The Berman Method
The Berman Method
Episode #204 Part 2: The Perfect Boomer Blueprint: Inside The New Berman Health Club
In this powerful and transformative episode, Dr. Jake Berman and Jen Berman announce a major evolution in their mission to redefine health and wellness in Southwest Florida. After years of frustration with Western medicine’s symptom-focused approach, they’re officially merging Berman Physical Therapy and Berman Health & Wellness into the all-new Berman Health Club — a one-of-a-kind center designed to help seniors (and anyone over 40) move better, feel amazing, and age seamlessly.
The Bermans dive deep into what it means to become the “Ultimate Boomer” — someone who moves freely, sleeps deeply, thinks clearly, and thrives physically and mentally well into their later years. They break down their cutting-edge approach to longevity, combining regenerative modalities like EMTT, shockwave therapy, and infrared sauna treatments with functional movement and targeted exercise for results that are “ten times faster” than traditional rehab.
You’ll learn how they’re shifting from simple rehabilitation to complete-body optimization, focusing on inflammation reduction, tissue regeneration, and the science of feeling 40 at 80.
The episode wraps up with their “5 Physical + 5 Wellness Pillars” — practical benchmarks to measure your true vitality, including balance, flexibility, energy, sleep, and mental clarity.
💡 Key Topics:
- The decline of Western medicine and why it’s time for a new model
- What it means to be the “Ultimate Boomer”
- The creation of Berman Health Club and its holistic approach
- Cutting-edge regenerative therapies explained (EMTT, shockwave, infrared sauna)
- How to age strong and pain-free — the 5 Physical + 5 Wellness fundamentals
🎧 Tune in for a passionate conversation that challenges the norms of aging, health, and longevity — and discover how to feel your best at any age.
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And we're rolling, baby, with the Berman Method Podcast. We are back. Quick recap. Because of this the stranglehold, because of how bad Western medicine has gone over the past five to ten years, because we're Western medicine is focused so much on treating symptoms and not the actual problem. We're forced to continue to evolve this business and we're shutting down Burman physical therapy legally and merging it with Berman Health and Wellness to create Berman Health Club. Berman Health Club specializes in helping seniors transform into the ultimate boomer. What is the ultimate boomer? The ultimate boomer is somebody that can move good and feels great. And yeah, I'm talking about boomers, but the same thing's true if you're 40, if you're 50, if you're 60. You have to be able to move unrestrictedly and feel great, meaning that who cares if you can move, meaning I don't have knee pain, back pain, but you have brain fog, you have an afternoon crash, you're not sleeping through the night, you don't have a quality six, seven, eight hours of sleep, you're interrupted, your cortisol levels through the roof. What does it matter if you don't have back pain? You're still not, you're not at 100%.
SPEAKER_01:Right. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. So we've invested a lot of time and money to design something in Southwest Florida that doesn't exist. Part of our research over the past 18 months was looking into all these other clinics that are around and seeing what is available in this town, and nobody has what we currently have. And we're not done yet.
SPEAKER_02:Right.
SPEAKER_00:Like I've I've got this credit card ready to go. I mean, I am swiping this thing. I'm just finding reasons to swipe this thing. But it's all for you, the consumer, the client, the person that is not fluent in this conversation. So if you're not in our world, you don't live in our world, the not knowing how to handle certain medical conditions can be scary because you don't understand it like we do. We're trying to break this thing down, simplify it, fifth grade reading level, and give you a place that you can come to feel good.
SPEAKER_01:Right, right. Absolutely. So let's keep going with it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, so we talked about three examples of gut reasons, right? And how historically we've been able to treat those gut re uh those gut issues with just the dietary um dietary changes, if you will.
SPEAKER_01:Right. Which are still very effective.
SPEAKER_00:Very effective.
SPEAKER_01:However, not doing the whole picture.
SPEAKER_00:Yep. But now we're treating literally the whole entire body, which is getting people results ten times faster. I mean, I was in the infra far infrared sauna for five minutes and I got out of that thing and I'm going, I just feel better. Like I feel better. This isn't it's not a placebo effect either, because again, I find every reason to try to debunk something, and there was nothing placebo about it because I've done it time and time again.
SPEAKER_01:Right. And there were several several different modalities at the conference that we were at that we were able to try out and to test the science behind. So we certainly kind of go with the one that is the most effective for our population.
SPEAKER_00:Exactly. So shifting gears slightly into something that's more orthopedic, something like a degenerative knee, a degenerative hip, uh back pain, been told that you had a herniated disc or compression, neck pain, a pinched nerve, uh shoulder, you got a rotator cuff tear, or I don't know, um degenerative arthritic shoulder, you need a shoulder replacement. All these orthopedic conditions that historically we really had one tool to throw at it. Well, I guess two tools. One of them was manual therapy. Let's get in there and let's do some sports massage, soft tissue work to really get the soft tissues to free up, make you feel good. And then corrective exercises, get the muscles working the right way to take the stress away from the injured area. That has really been our tools for the past 50 years as physical therapists. Nowadays, it is that is the horse and carriage when Henry Ford had built the Model T. So, yes, we can still take a horse and carriage from Naples to Georgia, or we could take a Model T and get there in a fraction of the time, you know, going back in the day, right? Right. So we can still help you with your back pain, knee pain, shoulder pain, whatever it is. But now instead of taking a horse and carriage, we're gonna take what is that train called that goes from Orlando to West Palm Beach?
SPEAKER_01:Oh.
SPEAKER_00:The fast line or something that goes 200 miles an hour.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:Whatever it is. The bright line or whatever that train is that goes from Orlando to South Florida and it goes 200 miles an hour. That's what we're doing now with these modalities. So taking somebody that has a knee issue and yes. The bright line?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, you got it.
SPEAKER_00:There we go. So somebody that has a knee issue, yes, we're gonna do the soft tissue work. Yes, we're gonna do the corrective exercises, but now we're throwing EMTT at it. EMTT is going to make the tissues that much more um able to receive the intervention, right?
SPEAKER_01:Right, right. It's great, like we've talked about, creating a healthier environment for healing purposes, bringing more happy cells uh to the area, reducing the inflammation in the cell so we can heal.
SPEAKER_00:So then EMTT gets the area ready so that you're even capable of healing. Because think about this. What if you take a seed, you want to grow a tree, and you take that seed and you try to plant it in sand that has no nutrients at all. It's not gonna grow. You can have all the water and all the sunlight that you want, but it's not gonna grow because there's zero nutrients in that sand that the seed requires to grow.
SPEAKER_01:Right.
SPEAKER_00:Or you can take that same seed and put it in manure that's full of nutrients, water at plenty of sunlight, and that thing's gonna explode 110 billion times faster than trying to grow the damn thing in sand.
SPEAKER_01:Right. So the correct environment.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that's exactly what EMTT does. Think about EMTT as the fertilizer. Right? So now we're getting the knee to heal 10 times faster than we ever did. But then, but wait, there's more. More. That's when we bring in shockwave. Shockwave goes in there and jump starts the healing response to the soft tissues. And because that's happening now in a nutrient-dense environment, it get it gets better that much faster.
SPEAKER_01:Right, right. On top of the manual work and getting the muscles to activate appropriately and then the the exercises.
SPEAKER_00:Exactly. And then the icing on the cake is you go and you sit in the far infrared sauna for five minutes, ten minutes, and that jump starts the whole entire body. Every cell in the whole entire body just says, okay, I'm sleeping, now I'm awake, let's do this thing. So you're creating circulation in the whole entire body. There's nothing, there's no negative effects of circulation.
SPEAKER_01:Right, for sure.
SPEAKER_00:Right? Because when you circulate blood, you're increasing the amount of nutrients that are being delivered to the entire body.
SPEAKER_01:Right, right. And it was, um, they were even talking about even cancer patients. You know, there's some things that we don't do with cancer patients because we don't want to regenerate unhealthy cells, but these modalities are beneficial in that sense.
SPEAKER_00:Correct. Not EMTT. We'd never do EMTT overactive. Yeah, but the infrared sauna. Yes. Yes. So there is a couple of contraindications on some of these things that we won't bore you with right now. But yes, there's literally nothing wrong with sitting in the far infrared light sauna. There's only positive things. It's just insane.
SPEAKER_01:Right.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. What else?
SPEAKER_01:I don't know. So this is all available now.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, it's all available now. This is think about it this way. Historically, Burman physical therapy was a rehab place. You hurt your back, you hurt your knee, you hurt your neck, whatever it is, you came, you rehabbed it. Once you were done and your back felt better, you left. You were done. Now we're not a rehab place anymore. We can still rehab, but now we're focusing on longevity. How do we keep feeling good? Okay, we rehabbed you and you're feeling good, but how do we keep you feeling good? And how do we do it in a way that is really, really convenient to you, the consumer?
SPEAKER_01:And having everything in one place and being able to just focus on the inflammation and really improving longevity, feeling 60 in your 80s, or feeling 40 in your 80s, as I like to say it. Get to 80, feeling 40. Uh, but seriously, helping with just that longevity aspect and really keep you moving, keep you young, um, and help the make it, you know, a seamless aging process.
SPEAKER_00:I love that. I love that seamless aging process. So pain is not a normal part of the aging process. Slowing down is not a normal part of the aging process, and that is one thing that Naples has taught us.
SPEAKER_01:And neither is poor sleep. I hear everybody say, uh, poor sleep's just part of it. You know, I'm to that age, I'm not gonna sleep as well, I'm gonna have a little brain fog. I hear every single day, my memory, it's not great, but that's just normal, right? For the age I'm at. No, it's not normal. We can reduce that. So, yes, this is the having the entire picture together to where the wellness side is utilizing the regenerative therapies to help with promoting the wellness and um and reducing the wellness symptoms that you're experiencing, but also you know, translating that into the physical component. And then same thing with the physical side. If you're here for physical training, utilizing the regenerative therapies and then focusing on the internal inflammation wellness side, we have to treat the whole picture that 10 out of 10, as you were saying, um, for the five physical components and five chemical components to to be able to age into the 80s feeling 60. And I guess next pop podcast, we'll have to go over the five and five.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, we're gonna do it right now. I think we should do it right now.
SPEAKER_01:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, because we've been mentioning it so many times. I think that that would be a good wrap-up for us. Okay. Yep. So you want me to start? Sure. Okay, so the five things that we found on the physical side that directly correlate with living the highest quality of life are number one, being able to stand on one leg for 60 seconds on both sides without dancing all around, feeling like you're gonna lose your balance. I know there's some 30 and 40 year olds listening to this right now going, I got that, no problem.
SPEAKER_02:Until you try it. Until you try it.
SPEAKER_00:Yep. So standing on one leg for 60 seconds, both sides, right? Number two is standing straight up with straight knees, being able to bend over and touch your toes. That looks at flexibility. Maybe on the next episode, we can talk about why are these things so important? Because it is important to explain why it's important to be able to touch your toes, even if you've never touched your toes in your life. I've never been flexible, I've never been able to touch your toes. Well, there's a reason why you should work towards it. Number three, being able to do a really good squat. Number four, being able to get down on the ground and back up again without using your hands.
SPEAKER_01:Without using your hands. Yes.
SPEAKER_00:So get down on the ground, get back up again without using your hands because we don't have to rely on that life alert button. Help, I've fallen and I can't get up. And then number five, being able to walk for at least an hour comfortably.
SPEAKER_01:Right.
SPEAKER_00:Why would I pick that one?
SPEAKER_01:Comfortably?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Because people can walk and then be in pain.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, they can walk and be in pain, but why would somebody ever want to walk for an hour? I don't want to walk for an hour, but why would you want to be able to So you can play around a golf. Play around a golf, walkleball, go to Disney with your grandkids.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Walk down fifth.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, go to the go to the beach.
SPEAKER_00:Go to the beach.
SPEAKER_01:Sometimes it's a mile there and back to get from your car to the sand. So yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Good. So the next episode we'll talk about all five of those and the reason why they're important. They might not be as obvious as you think. What's your five?
SPEAKER_01:So, as far as the wellness side, we are first focusing on quality sleep through the night. So sleeping at least seven hours straight through the night and feeling rejuvenated the next day when you're waking up. Having a full day of charge, meaning you're able to go from the time you wake up to the time you go to bed in the evening without having to take a nap or crashing mid-afternoon. We are focusing on having um or not complaining of GI discomfort. So meaning you're not having any reflux or bloating, abdominal pain, diarrhea, or constipation throughout your day on average, going through the day with no pain. We are looking at a reduction not having any brain fog, so not struggling with remembering simple tasks of where you're going or that name, uh, being able to think and focus clearly. And then the last one that we're focused on.