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Good Neighbor Podcast: Cooper City
EP #290: Joseph Fermin with AAI Rejuvenation Clinic
Joseph Fermin's compelling journey from marketing to the forefront of holistic wellness is one you won't want to miss. After facing his own battle with cancer, Joseph redefined his life's mission to focus on health, wellness, and preventive medicine. As the founder of AAI Rejuvenation Clinic, he passionately advocates for the transformative benefits of hormone replacement and testosterone therapy, especially for those over 30 seeking to enhance their energy, sleep, and focus. Joseph's story is not just about personal triumph but also a call to action for anyone looking to improve their quality of life through innovative health approaches.
We also touch on the profound impact that lifestyle choices have on our hormone production and overall well-being. Joseph opens up about the challenges of maintaining a healthy diet in a world flooded with processed foods and sugar, illustrating these points with personal anecdotes about managing a child's diabetes. The conversation highlights the critical role of specialized clinics like AAI Rejuvenation Clinic in supporting not just internal health, but also enhancing external appearance. True beauty, as Joseph asserts, comes from within and can be amplified through responsible therapy and lifestyle changes. This episode is packed with insights for those ready to embark on a journey towards better health and vitality.
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This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Jeremy Wolf.
Speaker 2:Hello, hello everyone and welcome back. You know we've been having a common theme lately. I've had a lot of guests on the show in the health and wellness space and also in the personal growth and development, and our guest today is going to continue that theme. He's going to make me young and he's going to make me more beautiful than I already am. I'm here with Joseph Furman and Joseph joins us with the AAI Rejuvenation Clinic. Joseph, welcome to the show, brother.
Speaker 2:Thank you for having me Good morning Good morning, Good morning and thanks, as always, to our listeners for tuning in to learn more about our great community and the businesses that serve us. Joseph, why don't we start by having you tell everyone a little bit about what you guys do? I kind of alluded to it with my intro.
Speaker 3:But tell us a little bit about it with my intro but tell us a little bit about this. Well, let me give you a history of where I came from and why I advocate for AI rejuvenation clinic and I started helping a rejuvenation clinic. I started in the marketing and advertising business and building websites and so forth and advertising business and building website and so forth. So about 20-something years ago I had the opportunity to meet some guys. At that time there was no regulation in this type of business so they really started this from the garage of their house making $30,000, $50,000 a week in sales. So I learned the business in that part and I wanted to get into that business. So the only way that I was going to get into that business because of my language barrier I couldn't make sales or any of those natures in the business. So I got into the technical side of it. So I started building websites and marketing and doing advertising for clinics.
Speaker 3:My first clinic was in West Palm Beach. It was Total Health and Rejuvenation Clinics. It was Total Health and Rejuvenation Clinics. The owner was Don Montano there, a multimillionaire there. He was making, I believe, $5 million 20 years ago in this type of business. So I went up to him and I told him listen, I can bring you leads. Give me the opportunity, let me build websites for you, and that's how I started building leads. Give me the opportunity, let me build websites for you, and that's how I started. Building websites is. Give me the opportunity to build websites and do marketing and advertising.
Speaker 3:But the reality is that I wanted to get into the business and that's the only way that I will learn getting somebody that will teach me the business where I wanted to go, where I wanted to be. So I helped in that 12, 15 years of me doing advertising. I helped about five clinics open, one of them. Really. I lost $4 million in that clinic and I actually was a Kingsborough medical. I helped open that clinic and because my knowledge of business wasn't there, he used his lawyers and kicked me out. But that's another story.
Speaker 2:Another story for another day. I wanted to ask you, though, about so. First of all, that's a great place to start. You know learning about the marketing and promoting a business before you actually enter into it. But I wanted to dig in a little bit further into what this business is, because you hear AI rejuvenation clinic. I've done a little research on it, but our listeners probably don't know exactly what you do. From what I gather, you guys are doing like hormone replacement therapy, testosterone therapy. Can you speak a little?
Speaker 2:bit about the business model and what types of services and things that you offer to the public.
Speaker 3:Yeah, let me get into this really right, quick point. So I wasn't really interested in the whole entire hormone business, not into the therapy per se. I was into the business Not until 10 years ago that I got cancer. So in that moment I started realizing hold up, I got to take care of my health and that same opportunity I had. My investor the rest in peace.
Speaker 3:He died four years ago. He was my mentor, he invested money to open this clinic and he brought me in, uh, some marketing and advertising and that's where I really took it seriously because my cancer it was, it was, it was, it will be coming in my life already the the health business. So that was that's why I've advocated to to join with him and open this clinic and help other people realize, uh, you know, get their health and and and situated. So ai rejuvenation clinic started 10 years ago and, um, mainly the clinic is is about three things balancing hormones, vitamins and amino acids OK, and exercising and awareness OK. So we call that preventive medicine, ok. Now, I'm not a doctor or any of those natures. I've just been learning through the years and because of my own health I've been living through that own personal triotry so well, we have different type of programs in there, like testosterone.
Speaker 3:Testosterone is basically for men. Men usually have 90% testosterone, 10% estrogen, and women are vice versa. They got 90% estrogen, 10% testosterone. So both male and female produce testosterone and estrogen at the same time. What happens is that after the age of 30, your hormone starts decreasing and going in balance. So that's why the premenopause starts coming in and so forth. That's why you get old, you get tired, you can't sleep, your focus is not there, so it's really part of your life. So I'm going to give you an example After, after, let's say, a young boy that has that's in the 18 is probably producing about 3,000. At the age of 30, you'll look at a guy around, probably around the 200. So so, um, I keep myself around the 700 and I'm great. I'm almost 50 years old, um, I got five grandkids, I got a big family. So you know, hold on.
Speaker 2:When you say you keep yourself around 700, is that through a regimen of testosterone therapy or are you doing other things to keep that level? Or is it like a mix of lifestyle and supplementing via the testosterone?
Speaker 3:No, it's actually a lifestyle. It's not just the therapy. You really got to go ahead and exercise. You got to. I mean, I'm not saying to go to the gym every day, but you need to do a walk or run or do some sort of activity. You know, eating healthy is a priority Nowadays. Eating McDonald's and fast food, the digestive system is really destroying your. I mean they don't have any nutrients and any vitamins or amino acids.
Speaker 2:It's poison almost, I mean if you eat it all at once it'll poison you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so you don't get no benefits from it. And do you know that the body doesn't also produce any vitamins? So you have to consume it somewhere somehow. So, um, the only vitamin that you, that your body produces, really is vitamin, it's not even a vitamin, it's actually a hormone, hormone d, and that you get it through through through the sun and so forth. You know, the rest of the vitamin has to be consumed somewhere somehow or injected through IV or those type of therapies.
Speaker 3:So, ai, what it does is that they go ahead and does three different things for you Go ahead, do a physical exam, complete physical exam. We do a complete blood work and we do a family history so we can know if you, you know, have any diseases from the family that they can generate. So we put all that together, we give it to the doctors. So we put all that together, we give it to the doctors. The doctors come up with a therapy and a plan that's tailored for your acids and all the type of, you know, information that we give them, like exercise and, you know, maybe, some meditation. You know it works wonder. I meditate every day, you know. So my stress level is really high. So stress level is one of the indication of number one, you know, death in the in the US right now.
Speaker 2:You know, so sounds to me like this is a holistic, holistic approach to wellness, where they're using some, some external supplementing whether it's the hormone therapy or the testosterone or like vitamin injections, things like that but also to go along with promoting healthy diet, lifestyle, exercise, all the things that we need to be doing on the preventive, preventative end to be well, essentially so correct.
Speaker 3:Yeah, correct, so kind of have that right, correct, it's not just the therapy. The therapy is just a foundation to get you where you are. But, yeah, correct, you have to walk through it. You know, to experience. I mean, I had cancer 10 years ago.
Speaker 3:So I changed my life after that. My mentality was make money, make money, make money, make money. You know, support my family. I was just Dwell myself 24 hours in business, you know, and that stress really, really, really, really almost killed me and I'm going to tell you a little story, how it happened, so you can understand that it saved my life. I was so stressed out that I wanted to get out of Florida. So I told my daughter and her boyfriend listen, let's go hunting, let's go to Pennsylvania, let's go rent a cabin over there. Let's go hunting, let's get away. Something is happening to me. So, driving out of Florida, I believe around Jacksonville, I stopped in a gas station and pulled gas and I passed out in the gas station. I woke up in the hospital and the hospital told me that I that I had, that I had thyroid cancer what stage was it when they caught it at that point?
Speaker 3:um, I didn't tell me what stage it was it um, until I got back here to florida and did I did a um, uh a test with it, with my own doctor and so forth. Um, it was on stage one, okay, uh, I I did. I did two radiations um first radiation did it didn't shrink it down um, so they give me um a second radiation and that uh helped bringing the the, the, the cancer down and to disappear. But I'm still in medication with thyroid medication to, to to help me keep my thyroid balance, and with the program of ai rejuvenation clinics I I maintain my hormone in a level where I can function every day and sleep good every day without having any issues.
Speaker 2:Okay. So when you were diagnosed with cancer, you went through the typical treatments. Was it immediately after or during that process that you started making some of these lifestyle changes and and really getting into applying these, these types of therapies, to yourself?
Speaker 3:Yes, I did. Um, I even consult with my doctor. Um, my testosterone was an a hundred brother, so I was barely producing testosterone. So I keep my level at 700. That keeps me with energy. I can sleep good, I can stay focused. You know I can go to the gym. Um, you know I can go to the gym. Um, I mean, I can be some of these young guys, uh, at the gym, you know, lifting and and and, and I can run three miles, you know, without stopping, and I'm almost 50 years old. So, uh, you know, uh, I feel great. You know, and, um, and that's what we're trying to do, um, you know we're not trying to uh, uh, uh, you know, tell people, you know, um, you know, do the therapy, if, if, if we can, if you call us and and you don't want to do the therapy, that's fine, you can go ahead and we can guide you to what you need to eat.
Speaker 3:There's food out there that can produce hormones by itself. You don't, you don? You need to eat. There's food out there that can produce hormones by itself. You don't need to get into a therapy, even though the older that you get, the less hormone you produce. So sooner or later you will have to get into some sort of therapy. So it's just part of life, you know. But there's food out there that you can eat, that can prevent, you know, the regress of that hormone imbalance and so forth. It's just hard nowadays, brother. The environment, the food that we eat, you know the electronics surrounding you, you know everything is just negative, negative energy. Negative energy, and we know the negative kills the hormone and when the hormones die your body is not going to survive.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we live. I say this all the time. We live in an instant gratification society. We have everything we need at a fingertip, but the diet lifestyle exercise is so unbelievably important.
Speaker 2:And so many of us have gone so far away from that and even if you're cognizant, especially as a diet, even if you're cognizant of that, it is difficult to go out and just go to Publix and go shopping and actually buy things that are healthy without sitting there and actually pulling out, looking at the contents and researching this stuff. And they package things so nicely. It looks like it's nice and fresh and healthy for you, but in reality the second ingredient is sugar, which is the biggest poison ever and we just keep putting it and shoveling it in our bodies.
Speaker 2:Yeah it's tough, but so important. I go through it, it's been on my radar for a while.
Speaker 3:I go through it. My son is 10 years old and he was diagnosed with diabetes. So I'm dealing with that sugar problem right now. It's a hustle. His medication is expensive. His pots is expensive. Medication is expensive, his pots is expensive. You know, I keep my extra phone just to keep his monitors on. You know, every time it beats I'm calling his mom. Hey, his number's high, you know so. But you know, I, family is everything, brother, you so, um, I, I, I will do anything for my family. I think that if I wasn't because of my family, um, I don't know where I will be. To tell you the truth, um, they keep me going so you have a 10 year old son.
Speaker 2:I also have a 10 year old-old son. What other kids do you have?
Speaker 3:Oh my God, brother, I started early. My oldest is 27. Okay, Thank God that she don't got no kids. My second is 25. She got four kids back to back. My third daughter is 23. She got one kid and my son is 10 years old.
Speaker 2:All right, so just four. You got two more than I do. I always say I got to 10 and 12, and they're fantastic, but that is enough for me.
Speaker 3:Oh man, they're expensive. Yeah uh, where do?
Speaker 2:you guys? Where do you guys live?
Speaker 3:um. We reside here in florida um sunrise um yeah, I got a house in sunrise and a house in margate and now the practice.
Speaker 2:The clinic clinic, aai Rejuvenation Clinic. That's in. Is it Fort Lauderdale? Where is it?
Speaker 3:located boulevard um. It's right across the mall um was I now forgot that more um where's across the mall there and sunrise you're talking about, on sunrise, the flea market area, that then on that area. No, no, no, no, the more. The more after you cross the little bridge, I forgot it, the more after you cross the little bridge, I forgot heading to the beach, close to the beach.
Speaker 2:Oh, I got it, the Galleria.
Speaker 3:The Galleria Mall.
Speaker 2:yes, I used to live out there and I'd forgotten about that area. Yeah, okay. So yeah, you're east Fort Lauderdale. That's a great area.
Speaker 3:Yeah, right across the street from Galleria Mall. That's where the clinic is residing.
Speaker 2:And now is that? It sounded to me like there are many of these clinics around.
Speaker 3:Is that right? Yes, some of the clinics. There's a difference. Some of the clinics they are. They go, they concentrate in different type of area, like I say, in beauty. You know statics, you know hormones, so they concentrate in different type of things. Ai, rejuvenation just concentrate on hormones, amino acids and vitamins. And everything is prescription. Nothing is over the counter, everything is prescribed by a doctor and it's and it's made into a therapy. So we only concentrate on hormones and vitamins, amino acids. We don't concentrate on beauty or anything else. We want to fix you for within. It's up to you to fix what's outside.
Speaker 2:Well, the funny thing about that is when you fix what's within, the outside changes, like the idea of being beautiful it all comes back to what's inside, and if you're feeling well inside, you just exude positive energy and confidence and it all comes from within anyway. So you could put all the masks on you want on the outside, but if it's ugly inside, it's going to come through in your interactions with people I, I can tell you this story how, how powerful this, this, this, this therapy, and combined with all the therapy, it is really, uh, rejuvenating.
Speaker 3:Um susan zomers has had a cancer. I believe they had to take part of her breasts out With hormone therapy and stem cells. She grew it back. Wow, that's how powerful these therapies are. They can maintain you young if you do it the right way. The right way it has to be by a doctor and it has to be a therapy. Testosterone by itself will not work, because you could. There's all the hormones around it, they have to be cold, they have to be put together as a therapy so they can work together. You know, I'm going to give you an example. If you take too much testosterone, testosterone can overlap and create estrogen, and if a man has high estrogen, that's where the extra fat comes in, the man's titty comes in, and so forth. So estrogen is bad for men. So having a balance is the key of everything in the hormone business. So if you can control that balance, you can actually extend people's life and wellness.
Speaker 2:People's life and and and and and wellness. Well said, my brother. How can our listeners, if anybody is listening that wants to learn more, that would like to get some more information? What's the best way to connect with you guys? Maybe share your website and your contact information so people can reach out.
Speaker 3:They can visit us at our website, wwwaicscom, or. We are on all social media. You can go to YouTube. Go into AI Rejuvenation Clinic YouTube. We have over 300 videos helping from all all type of diseases, how to fix it. You can call us at the clinic um at 866-224-5698 um. Tina will answer the phone. Me and tina has been working in the rejuvenation business for over 20 years, so she's like a sister to me and she's the one that does my therapy. She provides my therapy, so she works directly with the doctors, so I trust her 100% in whatever she decides and my therapy.
Speaker 2:All right, love it. We will, of course course, drop a link in the description below to all of your contact information so folks can reach out to learn more. Joseph, thanks for joining us, brother.
Speaker 3:Oh, you're welcome. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2:It is our pleasure and thanks as always to our listeners for tuning in, and we will catch everyone next time on the next episode of the good neighbor podcast. Everyone, take care and have a wonderful day.
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