The Concierge Doc Podcast with Dr. Jason Littleton, M.D.
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The Concierge Doc Podcast with Dr. Jason Littleton, M.D.
The Path to Smarter, Stronger, Longer Health W/ Dr Myra Reed
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Dr. Jason Littleton:Access to the information and materials contained in this podcast is at your own risk. The information contained is presented for the purpose of educating the consumer on a variety of wellness and health care topics, the information. Nothing contained is intended to be instructional for medical diagnosis or treatment. The information contained is compiled from a variety of sources. The information should not be considered complete and exhaustive and should not be in place of a visit or consultation with your own primary care doctor. Welcome to the concierge Dr. Podcast. I'm your host, CEO and founder of Littleton Concierge Medicine, Dr. Jason Littleton. Welcome to the podcast. Today, very excited. We have a good friend of mine who's a functional medicine internist with over 30 years of medical experience and founder of a personalized concierge practice on Florida's Emerald Coast and Panama City Beach. She helps busy professionals, midlife adults struggling with fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, joint pain, and other chronic conditions uncover the hidden root causes of their symptoms, whether from hormone chaos, gut dysfunction, or environmental toxins like mold. She's also author of a new book called Smarter, Stronger, Longer, Live Longer, Perform Better, now Available on Amazon, where she shares her proactive root cause approach to optimizing health, preventing chronic disease, and extending longevity. She combines advanced diagnostics, personalized hormone optimization, and lifestyle medicine with the time and attention patients rarely find in conventional medicine. Her mission is to help people regain clarity, energy, and youthful vitality so that they can thrive at any age. Welcome to the Concierge Doc Podcast, Dr. Myra Reed.
Dr. Myra Reed:I'm excited to be here. Thank you so much for this invitation.
Dr. Jason Littleton:No, I'm I'm excited. A lot of people have questions about hormones, when they should start, if they should take them, what's safe. And a lot of doctors have questions. A lot of doctors don't know what to do. And you have a new book out that it's going to help not only doctors and patients. I think that is incredible. I am so excited for people to hear about your new book Smarter, Stronger, Longer, Live Longer, Perform Better. And it's on Amazon, right? Yes, it is.
Dr. Myra Reed:And hot off the press just came in. So it yes.
Dr. Jason Littleton:I mean, tell us about yourself and then let's jump into that book. But I mean, you're a functional medicine and you're a functional internal medicine doctor, and a lot of people don't know what functional internal medicine is. And not only that, you're a concierge doctor. So tell us a little bit about that.
Dr. Myra Reed:So I was traditionally trained, uh, grew up. Both of my parents were actually physicians, so I know what the old-time type of medicine is all about. I attended medical school in Louisiana and then did my internal medicine in Texas. Did a lot of emergency medicine at first, but what I always knew is traditional medicine. And I could see medicine was changing. You know, we could see how insurance was starting to dictate how doctors could work, uh, what they prescribed, all of these things were the way that we were taught and ingrained in how medicine was going. Around 2015, I started seeing how the insurance companies were really forcing doctors to have to see more people every day, and you were having less time. And I knew that's not how I like to practice medicine. So I looked for a way that I could spend more time with my patients because I love to get to know them. And, you know, when you listen to someone, you can really find out what's wrong with them instead of that little quick in and out just test, test, test, and then send people out with a pill or trying to, you know, a short answer for their problem. So in 2015, I started looking for a way such as concierge model where I could spend more time with my patients, which meant I didn't have to see 30 people a day, I could see six or eight.
Dr. Jason Littleton:Right. Right.
Dr. Myra Reed:And yeah, because that was just the way medicine is supposed to be. You know, you you people just want a doctor that's gonna listen to them.
Dr. Jason Littleton:Yeah, I agree. I mean, in my concierge practice, you know, my rule is four a day, you know. And because if if you're a member in my practice, you're a member who all my staff knows. I know you're meaningful to us and we're walking this journey with you. And I'm sure that's the exact same in your practice.
Dr. Myra Reed:Yes, it is. And I when you say four people a day, I probably see four to five people a day actually in the office because and not only that, they also have access to us after hours. So they get a lot of things answered when they're not even just in for the appointment.
Dr. Jason Littleton:So sometimes they don't even have to come in. You're communicating them, they you you know, with one of your software tools and they just feel connected. That's huge.
Dr. Myra Reed:Yes. Like today, I had a patient that you know called in really sick. You know, people when they're when they're sick, they don't want to have to go somewhere, they just want to feel better. And what can they do even at home? Or, you know, they don't all just want an antibiotic. Right. And right now, in a lot of, you know, viruses, flus going around, maybe COVID and such. And that doesn't entail just coming in and getting an antibiotic. So we do a lot, even over the weekend. Let's say people were calling and saying, I don't want to go to a walk-in clinic or the emergency room, and I don't want to wait till Monday. Is there something that you can help me with over the weekend? And that's the beauty of this type of practice is you do, you know your patients, you spend time with them to get to know them. Our whole staff knows them. In fact, my nurse a lot of times handles things for me, talks to the patient, and they love her because they know her and they trust her, and she can take care of a lot of things that takes a lot of load off of me as well. And the patients are very happy with that. I mean, so we you know, this model's great.
Dr. Jason Littleton:Yeah, no, I I totally agree, and it makes a difference because you're really taking care of the patient. I love what you said at the beginning. If you just listen to the patient, you can figure out what's wrong. And yes, a lot of people aren't listening to their patients. So I I'm a firm believer in this model as you are, obviously. Um and it's making a difference in people's lives. We know that. You and I know that. Now functional medicine, now what is that? A lot of times people don't understand what that is.
Dr. Myra Reed:A lot of people don't. And so and really, I spent the first many years trying to explain to people what it is, and I think it's going to catch on a little bit more now. Uh, we'll see what uh there's there's some big things happening coming out in the future about about functional medicine. So people need to just hang tight, but at the same time, I'm gonna explain to what it is, is getting to the root cause. Instead of that pill for an ill approach, like a patient says, I'm having an issue. In fact, I just finished doing a meet and greet with the patient because that's what I do. I'll meet with them, answer their questions, get to know them even before they become a patient in the practice and make sure that we're both a good fit. And so she's like, I don't want to just go to another doctor and get antibiotics. I mean, she was on some antibiotics and they're just tearing her up. And so we were sitting there talking about, she goes, the reason why I'm here is I don't want another antibiotic. I want a doctor who's gonna sit and listen to me and get to the root cause. So, what functional medicine is, is getting to the root cause of why people have their issue, not just giving that pill for an ill. And it's also having the patient come in and let me get to know everything that's going on around you because I can get a wider and a deeper get to a root cause issue instead of sending them to every specialist that comes, you know. It's not they don't have to go to specialists all the time because I will sit there and address a lot of what's going on with them.
Dr. Jason Littleton:Right.
Dr. Myra Reed:If they have autoimmune, or they're having gut issues, or if they're having those hormone problems, or if they're like, I don't really know. I'm going to all these specialists and they can't find out what's wrong with me. I'm gonna say, well, let's look and see what the root cause could be. Maybe you're exposed to some toxins.
Dr. Jason Littleton:Mm-hmm. Right, right. Yeah, no, well said. I mean, I just think that um we need to get to the root cause and be more for root cause focused to help people instead of just treating uh the day-to-day issue or the issue of the moment. Getting to the root cause that should always be the goal of every patient journey. And I just think in conventional medicine, you know, I've been there too. I've been in conventional medicine, just like you have, uh that just doesn't happen. There's too many patients, not enough time. I call it conveyor belt medicine. Um, you know, where person seating seeing, like you said, like 30 patients a day, a patient every 15 minutes, a new patient every 30 minutes while they're doing like 10 callbacks, looking at 17 x-rays and writing 11 prescriptions throughout the day. There's just no time, no time to actually spend with the patient. You only have 15 minutes to spend with that patient and to figure everything out in that sliver of time. Can't do it.
Dr. Myra Reed:Um I mean yeah, that's what when patients come to me, instead of them being on a whole laundry list of medications, I'll sit down and you know, we'll go through. And my objective is to get them off of medications, but not only keep them out of the hospital. I can't even remember the last time one of my patients has been in the hospital. It's it's crazy. They're healthier, they are on less medications, yeah. They're not going to as many, most of the time they're not going to as many specialists. And they always just say, you know, I love the reason why my practice, the patients love it. On top of that, is like they're like, well, I go to the GI doctor, I'm going to the pulmonary doctor, I'm going to the allergist, I'm going to all these different specialists, but no one, no one's talking to each other. And they're having, I call it the silos of different specialties. Yeah. And so I'm saying, well, let me take all of this and I'm going to be like your quarterback. I love it. I'm going to put this together and I'm going to help. Let's make a plan. And I can have that continuity of care that you need. And you, you know, they want it, but they need it. And we're going to say, Do you really, you know, we want to make sure everything's talking to each other. Like they're like, well, do I need to be on this medication? Because I think this medication's causing another side effect. And is this, you know, and they just don't understand and they're they're confused.
Dr. Jason Littleton:Yeah.
Dr. Myra Reed:And they don't always need to be on, and maybe a lot of their problems why they're feeling bad is because they're on a medication that doesn't agree with them, or it could be interacting with something else that they're on.
Dr. Jason Littleton:Yeah, well, yeah, exactly. Well, well said. I mean, taking the time to figure that out, tweed that out, um, is everything uh to have a smooth journey, you know, with our patients. You know, now let's I want to get into the book here. I want to talk about hormones and who needs them, why do we need them? When do we need them? How, you know, how do we need them? What forms do we need them? What what what do we what should we know about hormones and when should we ask about hormone supplement supplementation?
Dr. Myra Reed:Well, I'm gonna say, you know, as we age, we start losing a lot of the things that keep us young and healthy and such. And one of those is hormones. And as especially, and it's not just women, I'm talking about for men as well, and I talk about this, but women start going through perimenopause, which means your hormones start changing, and you'll start getting that the waves up and down of the estrogen and progesterone, and the testosterone changes. And you'll start the hormones really control so much in our life, like our mood, um, our brain, our heart, really everything, and they're all tied together. So hormones are anything from estrogen, testosterone, progesterone, DHEA, but it also entails thyroid and your stress hormone, which is cortisol. So as we start aging, we start losing these things. That's what causes us to our chronic diseases to really increase in our body. And we know now with all the research. Now, this I'm gonna go back to 25 years ago when the WHI study came out that women were taking off their hormones and it really everybody got scared. They go, You can't be on hormones, it's causing cancer, you know, breast cancer, it's causing stroke, blood clots, all these things. But that those hormones back then were the synthetic hormones. Now, synthetic hormones are the ones that are not identical to what our body produces.
Dr. Jason Littleton:Right.
Dr. Myra Reed:And our body, you know, back then, yes, the synthetic hormones like the estrogen, right? Perimer is made from horse urine. Yeah, yeah, you know, and then the progesterone was not even a natural, it was called a progestin, which was very inflammatory to the body. Right. So all that primpro, primerin, all that's been pulled off. And people shouldn't be on that medication even today. But since that time, you know, there's always a silver lining. All the research is coming out, and now we're actually have these bio-identical. What does bioidentical mean? Well, that means that they have structurally made these hormones from plants, like you know, that are structurally made from plants, yeah, but they're really chemically related to our body's natural hormones and receptors. So, what that is, is now we know that these are much safer. Women are much happier, and men because we now have these replacements of the things that we start losing as we age that keeps us viable and healthy and strong and mentally better, you emotionally better, because these these biodental hormones when it says biodenttical, so like I said, it's identical to what our body would normally produce. And the studies are all showing the safety behind it now.
Dr. Jason Littleton:Yeah.
Dr. Myra Reed:So that's why it's such a big thing that people are on. In fact, I was just with uh bunch of with some people this weekend. Uh they're they're making a big uh comeback. Tamson Fidel is um a TV product, you know, a TV person who's just wrote a book, and I was just with her this weekend, and she's really putting a push for people to really start opening their eyes to the safety of hormones. But I can tell you that it will make you smarter. Like in my book says smarter, stronger, longer. Yeah, yeah. Because the studies are showing that if you when when you when the hormones aren't replaced, yeah, that all cause mortality, which means death increases significantly. And if you get on the hormones, it decreases that death rate.
Dr. Jason Littleton:Yeah.
Dr. Myra Reed:That and I'm gonna tell you one other really important thing that I was talking a lot about. I'm sorry to kind of, but I just have to mention this because I'm kind of on a roll about it. But when women lose estrogen through perimenopause menopause, that becomes the number one killer of women after menopause is heart disease.
Dr. Jason Littleton:Yeah.
Dr. Myra Reed:Because loss of estrogen.
Dr. Jason Littleton:That's major. I mean, you know, that's the information people need to hear. I mean, people need to hear that so that when they're approaching that time, that they get plugged in and get supplementation as appropriate, you know, if it's appropriate, right? Now, um are you finding that people who are receiving um bioidentical hormones are feeling more energized into their 60s, 70s, 80s?
Dr. Myra Reed:Yes. And the the studies do show that the best time to get on hormones is within the first five years of going through menopause. Um, and so if it's been 10 years or more, then you need you really need to find someone who's well versed in studying about these biogenical hormones because it's not just a one-size-fit-all.
Dr. Jason Littleton:Right.
Dr. Myra Reed:You can't just say, oh, I'm gonna be on hormones and then just, you know, wham bam, let me go to the doctor and get on some hormones. You really, everybody's individual. It's so you always want to go to someone who's well versed in hormones and looks at the safety profile with with, you know, as you, as a person and your your lifestyle, your family history, you know, your exposures and all that. But I am gonna say that, yes, that the that getting on hormones earlier is always better. But when I know even just for me, but I see it in all my patients, when I get people on hormones, they sleep better. And we know how important sleep is.
Dr. Jason Littleton:Yeah.
Dr. Myra Reed:Um, and that's been a game changer. Sleeping better, you have more energy during the day, which is what we all want.
Dr. Jason Littleton:Right.
Dr. Myra Reed:We know um, I worked with Dr. Dale Bredison, who is the neurologist doing all the study on dementia that's shown proven to reverse dementia. And one of his number one things for preventing dementia is hormones, these biodinical hormones.
Dr. Jason Littleton:Yeah, I was getting ready to ask you about that because I loved what you said when you were saying that, you know, um, you know, people's memories are better. You know, I I figured that you would say something as it relates to dementia. Um, I I just think that is um really powerful. And obviously, when a person comes to you, I'm sure you're doing lab tests, you're finding out where their baseline is, and um making sure they have appropriate screening tests, you know. I mean, I think that's one of the things when I um institute hormone therapy in my practice, I'm looking at making sure that women have mammograms, um, they're looking at their family history for men, making sure that prostate's okay, doing all those things, going through all those checks. Um what type of like screening do you do before you start someone on a bioidenticome plan? What does that look like? What's that evaluation? Walk us through that.
Dr. Myra Reed:Okay, so initially, when a of course, any patient that comes in, I'm gonna do an extensive lab test on on everybody if they, you know, if they haven't had one in the last three months. Um, but I do, I do, I do my baseline Cleveland Heart Lab is what I like to use with all you know inflammatory markers and and such, but I always will talk to people and see, okay, let's go ahead and do some hormone testing as well. Not everybody wants hormones, and I and I'm not going to push hormones in everybody, but like I said, everybody's different, and I like to meet the patient where they are and what they're interested in. But I will do uh estradiol level, I'll do testosterone, and then men, I'll do a total and uh a free testosterone as well. I do DHEA, and I'm kind of mentioning a few of the things I've occasionally if people have a history of um breast cancer in their family or in themselves, or even men who I'm worried about prostate cancer, I'll even do an estrone, which is a different type of estrogen because there's three different types of estrogens that we measure and that we work with. Um, but I will do thyroid panels, cortisol, like with their early morning cortisol. I'll start with those in a blood test. Then then I'll talk to them about different hormones that I'll give either I'll give them different options because there's so many different ways you can take hormones. And we can talk about all that, you know, and and such. But once they're on the hormone replacement, depending on how they're taking their hormones, depends on whether it's gonna be just blood test or if it's gonna be blood or urine test or even saliva test. Saliva is, you know, mouth, right, which is really good for checking the cortisols. Like if you want to see someone's cortisol throughout the day, the saliva is really good for that. But if men um also like not just men, both replacement is real important, and I'll go through with patients and ask them, okay, here's your different options. You can do um like estrogen can come in a patch. There's also creams. Um progesterone is really good in the oral form or the pill form at night for people to sleep because it releases these metabolites that help the brain relax. But one of my favorites that I like to use, and I'm um there's some other ones that we can offer as well, but the my one of my favorites is a hormone pellet.
Dr. Jason Littleton:Yeah.
Dr. Myra Reed:And I do that a lot of my men really love that because I can give them like you know 2,000 milligrams of testosterone in pellets, and it'll release over a six-month period of time. And it's a slower release. And the good thing about pellets for men and women is that it bypasses the liver. Yeah. So you don't have that risk of blood clots.
Dr. Jason Littleton:Yeah, no, that that's I was getting ready to ask you about if you do pellets um, because obviously that is something that can be very convenient for people, you know, where they don't have to take a pill every day or a shot. And that can make a huge difference. And I think it's actually a great option, you know, especially if you don't want to think about taking your your hormone medication, you know, routinely. You, you know, once you get the pellet, you can go on with your life until you need it again. Um I I just that I mean, that's awesome that you do that. And you talk about all of this in the book.
Dr. Myra Reed:Um, yes, I I believe I believe so. I'm actually also looking to make a hormone online course just for for people for information. Um, but in my book, I do talk about hormone replacement. I'm not really explaining in detail about the hormones because, well, in the book, it's more about transformations that I've do on patients in so many different things, hormones and gut and uh toxicities and lifestyle changes, you know, sleep. So I go into a lot of these type things in my book about how to do transformations individually on different in different people. But but I do talk about my hormones, and I I'm I am gonna say everybody has a different preference for hormone replacement. Like for me, the thing that worked the best for me is a hormone pellet. And it can always tell when I'm ready for my hormone pellet because my sleep starts getting disruptive, my muscle mass will start going down, my skin gets more dry, and I just, you know, just my mood is just not as good. So I prefer my preference for me, instead of doing a patch or a cream or crochet or or different things like that, is is the pellet. And so I know there's a lot of people out there that are doing hormone replacement, and I really want to advise people to really reach out and find someone who has taken a course on the different ways because hormones are individualized, is the bottom line. And so it's not a one-size fit all. And everybody responds differently genetically and such as well. But I always say, going back to saying the blood test and the testing, I always tell women to always get an annual mammogram for sure and do monthly self-breast exams. And and I am gonna say this that hormones are not, I know there are hormone-positive cancers, but we know that like breast cancer and prostate cancer is not coming from hormones as much as it's coming from toxicities in our environment. And the hormones are not the driver of cancer, and everybody needs to understand that that you know, we do want to monitor and make sure that you don't have cancer starting or that you have cancer before you do anything. But that's just practicing good medicine.
Dr. Jason Littleton:With you know, with my patients, before I do any type of hormone therapy or treatment, you know, for the men, as I was mentioning earlier, I'm always doing prostate screening, making sure that's not an issue at all. Breast cancer screening and women, making sure that's not an issue at all, making sure that GYN checks are up to date. Um, you know, that's just the bread and butter of how I practice. And I think that's good medicine. And obviously, you know, you do the same. And I I want people to feel confident and comfortable. And I want to make it, you know, we want to make a big difference in how they feel and in their lives. And what you said about toxins was um, I was about to ask you that because in your book you addressed that about mold toxins and other hidden environmental exposures. And, you know, just go into that a little bit more. How big of a role do toxins really play in chronic illness?
Dr. Myra Reed:It's huge. If if I could say it's one of the number one drivers in our world that is causing chronic disease and cancer and dementia and Parkinson's, all the neurologic, it's it's definitely toxins. We when I was growing up, you know, in the in the 70s, we did not see people with autism. Very rarely, you know, kids weren't didn't weren't thrown on Adderall or, you know, for ADHD and such. And but I don't remember anybody with autism. And now it's become an epidemic or pandemic, you know, of of kids. Now there's schools are filled with special needs classes. And you can see how it's just escalated. And one of the things that I I do in one of in some of my lectures is I talk about how Parkinson's and autism are all running, you know, up this going this way, instead of like, you know, steadily across, it's really escalating up. And what we found out is that glyphosate, which is Roundup, which is the weed killer that they use on wheat before it's harvested. And wheat is what's making all of our bread, and everybody's getting more bread, especially fast food and processed foods, right? Additives and more preservatives and all these other things. You're adding all these chemicals in our food. That's what's causing the cancer and the chronic illness and all these neurologic problems.
Dr. Jason Littleton:I mean, we can talk an hour on this stuff. I mean, that's a huge problem. Um that's what's setting people back. That's what's setting them up, you know, for cancer and chronic illness. I mean, that I mean, you know, I think that's why people feel tired and foggy, you know. And you talk about this in your book, you know. Yeah, um that's yeah, that's and it's a great segue because I was gonna ask you, what can people do right now? Two or three things that people could do right now if they are feeling tired, foggy, or they're just not feeling themselves. I mean, what do you do? Obviously, eliminate toxins got to be one of them. I get that, but what can people do right now?
Dr. Myra Reed:So basically, well, one of the first things I'm gonna tell people is to filter your water, get a reverse osmosis under your sinking, get them off of Amazon, and have start you, or even get the counter, not not just the Rita and all that. You need a reverse osmosis system to get all of the chemicals out, and then you can add some minerals back, some safe minerals back. But I always say clean air, clean water, and clean food and clean body products. Yeah, so there's there's a lot, we're getting it at all angles now, but um, you know, filtering your water, eating the organic foods, get as organic as you can. Now, I'm gonna say this, not everything has to be organic. There's you can look, you can look online and search or google it. The the um dirty dozen, and it's more than just a dozen foods, but those will tell you the foods for sure that you need to eat organic. The clean 15 ones are the ones you don't have to buy organic. Okay, so there's a difference. And you can go to the ewg.org, which is the environmental working group.org, and they have all the list of things. And there's even apps now that you can get on your phone, like Yucca, Y-U-K-A. Right, yeah, things like that. You can scan foods and products and such. But we have to start really, you need to you really need to take educate and learn, and and people are doing that now. So, you know, avoiding as many toxins. I mean, don't eat fast food, don't eat processed food, you know. Right, yeah. You know, cook at home, or if you're if you're gonna eat out, find the restaurants that are that are, you know, really people need to take that message to heart because that's that's been said, and we've heard this before.
Dr. Jason Littleton:But you're right, don't eat fast food. People really, if they want change, they have to take it to heart. You have to take res you have to take health responsibility.
Dr. Myra Reed:Yes. I mean. That and it takes a little bit of effort, but once you start doing it, just do some baby steps and start adding some new things. And then once you start doing these things, it does get better. But you know, one of the things I am getting, I do want to go into something real quick about um when you were talking about toxins and we were talking about environmental toxins and and talking about the foods and such, but one of my things, unfortunately, that I got pushed into learning about and became somewhat of a niche of mine is mold toxicity. And I know a lot of people are really don't want to hear about it or talk about it. And I tried to avoid it as much as I can as well. But one of the things when people come in and they're having brain fog and fatigue, and it may not just be replacing hormones. I mean, yes, you can look at doing that, but if you're still having problems with that, one of the things is making sure that you haven't had a water damage, and it could be a small leak in the house that is causing water damage molds to grow in your home. That wreaks havoc on our brain and our body. So, and it's so hidden, and people don't know to look for it. And that's one of my expertises is finding out about if this could be a problem wreaking havoc on you. Because if you can't find the answer and you're still feeling bad, um, then you, you know, and finding doctors who are specialized, like functional internal medicine, I mean, inter functional integrative doctors who are specialized in mold, or there are a few, there are people out there. Um and there are some places that people can look. So if people are interested and they want to, they can reach out to me and I can help direct them in the right direction for that. If that's always if you are concerned about having some mold exposure, that could be even colonized in your body from years ago. You don't have to sit necessarily still be living in it. There's just some things, and that is a whole nother episode of things, but I did want to mention that because yeah.
Dr. Jason Littleton:I'm I'm glad I'm glad you did. That needed to be said. Yeah. I, you know, everyone I have on this podcast, I talked to them about my meds protocol movie, drink, sleep, and I always ask them what do they do personally to live a great life and to have optimal health? Um in the book that I wrote in 2012, um, Energize Again, I introduced this principle. So I want to ask you for my listeners, how do you move, eat, drink, sleep? Start with the exercise part or move. How do you move? What do you do? What does Dr. Myra Reed do to stay optimal in health?
Dr. Myra Reed:Well, I'm always optimizing my health. So I love to practice what I preach. I get up at 5:15 in the morning and I go to the gym. I have a I have a group that I work out. We have a trainer that we do strength training five days a week. Um, I do I like to do a cardio as well. I have an elliptical at my home that I can look out the window at you know at nature. I can put a podcast on or whatever and and get a good hour of the code.
Dr. Jason Littleton:Concept doc podcast is probably the most healthiest way you can go when you are on your elliptical.
Dr. Myra Reed:It's a good one. That's a good one.
Dr. Jason Littleton:It just had to be said.
Dr. Myra Reed:Um yeah, no, that's that's great. Uh yeah, listen to podcasts, different things, uh, such as that. And then I love walking outside. I love being out in nature for just, you know, mental part and exercise as well. That's huge. Being out in nature is a big love of mine. And um, as far as for I prioritize sleep, that to me, I call it precious sleep. And I have an aura ring that I've had for about since before they even came out. I was in their beta group with it. I always get new ones and stay on top of my sleep. And the first thing in the morning I get up and I look to see what my sleep score, my readiness, and such is. And then the other thing is, like I said, I, you know, filter my water and bring that to work with me. Then we I I shop food that is going to be clean, cook at home a lot. I do, we do eat out, but when we do eat out, I like to go to places like a foreign form to table type restaurants and that are getting wild caught or you know, farm-raised um produce or I mean or proteins, and eat a lot of dark leafy greens, eat my vegetables. And let's see, what else? So I trying to do all the all those clean, clean things. So those are my I follow a lot of my lifestyle recommendations. That's what you know I want other people to do. So I live it.
Dr. Jason Littleton:I love it. I mean, I love it. I love how you move, eat, drink, sleep. I think, you know, when I have um guests like yourself on and people get a chance to hear what are the unique things that my guests do as far as their health, you know, there's a lot that people can extrapolate from that and that they can see if that works for them or not. I always tell people talk with your doctor, of course, make sure it harmonizes with your health, your labs, everything like that. But that's awesome. I love the tips that you gave. Um, I love the tips that uh you gave and the snippets that you gave about your book, you know, smarter, stronger, longer. Uh, I can't wait for my audience to read it. They need to order this book. Where can they get it?
Dr. Myra Reed:Amazon has it. So you could get it in Kindle, hard copy or paperback. And um, yeah, that's real easy. I mean, you get it within a few days from Amazon. Everybody was just ordering. I just literally came out last week, and everybody's sending me messages that they're already getting their book. And I'm gonna say one other thing. If um, if people want a really quick, easy uh seven-day meal plan, they can go to my website, drmyrareed.com, and download the free seven-day meal plan. And that pretty much tells people like what I eat and it makes it easy. And so you know, a good thing. And if you want to take a hormone quiz, I have different little quizzes on my website too that people can take real easy and just download a few things.
Dr. Jason Littleton:Oh, I love it. Um, and that that's what I was gonna ask you. Where can people uh find you? And I'm sure they can find you on your website, but can people, if they want to do a consultation, do um, you know, a telehealth with you, or do they have to come into the clinic and be seen? How do you manage that?
Dr. Myra Reed:So I love seeing people in person and I love that connection, but also do telemedicine as well. So we have like if people wanted to work one-on-one with me, they can they can go and set up a calendar link to set up the main greet as well. And like I said, look for my online courses, but I'm always putting things out on YouTube. I have a new YouTube channel that I'm starting to load a lot of more content regularly on. So if people want to follow, a lot of good, just healthy tips. And I have a QA that is free right now for people to join on September the 30th, which is gonna be at, I believe, uh, I've I can't remember if it's 5:30 or 6 Central. I'm in Central Time. I know you're in Eastern, but I will have a live QA on September the 30th that people can, if they want to ask questions, they're welcome to join live.
Dr. Jason Littleton:Okay, awesome.
Dr. Myra Reed:Yeah, you guys, yeah, Instagram and Facebook as well. I keep that very active as well.
Dr. Jason Littleton:I love it. I love it. I listen, thank you for coming on today. I mean, I I've learned a lot. I know my audience have learned a lot, and I know a lot of people are gonna reach out and contact you. I mean, that's amazing. Thank you so, so much for coming on. I I think that I think I think people people need to run and get your book. I think um if you you're you're feeling foggy, you're tired, you're just not feeling optimized. You need to get a book, you need to learn about hormones, you need to reach out, you need to contact her. Um, I think it's so important. And, you know, in these days as we age, our body's always changing. It's not static. So you have to make sure that you're paying attention to your body, listening to your body, checking your labs, talk with your doctor about getting your hormones checked, get her book, all these things can make a difference. Again, I love having guests like Dr. Myreed on the show. I thank you guys for listening as you always tune in and remember to download this podcast, you know, Apple, Amazon, Spotify, and to follow me on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Thank you for spending time with me today. We will talk to you later.
