#5 How Can We Make Medicine Work Better? (with shameless plug…)
How can we improve medicine in our world today?
Here are the changes we've made based on successes and failures with patients until today. Keeping what works, leaving what's useless, adding what's uniquely our own.
If it sounds like a shameless plug, it sort of is. I ripped the audio from a video on our website lol! So take it with a grain of salt - as my teacher would say, if you learn one thing listening to it, it's worth it!
Share if you think it's useful to someone, and if not, well... I'll do better.
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Here’s an AI transcript, from our hopefully benevolent (TBD) binary overlords:
Hi folks, this is Dr. Santander from a Oahu Holistic Medicine [Acupuncture and Naturopathic Medicine]. I'm going to explain to you in this video, what we do, why we do it, how we do it, what it looks like to work with us in as quickly and cleanly. And clearly as I possibly can, I know you're busy, we're all busy. So I'll try to make this very much worth your time and have headphones on. So you can listen. If you'd like or you feel like you need to, you can speed this video up potentially in the in the viewer up to one and a half, or 1.75 or something like that to get through it a little bit more quickly.
So I'm going to take you through what we do, why we do how we do it, and to try and elucidate that to you. So navigate to our website here and share the screen. If you're just listening, that's fine, you can always come back to looking at the video later.
Or just listen to what I have to say. So here's a funny video that somebody made for us. You don't have to watch it is awkward, but we have an application on the front of the page to apply for a consultation right off the bat. And then
if you want to come on in ask us questions, see how this is relevant to you how it's going to help, then go ahead, you can even stop this video right now and just apply.
And if you're not interested, just tell us you're not interested in if you change your mind, that's totally fine, you're allowed to do that. So all we work in a what's called a concierge model. It's a term it doesn't. It's not the only the only term for what for what we do. We do acupuncture and naturopathic medicine,
which we're going to talk about in a bit. I'm a Doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, which includes acupuncture, my partner's a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine and naturopathic medicine. So those are her disciplines. And concierge means like membership is like a membership, right? You come rather than paying your money for a one off treatment or paying your money for you to come into the office.
You ask me how much it's going to cost for treatment, I'm going to tell you it's
X amount of dollars, and then you come in and you expect that that amount of money is going to be related to how much it's going to cost to solve the problem. Well, there's going to be maybe some blood tests that need to get done, or maybe some herbs and supplements that you need to buy or maybe some specialty foods that you need to go to the store and buy or, you know, on and on and on. Or maybe you need to come back 10 times to get the desired result. And that's how medicine works is that oftentimes you need to return and do things over and over again, to get your body to change to force your body to change in the way that you desire. So
we know that it takes a lot of time, we know that takes a lot of energy, we know that it oftentimes takes a lot of money. But we want to reduce as much of the annoyance to that as we possibly can. Right? So if we tell you that it's going to cost this big chunk of money, but it's not going to cost any more, then I think that's more fair to tell somebody that what it's actually going to cause rather than saying in appointments only $200 Don't worry about it's only $200. Well, that's not true.
I mean, it may be true in that the appointment is is about $200 but the amount of money that it takes to get your desired result is probably going to be a lot more in most cases, almost all cases, with the exception of the rare case so
so all the lab testing, that we think you would need all the herbs and supplements that we think you would need a bunch of acupuncture visits to push that in the right direction. We do cupping, we do guasha we do naturopathic medicine, which encompasses genetic testing and whole bunch of other things that we're going to talk about as well. gut biome testing, stool testing,
customize medical diets, those kinds of things.
We all include that in one price, because I know how frustrating it is to ask somebody how much a thing costs. It's everywhere in life, your phone company does it to you, your TV company does it to you. Pay Pal does it to you every like pick a vendor at the car dealership does it you almost it feels like every business out there in the world. It feels like No, it's not every business but it feels like so many businesses nowadays, are constantly, they're telling you it's this lower this low price to get you in the door to get you already committed to buy. So that once you've already committed to buy the deliver to you the real price that it's going to cost more, it's going to take more time and effort, it's going to take more money, they want you to agree and commit because I think I think in my business training experience they see you commit the lower price tell you it's higher price, you're still less likely you can still not commit, but you've already got momentum, you've already said a couple of yeses, and they want you to say as many yeses as you can before they really hit you for as much money as they can.
Anyway, that aside,
will probably tell you that it's more expensive.
Or it's going to take more time to get where you're going but if I told you that I could make you skinny overnight
for one low, low, low price, you should probably not believe me. If I tell you that I can help you get skinny with eating the right foods. And I'm going to tell you what those are doing the right movements, and I can tell you what those are, and taking the right supplements, I'm gonna tell you what those are. So you don't have to go fend for yourself. Obviously, you can always question what I'm going to say and learn about it. But we want to again, like I wrote here, we want to help you cut through the noise, there's a lot of noise
excuse me, there's a lot of noise. There's a lot of marketing misinformation out there that's competing with your attention to try and take your money. And we want to help you get your attention back. And to honestly take a lot of money back and just focus on the things that you need to focus on there, kind of get the job done. Okay. So I think from my personal experience, one of the first acupuncture and Chinese medicine and naturopathic cancer years proven is one of the first clinics to put those together, and have those operating simultaneously. And side by side, which I think is really cool. A lot of what we do is backed by hundreds or 1000s of years of
research basically of cause and effect and documentation and clinic notes and
textbooks and formulas and things that have been around for a long time. We try to stick to the things that we know work so that we can give people the highest likelihood of success, we want
to think I think people
getting the actual desired result that they want for medicine nowadays in the modern world, I think it's
it's less, okay, so you have you have emergent medicine, right? Emergency Medicine, modern medicine, allopathic medicine, right, those are really to deal with a catastrophe and emergency.
But all the in between time between being like acutely sick, like I'm sick right now, or I need to be in the hospital right now and being relatively quote unquote, healthy or not sick or sick. Like a lot of people know that something's wrong, and know that they need help and know that they need to bridge the gap between them being young sprightly, 18 year olds, and you know where they are now. So we know that there's a lot of space between like that, quote, unquote, sick and that quote, unquote, healthy, where a lot of people live in this ambiguous in between, and there's a lot of work that can be done in there. And acupuncture and Chinese medicine is really great at preventing, preventing disease before it happens, treating the underlying conditions to disease on a daily and weekly basis. There's things you can do every single day to benefit your health, a lot of people don't know what those things are. But if they did, they might be very different state of affairs. So a lot of the naturopathic medicine that we do is obviously also backed by science, it's also very well informed. And we focus on fundamentally low risk, high reward, intervention safe and natural interventions, wherever possible that we can I think the most,
we really don't, we really don't do dangerous stuff. In our practice, we don't really do experimental surgery and stuff like that. We don't do any surgery, obviously. But we do.
Very, very, we tried to keep it very simple, very straightforward. So this is a lot of like a little bit of the front page of our website kind of talks about.
What we do right is it's an all inclusive, deep dive program designed to sort out and get a handle on or gain insight into the nature of chronic disease and conditions, as well as prevention of those diseases. So
you know, a lot of there's one of the problems, I tried to outline some of the problems and how we try to solve these problems on the website, you can read through it at your own time, but one of them is that most doctors office are overcrowded, and they have to see 40 Plus patients a day to pass off their to pay off their debts. We are intentionally trying not to pack our clinic so that we can give people the time and attention that they need. It's a little bit more expensive, because we also have overhead and student debt. And that's just the way medicine works right now. So we can find a better way. So rather than focusing on the turn and burn style of medicine, we take our time with patients, we go slow.
So let's talk about what it looks like to work with us what it looks like to
on a day to day with us. So
what our look like is
here's here's what our program includes. So don't don't worry about this, just for the for the first moment. What it looks like is you come in for the first
you come in for the first day and for the first treatment, the first consultation and we give you some paperwork to fill out in advance and we look at the paperwork and we say okay, we see that you have these five, seven things going on, and we're going to help you sort these
out and we're going to triage, we're gonna decide what things are important to deal with now. And what things are, we're going to want to deal with later, we're the urgent things that we need to deal with. And what are the also the long and slow things that we need to do as they say, like, you know, the money invested What 20 or 30 years ago would would pay off significantly compared to many of us yesterday, simultaneous. Similarly, there's the saying that the best tree, or the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the next best time to plant is now and I do agree with that to a certain extent. So what we want to do is we want to identify what are the trees? Right? If we were planning a garden, we would say, what are the things that are going to fruit 20 years? Let's get started now, what are the things that are going to feed us in 30 days? And what are the things that are going to feed us in a year? And we're going to start those things?
And we're going to make sure that we have something to eat for the 20 years while we're waiting for the
fruits and trees and plants to grow to maturity? And what are we going to do? While we're waiting for the one year plants to grow? And what are we going to do while we're waiting for the 30 day plants to grow? So what do we do that? How do we do that? What does it look like? So we will usually try to say okay, so you come into our office.
And there's two su beds, usually,
troopers are private, it's private as you want them to be a lot of people will bring a family member or friend and that's okay, it's up to you.
As long as you have they have your permission. And we'll we'll talk we'll do some talking, we'll see what you want to do, how you want to get where you're going, what are your goals, we'll lay out a plan for you to get there. And then we'll start treating. And usually, people come in for regular or you know, weekly or every other week, sometimes more than more than once a week. Regular acupuncture treatments weekly or bi weekly, depending on what's necessary.
Will tell you kind of what we suggest what we think is going to get you the best likelihood of success. What's going to fit well in your life. You don't have to come to the office every week, you don't have to come to the office every month we work with telehealth patients. And we see them every couple of months or not at all, except for online. So we can do that as well. But what we want to do is we want to make sure that we have weekly stuff that we're working on, that's going to push positive pressure for your body to change. So usually we do acupuncture, cupping. We don't do moxibustion, because we can't in our building, but we'll do guasha, which is another type of massage technique between now which are massage, medical massage techniques,
acupuncture or biology, that kind of stuff we have working over a weekly basis supplements, deciding what supplements you need to be on and monitoring week over week to make sure that there's no negative unwanted effects were very like a lot of people worry about, what are the side effects of the herbs? What are the side effects of supplements?
Well, there's a decent amount of documentation on that there's so many new medications coming out. And so many new things being discovered about herbs and supplements and medications and how the and foods and how all of these things are interacting with each other. It's a very busy and cluttered world. And we're trying to find patterns inside of that. So in lieu of knowing every single contraindication, which if any doctor tells you they know what is going to happen when they put you on one medication or another medication simultaneously. They're lying to you because they don't know what's going to happen. There's a field of probability where they know what could happen based on previous
reported side effects based on previous reports, from research, or from clinics and hospitals and stuff for reporting adverse effects over the course of years, and even decades sometimes
to clarify what's going to happen. So this is this double standard that exists in medicine, where for natural doctors, herbal doctors, and ds will say to patients, we hear this all the time. Well, you don't know what's going to happen when you start taking two or three different supplements or medications in concert with this other
high blood pressure medication, for instance. So don't take any of those herbs and supplements just stay on the high blood pressure medication because you don't know what's going to happen. Well, we don't know what's going to happen when you take that high blood pressure medication.
Medications interact with foods they don't know. So it's a diet if the doctor is not asking you what your diet is
and giving you and prescribing you a medication. He's setting he or she is setting you up. Or they are setting you up for
unknowable side effects and unknowable contraindications reasons why somebody shouldn't be taking that medication because they don't have the full gamut of information. So
if we prescribe something with unknowable side effects, but
A doctor, an MD a Western have deep prescribe something when the unknowable side effects it's okay for them to do this, it's not okay for us to do it apparently, well, that's the double standard, and how we allay the unknowable. Nobody can really necessarily know what's going to happen when anybody ingest, or it takes a given thing. There's always chance, right? And just being honest here, what we do, the way that we work around that. We live in the land of workarounds, we're always trying to find workarounds.
Because we want you weekly, we want you bi weekly, and you can actually email us or call us, and we'll pick up the phone or we'll send you an email. And you can say, hey, I took this thing, I don't feel good. I think something might be off, we'll say we'll stop taking it. Let's look into that. Let's see what's going on?
How often can you do that with your with your allopathic MDS with your,
you know, quote, unquote, Western MDs, if you if you were to call Castle, or your to call it, you can't really get your doctor on the phone. It's a challenge. So
they don't know what's gonna happen when you take two or three or four medications simultaneously. They may say that they know what's going to happen. They don't, they can't. So try asking them what their workaround is, next time you go into the doctor's office. Well, what happens? If I feel weird from this thing? They'll be like, Okay, well, we'll just give you a different one. We're okay. We'll just stay on it anyway. So, again, double standard. If the doctor is going to not ask you about your diet, but give you high blood pressure medication, tell you Yeah, maybe you need to change your diet. Yeah, maybe you need to
change the substances that you are taking.
Along with that to artificially bring the blood pressure down, if they're not telling you how to lower your blood pressure, so that you no longer need those medications, because all medications are supposed to be given
in necessarily all medications. But as medication is meant to be prescribed corrective to correct the underlying condition that's causing the problem.
If it doesn't cause them to correct the underlying cause.
Let me back let me backpedal for a second. If you have high blood pressure, and you're prescribed a medication to artificially lower your blood pressure,
if you need that every week, every day to keep your blood pressure low, then it's not treating the root cause why do you have elevated blood pressure, if you're not going to treat the elevated cause of your high blood pressure, then you're going to continue to need that pill for ever, until something else is done to lower your blood pressure. And actually, your body will fight against the blood pressure to raise your blood pressure artificially, or to raise your blood pressure naturally, to go against the lowering of the blood pressure from the medication. So the blood pressure crept up and up and up, you need a greater and greater dosage of blood pressure medication if you don't do anything to treat the underlying condition. So what we do is we treat underlying conditions, we may give you something to temporarily lower the blood pressure, but we're also going to be giving you 234 or five things. And those things could be supplements that could be herbs, it could be prescriptive exercises, that could be food prescriptions. And we don't tell people just to eat kale and to never eat pizza again, because it's nonsense, and nobody would listen to us. We tell people focus on these one or two things and ignore all the noise, just focus on these two things, your blood pressure will come down, trust me, we've done this before.
Just focus on this, just take these two or three herbs and supplements. When we're done, your blood pressure will come down to a reasonable level. And what is that reasonable level, we'll talk about what that reasonable level is with you as specific and relevant to your case. So we'll have you do measurements, we'll check your blood pressure in office, we'll check your blood pressure, have you checked blood pressure at home, keep it you know, keep a little a little log of it. And after a couple of weeks, maybe a couple of months, we should see a predictable and reasonable and lasting change so that when we take you off of those herbs and supplements that are lowering your blood pressure, it will stay low. That's the goal. That's how what we do is fundamentally different from what modern, quote unquote Western medicine is generally. Okay, so it's a little bit of a tirade, but it's I want to clarify the difference in the intention between what we do and what
what else is out there.
So you'll have your regular weekly acupuncture treatments or office visits where we check you ask questions better, worse, the same, see where things are going. We may update your customized herbal protocols and prescriptions, customize supplements, and prescriptions. Oh, and by the way, all of those things are included so it's not going to cost you extra money. It just comes with the regular fee for that fee of our service. In the meantime, we're going to do deep bloodwork testing. So we're going to we're going to we're gonna test the things that your doctor is not testing. Like you know if you feel like garbage, a lot of I'm sure most people here listening to this have heard that story. You go to the doctor and you say
I feel like crap. They look at your excuse me, I feel like not great. And they look at your bloodwork. And they say, Oh,
well, nothing really came back.
You know, you look normal, your labs look normal. So I don't know what to tell you. Well, that's really discouraging. And what needs to happen at that point is we need to dig deeper. And we say, Okay, well, let's test some things that we didn't test in that very, very broad, basic, cursory test, it would be like, if you took your car to the shop, and you said, this car is really messed up, it's making a lot of weird noises, something's wrong, something's off, I know, something's off. And they say, well, we checked the oil, we checked the windshield wiper fluid, and there's no check engine light, so you're fine. Your car's fine.
And you drive away from the shop. It's like
it's making all kinds of messed up noises, and it's pulling to the left, and you're like, something's off about this man. That is, because something's off. And we need to, just because we haven't found where we were looking doesn't mean nothing's wrong. That's a very big distinction that needs to be made.
Just because your bloodwork looks normal, doesn't mean you are a picture of health. And patients know this. And honestly, doctors know this, if he you know, deep down, but they're limited by their expertise. They're limited in what they can do. They don't know everything. And that's okay. They don't have to know everything. But you need to know what shop to go to for what problems if it's a transmission issue, you go to transmission shop, if it's a, if it's a body work issue, you go to a body shop, if it's an engine issue, you go to an engine shop, if it's an oil change, you go to speedy lube, right? So
what do I eat? A lot of people asking, What do I eat? What do I eat? I don't know what to eat. What do I eat for my arthritis? What do I eat for weight loss? What do I eat for pain? Is there anything that I can do beyond just getting acupuncture and massage for these body aches and pains shouldn't be changing what I eat, oh, my blood pressure is high. And my doctor says, I need to diet and exercise. But I don't know what to do. Like.
I guess diet means brown rice and broccoli. And I guess exercise means I need to start running. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's not what that means. So we want to customize medical diet. What does that mean? Let's unpack that sentence for a minute. Custom meaning specifically relevant to you in the now presently as your present experience dictates right? As your body is saying. I need to not eat doughnuts for about six weeks, and then see, or even two weeks and then see how that feels? Well.
Let's build you a diet that allows you to eat the foods you love and enjoy your life. Because we all know that eating comes with enjoyment. And eating a box of doughnuts is kind of enjoyable for a few minutes until it's not. But there's enjoyment of food, right? We get that. So we want to to make suggestions to you that are acutely and specifically relevant to your to your case. So that you know what to eat, you know what not to eat, you know, for how long to do it and when to stop. Okay. So all the diets that we give our patients are customized based on their bloodwork, based on their reporting their reporting of their experience, they're telling us what's going on with them. And our assessment based on looking at you palpating your abdomen, maybe checking your tongue and pulse seeing what's going on.
And going from there. So we'll go I'm just kind of going down the list here on our website of the inclusions of our program, like what it looks like when you work with us what we do why we do it. So the regular acupuncture treatments, right, so you come into the office, sit down, we talk a little bit about what's going on better or worse and sane. We check your pulse, we feel your pulse, we look your tongue, those are windows to the inside of the body, they help us see what's going on. And to see what's working well, what's not working well.
And from that, that will lay down on the table. We'll do a couple of needles on the front couple. So be over a couple needles on the back and then we'll send you home we will do some some massage. Maybe we'll do some cupping. So what does all that stuff mean? I'm going to unpack it for you. So
acupuncture is a way of changing the way that the body operates, the way the body works with some with tiny, tiny filled Fornia citizens like getting an injection and we're not injecting anybody with anything. It doesn't hurt the same way that hypodermic needle does. It feels like getting a hair clogged or a mosquito bite or something and you feel heaviness or cramping sensation only as long as I'm moving, twisting and manipulating the needle. And when I stop, the pain should subside and you should slip into a nice state of relaxation.
Acupuncture doesn't have to be relaxing but it can be people report that is
all they need is a sterile single use. So we're not you know, raising them and autoclaving them. They go right in the sharps container and then they get incinerated.
So cupping is a negative pressure massage you may have seen there's a lot of information and
just a lot about cupping in the in popular culture and in the media right now. It's basically a negative pressure massage. So instead of pushing down on somebody's body to create, to enhance circulation that are pushing flush dead, stagnant blood out of the corners, if you will, kind of sweeping the corners of the tissues.
This is a negative pressure and it's doing the same thing. It's creating increased circulation, it's flushing outside of toxic waste to waste from the cells waste from the tissues, all that blood, it's moving those things around negative pressure pulling. So if you know, if you're trying to sweep a corner of the house and you're sweeping one way, you got to change the angle of the broom to get to the other corner. This is kind of like that choosing a different, different angle different is a pull instead of a push, right, it'd be like a leaf blower versus of the room, right, they do different things. So similar but different.
So guasha is another massage technique that's like that, we do some medical massage, which are 20, which is called tweener, which is a
form of customized medical massage, which is a very, very ornate and sophisticated system that's been around for a long time that we do partner assisted stretching, we'll just make sure that everything is stacked the right way. So that all the plumbing, the veins, the lymphatic fluids, the cerebral spinal fluid, all of those fluids are circulating properly in the body. So that your body is essentially delivering nutrients where it needs to go efficiently and taking out the trash efficiently. What your house gets like if you don't take out the trash, it gets stale, stagnant, stuck, gross, smelly, and it becomes problematic to put new food into a freezer that's full of old
or refrigerator that's full of moldy food, right? To put new fresh food into that refrigerator.
You got to clear out the old. So that's what we do
customize herbal prescription protocols. So we check on all of our patients to make sure that that the herbs, supplements, foods, diets, all these things aren't going to clash with their current medications, their current lifestyle, any of those things, we try to make sure to the best of our ability that there's going to be no contraindications. practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine, practitioners of naturopathic medicine, take extensive training to understand the contraindications when not to do a thing, when not to prescribe a thing, when not to suggest certain things in the In the rare event and it does happen where we get it wrong. The patient will report to us and our patients are trained to say this isn't right, I'm going to stop doing this. And I'm going to bring my supplements back to them next week. And we're going to talk about it. So at this point, they don't even if something goes wrong, they like they almost don't even contact us because they know that they know the procedure, I'll bring it back, we'll try something else. And if that doesn't work, we'll try something else. And usually after two or three changes, we find what works. So
we have extensive protocols in place for, for working around that, for working around contraindications and adverse side effects, like we have way of minimizing adverse side effects, we have way of reversing some adverse side effects. And we have way of avoiding adverse side effects. Okay. So I want you to feel safe in that we are doing everything that we can to keep this as safe.
And as no brainer of a good idea for people as we possibly can, right going to the hospital and getting catastrophic surgery to your body should be the last resort. absolute last resort we want to do ever we want to exhaust all of the safe and low impact
and natural things that we can beforehand. If we can't, if things are an emergency, by all means go to the hospital, by all means.
You know, take the antibiotics and emergency things that you need. And then we'll do what we can afterwards to allay the negative side effects of that to reverse the negative side effects of that. So all the supplements, customizable prescriptions, protocols, all that and additional tests beyond the basics. They're all that stuff is all included. That's all included in one price, because we don't want you to come in and say You said it was gonna cost me $1,000 And now it's costing me $3,000. That's not fair. And I agree. Is that fair? So we're going to tell you that it's going to cost more than you think probably, but it's going to cause more than you think because a lot of our patients come in with their their mindset being attuned to I only need to look for how much an appointment costs and we need to look at how much one bottle of herbs and supplements costs. And unfortunately, those are myths and false truths that have been promoted by marketing and marketing and
supplement companies and medical companies that want you to think that it's going to be this one simple thing, and it's not going to cost very much. You don't have to worry about it when the reality is that being healthy costs a lot of time, costs a lot of money, and it costs a lot of attention. Put your attention, you have to put your willpower to it. And it's hard. It's hard. And it's frustrating to show up at the office, sometimes, as a patient, I get it because you go in, you're gonna have uncomfortable conversations about the things you may or may not have done, that are in your best interest, you gotta be honest about it, you're gonna get poked, you're gonna get an elbow, and you're gonna take some some herbs and supplements, they might not taste great. But guess what?
It's the uncomfortable. It's the bitter medicine that works the best often, okay, so
if you're looking for the easy, cheap, quick way to go about it, you can stop the tape right here, and go on your merry way. Because this, isn't it. Okay. And I just want to be as honest and transparent as I possibly can about what the process looks like. Now, we give people highly customized diets. So we do the blood type diet, we do nutrigenomic diet.
And we oftentimes prescribe foods based on traditional Chinese medicine parameters as well. And all of the customized diets that we give people are based on measurements that we're taking in people's daily lives we're basing it's based on blood type measurement is based on what the genes are saying about you. And it's based on what your blood type is. It's based on
what you look like now, how much fluid retention do you have in your body? How much fats on your body? How much phlegm is in your body? How much? How dry is your body feeling? How damp is your body feeling? Right? These are all conditions that I think most of us are familiar with, but we don't always talk about it.
We want to give foods that are going to bring you towards more into balance, not towards this one perfect static, middle point. But rather a dynamic form of balance. It's always changing. It's always moving. But it's changing. And it's movement through stillness, and, and a sense of wellbeing, and a sense of peace of mind and ease and an absence of pain and suffering, to the best of our ability. So custom. Everything's custom, custom, custom, custom doesn't mean it's always different. But it's customized to you. Okay. So this is
I wrote here that this is the exact medicine that we use in our daily lives. And I should have maybe specified that it was asked the doctors, the practitioners, it's the exact same medicine that we do, we're giving you. So it's not like we have some weird, sophisticated
or aggressive medication that we wouldn't take to lengthen our lives or that we wouldn't take because we know how, you know, there's some things that we won't take as it's not necessary for us. It's not prescribed for us. But it's the body of knowledge that we use in our day to day lives, that we're going to give to you so that you know that proofs in the pudding, and that we are living by the same things that we tell you, we're not going to be the doctor who tells you you need diet exercise while he's smoking a cigarette and drinking Dyk drinking a soda, right, we're going to live by the same things that we're telling you. Now it doesn't mean you can't have fun, doesn't mean you can't indulge doesn't mean you can never drink again, doesn't mean you can't eat cheese. Again, it doesn't mean you can never eat sugar, again, doesn't mean any of those things. But
we're going to inform you so this is where the idea of informed consent comes in which I think needs work in our day and age informed consent means we're going to inform you of the risks and the benefits associated with which we want you to do
the risk and the benefits. And we're going to get your consent to do these things to the best of your ability to understand them. Now, there's a school of thought that says that informed consent is not possible, because the patient does not usually have medical training. That could be right could be fair. So we were going to take our time to explain it to you. As best of our abilities. We should do we should avoid we should incorporate, make that as clear as we possibly can. And then we go back and we retest test the bloodwork we test the fluids of the body we test the digestive tract.
See what
you know gut bacteria is living in there is it the right proportions and the right amounts of each we retest. We treat again with customers herbs, because of my supplement prescriptions and protocols. Then and a customized diet and we retest again, we go back and rinse and repeat all the while if you so decide coming in for acupuncture treatments, coming in for your interviews with the naturopathic physician or with myself, the traditional Chinese medicine physician and we make sure that everything is going in the same direction.
Right, everything is going in the right direction that we want it to go. If anything is not working the pivot, we find a workaround. And a lot of reasons why things couldn't work. There's a lot of roadblocks along the way. And we don't want anybody to get discouraged. I know it can be discouraging at times, our job and our game, here's what's the workaround. That's the game, find that obstruction? What's the workaround, like a stream flows around a stone, right? What's the workaround? How do we get around this obstacle and as easily and seamlessly as possible? Our goal is that when you finish our program with us that you want to stay because you know how great it is, and you know how much of a
benefit having this type of medicine your life is, or if you decide to leave, you're going to have these principles, you're going to have these ideas you're going to be trained as a patient, to know what questions to ask doctors to know what questions not to ask doctors, because they're gonna give you bad advice on to know what to do, to know when something feels off to trust that instinct and to know when something feels right. And to go with that. So
that's all for now. I'm gonna leave it here we usually try to work with people for
minimum six weeks is our
like get to know you period. We have like one quick early.
We have an early program where we want to get to know you. Right? So six week program you come in again, that includes the labs, herbs, supplements, bloodwork, we want you to get to know us, right? The Acupuncture naturopathic visits, nutrigenomic analysis of the genes, personalized diet, testing, of all different things, cupping, tween all that stuff, right Miss medical massage all that stuff? Well, it's included.
In one price, right? We prefer to work with people for six months or 12 months, because we know that change takes time. And it can be slow, and it can be frustrating. So we want to give these things the time that they need. So that would be unrealistic for you to not have the desired change that you're looking for. So if you want to reach out and talk more about this, how it's relevant, relevant to you, in your daily life, and your specific case, reach out to us happy to talk, and I'm looking forward to connecting with you. So thank you for listening. I hope this clarifies things a little bit. Thank you for your time.
And I was going on a little bit long. But I hope that's useful. And I look forward to connecting your state Santander and have a great day. Bye bye