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Spandex & Wine is a podcast for finding balance between being healthy & living a happy life. Hosted by Robin Hackney, a 23-year veteran in the fitness industry & wine consultant, this is a place to be our authentic selves as we have real conversations exploring wellness and all things wine! Subscribe now so you don’t miss an episode.
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Revolutionize Your Health w/ Cameron Snyder, Functional Medicine Expert
Ever wondered how functional medicine could revolutionize your health journey? Join us for a captivating episode featuring our insightful guest, Cameron Snyder, a dedicated chiropractor from FIT Muscle & Joint. Cameron takes us through his personal transformation from patient to practitioner and shares his passion for functional medicine. Discover how addressing the root causes of health issues with natural remedies, supplements, and lifestyle changes can make a significant difference in achieving optimal wellness. You'll gain insights into the personalized care provided at FIT Muscle & Joint, where practitioners like Reid Williams focus on truly understanding individual needs for long-lasting healing.
Our conversation takes a deep dive into the world of gut health and the significance of bioavailability in supplements. Learn why chelated supplements, such as magnesium, are celebrated for their enhanced absorption, and how integrating probiotics can boost your gut health and nutrient uptake. With 90% of our immune system linked to gut health, we explore the impact of diet on mood, sleep, and overall well-being. Removing potential dietary triggers like gluten and dairy can be transformative, and we discuss practical strategies for maintaining a healthy gut lining.
We wrap up by discussing the importance of mindfulness and self-awareness in health. As we navigate the complexities of modern living, understanding the impact of lifestyle choices on our kidney function and overall health is crucial. Cameron shares ways to address kidney insufficiency through tailored lifestyle changes and emphasizes the value of personalized care and ongoing evaluation. While the financial commitment to functional medicine may seem daunting due to insurance limitations, we highlight the long-term benefits it can bring to your life. Plus, discover how virtual consultations offer a flexible solution for embracing this holistic approach to health. Pour yourself a glass of something delightful and join us on this enlightening journey to a healthier, more balanced life.
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Hello and welcome to the Spandex and Wine podcast. I'm your host, robin Hackney, and I'm so happy that you're here. This podcast is a place for conversations about balancing a healthy lifestyle and being happy more specifically, happy hour. Together we'll explore all things wellness and wine. I hope you learn a little, laugh a lot and, along the way, know you're not alone on this balanced wellness journey. Ready to jump in? Pour something in your glass that makes you happy, because it's time for spandex and wine.
Speaker 1:Hey guys, first of all I want to say thank you to you. Thank you for listening. Whether you are driving, you are exercising, you're cooking dinner, you're cleaning house, maybe you're just kicking back and listening with your earbuds in, wherever you are, whatever you're doing, thank you. Thank you for taking the time to listen. So you've heard me say many times how much I appreciate chiropractors.
Speaker 1:I have a traditional chiropractor that I've been seeing for years, but recently I decided to try a new one at Fit Muscle and Joint, and I've mentioned him on the podcast before Reed Williams, and I usually describe him to people as well. He's part chiropractor, part physical therapist and part voodoo and of course I'm kidding about the voodoo, but it is so fascinating and at Fit. They believe in spending ample time with you in each session to make sure you feel heard and validated, and, of course, they treat you with all kinds of techniques and that's where the voodoo comment comes from, because they have methods that just blow my mind. It's just so incredible. You get back to feeling and moving well as quickly as possible and getting to the root cause and Reed will soon be on the podcast, but in talking to him he mentioned a colleague of his that would be perfect for the show Cameron Snyder.
Speaker 1:Cameron has a passion for functional medicine and is committed to sharing this healthy lifestyle with others. He believes in the healing power of the human body and continuing to find new ways to help improve people's health. I thoroughly enjoyed my conversation with him and I think you will as well, because he shares so many good nuggets. Here is Cameron. Hey, cameron, welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 2:Thanks, robin, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. I am really happy to meet you. I have heard about you from a couple of your colleagues Reed that I see at FIT, and then also Jim so I'm excited to dive in today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely, I'm happy to be here. I'm ready to get into it, for sure.
Speaker 1:Perfect, yay. Well, when I was talking to the two of them, they were telling me that you do more functional medicine, and then you also have a lot of experience with supplements. So that's kind of what I want to talk, to talk about today, if that's all right with you. So would you just give a little introduction of yourself and tell us what functional medicine is?
Speaker 2:and tell us what functional medicine is. Yeah, so I'm a chiropractor over at our Shawnee location for for fit, just like Jim and Reed, so I've been there for just about four and a half years. So I was actually a patient at fit years and years ago and that's kind of how I got into the whole health sphere. So I kind of always knew I was going to head that way. I was an athlete and everything when I was younger and I was a hockey player kind of leading up into college. And so working with Matt and some of the guys that fit early on, you know, kind of drew me into kind um, kind of all that um sphere of of how do we get the whole body to work together, how do we find the real answer, um, to the problem, and so that was something that I really noticed, pulled me into, um, that style of chiropractic.
Speaker 2:And so when I was before I was actually, uh, starting chiropractic school, I worked at a different chiropractic location to get some experience in the field and there was a functional medicine doctor there and so I met with him a couple of times, you know, just in passing through through work, and kind of was picking his brain, and you know I was like okay, like what is functional medicine?
Speaker 2:Um, and so, basically, it's the the, the idea that we find the root cause of the disease, of the dysfunction that happens in the body, and instead of treating the symptoms, right, we treat the cause and then we allow the body to heal, and in its entirety, and do what the body knows, what it does, right. So, um, so, functional medicine is really amazing and the way that we like to do it is that we don't do it with pharmaceuticals or you know different things like that. We try to use, you know, natural remedies, herbs and, um, you know, we're using supplementation to balance out your diet. We're doing a lot of lifestyle change. Maybe we're modifying your sleep schedule or improving your sleep hygiene. Or we're doing different things like adding in body and your mind in this position to where it started to relay a disease state. Right, we use all of the symptomology right From your entire kind of life and health history. We say, okay, what can we do to make the change? What can we do to help signal the body to start doing the healing on its own?
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, that's fascinating. It makes so much sense too that you would treat someone and get to the root cause. Like you, you use that term and that's that's what I love about when I go see Reed or anyone at FIT, that it's not just a in and out. The consultations they start with the first one's an hour and then it's 30 minutes after that, and so you really get time to to talk, to ask questions. Then I know he always sends me away with exercises and homework. So I love that you guys want to truly heal the person and not just give a bandaid.
Speaker 2:Right, right, you know. And so one, one analogy that I really like for this and it relates a lot back to a lot of the basis of functional medicine is when you're in a room and it's starting to fill with smoke, you don't open the window. Right, the symptom of the smoke being in there? Right, that's cause of inflammation. Okay, opening the window is treating high blood pressure with high blood pressure medicine. Okay, I'm just treating the symptom. I'm opening a window, but somewhere in the house there was a fire. Okay, and if we continue to let the fire burn, it doesn't matter how many windows are open, eventually it's going to burn down. And so, with functional medicine and a lot of with the basis, that we treat it fit is okay, why is this happening to you? Let's figure that out. Let's do our best to stop that, okay, and then if we put the fire out, we don't need to worry about the smoke, yeah, yeah, Makes perfect sense.
Speaker 1:I love that analogy. My youngest son he's actually here today. He just stopped by. He's a firefighter.
Speaker 2:So the smoke thing, I like that. Yeah, I got that one, I can get that, yeah, awesome.
Speaker 1:So we had when I first opened my studio. Let's see, it was 2014. I do believe there was a couple that you know was down the strip mall and they were both functional medicine doctors and it was just so fascinating to me that they can push on your shoulder and then your big toe feels better, or your hip, you know, when you adjust the knee. So it's all just so fascinating. But, like I mentioned before, I'm really interested also in supplements, because there's so much confusion out there as to what's a good supplement. Do I just go to Walmart and get something off the shelf? How do we know what we're putting in our bodies as a good thing?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so the supplementation field has continued to grow over the past 20 years. I remember when I first, you know, kind of got into it when I was in high school and you know you're just trying to get big and bulky, and you know, and you take these amino acids or whatever protein no-transcript, don't have any of the same stuff in them, right, and you know, and there's a there's a lot of resources out there that can be really confusing and you know, and there's a lot of people that I think truly want to help when it comes to relaying a lot of that information. But, like you said, it's hard to tell kind of what the real, what the real purpose is Right, what's the goal with all of it. So, when it comes to supplementation, a lot of times, if you can identify a few key things that I think can be really helpful to ensure that you're finding what you're looking for, one of the things that we like to look for are chelated supplements and so a lot of times, a chelated supplement, so magnesium, you can get a chelated magnesium and what that is is that is the magnesium in its most bioavailable form. Okay, so one thing that I always want to keep in mind when we refer to supplementation is that this is a supplementation to enhance your diet, and so diet is always where we want to get it first, and then whatever we're lacking in diet, right, then we want to get in supplement form. And that way you round out your your whole spectrum of what your body needs. And one thing that, um, that is important with the supplements is that the bioavailability of things.
Speaker 2:So when you eat an orange, okay, your body intrinsically knows that there's vitamin C in there, right, and so there's vitamin C. But there's also sugar in an orange, right, but it's different than having orange juice, because we get the pulp, we have the fiber, you have some of the other B vitamins in there, we have some other micronutrients in there that your body knows. Hey, when I have an orange, I get the vitamin C, I get a little bit of the zinc, I get a little bit of the B vitamins. I can absorb all those together. I know how to process those and use those correctly. And so when we get, say, a vitamin C supplement, right, it's different if it comes in pure ground handmade in a lab.
Speaker 2:This is absorbic acid, this is vitamin C, and that doesn't always mean that that's the best way for your body to absorb it and use it. So the digestibility or the bioavailability of certain things can help with our absorption and our ability to use it. So we, we are kind of what we eat, but we're really what we absorb. Okay, so, um, so when we use our chelated supplements, what we do is they put them in the most bioavailable form for us. So if I want magnesium, instead of my body converting magnesium citrate, but my body maybe needs magnesium threonine, so all the different forms that come and that you can get.
Speaker 2:There's a dozen types of magnesium. Most of them are bound to an amino acid, but if they're not, then my body has to pull amino acids from the rest of my system and then combine them with the magnesium and then it can transport it to where it needs to go. So our body is incredibly efficient at doing this. But what you're seeing is you're seeing that it can rob you of certain things in one area right to hand over to the other Right, and so when we do this, so much right you're, you're gaining your two steps forward, but you're one step back, and so one of the things that I would recommend everybody to look for is like, hey, if we're looking for one certain thing, um, getting them chelated is something that can be really helpful and really impactful that way, okay, um, one of the other things that we can look at is there's more supplements now that are coming out where they partner them with probiotics.
Speaker 2:So, um, um, one of the companies that I like, um, that is from uh, dr Josh X um, is ancient nutrition and they like to partner they. He, he always adds probiotics in with something. You take a vitamin C, okay, it comes with, and it comes with, you know, bifidobacterium, right. So now it's going to help the absorption process and it's going to also help my gut lining to absorb that, right, it's going to give my body something else with that, so it's not getting just a raw nutrient, and so that's something that can help to make things a little bit easier.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, I was going to ask you about. I mean, it makes sense that you would want to make sure that your gut health is, you know, good, because otherwise you're not going to be absorbing everything that you're taking, right.
Speaker 2:Right, Right. And so yeah, like I said earlier, you are not what you eat, but you are what you absorb.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2:So a lot of times, the first step through some of our functional medicine is once we kind of identify what the problem is, or maybe we're close to finding what our root cause is, right. But there can be so much stuff going on, right, inflammation in the skin, in the brain, you have digestive issues, you don't sleep well, you know you've had bacteria, you know you've had antibiotics your whole life, right. So it's like, okay, there's a we're, we're, we're kind of feel like a big mess, right. So it's like, well, the first thing that we can do is we can always attack the gut. And if we can ensure that your gut is healthy, okay, 90% of your immune system comes from your gut, right. 90% of your serotonin comes from your gut. If you don't feel good, right, your gut doesn't feel good. Well, you're not often in a good mood, right. And if we can't produce the serotonin, well, serotonin in the body becomes melatonin, okay. So then if you don't feel good during the day because your gut's not doing good, well, then you're in a bad mood and then we can have trouble sleeping, and now you can't recover this way, right? So, um, ensuring that the gut lining is is healthy and we're not irritating things, and so we like to, you know, we want to remove the trigger, okay.
Speaker 2:So, for often for people it can be gluten is a huge one, dairy is a huge one, you know, but but even other things. Sometimes raw vegetables early on can be a lot for people, right. The amount of fiber or the kind of fiber we get, right, can be irritating. So you want to, you want to remove whatever is irritating us, and then we want to try and replenish the gut. Okay, here's good, strong, um, probiotics, right, but we want to get prebiotic food into there as well, right. So, um, what does the prebiotic is what the microbiome eats. So the bacteria we have in our gut, what do they eat to continue to proliferate, right? So things like asparagus or garlic or onions, those are all have inulin in them and allicin in them, and those are compounds that the gut bacteria like to eat and that's how they grow.
Speaker 2:And so right, and so it's always important to partner your probiotics with a, you know, with good food, and that's why we like to make sure that we get vegetables in, because that's the kind of stuff that helps to feed the gut. The fiber in there is what the gut likes. That that's what it can feed on that.
Speaker 1:Okay, that makes sense. I've also been told that you should switch your probiotic up like your. Your body gets used to the same bacteria. Is that true?
Speaker 2:So, so we, it's a it's a good idea, and I think that what I like to do, both personally and with with a lot of my clients, is that throughout the year, we move through different supports. So, in the wintertime, right starting about November, when we stop going outside so much, this is oftentimes where, okay, well, let's add in some vitamin D. Okay, I'm wearing long sleeves, I'm in a jacket, maybe I have a hat on, and even when I'm outside, I'm outside for 10 minutes and that's not enough to get my daily dose. And so, okay, let me supplement my diet and my lifestyle. That way I get to my number. So I add in vitamin D, right, and right through the winter time, vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc those are all great things to support the immune system.
Speaker 2:Now, once we get to about March, as soon as you can get out, start getting in the garden or you start doing yard work, walking the dog, more, doing that, right? Okay, well, now I don't need this additional support in there, right, so maybe we'll switch that out. Okay, maybe we transition over to something that will help more with. Maybe we transition over to you know something that will help more with allergies, right, so maybe you switch to, you know, supporting with an echinacea, which is the purple cone flowers. You see, right, really good for upper respiratory right. That time of year you can add back in bee pollen. So finding a local beekeeper and using bee pollen is an excellent way for you to kind of transition. So when it comes to your gut bacteria, right, we want to continue to support throughout the year, but you have so many different types of bacteria in your gut you want to make sure that you're not just giving it the same thing.
Speaker 2:So say that you get 10 million or 10 billion units of bacteria in your probiotic, but maybe that's only five strands, and if I do that for five years, then those five strands are going to be strong and well-supported. But we have more than five in the gut and we'd like a really good balance, because they each do something a little bit different.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So okay, well then, for these three months I'm going to switch to an acromansia um, which is a specific type that helps to repair the gut lining, okay. So you know, once a year I'm going to support with the acromansia. I'm going to make sure that that that number of the bacteria that I have here is strong, right, I'm going to make sure. Okay, that's very important strain. I'm going to make sure that the strain is strong and it's supportive, and so you can. So I would cycle through most of what we do throughout the year, just like you would, naturally, eating foods.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, Okay, and so yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:So one of the things that we're we're kind of pushing out this year is that we're just kind of do like, you know, supplements of the month, right, and say, okay, well, seasonally, what do you need to support with Right? And like, okay, and then transition to right in December hey, let's get on some vitamin D. But you know, when we get to you know, april, it's like, okay, well, let's make sure that we're on some sort of skin support or you're on, like elderberry or you know, an upper respiratory support so we can deal with some of the inflammation we get from all the pollen and everything like that.
Speaker 1:You know so.
Speaker 2:I think that's a great way for people to look at them. I think your supplements should again complement your food. So as your food transitions, so should your supplementation.
Speaker 1:Makes total sense Makes sense. And do your patients see you then on a regular basis? Or is this like a newsletter that you have or a subscription? How does it work?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so, with our general design of our functional medicine and again it's very case by case basis of our functional medicine, and again it's very case by case basis. So, depending on you know the degree of issue that we have going on in the body, right, more kind of astute observation is needed, right? Maybe I need to. We're working through some stuff that's causing some skin inflammation and so, okay, well, let's keep an eye on how you know how your skin is recovering. So, okay, well, let's keep an eye on how you know how your skin is recovering. But really we like to do kind of two initial meetings pretty close, so we kind of do our general intro meeting. Hey, let's sit down, let's go through it all. Let's go through all that long paperwork I made you spill out. Let's go through your health history. You know, tell me everything. I want to know how you sleep. I want to know how many sinus infections you've ever had. I want to know a surgery. I want to know, you know, you know, have you ever had an open wound for three months? Right, like different situations like this? After that we typically follow up with some blood tests, and so this is something that functional medicine doctors use and it's really part of the key that helps us kind of find the pattern that the body is putting us in Right. So a lot of um, a lot of ways that we look at the blood tests. If you look at a typical um, um lab result from from a clinic, it'll give you like a here's green right, and then everything outside of green is red. A clinic It'll give you like a here's green right and then everything outside of green is red, okay. Now what a lot of basic allopathic medicine is is if you're in the red, you have a disease, you are sick. Okay, so, um, take, well, is the kidney filtering right? Now a good number that we like to see is over 90. Okay, and if you're healthy and you don't have anything going on, you should be 90, could be 100, you could be 130, right, and it's like boom, that is cruising, everything looks good. Now that number goes all the way down before it becomes red on the typical test at 60. And then you have a kidney insufficiency. Then you're really close to like a kidney disease, right, and you're saying, okay, well, I was fine at 65. You didn't say anything. But hey, at 58, you're like, hey, you need to stop drinking. You need to drink fluids, we need to hydrate you. You know there's something bad going on here. And so what we like to do is we like to identify and saying, okay, you're 28 years old, why are you at a 75? Right, I go. Okay. Well, why are your kidneys not awesome? Right, like these should. This number should be super high. Okay. Now let's compare that to the rest of the numbers. So, even though, um, a lot of the ranges look like this and say, hey, I'm all good, I go, yeah, but your number is here. Okay, I want to see your number here. I don't want you to just be disease free, I want your numbers to be perfect. I want you to be optimal. Right, I don't want to just not feel bad, I want to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we'll look through a lot of the lab tests that way and then, based on your history, your symptoms and then your lab results, we'll typically start on our healing process. Okay, so we'll go into our first protocol. Okay, so let's move you to this type of diet. Let's have you take these three supplements to get started. Okay, let's remove gluten. Okay, and drink a hundred ounces of water a day and let's progress forward and then check.
Speaker 2:Let's check in in a month, okay, let's see. Was it impossible for you to keep up with it? Do we need to ease up on our diet restrictions? Do we need to find new ways for you to get your supplementation in? Are you ready to transition into exercise? Maybe is sleep still the biggest issue? And so, right, we do our check in here, we make modifications to the treatment protocol and then from there we push out and say, okay, let's try this.
Speaker 2:Let's go three months now, okay, and then at three months, then we'll we'll take our lab tests again, okay, and then let's see if we can make a, an actual functional difference in the way that your body is is working. So you may feel better after three weeks, just because all of a sudden you went from drinking two bottles of water a day to drinking 80 ounces of water and you're like, yeah, actually like I feel really good and I go. Yeah, but your kidneys only went from 75 to 80, right, you should still be way up. There's still something putting stress on your system. You still have a very high inflammation, right.
Speaker 2:So let's continue to look. And then maybe we order some advanced testing from there Molds, parasites, you know different thyroid testing or adrenal gland testing, things like that. And so, you know, in the meantime, you know we have communication with the patients, you know here and there and say, hey, you know, anything comes up, definitely let me know, you know. So then we just kind of intermittently kind of work through every few months we just check in and where's our progress and where's our retest and where's our goal right, yeah, and so, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:It sounds like you're just teaching people also to listen to their bodies, like all the answers are there, and to also educate them that there's no quick fix, like we're going to get this, everything healed and everything working together, cause it's not just one thing in the body, it's usually multiple things. Is that accurate?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you're exactly right. You know a lot, of, a lot of the issues that are plaguing America now in particular are lifestyle diseases, and so, right, so you know, 40 years ago it may have been, you know, cigarettes and car accidents were the number one, you know, cause of death. But now it's it's heart disease, it's lung disease, it's liver disease. So it's these diseases that we get over time. We, you know, sedentary lifestyle, high carb, high fat intake, right, we, we, we don't understand what we're supposed to eat.
Speaker 2:High carb, high fat intake, right, we don't understand what we're supposed to eat and why. And what does it matter? Right, and you know, why don't I don't have celiac, why can't I have gluten? Right, and so a lot of it is trying to teach awareness and saying, okay, when you eat this, does it give you a headache? You know? Does it? Does it make your stomach hurt? Okay, if so, I want you to write it down. I want you to write down everything that you have. And then I want you to go a couple of days and if you end up eating that again, where you have the opportunity to eat it again, right, and you do, and you have the same symptoms or you have similar dysfunction. Okay, hey, guess what? We just found a trigger. Okay, so let's remove your trigger, right, have the awareness of of. Yeah, I must say it's kind of like living on purpose, right? So sometimes we're out there and we we go through the whole week and you're like what'd you do this week?
Speaker 1:You're like I don't even know.
Speaker 2:I was out here, I had a meeting there I week. You're like I don't even know. I was out here, I had a meeting there. I was over in town, the kids had five games. I was at practice and it's like what'd you eat? And I was like I don't know four chicken nuggets and a pack of Doritos and and you're just like, yeah, how do you feel?
Speaker 2:You're like I don't know, I haven't thought about it in six days, right, and so it's like, okay, take the time to be like okay, how am I feeling today? All right, I'm a little tired, but my body feels okay. Right, it's my, it's my mind feel clear. Do I need to do mindfulness today? Do I need to go get some light exercise? So I need to stretch. Do I need to just go sit in a dark room for 10 minutes and just be quiet, right, and just kind of let myself calm down, let the brain recenter.
Speaker 2:So a lot of the modifications we do, because it's important for me to not just fix your gut, but if you can't sleep, if you sleep for three hours a day, you were never going to get you feeling the way that you want to feel, right, your body's never going to be able to heal correctly, right, because something is happening that is causing the sleep to be that bad. Okay, so let's dive into that, let's find into that and so, yeah, get getting people to. To just you know, hey, I feel great when I eat this, even though I thought it was on my no list, and you go, yep, turns out peanut butter is okay. Okay, well, don't have, you know, eight spoonfuls, but you know, having some peanut butter as your sweet treat, that's okay to do, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know. So, yeah, it's exactly right. Right, just find, listen to what's going on, feel how you feel, okay, and then let's start to make some connections based on that.
Speaker 1:Yes, very cool, very cool, and I don't know if this is true anymore, but I had mentioned the functional medicine doctors that were just down the way from me, and I know that they didn't accept insurance, so is that still a thing that has to be frustrating for you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we're not covered by insurance for any of that stuff. So and it and it kind of goes back to, you know, that's just kind of the general basis for insurance, right, because if, um, you know, if we're not looked at as the meeting, um, the meeting to get with us isn't looked at as acute care for something, right, and it's like, oh okay, no, you're sitting down and you're talking about supplementation, which, um, we don't cover that as well, and you're talking about nutrition and lifestyle changes and that doesn't help us at all either. So I'm not here to bash on insurance, but they're not necessarily out to be, you know, in our, in our best interest, right, and so um you know.
Speaker 2:So that that's something that is kind of a bummer and I know it's hard. But, um, I had a doc when I was first starting and one of the things that she said because I asked her about the pricing saying, well, you know, I think that's this year she goes the initial appointment, that's the most expensive one, it's the longest one we do. But what it is is you are making a financial responsibility to yourself to go through these changes and you're saying, well, I sat down with the doc, I'm not really sure, but it wasn't $5. It costs $400. I was there for two and a half hours and I went and got a lab test and it's like, okay, well, you're not just going to hand us $400 and then go walk away, right, right, yeah, it can be difficult to look at it from the big view but saying, hey, we had four appointments all year and I feel 10 times better, I lost 15 pounds and I can sleep at night.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's an investment in yourself and it's going to pay off because you're going to feel better. You don't know sometimes how bad they feel until they feel good.
Speaker 2:Right, right, yeah, I see a lot of my patients, my musculoskeletal patients, at work. I go, you don't realize that, you don't realize that you were in pain, until you're out of pain and you're like, yeah, my neck feels okay, I can only you know. And then you know, we, we work and we adjust and we treat, and you're like, yeah, I didn't realize you know how much motion I was missing into there. You go, yeah, and now you feel really good yeah.
Speaker 1:I didn't know I could bend over and pick up my grandson's toys without any pain. That's so cool.
Speaker 2:Right, right, pain may be common, but it's not normal, right? Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's good to remember. So do you treat people then?
Speaker 2:virtually as well, or is it just in the office? So I've done some virtual consultations and and I I would prefer people coming in. I think that that's easier to kind of create a trusting bond and stuff. But for some follow-ups, I have had some patients, you know, out on business all the time, or patients that end up moving to different locations. So doing virtual consultations is definitely something, you know, that we're looking to do a little bit more of. But that is the nice thing about functional medicine is mostly it's we're looking to do a little bit more of. But that is the nice thing about functional medicine is mostly it's we're having, you know, educated discussion and we're, you know we're teaching and our patients are learning and they're they're helping to to just build this, and so now that everybody can zoom from just about anywhere, you know opens up access for a lot more people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, I love it. I love everything that you're doing. It's fabulous.
Speaker 2:So a couple of things how can people find you and is there anything else that you'd like to share so they can find me by? They can always shoot me an email. It's Cameron at FITMJCcom, so me and the rest of the rest of the gang over at FIT, Um, and so they can go to our website and and kind of find our locations or just kind of shoot us a Google and they can get in touch with us. Um, and then the only other thing I would add was uh, is that FIT is doing, um, a spring detox right now.
Speaker 2:Um, so it is two supplements that we're putting together it's a, it's a toxin binder and there's a daily shake that we're that we're recommending people have, and we kind of bring the diet all the way down to just just the nuts and bolts, so good, proteins, vegetables and fruits, and we do that for about two weeks and allow the body to detoxify any of the heavy metals we've accrued throughout the year, parasites and mold and candida, and really help to break any bad habits we created over the winter. So the springtime is an excellent time to support the detoxification. In traditional Chinese medicine, the liver is the organ of the spring and so giving that support as you get into springtime is a great way for your body to kind of reset and get going into the sunlight and feeling great throughout the rest of the year.
Speaker 1:Ah, I love it. I love it, Cameron. Thank you so much for being here and sharing your knowledge and your time. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely. I was super happy to hop on here and, yeah, I'm really, really excited for everybody to get involved here and see what we can do.
Speaker 1:Yep, let's do it All. Right, you take care.
Speaker 2:All right, thank you, have a wonderful day.
Speaker 1:Thanks you too. Good stuff, right. Another thank you to Cameron for taking time out of his busy schedule to be here. He mentioned that he was an athlete and he played hockey. What he failed to mention was that he was a professional hockey player, and I'm so sorry that I missed that, because that would have opened up so many other questions, so I'm just going to have to have him back on.
Speaker 1:I loved it when he said we aren't just what we eat, but what we absorb, and of course I'm paraphrasing, but it's so true. Our gut health, and obviously the bioavailability of what we ingest, is super important to our overall health. His vast knowledge makes me want to listen again, because I know I'll hear even more good stuff. So I'm going to put that on my to-do list. I started to put together some takeaways, but I'm like, oh my gosh, I think I'm going to repeat everything that he said. So I'm just going to go back and listen again, and I have no doubt that you know someone that would benefit from hearing this podcast. So please just take a minute to click the link, copy it and send it to a friend or, if you want, to post it on social media. That would be amazing, and if you're in the Kansas City area and interested in making an appointment with Cameron, you can reach out to Fit Muscle and Joint. Their website is fitmjccom, so F-I-T-M-J-Ccom. Or you can call 913-745-4064. Of course, I'll put that in the show notes and you can also reach out to me if you have any questions. I'm happy to share the information. Take care of you and I will see you soon. Thank you for listening.
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