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The Berman Method
The Berman Method
Episode #214: How Functional Medicine Changed Everything: Jenni's Leap Into A New Kind of Care
In this episode of the Berman Method Podcast, Dr. Jake Berman and PA Jenni Berman pull back the curtain on why modern healthcare is broken—and how Berman Health Club was born as a response to it. From confronting a profit-driven medical system that treats symptoms instead of root causes, to redefining what it means to truly “age well,” they share the deeply personal journey that led them away from conventional medicine and into functional, patient-centered care.
You’ll hear how Jenni’s own health struggles, burnout in traditional medicine, and mentorship in functional medicine reshaped her purpose—and why it’s never too early or too late to feel better than your age. They also dive into real-life examples of food sensitivities, inflammation, medication overload, and the quiet ways people accept feeling “off” as normal aging.
This conversation is about more than healthcare—it’s about empowerment, longevity, and building a system that helps you arrive at 80 feeling 60. If you’ve ever felt unheard, overmedicated, or told “that’s just how it is,” this episode will hit home.
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And we are rolling baby with the Berman Method Podcast. Dr. Jake Berman here with my beautiful co-host.
Speaker:Jenni Berman, physician assistant.
Speaker 2:What is happening? We are David going against Goliath. Goliath being the corporate medical system, big pharmaceutical companies, health insurance companies, they do not have your best interests in mind. They will choose profits over patient outcomes every single time. And remember, a patient cured is a customer lost.
Speaker:According to insurance companies. According to pharmaceuticals and Western medicine.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I mean, just think about that for a minute. If you cure somebody, you have lost a customer. No, there's a lot of people that think, oh yeah, that's that's pretty grim there, Jake. I mean, come on, really. But think about it. It's a business. It is a business. You cure somebody, you've lost that customer.
Speaker:Except for us.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker:Because we can cure people, but we don't lose them because we continue to adjust for life and for maintenance and for getting stronger and continuing to age gracefully.
Speaker 2:Yes. Because if you think about it, gravity never quits. It never quits. And you constantly have to continue to fight.
Speaker:Right. And and life continues to happen.
Speaker 2:And life continues to happen.
Speaker:Whether you're in your 30s or your 70s, 80s, life continues to happen.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So our ultimate goal with our shift into Berman Health Club is to help seniors transform into ultimate boomers so that you can arrive at 80 feeling 60. And that just trickles on down the road. If you're 30, I want you to arrive at 50 feeling 30. If you're at 50, I want you to, or at 60, I want you to arrive there feeling 40. Whatever it is, you should feel younger than your number actually is because your feeling is how you decide how old you are.
Speaker:Right. And it starts in your 20s, 30s. So those of you listening, Tess and you're like, I have a long way to be until I'm 80. It all starts now. And that's something that you and I have discussed on prior podcasts of how the blood sugar instability, the hormonal changes, the sleep, the vitamin deficiencies are starting with how we're fueling our body in our teenage years, in our 20s, our 30s. But then on the other side, we have these uh, you know, customers, clients coming in uh in their 70s, and they're like, I don't know if you can fix anything at this point. I'm probably too far gone. And that's not the case either.
Speaker 2:It's not even close to the case. We've got more 80-year-olds in our practice today than we've ever had.
Speaker:Yes. And thriving.
Speaker 2:Thriving, just completely changing the way that they feel at 84, 86, 87 years old.
Speaker:Right. Getting rid of medications, getting rid of the cane, sleeping through the night for the first time in 25 years.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So it's never too late. You're never too old.
Speaker:And you're never too young.
Speaker 2:And you're never too young. Love it. Good. So today we want to talk a little bit more about how Berman health and wellness came to be because we talked about how we came into this world of functional medicine, treating problems, not symptoms. And we started off with how Jenni got sick in PA school. And we ultimately had to figure out what was causing it. It ultimately came down to a gluten sensitivity. And then the more we learned, there was a dairy sensitivity.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker 2:And then I think there was even some egg trickled in there.
Speaker:Yeah, all the nuts that you can think of. Yes. It continued to, we continued to find out more. It wasn't that things continued to progress. It was what it was. And we just, I was through more evaluation, we found out more. But yes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we were learning more. And then that ultimately helped transform my perspective in physical therapy. And that transformed or led to the evolution of Berman physical therapy being founded in 2020.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:And then here we go. Jake's being an entrepreneur entrepreneur doing his own thing, and I'm learning things about business. And I'm going, yo, it'd be really great if Jenni, if you quit your really secure job with benefits and a consistent paycheck every single week. I think it'd be great if you just quit all that and you joined me in this entrepreneur entrepreneurial world because I think that we could do some really great things.
Speaker:Yes, that did happen. Although I think we should back up a little bit because when I graduated PA school, I was had my mind set. Even before I graduated PA school, I had my mind set that I was going to be working in pediatric orthopedics. I loved it. Yeah, I was passionate about it. I really liked it. I was set. I had a job offer for pediatric orthopedics in Jacksonville before I graduated. And you were like, nope, it's in the fine print of our engagement that we're moving to Naples. And I was like, but I have a job opportunity. And you're like, nope, you'll find another job. We're moving to Naples. And I was like, okay.
Speaker 2:Here we go. Hold that thought because this is fun. I think this will be fun for our listeners that have been with us for a while. So we had been dating long distance. I was in Destin. Jenni was in Jacksonville. And we've been dating long distance for a year when she got accepted to PA school in Jacksonville. And I go, okay, I'm not doing long distance another two and a half years. So we can either break up now, or I'll quit my job and I'll move to Jacksonville, but I will only do that if you can see yourself living in Naples because I will move back to Naples.
Speaker:Yes, that was that was the silver lining, the fine print.
Speaker 2:It wasn't fine print. It was black and white. It was billboard size. Yes, it was. I said the only way that I'm doing this is if you can see yourself living in Naples.
Speaker:That's true, because you had a good job out in Destin. You were developing a life out there, and I was in Gainesville. And I actually had plans to move to Destin because I had applied to multiple PA schools and hadn't gotten into one. And so we actually started looking at housing for me to move out to Destin from Gainesville, out to Destin. And what was it like a week before I was supposed to move? I got accepted to the PA school in Jacksonville. And so then it was like, oh, just kidding. I'm not moving. See you later. And move to Jacksonville instead.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So, anyways, Jenni agrees to a billboard-sized ultimatum that she will or could see herself living in Naples. You know, again, not putting the car before the horse. We had only been dating in a year. But we were serious at that time. And I'm like, okay, I'm serious enough to quit my job out here. If you're serious enough to say that you can ultimately see yourself living in Naples, because I will end up back there one day. And you agreed.
Speaker:I did agree.
Speaker 2:And so we get married.
Speaker:Or this is like a Yeah, we weren't married yet. Because I graduated, I graduated PA school, we got married, you had a 30th birthday, and I took my boards all in a two-week time period.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker:And then moved to Naples.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker:That's just back up.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So you get a job offer before you graduate to your dream job in pediatric orthopedics, and you come home and you're so giddy and you're excited. I I got some really big news to tell you. I got a dream job offer here in Jacksonville, and I just looked at you and I said, no.
Speaker 4:We're already engaged. We're about to get married. We've already committed to this life that's going to happen in Naples.
Speaker 3:Yep. Nope. Right. But but I th I think I should at least work here for a year or two. I mean, this is my dream job. I'm like, nope.
Speaker 4:You'll find another dream job.
Speaker:And so he said, you'll find another job. So anyway, long story short, we moved to Naples and I did find a different job in pediatric orthopedics and worked in that. And I quickly realized, I say quickly, I was there over almost a year and a half. I was within that job. However, I realized that that position, as much as I loved who I was working for, the company I was working for, the kids that I was seeing, I just wasn't being fulfilled. It wasn't where I should have been. And I didn't know where I should have been. Just something was telling me this isn't where I should be. This isn't the lifestyle that uh one, that I want. But two, I'm not helping the right person, especially with all that we had been going through at that point with my own gut issues. And now a year into marriage, figuring out that we were gonna have trouble having kids. I had not had a menstrual cycle, et cetera, et cetera. Uh, and this is actually where I connected with uh Dr. Carolyn Cederquist, the Cedar Cederquist Medical and Wellness Center at this point in Naples, Florida. And I started communicating with her just about some of our own things that we have been experiencing, and this passion that I was getting into a functional medicine and realizing that I needed to help someone else, not go through what I went through, and that pediatric orthopedics wasn't the field that I should be in anymore.
Speaker 2:But didn't that happen just coincidentally where you knew that you weren't happy with where you're at and you're just randomly looking through job offerings on Craigslist?
Speaker:Craigslist, yeah. Yeah. I wasn't even, I wasn't really actively looking, but I had been scrolling through and did see a position for a job at Ceder quist uh on Craigslist, yes. Uh which is like totally random, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember you bringing that up and you're going, Do you think this is real? Why would this be advertised on Craigslist? But it was, and you ended up having coffee with Dr. Cedar Quist.
Speaker:And yeah, we I mean we communicated with each other more than three months before I actually committed to seeking a job change, and we really went through some of my own issues and just the relatability of what I was going through versus what she was doing at her practice. And I was like, man, this really sounds like it's where I should be. So moving forward, I ended up working with Dr. Cederquist at her office for several years and really was seeing the difference in how I was presenting healthcare and how different it is to actually be able to spend time with patients and listen to them and really make changes so that they are feeling better and being listened to and seeing results and just feeling more confident in their own skin.
Speaker 2:You're you learned how to treat actual problems versus just prescribing a medication for symptoms. And that's what this whole podcast has been about for five years now is Western medicine is so effed because the entire curriculum revolves around pharmaceutical education.
Speaker:Yeah. Pharmaceuticals prescribe this or refer. Like as a PA, that's what you're taught. If you don't know, refer them out to a specialist, send them to the specialist, and then the specialist is going to prescribe them a medication, most commonly.
Speaker 2:So it's just prescribe this medication for this, which comes with another side effect, that you need to prescribe another medication to treat that side effect, which comes with another side effect, and so on and so forth. Next thing you know, you have a whole entire tackle box full of medications. You've got 30 medications that you've been taking. Three of them are for the same thing, but they're prescribed from three different doctors, and they don't talk to each other, and now they're counteracting each other, and you're actually getting worse, not better.
Speaker:Yeah, 100%. The amount of times that that practice that uh patients were coming in telling me about things, and I'm like, but wait a second, you're on this medication and this medication, like these are interacting. This is why you're feeling the way that you're feeling, or this medicine is actually causing the symptom of what you're coming in here for. And so you're absolutely right. And just being able to kind of be the eyes over everything, right? You see a specialist and they don't even look at the other medications that you're taking, or the other specialist. They don't even ask about your medical history. They just say, okay, here's the medicine for this symptom. And then you go to the next specialist, and they do the same thing, and the next specialist, and then here we are on eight medications, two of which are doing the same thing, three of which are are interacting with each other, and it's just a cascade, it's a domino effect.
Speaker 2:And that is Western medicine summarized in 60 seconds, right there.
Speaker:Absolutely. So coming back to me getting into functional medicine is really, you know, I said that pediatric orthopedics was my passion, so I thought at that time graduating PA school. But once I realized how effective I was being and the difference that was being made in these clients' lives working in functional medicine, that became my real passion. I lived it, I ate it, I breathed it, I did it all the time. I just loved being involved in that and still do. Love being involved in it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so let's get into the evolution of Berman health and wellness because there was a series of fortunate events that occurred. So you had been with Dr. Cederquist for about three years, I think it was. And she was retiring and selling her practice, and we're like, hmm, this might be an opportunity for us to buy this practice and do this. It turned super long story short. That was way bigger of a bite that we were ready to take at that moment. And Dr. Cederquist ended up selling to a different doctor and not a doctor, a business person.
Speaker:A business owner, yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, sold to a business owner, and they came in with different visions, and your visions didn't align anymore. So that led to you leaving that practice after Dr. Cederquist retired. You left that practice and you got back into internal medicine.
Speaker:Working in the hospital?
Speaker 2:Because it was a great paycheck, and you're just trying to figure out some way to continue doing at least something that you are currently doing because functional medicine really didn't exist.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker 2:There was no other clinics.
Speaker:Right. At that time, there wasn't. I mean, there was a weight loss clinic in town, but it wasn't functional medicine and doing what I was doing and talking about the gut health and looking at the the bigger picture and then breaking down this bigger picture. So yeah, I went to internal medicine within a hospital. I mean, it was outpatient, but I was working for a hospital system, internal medicine, because I felt like it still encompassed being able to treat patients and focusing generally on medicine. And quickly in that position did I realize that I was just back in that mill of Western medicine filling prescription after prescription. And when I did want to talk about nutrition, I didn't have the time to talk about nutrition or I couldn't bill for nutrition. So then I got in trouble for not billing certain things, and then we didn't get the right reimbursement. And it was just an entire it's a system. It was a system where I was being dictated on what exactly I had to bill for each patient. So what did that limit me to be able to talk to them about? If somebody came in for two problems, I only could address one and tell them that they had to go to the front desk and make another appointment to come back and talk about the second thing because I'm not allowed to address two things in one appointment.
Speaker 2:So I went from seeing Jenni being burnout with pediatric orthopedics, which led to a shift. Now she's coming home bright and energized from Dr. Cederquist for three years. Then she goes into internal medicine and is making the most money that she's made since being graduated, and she's back to burnout and unhappy and unfulfilled. But here's where, but wait, there's more. So I'm seeing this change happen, and I'm going, you've got to quit this and you've got to start your own thing. And you shut me down just as fast as I shut you down when you told me you had that dream job offer in Jacksonville. You shut me down so fast, and your first words out of your mouth is were, I am not an entrepreneur. That's you, that's not me. I'm happy right where I'm at.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:And I'm going, in my head, I'm going, you are a blatant liar. You are not happy at all. You are safe and you're comfortable. Yep. And you're getting a big ass paycheck every two weeks, and you're utilizing your degree for what you got it for. And that's what's happening right now.
Speaker:Yeah. And my words to you was, I'm happy being a provider.
Speaker 2:I'm happy being a provider.
Speaker:I didn't want to run a business. I didn't want to be an entrepreneur. I'm happy being a provider.
Speaker 2:And I'm going, in my head, I'm going, oh my gosh, the opportunity that Jenni has to do more good in the world than what she was currently doing, I'm I could just see it. I'm going, all you have to do is make the jump. Right. Just make the jump and we will figure it out. We'll figure it out.
Speaker:And as the days continued to go by where I just was, again, filling script after script, and I had pharmaceutical companies coming in at lunchtime. And then we were getting more money if we prescribed this medicine. And then, you know, again, I was seeing 35 patients a day just trying to get through them. And it just, I mean, it became, like I said, a mill. And we at the time had just gotten pregnant with Stella, right? When I was starting this new position, just after I started this new position, we had gotten pregnant with Stella. And so then COVID happened. 2020, COVID happened. And I was still working in the hospital system. Then I was getting shifted to the urgent care because the urgent care was being overloaded. So I was working half of my days at the hospital in internal medicine, seeing pi sick patients come in. And then I was spending my other half of the days working at the urgent care office. And it was just patient after patient after patient. And again, you know, knowing that I wasn't fulfilling my passion like I was in functional medicine. But as Jake mentioned, I was in a safe place, and there was no other functional medicine practice at that time that I could go to. And Jake just kept dropping dropping the little hints in my ear and just saying, like, we can do this. And then you started taking me to your business conferences. That was the next thing. We went to a business conference just after Stella was born.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker:She was very little. I and now I don't remember. What month it was, maybe the summer. So Stella was born in April of 2020, and just a few months later, we traveled and it was like to New Orleans, right?
Speaker 2:No, New Orleans was in March, right before COVID.
Speaker:Well, anyway, so maybe it was March then. When I was pregnant with Stella, we went to New Orleans for the conference, and then I had her in April. So I had already been starting to get involved more in the business conferences and the business side of things. But moving forward even more, Stella was born and she was in the NICU, and she was four pounds, and I was coming, you know, went back to working in the urgent care, coming home to a premature baby. And finally it was like, I just can't do this. I can't keep coming home, working in the urgent care to a premi baby, not being fulfilled in what I'm doing. And that's when I started to make the change.
Speaker 2:And it was like just tip uh barely, barely dunking your toe in the water. It was it was very slow and gradual. Yeah, but nonetheless, you started. I forget, I don't even remember how you officially started dipping your toe in the water.
Speaker:I was doing online personal training, is how I started it.
Speaker 2:That's what it was. Yeah. Online personal training in your free time, nights and weekends. Yeah. Juggling a premi baby and juggling me. And then that got to a point where you were so busy that you had to finally tell your real job that you had to go down to part-time. Yeah. But you only went down to 32 hours so that you could keep your benefits. And then that lasted for another couple of weeks. And then it's like, okay, come on, Jenni, we got to rip this band-aid off. And you're like, okay, I'll go down to 20 hours a week.
Speaker:I didn't. At one point I was working one day a week at the urgent care. Like, that's how slow it was that I just kept cutting back and kept cutting back. And I was working out of a little room in your office, starting to see some patients. I would bring Stella to work with me when I could. Um, but yeah, it was a very slow thing. But I realized that I just wasn't fulfilling the opportunities that I actually had to helping people when I was working in internal medicine. Of course, I saw great things. Of course, I did help a lot of people. There were a lot of people that were like, wow, you actually listen uh in this position. But then I was also I was helping them and listening to them and then being yelled at by my bosses that I wasn't billing the right things. Right.
Speaker 2:You're in this catch 22, you were handcuffed. You saw that you could truly help people in that position, but you couldn't. Right. You literally could not. You are reprimanded for not billing the right codes, and it's like, what the hell is happening right now? You didn't prescribe the right medic or enough medications. Yeah. It's like, no, you don't need a medication, you just need to change your diet.
Speaker:Right. I started talking nutrition. Nope, you can't do that.
Speaker 3:You cannot do that here.
Speaker:Oh gosh. So, anyway, yes, over the the year of mid-year 2020 to the end of 2020 is where Berman Health and Wellness was born. Started seeing patients slowly started pulling out of the internal medicine and urgent care until I think it was October that I finally like took that leap down to one day a week. And then after that, stopped working in the urgent care.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I it's all hazy to me because the world had just ended. I had been in business for five years and we finally had a business that was doing well, and then the world ends, and we are generating zero revenue, and it's like, oh my gosh, what's gonna happen? So we're trying to pivot and figure out Berman physical therapy, and at the same time, I'm still trying to encourage Jenni, you can do this, quit your comfortable job. That's the only income that we're bringing in right now because I'm not I'm making zero, I'm I'm hemorrhaging cash right now, and you're making great money, but I think you should give that up. Yeah, I really think you should quit that security and come join me over here.
Speaker:But I did, and within by August, September of 2021, I hired my first employee, and by December, I hired my second, who are both still with us at this point.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker:So yeah, it's been been a great thing. And really being able, my my whole goal behind this has been to help somebody else not have to go through what I went through, to avoid the frustration of being bounced from doctor to doctor to doctor with no answers and no insight as to what's going on, just being told that I have a secondary problem that they can't figure out. Really trying to help others avoid that frustration has been my primary goal in this entire practice. And it has continued to be successful successful in that.
Speaker 2:I love it, absolutely love it. And I think to come back full circle, one of the greatest parts about this whole thing is that Dr. Cederquist has been and is still in your life as the number one mentor that you've had throughout this whole entire thing.
Speaker:Absolutely. And I just, you should see me right now. I have a smile on my face. Like every time her name gets brought up, I just have the biggest smile. I think she's just one of the most amazing people. And yes, she's still very, very much a mentor to me and to us. Her and her husband are very much mentors to us. I can still call her if I'm like, this just isn't making sense. Help me think about this and figure it out, and we'll brainstorm together. Um, and she does the same for me with uh people that she has questions about. We'll kind of brainstorm together on things and she'll ask how I'm treating it this these days, since she's not uh actually practicing anymore. So yeah, she's she continues to be a great meet mentor, even though we, you know, went separate ways initially when she retired, but now we're back together. And we never really went separate ways, I would say. I just didn't stick with her, the name of her practice. It wasn't her practice anymore, but the name of it I didn't stick with, but we still were friends and communicated, and she was still a mentor even when I was in internal medicine.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah, so here we are, Berman Health and Wellness, alive, thriving, and officially merged together with Berman Physical Therapy to now we are Berman Health Club. And we're created, we've created something now that 10 years ago, if you would have told me that this was where we'd be 10 years later, I would have laughed at you and I would have said, There's no chance that that's even remotely possible because I couldn't see it. The amount of change that has occurred in medicine has been astronomical. It is very similar to how much change that's that's occurred in the IT world, where 25 years ago it was dial-up AOL, you know, making those crazy noises to get on the internet, and nobody even knew if the internet was gonna be here to stay. And now here we are with supercomputers and AI and chat GPT 25 years later. And it's like, if you would have told me 25 years ago that I'm one of my best employees was gonna be an AI chatbot that I can have a conversation with easier than I can have a conversation with any employee, I would have said, no way. Right, right. 10 years ago, no, 15 years ago, I did not believe gluten sensitivity was legit. I thought it was a fat, I thought it was BS, I thought it was people just trying to get attention.
Speaker:Mm-hmm. And here you are.
Speaker 2:Here I am today. I'm going there is it is 100% real.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And that's whole part of this whole broken system where America has the worst food in the world as far as GMO goes and spraying pesticides and food colorings and all of these things that RFK is talking about and shedding light on. I mean, think about this. What is the there's two separate types of Fruit Loops? Is that what it is? Or what's the cereal where there's two separate types?
Speaker:Well, yeah, I mean, mm-li like a lot of products, you mean between the United States and like the UK?
Speaker 2:The United States and the rest of the world.
Speaker:Yeah, it's with any product. Ketchup is that way. Fruit loops, frosted flakes, like yes.
Speaker 2:There's an American frosted flakes, and then there's a rest of the world frosted flakes.
Speaker:With m m less ingredients, a lot less ingredients. I was trying to figure out the right word to say there. A lot less ingredients and a lot better ingredients on these products made or that are available in other areas, not in the United States. Ketchup is a prime example. Tomatoes and water. In America, there's a million ingredients in it.
Speaker 2:How? It's like, how have we been doing this? And we're saying it's okay. Ketchup is sweet over here. I I put it on my French fries, and I'm going, man, this is like candy.
Speaker:Because there's 11 billion and sugars and there's 110 billion ingredients in it.
Speaker 2:And then you go to the UK and you're like, tastes like tomatoes. Tomatoes. This is not exciting. Give me the mustard.
Speaker:Right. So, yes, and that's you know, a lot has transformed. And even, I mean, living it with our own kids, like when Stella gets dairy, her whole attitude and mood is just outrageous for a negative. Yes, it's in the negative sense, right? Like, and that's a kid. So, yes, it happens, it affects a lot more than just the GI, quote unquote GI of bloating and loose stool and constipation and nausea and vomiting. Like it there are systemic effects that these foods are causing, and not just gluten and dairy, but the preservatives, like you mentioned.
Speaker 2:That's the biggest thing is there's so many people, even in our friend group, even in our family group, where they don't believe that they've got any gluten issues or dairy issues or any food sensitivities, and they can eat whatever they want. And it's like, you can. It doesn't mean that you should.
Speaker:Right. The repercussions are there.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Like me, for example, I can pretty much eat anything that I want, and I don't have any issues that you would have that Stella would have if you ate the same thing.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:But I know what I'm eating, so should I?
Speaker:Right. Well, and you notice different things like recovery. And if you do it for extended days in a row, then you start having symptoms of reflux. You're not having heartburn, but you have symptoms of that. So it's just you present differently, that is not life altering, but it's still an internal inflammatory component that's going to affect you 20 and 30 years from now.
Speaker 2:Exactly. And that's our primary goal with Berman Health Club is to help people arrive at 80, feeling 60. And the way that you do that is by feeling better. And let me use myself, let's wrap this thing up with this right here, where I have personally drank Bud Light my entire adult life. Whenever I drink beer, it'd be Bud Light.
Speaker:Adult life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay. Started back in high school. Of course. Started back in high school, but my entire adult life has been drinking Bud Light. Whenever I drink beer, it would be Bud Light. And I loved Bud Light. My last food sensitivity screen comes back and gluten shows up on it. And it wasn't a big one, it wasn't flaming, but it showed up. And I'm going, damn it. I wonder what life would be like Sunday morning if I didn't drink Bud Light Saturday on the boat. So the next Saturday we go out and I drank Corona Premiere. And the reason why I drank Corona Premiere is because it has a lower, what is it called?
Speaker:Yeah, it's less less than 500 parts per million of gluten is how you can classify something as gluten-free if you're not celiac.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So it's it's unofficially gluten-free.
Speaker:A lower content, yeah.
Speaker 2:So Corona Premier has such a low gluten content that it's unofficial unofficially gluten-free opposed to Bud Light. Is not so the next Saturday I drank Corona Premier on the boat, and Sunday morning I got out of bed pissed off.
Speaker:Yes, but go on.
Speaker 2:I'm going, I cannot believe how good I feel today. And here's the kicker. I didn't realize that I had been feeling bad.
Speaker:Right. All those years. Because we always go to the gym on Sundays. Always. Like we will wake up, the kids will come with us, we will work out on Sundays. And so we were still doing that even when you were drinking Bud Light. But the difference was how you felt, how you performed, how your recovery was, not having Bud Light, but still having alcohol.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was night and day that Sunday morning when we went to the gym. I'm going, I cannot believe how good I feel. And it was the same amount of beer. There was no more, no less. It was the same amount as what I always do on Saturdays. And I'm going, I'm freaking mad right now because this just confirms that this is real in me personally. I already knew it was real for other people. But that was the first time that I noticed it in me. And the biggest thing was I didn't realize I was feeling bad on Sundays until I felt good on Sundays. And I'm not talking about a hangover. I'm not talking about a hangover on Sunday. I'm talking about it just was, it was just like dragging a little bit. It's just like a little sludge. There was no hangover, no headache, no nausea, no vomiting. It was just sluggish. And then after drinking the Corona Pamir, this is no plug. I'm not plugging different beers, by the way. I'm just trying to give you real life examples to make this hit home. I I just felt like let's go. Let's freaking work out. Let's let's go 110%. I can do this. Let's go.
Speaker:Yeah, yep. And that's, you know, the thing about a lot of people is they don't realize that they don't feel good. Or when I go through their medical history and they start to tell me things, they're like, oh, I didn't even really realize that, or I just thought that was normal, or I just lived with that, or that's just part of aging. But it's not. This is your gut telling us something, causing these systemic reactions, the runny nose, not sleeping through the night, having visual changes, like all of this stuff is a systemic inflammatory response that your body's experiencing that can get better. And there you have it. And that's Berman Health and Wellness, and how we developed to help one more person age gracefully. And by the way, why I went on to get a fellowship in anti-aging medicine just for this passion. So here we are. Arrive at 80 feeling 60.
Speaker 2:Love it.
Speaker:Awesome. I think that's it.
Speaker 2:Good. That's it. Yeah. Alright, that was a lot.
Speaker:Ciao for now.