Choosing the right health care provider is essential for aligning with your personal health goals, especially as new information emerges about the healthcare system. It’s important to find a provider who understands your preferences, whether that involves a delayed vaccine schedule or exploring advanced testing options like DNA analysis and hormone evaluations. Traditional medical models often prioritize pharmaceuticals and high-volume care, but concierge medicine offers more personalized services tailored to your unique health needs.

Setting clear health goals, such as weight loss, disease management, or overall wellness, can help guide your healthcare journey. Providers who specialize in advanced treatments, like peptide therapy and hormone balancing, offer more holistic approaches to conditions that are often just managed in traditional settings. Understanding the role of insulin resistance, gut health, and diet in your long-term well-being is crucial for preventing chronic diseases and achieving lasting health improvements.

Highlights of the Podcast

00:04 – Introduction

01:06 – Choosing the Right Provider

02:30 – Concierge Medicine vs Traditional Care

03:49 – Setting Health Goals

06:02 – Peptides & Metabolic Health

07:27 – The Importance of Finding the Right Provider

09:44 – Artificial Sweeteners & Health Implications

11:09 – Insulin Resistance & Brain Health

12:26 – Cholesterol Myths

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] So we’re going to start going over how to choose your health care providers for the new year and for and see me kind of more poignant as RFK gets and more information starts coming out about what’s going on with our health care system. We’ve been seeing a lot of that coming out. But it’s going to be, I think, to be more and more over the next year. The most important thing that you can do is find find a health care provider who’s in line with what you want to do, whether it’s, you know, you want to do a delayed vaccine schedule, which is healthy and fine, normal and great. The downside to that is that the medical doctor, the pediatrician you’re working with, won’t get a kickback as like they’re used to. So the pressure to do the normal vaccine schedule. But finding somebody who will take your kids health care into account outside of, you know, their kickback is going to be something that you’re going to see you’re going to have to look for, although the AFM docs, you can find those guys.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:06] I did a podcast with two great pediatricians. That’ll be up later this week. You guys can check them out. Dr. Deborah Bain, who just wrote a book, Living Outside the Box Changing the Face of Health Care, and Dr. Kristi Potter. Both are great friends of mine. Both are phenomenal providers. You guys can check them out. We’ll be doing more and more podcasts with different docs as we go through. But those two are great. Finding somebody who’s going to listen to you and take you all the way through is going to be super important. Most of those people are going in up being concierge. The the standard medical practice of high volume. Come in or write your script. Get out is going to be what you’re seeing with the medical model. If you want any new testing, any DNA testing, if you want any real hormone testing, if you want anything outside of the standard, what they do for every single person who comes through something that’s more tailored to your body, your health and your needs, you’re going to have to probably go concierge. I hate to tell you guys this, especially with as expensive as insurance is, you’re going to step outside the insurance model and find docs who are willing to do the extra work, willing to read the research and do things like that. If you want to break away from the medical model of maintaining a disease as long as you can, as long as you’re paying the you’re buying and taking pharmaceuticals every day.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:30] So you’re like a diabetes, super easy to fix. You look at dementia, it has a lot it’s a there’s a process to it, but it’s you can. Right. Walk that one back pretty, pretty well. You know, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, there’s a lot of these, you know, chronic diseases that are managed and maintained and upheld. Depression, lots of mental stuff is upheld for daily consumption, you know. Work. So if you’re going to want to work with somebody who’s going to be in line with actually fixing those things, we’re like, when you when people come into my office, we sit down, we do what’s called a goals call. And so we sit down, we figure out exactly what it is that people are wanting. Are you wanting to lose 20 pounds? Are you willing to lose 20 pounds and gain 20 pounds of muscle? Do you have limes? Do you have diabetes? Do you have dementia that you want worked on, or do you just want to be overall healthier? Do you want to do the tests that your medical doctor isn’t giving you? Like the sleep studies, the calcium sheets, the angiograms, the echocardiograms, the DNA studies, the hormone blood draws, you know, those type of things, You know, Are you worried about that type of stuff as you should be? You know, those are the going to be the type of things that you’re going to reach out to a concierge doc for someone like myself.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:49] So that’s to me, the biggest thing is finding out your alignment with your health care providers. But a lot of that has to do with where do you want to go with your health care. That’s one of the reasons we do goals calls. We see people down, we go, where do you want to go? And it’s funny because we were like, I don’t know, I just want to be healthier. I’m like, Great, What does that mean to you? And sometimes we have to kind of walk it through like, Well, has anybody in your family died from heart attacks and strokes? And people go, yeah, my uncle and my dad and my grandfather, my mom’s side. I’m like, okay. So three pretty close relatives who have died from heart attacks. We should put that on the list. Yeah, that’s a good plan. Great. And then I have you had these studies done and I know my doctor didn’t do those. All right, great. So we run those studies. You know, people will come in and, you know, they’ll say, I want to be healthier. I okay, well, let’s let’s pull some fat off and we’ll look at their diet. We’ll be like, okay, your diet’s not that bad. You know, like, yeah, I changed that a couple months ago was a great we might want to use GOP ones to pull some of the weight off.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:48] And the issue with GOP ones is that they work really well and they are fantastic to use and they’re totally safe to use as long as you know what you’re doing with them. Lots of times we have nausea, we have liver issues, we have muscle wasting issues because people don’t understand how the system works. The glucagon systems, the same system that Brady uses for keto diets and for fasting. It’s the politics system. But if you don’t understand how glucagon works to begin with, you’re going to be kind of lost. We’re going to initiate what’s called gluconeogenesis to to manage internally. Blood sugar levels will really, really help with insulin sensitivity, insulin resistance issues. But you have to understand how the body breaks down fat, how the body creates sugar for the blood. You have to understand really, really well the basically the fasting system of the body, how it works. And unfortunately, very few people understand the metabolic chemistry on that. So using those things is very, very fun, very, very healthy. As long as you support the system. Lots of, you know, secondary bile, lots of methylated B vitamins to protein exercise, testosterone, those are all pretty important for what we’re doing. So, you know, and then general peptide function.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:02] So, you know, if you guys are looking for people who are going to help you with peptides, that’s not going to be your standard medical doc. Their peptides are way too new for medical school to have taught anybody about them, and they’re also not really pharmaceutical, so they’re not going to a lot of education on them. BP1 50 7TV 500 for, you know, systemic issues like arthritis, I use them a lot for gut and brain issues. They’re fantastic. I really like for like muscle tears and stuff. A lot of people like to use 157 for muscle tears, which is fine. I prefer a growth hormone smaller. And that hormone you want that tissue to regrow. You don’t want the information to die down. So if you mix the two, that’s a great option. I like going on base of testosterone so your body can heal. But that’s. That’s kind of how some of these peptides work. You know, combining testosterone with gel. He once and I and a solid diet has been really beneficial for a lot of people. So a lot of this peptide work is really, really fun and. Has significant benefits to it, but you’re not going to find that type of stuff from your standard medical doc. They’re just not trained on the way the body works with peptides. So you’re going to find somebody who’s more concierge who who does these things a little bit differently. So we do a lot of that stuff.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:27] You know, the bodybuilding thing kind of brought that in. And just the metabolic biochemistry brought a lot of those peptides and we’ve been working with those for a while and they’re fantastic. So finding out where you want, where you want to go and if if the provider that you’re working with provides those of those things is the number one thing that we kind of have to watch out for. So, you know, if you want you know, if you’re reading about new research and you’re reading about new technology and new ideas and new ways of doing things, whether you’re losing weight, gaining muscle, you know, getting healthy, keeping your kids safe, you know, any of that sort of stuff. If you’re worried about, you know, the diet and stuff and diet, you’re going to reach out to somebody who through. That’s what they do. A lot of your center medical docs have been trained to. I see symptoms. I diagnose symptoms. I give you drugs, you go home. Like that’s not even, you know, what are the ramifications of the drugs you’re giving? So, for instance, antibiotics. What’s the ramifications of giving antibiotics? Well, most of the time you’ll be yeast overgrowth, which leads to higher sugar consumption, but it also damages probiotic function.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:31] So you’re going to have and this is the research is showing now an increased incidence of depression because guess what? All your serotonin is made in your gut from your probiotics. So if you don’t have if you’re taking antibiotics and your doctor did not give you an anti yeast and the probiotic with it, you’re going to have problems If you did one third of what you need to do for your physiological body to function. We see this a ton with kiddos, you know, ear infections and this and that and, you know, strep throat and whatever their doctor gave them. You know, in a year, three, four, five, six, seven prescriptions for antibiotics in a year. And you know, then we start seeing gut issues. We see, you know, skin issues, we see A.D.D. issues, we see depression issues, attitude and anger issues. And people wonder why. I don’t know what’s going on. Well, you know, we destroyed their gut flora. We didn’t rebuild it. And my guess is that because I’m just going to the standard diet for Americans that your kiddo has been eating a giant amount of toxic dyes, high fructose corn sirup, processed trash and artificial sweeteners. So that is you know, that’s where it is now.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:44] When we talk about artificial sweeteners, we need to make a distinction because this is starting to get cloudy for people. Sucralose and aspartame and things like that are your synthetic ones, the ones that are that are sweet that you can use. Allulose Monk fruit Erythritol Stevia. You know, those are those are clean ones that you guys can use. Molotov is not a great when you use it still have glycemic function, so you don’t want to use that one. But like I said, Allulose and Erythritol are two. My favorites from the health side. IOS is pretty fantastic. Monk Fruit as a great mix with it. Swerve is not bad if you guys are using that one to to cook with and those are all great as far as making things sweet and in managing the glucose response. So a lot of these all of these things we talked about your sugars, we talk about carbohydrates, whatever. Those are the thing you have to recognize that that is entirely tied to the glycemic index or how quickly amounts a how quickly the sugar gets in your blood. And that is directly correlated to how large of an insulin response that your body gives. The larger the insulin response, the more damage to the body. So the fatter it makes you, The faster we have blood sugar crashes, the more insulin resistance we end up seeing. And insulin resistance over time will damage the entire body, including the brain.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:11:09] We’re talking about type three diabetes is dementia and Alzheimer’s. And there’s a very specific reason for that. The reason is that the mediator that shifts sugar from your blood to your suits to around your brain is it’s called a glut one, and it responds to insulin. And so if you have higher fasting insulin, you’re going to start dripping sugar into the cerebrospinal fluid, which is around the brain. The glue, the sugar around the blood needs to be 80 to 100. The sugar in the brain needs to be 55. It can be 60, but 55 is really where you want to be. And so if you have a high fasting insulin, you’re to be dripping sugar from the blood in a single spinal fluid all the time. And that causes all sorts of issues from Aids, dementia and Alzheimer’s. So this is kind of what we’re seeing. We’re seeing this in kids. Now, if your doctor’s not pulling fasting insulin, they’re not going to have any idea what’s going on with this. Also, from a metabolic standpoint, never let a doctor tell you that cholesterol has anything to do with heart attacks. Strokes. Lacking in the arteries or anything like that. That information was the research that’s based on this trash when it came out. We’ve had lots and lots of research showing that that is false. But statin drugs are multibillion dollar. Drugs a year. And so that is going to be the standard of care from the niche in the pharmaceutical companies down to the medical community for a while.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:12:26] So if you guys are looking for somebody who is here to help guide your the thing my recommendation is that you do your own research, get a hold of a bunch of different guys, you know, watch the stuff I talk about. Brackett talks about, you know, there’s there’s a bunch of guys who are out saying good things, do the research with those guys and come up and work with some of those guys. That’s going to be the best way to do this. We do a lot of stuff. Tell them that, you know, if you’re in their office, great. But we do a lot of telemedicine as well. So, you know, finally find the people who are more in alignment with what you’re looking for and you’re going to find out that it’s a lot better off. So we’re going to host up some podcast here in the next couple days. I’ll tell you guys, when they’re all alive, they’ll be on Thomas More sitcom under the media stuff. So check that out. A lot of these guys are great docs and have a lot of cool things to say. So if you guys have any questions here, subquestions, e-commerce, morningstar.com, drop in the comments and we’ll get going. If you guys have anything specific that you want us to talk about in the next two weeks. Hormones, women’s health, you know, sex drive stuff, libido stuff, sex stuff, whatever it is, you know, you know, psychedelics, cannabis, whatever it is, supplementation, whatever it is, drop it out and we’ll we’ll chat it up. Talk to you guys soon. Thanks for your time.

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