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From Cancer Survivor to Community Healer: The Story of Dr. Lindsey Johnson
What happens when you look beyond treating symptoms and instead focus on optimizing your body's innate healing abilities? Dr. Lindsey Johnson, a chiropractic doctor specializing in acupuncture and holistic health approaches, shares powerful insights that might forever change how you view wellness.
Beyond the adjustment table, Dr. Johnson reveals why chiropractic care should be viewed as nervous system optimization rather than mere pain management. "Eight to ten percent of the nervous system's function is pain," she explains, while the rest controls every cellular function in your body. This understanding transforms chiropractic from a reactive treatment to a proactive approach for better adaptation to life's physical, chemical, and emotional stressors.
The conversation explores fascinating connections between seemingly disconnected health elements: how gut health affects mood and cognition, how inflammation drives disease, and how modern innovations like peptide therapy work with your body's natural systems rather than against them. Dr. Johnson demystifies treatments from acupuncture (using a brilliant traffic jam analogy) to AMIT muscle activation that has helped professional athletes recover from seemingly career-ending injuries.
Most inspiring is Dr. Johnson's personal journey through cancer, where she discovered the transformative power of mindset work. Her morning routine of gratitude journaling and positive affirmations didn't just help her survive—it helped her find meaning and purpose through her challenge. "I am a better doctor now," she reflects. "I truly take that experience as something I was meant to go through to help others later."
Whether you're battling chronic health issues, seeking performance optimization, or simply want to ensure your best health for decades to come, this episode offers practical wisdom on building sustainable wellness habits. Listen now to discover why Dr. Johnson believes that "your body already has everything it needs" to heal and thrive.
Welcome to another episode of the Wealth Blueprint. Today my guest is Dr
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Lindsey
Addison Thom:Johnson. Dr Johnson is a doctor of chiropractic health and she specializes in health and wellness with acupuncture, peptides, ivs and really just solutions and habits for daily financial health and long-term longevity. So I'm really inspired by her story, her mindset, what a beautiful soul that she is and I hope you guys learn a lot from this episode. Here is Dr Lindsay Johnson. Like, is that funny to you when people throw around their title? Yes, yes, like, what's what's normally your reaction to that?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:it's annoying. I don't, yeah, I don't, I don't know I it's not necessary, yeah it's kind of like a status thing you're like I guess, attorneys are doctors too right, they have a jurist doctorate. Well, physical therapists are. I mean, there's so many in different, you know everybody is. And then you have your Instagram doctors. Instagram doctors, I mean you know just people that are like hey, do this and this.
Addison Thom:Yeah, I follow a couple of those. I mean, I think it's really easy to kind of figure out who's got your best interest.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Yeah.
Addison Thom:Who's like trying to sell you a supplement or you know something silly, but you're a doctor in chiropractor.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Yes, okay so, doctor of chiropractic, I have a specialty in acupuncture. Okay so yeah, gotcha, and your husband's a doctor.
Addison Thom:He's a chiropractor, also Chiropractor as well.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Yes, okay.
Addison Thom:So I want to start off with that, because we talked about this a little bit. But I've been to a chiropractor. I've never had like a long-term relationship with adjustments or anything like that. I think there's a lot of information out there that supports chiropractic health.
Addison Thom:Yeah, and then there's also a lot of information out there that supports chiropractic health, and then there's also a lot of information out there that like this is you know, snake oil, it's ineffective, it's blah, blah, blah. So I want to jump into that because and most people don't know this but, like, my wife is a huge convert to you and your company and it's made a huge difference in her life, and so I kind of just want to jump into that why should you go see a chiropractor first of all? Let's start there. What's the benefit? And if I'm a first-time customer, what am I looking for? Okay, customer.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:What, what? Uh? What am I looking for? Okay? Okay, what's really beautiful about chiropractic is it is the single most easiest way to affect the nervous system and make an influence on your nervous system. So it you know, eight to 10% of of the nervous system's function is pain. So that's so. There's 90% of function that is sending signals from your brain to every single cell organ system in the body, and we are able to.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:I don't even think of us as, like, spinal doctors. I think of us as nervous system doctors. The spine is the easiest way to affect the nervous system and so that's what we do. We're checking the spine. Everybody's spine looks different, every single one. We always take x-rays and it's amazing. When you see it, you're like wait a second, this makes sense. We all have traumas. We all have stresses. We have emotional, chemical and physical stresses. It affects our spine and it affects our nervous system. Our nervous system is what takes in that info. So any traumas that are happening, the nervous system is remembering that and then it's harder to adapt to stresses. So we constantly-.
Addison Thom:So it's a cumulative effect. It's a cumulative, yeah, okay.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:So the purest form you see of chiropractic is in babies. People are like why are we adjusting babies? Whenever they're born, it is a trauma they're going through and when you adjust them it's so immediate the difference in how they're feeding or how they're turning their head or how if they're fussy or any of that, you see it automatically and so that's the purest form. That's just like wow, um. But later in life we have so many things that just start accumulating, like you said, and we cannot react to those, those stresses as well. And so then we get sick easier, um, we're tired, we have a lot of fatigue, we um just illness. I mean, we're just all these symptoms, gut health, all of it.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:And so that's what we're doing. We are looking at the person as a whole, going right, like right to their nervous system, um, to help the, to help put the influence in there, so it'll be more efficient. And we actually do nervous system scans, um stress scans on people and you can see exactly how you're adapting to those stresses. And it's really interesting to see and it all makes sense. When you see the, see all of this data. It's really neat to see this and you're like wait a second, this all makes sense. This is why I'm having gut issues, or this is you know so how?
Addison Thom:how is the scan or test or whatever like actually qualifying that right? What is it showing you that you can see the nervous system and how it's operating?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:So there's a couple of different ones. One is a heart rate variability. So it sees how your heart is. You know, the heartbeat is adapting and if you're just sitting there and you're relaxed and you have your hand in there, you should the the heartbeat is adapting and if you're just sitting there and you're relaxed and you have your hand in there, you should be good to go.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:I mean, it should be really, you know, in this like parasympathetic mode it should just be rest and digest kind of mode and it'll show on the graph like how is this changing and why? So? Why are you not adapting well? And it'll that diagram. And so that's one of them. And we see it over time, like we keep re-scanning, and you can see this dot move on the chart to where, literally, that number is getting better with chiropractic, and then we have like a temperature scan as well. We should have a balance on each side. There shouldn't be differences in, so that'll show you kind of where the inflammation is, or where the the pool is in the muscles, um, and so there's yeah, that's just kind of how it's.
Addison Thom:There's one other one and but there's yeah, kind of how it's getting the data and I mean I, I'm a believer in like the cumulative effect of lifestyle habits, of that too. Right. So you know, sleep, cortisol, stress, your diet, like all of those things are adding up too. So when you're seeing those items, are you helping clients with like preventative care, like hey, make some other adjustments with diet, or that's the thing.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:It can't be all on us, yeah, and they have to be ready to change and ready to do their part too. There's so much involved in it and I think we're so accustomed. I didn't even get adjusted when I was a kid. I'm kind of mad about that now. I was like wait, I could have been adjusted this whole time. We're so used to reactive care. We're used to reactive care. We're used to that. We're used to wait till something happens and then let's go get this medication or get this surgery or whatever. That's great for when it's there, but if we're only relying on that I've seen it, I've seen it on both sides personally having to do medication and all that you get all the side effects and you get all of these things, and so that's where this comes in. It's more taking care of it before.
Addison Thom:Yeah, all of that. So, from chiropractic care in general, how much can you hope to improve through just that care? If you were to make no other alterations in lifestyle and just through chiropractic care, what have you seen as far as like success stories, um, or improvements that you, you guys like this is a success?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Well, so many. But so I'm very results driven. So anybody that comes in, I always tell them what's interesting they can be. They can get worse before they get better. It's bringing everything to the surface. It's letting the body recognize wait, there's something actually going on and you might not feel anything. There might be somebody that comes in. They don't have any symptoms, they're like I don't, I don't know why I'm here, but I want to get adjusted. They might all of a sudden just have soreness or just feel like really tired after it or something like that. It's bringing it to the surface and then it's starting to, starting to, and then it's it's going to accumulate over time to make that change.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:So if they weren't changing anything and they're just doing chiropractic I go back to infants when they don't have stress is really going on. They don't have a lot of things, you see it. I mean you see this baby immediately poop, almost always. You see them. We had one the other day. He was super fussy, you could tell he did not feel good at all, and he came in and he just kind of had like the teary eye. He just he was just, he was pitiful, he was not feeling good. And so my husband is one that adjusted him. In the middle of the adjustment he just suddenly just relaxed.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:He just suddenly did, and by the time they left he was just good to go, and so that's like the purest form of actually just seeing this difference. But with adults we have so much accumulated junk in our body and so it takes time to see that difference. This isn't um. I always tell people it took that this long to get where you are right now. It's going to take some time to kind of bring you back but yeah, we didn't get here overnight.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Yeah, yeah and no, I mean, you absolutely can. We have people. So we've been in practice for 15 years. We have people that still come from, literally like our first patients that ever were there, and they come either weekly or every other week. Yeah, and they see those. They just. It's a lifestyle change that you know. You feel You're just better able to adapt to stresses. Yeah, it's pretty cool. I was trying to think of another story for you or like a specific story, but I'll have to think on it.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:But there are so many, so many cool things.
Addison Thom:Yeah, I mean in my own, like personal fitness journey too. I mean I've tried so many things and I think going back to like almost not Old Testament, but like just what you put in your body is like what your body is going to produce.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Yeah.
Addison Thom:Right. So I think diet is by far number one, because yeah I changed my diet.
Addison Thom:You know you lose weight, inflammation goes down. Can you talk a little bit about that on, like just gut health in general and like how that, how you see that manifesting itself, um, in increased cortisol levels? You know inflammation, nervous system like you know inflammation, nervous system. Like you know you were mentioning that the chiropractic side of things, you know, can help that. So what are you seeing on that? You know American diets are notorious for being extremely unhealthy, so so inflammation is, is our killer.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:It is an inflammation. I truly think the root cause of so much illness is stress I talk about all the time, but stress is the root cause, I really think. But then you have, inflammation is what just sits in our body and makes us more sick and makes us uncomfortable and have pain, but in the gut, the same, you know, um, and so a lot of the foods like you're talking about things that people eat causes that inflammation, and so that's just so counteractive to that. But gut health has a lot to do with hormones and just how your um, how, what am I trying to say? Your um attitude, how you feel, is I mean what I'm trying to say? Your attitude, how you feel.
Addison Thom:What am I trying to say?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:It can cause depression, anxiety, all that if your gut is not in check. I think there's so much to do with gut health in particular.
Addison Thom:Yeah, and the first time I went to see a chiropractor I mean, this is like an anecdotal story, but I kept throwing my back out, like lifting weights, first because I was, you know, in my late twenties and thought that there's no reason to do this, but like I was never going to make the Olympic weightlifting team. So, like, why am I trying to deadlift 600 pounds, Right? Um, so that's where it started. And then jujitsu uh, I was competing in jujitsu and I, you know, you're just getting twisted up and you're not, you're not rehabbing correctly, Right? So your body is just kind of like.
Addison Thom:I don't know just tense all the time. But the biggest change that I noticed I went to a chiropractor and that helped. It helped alleviate, like you know, the impact of my disc and like stretching me out, and I felt better after I left, but it wasn't preventing me from doing it again. And then what I found is I changed my diet, first of all, and so my inflammation levels went way down, yes, and then really strengthening like my hamstrings, my glutes and my lower back, like just through working out and I was doing way less weight, but like very slow, eccentric, and strengthening those muscles in your hips because we sit down all day. So that's part of the problem too. So that made a huge difference. I haven't hurt my back since of the problem too. So that made a huge difference. I haven't hurt my back since then. But I would like reach down to get like a bottle of shampoo in the shower and then all of a sudden, my back would like pop out of place and I'd be like Tracy, come get me.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:I need to help.
Addison Thom:So you know, I think it is a big cumulative effect. Right, it's like you have to change the diet, you have to strengthen your body through resistance training.
Addison Thom:You know, yoga, stretching, whatever and then adding in chiropractic, like not one of those things is going to cure you, right, right. It's like how do you create these lifestyle habits? Yeah, and then when you add in acupuncture, what? What is the intention of that? I know virtually nothing about that. I think the concept and you tell me how stupid I sound I think the concept is that you want to bring blood flow to a certain area because your blood can heal a lot of the muscle tissue or like inflammation in that area by drawing attention to it but what?
Addison Thom:what's the? It's been around. What?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:thousands of years forever you know, it was the first form of health care ever acupuncture yes, yeah, and so for me to even be doing it. It's just. I'm full of gratitude for that. It's so neat, um. So there's something to it yeah, it's been around forever. And you know some people are not into chiropractic so much but they are very much into acupuncture.
Addison Thom:You know there are Well that's part of like treating the patient instead of the cause. Right, it's like what are you responding to? Because you could do chiropractic care every day and not get better, but then all of a sudden you introduce acupuncture and they're like holy, I felt so much better.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:And actually Matt and I do that a lot. He might be seeing somebody and they're doing great, but then they have, they get stuck, they get something happened to the, probably in their life. You know, something is really making them stagnant. He'll say, go to go get acupuncture and it's like a full body reset. It'll reset them back. But what I can say is, if you're doing both, you get better faster. I tell people that I watch it happen. You get better faster, you get your goals faster. But acupuncture we run on energy. We have energy channels in the body and just like if there's a construction roadblock and cars can't get through. Well, that's how it is with our energy channels. They get stagnant and it's from the stresses as well, and so we put needles in specific points and it helps that flow start again. Well, that's connected to everything in the body the circulatory system, the nervous system, all that and it's releasing hormones, bringing the blood circulation to certain areas and just telling the body hey, let's heal on it on our own.
Addison Thom:Basically, yeah so that's yeah interesting and so, but what? What's causing the healing?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:your own. You're putting back, taking out the stagnation. Okay, putting it's, it's an efficiency, it's making your body run more efficiently, and you, you know just, we have stagnation in life, we just feel it, and so that's what it's doing. I mean, it's truly like, hey, whoa, let's get this all flowing again. You know.
Addison Thom:Gotcha, yeah, yeah. So it's like releasing water from a dam.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Yes, that's how I think. Yes, that's exactly how I think about it Interesting.
Addison Thom:I definitely want to try that.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Yeah.
Addison Thom:I would be open to doing chiropractic stuff too, especially when I'm getting older. Man, just sleep too. I'll wake up and my neck is stuck. I have this bro mentality of it's fine, you just have to go work out harder and then it'll get better. But sometimes it never gets better, like I've had this issue with my neck. I popped it maybe six months ago on my right side and I can't extend my neck all the way back on my right side like it just popped or you popped it no, I, this is how old I am it just yeah, I just yeah.
Addison Thom:I literally woke up in the morning, yeah, okay, and I went to stretch like you're like yawning, yeah stretching and for whatever reason, I was just like oh yeah, like this like oh you know, and my neck just went clink, clink and like seized up.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Yeah.
Addison Thom:So I don't know, I don't know if it's my energy field, or I'm just old now, or what's going on. Well, degeneration is happening, yeah.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:And you know what's scary is our kids. They're on their iPads so much. I mean we're two, but we didn't start at two. They are going to have a reverse neck, reverse curve, and it's not good. It's not good, yeah, it's not good. It puts so much pressure on those nerves?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:totally, it's not. It's so. That's one reason why kids should be in it. That's number one reason they should be in adjusted. But um but no. You said earlier that you know, whenever you're working out a lot and then you bent down and it just like went out, well, that's what you have to worry about in time. That's what happens to to a lot of, especially guys. They're not doing anything. They're literally like tying their shoe and all of a sudden their back is out. And they will. They'll call us over the weekend, or it'll be like their wife. They'll text say can I get my husband in? I mean, he literally what did he do? Nothing.
Addison Thom:He was just vacuuming or whatever. You know something thing that I started noting, cause I've thrown my back out probably 20 times since the first injury that I had, and sometimes it's worse than others. I mean, there was a one point where I was working out at a hotel in the Austin area and I'd been driving all day.
Addison Thom:Every time I throw my back out it's from bad posture and sitting for long periods of time, whether it's on an airplane or like I watched football for six hours on Sunday and then Monday my back goes out, like not standing up, not continuing to move. Your hamstrings tighten up, your lower back tightens up. All of that stuff happens and then you know it takes nothing and it just pops out of place. So I was at this hotel in Austin. I'd been driving all day. I was like I need to get a workout and I'll just feel better. So I was at this hotel in Austin. I'd been driving all day. I was like I need to get a workout in, I'll just feel better.
Addison Thom:I did like three kettlebell swings and my back popped out and I was like, oh man, that feels weird. And my solution to that was I was going to dead hang from the pull-up bar, because of course that would help. So I dead hang from the pull-up bar. My whole back seizes up. Okay, I couldn't get off the floor. I had to. I crawled on my hands and knees to the telephone in the gym. I had to call the front desk. I was like I need you to bring a wheelchair oh my gosh and then I mean it was just bad.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:So I love guys solutions.
Addison Thom:Sometimes it's so hilarious yeah, we're just gonna we're so dumb that's amazing. Well, you know, what I need to do is deadlift. It'll straighten my spine back out. That's hilarious but what I've noticed is just I mean the diet changing my diet, uh, prioritizing sleep, because when you don't get sleep, you're mentioning, like resting heart rate, like if you have an apple watch or, uh, you know what are those other things that people wear on their wrist?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:now you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah, I know what you're talking about. I don't know. They're just whatever the heart rate monitors.
Addison Thom:If you don't sleep well and you like wake up let's say you had five hours of sleep your resting heart rate is going to be higher anyway. Yeah, because your body is like not well rested and it's trying to like keep itself awake and pressing forward. So if you prioritize that, that helps. And then I would always just suggest to everybody to like prioritize your core and your lower body. That's another guy. Move right, skip leg day or don't prioritize leg day. But the stronger your legs are, your glutes, your hamstrings specifically, and your core, the less you're going to injure yourself, especially as we get older. So you know I'm almost 40. You know I'm like working in reverse now, trying to like make up for that.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:I swear. When you turn 40, it's like things change. It's crazy.
Addison Thom:It's crazy.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Yeah, well, so you? I don't know if you've ever heard of AMIT. This is another thing we do. Like I said, like we love chiropractic, we think it's the base, but there's so many things that help people and AMIT is like you were saying. All that. I was like that's everything Matt would be saying right now. Core is everything. It activates muscles that have shut down. Coolest thing ever. It's not an adjustment, it is more of like an energy work, but whenever you injure yourself back in the day, it probably shut down some of the core muscles that you have and you can reactivate those and then it doesn't make you so vulnerable to injury. It's incredible.
Addison Thom:And how do you do it? Is it like a pulse thing? There's a map system, and how do you do it? Is it like a pulse thing or what is it?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:There's a map system and so there's like points on the body and you're holding these and it's interesting, it kind of hurts, it kind of it's tender at a certain point. Yeah, it's tender but it's work. It's using lymphatic points, acupuncture points and then particular points on these muscles. But this doctor that started this is in Utah and he would see NBA athletes and it was um, I'm mad that I can't remember his name Stockton Stockton had a game in the finals where he, he, uh, he sprained his ankle big time, I mean it looked horrible on screen.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:He went back there. Dr Buehler went back there and did AMIT on him. He was able to play the rest of the game. I mean, it looked like he broke it. He was able to go right back out there and play because he activated these muscles, and so that's where it all kind of began. Yeah.
Addison Thom:It's incredible.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:That is great.
Addison Thom:You know, the first time I heard that, I was like that is so insane. Yeah, like when you tell someone that it's so insane to think that that's a solution for anything.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:I know You're like how is?
Addison Thom:that even possible, and then you look into that doc. Didn't he like work for the Olympic Committee or?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:something? I think so, and he like fixed, he did all kinds of things.
Addison Thom:Yeah, yeah, so he's. I know a couple friends that have like really jacked their shoulders up or whatever and gone to see him and the next day they're out playing golf.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:So that's who we were trained by. We went to Utah and we were trained by him. I mean, it's incredible work.
Addison Thom:Yeah yeah. It's crazy how the body like almost everything you need is already in your body.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:I know it's. That's. You said it perfectly, that's exactly right. Yeah, we said it perfectly. That's exactly right. Yeah, we're just bringing that to the surface and letting your body. We're not, we are not treating anything, healing anything. It's your own body doing it.
Addison Thom:Yeah, it's just taking out those interferences yeah, you say something about like acupuncture and there's like thousands of years of history of acupuncture being used in eastern medicine and yeah being able to apply that to today.
Addison Thom:and then then you get to add on you know advances in modern medicine that help too. So one one thing that's really helped change my life, especially as I'm aging, is peptides, right, yeah, you know real popular ones NAD plus BPC 157. Can you just talk about like the advancements in that and what you've seen? And again, I come to you as a first time client, right, why do I need to be on peptides? What are we looking for? What's out there that can help?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:So peptides, you know it's. We started bringing these back when we opened Pure Health in 2019. A lot of people didn't know about it yet and now it's really picking up more steam and there's just more info about it. But it is truly a naturally occurring. It's a chain of amino acids, just small chains that tell our body different functions. And it's what we have in our body, but because we age and from stresses, we decrease it over time, and so when we can supplement with it, it is so it's like-.
Addison Thom:It's a game changer.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:It's like what is happening? This is new age. This is like a movie. It's like how is?
Addison Thom:this possible, that we can?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:take this stuff. And so, yeah, the BPC-157 is great for healing for injuries. You know all of that. And then you have ipamrelin that is great for leaning out muscle, decreasing fat or sleep. Even the ones that are for weight loss, they are actually like semaglutide and trisempatide. They're actually finding that is decreasing inflammation in the body as well. So some MDs are even telling their patients that have inflammatory issues, hey, try this out. And so, yeah, it's just it's incredible To have access to that is yeah, and they keep trying to kind of take it away from us sometimes and we're like no, yeah, well, I remember BPC-157 specifically was off the radar for a long time.
Addison Thom:It just brought it back. But I think a lot of that is the way the American health system is set up, where they want you sick because then they can sell you all these drugs and stuff. Bpc-157 is such a some people call it like the Wolverine drug because you recover so quickly, because it reduces inflammation.
Addison Thom:But you know, pharma, big pharma, wants you to have inflammation. They don't want you to have. They want all that build up so that they can prescribe you. You know, know, xyz, that doesn't really actually help you and that that's been my fear too about, like these semi-glutide and um, because I think you need to treat the patient right and not just sell things in mass to people. And it seems like america is like drunk on glp-1s now yeah right, like everyone's on it.
Addison Thom:Can you talk a little bit about that, like who should be on it? What is it actually helping you hear all these like horror stories too, of like, oh, I'm losing bone density and, uh, my muscles going down, and like you know, yep, what was its original intention and who should actually be on it?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:It's an original intention was to help people that were diabetic, that help with blood sugar regulation and and I, I'm, I'm, and I'm not great on the history of it of exactly did they know it was going to make them? Help them lose weight as well? I don't know, but um, it, absolutely. You have to have so much protein and I think a lot of people aren't educated on it, and maybe some doctors prescribing it they don't. I don't know if they tell their patients or not, but they don't because you can literally.
Addison Thom:There's an instagram site that you can like, a you know hemscom or whatever you. You can just go on there, do a telehealth concert console that's five seconds long and then they'll just prescribe you a GLP-1. That's like insane to me.
Addison Thom:Which honestly Same thing I would say about like anything Testosterone, hormone replacement, any of that stuff. You should not be getting that in a five minute console without your blood work being done, without ongoing monitoring from a healthcare professional of like, hey, what's changing in your body? Because, just like we talked about earlier, it's not for everybody. You could take something and it gives you a way worse reaction, or it could be like the solution you've been looking for for your whole life and everybody's different.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Everybody's's different and we have to really we have to take control of our own what we're putting in our body, and so we have to research. It doesn't matter what we're prescribed, we have got to know what could happen or what you know, just know all the things, and we can't really put that all on our doctors to like make sure we know every single thing, because our bodies can react different, everybody's different right um. That's where the monitoring comes into place, right, it's like yeah for sure six months later?
Addison Thom:hey, we need to check in, we need to pull your blood panel again and just make sure. Yeah, everything's good, right?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:um, but who should be on them? It's really, it's, it's so different. You, you know, people are actually. Are you talking about like the weight loss ones?
Addison Thom:Just in general, like if you were gonna. If you're a physician and you have this tool in your tool chest, you're not. You're not using it for every task, right? So who are you looking to use it for? Obviously, it helps with weight loss, but you also mentioned inflammation.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Yeah, so really I don't know how many doctors are really prescribing, as much as it's more people. I don't know but getting info and saying wait, I don't want that you know, because sometimes it's not treating.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:I mean, you've you know we talked about all the neat things that it's doing. So I think MDs are just now getting on board with it of telling clients about it. But I think people are seeking it out that want leaner muscle or want to heal better or want the weight loss too. Some people are even microdosing those peptides because it helps with gut health. It helps them feel better.
Addison Thom:And it helps curb appetite yeah.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:It's actually really they're all so great, but one can react different with somebody. I mean, there's really very, very, very low side effects, but there can be, yeah, I think, with anything, with anything, with anything yeah.
Addison Thom:Yeah, I think, with anything, with anything, with anything, yeah, yeah, and that's why I think it's so important and I want your take on this. I mean, you and your husband are, you know, mature parents. You're running businesses, you know you're obviously we're all getting older and you guys have these like lifestyles and habits that are effective, so effective. So I want to get your insight on that. But I think that it has to all start with, like, the fundamental of the habits you build Absolutely. So it has to be based off of nutrition first, what you're putting in your body, eating enough protein and some sort of resistance training.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Absolutely.
Addison Thom:Period Whether it's once a week or three times a week or whatever. You don't have to be Mr Universe, but you need to. If you can incorporate those two things in your life and then prioritize sleep, I think that will solve 70% of a lot of people's problems. Not having those habits and those fundamentals in place. And then doing what us as Americans do, which is immediate gratification of like what us as Americans do, which is immediate gratification of like, oh, I'll just take a GLP one, or I'll just take a peptide, or that's right.
Addison Thom:That's what I think the insanity is that I think is the longterm harm that could be caused. It was like you and again that goes back to like you know we have freedom of choice. You know we're all our own individuals. We can make those decisions. But if you're making that decision without changing the other habits in your life, I think you're setting yourself up for a lot of issues.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:You said that so well, because I cause, I see it. I see that with people, especially on the on the weight loss peptides, they don't really get healthier because, yeah, maybe they're, they've lost the weight, but now they have zero muscle because they had, they've never implemented and this isn't everybody, this is just a few that, just if you don't make those lifestyle changes, you're still really the same person. It's just a little less weight but, yeah, they lose the muscle and it's like you said it perfectly and that's dangerous, too, for longevity.
Addison Thom:So, when you look at like all of these, one thing I love about health and wellness right now is there's so much like acute data that's coming out about things that you can change and what leads to longevity and a healthy life right, grip, strength, muscle mass and basically your equilibrium, like your balance, like having a strong core, being able. So, as you're aging, right, if you're losing muscle mass, what happens when you're 70 years old, slipping and falling is like one of the number one causes of death right, so that ends your longevity, right there. So, if you're not putting yourself in a position to like, hey, I need to do some resistance training, make sure my balance is good and you're just taking these GLP-1s, that you're losing bone density, you're losing some muscle mass, you're weaker at the end of the day, right, that's the end result. So I would just precaution. Anyone like that's looking for longevity specifically, and that's the only thing I care about now.
Addison Thom:I'm almost 40 years old and I got young kids. I want to be running around with them and my grandkids when I'm in my seventies and eighties. Uh, I got a late start with that, right, so I'm already kind of like I'm going an old grand same. I'm like I hope I'm for my grandkids. Gosh, I'm yeah, so yeah. So what are? Like? You know? I think you and your husband are a great example of how to be extremely busy, because those are excuses I hear all the time too.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Yeah, of like I don't have time to work out that's right?
Addison Thom:Well, you're sleeping in until 8 am first of all, so why don't you wake up at 6 and go get a half an hour workout in Yep? What are the habits and things that you and your husband have put in place? And I think everyone that can relate to this. That's a parent right. When you first have kids, it's chaotic right.
Addison Thom:Your whole life changes overnight. Your schedule becomes theirs, not yours, but somehow during that, you guys managed to, you know, keep a healthy relationship, parent your kids, run a company, stay in shape. So what are those like fundamental habits that you guys put together? That's like, hey, these are non-negotiables of like how do how do we get this done? How do we accomplish everything we want to and be here?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Honestly, number one is probably I mean not number one, but very, very important is exercise. We and I'm I'm so glad that Matt is also very passionate about it too but I genuinely think it saved my life through all of my past history with health stuff and still to this day, and what I've learned is we used to like every day Every day, even on vacation, we're going to work out. We just love it.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:We enjoy it Because it gives you energy and it makes you feel, and when you start to feel weak and you're just, how do you get out, we just love it, we enjoy it, but because it gives you energy and it makes you feel, and when you start to feel weak and you're just, how do you get through the day? So, um, but what I've learned and this has been a hard lesson, but once I turn 40 is I can't go and sin all the time now.
Addison Thom:So recovery is as important recovery is, I'm all about recovery.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:We can go there too. I have figured that out because I yeah, I learned I cannot do two days anymore. I can't, I would, I would try, and then I don't need to work out seven days a week or even five. I could go down to three, four and I'm good and I feel great.
Addison Thom:Especially if your diet's in order. Absolutely and you're not yeah. Yeah, your days off should not be like pizza and wing day every day. Your days off should not be like pizza and wing day every day. Right yeah, you got to stick to the plan.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:You've got to and, of course, have balance and all that I mean there's going to be. You know you've got to eat once in a while, but truly, yeah, I think that has been huge for us. You know one thing, a habit that we put in place, too, was date nights. I mean that was huge for us, and even was that was huge for us, and even you know what it's like when you have like little little ones.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:I'm sure tracy was like I would have days I'm exhausted, I don't want to go on a date, I don't feel like it. But we would and we would even like go uh, cycle or do something you know active and fun, and but we still today I mean he this morning he was, was saying bye and he's like let's do a date night tonight. I'm like let's do that and I think we have to. That has been so.
Addison Thom:It's a game changer.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:It is a game changer and travel. I know we get judged. I know we do when we leave we have to, like everybody knows, all of our clients know. But that has been huge for us to break away. We come back stronger, we come back with ideas. We we can give 100 to our clients because we have taken a break with our family or without um, and so that has been huge. Um, another, I'm trying to think it. Well, I'm all about morning routine, all about it. I refuse, refuse to be in a hurry in the morning.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:I want to wake up earlier than my kids is always good and just really get mindset going for the day.
Addison Thom:What's your morning routine? Walk me through that.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:I like to wake up about five. My kids would be like you don't do that every day. I don't not every single day, but on the good days. This is um, but yeah, I like to get up at five and I like to go through affirmations, gratitude I sometimes journal, it sometimes journal things, um, but anything to do to get into the right mindset. You know, gratitude brings our vibration to the highest.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:That's how we can get our vibration really high to start the day. Um, so anything uh that I can do. And then I love green tea, so I get my, my cup of green tea and, um, I love the sauna. Sometimes we'll get in there. Um, I did not work out until about 10. So I, I, I actually really used to love getting up really early and working out and getting it done in the morning, but with kids now I don't do that. I do it a little bit later.
Addison Thom:You got to get them out for the day.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:I have to get them out and then I could go enjoy. But I the best days are workout days, you know, and so get that in. But I think number one it's it's getting mindset set for the day, you know.
Addison Thom:Yeah, I have a very similar setup and the two crossover. I mean I wake up at five. That's the only time I have alone. Yeah, exactly. Until my kids wake up.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Yeah.
Addison Thom:So I'll make their lunch and get their breakfast ready, but I have my coffee. Usually read my Bible or I'm reading something else.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Yeah.
Addison Thom:And I'm setting my mindset for the day and looking at my schedule and planning, like, hey, what do I want to actually accomplish today? I think that's huge and it's. It's very similar to like the date night with your wife, right? Even if you don't feel like doing it, you guys are tired, it's the end of the day, just that, like we'll go to dinner and then we'll go to like reflexology and just get like foot massages together.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:We love doing that. That's amazing.
Addison Thom:Because it's so good. You put your phone down. Sometimes we'll just sit there and hold each other's hands and not say anything and just like oh my God, it's been a long day, and just kind of de-stress and kind of soak in and think about the day. But other times we'll just sit there and talk to each other for an hour. That's the most conversation uninterrupted you're going to have all week and that's so powerful to like reset your relationship, your connection, and I would encourage people to do that with themselves.
Addison Thom:Like that one hour in the morning, whether it's, you know, scripture or um daily affirmations or whatever, that's a conversation with you, right, and you might have a conversation with you and God, but it's like it's so important to turn the mirror on yourself and have a conversation with yourself, of like being honest with yourself about what you want to accomplish, where you are in your life and what you plan on doing. I think so many people, because of all the distractions that are in the world you mentioned iPads earlier and TV, and then you have social media Like it's so easy to distract yourself from you. You're distracting yourself like away from your own mind and your own heart, of like, hey, I need to check in with myself and be like let's get this, you know, going. So it's really interesting like a lot of successful and like motivated people that I I talk with.
Addison Thom:Those schedules are very similar yeah, that's interesting you know there's like alone time, whether it's in the sauna by yourself or reading or whatever it is. They have to take that alone time and they try to limit distractions from outside influences as much as possible. It's very rare you ever meet anybody that's successful or highly motivated. That's like on TikTok all day, or like they never miss a game on TV or whatever you know, when you meet those people, it's like what are you? How do you do that? Right? Oh, you're not accomplishing the thing that you promised yourself you would do, right?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:You know, I tell people to schedule it too. You know, schedule your time, whatever it is.
Addison Thom:Well, while we were talking about mindset too, and you had mentioned your battle with cancer and coming through that kind of talk to me, I have never been through anything like that, and I never want you to go through that inspired by, just like your, demeanor. It's so easy for people to be down on themselves or crawl into a hole. They crawl into a hole and like woe is me kind of thing, yeah, so what was your mindset when all that happened?
Addison Thom:How do you, how do you break through that and how did how has it changed you? Just having that experience.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:It. It was the most shocking obviously thing we've ever ever thought we would go through. It was the most shocking obviously thing we've ever thought we would go through. And so at first I was terrified and I was pissed and I was like what is happening? But I knew to get all of my facts in line and I learned really quickly to take control and not, you know, you get told no once in a while or nope, this isn't going to work for you. I refused to hear that kind of thing. If there was something that didn't feel right to me, then I would get a different consultation with a different doctor. I went to Dallas for a lot of stuff and I would really seek out answers and I also. It happened really fast. Once you find out something like that, everything just rolls out. I mean, it's so quick and I learned very quickly.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:That's actually when I really started these morning routines. Actually I'm sure I did some of it before, but like intentional morning routines started then I cause you only go day by day. You can't look past that. It's like not even possible, and so I would have to center and think of anything positive I could think of, and I did. I was. I didn't focus on all of the bad. I would think focus on how supported I was, and so the people around I mean my would. I didn't focus on all of the bad. I would think focus on how supported I was, and so the people around I mean my husband incredible, um, and so I would just focus on that and focus on anything finding the right doctors and finding the right kind of treatments. That that seemed right and um, and I would notice signs, like I was.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:We were in Dallas and we were just about to do my double mastectomy and I remember looking out the window. We were at a restaurant and it said, what's the best that could happen? And I was like what's the best could happen? What is? I came out of that surgery in that situation the best it could have possibly been. It's crazy. No one has a great experience with that. I truly I didn't have a bad experience at all Incredible doctors, incredible experience and I thought I think it's truly because of mindset. I followed this mindset of just what is the best way to get out, what I mean why don't we focus?
Addison Thom:Have you always been like that, or was there like a point in your life that you made a conscious effort to do that? Because I don't think that's like innate, I think there's people that are optimistic right. But, I don't think it's like a practice that you know if you're just like naturally optimistic, sometimes you're like foolish in your optimism right. So, like, was there something that happened where you're like I'm going to make a real effort on my mindset? I think it was that.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Really I think I've always been positive and thinking of the positive, but I think that was the moment that I learned you have control of it and if you don't, it will be the worst experience. That was the worst experience, anyways, it could have been a million times worse if I would have not had the right mindset. I have great memories from that time. That is so bizarre. I would go on walks with your wife.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:I mean I loved having those walks. I mean it's just there was so much good to take from it and I am a better doctor now. I truly think I'm more empathetic, I can help people more and I I truly take that experience as something. I just needed to go. I was meant to go through it and, um, to help others later.
Addison Thom:I mean I really think that, so yeah, so you weren't making a conscious effort really before that. You were trying to remain positive, but it seems like this situation forced your hand a little bit right.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Yeah, where, like the alternative is like it's like, which way are you going to go?
Addison Thom:Yeah, alternative is doom and gloom, totally.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Yep.
Addison Thom:So for like people out there that may be going through something like this or just are struggling with mindset in general, what are the things that helped you to like develop that muscle? Because I doubt that, like day one of you got a cancer diagnosis, you're like, oh, I have all the tools to like help my mindset Right. So what helped you with that? How do? You how do you strengthen that muscle?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Well, I remember I was given a gratitude journal. I'd never had that gratitude journal. You know, they gave me a gratitude journal and I remember opening that and I that's what I that's where it all began. I started that in the morning and I was I would just write. I, that's where it all began. I started that in the morning and I was I would just write, you know it out, what I was grateful for. That was the easiest because that guides you, you know, in a way, to write things.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:And then I, when I had this journal, then I would write down um affirmations from that and start writing them out and um, you, our, our mind, talks to every cell in our body and I there's so much I've done with this.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:I've done a lot of work with mindset um, because fear can take us over, and it can absolutely make us more sick, and so I've had to do a lot of work, but that's where it all began, was really. I think it was that simple thing, yeah, really simple, um, and I mean you're're, you're big in faith as well. I think that it's that was when I truly, um have found my true connection with god as well during that time, and that was really. I've always been, uh, I've always been, you know, raised in a church and all of that. But to truly experience the feeling of letting go I don't have control, I leave it to you and he got me out of the situation immediately Was like what? So that was huge. It was so many huge moments.
Addison Thom:Yeah, that's beautiful to hear and I think that a lot of people have that experience too. Just with faith.
Addison Thom:right, it's like you're you grow up in the church you're kind of just like following direction from your parents exactly um and even attending church and I've had a kind of like an epiphany with this too of like going to church is like you could just be attending a theology class at a college, because what's happening at church is they're like reading the scripture and interpreting it to you or telling you like, hey, these are the things you need to obey, right? The real connection with god and the real connection with your own faith is the action you, the actions you take from that. It's not enough just to go, take in the information and like, oh, I feel a little bit better, the worship service was so great and I got to sing and put my hands up. That's not the connection. What the requirement of you is is to take action with that information.
Addison Thom:So, even when you're saying, you know, I gave it to God, you did, but you also took action. You also woke up and you decided consciously, like I am going to give this to God, but I'm also going to help myself in my own mental. You know, god's job is not to like save you from your own stupidity, it's to hey, I gave you all these tools to do something with. I trust that you're going to also use those too, and I think that's such an important connection that you need to make Exactly.
Addison Thom:Um really even just in your mindset, if you're not open to Christianity or learning more about that and you just want to improve your life from that. I think there's so many lessons they can learn from listening to your story and just hey, I need to start my day off with positive affirmation and getting your brain chemistry to a place like that's what it's feeding off of, because we can easily feed off of the food of negativity to your brain, can't right?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:isn't that insane that your brain is like yeah, you get endorphins from both yeah, isn't that amazing isn't that kind of gross and why do people always want to?
Addison Thom:tell you the negative right I mean they love it I.
Addison Thom:I think it's avoidance. I think it's avoidance of themselves. I think that's why gossip exists. I think that's why judging other people exists, because it's avoidance of yourself, it's avoidance of the conversation that you're having in your own head. Yeah, and if you can escape that, make someone else feel a little bit lower, um, or make you yourself feel a little bit better from you know a tough time somebody else is going through. You get to avoid all of the own stuff that's taking place with you. Yes, and I, and there is some sort of brain like, if you think about that, the relief from yourself if you're unhappy with who you are yeah the relief from yourself is an endorphin.
Addison Thom:I get to talk trash about Dr Lindsay and, um, you know, or her kids are misbehaving and I'm not the parent that I want to be, so I get to judge her for how she parents her kids or whatever, and I just get that little break from myself of like I'm disappointed in me.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:I've never even thought about it that way. I like it, I like yeah.
Addison Thom:I agree, stop it. Yeah, don't do that. Well, I really appreciate you being here. I'd love to have you on more and I'd like to actually talk more and maybe even have your husband on too, separately and get his opinion also. But as things are maturing in this health and wellness space, I think that people could massively benefit from it. I think they could benefit from just having a conversation with you, massively benefit from it. I think they could benefit from just having a conversation with you. I would recommend to anyone, especially over the age of like 35, is you should just you should start with your blood, get a blood panel done, see what you're deficient in, see what can kind of like put you on track. And, you know, meet with Dr Lindsay and Infinity Wellness and also Pure Health right, pure health is the IV peptide side and infinity wellness is the chiropractic. Yes, awesome, I would definitely start there and just see, like, what adjustments no pun intended, or maybe uh that you can make in your own life and and um, solve, solve those issues.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:You know, I always talk about a lot of things. I do, you know, I try all different things, and so people will come to me and say what do I start with? I don't want anybody to think they have to do it all, and everybody's different. And so I do consults that it'll just talk about it. Let's figure out what would be great for you. You know, and everybody's different.
Addison Thom:Well, I think that's another great thing to point out. So, like my wife is, uh, definitely guilty of this and I make fun of her for it. But like she'll try like five things at one time, right of like hey, methylene blue and this peptide and chiropractic adjustments and acupuncture and reflex all or whatever it is right, and I'm like how do you know which one of those things is making the benefit?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Yeah.
Addison Thom:Right Now you could say the shotgun approach is great and you just feel better, so just stick with that. But like, how would you recommend someone go on that health journey, like from start to finish, like I sit down with you, walk me through that process, like what, what does that look like?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Okay, you're not going to like this first answer, but truly, whenever I talk to people, I'm like if you would just start with chiropractic, we go from there Like even if you don't decide to do chiropractic, but it is way more, I get to pay attention to like how things are changing and it's just more very much a you have somebody watching over how's everything going and then, but anyways, if not, I just we, I see what their goals are. It's all about goals. What is your goal? Is it longterm or short term? Is it pain? Is it fatigue? Is it what is it? And then it might be ozone. When you're sick and not feeling well, that's the best thing ever. If you're not feeling well, it might be an IV to pep you back up. Or if you're having a run, having a race soon, but it might be AMIT, you know, for past injuries, and so there's. I would just sit with somebody and say what are your goals?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:And this is how I would guide you, you know to each of them. You don't need to do all this stuff at the same time, but this might depend on what's going on.
Addison Thom:Can I make a suggestion on that?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Yeah.
Addison Thom:This changed our business life monumentally. Tell me, Goals are fleeting things Because when you reach them unless you have the other goals set up, the real difference maker is why do you want to do those things and learning from those people like I want to fix my shoulder, Okay, why?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Why I love that? Because it hurts.
Addison Thom:Okay, well, think 20 years from now, right, why? Because I want to pick up my grandkids, because I want to, you know, be able to golf every day, because I want to like, if you really extract that, that is the fruit, I truly believe, of people accomplishing the goal I love that it's like why do you want it? Why do you?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:want to get in shape, yeah, why do?
Addison Thom:you want to be healthy? Why do you want to eat better? Why do you? Is it all aesthetic? Because one day you're going to wake up and you're going to look better, yeah, so then what then? Why are you doing love that and I think, just digging that like piece, like when we help people on the financial side too? It's like I want to own, you know, 10 properties and I want to retire at 45 and, you know, quit my W2 job and all those things. That sounds great, but why do you really want to do it?
Addison Thom:I love that what is it Because do you hate your job? That's a whole different thing that we need to discuss, right? Or you love your job but you want to spend more time with your family or whatever? Like we can solve that and put you on a track to hit that, as long as you know why you're doing it Because I can sell you a property or put you into a portfolio that is going to make you the money and the returns that you want to make. But I can't solve for your purpose, like why you actually want to accomplish this thing. I think that's like game change.
Addison Thom:Well, Dr Lindsay, I really appreciate it. I'm just going to call you Doc now.
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:Thanks for having me.
Addison Thom:Where can people find you on social media website? How do we get a hold of you?
Dr. Lindsey Johnson:uh, my social media is a on instagram love black. Wellness is is a great way um. Of course. We have infinity wellness center and pure health as well on there awesome.
Addison Thom:Thank you so much yes, thank you yeah.