Healing Beyond the Prescription with Dr. Timmy Foster

In episode 4 of The One Percent Doctor, Adam Lamb interviews Dr. Timmy Foster, the Managing Partner at Upgraded Human Wellness, as he discusses the importance of mindset, lifestyle changes, and understanding the body's unique needs, especially when it comes to hormonal health for both men and women.

Tune in to discover valuable insights on patient care, practitioner growth, and the importance of a holistic mindset in healthcare. 

TIMESTAMPS

[00:01:29] Natural path to healing.

[00:06:05] Natural hormonal health in pregnancy.

[00:08:55] Natural solutions for hormonal issues.

[00:11:45] Testosterone and environmental impacts.

[00:15:01] Methylation and genetic testing.

[00:19:24] Lifestyle changes for testosterone health.

[00:22:26] Intuitive eating and health.

[00:24:51] Hormonal cycle and fitness.

[00:28:41] Healthy fats and women's cycles.

[00:32:13] GLP-1 and natural alternatives.

[00:36:29] Eating speed and satiety signals.

[00:41:14] Gut health and mental wellness.

[00:44:28] Healthy lifestyle choices impact life.

[00:47:21] Health transformation and lifestyle change.

[00:49:06] Perspective shift in health.

[00:52:34] Subscribe for more value.

QUOTES

• "Sometimes this curse that we can find ourselves in can actually be the blessing that opens up opportunity for us to change the perspective and then go and help thousands, tens of thousands of people." - Adam Lamb
• "I'm more trying to fix the cause of the issue, not just put a bandaid on your symptom. I want you to feel better. I want to have less pain, more energy, whatever it may be, but I'd rather fix the problem." - Dr. Timmy Foster
• "I want them to kind of being intuitive in their life, their eating habits. It's your body. You should know how it operates and works. You should be able to prevent things as well as, you know, fix it when there's an issue." - Dr. Timmy Foster

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Dr. Timmy Foster

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Transcript

Welcome to The One Percent Doctor podcast. What separates the good from the great, the standard from the extraordinary? It's not just skill. It's not just knowledge. It's mindset. It's execution. It's the relentless pursuit of growth. And that's exactly what we talk about here on The One Percent Doctor podcast. I'm Adam Lam. I'm your host. Welcome to the show. All right, welcome back to The One Percent Doctor podcast. Today, I have an awesome guest. Dr. Timmy Foster is gonna blow your mind on some amazing stuff. He already blew my mind in our conversation. Great man, excited to have him here. I think you are going to learn so much from him, even on the, you know, just on the provider practitioner side of things, but definitely a lot of stuff too on the patient side. He's crushes it in the naturopath space. Dr. Tim, happy to have you on here, brother. Thanks so much for being here and sharing your wisdom with the audience.

Adam Lamb

Yes, sir. Great to be on here, Adam. Super pumped for this. I love the nerd out. So this is going to be a lot of fun today.

Dr. Timmy Foster

Yeah, you don't you don't look like a nerd. You're not a nerd, but you got some really cool nerd facts that I think are going to be super helpful that people are going to love. So, you know, let's start with a little background of what got you into the natural path space.

Adam Lamb

Originally, I went through allopathic pre-med, so I learned all that lovely stuff. I had an internal medical issue on my own. In high school, I got diagnosed with a couple gastric GI issues on myself. I went through the myriad of GIs and all sorts of different things. I got diagnosed with GERD, colitis. IBD, IBS, and eventually Crohn's, was on all sorts of different medications, trying to go through school. Nothing worked. Asked my doctor for some aid and assistance. I was like, hey, you know what? I found this article, this holistic thing, this natural thing. What do you think about it? He's like, oh, it's garbage. It's this, that, and the other. And I didn't know what else to do. So I ended up just giving it a three-month shot. I went to a holistic route and a natural route and essentially saw, you know, almost, I wouldn't say complete cure, but, but like literally like almost a 180 very, very light at the end of the tunnel. It really was. It really was. And within three months, I was feeling phenomenal within a year. I had like no more issues. And once again, I suffered this since I was like in high school. Yeah. And I realized like, OK, this there's some there's some weight to this. I was always interested in endocrinology. And then I focused more into, you know, furthering education on kind of the natural, pathic, holistic mindset root cause issues. Once again, all based off of my own personal experiences.

You know, it's amazing how there's, and I was talking about this with a doc, Dr. Zaino, who was just on the podcast, we dropped his episode this week, of sometimes this curse that we can find ourselves in can actually be the blessing that opens up opportunity for us to change the perspective and then go and help thousands, tens of thousands of people. And it's funny, this conversation I always think of, you've probably seen this, it's like a meme or an image where you have like, you have a line of people and the sign for the door is like, pills and surgery or lifestyle change, right? It's like, what's in line at the lifestyle change, everybody wants to go in surgery. And it in, you know, it's, I've been down, I've had these, I've had a colitis issue when I was younger, radically changed that I've had issues with, you know, want to do surgery that we found regenerative medicine and totally healed it. So like, there's so many different ways out there. And I just think, you know, unfortunately, so many docs are taught that that stuff's all like witchcraft or smoke and mirrors. But at the end of the day, it's like, hey, look, try it, right, try it. And then all of a sudden, you see this absolute reversal and symptoms by just changing some things in your lifestyle. And then it's like you went down deep path of learning this stuff, especially for women. I know you shared a little bit about that with me. You know, now, you know, based on that journey, which is awesome, I think it's a lot of people that could be listening to this or be in a stuck spot. That pursuit of the answer could be the blessing that's thousands of other people could get. But tell me about, you know, you went through that. You went all in in this space and kind of like where you're at and what you focus on today. to help people and we'll talk about some really cool stuff that you've shared that I think the audience will love. Give us a little background on that.

Yes. So after figuring out that there was a, there was another way to solve the puzzle, if you will, uh, through, through natural holistic medication, uh, and remedies, protocols, et cetera. Um, I, I ended up, I'm originally from New Jersey. So I tried to figure out what entity I could essentially get into within this natural pathic world. And once again, this was about 20 something years, almost 20 years ago. So this was, It's not new, but kind of unheard of, especially, you know, outside the New York metropolitan area. So there's a part of that that's like, it sounds quackier. Yeah.

And then and then days, especially now where we're finding all or it in the water is bad. Wait, what's up with these these shots? They're trying to make us what's up with. We're seeing the can of worms of the dumpster fire or health with the Maha movement, all these kind of things. It's waking everybody up. to where guys like you, it's like, wait a minute, this dude was right all along. Right. And so, so I understand the challenge of 20 something years ago. Um, so yeah, tell us more about that.

Yeah, so trying to find that space. And once again, I loved endocrinology, so hormones within the body systems. So I ended up finding an avenue that worked well for me. It was natural, it was hormonal, and I was helping pregnant women at the time. So pre and postnatal, so during pregnancy and obviously postpartum. So I was helping with gestational diabetes, postpartum depression, all those things. And it was really unique because the pregnancy, I guess, I don't know what process. Yeah, the women, they wanted more all natural, regardless of what they did before. They wanted that all natural. They were like, I'd rather not take that medication. OK, cool. We can do some workarounds. I have a better solution or a different solution for the same problem. So it was definitely an open world, if you will, you know, in that. area in that time in that space. Yes, it's a it's a little bit more abundant now people are more interested in it. You know, we have the Maha movement, it's a little bit more kind of on the day to day in people's minds.

And even on the pregnancy side of like, more natural birth, I mean, like, oh, yeah, like, wait, you want to give birth in a bathtub was maybe kind of different. We're now like every other person I talked to doing more natural more natural things, just because awareness, I think, and like stuff like social media and certain things like just access to information, and get given people the opportunity to explore these things. But at the end of the day, this stuff's been studied for hundreds of years, potentially, you know, absolutely different things that are done. How do you think? Yes, it's the dawn of time. Things are more natural. And so work then it can work now, especially with just more knowledge, education and better environment potentially to facilitate these things. So so so you moved into that area. Would you still work with pregnant women or, you know?

Yeah, yeah. I still do pre and postnatal. I do natural family planning. So getting both the man and the woman, you know, ready to be able to conceive, you know, bring up fertility levels. And of course, anything within, you know, hormones, whether it be low testosterone, Hashimoto's, estrogen dominance, PCOS, endometriosis, you know, the list goes, the list goes on. And once again, it's just, I look at it a different, a different way. So I find a natural solution to the same problem that you go to your GP, your family, your OB, whatever.

We're just so conditioned as a society of like, here's your, you have a diagnosis, here's what we believe the problem is, here's the drug to mask it or to potentially help it, but at the end of the day, it rarely does what it's supposed to do. And that's where I think, again, you know, our body is designed to heal itself. Our bodies- Absolutely. Have nature, all these other things in it. And saying it sounds like hippie-ish, but it's true, right? Like you can't really deny that. And so tell us a little more about some areas in the hormone space with your experience. You know, I have a lot of experience in the hormone space. It's always space that's intrigued me. but mine has been more on the optimization side. Yours is more on the naturopath side. So I'm curious to learn some of those awesome things from you too. So tell me about that with women and men.

So, I mean, I look at it a bunch of different ways and everyone's kind of a little bit unique on what's going on within them. But, you know, speaking hormonally, we can look into the body and essentially figuring out like root cause. So you may have a symptom, an ailment, something, or something even more objective. You're high in this level, you're low in this level. And instead of just going right to the prescription pad, I go a little bit deeper and I look at more root cause. It's that old, you know, bandaid on a bullet hole and all that stuff. It's like, I'm more trying to fix the cause of the issue, not just put a bandaid on your symptom. I mean, yes, I want you to feel better. I want to have less pain, more energy, whatever it may be. but I'd rather fix the problem. And typically with that problem, there's, you know, 10 other symptoms that are going on. You know, we can take like low testosterone, for an example. Um, most men that I see have low testosterone. They have other issues going on too, you know, uh, you know, nutrition deficiencies, you know, um, Maybe like a testicular issue, or it's very rarely something that needs injectable testosterone. Don't get me wrong, there are individuals that need it, but realistically, you could find some of these hormonal precursors, COVID-19.

The hormone space, when I got into it back, I'm 45 now, so it's probably 26, 27 in that space. my clientele was like 100% over 40, right? Nowadays, guys in their mid and late 20s are reaching out. And I'm like, dude, there's other issues here, right? Which would be great, great, great people. There's younger men. And I think a lot of it can be over time, this environmental stuff, you know, some of my theory, you can tell me what you think about it. Just, you know, the, the things that you and I are probably similar age that we were exposed to, as different than what people are exposed to today. And I believe that a lot of men from a testosterone standpoint, their testosterone has been suppressed from a, even from a puberty standpoint, meaning like they never actually peaked puberty due to some environmental issues, nutrition issues, all these kinds of things. And so the decline is going to happen either way. So if it's, let's say it's 1% their testosterone declines per year after a certain age. Well, instead of reaching an 800 total testosterone, they peaked at a 450. And so like they're already on the way down. And so I've seen a lot of stuff like that, just what we've looked into. I'm curious what your thoughts are on some of that too.

Yeah, there is something to be said about that, especially prepubescent or during puberty, kind of stunting that progression. But I've helped people that had, regardless of age, 100s, 200s as far as testosterone is concerned, and then within a few months, Jack, they're now doing 800, 900. you know, once again, all naturally figuring out what the root cause is. And sometimes it's a lifestyle change. Sometimes, yeah, it's an environmental issue. Sometimes it's dietary, you know, don't do this, do this, avoid this, you know, and figuring out, once again, some of those root causes. And at the end of it, it's a lot easier, in my opinion, long-term to help that individual figure out the root cause, because it'll fix another half a dozen issues other than just low T.

Yeah. And I think oftentimes we have like that one burning issue, but you know, it's like, it's like the guy that's got the foot issue, but at the end of the day, he has a knee issue, a hip issue and a low back issue too. It's just what's hurting the most today. And so that can like to your point that that can be the case as well as where we're seeing it show up the most, but it's also being, it's being reflected other places. And that's the other part. I think this would be a cool thing to talk about too, is, you know, where it starts, is diagnostics, right? I think I've been a big fan of where someone's like, Oh, maybe I'll get on this. And so I'm like, dude, you don't even know what's wrong with you, whether it's like there's so there's certain supplements and things like that, or vitamins you can just take, but not, I'm still a big fan of like, do the diagnostic first. And because not everybody needs the same thing that everybody should eat the same way. Absolutely. Talk about that a little bit.

So I always, I was saying, why guess when you can test, right? I'd rather you, you, you, you can take, all your supplements, your vitamins. I mean, everyone knows an influencer online that's pushing this 15% off that, whatever it may be. And you could try it and don't go wrong. Some of it may work. Some of it might be placebo, but I'd rather get the objective data, you know, figuring out what you specifically may need. You may need, we may, after a gut check or a genetics test or a blood test, we can actually see, you know what, that magnesium isn't the best choice for you. You may want to do, not glycinate, L-threonate or something like that, or the zinc is not being absorbed or having a nauseous issue. So let's go to like a, you know, bi-glycinate or a picolinate, something along the lines of that. So there's even just taking the same supplement, there's different variations thereof. And I figure out what the best route is for that individual.

And so, you know, I did a genetic test. Remember, one thing that stood out in my mind was, like, my body doesn't convert carnitine or keratin into retinic acid. And so for me, it's like to take retinic acid and I think the form of vitamin A maybe, and I'm trying to do this off memory, than me actually taking carnitine or keratin or whatever it is. And so it's like, but learning those different things is my body just doesn't process that stuff, right? And we can talk about, you know, big thing on methylation and some of these things too. you know, that's massive. And people have no clue that 40% of this country, like can't convert, was it folic acid into methylfolate? And then that just starts creating a barrage of issues in the body. And like, that's the root cause. But you may have low testosterone, joint pain, and tired all the time. Yeah, yeah. It's something just different in your diet that unless you get the genetic test, who knows? And then here's the part, the other part, and this is what I love about someone like you is you can go get all this diagnostics, but 99% of people out there don't know how to freaking interpret it and create a solution for it. So it's like guys like you that have gone outside of the mainstream, you know, cause most, most blood work in most diagnosis are like, Oh, here's, here's the issue. Blood work says this, here's the drug that you need versus like, why is my blood work? So why is my cholesterol this way? What, you know, and so talk a little bit about that and any specific stuff that you see or that you think people could have an aha moment that you could share.

Yeah. I mean, there's, there's a lot of, once again, when we were talking about, you know, all these different types of, um, objective issues, uh, figuring out what's, what's causing it is, is kind of the fun for me. And then obviously interpreting it and explaining it to the individual. You look at some of the blood labs. Um, a lot of times it's a very high, you know, reference range. Um, and especially for certain hormones, especially like for the men, you're looking at like a range between 18 and 80, give or take. And it's like, well, I want to, I'm, I'm 42, I wanna feel 25 again. So where do I fall in that metric?

I've always used that analogy, like for total testosterone, maybe it's like 250 to 900 or something like that. Yeah, it's like 980, yeah. Yeah, like if I was gonna pay you a salary, which one would you, 28,000 a year or do you want 95,000 a year, right? Which one would you, I want that one. Okay, me too, right? So there's some comments and stuff on those rules.

Totally, and then- It's normal. And once again, some, some people are actually in the normal range, but like for total testosterone, but then they're free testosterone, which is the more bioavailable. And that's the testosterone you actually feel could be really, really low. And it's like, well, I have this 800, 900, whatever, uh, over here, but I'm not utilizing it. And we look at other metrics, you know, sex hormone binding globulin. I look at DHT, androstenedione, IGF-1, and even pregnenolone, which is the precursor to essentially all hormones. So, and then I do cortisol tests as well, DHEA. So I look at it a little bit more in depth than just your generic

That's how it should be looked at. I agree.

I'm biased, but I agree.

Yeah. I mean, I have guys that are like, hey man, I've got my testosterone. It looks low. Can you take a look? And I'm like, yeah. All right. What do you think? Should I get on testosterone? I'm like, bro, there's like 10 other things we want to look at before we look at that, right? Because it's just, there's, and I think people just don't understand that. Most you're not, you're not sure you have to go above and beyond to learn these things, right? Like, that's why I mentioned SHBG is we, we ran studies on a few thousand guys and found that most men with low testosterone symptoms had a total testosterone to SHBG ratio of 10 to one guys. Good had a, between the 20 to one to 30 to one ratio is when they, felt the symptoms go away. And so, again, to your point, a guy could come in with a 880 testosterone, but his SHBG was like 220. And a lot of testosterone just wasn't freed up. Absolutely. Might as well have a 280 testosterone with a regular SHBG. It felt the same. And so we did some great studies and that stuff, just having that, you know, I've worked with over 20,000 people in that space to see that stuff, but was never exposed to your world, but am way more now interested in it and believe in it. versus when I first got into the whole space too.

So I love learning all this stuff. No, it's so much fun. I look at it entirely different than what I learned in pre-med. It's just a different way to solve the same problem. Probably a better way, right? It's argumentative. I personally think it's better. But once again, I'm biased and I understand that bias. There are people out there that want the quick fix. They'll be like, no, I'll just take the weekly injection and I'll deal with the other things. They don't want to change their life, their habits, their sleep, because I help with a lot of, you know, I majority help women and I've been for almost 20 years. But there's some men that I do help and they're high level elite CEO type individuals. And a lot of them, they they really don't want to do some of the other things. They like the 90-hour work weeks. They like the three-hour sleeps. And it's like, well, that's causing some of this, you know? But they can't change that, or they're not willing to change it. So those are a little bit more difficult to assist in the natural world.

Would you have to try to cater a little bit more around their schedule? You know, you mentioned sleep at a doctor. I don't know if you ever heard of Dr. Curt Parsley. He's kind of like the sleep doctor. Cool guy. His podcast drops next week. He's a Navy SEAL. had a passion to help these Navy SEALs who are just totally jacked up and realizing all these different things. They're all on Ambien and he figured out natural ways to get Ambien through supplementation. I actually have his sleep supplement that I've been trying, which it's worth. I've stayed asleep for six hours straight, but it's so important. And again, that's natural. I've been scared to death to take Ambien. I would never take something like that. And so always looking for a better way to Do they even have sleep routines and all these different things? You know, how much of what you do is like routine lifestyle structure, along with maybe, you know, hey, start eating this, stop eating that. Here's the supplements that they don't take these supplements and you know, like regimen routine, like how much of that comes into this holistic picture of what you do and you help.

So I hit all cylinders and I try to cater it based off of the individual. I don't throw everything at them because it can be very overwhelming. Be like, well, I can never change these 300 things. And it's like, okay, you can't, you don't, you have to do it all today. You know what I mean? So I start and I just kind of slow drip them over a couple of weeks, couple of months, whatever it may be. But yeah, I'll talk supplementation, dietary habits, eat this, not this, and then lifestyle changes. And based off the individual, I will do, you know, a 30-30-30 here or whatever it may be. For some individuals like those CEOs that I just mentioned, I'll put them a little bit higher on the supplement aspect because they're not going to change their lifestyle just yet. They're not going to change their diet because they're doing these whiskey steak dinners, all that stuff and whatnot. So once again, I'll cater it to them, and then once they see like, okay, they're getting better sleep, they have less brain fog or whatever it is, more energy based off of the supplements, I'll like, all right, Now you're seeing things, you're believing in my process, and now let's start doing some lifestyle stuff. Let's start doing some dietary stuff." And then slowly, they're starting to wean off the supplementation. I like to educate my patients. I don't want to have them dependent on anything, whether it be pharmaceuticals or even supplementations. I want them to kind of being intuitive in their life, their eating habits. It's your body. You should know how it operates and works. You should be able to prevent things as well as, you know, fix it when there's an issue.

Yeah, you grab a good point of that. intuition to our bodies. And so much of the stuff that we consume, especially a lot of the pharmaceuticals, really is a masking agent to kind of numb you from experiencing the problem. And the problem is usually just the symptom expressing itself, right? And so it's like that stuff goes uncorrected and just starts causing major issues in the body. Tell me some, you know, share some like interesting things that with, you know, the women, I know the women you work with are like, super fit and healthy, because you've helped them get in tune with their body. And I think, you know, to your point of dripping things in, I've always had that philosophy of like, you can add, you can change like four things, maybe a month. But over the course of, you know, a year, that turns into 48 new things, right? So it's like, as you start integrating these new habits and stuff like that. So and as you've done that with people, like, I think a lot of times, you know, let's say you have someone who's like, I just want to lose weight, have more energy. Once they lose weight, have more energy. A lot of times they start seeing like, they want to know what's possible. What's about this? Or can I start lifting, you know, I'm going to start lifting more weights. Maybe I want to do an Ironman, whatever it might be that they choose, they want to pursue. What are you seeing with some of the women you work with, like as they kind of get back in control of their health? What are some of these cool things that you see? Because I know some of you shared with me of like, if you want to do it for a woman, you can help them figure out like what day of the month to do a PR and stuff like that based on peak testosterone, like through some kind of mapping, I'm sure I think is probably what you're doing. Share a little bit about like, kind of the cool extreme stuff that you can get into as you dive into this lifestyle change.

Yeah, I mean, absolutely. So when I see some female patients, they have, once again, their issues, their symptoms, and I figure out what's going on with them hormonally through something called cycle mapping. So it's a multitude of different labs done over the course of their 28 day, 30 day cycle. And we're able to kind of map out where all their different phases of the month are. So menstrual, proliferative, follicular, luteal, ovulatory, all that stuff. And each woman is a little different. So this stage might be four days. This may be 14 days, whatever it may be. And then we do more of an intuitive kind of eating schedule as well as workout schedule being like, well, during this phase, you typically feel like this. And this is the reason why. It's like the check engine light on your vehicle, your car, like it's there for a reason. And chances are that reason is something you didn't do five something days ago. So if we're able to fix that and educate the woman on what they need, when they need it within their cycle, within their phase, those symptoms, those issues, whether it be cramps or mood swings or irritability or whatever it may be is alleviated. Next thing you know, they're feeling great. They're looking better, body fat's down, muscles up, energy's this. They feel like a superwoman. Then we go into, like you said, figuring out where that peak testosterone is, which is right around that ovulation window. These women have multitude times higher testosterone in that time frame. So I have these, you know, one hundred and twenty five whatever pound women, stay at home moms, whatever it may be. They're throwing up, you know, five hundred, six hundred hip thrusts. They're squatting three hundred pounds. They're dead lifting four hundred in that window.

Yeah. It's sort of learn their body and when they need to do. I love what you said with the check engine. Like that check engine light that's on today is usually an indication of something you didn't do. or did do four or five days ago. And like, that's awesome. That's a great analogy because sometimes it's just, we can, man, I feel run down. And it's like, what did I do today? Well, hold on. Let's look back at. Yes. Either the last three or four days. How was your sleep? What'd you sleep? What are food? All that hydration. Yeah. A hundred percent. And it's you and I, cause we've kind of been in this kind of world a little bit. It seems almost like common sense. But, you know, it's one of the first things someone tells me, I need more energy. I'm like, how much water do you drink a day? I don't know. Well, here you do. Start drinking this much water every day and see how you're doing. Also, oh, headache. You got headaches? Cool. Add some salt. Add some water in. Some simple, simple hacks. But people are unaware of it because it's not mainstream and it's not profitable, right? To like tell someone to put some salt in some water. You know, what are some of the, what are some of the, just some goofy quick fixes that like anybody out there might be listening to this and think, holy cow, let me try that.

I mean, typically I see a lot of similarities with people. Most individuals are deficient in zinc, vitamin D, magnesium, and they can use like an omega-3, DHA, EPA. Those are typically some things, if I'm going to recommend a bunch of different things, those are kind of the foundationary. And those can be kind of life-changing, if you will, on those. Most people are vitamin D deficient. Zinc is a precursor to most hormones, testosterone being one of them. Omega is really, really important. Unless you're cooking every single meal that you eat, there's an omega-6, omega-9, an inflammatory you know, out there causing, once again, some sort of, you know, inflammation going on. So the omega-3s, the DHEAs, I'm sorry, DHEA, EPAs help reduce some of that inflammation, you know, to combat some of that.

And even, you know, I think someone probably, correct me if I'm wrong, but people that maybe they get sick more often, I feel like they always catch something like the immune system side of just what you mentioned too, vitamin D, zinc, and healthy omegas, healthy cholesterol, like all these things that push around cognitive function, a little more brain fog. What's your healthy fat intake look like, right? So there's some of these things that can just be, you know, one of the things like the, I almost had some avocado my last meal, because I saw some in our kitchen today, but like, When you have the option to add the avocado, add an avocado to it, right? Just to try to get those healthy fats in.

Totally. And speaking on women within their specific cycles, an avocado is actually a great food to add in certain phases. You almost want to abstain from that type of fat in other phases as well. The female body needs some of these things a little bit differently, so there's a time to eat more red meat for that iron and selenium content, and then there's better fat times, so eating more EFAs and more omega-3s, stuff like that, and also focusing on the glycemic index as well, so doing maybe a little bit heavier carb here, lower carb there. you know, really, really matters within the female cycle. I mean, us men, we're in a 24 hour cycle. We're 28 day. So we're going to fluctuate a little bit more. Yeah.

And it's like just stopping and thinking of the common sense of that. right, like of the women have this 28 day change, right? And realizing like, you're probably a little more complex than your than your lifestyle is. And really, it's not complex. It's just making a decision that I want to start being intentional with this meat suit that I only have one of for this one, you know, lifetime, which just sounds I say it that way to kind of get people's attention, because all you have to do is it's like, working with someone like you can change their rest of their trajectory of their life right to be like be so much more optimal so much more energy so much more vitality just because you know where you're going to find you can go google it and good luck you're going to find a bunch of different people stuff. Dr. Google. Dr. Google. And what realizing I think it's one of the hardest things to, to, to kind of get people to understand is like your, your health is custom, right? Like there's, when people ask me all the time, what should I take this with? I'm like, dude, I don't know. I don't, what's your blood work. What's your, have you had a genetic test? What's your, do you have a food allergist? What's your, you know, I don't know things to tell them, but because I want them to see that the diagnostic piece is key. And then it's the, there's, strategy of someone like you who's has a massive success in this space with to help them of being strategic and intentional with all the things that they do right versus just Susie start taking vitamin e so I'm going to take vitamin e might be toxic for you so like It may not be, there's certain things that just aren't good for all of us. And so taking the time and spending a little bit of money on the one body you have to help map what's going to work for your entire future makes a lot of sense.

Yeah. I mean, it's an investment. I mean, you could, you could, you could, Spend a little bit of money now and get the objective data to figure out the next plan, your GPS of health and life. Or you could go around and try every supplement and GNC and vitamin shop and flush most of that down the toilet. Maybe you'll get some success. Maybe throw some spaghetti on the wall and see what sticks. You know, maybe what your friend and neighbor and mailman did works for you too, but the likelihood is it's not. Each one of us is a little bit unique and different, whether it's a food sensitivity, an allergy, a genetic issue. So figuring out that blueprint helps kind of, you know, figure, well, helps me figure out what to recommend. And then I look like, you know, whatever, because I'd recommend, you know, once again, lifestyle, diet, and nutrition all at once, you know?

One thing, I don't even know if you and I have ever talked about it, but it's obviously a huge topic, the GLP-1s. I'm curious, being more on the naturopath side, give me some ideas, thoughts, feedback. What are your thoughts with the GLP-1?

So first of all, GOP ones are not new. They've been around since the 90s. I mean, if not even before that. So they're not new. They're just patent and grossly profitable right now. The issue with GOP ones is It's once again, it's a short-term fix. It's like the gastric sleeves of 10, 15 years ago. You're not addressing the reason, the causation. There's a reason why you're type two diabetic. There's a reason why you're overweight. Let's fix those issues. The GLP-1s kind of just shut down your system and make you essentially, it's injectable anorexia. You know, when it comes down to it, you're just starving yourself. You just don't feel like you are. But there's better alternatives out there, whether it be once again, learning diet, exercise, nutrition, or there's a brand new compound out there that we're a part of. that's an all-new, all-natural, it's based off of homeopathic, regular supplements, and something called Bach flowers, and it's this little mixture that mimics GLP production within the body. So it helps with ghrelin and leptin, so your satisfying hormone and your hunger hormones, and it helps individuals lose weight, but it also resets the body a lot better. So you're getting that effect of a GLP-1, but naturally, and you're also giving your body a time to learn how to digest, how to break this down. And you're not relying on external hormones or peptides to do the job for you. Yeah, that's what's, what is their name for that compound? It's called thinner. So it's, it's, it's actually right here. It's a little dropper. Yeah.

I think there's going to be a big change in the GOP one. It's just like anything. You know, I think there's good uses for it, but whenever something's good, we're gonna try to figure out how to abuse it, you know? And so, what I explained to people that GLP won is that it's going to force you to change the way you're able to consume food if you consume high levels of food. But if you don't force yourself to reframe the way you see food, your food consumption, your relationship with food, emotional eating and all those kind of things that led to your current situation, you're screwed. You're going to come off that stuff and you're going to flop right back to it. And I joke about, because I tried it just to see what experience, what it was like, because we had a lot of folks on it. And what I, the short story I explained on it, it took me from a three taco guy to a two taco guy. And, you know, like I was sharing with you earlier, I used to be a bodybuilder, right? So it was like, I wanted to eat as much as I possibly could, but at 45 years old, I'm not a bodybuilder. I haven't been a bodybuilder in over 15 years. And so main, maintaining a different physique versus just eating, you know, as much as I possibly can at a time. I had to reframe the way I ate, right? But going out, that's why I used the taco thing, is I'd go out to eat and it's like, there's the options, two tacos or three tacos. Well, I gotta get three, gotta get my protein. But when I tried the GLP-1, I could only eat two tacos, three made me sick. And then I realized all I needed was two tacos. And so for the last four years or whatever, I've been a two taco guy instead of a three taco guy. And that's the part people need to attach to. You don't need four slices of pizza. You can have one slowly. And then move on. And then you rethink the way your relationship is with food. I think they're helpful in that situation. But anything outside of that, it's a path of destruction.

Yeah, I mean, what you're describing is the leptin response system, and that's just figuring out that satiety line. I mean, realistically, if you were to eat one taco, wait five to 10 minutes, eat another taco, wait five to 10 minutes, your body would realize it doesn't need that third taco. But if you eat three in a row in three and five minutes, yeah, you could scarf down three in five minutes and kind of regret it 10, 15 minutes later.

Maybe we'll come back to it, but speed of eating. Oh, yeah. Guilty, dude. I am the fastest eater. And it comes from working in restaurants and bars when I was young. I didn't get a 30 minute lunch break. I was like, yeah. back to work, right? And so it conditioned me or even with in the body where I'm eating, squeezing six meals a day in during like all the other things you got to do where it's like, you know, I can go to my fridge right now, heat up some rice, eat up ground beef, heat it up and eat it in six minutes, right? Like I know my time of what it takes to like leave the office, go back, but it's not healthy for you. My wife put carbs on me. So maybe listening to you, I'll make a decision to slow down my eating. Tell me, talk about a little bit of, do you think, I mean, the speed of eating?

I mean, yeah, absolutely. I mean, my, my, I, I grew up with a, you know, an Italian grandmother, so it was always, you know, chew your food before you eat it, count to 40 or whatever they would say to me. You know, but there's something, there's something to be said with some of those old wives tales. You gotta, you gotta, you know, chew your food, slow it down. We have something in our mouths called salivary amylase, and that's actually the beginning of our digestive, where our saliva actually breaks things down into a nutrient form, and we absorb it right here in our mouth. And that signals right to our brain that we're getting food. So if you kind of speed up that process and you don't let your mouth kind of absorb those things, break things down, it's taking a longer time. for your gut to send that signal to the brain to be like, Whoa, whoa, whoa, you don't need that third taco.

Yeah. And I think, you know, with the chips, that's why I pick on Mexican food. I love it. You know, you get the chips and salsa and then you're like food cubs and you're like, what did I just do? But it's, it's, it's like the human side of it, right? Like of, of just how do you, just rewire your relationship with these experiences of eating. And like, you know, for me is I have to slow down, right? And I have to have smaller portions. I'm sure there's a lot of people listening to this that'll go, that's me too. And the science behind it's there, you know, and it's like, Just that, right? Maybe it's going to be my April. Yesterday was April 1. I'm going to slow down my food. And I believe in those things of like, pick one thing that you just start doing. You know, maybe people listening today could do that. I think everybody needs to reach out to you and get the diagnostics done, because that's going to be one of the most beneficial things for them to get the truth. about where they're at. Any other big takeaways you can think of that would be beneficial for the audience to just learn a little bit more? And then obviously, I want you to share your information so they can reach out and work with you too, because you're a wealth of knowledge. Like I talked about, I'm going to get my wife hooked up with you. She's doing great, but at the end of the day, good genetics only gets you so far, where you fall off a cliff and you're like, how did we get here?

Um, but yeah, no, I talked to a lot of people about a bunch of different things. I mean, sleep, water intake, um, uh, you know, your stress response. So what do you, what do you do when you're stressed? Um, you know, how do you, how do you cope with it? Um, you know, those are all, you know, factors. Um, I'm, I'm kind of a. I'm a self-biohacker myself. I have the luxury of being able to run my own lab. So I've treated my body well and done labs and seen what it is, but I've also treated it poorly, purposely, just to prove a point, if you will. But I've gone on a weekend kind of bender, if you will, just to crash some of my levels to see how You know, how much fun can I have on a weekend and how does that affect me come Monday morning? Cortisol is high, testosterone is in the tank, cholesterol is like triple, you know, and just from a weekend. So if you look at that and it's like, well, you're doing that every week or every day for years and months on. you know, it's going to be a mess inside. But the cool thing is you can flick it like a light switch and, and make some really great progression. We've seen some great success in, in under a three month timeframe where once again, we're, we're taking testosterone or cortisol or cholesterol or whatever it may be, CRP, homocysteine, triglycerides, I mean, a bunch of different things. And within 90 days, it's, it's a one 80 and we've, we've, you know, send people back to the cardiologist or whatever it is. And it's like, what would you do?

And it's like, yeah, I was, you made me think of something like, have you helped a lot of people get off statins and blood pressure and stuff like that?

Absolutely.

SSRI is all that you, you, you name it. You said, like your gut health, if you have bad gut health, you fix that first. You don't need the SSRI. A lot of times too. I mean, I've seen a lot of people change their gut health too, with some of that.

Absolutely. Well, serotonin is made in our gut. It's just utilized in the brain. And people always forget that there's serotonin and there's dopamine as well. Those are all things that drive us on the day to day. So balancing and getting those in check are very, very important.

I love that you use the weekend analogy, and I've used to use that with guys with testosterone. I'm like, here's the deal, two different kinds of weekends. You could have one weekend where you eat clean, you're having sex with your wife every day, you're exercising, you're getting good sleep, and your testosterone is going to be great. you're gonna have the other weekend where you're drinking all weekend, you're hungover, you're eating garbage, no sex with the spouse, no exercise, your testosterone is going to be in the tank, just by how you treat your body. And like, to your point, and I love that you said that it's like, that's your life every day, or four days a week, like, how are you expecting your body to feel? Versus like, yeah, maybe four days a year, you kind of fall off the deep end. But four days a week, dude, you're, you're slowly dying, right? In a bad way, just based on how you treat your body.

I mean, a lot of those people are like, Oh, well, I do it to relax. I need, I need it to vent. And I'm like, I do it to wind down. I'm like, I don't know about you, but I don't ever want to be wound down. I don't want to be ever, you know, a fraction of my, my potential. I don't want to ever be 20, 40, even 60% of whatever I could be. Um, so I try to optimize and share that.

I'm going to tell you, I'm going to say something for anyone listening. The fact that the doctor is talking about not wanting to be less than your potential is just, amazing, mind-blowing, part the Red Sea. This is great stuff. Because I share that, and a lot of people don't understand, either it's like, my shutdown is just making the decision that my day is done, but I like to be sharp. I like to be 100 miles. I quit drinking alcohol eight and a half years ago, because this doesn't make sense. How am I putting this poison into my brain every day to, you know, shut, you know, knock the edge off or come down from the date. Like, dude, that is the biggest lie anyone could tell themselves. I want to say peak sharpness, problem solving, all that. When it time to go to bed, I get, you know, I have a bed routine, but it doesn't involve sedation, right? Where it's just a path that people can go down as consistent sedation that could be socially acceptable. It's drugs or alcohol, food, right? That leads them down a path of that. And then they're suppressing and limiting their potential, their body's potential, their energy potential, their cognitive potential, everything. I don't have a sexual potential. Yeah. Like I love I'm married almost 20 years. My wife and I Every single day we're chasing each other around. That's a healthy marriage, right? That's physically taking care of ourselves. We both get up and exercise in the morning. We're both pretty responsible with how we eat, but it makes for a great life to do those things versus going other directions that are sedation.

Absolutely. And then and then you enjoy the life. You don't you don't need this escape, this this whatever at the end of a bottle or whatever it may be. It's like you're excited for the next day. You you go to bed excited. You wake up excited. You wake up vigorous and energetic and all these things. You know, don't wrong. Yeah. If you want to go on vacation and have whatever, that's fine. But like on on on on the day to day week out weekend, there's there's no need for for any of this stuff.

Yeah, and that's the part, you're never going to hear a mainstream doctor say what you just said. And I think that the simplicity and the honesty of it is like, who doesn't want that, right? And realizing that those changes can exist through guidance and through diagnostic with someone like you, it's just like, hey, look, here's what your blood work says, that crap you're doing, it's not helping. Can we maybe teeter it down, maybe limit it? And you start, like you said, you just kind of start bringing them over to the other side and finding solutions that, and then all of a sudden, you know, I think I use the conversation around, you take like an obese person, like maybe, you know, five foot 1200 pounds, and get them down to 120 pounds, they don't regret they're never like, man, I wish I was 200 pounds. Again, they're never going to because they have experienced a whole new version of themselves. Same with, you know, getting, you know, building muscle, like I remember being a skinny kid. Now I'm strong being muscle in the way at the how I feel being strong and feeling strong and all that kind of stuff, I wouldn't want to go back. And people don't know what they're missing on the other side of their potential of their body, their cognitive function, spiritually even, without suppressing it all by just removing some stuff that's just habitual. And it could be familial habitual, meaning mom, dad, grandma, everybody did it. And that's just how we do it. And you don't know any better, you know?

And for a lot of people hearing this, they're probably thinking like, I can't go cold turkey. I can't just, you know, wipe the slate clean. You don't necessarily have to. The little drips here and there, you're like, don't, don't, you know, try not to drink on a Monday through Thursday. You know what I mean? Start there. You know what I mean? Just limit to the weekends. And then maybe choose a different beverage of choice. The craft beers are so high in not only calories, but like endocrine disruptors, estrogenic things. So it's just causing a myriad of issues. Switch to whiskey, tequila, something like that. And eventually wean yourself off of that. You don't have to just clear house day one.

That's how like, I love those like craft beers, those IPAs. And then what would happen, I would drink one, I felt like I drank like cement. And then I switched to like lighter, like a Corona, like a lighter type beer. And then eventually the last year that I drank, the only thing I would drink is Tito's or red wine. I'd have like a glass of red wine. I'd have like a Tito's on the rocks. And then I got to the end of that, I was like, all right. I still got to get rid of this. Like it just, from my education in health and understanding, I was like, I can't keep this in. Plus, you know, I had some alcohol struggles in my family and myself personally. And I was just like, I'm just going to remove this thing. But also the alcohol led to some bad foods, drinks, a few drinks. Now you're eating pizza and now you're grabbing fast food, you know, Taco Bell and, and, Drinks are usually synonymous with each other, but it can be some of those things because our inhibitions are lower, right? And so that the lifestyle change and whatever, not even about the alcohol piece of just realizing that. I think the biggest part that I've been able to see in helping people with their health, and you can probably relate to this, is as they start to get a taste of what it feels like to feel significantly better, the things that made them feel bad are no longer attractive.

Yeah, they get addicted to the new stuff, the new life. It's a different dopamine hit. It just hits differently, but we're all addicted to doping. Whether it drives us in our work or life or sexual ambitions or alcohol or other consumptions, it all drives by dopamine. So just figure out something that drives you, and it's easy to kind of make that switch.

Well, you think of it, you and I, we're both guys that work out. I can't imagine not wanting to go to the gym, but there's a ton of people that are like, that sounds like a prison camp. Right. And so realizing it's the exact same thing. It's just a, it's a perspective change. And the guys that think it's like a prison camp, show me your health. How's your energy? How do you feel about your self-confidence? Show me the guy that's at the gym, you know, four or five days a week. how does that differ? Would you like to experience that? It's just a perspective shift and realizing it's not about lifting weights and all this crazy hard discipline dedication. It's just changing what seemed hard. It's like, dude, I didn't like reading books until I was like 33. And then I went and read like 700 books. And so I had a story that reading sucked. I hated reading. I just didn't like the books I was exposed to at a young age. I liked all the other things that I wanted to read that excite me. And so, yeah, you and I have a lot of just life philosophy stuff and obviously in the health space, you're a wealth of knowledge. I want to plug you because I think there's going to be a lot of people listening that are interested in finding out more about working with you. So where can people find you to explore how you can help them achieve and experience a lot of things that we talked about on the show?

Yeah, upgradedhuman.com. You can go in there, click schedule a visit. You get a 30 minute consult with me. We can nerd out all about what's going on. And then I can recommend our starting point. We have multiple different objective labs, whether it be a detailed hormonal panel, My basic hormonal panel is 87 biomarkers. We go more in depth than anybody out there. And then I'm able to do all sorts of different urine checks, Dutch tests, food sensitivities, genetic issues, heavy metal tests. I calculated we're able to run almost 15,000 different objective labs.

And it's upgraded human.com. Yes, sir. Yeah, we'll put all that this all that stuff will be in the show notes. And here's the thing, you know, for me is someone that's been in this space for a long time. The fact that you lead with diagnostic and here's the deal. He's like, hey, we have multiple different options. Consultation first. He's an expert. You get to talk to him for 30 minutes and through hearing where you're at, he can make recommendations of the diagnostic path to start going down versus some places they don't even listen. And it's like, here's the 10,000 things we want you to test. And then most of those guys that test all that stuff don't even know how to interpret it. And so you're like, I don't know. Says it's low, says it's normal. And so I love your approach. People that know me, I approve you. I know that a lot of guys, and I've said this to you before, a lot of guys are just full of crap in this space. You know your stuff to the point, like I said, I would trust handing my wife over to you to explore anything that she could help with optimizing her health, and myself included, obviously. But yeah, upgradedhuman.com. Yep, upgradedhuman.com. Dr. Timmy Foster, awesome to have you here, brother. Blessed to share your knowledge and I love the relationship too. So, if anyone is interested in that, thanks for tuning in. Check them out. All that information will be in the show notes as well so you can Follow him and all the great content. You put out great content too, right? And so you practice what you preach, and I have the utmost respect for folks that do that. I try to do it myself, and I hope everybody enjoyed the podcast. Thank you so much for being on. Yeah, thank you very much. It was fun. Take care. Thanks so much for tuning in to this episode of The One Percent Doctor. Please be sure to subscribe to the show where you're able to consume more podcasts, get more value, and learn more about doctors potentially just like you. Please tell a friend, review the show, and we'll see you in the next episode.