fill in the numbers. Right. there's an area

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that's maybe not been tested before or whatever.

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Is this the kind of thing you could take to your

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doctor? Oh, absolutely. And a lot of doctors

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won't know very much about some of these tests.

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And so you can help to educate them, and then

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they'll start running these tests on you. Like

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I say, oh, my patients, I check these numbers

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every six months along with other numbers, and

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I make sure they're in that optimal range so

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that we can identify if they're off and correct

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them so we can prevent or reverse so many diseases.

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It's real important. These are the key things,

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the key numbers that we need to know and monitor

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regularly so we can prevent a lot of these degenerative

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inflammatory diseases. So a lot of people don't

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do that. They get the disease. Most people don't.

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And then they have to take a whole bunch of medicine

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trying to fix it. Exactly. When we can identify

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these things early and change some dietary habits,

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extra you know start exercising clean up their

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diet get rid of the inflammatory foods and Take

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a few key supplements and their body will reset

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and then of course the exercise really important

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We got to move or else you're going to eventually

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develop disease this body was meant for movement

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I noticed that you have a the appendix you have

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what to stock in your fridge and write your pantry

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and you also have a List of the supplements right

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people need to think How do people decide which

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ones or do they just take one of each? Well,

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no, what I do is I have a, and that's what I'm

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working on now. I'm actually redoing the seven

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pillars of health and that's what I was working

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on this weekend of the supplement chapter. There's

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about 10 key supplements we need. And I'm going

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to get into that when we revise the seven pillars

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of health that's coming out next year. So we're

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not going to sell today. Two of the most important

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are vitamin D3 and also vitamin K2. and then

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a good multivitamin. But then there's others.

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There's omega -3 fats, which are really important.

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There's also fiber. Do you know that about 50

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% of people don't get enough fiber? And that's

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why we have so many colorectal issues going on

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in this country. So I discuss those 10 key nutrients

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that Americans need on a daily basis in my new

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book. And magnesium is one that's important.

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Magnesium is one I talk about, yes. Because you

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don't get enough magnesium in your multivitamin.

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The average man needs 420 milligrams of magnesium

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and the woman needs 320 milligrams of magnesium.

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But don't start on that. You have to slowly work

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up to it or you have to take foods high in magnesium

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like seeds and nuts and avocados. Those are high

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magnesium foods or else you'll get loose stools.

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But yes, magnesium is real important, but there's

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like 10 different forms of magnesium. There's

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magnesium malate that gives you energy. There's

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magnesium torate that helps with muscle spasms

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and muscle cramps. There's magnesium glycinate

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that helps you sleep. There's magnesium threonate

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that helps your brain and helps your, it restores

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the neurons in the brain and also helps you sleep.

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So we have all these different kinds of magnesium.

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So it's not just the magnesium comprehensive

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one, but you need the right kind for what problem

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you're facing. When you boil it all down, what

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are two or three things that will change people's

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health more than anything else? Probably the

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most important, number one, is changing their

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diet. We are killing ourselves with our forks

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and knives and spoons, eating ourselves to death.

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We're not drinking near enough water. The most

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important nutrient, more important than any vitamin,

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is good, clean, filtered water, like reverse

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osmosis, and we need at least two quarts a day.

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Water, but not at night, or you're gonna be up

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all night. And then the others start moving.

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Those are the three most important things we

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should do. And if we do that and then incorporate

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these 12 key tests and monitor them, the body

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starts to heal. Now, if you can't control your

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appetite, the Bible says in Proverbs, put a knife

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to your throat. What I tell people is just take

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a GLP -1 agonist. Take tear zepatide or take

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Mount Jero or some aglutide or ozempic or one

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of those. GLP -1 agonists. Now we have new ones

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coming out that are in phase three trials that

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turn off three appetite hormones. So there's

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no excuse. You will have no appetite. And so

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you only need to eat one or two meals a day.

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But just if you do these meds. Please make sure

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you take in enough protein. A lot of people are

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taking these meds. They're not taking enough

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protein. They're losing their hair. They're losing

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muscle mass. Your muscle mass is your metabolic

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currency. Don't sacrifice muscle mass. Take in

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enough protein, be it freeform amino acids, be

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it protein mixes, like you can use... anything

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from pea protein, you can use whey protein, egg

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protein, whatever that doesn't upset your tummy,

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or just enough chicken, turkey, fish, and healthy

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sources of protein, not fatty steaks, and not

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processed meats, which actually invite disease

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in your body, we didn't even get time to talk

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about, but I tell which proteins to take also.

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That's good. You also connect physical health

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and spiritual and emotional wellness. How do

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you see faith, mindset, and lifestyle choices

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working together to influence long -term health?

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Well, again, most people are led by the flesh

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and not led by the spirit. When we're led by

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the flesh, we do what the flesh wants. The flesh

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wants to eat sugar, and the flesh wants to eat

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fried foods and French fries and foods that invite

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disease into the body. When you're led by the

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Spirit, Jesus came to give us life and to give

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us life more abundantly, but that's the zoet

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life, the life of God. So when we start following

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spiritual principles, which are just simply you

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know, walk into the love walk, which is the key

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to everything, because God is love, and he that

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walks in love, he that abides in love, abides

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in God, and God in him, for 1 John 4 16. So when

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we do that, we start... crucify our flesh like

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Jesus did his and give the body what it needs

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and not what it craves. And then we're able to

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live long healthy lives, train our kids to do

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the same and prevent most diseases. So we become

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living epistles and people look at us and say,

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what are you doing? The reason why you're so

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healthy and you get to share with them not only

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what you're doing, but also the gospel. which

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is the best. You mentioned this earlier about

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vitamin D, but isn't that the one that you get

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when you're outside? But what happens after age

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60, we lose the ability to make sufficient amount

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of vitamin D from sunshine. So most of us need

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to take a supplement. and usually at least, now

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most vitamin Ds and vitamins only 400 units,

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that's just a trickle. Most patients need at

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least 2 ,000 units a day, that's what I take.

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I keep my vitamin D, I check the levels on every

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one because when our body once runs best, when

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that vitamin D3 level, is 50 to 80 nanograms

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per deciliter. And so when it's down in the 20s,

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that's in the toilet. There's no vitamin D. Vitamin

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D regulates your immune system. Vitamin D builds

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strong bones, strong teeth, muscle. It helps

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the brain. It actually increases neurogenesis

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of brain cells because vitamin D receptors are

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concentrated in the hippocampus, the short -term

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memory center, and in the prefrontal cortex,

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the long -term memory center. And it also helps

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produce nerve growth factor, which repairs neurons

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in the brain and throughout the body. So people

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don't realize how important vitamin D is. But

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I would say vitamin D3 is the most important

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nutrient. Right behind it is vitamin K2. And

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vitamin K2 is... Vitamin K, but it helps to get

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rid of calcium in the arteries strange thing

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happens when most people go through menopause

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or andropause or when you You know start women

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get the hot flashes nice sweats men get the grumpy

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old man syndrome, but get irritable from low

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testosterone But what happens then is we start

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convert we start forming plaque and calcified

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plaque in our arteries So that's what happens

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to most everyone after 50. So when you take vitamin

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K to it gets rid of that calcium in the arteries,

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prevents calcium formation in the arteries. So

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a lot of women are taking a lot of calcium pills,

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but not taking K2, so they're calcifying their

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arteries. So what I do is I do coronary artery

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calcium scores, which is a noninvasive test that

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checks for calcium in your arteries, and I can

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tell if they're calcifying their arteries, but

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every one of my patients goes on vitamin K2.

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at least 200 micrograms twice a day. And that's

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one of the key things we use to help prevent

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calcium in your arteries. Because once they're

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calcified up, they're going to have to do bypass

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grafts or stints, but sometimes they can't even

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stint the arteries. They're so calcified, see?

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You know, this is so easy for you, you just...

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say this so easily, but probably a lot of the

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viewers are like me. It's just hard to retain

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all this. That's a lot. That's why you put it

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in a book. And make it simple. And make it real

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easy. It is. It's very easy to read. And of course,

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there's an appendix and so forth, and people

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can look things up if they need to, because you

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have to. kind of take control of your own health.

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Right. Not just do what other people tell you

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to do. Exactly. And not just do what your flesh

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tells you. So many people are led by the flesh

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and not led by the spirit. And so they're just

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whatever whim they come to. They're hungry. They

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go shopping to the grocery store when they're

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hungry. And they're ending up buying donuts and

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cakes and pies and cookies and white bread and

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all inflammatory foods and fighting disease into

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their bodies. So we have to start with just simple

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things and explain what to do. It's real easy.

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So I hope people will want to buy this book.

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It's probably easiest on Amazon, although it's

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widely available in bookstores as well. And live

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long and strong. Someone said, everyone wants

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to live a long time, but nobody wants to get

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old. Well, just like Moses, when you read Deuteronomy,

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it says, Moses was 120 years old, yet his eyesight

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wasn't dim nor his natural strength abated. He

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was strong. He isn't 120, he was strong. And

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God has empowered us with the right nutrition,

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with the right hormonal support, with testosterone,

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peptides, good night's sleep. you know, exercise

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of course, then we can also live long and strong.

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It's easy. I made it very simple so everyone

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can understand it and incorporate these key principles.

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And as we wrap up this short podcast, I want

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to give you the last word. Is there anything

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else you think the viewers need to know? Well,

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the main thing people are thinking, there's so

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much information there. It's too hard. No, these

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are simple tests that even your doctor can do.

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If you just write these tests down and just ask

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your doctor to do these tests, and then once

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you get the results, if your numbers are off,

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don't freak out. They're easy to fix. Just follow

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these simple keys that I have in the book that

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tell you how to reverse these numbers. And once

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you do, you're going to feel much better. Your

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mind is going to be sharper and you're going

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to live long and you're going to live strong.

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Well, thank you, Dr. Colbert, and thank you to

00:24:52.579 --> 00:24:54.519
my viewers for tuning in to The String Report

00:24:54.519 --> 00:24:57.819
today. This is a book you really need, and like

00:24:57.819 --> 00:24:59.839
I said, you need to take control of your own

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health. None of us can become experts like Dr.

00:25:02.759 --> 00:25:05.880
Colbert. He spent his life studying all of this,

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but we can learn more that we know right now

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and reading good books like this, books that

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you can actually understand. is it a very important

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step. So thank you for watching. Tune in again

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for another episode of The String Report on the

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Charisma Podcast Network. God bless you.