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all right welcome Dr trong to True Hope cast thank you so much for being with us being with me today how are you what is

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going well uh Simon thank you for having uh me on

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the show and I'm looking forward to you know our interesting conversation today Splendid well why don't you just give us

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a little introduction about who you are and what it is that you do right so I'm uh um a functional medicine

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uh doctor specializing in uh intimate uh health and I'm located in Fredericksburg

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Virginia which is right uh um an hour south of uh Washington uh DC and our

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I've been in medical practice for 22 uh years and I have started out doing uh

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pain management and then I realized that I was not helping my patient just giving them medication due in cortisone

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injection and I started doing acupuncture and then I started doing hormone replacement therapy and

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progressed to doing uh stem cell therapy and then now concentrating on sexual health because uh to tell you honestly I

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was more interested in it because my husband was having some issues and we were in our late 40s at that time and uh

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I you know I dive into it became really nerd just can't find out everything I needed to do on it and and realize that

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I can really help men and women with uh reversing Sexual Health at an early

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stage so that way they're they don't feel that you know everybody thinks that Sexual Health declined over time and our

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approach is that there is a way to reverse and treat uh decline in sexual

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uh function with lifestyle factors hormone replacement therapy in some time

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with stem cell therapy interesting there's a lot of stuff there yeah and it's very interesting that we

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we kind of a lot of people have the belief that yeah as we age many things decline not just our Sexual Health but our cognitive ability our physical

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ability even our emotional capacity so I wonder if you could just talk to me

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a little bit about like anti-aging and aging in general like maybe what are like the misunderstandings about about

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aging that we have kind of as as a culture right wow that's a big question but I'll

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hit on the main point is that um you know right now currently with the

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technology we have in medicine especially in the U.S that we can really probably look at uh lifespan of look

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about 120 years the uh the average age uh for a woman uh

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in the U.S the uh lifespan is 80 years old for a band is 79 years old but if we

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know that now and say hey you know what we can live up to 120. uh what do we

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need to do now we need to do work which now when you're like 40 30 to to uh to

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lift up to 120. you don't start doing that when you're 70 and try to live up to uh to 120. and our body is made of

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organic material this is what I'm going to focus on with the anti-aging is that our body uh is organic meaning that it

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it is uh it it can handle uh food that

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is organic so uh like you know this is not you know what your body can handle

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popcorn you want to eat you want to eat more uh you know organic food meaning

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food and any food that come from the ground up the mother earth gave you so you know fruit vegetables anything that

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from that is the Earth the the mother earth grows for you and the animal that

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is there for you that means that you don't want to eat anything in a package or in a box

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uh or you know in in a bottle you know you want it you wanna eat things that

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are fresh that are grown naturally because our body can process that better if for instance if you eat like

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um a candy bar well that's not made by Mother Earth I've made you know in the

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factory and put all that in a candy bar and when you eat it your um your body the liver have to work extra uh um extra

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extra work to digest that and to process it so that way your body can recognize

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the form it's the same thing uh same thing like if you eat a food that is

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high in fat content or unsaturated fat or uh if you

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um uh eat more of simple carb like uh like a like a hamburger with potato

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chips and then drink a a Coke Mother Nature doesn't make a Coke Mother Nature

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doesn't grow a potato chip uh and yeah mother and you know Mother Nature do

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have the beef but not like the beef that you you get in a hamburger and even

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bread you know is not what Mother Nature grows for you but what I'm trying to get is when you eat that your body have to

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work extra especially the liver the kidney to process it into a form that uh

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your cells and your body can process so what it does is that when you do that it put extra strain on the organ when you

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put extra strain on the organ it become decompensated and over time it can cause

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inflammation what inflammation mean in your body is swelling

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um and that balance and affect your hormone level and then oh affect uh the

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the um electrolyte you know the minerals in your body that's set an inflammatory

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stage so when your body is in a high inflammatory state it ages quicker

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so to have to really focus on anti-aging she started like uh in your 20s and 30s

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and eat clean eat clean and eat what I just mentioned and also exercise

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exercise is important not just for looking good but when you exercise you

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have increased blood flow when you have increased blood flow your heart starts pumping it pumps it up to your brain

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your brain vessels start you know opening up you get more oxygen in uh the

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brain all the organs start to have a lot of blood flow to it so when you have more increasing blood flow to the organ

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into the brain you're essentially kind of priming it you're exercising it as

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well and uh and getting more blood flow is good for every organ in the body uh

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as well now your brain uses 40 percent of of all your calorie intake as well as

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the the cardiac output so um when you exercise more you have better brain health you have better

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organ uh hell and how much exercise about you know an hour three to four

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times a week and it could involve just walking or doesn't have to be running a marathon uh every time so diet uh

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exercise and sleep sleep is important because uh when you sleep

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um at least seven hours when you sleep your body heals so our body heals from

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10 pm to 6 a.m so physical healing starts at 10 pm to 2 A.M what I mean

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about physical healing like a healing of your heart your uh your liver your kidney your brain physical healing is

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from 10 pm to 2 A.M 2 A.M to uh 6 a.m is a mental healing brain healing

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everything that goes on in here uh is from two to six a.m so sleep at least

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seven to eight hours a night because that's when your body heal when you don't sleep and you sleep like maybe

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five hours you're not having complete healing of your body so our body actually can actually they rejuvenate

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itself if you let it if you feed it the right food if you rest appropriately it

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can really get rid of the dead cells and then rejuvenate uh itself a lot of times

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we don't spend that time in allowing our body to rejuvenate and the other and the

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other factors I cover diet exercise and sleep the other factor is really

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decreasing stress and have that Mind Body Balance you know uh meaning have

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time to your yourself and have time to de-stress so that way you're not strum

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you're not going going all the time between you when you're always on the go always you know working not having time

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to rest what happens is that you increase your heart rate your heart your resting heart rate rises above above

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normal like for instance I saw several patients today you know they're business owners they're always on the go their

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resting heart rate is at 80 in the 80s that's not good no right yeah that's not

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good your resting heart rate should be in the 50 60. the resting heart rate is in the 80s so what does that mean that

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does that translate to you translate your heart's working a little bit harder than it should uh so you're gonna your

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uh your straining your organ your straining the the uh the blood vessels as well so what does that lead to lead

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to you know like heart attacks and stroke and high blood pressure so that

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that is uh something you need to stay attuned to is what your resting heart rate is try to kind of be aware of your

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resting heart rate because when your resting heart rate is high you also begin to produce uh in your body called

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acetylcholine you start stimulating um a nervous system in your body called the sympathetic nervous system and that

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nervous system is usually only activated when you're in stress or when you're running away from danger so we we are

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programmed to activate a system uh to run away from danger uh and and Times of

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stress uh but you we don't need to do that you know just sitting in front of the computer so when you're continuously

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stressing your body out like that the organs start to wear out so those are the main thing that you know the the bio

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hack you know uh that you really need because if you you eat appropriately you're going to have enough nutrition uh

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in your body if you exercise and eat you don't have to worry about obesity right I don't have to worry about being overweight right uh and then if you yeah

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if you eat well and you exercise what happens your sleep go you know gets better also you sleep better and you're

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more tired I know that the days that I exercise I sleep like a baby but if I don't exercise regularly I don't I don't

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sleep well um and then just taking time out to you know to de-stress to enjoy nature uh

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just going out just enjoying nature and walking and spending time with your family and really paying attention to

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you know what your body is doing going at rest it's hard to do with you know

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living in our society nowadays with cell phone and computers and you know

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everything else uh going again but those are the simple things that you know you

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can start right now yeah at this moment exactly just as you say that you mean I

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mean you're talking about like I think everyone kind of would understand that if they wanted to be healthier and start

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feeling better and you know potentially slowing down the aging process it would be taking care of their nutrition taking

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care of their exercise sleeping better and reducing their stress but yeah we live in a culture where we have awful

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food around us even the food even the food that's grown organically and goods you know in very

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quite depleted soil now just isn't what it was we don't exercise as much you know we're sad we know we we sleep we go

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sit sit in our car we go sit in our desk you know like we're never really up and around anymore and yeah again like sleep

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we've got screens we've got Netflix we've got unlimited shows to disrupt all of that or to disrupt all of that and

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then we just have the society that just kind of like um celebrate stress and being busy and

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having all these things to do and we don't have the you know the appropriate time or skill set to even like begin to

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help us de-stress like we would have done like many many thousands of years ago we would have things like acupuncture and

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and uh meditation all these other things that we would have like naturally been able to to put into our daily lives to

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help reduce that load so it's it's interesting that you're talking about having enough like organic material

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coming into you know for your body to do it's an incredible amazing thing but we very rarely have a surplus of of that

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nutrition available for that extra like building because we're always trying to tackle the toxic load of you know of

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poor food not sleeping enough not exercising enough and being stressed out body is constantly having to use all of

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its resources to deal with all of those things that we kind of put on the body itself like it's kind of you know we've

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got a lot of self-responsibility in regards to those things so very very interesting there was a big question I

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really appreciate that answer there because you know we can you can take that down many different Avenues but that was that was perfect are there any

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like key things I mean obviously we know about like good nutrition exercise sleep and and distressing are there any other

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things that um that science shows us is really effective against our anti-aging like things where you can take or

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therapies um yeah so uh I wanted to add on there

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also you know not uh smoking is not a good thing so smoking will accelerate

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aging uh because smoking will decrease the blood flow uh to your organ uh and

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um and not to mention you know other uh causes and then alcohol alcohol like I

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said alcohol is not organic you know the Earth doesn't grow your alcohol uh you have to make alcohol so alcohol itself

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is toxic to the liver uh and I keep stressing the liver because the liver is the filter of your body

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and you can oh you can over work it and it become decompensating that's what produced a condition called fatty liver

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first and then cirrhosis which is scarring of the liver so alcohol uh

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alcohol and smoking are the big uh uh factors of that and of course you know

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um you know taking uh um anti-inflammatory uh supplement you know will also uh help with you know the

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anti-aging uh process uh as well now and I want to add that on there that you

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have to kind of do the first few things that I mentioned first with the diet and exercise but if you if you eat a pour down you don't exercise you take

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supplement it's going to be a wash it's not it's not it's not it's not going to work you know and if you you eat

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appropriately and you exercise you you have no need to take medication because you know let's say you have high blood

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pressure yeah you take medication well that medication is made in a lab let me

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give you into perspective like a medication that's made in the lab app is synthetic your body do not recognize

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that medication so what's going to happen when you take that pill for that high blood pressure it's going to go to

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your stomach your stomach dissolve it and then it goes to your liver your liver has to say oh okay this is

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something foreign I had to break it up into little pieces that the body can recognize so it has to chop it up and it

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has to mince it and it and and then it goes to the bloodstream so that way your your your your cells and your body can

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can recognize it and and go okay this is what I need to do I need to open up the blood vessel more so that way uh

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decrease the blood the blood uh decrease the pressure the blood pressure so what I'm trying to get at is that when you're

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taking a medication for a condition your talk your text texting your your organ

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out like your kidneys and your liver out more because it has to process into a form that the body can recognize you see

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what I'm saying so so how do you combat that well you know you can you know

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control the blood pressure by you know the diet and uh and the exercise and

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decreasing uh the stress because the more medication you take the more side effects that's one of the reasons why

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the more more uh you get side effects when you take a medication is synthetic

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so when when the liver is trying to mince it and chop it up into little pieces it's gonna make it like it's

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gonna you know go into like a different pathway in your body is going to cause these side effects that you have so

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that's why we have side effects when we take medication because I deliver can't

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uh process all of it and and some of the the medication is going to go into some pathway that causes an unintended

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reaction it's interesting that we have um with side effects we've kind of just

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like accepted that they're okay and that it's like a normal thing that we you might get when you know some of the

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lists on some of the drugs are absurdly large like the the font that they use on

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these pamphlets you know we're talking about hundreds of different potential side effects but we we I know we we have

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this very interesting risk analysis with that type of thing you know when there are certainly other options on the table but like we have a culture that wants to

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take one pill for something and you know when you hit 50 you should be taking you should be taking this drug you know and

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it's interesting how we've normalized these side effects and not recognized that they are unbelievably foreign to

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the body unbelievably toxic to the body and the fact that you have side effects is just a prime advert that they don't

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belong in your body whatsoever and you know like if people take these things for decades and the long-term damage of

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something like that is just quite remarkable and it's it's interesting how we have come to a position where we've

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normalized this risk of taking a particular drug when you could

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take your health into your own hands and sort your sleep out sort your nutrition out sort your exercise out de-stress

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yourself somewhat it's interesting that we don't want to do the work well you I think you put it well like

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that because I would give you an example you know my office is near a hospital and when I go to the cafeteria in the

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hospital I you know sometimes they don't even have a salad there you know most of

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the food that's available is in sandwiches or uh or spaghetti or things

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like I can't even find anything that's like a salad or fresh fruit uh at times

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and and it's like it's not available because it's so easy for us to so easy for the manufacturer just to make a

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chips or a candy bar for you to eat as a meal replacement it's also convenient because you don't have to time to sit

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down and eat I take care a lot of patients that are a hundred well I have

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one right now it's 108. she's on no medication whatsoever no medication her

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blood pressure is pristine no high cholesterol and I asked her what's the secret what's your secret and she said

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well I watch what I eat this is how she jumped I watch what I eat I walk three

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miles a day since I was young uh rain shine or snow I walked three miles a day

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and I don't take things seriously I don't take life seriously you know I take it in stride and uh you know I

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enjoy living life every day that's wonderful and what a remarkable

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Testament to taking care of yourself and um taking responsibility for your own health is such an early age like I'm 38

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and my one of my one of my like forecasting goals is to be the healthiest I've ever been at four in my

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life in a couple of years when I'm 40 and I'm also thinking about my like marginal decade you know I'm thinking about my last 10 years and how I want

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that to look and what I can do now at 40 years old to make sure I achieve those achieve those goals and you know set set

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these kind of like benchmarks of like where I should be out at 40 and 50 for you know some of the the metrics within

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the body and but we don't you don't have a lot of people that kind of think like that I think I think there's with the

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like biohacking stuff and there's like you know some really amazing um researchers scientist doctors like

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doing cool podcasts about about that type of thing like back casting so it's a very interesting idea that um you

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would in your 30s and 40s start thinking about your 90 these and your hundreds

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and I think just a sec a side note your patient who's 108 should start a podcast

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called 108 plus and I I'd listen to it every week ah and you know that's not a

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bad idea I should talk to her about it and in fact you know if you look at uh population in Japan which has the

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highest you know a centurion uh they're they're having people that are living up

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to 120 125. and we're talking about like thousands yeah uh you look at their diet

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you know uh and you look at their dad you just look at their body you know they're they're pretty slim I mean

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they're they're pretty average size and you know they move around quite well and uh and why is that because because the

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secret is what I just said that is really the secret to longevity it's what

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like I should summarize with my 108 year old patient uh said right there so you

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watch what you eat but you know but she eats stuff too which you know in moderation you know and walk it doesn't

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cost you to you don't have to belong to a gym to walk outside three miles a day and

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um you know watching what what uh she eats and just take things in stride you know sometimes you know like like I I

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you know you mentioned earlier people have to buy these apps to de-stress or buy these fancy things to monitor

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everything you know where just what my patient said just take things in stride enjoy life and appreciate what you know

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you have and gratitude yeah gratitude is the big word and gratitude

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enjoying life um uh um every day and sometimes we over

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complicate things yeah you know we just like mean that we need to have like 10

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app I mean I have patient that has I don't know a monitor on the hand the Monitor and the finger

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[Laughter] monitors on their arms might be stressed out just to have to

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pay for all those things and sync all those things you know yeah all those things yeah yeah it's it's interesting

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because like the people like you that you're patient you're talking about the 108 year old woman her normal is other

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people's like so she would do like 80 80 to 90 she would do like really really great things for her body and then like she

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might indulge and have a 10 you know you know in moderation which she probably deserves but everybody else is 90 is

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junk and trash and not taking care of yourself right and that's the normal thing and I'm sure if you were to take

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you know a hundred average Japanese individuals and 100 North Americans and

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you line them all up together or I think you'd see a massive massive difference just by looking at individuals you

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wouldn't even have to take blood work and do measurements or anything like that you could just like see there's a

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certain way a certain culture that um that these individuals have been brought up in that is more connected to taking

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care of themselves and taking care of the probably the earth and the food where their food comes from but we don't quite haven't quite figured that out in

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North America I mean America and the Canada it's still still quite a new country and we're still trying to figure out our cultures but it's not as

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obviously as ancient as as other countries but yeah it's interesting but I want to switch and talk about because

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you work a lot with biological cellular medicine can you tell me what that is and um yeah

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please tell me what that is right so uh and I alluded that to earlier is that

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our body has the ability to heal ourselves and I'll give you an example is that when you cut yourself you know

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it's a cut and you you the blood that bleeds into the area and then a few days later that cut heals right you have a

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scar do we have the ability to heal ourselves we just don't harness that

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those cells that actually heal ourselves so in your body in your blood there are

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cells that are called platelets which comprises about five percent of your blood and these platelets are the ones

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that are responsible to initiate the healing response in the body they're in

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the blood and they go into the side of the injury and they stimulate all the other cells in your body to come to the

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area like like a troop come to the air and start cleaning the the injured area

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and start laying down cells for healing and you also have those cells too in the

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bone marrow which is in the hollow of your bone and you also have healing cells in your fat the fat that mainly in

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the the love handles those fat cells can actually uh heals as well so uh how we

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how we do is anti-aging world is that we bring the good stuff to an injured area

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let's for instance let's say you have a rotator cuff uh injury you injure your

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shoulder you can't lift it up it's because the the the muscle and the tendon is a little chair you have a

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little tear there and that's why it's make it weaker and you can't raise your arm up well you don't do anything that

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tear is going to get worse imagine a tear is kind of like a you have a rope and you have a you know it's partially

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torn it's not connected together still connected well how how uh what I do is

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that I take your blood out from from your from from your vein and we put in a centrifuge and we separate the blood

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into different layers and then we just take out the platelets the platelets in your blood and then inject that into the

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tear of the rotator cuff or the shoulder muscle and what the platelet does is

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that it goes in there it creates like a little ceiling and it starts telling the

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cells in the body hey come over here come over here this area I need help in

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uh in um and decreasing inflammation in the area and I need help in laying new

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cells to start healing the area um so that's what the platelet do so I just bring the good stuff from your body

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to that area and then you asking me well how come we don't do that naturally right how come you enjoy your shoulder

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how come we have blood there how come it doesn't go that's a good question because when you injure an area or an

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area of pain that area is surrounded by fluid by swelling so it doesn't have a

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lot of blood flow in into it at all so you don't have a blood flow into it so

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as as you do nothing that area deteriorates and and gets weakened so uh

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that's why we have to bring the good stuff in your blood to that injured area by uh doing it and uh by doing injection

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does that make sense because your body protect itself by by but protect itself

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by you know the swelling and and but then on the other hand it's not it's

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preventing healing um like for example your knee your knee doesn't have direct blood supply it

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doesn't have blood direct blood supply in the knee it gets the blood supply from the neighboring muscles uh to

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absorb into the knee so if you play soccer and you twisted your knee you may have injury your ACL or your meniscus uh

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it doesn't have the ability to heal itself so I would I would have to bring

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the the the um the platelets from your blood or the the stem cell that's in the bone marrow

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or the bad into the area to stimulate the healing so we can facilitate and accelerate the healing of an area by

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using your own body tissue to initiate the process

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is that the plate platelet like rich plasma yeah yeah that's right the rich

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plasma very very cool is that how is that expensive or is that is that covered by anywhere or is it no it's not

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covered by uh Insurance because Insurance don't think that it is still experimental uh it and it's actually not

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it's um the uh actually the American Orthopedic art Society uh um recommended

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you use that for elbow as well as for mild arthritis uh but insurance company

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it has not approved for that so it is uh you know a non-uh insurance cover uh

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service and you're looking at around about a thousand to two thousand dollars for a treatment uh with the platelet

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rich uh plasma and then a little more if you had to use the stem cell from the bone marrow or from the fat

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very cool that's amazing that's even an option it makes you know that's a prime example of how you know science and

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medicine can really really support and help a lot of people whether it wouldn't have been able to do so before so that's

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amazing that you're able to do that I'd love to switch and talk about um sexual health and um in your opinion

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and your experience is it in Decline do we have a do we have an issue with like do we have a big issue with sexual

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health because it's something I know that you deal with a lot right right well um my my uh the the word I want to yell

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out is that you know sexual health is rare sexual dysfunction sexual dysfunction is is very very calm

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according to a study that was done in 1999 in the U.S at that time there were

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30 million men living with Ed and we're talking about 19.99 and we're talking about like you know 23 years ago so you

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would just suspect that it's more now and uh and uh and probably more than 30

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million men living with Ed and I I would probably equate that to simulation with

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women uh with sexual dysfunction as well now you know where there's a myth to say

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well I'm getting older you know of course I'm not going to be uh be interested in having you know intimate

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relation because I'm just getting older well that's the myth actually uh that's

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a myth because um as you get older as we talked to before as you get older you're more

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prone to having uh high blood pressure or being overweight or having high

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cholesterol um and um so all those factors actually

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like obesity uh hypertension and high cholesterol or diabetes uh

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um predispose you to have sexual dysfunction because when you have those conditions it lower your hormones level

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but it also decreases blood flow to the sexual organ for men and for women and

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that's why you you see that more in patients that are older than in younger

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uh population but I see I mean today I saw a guy that's 35 years old and he has

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uh Ed it's because he smokes he drinks alcohol he doesn't sleep he's high

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stress uh and he's obese yeah so you know you can see it Young go to if you

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don't take care of yourself and you if you if you have these um other lifestyle factors that are detrimental to uh

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hormonal health and I also want to mention smoking and alcohol is a big contributor uh as well too Joe

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um if you if you uh uh you know eat well and exercise and have good lifestyle

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Factor you continue you will continue to have uh um sexual activity to the day

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you die I mean how often you hear and you were hearing more and more of that now and people in their 70s or 80s are

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are still having sexual relations um as much as they were when they were

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younger it's because they start to realize that the myth that you know it gets into your head hey when you're past

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50 you know you're old you should be you know enjoying that anymore and then we

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also live in a culture that is taboo talk about it or Shabu to as you get

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older to to even think about that uh as well which I find interesting Simon and

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that you know uh sexual relations it's how we came to the Earth how we came to be born anyway right but we're it's a

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shameful to talk about it and it's uh off topic in fact you can't even advertise the word sex you know it's

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like it's all shoved under the carpets in the closet but you know everybody you know does it we and it's something that

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is for enjoyment uh as well and that Sexual Health your sexual health or your

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sexual your ability to continue to enjoy sexual activity poorly with General

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Health and it's in parallel so if you continue to have a good sexual relation

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intimacy uh that means that you're uh uh healthy your General Health is doing

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well but if your sexual health decline let's say for a man for instance if we

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start having erectile dysfunction it's really you know a Harbinger uh a red

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line say huh you know what maybe something's going on in your General Health you need to kind of look at right

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now to see uh if something is off um do something about it before you

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start taking that little blue pill just to help you to perform a little bit better like you said you know we live in

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a society that focused on you know taking a medication for this medication for that uh today I saw a patient that

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taking a medication to sleep then and taking another medication to help him to be awake like an ADD medication and

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taking another medication to help him relax so he's uh you know an appraisal I

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am and he's on another medication to help with depression and then he's done a sleeper and a downer so yeah you

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wonder what your body gets confused or what what go working at you know what time

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um and um so the big point is that uh you can uh is that Sexual Health can

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continue to the day you die and it doesn't have to decline with uh age and that

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um where a man or woman feel that hey the libido's a little off or they're not

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having you know the responses they used to have when they were in their 20s uh

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take a look back and say okay uh much you know what they're as are they smoking what the alcohol intake uh I'm

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not saying don't drink alcohol but in a week you should probably drink about less than seven uh drinks a week

34:44

um and sleep or you're sleeping as well are you how are you doing on your diet

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and your exercise and stress those are the big thing that uh contribute to

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decline in sexual health but we don't look at that do we when we said oh you know if a man said if a man thinks that

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he had Ed first thing he's going to do he's going to go on Google and try to you know get you know and start you know

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taking a Viagra when when you know I equate that you're almost like taking an

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opioid pain medication for back pain or neck pain you're just you're just band-aiding your problem you're not

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looking at the source of the problem because they don't realize that Sexual Health a decline in sexual health

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parallel or decline in your General Health it just had appeared yet it appears about a decade later interesting

35:33

yeah I mean it makes total sense I mean we've spoken about um nutrition and exercise and sleep and

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all these aspects that you know the body needs to be taken care of in order to thrive

35:45

um can you just explain to us a little bit more of like maybe the biochemistry around let's just say somebody you know

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eats pretty decent and moves their body well sleeps okay but they they they're

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very very stressed out individuals so a lot of all they can a lot of their issues is up is in their minds right

36:03

they're anxious depressed you know whatever that might be and how those literal thoughts

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can manifest into you know issues downstairs and how that actually works

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well that's a great question this is my favorite subject to talk about because

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um the largest sexual organ is the brain not below the bowel okay so when we

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think about you know sexual activity we think about you know the the sexual organ no the the larger sexual organ

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that needs to initiate the the sexual response is your brain your brain

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everything starts up here for men and women how so how do you get aroused how

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do you get desire is what you see what you'd uh uh um what you smell what you

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taste what you touch and what you hear your senses your five senses feed into

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your brain into the part that's right behind like your your your eyeball that

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feed into your brain then you start getting aroused you're targeting you know increased desire you you start

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feeling better and then your uh your emotion you're starting to feel like you know really good and then you you

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hormones start to release in the glands in your brain the same messages down to

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the nerve in your spinal cord that sends messenger down to your heart your heart starts beating you have you know that

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that that response that you know a response of arousal and then your blood

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vessels starts relaxing starts start to open up you have an increase in blood flow and the blood flow flows to the

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sexual organ the sexual organ uh the muscle has to be relaxed in order for it

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to receive the blood flow so the main thing about having a response in the

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sexual organ is that it has to accommodate increased blood flow so for

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a man below the bowel organ you know you have to have increased blood flow and same thing for a woman the how does the

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muscle and the sexual organ uh accommodate increased blood flow that

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organ has to be the muscle itself has to be relaxed so a lot of men don't realize

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that in order for them to have you know sexual relation and have you know uh

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intimacy their muscle down there have to be relaxed and how do you get it to relax you have to be in a good emotional

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state up here to be relaxed not anxious not uh not depressed and not stressed

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because when you're anxious and depressed and stressed what happens you send messages to the nerve in the spinal

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cord here to constrict the muscle down there that's why you're not gonna have

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you're not gonna have you know the sexual organs not going to respond you see what I'm saying so yeah yeah so it

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also into the nerve it all starts here in the brain because the brain got got

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to send messages uh to everything or everything else from here but to below

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the belt for in order to work and and that you have to be in a relaxed state

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in order for you to be aroused in order for you to be functioning in Tip-Top shape form so a lot of I see a lot of

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men you know a lot of men just say well you know only the old that down down there the only thing that needs to work

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I go no it's controlled by this guy up here you

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know this guy up here this guy up here is not in the right space nothing's gonna work below the belt yeah I I

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recall my wife and I were looking to um have our second child yeah and there

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was a lot of stress around it in regards to scheduling and making time for it and it was and it was honestly for me

39:57

personally it was a really really stressful experience like having the the schedule and the time around it and just

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nothing was happening nothing was going to happen in those times but then like once you kind of let go of that idea of

40:07

like trying to make it happen it happens right so it's it's yeah I've got my own personal Testament to that and it makes

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it makes total sense when you recognize the mind and the body and you know the Mind obviously has to be in a particular

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has to have been a particular state in order to produce the biochemistry to make everything else work so it makes a

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whole lot of sense and I know we're coming up I know I know you've got another appointment coming up so I'll ask you kind of one more quick question

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but and I think I know the answer to this but like how bad is like taking a drug like Viagra Viagra on like a

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long-term basis because I presume most people who get prescribed it are in a position because they have erectile

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dysfunction because they have issues and it's most likely because they are maybe overweight overstressed undernourished

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uh and all these other things that we're talking about so like their body's already in this like state of emergency

40:55

and then we're throwing this drug at something uh like how kind of bad is that like that combination very bad and

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I hope that the listener hears this loud and clear very bad because by equate I

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equate Viagra it's like taking opioids medication is the black hole it's going

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to give you short-term relief but in the long term you are in the black hole all right you're going to end up going

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nowhere because remember what did I say the sexual responder and I know if I

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meant to get an erection it starts here in the brain Viagra totally bypasses the brain bypasses your heart bypasses the

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emotion and it goes straight down to the uh the sexual organ and what it does is

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that it we it uh relaxes um the the blood vessel in order for the uh in

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order to have increasing blood flow okay it relaxes the blood vessel but it bypasses everything about the belt so

41:57

what happened uh so so the man get the result but what happened is that your

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body is sensing oh in order for me to get an erection I need a little blue pill now to to start working so then you

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start I called how hijacking your natural response to having an erection

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so when you start taking Viagra you might as well hear it might as well say here Viagra take take away my natural

42:23

response to have an election in fact you know you're essentially saying I can't have an erection unless I need that blue

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pill to assist me with uh you know opening up the blood flow because you're hijacking it you're skipping step one

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two five and go straight to step six to you know to increasing the uh the blood flow you know down there so it's very

42:43

bad plus Viagra increases your blood pressure when you take it so in a man

42:48

that may have heart issues or high blood pressure your blood pressure goes up higher and you don't know it you don't

42:54

know it when that time that you you take it that you may end up having

42:59

um a stroke or a heart attack and then also you also have there's a lot of uh

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um side effects with Viagra such as flushing the face become red nasal congestion uh yeah vision changes and

43:14

headaches now why do you have headaches because the blood pressure goes up that's why you start having headache but

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a lot of men go well I can tolerate the headache because you know I can perform well not for long guys not for long the

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one in this day that head is going to become worse so if you start to have side effects Viagra stop stop right away

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because your body is telling you hey I can't handle this you know so stop it

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and if you're starting to take back you don't see any side effects that doesn't mean that you're you're not curing

43:44

anything all right you're actually uh uh you're actually creating more problem than you than you start up with and my

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my you know my suggestion stop taking it take two step backward and evaluate what

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are you doing with your lifestyle you know what are you eating you exercising you're sleeping take you know three

44:03

steps backwards because I will tell you with the patient I treat when I tell them to do that and they just eat better

44:09

they exercise better and they sleep better don't you know what to tell me they go oh my God you know without even

44:16

any treatment you know I got you know I'm I'm now you know things are starting to work now doctor you know my you might

44:22

have my wife is starting to see that things are starting to work now without any other intervention without Viagra

44:28

yeah right now Cialis now have a 30 hour uh um uh you know Half-Life meaning it's

44:34

active for like 30 hours so when you're taking Cialis you should also pay attention to the blood pressure uh as

44:41

well too so we we live in a society they had to take a pill to for for this

44:47

condition when when it's really not curing your problem at all yeah I mean

44:53

we obviously have these very deliberate ancient Pathways from our brain all the way down through our body and if we're

45:00

to put like a big stop sign in front of one of those we're inevitably going to see huge problems with that you know

45:06

like with down regulation of certain hormones as you say like our body learns that

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um this blue pill can take care of that process instead so the brain's just going to be you know it's not going to

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just waste its time trying to do a job that it doesn't need to do it's very very interesting in how and

45:21

how that works and obviously I think with females with their like hormonal Cascade it's significantly more

45:27

complicated but uh yeah we can get it out to another time because I know that you're very time sensitive right now so

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I just thought if you just finish up and just let me let people know how they can get a hold of you and connect with you

45:38

right well thank you for having me on today it's been a pleasure talking with you and discussing this and I'll be more

45:44

than glad to come back for uh you know continuing uh talk so how they can get a hold of me is that uh my uh website at

45:53

trongrehab.com t-r-u-o-n-g-r-e-h-a-b.com and I do have

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a gift for your uh for your listeners and um the um the gift is actually on my

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download the free ebook it talks about the five common mistakes men uh with Ed

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make and try to avoid them and uh don't make these mistakes because it's gonna

46:23

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know and on on my Instagram profile they can also get the free gift as well too uh that is the ebook about you know what

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to what not to do when you have a sexual uh dysfunction beautiful I'll make sure

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all that information is in our show notes so our audience can get a hold of that information and I appreciate the

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free ebook that's wonderful information thank you so much but yeah thank you for so thank you so much for talking with me

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today I I found it very very interesting well thank you uh a lot time and take care have a great day perfect thank you

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