The Berman Method

Episode #207: 3 Ground Breaking Life Hacks You Need to Know!

• Jenni • Season 1 • Episode 207

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In this episode of The Berman Method Podcast, Dr. Jake and Jenni dive straight into the battle of all battles — David vs. Goliath, where Goliath is the broken corporate medical system. From insurance companies dictating what labs can be ordered to doctors rushing through 47-second appointments, the Bermans pull back the curtain on why traditional healthcare keeps people sick, frustrated, and inflamed.

Jenni kicks off with a fiery rant about the absurdity of insurance-controlled care, while Jake highlights how the system is being shaken and why massive change is coming faster than expected. Together, they break down the three pillars of the Berman Method — the simple (but not always easy) life hacks that allow people to feel 20–30 years younger than their age:

  1. Blood Sugar Control: Why it’s the foundation of physical, mental, and emotional health — influencing joint pain, sleep, cravings, inflammation, energy, and even long-term brain function.
  2. Monthly Physical Check-Ins: The critical need for expert eyes to ensure your movement is 100% correct so small compensations don’t snowball into major pain and injury.
  3. Regenerative Modalities: How modern tools can reduce internal inflammation, support healing, and amplify the benefits of the first two pillars.

Along the way, you’ll hear real-life stories (including an “ice cream sandwich” egg breakfast), candid behind-the-scenes moments with their three kids, and raw honesty about what creates lasting longevity.

If you want to age feeling younger, move without pain, and finally take control of your health without waiting on the insurance world to catch up — this episode is a must-listen.

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SPEAKER_00:

We are rolling, baby, with the Berman Method podcast. David going against Goliath, Goliath being the corporate medical system, big pharmaceutical companies, health insurance companies. Man, the health insurance companies are getting whacked and hammered right now.

SPEAKER_01:

Speaking of that, I meant to talk with my team about, I get information about health reimbursement. And the letter that I got about health reimbursement for lab work on clinics that like have to follow the instruction of the insurance on what blood work they're actually allowed to order per the insurance company as opposed to what the patient actually needs. It was absolutely mind-blowing. And this, my friends, is why we don't use utilize insurance because they dictate what we can do. And then we would have to see 60 patients a day to break even. Which is why your doctor spends 47 seconds with you and you wait for two hours.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh my God. Okay. That just might be a record. 200 episodes, and Jenny starts off with a rant.

SPEAKER_01:

In the first 60 seconds of the podcast. Holy cow. Yeah, it just triggered me that I forgot about that letter. I was just like, this is why this is why we don't even have insurance.

SPEAKER_00:

Us personally.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes. Because like it's not helpful. Everybody listened to our traumatic experience with Walker's insurance back in August. And if you didn't, you should go back and listen to that episode. But like it's just a stress bomb.

SPEAKER_00:

That's all it is. It's absolutely ridiculous. And a month ago, I thought that we were going to see some major, major changes, probably in the next 10 years. But after this past month, how hard they've been getting hammered by the administration. I think it's going to happen much sooner. But it has to. I mean, it's such a broken system. So here we are, Dr. Jake Berman here with my beautiful jacked-up co-hosts. We are the co-owners of Berman Health Club that specializes in helping seniors transform into ultimate boomers since 2015. And what that ultimately means is arriving at 80, feeling 60, arriving at 60, feeling 40, arriving at 50, feeling 30, just arriving at whatever number it is, feeling significantly younger than your peers. And it really comes down to three things. So go ahead and say it the way that it should be said.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, the three game-changing life hacks? Life hacks to improve your health and longevity.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. So these are three game-changing life hacks that are, I don't want to say proprietary to the Burman method, but they kind of are.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, they're like the three pillars of the Berman Health Club.

SPEAKER_00:

They are the three pillars, and they are proprietary methods within these three methods. Sure. So they're the three things sound like they're almost generic, like other places are doing them, but the way that we do them is a proprietary method. And this is something that we've evolved over the years, which ultimately led to the combination of Burman physical therapy, Burman Health and Wellness to create Berman Health Club.

SPEAKER_01:

And the Burman method.

SPEAKER_00:

And the Burman method.

SPEAKER_01:

To accomplish those pillars.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. So we've got three life hacks, three things that you can do that dramatically changes your health. And these are three examples of working smarter, not harder. These are three simple things, not necessarily easy. They are simple. And if you do all three of them, you have a significantly higher chance at a higher quality of life than your peers who are sticking their heads in the sand or still hellbent at using their daggum insurance to take care of their health. I'm like, are you freaking kidding me? Right. We're going into 2026. Health insurance is like car insurance. You don't use your car insurance to change your oil. Right, to do the maintenance. You don't use your car insurance to change the brakes. Your car insurance doesn't pay for new tires.

SPEAKER_01:

The car insurance doesn't pay for your gas. The fuel that you're putting into your vehicle to make it run the best way possible. But yet we want to use our health insurance for our body to make our body function the best way it should.

SPEAKER_00:

It just doesn't make sense. Luckily, you're getting smarter. The listener listeners are getting smarter. We're obviously preaching to the choir here. And I love it, love it, love it, love it that our faithful listeners share these episodes with other people who are not so religious with us because it's important. Spread the word. You have to spread the word. So should we get into the three things? Let's start. Jeez, the anticipation's killing me. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

So I will start with the first and foremost whether you're having a physical issue, a mental issue, emotional issue, a gut issue, a sleep issue, whatever the issue is, a weight issue. Blood sugar control has to be the first thing that you are looking at.

SPEAKER_00:

I can't believe that's the first thing you're gonna say, Jenny. I'm turning this episode off.

SPEAKER_01:

Why?

SPEAKER_00:

Because you that's all you talk about is blood sugar control.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, it's your life, it's your brain, it's your gut, it's your energy, it's your sleep, it's your weight, it's your joint pain, it's everything. So even, you know, when people think of blood sugar, they're like, I'm not a diabetic. My doctor said my blood sugar is fine, uh, and I don't have a weight problem, which is fewer of our listeners don't have a weight problem. But some people will be like, I'm I don't really care about my weight. It's my back pain or it's my knee pain or it's my rheumatoid arthritis that's affecting me. And what it comes down to is your blood sugar is playing into that, and it's the one of the first things internally that we have to address to be able to reduce the internal inflammation that you're feeling and to improve the brain fog, the sleep quality, the energy, your cravings, your hunger, the inflammation that is stored in your joints, causing your joint pain.

SPEAKER_00:

It is absolutely crucial. I was being facetious two minutes ago, obviously. It's absolutely crucial when it when it when we really break this thing down, quality of life is directly correlated with blood sugar stability.

SPEAKER_01:

Quality and longevity.

SPEAKER_00:

Quality and longevity, yes.

SPEAKER_01:

And by quality, you're meaning not just being able to go out and do your daily living activities, but actually being able to perform these activities in a way where you don't have to come home and take a nap, or you don't have to rely on 17 pills in the morning before you go out and perform your daily activities. So the quality is not just being able to do, but how are you doing and can you do it without medications?

SPEAKER_00:

How reliant are you on coffee, on caffeinated beverages? You I know there's a significant portion of people listening to this right now that use these exact words. Uh-uh, not before I have my coffee. Like, what? Yeah, like what does that even mean? Like you can't do anything before you have your coffee. Right.

SPEAKER_01:

Is that a habit or a crutch?

SPEAKER_00:

Exactly. Exactly. Now don't get me wrong. I love coffee.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Tastes good.

SPEAKER_00:

It tastes good.

SPEAKER_01:

Like the buzz. Yeah. But you don't need it.

SPEAKER_00:

Do not need it. Absolutely don't need it.

SPEAKER_01:

There's been days where I'm like, oh, my coffee's still sitting on my desk. Didn't even drink it today.

SPEAKER_00:

There's lots of days you bring it home and it's half full still. And I'm going, why do you even take this?

SPEAKER_01:

And of most days I'm drinking it cold just because it's like this morning I made it and it sat on the freaking coffee maker for 17 minutes before I was like, oh, forgot I made that. Got distracted doing 76 other things.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Including taking pictures of my ice cream sandwich, egg sandwich that I made this morning.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh my gosh. So it's seven o'clock in the morning, and I walked by the stove and I see a plate with an ice cream sandwich on it. And I kept walking, and then I stopped in my tracks, turned around, and I look at it and I'm going, look at that ice cream sandwich. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_01:

It was an ice cream.

SPEAKER_00:

It was the way that she cooked two eggs perfectly round sandwich.

SPEAKER_01:

I made them in a mug.

SPEAKER_00:

In a mug, sandwiched by two pieces of sausage patties. And I'm going, it looks identical to an ice cream sandwich. I almost picked it up and took a bite out of it.

SPEAKER_01:

And the yolk was just so perfectly cooked. And it took me three minutes. And guess what? That's how I started my day to stabilize my blood sugar. Two chicken sausage patties. I was actually a half a cup of egg whites with one whole egg. And the yolk was cooked so perfectly in three minutes and started off the day with a protein-packed meal that is going to stabilize my blood sugar.

SPEAKER_00:

And you did all that with three kids hanging off of two legs and an arm. So you did that with one arm.

SPEAKER_01:

It's true. While I was also practicing sight words with our oldest daughter who has a spelling test today, and making sure Walker had the milk he needed, and answering some work messages that were coming through because it was 7 a.m.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I'm not doing that. So don't message me before 9 a.m. anytime.

SPEAKER_01:

My staff starts at 7.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, don't message me. My staff starts at 7.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, let's get back to blood sugar control, which stress does play into that.

SPEAKER_00:

Isn't it our staff now?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, ours.

SPEAKER_00:

Permanent Health Club? Yes, hours. Hours.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, so blood sugar control. And just because your doctor tells you you don't have a blood sugar problem, that ain't true.

SPEAKER_00:

It's not true.

SPEAKER_01:

Looking at your fasting blood sugar in the morning, whether you prick your finger or you do go to the lab for a fasting blood sugar test, that is not telling me anything. It's not telling me about what your blood sugar is doing all day long. It's not telling me what your blood sugar is doing through the night. All of your symptoms are telling me that your blood sugar is not normal. So that fasting blood sugar doesn't mean anything. So figure out a way to look at your blood sugar more in depth and really understand.

SPEAKER_00:

No, don't figure it out. Well, come to Berman Health Club. This is the thing. This is what we specialize in. What's happening right now with blood sugar? It's almost identical, I think. Uh harmonious or analog anal analogous? Analogous? Analogy? Harmonious. Synonymous. Holy shit. That was hard. It's almost you have brain fog. Yeah, my blood sugar. I'm freaking starving right now. We're supposed to be eating lunch right now. We're recording on a Friday and normally Monday morning. But anyways.

SPEAKER_01:

See, this is what happened when your blood sugar's not stable.

SPEAKER_00:

This this blood sugar thing is very similar, in my opinion, synonymous to smoking cigarettes. Right? So it was just in the 50s and 60s when doctors were smoking cigarettes in a healthcare clinic. Right. They were in their office smoking cigarettes seeing patients. Telling you not to smoke.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, at that time it wasn't bad for you.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, they weren't telling you that.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And now here we are today saying that blood sugar, it looks fine because we looked at a fasting blood rate or blood sugar, whatever. It's not true. Right. 20 years from now, we're gonna be looking back on this time, going, what the hell were we thinking? Right. It is crucial, it is the number one most important thing.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, you know, now, and I've said this before, but the the type three diabetes is linked to Alzheimer's. Right? So your blood sugar is increasing your risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer's. Your blood sugar in your 20s and 30s is affecting your brain in your 70s, 80s, 90s.

SPEAKER_00:

It's 2025 right now. I would not be surprised if 2050 rolls around. We go back and listen to this archive episode, because in 2050 it's gonna be it causes Alzheimer's. Right. Blood sugar instability causes these neurological things versus we can only say correlated right now. So it's like pillar number one. Like cigarettes. Cigarette smoking is associated with lung cancer.

unknown:

What?

SPEAKER_00:

Of course, there's that one person that never smoked a cigarette in their life and they get lung cancer. But 99.99999% of lung cancer.

SPEAKER_01:

Right. Well, and of course, there's the one person that smokes their entire life and doesn't ever get lung cancer, which is why you can't say it causes.

SPEAKER_00:

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01:

So, anyways, getting away from that, we're back to pillar number one: blood sugar control. Put a CGM on, come to Berman Health Club and figure out what is your blood sugar doing and how is that affecting your joint pain, your internal inflammation, your gut, your sleep, your energy, your brain fog, your hunger, your appetite. All the things. Okay, pillar number two, or life hack number two.

SPEAKER_00:

What was it?

SPEAKER_01:

Physical, monthly check-in.

SPEAKER_00:

The my world one. So this is a big one, and I've been talking about this for over 10 years now, but very few people are listening. It's extremely important to have somebody look at what you're doing and how you're doing it. It's extremely important to have somebody else watch the way you move who knows what they're looking for. Right. Right? Who knows what they're looking for. And what I'm talking about specifically is you have to do an exercise 100% correctly if you want to get the perfect or I'm sorry, the most results from it and not break down. Let me say that differently. That was not smooth enough. If you do an exercise 98% correct and not 100% correct, that means you're doing it 2% incorrect, which will start the deterioration process. It will start the inflammatory process. Sooner or later it will begin.

SPEAKER_01:

Correct.

SPEAKER_00:

So every exercise must be done 100% correctly to avoid inflammation. Inflammation is the precursor of pain. Right. Now here's the problem. We always think we're doing an exercise 100% correct.

SPEAKER_01:

Because we do it every day. So why wouldn't we be doing it right?

SPEAKER_00:

Exactly. The problem is we're talking about such a slight deviation from 100% correct to 98% correct. To 96% correct. We're talking about over two weeks, three weeks, four weeks. Six weeks later, you're doing it 94% correct. It still looks good to your personal trainer that got an online certification and is really good at counting reps. Right. It still looks good to you watching yourself in the mirror. It still looks good to your workout partner that says, Yeah, it looks great. You still feel good doing it 96% correct. Right. But then 12 weeks later, you're down to 89% correct. And this is when inflammation starts to begin.

SPEAKER_01:

Right. The little aches and pains start to come back.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, not yet. Not yet. Because you want to think about inflammation on a scale. So I've mentioned this a few times, but let's talk about it again. So if you think about inflammation zero to 10, when you have zero inflammation, there's zero pain at all. When you have 10 out of 10 inflammation, it's excruciatingly painful and it hurts like hell. Just for the purposes of this podcast, let's say that you cannot perceive pain until your inflammation has gone over a level four.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

So at level zero, I don't feel any pain. I've got a level one inflammation, I don't feel any pain. Level two, I don't feel any pain. Level three, I don't feel any pain. Level four, I don't feel any pain. But you keep doing that exercise slightly wrong. Now that inflammation went from level four to level five. That's when you start to feel the aches and pains. Right. And then you keep doing it and it goes from five to six. Now it goes from less achiness and more pain. Then it goes from six to seven. Now it's not achiness at all. It's just painful. And then it just keeps going up and up and up. So the important thing to note here is that you have to have somebody who knows what they're looking for look at you when you're doing something to make sure that it's 100% correctly on a regular basis.

SPEAKER_01:

Right. And what is regular?

SPEAKER_00:

One month.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay. So every month we need to be spending an hour with the professional, it doesn't physical.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. It doesn't even have to be an hour.

unknown:

Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

It doesn't even have to be an hour. An hour is ideal. But we can do it in five minutes, ten minutes. Right.

SPEAKER_01:

Just in making sure that we're actually activating the muscles appropriately and doing said exercise, whatever it is, homework correctly.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And then building on it and progressing. Because if we do the same thing every single day, week after week after week after week, as we're getting older, we're still actually regressing.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, that doesn't count as exercise if you do the same thing over and over again.

SPEAKER_01:

Right. So after we perfect something and we make sure a month later that it's still perfected, then we need to build on it and move on to the next level so that we can continue to progress.

SPEAKER_00:

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

So number two is regular checkups. And you just gotta do it. I mean, just do it. If you want to live a pain-free life, you got to move the right way. You have to look at all the best athletes in the world. There's not a single elite athlete in the entire world in any sport that doesn't have a coach. Right? There's a reason why Scotty Scheffler still gets a coach, has still has a coach that's with him on the driving range every single day.

SPEAKER_01:

Right. And I was gonna say we do the same where we go outside of insurance to find our therapist or to find our providers that are gonna help us to continue to progress.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I'm not going to any medical professional that takes insurance. I'm just not. Because you're gonna do things very differently from somebody else that doesn't. I've mentioned my dentist many times on this episode or this podcast, park dentistry right across the street. I didn't know that they never took insurance. Right. Like since we've been going for years now, they've never taken insurance. Right. I just recently found it out, but I chose them intentionally because of a whole laundry list, but now I'm like, I'm glad that I never knew they didn't take insurance. It's irrelevant. I was paying cash from the beginning. It's just a completely different product.

SPEAKER_01:

Right. So number two is monthly check-ins on the physical aspect of things and challenging yourself on that monthly check-in too. Um, but make sure you're doing it 100% correctly. And then number three is the regenerative modalities, making sure we are utilizing regenerative modalities to reduce that internal inflammation and to help with that stress response, which is also gonna help your blood sugar control, which circles back to number one, you guys. Wow.

SPEAKER_00:

These regenerative therapies that we have nowadays are just game changers. It's so synonymous with the horse and carriage or the horse and buggy. A horse can pull a buggy, you can get from point A to point B back in the 1800s, or in the early 1900s, you could drive a Model T, a Model A, you could drive a car. Right? These regenerative therapies, they're here to stay. They work. The science proves that they work, they're not anecdotal, they actually work. And to not take advantage of it is just the same as saying, I'm gonna drive to Gainesville for the gator game, but I'm gonna take a horse up there.

SPEAKER_01:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

Like, what?

SPEAKER_01:

That's not efficient.

SPEAKER_00:

You could do it, but wouldn't you rather be there in three hours instead of three days?

SPEAKER_01:

Right, right, exactly. So the regenerative therapies with science backed on reducing inflammation, helping regenerate the positive, happy cells in our body, which is what our body is made up of.

SPEAKER_00:

Exactly. Our far infrared light sauna has been so much fun. Almost every single person that comes through our doors is sitting in that thing at least five minutes.

SPEAKER_01:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

Like it just you feel so regenerized or re um revitalized. Revitalized. Look at me.

SPEAKER_01:

You're just really struggling on the words tonight.

SPEAKER_00:

We really gotta get some lunch.

SPEAKER_01:

We got we need some blood sugar control here. Can I get a candy bar in here? Oh my gosh, no. Not a candy bar.

SPEAKER_00:

That was funny.

SPEAKER_01:

A protein bar. It's like a candy bar. Yeah. Kind of.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I that's what I call my candy bars or my protein bars.

SPEAKER_01:

That's true. You do call it.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, can I get a candy bar, please?

SPEAKER_01:

All right. So step number one, blood sugar control.

SPEAKER_00:

Find no step number one is get into Berman Health Club and get a CGM.

SPEAKER_01:

CGM, continuous glucose monitor. Doesn't it hurt?

SPEAKER_00:

Yep. To sh prove to yourself that you need to do this. Step number two.

SPEAKER_01:

Monthly check-ins on the physical component.

SPEAKER_00:

Just it could take as little as five minutes. Just walk in the door, say, look at my squat. I'll look at your squat and I'll say, Oh, it's so close. Just move this just a hair that way. Okay, see you next month.

SPEAKER_01:

And step number three, utilizing regenerative modalities, which by the way, are non-invasive, pain-free, and you just feel we have people everybody leaves saying, I feel like I'm on a cloud. And one person texted the the night after she tried it for the first time. She goes, I slept like I was dead last night. I'm like, Well, I hope your heart was still beating. But I mean, obviously it is because you're texting, but that's amazing.

SPEAKER_00:

That was after STEM pod, right?

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, after STEM pod.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, so we got STEM pod, EMTT, Shockwave, Far Infrared Light Sauna.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, it's awesome.

SPEAKER_00:

We've got a couple more in the pipeline that I haven't told Jenny about, and she's giving me the look right now you're gonna spend more money.

SPEAKER_01:

Hey, it's working. So here we go. So those are the three life hacks to improve your quality and longevity at Berman Health Club.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Love it.

SPEAKER_01:

Ciao.