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You can sit on the bench, or you can overcome all obstacles with grit, attitude, and fortitude. Season 4: Ep 2, Maaxx West, 2023 Miss WBFF Bikini World Champion Stops by the Chalmers Wellness Podcast. Check out her website at madmaaxx.com Maaxx West is a dynamic content creator, influencer, and now the 2023 Miss WBFF Bikini World Champion. In this podcast episode, we talk about Maaxx’s insights into success. Overcoming being teased about how she talked was just the start of her path to mental fortitude. Being strong mentally and physically is part of the path to wellness. In my book “Pillars of Wellness,” I cover how the body and mind have to work as one so that people can enjoy their lives even 20 years from now. Maaxx has succeeded in achieving many goals that may have been unobtainable if not for her insights and learning how to tune her mental and physical fortitude. Her website is madmaaxx.com and has a significant social media reach and impact across TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. @WBFF #wellnessjourney #bikini madmaaxx.com madmaaxx.media officialpureblood.com nobloatclub.com Check out the full article and transcript on Pillarsofwellness.com

This video includes questions - What was the reason I gave my ten-year-old son, why did he have the surgery? - How did I approach the dilemma of using Opioids for my son's pain management?

Check out all things around my TEDx talk at Pillarsofwellness.com/tedx #opiods #cannabisheals #addictionrecovery #tedxtalk This video includes questions - What was the reason I gave my ten-year-old son, why did he have the surgery? - How did I approach the dilemma of using Opioids for my son's pain management? Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] This is Dr. Chalmers. Welcome to Wellness Insights with me. Dr. Chalmers. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:07] How did it affect my son's pain management? A lot. I mean, this is more, and I have all the pictures. If you knew me, you wanted to throw up, but I had to take pictures of it while they were doing it. They did chip the bone off of his plate because of the bone and sort of growing over it. So imagine that they decided this long prior. It opens. They can get to the they can get inside, and they can start working on the actual bones. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:23] And they had to take a chisel and literally like chip away at the bone that's in there before they can even unscrew the screws. When it was done. So you can see the incision, and you can see the bone, and there are holes, there are six holes in the back, like not like small holes, like big old holes where those screws used to be all the way through. And so then they put it back together. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:47] What happened the first time that he had the surgery when they put him in is that he had a reaction to the dissolvable strips, sorry, the dissolvable sutures they used. And so it had opened up. We had this wound issue to him; he had this giant scar. It was like three-quarters of an inch this way by the entire six-inch length of the scar. So what they did was they did a scar revision where they just cut off that scab. So he had to have the bone chipped away. He had six giant holes in the actual bone. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:22] Maybe six inches cut out and then sewn back together. That's that's what the surgery was. So I really understand this was not like pulling a splinter out. This was a major actual surgery, A to a ten-year-old. And then what we ended up doing was we just cut little strips, and I gave him little strips, and he was fine whenever he would be like, Hey, Dad, my arm starting to hurt, I would give him a little strip, and he put it under his tongue. It would dissolve, and he'd be fine. Ten or 15 minutes later, I'd be like, Hey, how's your arm? He's like, Oh, it's fine. And he would go back to reading, and I was making sure that he wasn't getting high because I wanted to make sure the dose was right. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:32] And I would talk to him and stuff like that, and he his normal silly self in anything, nothing I would consider that was an added bonus. No, no, no high issues. So it worked out really, really well. What observations do I make about the son's experience with sublingual strips in terms of psychological effects. This is how I knew that I'd use them on me, and I'd use them on my friends and use them on everybody else. But when I gave them to my son for his issues, that's really when I knew. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:16] I knew for a fact This is our replacement for opioids. This is it. My ten-year-old is not high. He's talking normally. He's reading his book. He's remembering everything he read. He has no pain. This is what we need to be doing. This is it. This is where we need to go. The observation was that we have our solution. I'm done looking. This is it. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:35] We need everybody to know we have a new national conversation about this. We need to be using these in everybody so that we don't have addiction issues. We don't have the death issues and can bring everybody back together. We can rebuild and stabilize our families. So 100%, it was super critical. It changed the way I think about it, too, 100%. I know now that this is the medication we should be using. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:43] So that's that was the observation I made, and that's what it changed. So, how do I react to the idea of having more comprehensive information about cannabis? 100%. We need 100%. We need more research. And we're trying right now to get our camera strips in for pain research in California. I'm pretty sure that seeing it knocked out. I will talk about that more than you guys want to hear. But because I, like I said, Ben, we've got it. We've got to got to give options other than opioids. You know, it's we have to. So we know we need all the information we can. I'd love PET scan function. I love long-term studies. You know, all of it like we need is.

When I started looking into the opioid crisis and the possible substitute for cannabis, it put me on a path that I did not expect. Even getting a TEDx talk under my belt was also an unexpected event. The feedback has been a lot of fun and has been a validation that cannabis use as a substitute may be received better by wider audiences than previously expected. In many questions that come in at questions@chalmerswellness.com there is a common thread. Medical use of cannabis would save lives and even improve the quality of life for others. If you have opinions for or against cannabis as a substitute for opioid addiction, please send me a question at questions@chalmerswellness.com, and I will get back to you. Being part of the national discussion for a solution to opioid addiction is better than not voicing your opinions.

In my TEDx talk preparation, I found out there are common themes across all TEDx talks. Research, validation, and accountability. The questions that are rolling in after my talk are fantastic, helping the national community open the dialogue about cannabis and the use for pain as a substitute for opioids. The National Institutes of Health had a research study that showed 24% of the states that legalize cannabis see a 24% drop in opioid overdose deaths within the first year. That is significant. For a one-stop glance at all things related to my TEDx talk checkout pillarsofwellnes.com/tedx #opiods #addictionrecovery #healthandwellness #cannabisheals #cannabisresearch #tedxtalk #tedtalk Check out Chalmers Pillarsofwellness.com for Wellness updates! And ask me any questions you have at questions@chalmerswellness.com. I answer all of them and look forward to hearing from you. The Chalmers Wellness Substack just launched. Comment, Like, and Interact with other people on their wellness journey. Communities can make a difference.  DrChalmers.substack.com

00:00 - Intro 00:40 - How do I address the concern about dosing Cannabis? 04:26 - What's the advantage of Sublingual Strips? 04:49 - How does the Administration of Cannabis via Sublingual Strips differ from the methods of gummies and pills? 05:24 - How do I refute the notion that cannabis produces substantial unwanted psychological effects? 08:58 - Which part of the brain can this have the ability to affect and how does this impact anxiety? 11:09 - How much do I Emphasize the Importance of shutting off the Amygdala? 11:55 - Consider Cannabis as a Nutrient 12:52 - How did I personally encounter the issues we discussed in the talk? 14:05 - What was the Reason I gave my ten-year-old son, why did he have the surgery? 14:54 - How did I approach the dilemma of using Opioids for my son's pain management? 17:08 - How did it affect my son's pain management? 19:25 - What observations do I make about Son's experience with sublingual strips regarding psychological effects? 20:40 - How do I React to the idea of having more Comprehensive Information about Cannabis? 21:46 - What Statistical Evidence do I have regarding the impact of Cannabis Legalization? 23:34 - What Societal Impact Does the Decrease in Opioid Prescriptions Do to the Cannabis Legalization highlight? 25:34 - What Significant Change do I believe is necessary regarding our Cultural View of Cannabis? 26:31 - Why do I Emphasize the Importance of keeping an Open Mind in addressing the Opioid Crisis? 27:35 - What is the meaning of Referencing Albert Einstein's Quote in the context of the Opioid Crisis? 28:50 - What Message do I leave the Audience with at the end of this talk? 31:06 - Outro

It was an honor to have the opportunity to present a TEDx talk about the opioid crisis, and the talk was about how the solution to a potential 60% reduction in death by opioids. Feedback and interactions have been fantastic. Here is the first question broken out in a video response. Check out all of my research on the solution to the opiod crisis at Pillarsofwellness.com/tedx.com Dr. Matt Chalmers.: [00:00:03] This. Doctor Chalmers, welcome to Wellness Insights with me, Dr. Chalmers. All right, so we talked about this a little bit, my TEDx talk. How do I address the concern about dosing cannabis? So the problem we get into is that if you're just smoking flowers, smoking joints, that type of thing, it's really hard to get five or ten milligrams. [00:00:20][16.7] Dr. Matt Chalmers.: [00:00:22] Again, the whole joints can hurt you. But if you're a little bit too high to function and you're laughing all the time, you're not going to get through your day. So gummies can do this. Not great. But if you find low-dose gummies, five mg, that type of thing, that's fantastic. But the strips, the sublingual strips that I like. [00:00:31][9.4] Dr. Matt Chalmers.: [00:00:31] So if you're if you're out and about game eight strips dot com, that's a delta eight strip it is at the moment, legal in 30-something states. So I would grab as much as you can because they're going to make that illegal probably by the end of this year. And they have no plans of making cannabis legal for medical in any of the states where it's going to be illegal. So grab what you can because you're going to need it. [00:01:04][33.2] Dr. Matt Chalmers.: [00:01:05] The way the strips work is that you can cut them in half in thirds. You can get a 16 to just a little tiny sliver off. And that's that's the way that we dose it because, you know, it's a 20 milligram, 25 milligrams strap depending on what you're getting. So if you cut it in half, so obviously math, if it's a 20 milligram cut in half, it's ten and ten. You can't really do that with gummies, though. The way that it works with gummies is that they kind of clump up the active ingredient, and it comes up. And so if you have a gummy like this and it's all over here if you cut it in half, all is going to be here. None of us can be over here. Or you get 70, 30. It's very, very difficult to dose them with gummies, but with the strips since are evenly applied, you can cut them up like that and be really consistent. [00:01:46][41.0] Dr. Matt Chalmers.: [00:01:46] So you can. No, I need a third of a strip to go to sleep. I need a quarter of a strip to do this. So that's what's been good. One of the ladies found out that we gave this to. She found out that a third of the strip would have the same pain-fighting power as a ten-milligram oxy, which is pretty impressive because that's ten milligrams of basic heroin. Heroin and oxy are the same strength. They're stronger than morphine. Morphine is a one on the scale, and heroin and oxy are about a six or seven. So it's fentanyl, by the way, is 179. So fentanyl is ridiculously stronger and it's used all the time in hospitals to help knock people out. It is a functional drug. [00:02:28][41.5] Dr. Matt Chalmers.: [00:02:28] It is needed for surgery. It should never be on the street, though. So that's how we address the dosage piece. Now, the fun thing is, is that so? Let's say that you have a pain and let's say it's in your son, and you give him a little bit, and it doesn't quite cover it. You can give him a little bit more and okay, now I know. Now I know I need to give him a quarter of a strap or, you know, a fifth of a strap or whatever to combat this issue. [00:02:52][23.7] Dr. Matt Chalmers.: [00:02:52] This, you know, that's how we dealt with his surgery. I gave him a little bit. He was like, It helps, but not really. I gave him a little bit more, and he was like, okay, that helped. And so I was like, okay, those two added together was what we needed. And so that's how we dosed it. Really, simple. So, I talk about that in a TED talk. So we'll add that clip in here so that you can see about what I did with my son. , what solution did I give the sublingual cannabis strips? That's that's a game strip. WSJ.com. We have a couple of groups that we're talking to about doing actual real pain studies with them. And so, hopefully, we'll have a specific one tailored specifically for pain in California soon. If the rest of the country can get on board with decriminalizing medical use nationally, we'll be able to ship those strips all over the U.S., and people can use those instead of opioids for all their pain. #tedxtalk #pain #opiods #opiodcrisis #cannabisheals #cannabistalk101 #addictionrecovery

Check out all things around my TEDx talk at Pillarsofwellness.com/tedx It is rewarding to get feedback and start discussions around the opioid crisis across the nation. As we progress, we will post our interviews and discussions to help bridge the conversations. Please send me your questions at quesitons@chalmerswellness.com about any of the research as you can help with the crisis through your discussions. This podcast features some questions that have been sent in from viewers of my TEDx talk. This podcast features questions. - How much do I Emphasize the Importance of shutting off the Amygdala? - Consider Cannabis as a Nutrient The following is a transcription of this podcast from questions@chalmerswellness.com. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:03] This. Doctor Chalmers, welcome to Wellness Insights with me, Dr. Chalmers. Which part of the brain is can have the ability to affect and how does this impact anxiety? Well, if you specifically are talking about anxiety, that's the amygdala. So the amygdala is in the temporal lobe and it is responsible for all the bad things in the world. Fear, hate, anger, terror, stress, anxiety, all that stuff. So that's the big issue with how it affects the brain and affects the amygdala. And we want it to affect the amygdala. It does not affect the pons, like I said earlier. So you can continue to breathe as much as you want to. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:32] It has more impact on the temporal lobe than anything else, which is really good because that's where epileptic epilepsy comes from. So we can actually suppress temporal firing, which a so a seizure is abnormal firing in the temporal lobe. Okay. So we can decrease firing in the temporal lobe. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:50] Guess what? All of a sudden we've decreased seizures and that's what we see with all of cannabis in epilepsy. So that's why epilepsy and cannabis works so well together because of that suppression of abnormal firing in the temporal lobe. It does have some suppression function to the frontal lobe. So you're not gonna be able to think nearly as well that, you know, depending on how much you've consumed and where you're at, you know, you might have anywhere from 0 to 10% functional command loss. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:18] I will tell you that as a personal thing, something I'm super not proud of. There's been lots and lots of times in my youth where I would drink too much and then drive home. I know it's stupid. It's the worst thing I've ever done. It's terrible, but I've never consumed cannabis and then thought, you know, I should drive. In fact, there's been a couple of times where I was supposed to leave at a certain time and I went, No, I don't feel like I'm good to drive. I'm going to wait 30 minutes, which has never happened with Canada, with with, with alcohol. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:44] So as far as making bad decisions, I have not seen it. You're going to say to silly stop because that you think is profound. But that's about it. And the worst thing you're going to do is eat too much. That's from what we've seen. That's basically what's going on. How much do I emphasize the importance of shutting out the amygdala? My entire practice is based around the quality of life. Wellness is the quality of life over time. Shutting off stress is the number one thing I try to do. And so shutting down the amygdala, calming it down, the thing that tells you that everything is terrible, that you're you're scared, that you have stress, that you know, all the negative things fear, hate, anger, terror. How about how much how important to shutting that off? Really important. Really important. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:25] So, yeah, like this is a daily thing. Like, we should start working on this. How do I connect anxiety and stress, the functioning amygdala? I just kind of told you it is directly 100% linked. So I will tell you this. This is kind of silly joke, but it's also kind of silly. True. I will consider cannabis a nutrient because the definition of nutrient is something that the body requires in order to function normally and survive. If you didn't have any cannabinoids in your body, your brain would no longer work. Your endocannabinoid system which is inside of you right now. Regardless if you've ever consumed cannabis, it is in there. And we're using cannabinoids to make the brain and spinal cord function. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:04] Your entire CNS is directly dependent upon those chemicals to function. So adding in a different cannabinoid structure that helps your body to function, helps your brain to function in the way that we want to. I'm going to consider that a nutrient tongue-in-cheek funny, kind of true, that type of thing. So but that's that's just a fun thing that I have to throw out. If you guys have any questions, hit us up questions at Chalmers wellness dot com Thanks. #tedxtalk #cannabisheals #cannabistalk101 #opiods #opioidcrisis

Refuting the notion that cannabis produces substantial unwanted psychological effects? Research, included my TEDx talk may be the key. Check out all things around my TEDx talk at Pillarsofwellness.com/tedx A national discussion is needed. There is way too much emotion without looking at facts and the research. Shooting from the hip is ok in a western movie, but not acceptable in the medical profession. My goal is to help lead the discussions and would welcome people from all sides to send me questions and potential podcast guest on my podcast at questions@chalmerswellness.com. In today’s question there are many facets to cannabis, and stereotyping is one of the biggest hurdles to cross. My question video and full TEDx talk are embedded below. Also listed is some of my research links and articles I have written. The following is an automatic transcription and has been edited only for grammar. What's the advantage of suddenly with stress? It gets in your body a lot faster. You don't have to smoke it, so it doesn't damage your lungs. You don't have vapors, damage your lungs, throat, mouth, and all that type of stuff. And it doesn't go through what's called first pass; it has to go through the liver first. So it's a lot cleaner, a lot safer way of doing it. It's faster, and there's no smoking involved. So it's awesome. Was the typical activation time for Southern well strips compared to other forms of oral stuff that you will do? So gummies, brownies, cookies, and stuff like that. 30 to 45 minutes for you. Getting functional activation strips will take anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes. Just depends. So, under the tongue or on the cheek, if you put them on your tongue, you will swallow most of it. So, under the tongue or on the cheek in the front of the gums also works like a dip. But that's that's how we do that one. How do I refute the notion that cannabis produces substantial unwanted psychological effects? Because all of the research that says it does is bullshit. It is hilarious. I read one about how it causes schizophrenia. What the problem was is that when you read the research, like we had these six people, and they like cannabis, and they'll end up with schizophrenia when they got older. So, you know, is that the cause? It did not discuss any psychological trauma. It did not discuss any genetics. Ron So, like, did the parents have it? Do the grandparents have it or have schizophrenia? There were no studies beforehand. They were just like, hey, we found these kids, and they ended up with schizophrenia, and they liked cannabis. Okay, Yeah. So you took a thousand kids. They all ate cannabis. Six or seven ended up schizophrenic, and you single those guys out and say it was because of the cannabis. I It's trash. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. There is no real research that shows any deficits because of cannabis. All the ones are trying to say, Well, you know what? These kids smoked a lot of pot when they were 13, and now they're dumb. Okay. But many people I know who were smart when they were 13 are dumb now because they didn't apply themselves. So, trying to say that it was because of the cannabis is foolish. I have tons of people that I know who I think are really smart lawyers and doctors and engineers who've been using cannabis since they were teenagers. So, I have not seen any research, and I read it all the time, and I would 100% not get into it and put my name behind it. If I had read research that said that it did anything negative. One thing we see a lot is if people like it, they like the way they are the person they are in it. They like the way they feel. They think that they're calmer, more relaxed, laugh easier, and think, hey, those qualities are something I want in my life. That was my decision. I like the person I am when I'm on cannabis.

#PlantarFasciitis #FootHealth #footexercises #HeelPain #FootCare #FootStretching #FootRehabilitation #FootPainRelief Answering questions and helping people is just in my DNA. In today's podcast I go over treatments for Plantar Fasciitis. I am demonstrating the office techniques with Carah Nowell. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] So I want to go over how we treat Plantar Fasciitis in the office the first thing we're going to do is we're going to take the shoelace and we're going to wrap a band through it. The reason was at the foot to make this loop so that you can basically tie it to your shoe they are going to be tied tightly. We're a hold over here and then all the patience to do is pull the toe back as far as they can and bring it back to forward bring it back as far as they can there's going to do this over and repeatedly. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:37] So if you're at home and you're doing this over and over and over again, you can tie this to a chair, you have to make hold it, you can tie it to a door however you want to do it. But the whole point is that we get the Musculature of the Fisciniariatis to start to work. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:50] Now, the band doesn't have to be very strong because we're not trying to build the muscle we're just trying to activate the muscle so it sends information to the brain about what's going on in the lower extremity. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:01:01] So the more we move, the more we are activating the Fisciniariatis, the more information goes to the brain and the brain will then see the message back down to the calf and it makes it calm down, reducing the pressure on the Achilles tendon, reducing the pressure on the heel and the Plantar Facia. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:01:16] So we'll just keep moving, keep moving, keep moving as we do this, three sets of ten, three sets of 15, six, seven times a day, it will really, really loosen up all the function of the ankle and the function of the Plantar Facia. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:01:29] Now, again, the reason we get this is because we push down with the toe too much acting, the calf muscle too much, the tone is too high here, balls up, pulls up on the Achilles Tendon and Achilles heel and pulls up on the calcaneus just enough to flatten the Plantar Fascia and implants. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:01:45] So the more we can move this, more we activate, not strengthen, but activate the muscle of the injured to realize the better it will help decrease the tone of the calf. So this is basically what we're going to do you guys can do this at home this is a great at home exercise. I have all of my Haitian students while we're working on Plantar fasciitis and this makes me go a lot faster. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:02:05] So if you're at home or you're trying to do something that's going to help out your Plantar Fasciitis, this exercise for the answer to the balance is the best way to go so that we can decrease the tone of the calf.

The Dr. Chalmers Show Season #3, Episode 26 Part 2 - Treating Plantar Fasciitis in the Office and at Home. What are the best techniques? This podcast and video is the second in the treating Plantar Fasciitis. Many patients ask about this, and there are solutions for the home and the office. Take a listen, watch the video, and ask questions at questions@chalmerswellness.com. I answer all questions. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] Okay, So the way I treat Plantar Fasciitis in the office is I always start off with my version of the Charette Protocol to adjust the ankle. And so we adjusted, just kind of reset the joint, make sure it's where it's supposed to be. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:23] So now that the joints have moved around with activity, the joint thing where it is, where you compress the Achilles tendon all the way up into the active neurosis and into the calf muscle itself. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:34] And the reason is that I want to add the muscle spindle fibers, the Golgi-tuned organs, and the entire function of the neuro receptors in the whole lower extremity. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:42] So as we do that, we're going to have her point her toes over and over, pull it back as far as you can. Range emotions are very important in this so if they start to fatigue, make sure you get them to pull that toe back and point out as much as they can. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:55] And we don't want to stop we want to continue as they move and when we compress the ankle, just understand it's not the most comfortable thing in the world. So if they complain or you notice, it hurts, it's okay you want to be really uncomfortable you don't want to hurt. So we're just gonna compress it and point and pull, point and pull about this speed is what we're going to do. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:16] Now, what I'll usually do is, as I compress this, I'll feel the tendon if there are little nodules in here I'll work those nodules until I feel them break up but you can stand up and down like I said so we get a lot of the Golgi tendon organs in the Achilles. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:30] And then as we kind of come up and down pointing to the aponeurosis and we get a lot of those muscle spindle fibers and then we just keep coming up and down, move up just slide your hands up and down so I usually go up well do about five or six seven movements at each point you can come up and down. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:52] You can kind of figure out how your patient is kind of doing with it but as you kind of come up and down, you kind of notice that they squirm a little bit more or they just fatigue out and they can't do it so the first couple times to watch that but as they go along, they're going to get obviously better and better at this as the tone equalizes. So just let them do this like I said, I usually do this three times a week for about 3 to 4 weeks, and it works really well. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:17] Now, the big thing to understand is that if they're running, if they're walking if they're standing a lot while we're doing this, it's going to make it take longer. The more activation we get to the calf, the higher the tone stays. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:30] And so the whole point of this is to give a reason for the body to think, oh, no, this is too tight we're going to tear. Sends a message to the brain, the brain sends a message back down to the calleb and tells it to reduce its tone. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:40] As we're activating the Plantar Fasciitis this tone starts to come up and it starts to balance again and so that's the whole purpose of doing this. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:47] So as we go through it, if they're running a whole lot, they're trying to activate the calf more and tone of the cattle to more so it'll still work it just takes a little longer. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:56] That's my NFL guys we have to do this with and we have to do it all throughout the season because they're training so much that people who are training for marathons start to feel this come on, and they'll come in and we have to do this entirely until they're done with their training. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:08] So just remember that if you're activating the calf a lot, it's going to take longer. But like I said, most people have three weeks, about three times a week so that's the compression that's how we treat Plantar Fasciitis.

#wellness #wellnessjourney #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealth #podcast We often talk about how this country has a massive Mental Health problem. It does and there's no argument. This is one of the few things that, you know, Republicans and Democrats and rich and poor and everybody can be like, yeah, we got some Mental Health issues in this country. The real question is what are some of the solutions and who is going to pay for them? Are there ways of using alternative medicine and regular lifestyle changes to make a significant difference? Well, I believe there are and would change people's lives for the better. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:17] The problem is, is that while it's great that we can point it out, I mean, identifying the problem is obviously the very first thing we got to do before we can start solving it well, we don't say anything about it I don't know why that is. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:29] So here are the top two things you can do to eradicate depression and mental illness in your life. Exercise and testosterone, exercise actually increases testosterone so that's why it's the number one. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:44] When you exercise, what actually happens is all the little joint mechanoreceptors, all the neurology from your body that's connected to your brain, your muscle spindle, fibers, Golgi, tendon organs, all those things send tremendous amounts of information up through the joints into the spine, from the spine to spinal cord, spinal cord to the brain but it hits the cerebellum. And so all that information that to the cerebellum has to be processed. So it sends it from the cerebellum to the frontal lobe to be an actual process and function, and we make sure everything's going right. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:12] Here's the cool thing everybody talks about you only use 10% of your brain that's not necessarily accurate. What is accurate is the body can only focus energy in one spot or the other for a very long. As you increase function in the frontal lobe, you actually decrease function in the temporal lobe, the temporal lobe houses, the amygdala, the amygdala is your fear, hate, anger, terror, and all the bad stuff so you actually shut that part down. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:39] As you shut that down, the only thing that's left is a dopaminergic function, which is reward happy, Great all those things. You also get something that shifts what's called the sympathetic parasympathetic shunt back and forth.

Is Anti-Aging a real thing or even obtainable? The following is an automated transcript. Please listen to or watch the podcast or send any questions to questions@chalmerswellness.com. I answer all questions. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:03] Hey, this is Dr. Matt Chalmers, and you're listening to the Dr. Chalmers podcast. We'll be covering how the body actually works so we can fix the things no one else can. So I do a fair amount of anti-aging work, and the thing I think is funny about anti-aging is that the way you do anti-aging is you just make the body as healthy as you possibly can, and the aging process slows down. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:29] Keeping your hormones where they're supposed to be testosterone growth hormone, thyroid hormone, cortisol hormone, insulin, making sure those all stay where they're supposed to be going to do more for you than any cream or any surgery or anything else. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:44] Now, here's the problem we can't turn the clock back very well, but we can slow it down well. So if you're 30 or 25 and you're like, Oh, I don't need to worry about that yet. Yeah, you do. If you start getting healthy now, you will look and feel more beneficial when you're 35 and 45, 55 and 65; remember, we're slowing the clock down. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:02] So if you want to look good when you're 50, start as soon as you can start when you're 20 or 25, start when you're 30, get your exercise, and make sure you figure out what diet macros that it's best for You. Make sure you're taking all your supplementation, make sure you're sleeping correctly, and make sure you're hydrating properly. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:16] If you want to look good now and look good later, that's what you have to do. You have to maintain your health, and you have to keep it consistently maintained. This is what we talk about with wellness is quality of life over the longest period as soon as you dig into that now, the easier is going to be for you to look and feel your best when you're older. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:35] So that's kind of the thing maintain all your hormone levels, maintain your vitamin and mineral levels. You have all the chemicals your body has to have to function; make sure it has those chemicals so they can function now and in the future. The more you let it degradation destroy now, the more problems you're going to have in the future. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:51] If you're eating too much sugar, consuming too much alcohol, things like that, now you're going to have problems with that in the future because it's going to damage things that you have to then go back and heal and the amount of time that there is everything that's going to jack up the way you feel and like in the future, the longer you let it be, the damage is the more you're going to have problems in the future and so just cut some of that stuff out now. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:10] I wish that I had known about cannabis when I was in college, out of the drink, a lot less alcohol. It's a much, much, much better option for every piece of health. So, you know, if you're like and I like drinking, like doing this and that, I know it's damaged my body mass and everything up try switching to cannabis, try to try some of the Delta eight strips, the game strips, try, you know, try doing some of the sublingual stuff, gummies, even, you know, make sure that you take them properly don't take them to dry that's a real quick way to tend to make yourself less healthy, but that's the type of thing swap your stuff. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:42] If you're like, Well, I drink a lot all right, try swapping here for cannabis; it's a much healthier trade. You know, if you're eating a lot of sugar. Okay, great. You like ice cream at night. Quit using the sugary stuff and eat some of the keto stuff; there's a bunch of great, you know, ice cream, you know, cookies; they just don't have the sugar; sugar's hyper toxic to the body. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:01] So if you want to look good, feel good. Change the chemistry in your body, change the hormones, change your activity level, and sweat out the trash. That's how you're going to look good and feel good much later on. So don't try to wait till you're 60 and then go, Oh, no, what do I do? Start now and start getting healthy now so you can stay healthy and so your physical appearance will always be what you want it to be. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:24] This has been Dr. Chalmers and our goal is to get as much accurate health and wellness information out as possible. Please subscribe and share so we can help even more people stay healthy and stay safe. You can find us on all social media Dr. Chalmers one and Dr. Chalmers Substack. Check out Chalmers Pillarsofwellness.com for Wellness updates!

We learned a lot of things about survivability during COVID. Some were bad and some were good. Telemedicine is about the only good thing that came out of COVID. What we learned from the science is that there may be several versions and we need to do our own research. The following is an automated transcript. Please listen or watch the podcast for any questions. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:01] You know, there's a lot of bad things that COVID brought us, but there are some good things that COVID brought us as well and one of those things was a bigger focus on health and wellness and immune function. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:10] Now, there's a lot of really easy things you can do to really bolster your immune system, get your hormones where they're supposed to be. Including D3, D3 is not a vitamin it's a hormone. Your testosterone get all your hormones up where they're supposed to be. Get your nutrients in so that you can rebuild and regenerate and heal your omega three fatty acids, your, you know, your cholesterol and its your amino acids in make sure that you're getting all of your anti-inflammatory stuff in and cleaning the liver get your B vitamins in, you know, get those things in is that your body can actually function the way it's supposed to and it'll start rebuilding. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:46] One of the biggest things you can take in is hydrochloric acid as a supplement, most of us get stressed out in our guts, quit producing hydrochloric acid, which is there to clean our food and digest it. Hydrochloric acid kills viruses, bacteria, parasites, amoebas, and all those types of things. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:03] So if you know that you have stress or anxiety in your life, taking hydrochloric acid when you're eating is a great idea. The other fun thing about hydrochloric acid is that it breaks into hydrogen in chlorine, the hydrogen piece helps increase your PH, which is percent hydrogen. And as you're gets closer and closer to seven, the chances of cancer arterial sclerosis and things like that decrease. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:26] And that chlorine fraction will help your body make its own hydrochloric acid but that's also how we make white blood cells, the chief enforcer or the chief killer cell of our immune system. The thing that goes out finds viruses, bacteria, and kills them yeah, it's got chlorine that's what it uses. Basically makes bleach and bleach is the virus of the bacteria to kill it. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:46] So increasing your hydrochloric acid is a great thing to do, now be careful with that. You can't get the hydrochloric acid in your teeth so put the capsule or tablet your mouth, swallow it real quick otherwise that it's going to damage your teeth but it's a really, really important thing to take. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:01] Now, the other big piece is consuming enough water. Now, here's the thing People always ask well, how much should I drink? If your pee is clear your good, the easy way to do that is just be like, okay, I want to drink 100% of my body weight now. So £250 I mean, drink 250 ounces of water throughout the day not once throughout the day. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:19] Now, the thing that your your body actually does is it uses water like a dump truck. So you bring this clean water in and your body goes off and it's fantastic. It dumps all the waste that your body has into that water and then uses your urinary tract to excrete that water. The other thing you can do is you can use that water in your tissues you can bind all those nasty things and push it out through your sweat. And this is easy to show if anybody's ever drinking a bunch of gin and then went out and sweat a little bit the next day and all of a sudden you're like, Man, I smell just like gin. Yeah, your body's detoxing all that gin out of your body through your pores. So if you if your sweat stinks, it's probably because it's pushing out a lot of toxins. So we need to look at your diet we need to drink a lot more water and flush those toxins out. So the water is really, really beneficial as well. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:07] Now, here's probably one of the biggest things that people blow off all the time Sleep there is no drug, there's no supplements, there's no exercise, there's nothing we can do that replaces sleep. So get high quality sleep, Set yourself a bedtime, set yourself a wake up time. If your body understands there's a routine, it will start to mimic that routine and it'll start setting your circadian rhythm to that routine.

#RewardDay #PositiveThoughts #BelieveInYourself #SelfAffirmation #PositiveSelfTalk #MindPower #ChangeYourLife #SpeakPositivity #SelfEmpowerment #SelfImprovement #AchieveYourGoals #PositiveMindset #Motivation #SelfLove #SelfCare You know by now that health and wellness are my passion, and spreading the word about improving people's lives is one part of my mission. When my patients or athletes try to use the word "Cheat Day" around me, I must let them know that that term is not allowed. I will let them use "Reward Day." Because I don't want them to start feeding negative thoughts into their mindsets. Positive thoughts and attitudes are critical for the entire wellness journey. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:02] You know, there are lots of times I've told people that I won't let them use the term cheat day when we're talking about their diet. I will let you use reward day because I don't want you to start feeding yourself negative thoughts. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:16] Cheating has no positive function associated with it there is no, you know, oh, they cheated to win that's awesome nobody says that or oh, they cheated on their significant other and that was great that's not how cheating works. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:31] So if you tell yourself that you're going to cheat on your own diet, you're going to cheat on yourself that's not a positive thing. If you say, hey, I'm going to have pizza and beer this weekend because I've kept my diet, my exercise really clean all week and I've earned it knock yourself out you did you earned it you worked for it you've earned it it's a reward day. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:50] Now, it's not just that it's everything else that you put in your mind you let your mouth speak. If you speak negativity, especially about yourself, I'm so stupid or I'm just not good enough or, you know, I'm so useless, I'm so worthless you're going to train your brain to believe that. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:01:07] If you tell yourself, I'm working real hard on this and one day I'm going to be great, then you're going to believe that if you tell yourself, I can do this. Boom, you can one day do it. Now people always say, Oh, that's just silly, blah, blah. The mind is radically more powerful than you give credit for. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:01:27] Look up psychosomatic pregnancy there are times when women have believed so much that they were pregnant that their belly swelled up like they were nine months pregnant with no baby inside. They looked, they felt hormones changed the whole nine yards you couldn't tell they weren't pregnant until you did an ultrasound, found there was no baby their mind did that. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:01:50] I mean, look at PTSD it destroys people it makes them do all sorts of crazy things it was mind mind did that. You can decide how you want to alter the trajectory of your life by changing the way you think, and especially the way you talk. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:02:09] You can have thoughts that are not great work on that last don't let those things come out of your mouth. If you start speaking negativity, you will speak negativity into existence with yourself and know how silly that sounds but that's what happens if you start to say things even as a joke you will start to believe them. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:02:29] So say great things about yourself say great things about your spouse, say great things about your children find something good to say about them all the time find something great to say about yourself. If you can't find anything that you believe, that's great now say that you're working on something. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:02:45] Man one day it's going to be great because I'm doing X, Y, and Z. I'm going to I'm going to lose all the facts, I've changed my diet, I've started exercising, I'm going to get where I want to go it's going to be great it's not today it's not tomorrow but I'm going to be there because I'm going to do the work I'm going to earn it tell yourself that. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:03:02] Don't just look in the mirror and say, Oh, I'm so fat this isn't working hasn't worked yet. I'm not there yet, I'm going to get there it's just going to take some time. If you change the way you talk to yourself, you will change your life again, I realize how silly that sounds, but it's 100% the fact. So change your life by changing your speech.

I have enjoyed my relationship with my parents, and I am blessed to still work with my dad. We have a long, fruitful relationship, and that continues to mold how I parent my kids today. In society today, there are too many influences that have a negative impact on your kid's development, both physically and mentally. "So if you want them to learn to read, read, if you want them to sit around, watch TV all day, then sit around, watch TV all day. Just recognizing that most often, most likely, your children are going to mirror what you show them is important. So if you want them to find things important that are healthy, do some healthy things." The following is an automated transcript and may be edited for grammar. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:03] One of the things that I talk to parents about all the time is you can't tell your children how to be. You have to show your children how to be. So if you want your kids to be healthy, you have to show them that you work out, eat right, sleep right, and do the things that are required to be healthy. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:25] You can't yellow your kids and be like, You guys should be healthy, you guys shouldn't smoke, and you smoke because you're teaching them that one, what you say is irrelevant and two that smoking is okay if you're like, Nope, I don't want my kids to smoke, then you shouldn't smoke. That's it because, again, kids learn from watching, not listening. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:46] So if you want your kids to be healthy, get healthy. If you want them to work out, work out. If you want them to take their supplements and eat right, you must do that. So these are the things when you start thinking about, you know, I hear people say, oh, I would die for my kids. Awesome! That's super easy; living for them is hard; show them the person you want to be. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:09] People ask me like, like, you must love working out a don't not my favorite thing. Half the time I go, I don't want to be there. I don't want to do it. And I bitch, and I complain to myself the entire time I'm there until I'm done. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:22] But my kids ask me, Will you teach me to work out? Hey, What supplements should I take for this or that? They're eight and ten. It's like they're 16 and trying to get better for their sports. They see me doing it, they see their mom doing it, and they understand that that's part of what's being healthy, that's part of the lifestyle if they want to be, you know, like mom and dad, they want to be like all of mom and dad's friends this is part of the thing that they need to do they see it regularly. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:51] Show your kids what you want them to Be, Be the man, Be the woman you want your kids to be. It's the only real way you can get there. You can teach them great things by doing them or you can teach them terrible things by doing them. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:03] Oftentimes, do you see from alcoholic parents is you see either alcoholic children or children who will never touch alcohol because they saw their parents doing it and they're like, absolutely not I don't want to be like my parents. Again those parents were showing their children how to be. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:21] So if you want to be healthy and you want your kids to be healthy, you have to show them you can't tell them. So that's where the hard thing about being a parent is that you're now the role model whether you wanted to be or not, you're it. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:35] So if you want them to learn to read, read, if you want them to sit around, watch TV all day, then sit around, watch TV all day. Just recognizing that most often, most likely, your children are going to mirror what you show them is important. So if you want them to find things important that are healthy, do some healthy things.

#MentalHealthMatters #ExerciseForMentalHealth #TestosteroneAndWellbeing #PrioritizePhysicalActivity #HealthyMindAndBody #SerotoninBoost #OptimalBrainFunction #ChildrensMentalHealth #AdolescentWellness #COVID19Challenges #HolisticApproachToHealth #RestorativeSleep #HormoneBalance #TransformativeExercise #PromotingMentalWellbeing Dr. Matt Chalmers highlights the importance of exercise and testosterone in addressing mental health challenges. Exercise stimulates testosterone production, positively impacting mental well-being. Neurological signals from physical activity facilitate brain function, particularly in the frontal lobe responsible for emotions and cognition. Exercise also regulates the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems, promoting serotonin production and shifting the body into a state of rest and digestion. Testosterone, initially developed to treat depression, has proven effective in improving mood and combating depressive symptoms. Regular exercise not only boosts testosterone levels but also enhances muscle development and ATP production, benefiting brain function. Dr. Chalmers emphasizes the need to prioritize exercise to address the mental health crisis. Society's decline in physical activity, particularly among children and adolescents, has contributed to anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. Incorporating physical movement into daily routines can significantly reduce these challenges. While navigating challenges like COVID-19, it's important to address factors that disrupt exercise recovery, such as illness or fatigue. Improving nutrition, optimizing hormone balance, and ensuring sufficient rest and sleep are necessary to restore the body's healing capacity. In conclusion, prioritizing physical activity and exercise is crucial for addressing mental health issues. By combining exercise with proper nutrition, sleep, and hormone balance, individuals can experience positive changes in psychological function. It's time to recognize the transformative potential of exercise and embrace it for the betterment of mental health. • Mental health is a significant problem in the United States that affects people across different backgrounds. • The two key factors to address depression and mental illness are exercise and testosterone. • Exercise increases testosterone levels, making it an important factor in improving mental health. • Exercise sends information from the body to the brain, activating the frontal lobe and reducing function in the temporal lobe, which is associated with negative emotions. • Increased dopamine function and the shift from sympathetic to parasympathetic activity lead to improved mood and higher serotonin production in the gut. • Testosterone, originally developed to treat depression, is essential for overall health and plays a role in healing and muscle production. • By exercising and increasing testosterone levels, the body begins to rebuild and regenerate, leading to better physical and mental health. • Promoting exercise, especially among children and adolescents, can significantly reduce anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. • COVID-19 has disrupted exercise routines and may affect the point of diminishing returns, where the body's ability to heal is overwhelmed. Proper nutrition, sleep, and sometimes testosterone supplementation can help restore balance. • Focusing on nutrition, sleep, hormone balance, and exercise can bring about positive changes in mental health and overall well-being. • Making a concerted effort to prioritize physical activity and address hormone imbalances can lead to significant improvements in mental health.

A top bodybuilding superstar stops by the show, and we cover some great topics for all athletes. There is more to bodybuilding than just lifting weights. This is part two of the interview with Steve. Check out the first episode, #17, for the other significant points. Enjoy, and send me any questions you may have about all of the topics covered in this podcast. Chalmerswellness.com Please follow Steve Kuclo and check out his website HERE: In 2011, Steve earned his IFBB Pro bodybuilding status at the USA’s in Las Vegas, NV. Not only did he win his division, but he outshined them all by taking home the top honor of the Overall Mens Bodybuilding Champion. This made Steve, the one to watch. Steve's First win as a Pro Bodybuilder was in front of his hometown crowd of Dallas, at the 2013 Dallas Europa earning him an Olympia qualification. In 2014, Steve's career made a huge jump in the world of Bodybuilding when won the Title of the Brazil Arnold Champion and placed top 10 in World at the Mr. Olympia. 00:00 - Intro 00:47 - Intro to Steve Kuclo, and how to fit 03:20 - Connecting People by being the best version 05:06 - Wake up call and need to be healthy 06:57 - testosterone 08:59 - fat loss or weight loss 09:30 - Hormones are not going to be efficient 10:09 - sustain Muscle requires calories 13:08 - Teach kids how you can be beneficial and healthy, hard work, fat-loss 15:05 Right Supplements and Priorities in Working out 17:27 - associating people that you can help to build up self-love and relationships 22:59 - structure a medical deal -25:12 - Mastermind pushes you to your limits and talks about Affiliate 29:03 - Talks about Gym 30:05 -Doing a little research (cannabis, opioids) 36:14 - Research in ketamine, psilocybin 38:18 - Outro

#bodybuilding #lifting #wellness #liftingsolution #supliment #athlete A top bodybuilding superstar stops by the show, and we cover some great topics for all athletes. Please follow Steve Kuclo and check out his website. In 2011, Steve earned his IFBB Pro bodybuilding status at the USA’s in Las Vegas, NV. Not only did he win his division, but he outshined them all by taking home the top honor of the Overall Mens Bodybuilding Champion. This made Steve, the one to watch. Steve's First win as a Pro Bodybuilder was in front of his hometown crowd of Dallas, at the 2013 Dallas Europa earning him an Olympia qualification. In 2014, Steve's career made a huge jump in the world of Bodybuilding when won the Title of the Brazil Arnold Champion and placed top 10 in World at the Mr. Olympia. This is part one of a 3 part interview. Enjoy, and send me any questions you may have about all of the topics covered in this podcast. Chalmerswellness.com 00:00 - Intro 00:19 - Steve Kuclo Introduced himself 02:52 - Talks about Protein 03:47 - Talks about Blood work for Female Athletes 05:29 - Talks about Phytoestrogens 06:37 - Talks about Erythritol 09:18 - Talks about Testosterone 12:17 - Testosterone is used to get rid of Erectile Dysfunction 13:05 - Talks about Testosterone and Excercise 13:42 - Athlete and Blood Work 14:46 - Do you believe in Donating Blood? 18:15 - Things that are Damaging to the Liver 20:14 - Just because you bought them online and they're legal to buy online does not mean they're okay 22:56 - Talks about DVT( Deep Vein thrombosis ) 24:15 - Talks about Keto for Diabetic 26:26 - You can't do this, or this is bad. Well, why is it bad? 28:27 - Talk about anti-aging 30:18 - Testosterone point of diminishing returns 31:44 - Talks about Thyroid 33:32 - Outro Check out Chalmers Pillarsofwellness.com for Wellness updates! And ask me any questions you have at questions@chalmerswellness.com. I answer all of them and look forward to hearing from you. The Chalmers Wellness Stubstack just launched. Comment, Like, and Interact with other people on their wellness journey. Communities can make a difference. DrChalmers.substack.com Dr. Matt Chalmers Disclaimer: This content is for informational purposes only. Before taking any action based on this information you should first consult with your physician or health care provider. This information is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health providers with any questions regarding a medical condition, your health, or wellness.

The Dr. Chalmers Show Season #3, episode 16 – Who should you believe about your fat intake, the government or your own body? In this episode of my Insights to Wellness podcast, I talk about the fats that we intake in our diets. Not only what kind of fats, but how those fats interact with vitamins and your body is critical. Do you remember the old charts from your elementary school health courses? The food groups in a triangle, and now compare those to the new ones from the government. Both do not tell the true story, but you can see that it has even gotten further away from reality. The following is an automated transcript and may be edited for grammar, and please listen to the podcast for exact verbiage Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:10] The next one we're talking about is that we have to do a whole deal on basically, if the government gives you health advice, don't do it. I mean, look, okay, guys, we're good to go on that one now. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:24] So we'll talk about we'll talk about this from segment but let's let's run through this government thing. In the 80s, when I was growing up, the government came out with the American Heart Association, which is really the same group. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:40] And they said, stop eating fat, so you should only eat carbohydrates fat's going to kill you, eat your carbohydrates, sugar was fine as long as you didn't have fat and everybody was gonna be okay. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:53] We knew then and we know now that that is probably the worst possible advice you can give anybody for their heart. Yeah. To cause arterial sclerosis is going to cause diabetes, it's going to cause strokes, it can cause heart attacks, it's because all kinds of things and the biggest one is it's degeneration of your brain. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:01:11] Your brain is mostly fat and before smart people start saying we're all, you know, avocados. It's cholesterol. Your brain is made of cholesterol. The myelin sheaths, the little fat pad that makes your brain work is made of cholesterol. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:01:28] And if you're worried about Alzheimer's or Dementia or basically any degenerative issue, EMS is a big one. Any degenerative issue in the brain. When we talk about degenerative issues in the brain, what we're talking about is loss of myelin. The brain just doesn't function as well without myelin. Myelin radically increases connective function. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:01:49] So think of it this way without myelin, you have dial up speed with myelin you've got that for, you know, broadband, internet, you know, superfast. So you need your myelin and it's made from cholesterol. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:02:04] The idea that as a mammal, we should not eat the things our body is made out of, which is, you know, proteins and fats from other animals is I think, interesting to me that we've we've gone that route that one's not great. We need to be eating cholesterol we need to be eating animal fats. Obviously, different people on the scale on the ecto, ecto, maso endo scale are going to need different, different amounts. But we definitely 100% need cholesterol we need animal fats. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:02:37] So, you know, I keep saying all these people are you know, we keep seeing these female athletes who come in here who are trying to be vegan because that's apparently what everybody is telling them they should be. And they're exhausted and they're not doing very well in their sport and their emotions get out of sight they start going all sideways and they're just doing terrible because they're not they're having the iron because aren't eating any meat. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:03:01] And then we get them I'm like, look, just I need you to hamburger three times a week. And they're like, All right. And then two, three weeks later, like, I feel so much better. Yeah, you're getting iron. Yeah. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:03:10] And the other thing that female athletes end up doing in females in general is they lose a lot of blood through their menses. And if they're not replacing that iron properly, then they're going to be problematic. And he'll go, Well, there's iron in spinach that is technically true, but you're not going to absorb it. Check out Chalmers Pillarsofwellness.com for Wellness updates! And ask me any questions you have at questions@chalmerswellness.com. I answer all of them and look forward to hearing from you. The Chalmers Wellness Stubstack just launched. Comment, Like, Interact with other people on their wellness journey. Communities can make the difference. DrChalmers.substack.com

The Dr. Chalmers Show Season #3, episode 15 - Hormones are not that difficult, and here are some easy and critical takeaways. While working with my patients on their wellness journey, hormones are some of the most critical and least understood components necessary for a healthy lifestyle. Thanks for listening, and Chalmers Wellness has some great information through podcasts, interviews, and my research rolling out in the next few months. The following is an automated transcript and may be edited for grammar, and please listen to the podcast for exact verbiage. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:10] So I talk a lot about hormones the more I work with hormones, the more I see stuff that other doctors have done, the more irritated I get Hormones aren't that hard. They're just really not that hard. I get it. Some of the stuff that I talk about is kind of difficult, and I understand why docs don't get hormones are pretty easy it's like flipping switches. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:31] When people draw TSA age and they they look at it, they know where TSA is good so your your thyroid is good. I understand that the T and TSA stands for thyroid. However, if you understand that the s stands for stimulating. Then you understand that the way this works is that this is a hormone that works on the Thyroid it's not a thyroid hormone it's a brain hormone, the entire pituitary it tells the thyroid to do stuff. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:01:01] So what you're actually saying is that your brain is doing a good job telling the thyroid to do something. You have to look at T3 T4 at least I if you want to pull the reverse T3 T4 fantastic. There's other things support for thyroid, but you have to pull T3 T4 to say anything about the thyroid. And in fact you can't even really tell if rts h is where it's supposed to be without T3 to T4. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:01:23] Because what's supposed to happen is that if you have too much T3 your brain goes, Ooh. We looked at the body and saw we have too much T3 we're going to make a lot less or No TSH So that your, your Thyroid will then make less T3. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:01:38] If your T3 is low we should see high T3 I would tie TSH That's what we should see so that we go, Oh, look, the problems of the Thyroid, you're not producing any any T3. But without the T3T4 you can't, you can't figure out any of this stuff so you've got to pull all three. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:01:56] Testosterone is fantastic for women. It is fantastic for men. Men need a lot more. Usually about ten times more. You get a woman with 100 testosterone levels that's that's great. Guy with a thousand that's great so that's where your ten times more comes from. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:02:12] Estrogen is not super important for guys you can keep it down then you know, most people can keep it in the 15 to 30 range and as men and they're great. It is really important for women who are trying to have a baby or trying to breastfeed. If they're not trying to have a baby, they need very little as long as they don't have vaginal dryness or hot flushes, night sweats, they've got plenty. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:02:41] I don't care if it's 20 if you pull up your your your hormones and you're like your estrogen is 20. If you ask the woman, hot flashes, night sweats, vaginal dryness, she goes, No, I'm great. I don't have any of that stuff then she's fine. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:02:55] Because again the way hormones work is that the hormones activate receptor sites guess what? Other stuff activates those receptor sites too. Like BPA, Soy, lots of all those plant sufferers like we should eat more plants. Yeah, you're flooding the body with estrogens and a lot of those a lot of those chemicals are energy based so that which is problematic. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:03:19] The problem is, is that you can't see how many receptors you have. So you can only see how many, how much hormone you have. So the analogy I use for this and this one is not great. I'm hoping to come up with some better from this later. Check out Chalmers Pillarsofwellness.com for Wellness updates! And ask me any questions you have at questions@chalmerswellness.com. I answer all of them and look forward to hearing from you. The Chalmers Wellness Stubstack just launched. Comment, Like, Interact with other people on their wellness journey. Communities can make the difference. DrChalmers.substack.com Disclaimer: This content is for informational purposes only. Before taking any action based on this information you should first consult with your physician or health care provider. This information is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health providers with any questions regarding a medical condition, your health, or wellness.

There are so many differences of opinions and definitions of the “Standard of Care” that I had to put this podcast episode out. The medical field is one of the largest and most critical job fields in the world. The professionals that dedicate their lives are truly a blessing to everyone impacted by their care and expertise. There are also those in a smaller percentage that are not proficient in their job and cause more harm than good. Take a few minutes to listen or watch this podcast and send me any questions you may have. I answer any and all questions. Check out the links and email addresses below. :0 The following is an automated transcript and may be edited for grammar, and please listen to the podcast for exact verbiage. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:03] Hey, this is Dr. Matt Chalmers and you're listening to the Dr. Chalmers podcast. We'll be covering how the body actually works so we can fix the things no one else can. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:15] So we talk about this a little bit and this is this is going to come up because we've got some stuff coming up and things are going to be talking about. Standard of care is a double-edged sword you know, I'm going to say a lot of negative things about us I want to touch on positive things. But first, not everyone should get to choose how people are cared for. Not all doctors are awesome. Some doctors are much, much better at being technicians than they are being the person who decides with the best treatment plan for someone else. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:43] And so the idea that we figured out, hey, you know, you should give this person this much of this medication per gram weight per kilogram of body weight, and we should do things this way and treat people this way is good. Like at the end of the day, a lot of times it protects people more than it harms. And so I get it. It is it was a great guideline and I think it should be more of a guideline than a hardcore rule. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:01:13] It becomes problematic when it becomes a hardcore rule, when it's you do it this way and only this way that's when we start having people die. But I think it's a phenomenal example of that we were all told, you can use these two or three drugs have to have they don't breathe right in advance like this is everyone has to run the exact same model the problem was the model was bad. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:01:34] Now I get it You know, argue about if the model was bad on purpose, I think it was but that's what it is. And again, that's why it's bad, because as a doctor, if you're sitting there looking at somebody and they go, well, here's the standard of care and you look at your like, this makes no sense. Check out Chalmers Pillarsofwellness.com for Wellness updates! And ask me any questions you have at questions@chalmerswellness.com. I answer all of them and look forward to hearing from you. The Chalmers Wellness Stubstack just launched. Comment, Like, Interact with other people on their wellness journey. Communities can make the difference. DrChalmers.substack.com

The Dr. Chalmers Show Season #3, episode 13 - Lifting lighter: Is it an oxymoron, or can you get more benefits? #lifting #wellness #liftingsolution There are different schools of thought on lifting, training, and performance. Today, on the podcast I cover some of the differences between heavy, lighter, and form. There are significant health benefits to understanding the difference. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:10] So one of the other things I always try to get my athletes to do anyway was just trying to be healthy, we always talk about lifting lighter. If you go slow and you practice perfect form, you can use a lot lighter weight and still look and feel great and have all those things. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:30] If you're the type of person who has to be the strongest guy in the gym or the strongest woman in the gym, cool knock it out like, that's totally awesome I'm not saying that you shouldn't do that that's fantastic go set your goals and train for them. You train properly, work on, you know, the damage and stuff. I have tons of guys and women who are in that boat and that's fantastic if that's your thing. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:51] But if you don't really care about being the strongest person in the room, I don't care at all about that. Drop your weight, you can still look really good, you can still get big, you can still feel awesome and you're going to feel awesome more if you drop your weight. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:01:07] Because here's the deal Your muscles will grow faster than your ligaments and tendons and your joint well, so what that means is that you can make your muscles strong enough that they'll tear up your ligaments and tendons, and that will destroy your joint. And if you tear your ligaments and tendons and damage your joints, you're going to hurt possibly forever, so keep that in mind. Dr Matt Chalmers [00:01:28] So if you're like, you know what? Feeling good, looking good and being functional is more important to me than being the strongest guy in the room. Cool. Drop your weight and then increase the amount of time it takes you to lift it. Don't just go like this slow down and curl really slowly, press really slowly, do your flies, do your squats really slowly. Check out Chalmers Pillarsofwellness.com for Wellness updates! And ask me any questions you have at questions@chalmerswellness.com. I answer all of them and look forward to hearing from you. The Chalmers Wellness Stubstack just launched. Comment, Like, Interact with other people on their wellness journey. Communities can make the difference. DrChalmers.substack.com Disclaimer: This content is for informational purposes only. Before taking any action based on this information you should first consult with your physician or health care provider. This information is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health providers with any questions regarding a medical condition, your health, or wellness.

Okay, I get a lot of flak for this one, but I think it's worth talking about. You're going to die; we're all going to die. Giving up everything that you love and enjoy so that you could maybe get a couple more days or another hour or a couple more years well, that's a call, you're going have to make. People ask me all the time that, like you drink lots of coffee, isn't coffee bad for you? The amount of coffee I drink is not great for you, but I love coffee. I'd take a lot of supplementations, I do a lot of things to offset it, but I like coffee, so I'm going to drink my coffee. Okay, I get a lot of flak for this one, but I think it's worth talking about. You're going to die; we're all going to die. Giving up everything that you love and enjoy so that you could maybe get a couple more days or another hour or a couple more years well, that's a call; you'll have to make. People ask me all the time that, like you drink lots of coffee, isn't coffee bad for you? The amount of coffee I drink is not great for you, but I love coffee. I'd take a lot of supplementations, I do a lot of things to offset it, but I like coffee, so I'm going to drink my coffee. But having a healthy lifestyle requires getting the toxins out of your system. Detoxing is critical, and one of the best regimens and solution is the coffee enema. Don't laugh, it works and helps clean your system. I have videos that help explain the procedures and the how-to portion. As for the why, listen to the podcast. Check out Chalmers Pillarsofwellness.com for Wellness updates! And ask me any questions you have at questions@chalmerswellness.com. I answer all of them and look forward to hearing from you. The Chalmers Wellness Stubstack just launched. Comment, Like, Interact with other people on their wellness journey. Communities can make the difference. DrChalmers.substack.com Disclaimer: This content is for informational purposes only. Before taking any action based on this information you should first consult with your physician or health care provider. This information is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health providers with any questions regarding a medical condition, your health, or wellness.