In this episode, the focus is on the profound connection between mental health and physical wellness, particularly gut health. Stress and unresolved emotional trauma can keep the body in a fight-or-flight state, hindering full recovery even with proper diet and supplements. The episode introduces innovative tools to address mental health, including legal psilocybin and ketamine therapies, as critical resources for emotional healing and long-term well-being.

The discussion also highlights the dangers of using medications like semaglutide (GLP-1) without proper guidance, leading to unintended consequences like muscle loss. By emphasizing the need for professionals who understand both metabolic and mental health, the episode provides a comprehensive approach to healing. It concludes with a call to support veterans and first responders through therapeutic methods that address their emotional trauma.

Highlights of the Podcast

00:04 – Mental Health and Gut Health Connection

01:53 – New Tools for Mental Health

03:54 – The Impact of Stress on Disease

06:02 – Trauma and Emotional Health

07:46 – Dangers of Misusing Semaglutide (GLP-1)

09:07 – Critique of the Medical System

11:52  – Mind and Body Healing

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] All right. We’re live. Okay. So a couple of questions. I just got back from about five days of. Mental health training. We’re bringing in a couple different tools to start helping people with mental health because it is by far the number one thing we need to work on. I keep seeing guys, men and women with massive gut issues and we know will kill the parasites, will clean up the yeast and restore the probiotic and get the gut back where it needs to be. And yeah, everything’s hunky dory. Lots of supplementation, diet change for great super needed all the way. The problem was we couldn’t get it to stay on the way it should have. The reason for that was neurology. When you get stressed out, your body shifts from what’s called parasympathetic, which is resting, digesting into a sympathetic state, which is fight or flight freeze. You can stay there for a long time, especially if you have traumatic events in the past or significant emotional experiences. Those can creates all sorts of issues until we clear those issues. Your gut is not going to come 100% back on. So we’ve been looking for tools to help rectify that and we’ve got a bunch of them. I’m going through another different seminar in January, and we’ve got 5 or 6 other ones throughout the year. We’re getting into some functional use of more psychedelics, so. We’re trying to get some stuff that is mostly legal for daily psilocybin work and pushing out the ketamine and stuff like that more.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:53] The number one thing we need to do, you know, from the supplement guy, from the from the exercise guy, the number one thing we’ve got to do is we have to work on our mind, the neurology, the research. There’s nothing that’s proving anything outside of we’ve got to work on the mind. Yeah, there’s a lot of body support, a lot of chemical stuff we’ve got to do. But the problem is, is that a lot of our disease state is coming from our stress, our mental function. You know, if you think of easy stuff like ulcers, like who do you usually think of who have ulcers, who have high stress, Right? Like, you know, when I was growing up, it was real estate agents and stockbrokers who, you know, had really high stress and, you know, so they had ulcers. But the thing I grew up in the 80s, that would make some sense. So. That’s kind of where we’re we’ve been pushing a lot of our stuff to to really try to help rectify the mental space. And it’s not that people are crazy. That’s actually not I don’t we don’t work with those guys. You know, if you’ve got schizophrenia, if you’ve got if you’re going to commit suicide, you know, if you’ve got major bipolar disorder, that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about people who are like normal people like this stuff. Everybody deals with the stress, the the crazy of life, you know, the hey, things are getting more expensive or, you know, I’ve been through a divorce or, you know, it was a really rough time in my business for six months or a year or whatnot. And I think that people don’t really understand how bad Covid was psychologically for the vast majority of us. You know, it was a time where we had to sit back and try to figure out, okay, my government is telling me that they own my body exclusively and they can force me or my company owns my body exclusively and they can force me to take drugs. I, you know, I might or might not want to do. That was traumatic. You know, having the news tell you every day that everyone around you is going to die and it’s super serious and, you know, all that that was.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:54] I think we need to own up to how unbelievably stressful and psychologically damaging that time was, not just for us, but for our kids and for everybody else. I mean, we had I mean, look at the kids who lost, you know, math skills and reading skills and all that kind of stuff. And, you know, they were they were forcing these children to try to learn to speak without watching people’s facial expressions, which is our number one. Our number one international communication system is body language. And we’re like, well, let’s cover all that up so you can’t see it and then expect you to learn. So it was very, very traumatic. And, you know, it caused a, you know, we to say it was not a significant emotional event, like you had no emotional issues, no emotional spikes, no worry, no stress. From 2019 to 2023. I. I think that’s a whole another issue you’ve got to deal with, because I think all of us had significant issues. I did. I had a tremendous amount. My family did. You know, I had kids who were, you know, 6 or 7 at that time. And that was a rough time for all of us. So we need to recognize that stuff’s happened to us emotionally. Stuff happened to us, and we might be quote unquote fine now. But we had a lot of stress a little while ago and that little stress a little while ago or that giant amount of stress needs to be needs to be dealt with. It leaves a lasting impression. You know, we talk about childhood trauma, you know, totally screwing up adults. Well, that’s what you can have, emotional trauma that messes you up at any age. So, you know, we are recognizing that piece and start working through that peace. So that’s why we’re starting to bring in all the new tools for normal people to deal with the bullshit life throws at you. So that’s been really fun and exciting. It was it was kind of neat because like when I went through the glass, like I could feel it and I’ve my life’s pretty solid. Like, I’m fantastic family.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:02] Everybody loves me. Everything’s great. Like, I’m like, if you list all the stuff about how great my life is, it’s great. Like, it’s fantastic. And it really helped me. So we had some guys there who’d been in prison for a while and had major, major emotional issues, and they just gone like they’re just poof. Like massive change, you know? And it’s funny because your anger is really, you know, I’ve figured this out a while ago, but the class can reinforce that anger is a masking emotion. You don’t really get anger. You have some other emotion, sadness, you know, loneliness, something else. And the anger is there on top of it. And so once you kind of peel back the anger, you’re like, what is it really? I’m really sad or I’m really lonely, I’m really hurt or I’m guilty or whatever. And so you can peel that one out when that one comes out. Like people just like you just feel lighter and you just feel like, okay, I can breathe, like things can function again. So getting your emotional stuff dealt with is probably the most important thing you can do. So you can have mental peace back together. Super duper important. The other thing I’m saying, I picked up another patient this weekend, y’all semaglutide and all these JLP ones are fine to use, but you just can’t work with your medical doctors on them. The medical doctors have no idea what they’re doing when it comes to health care or metabolic function. So I got this patient. She’s an older lady and she’s having trouble walking like she’s, you know, she’s as she’s trying to walk, she’s, you know, unbalanced. And she’s just like it’s hard and she feels weak and this sort of thing. And she’s been to five different doctors and nobody can figure it out. And they’ve done vascular studies. Her blood vessels are fine. Her nerves are fine. I just can figure it out. And she’s telling me this to make our guy.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:46] All right. All right. I’m walking through it now. Has anything major happened in the past year or two? You know, and I’m thinking for any type of things, emotions of anything, She was. Well, I did lose 60 pounds on appetite. I was like, all right, that’s it. That’s your problem. And she’s like, What do you mean? As a you lost a bunch of muscle mass Like you guys, you have to understand, the GOP ones work really, really well. The problem is, is that most people don’t know how they work. And so if you if you use a tool and you don’t know how it works and you hurt people, you’re not going to know it. So here’s the problem. GOP ones, again, they work really well. They do lots of cool stuff, but they activate gluconeogenesis function. If you’re not taking in the proper nutrients and you don’t have enough testosterone not working out right. If you don’t have the right system and set in place, your body will eat your muscle tissue for energy. So yeah, you’re losing weight, but you’re losing muscle weight, not what you want to do. And so what we’re seeing is these people like I’ve had 4 or 5 people sent to me by my medical colleagues because they couldn’t figure out what was wrong. They did nerve studies that had all these studies and everything’s fine and they’re had these people are having trouble walking or having trouble standing up or having to move around. Here’s the thing. You have to understand, the vast majority of people barely have enough muscle mass to stand up from the toilet and walk away. That’s that’s it. They don’t work out. They don’t do anything else.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:07] Like they’re very sedentary. And so when you you win when the if you lose 10% of your muscle mass and your body’s just at the stage where it’s like it’s okay for like, I’m in a chair, I stood up and I walked. That’s the basis for where you’re at because you’ve done nothing else. If you lose five, 10%, your muscle mass, you’re not going to do that anymore. So yeah, so if you guys are going to use guppies Semaglutide or Zap Tide, you know, Ozempic, you know any of them, you guys need to work with someone who understands the metabolic pathways. They’re going through a life analytic pathway, who understands muscle creation, who understands hormone function so that you can get this stuff not only done, but. Done properly and safely. It’s not that jobs are bad. It’s the people who are using them have no idea how to use them or what they even do. Hell, even the research on them is wrong. It says it increases insulin function. By definition, it decreases insulin function. It blocks insulin function. It’s one of its primary jobs. So, yeah, it’s rather safe to use if you use them, right? I keep there’s all sorts of examples I’ve been using. You know, if you take a blowtorch and give it to a welder, great things happen and you give it to a four year old. Houses are burning down. You know, if you give a chainsaw to a guy who knows how to use it, they can carve beautiful things. If you give to someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing, they’re going to cut their arm off. So again, if you guys are looking for your health care, you guys need to stay away from your medical doctors. If you’re looking to buy drugs, those are the people to go see. But if you’re looking for health care, fat loss, muscle gain, that’s the stuff you guys need to work for.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:46] Someone who understands the chemistry. And they’re not taught that because the goal of medicine is to keep people sick so they can profit off of it, which is why they don’t fix diabetes, which is why they lied to everybody and said that opioids were not addictive. Guys, we’ve known opium was addictive since the 1800s. I mean, the fact that they were like, we got no idea. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. Sounds good. You guys want to get healthy? See a health care specialist? Not a drug salesman. Not the same thing for surgeons, but surgeons are master craftsman. But if you want. If you want to get if you’re if you’re. If you have a bacterial infection, you want to get over it and take some antibiotics done. If you want to actually increase your health long term, you can’t your so your medical doctor is not going to give you the right information. But anyways, if you guys have if you guys are wanting to use GP’s, get a hold of us, I can walk you through it. It’s involved. Like there’s some things you got to do to make sure you’re doing it safely. But they work great. So, you know, it depends on, you know, how much risk you’re willing to take in. You know, how much how much you’re going to allow your body to be damaged.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:11:52] But yeah, so we got to start working on our mind and we got to start working with the chemistry that we understand so we can get people healthy. So you guys have any questions soon to ask questions of Thomas Morningstar.com or check out pillars of all the sitcom? Any other subjects that you guys get on pillars of wellness.com, by the way. Goes to the charity. And we’re using that to use psychedelics and all other emotional trauma techniques for veterans and first responders, the guys who put themselves between us and that horrible stress. We’ve got to start reaching back out and doing something for those guys so that we can take that blows those problems that they got shielding us away from them. So Tree of Life Dot Health. Also, if you guys want to make some donations, but that’s kind of where we’re at. That’s where we’re going. See you guys. Send us your questions and I’ll talk to you later. Thanks for your time.

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