The Nutrition Factor Changed This Family's Life

In this powerful episode of the Nutrition Factor Podcast, we’re joined by a special guest who shares a personal and inspiring testimony about how prioritizing nutrition has transformed not only his life, but his entire family’s well-being.

From increased energy and improved health to stronger daily habits and a renewed mindset, you’ll hear firsthand how simple, consistent changes can create lasting impact. This conversation goes beyond theory and dives into real-life results, challenges, and victories along the journey.

If you’ve ever wondered whether better nutrition can truly make a difference, this episode is proof that it can, and it starts one decision at a time.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome to the Nutrition Factor. I'm your host, Dr. Jimmy Stiger, and today we have a very special guest with us. I have two of my patients from Ohio in the studio with us today. And it's going to be an interesting show because I'm going to let them tell their story about why they came to me as a naturopath and a nutritionist. And uh keep in mind I see patients all over the world. And I've been blessed to do this for the past 45 years. And when I originally set up my clinic uh back in the early 80s, I knew that I was going to be taking care of patients worldwide. And I did not want to be that local doctor, send people in an area which was confined to just local people here in Mobile. So I uh very quickly spread out, went to California, went to Arizona, went to Miami, went to New York, went overseas, and started speaking and doing engagements and seminars around the world. And that's how I developed such a large following of people finding out truly about natural medicine and what I did. And I was doing things quite unique and different back in the day, and still remain uh the probably the only nature path in the country that does what I do in a very specialized way. So today I'm fortunate enough to have two of my patients with us here in the studio, and I'm gonna let them uh tell their story a little bit so you can hear it straight from patients' mouse instead of mine, because I've never been a person to speak outside the box in regards to other people, any type of review or any type of post or any type of thing that we have set up on our webpage or from the standpoint of uh people posting reviews uh strictly come from the people's mouths that I take care of, and nothing that I've ever written or copied or uh wrote down. I want people to tell their own story so we know it's true and everything we do is transparent, so it's coming straight from the quote horse's mouth. And we say that in a very polite way because we respect and have utmost respect for all of our patients and clients around the world. So today, without further ado, um I'm going to introduce uh Levi and for the protection of all of our patients and clients around the world, we never give out last names. So today I have uh with me in the studio Mr. Levi, who's from Ohio. And um, Levi, I want to first of all say thank you for being with us on the show today, and tell us a little bit about your story and why you came to me as a naturopathic doctor here in Mobile uh for any type of situation that you were having health-wise. Please tell us.

SPEAKER_02 2:39

Uh, thanks for having me, uh, first of all, Dr. Steager. Um me and my wife for a long time was just looking for just different little things that she had wrong with her. And everything that she had, we'd go to the doctor, they'd give us some sort of medication. She'd be on the medication for six months, maybe a year, they would have to adjust it or give her more medication. Started out maybe 10, 15 years ago. She was on one or two medications for a couple of small things. Before we came to you about 10 months ago, she was on upwards of 20, 25 medications. And every one she took, it seemed like there was just more in line waiting for. And you'd ask the doctors and they'd say, I'd I'd ask the doctors, is this going to help her? Is this going to cure what she has? And they'd say, Well, this is going to help her, but she's going to be on it for the rest of her life. And anytime you have something that says, This is going to be yours for the rest of your life, I think it needs to be natural. It should be something that was created for us, not by us. So I was looking for a really long time, and my wife kept going through different stages. She got sick for about two and a half years. She was either puking or having diarrhea for every day. Every day that she she could get away from something for a couple hours and feel great. But it would be right back in the same place. It got to the point where she was uh taken or put in the hospital for about five days just so they could try and see what was wrong with her, but they couldn't figure it out. Kept searching, she got to the point where it was, you know, a fight that she was starting to think she couldn't actually win. So we were I I was looking in the phone book or online or on my phone online to get anyone. I called a couple of natural paths, but they didn't seem like it was the right fit. I called Dr. Steager's office and it just something said, This is the man. We came to see you and everything's night and day different. It's it's a game changer 100% all the way around.

SPEAKER_01 5:03

Now, besides uh being on on our program, Levi, you are also um you take our lifeguard supplements, which is a big part of what I do with my patients. So we don't build or uh any type of nutrition program without having the right type of supplementation. So, like all of our patients, we did a VMA test on you, find out what you're deficient, and what when then we went on to build a not only a nutrition program for you, but we also did a um supplement protocol to go with that. And uh you went through not only our first phase, but you went through our colon and liver cleanse as well, correct? Yes, sir. And uh so uh tell us how how did you feel when we got you started? Was you in a position where you probably had no idea walking in like most that it was going to take you through all these different types of uh protocols, colon cleanses and liver cleanses. So how did you do in those phases with us? How did you how did you fare? Did you feel like you did did good with those protocols that we did?

SPEAKER_02 6:00

Absolutely. They're not easy to completely curb everything that you're typically used to eating or typically used to drinking. Right. But at the same time, it's if you're looking for something different, you have to do it differently.

SPEAKER_01 6:13

Right. Yeah, you can't keep doing the same thing and get different results or go to the same place because most people are doing the wrong things. And unfortunately, the medical industry is set up to give you uh drugs, more drugs to manage the symptoms, which is a new terminology they started using years ago. They want to manage you. And I always tell people, I don't know how anybody could want to be managed. I don't want to be managed, I want to get well. So people come to me. People want to get well, they're sick and tired of being sick and tired, which is what it says in the first page of my book, The Nutrition Factor. Uh so I can clearly understand how it would get terribly depressing because I see so many patients um that are totally depressed from years and years and years to keep going down the same road and not getting any better. So I can clearly understand that. So when you went through our colon liver cleanse, do you feel did you feel better overall after you finished that particular part of the program and got on your next phase? That particular part is the toughest part of the whole thing.

SPEAKER_02 7:12

Right. You know, you gotta do the non-food for a while and eat eat just eat the um carrots and beets and everything, you know how it is, but it's awesome. It it the clarity that I had was great. It all of the clouds, I guess, for lack of better words, the fog that was correct. And like I said, mentally it felt great, and physically it shed basically 20 pounds of just excess. Why was I carrying it? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 7:49

Right. Yep. So overall, uh, how would you say you feel? I you know, I ask my patients when they come in how they're feeling, obviously, and we write it all down, everything's um laid out on our notes. So on a scale of one to ten when you came in, how were you feeling? On a scale of one to ten now, how would you say, and you've been with us how long now? Five months. Five months. So you've been on the program five months. And um what would you say your level of health is comparatively speaking from when you started to current?

SPEAKER_02 8:20

Well, you said a scale of one to ten when I first started. Right. At that point, I thought it was about a seven. Yep. But my scale has gone a lot higher now, so I feel like I'm incomparable, probably about a 15 now. So probably didn't realize just how you felt when you started.

SPEAKER_01 8:43

Well, your face has definitely changed. You look so much better. And that's one thing I tell people because our skin, our outward skin is a manifestation of where our gut, our colon looks. And going back to the brain fog, most of my patients do have brain fog when they come here. They can't think clearly. So by the time we take them to their cleanses, whether it be the colon, the liver, the kidney cleanses, and get them detoxed, then we're cleaning out all those impurities in the gut, and the brain opens up that feels better because the transverse colon, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, for you that are listening, the transverse colon is the brain. So when you clean that out, which is right up underneath the rib cage below the heart, your brain clarity gets better. So a lot of my people, especially my females, I've noticed, developed this euphoric feeling. They feel better. And then overall, like you said, uh, you dropped unwanted weight, and it was not fat weight because you were never fat. It was weight that we needed to get out of the gut, the colon itself. So all that um putrefaction that's listed in the colon over years and years and years and years, we finally got out because like most of our patients have never done a cleanse, never done a colon cleanse. Fasting is a big thing nowadays, and a lot of people are fasting, but it's not like a good quality colon cleanse. We're using the correct supplements, the correct program based off the person. And so when we build that for you, that's one of the key factors that we see happen is that you get that mental clarity back if you ever had it. A lot of people have never had it. So when they come in, we uh get that brain thinking clearly and you feel better. So overall, you'd say you feel much better now.

SPEAKER_02 10:17

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 10:18

And uh, would you suggest anybody out there having uh health issues of any kind to consider following the path that you followed and come see us? Or what is your thoughts on that?

SPEAKER_02 10:30

I everyone I meet, anyone that tells me they're not feeling good, it's hey, go see Dr. Jimmy Steager, because he isn't practicing like most other medical doctors. They're just practicing. Jimmy's a professional, he's serious, and he's gonna get it done.

SPEAKER_01 10:48

Well, we thank you for that. And that's what we do here with our people. We take what we do extremely serious, and I've been very blessed and fortunate for all the years I've been alive on this planet and never be sick. And I know a lot of people have a hard time believing that, but any of my patients, including the people who work for me, I'll tell you. Um, and one day we'll bring on probably three or four lifelong friends of mine that's known me for 55, 60 years, and they'll tell you clearly, they've never seen me put anything bad in my mouth, number one. And number two, drank anything I shouldn't be drinking. And I've never been sick, so uh, we'll work on that on another show. But I want to thank Levi for coming in and sharing his information with us and telling the truth bit known live right here on the Nutrition Factor for you people that are listening. Uh, you can do it too, and it doesn't matter where you live. Um also Levi's got family members. Tell a little about your family, Levi, because I know this was such a big ordeal to you. You turned uh your family onto the program and had them call in as well, too. So tell us a little about your family members.

SPEAKER_02 11:57

Yes, sir. Um, and like I said, I I tell it to everyone. Anyone that I run into, it's like I feel so good, you want to tell everyone else about it. Right. My brother Nick, we went and saw him in uh October, and he just he didn't have the fire that he had two years ago. He was always in the gym, always just intense, kinda a little overboard sometimes, but that's him. And he didn't have that. And when we went up, it's like I felt so much better. It's like you have to get Dr. Steager to talk to you. You have to because Dr. Steager's intensity reminds me so much of Nick. It's it's awesome. But Nick got on the program, he's lost like 24, 25 pounds, feeling awesome, loves it. I mean, it's a great thing.

SPEAKER_01 12:45

And he's only been with us about eight, eight or nine weeks, hasn't he? Yeah, he he hasn't been long. He's doing amazing. I know I spoke to him the other day on one of our phone calls. We do our out-of-town patients, we do uh phone calls and speak to them uh uh at least every two to four weeks. I know he's doing amazing, he says he is. So him being your brother, no one knows more than you do about him. And uh I remember your wife telling me, you get his brother involved, it'll be great because he's hardcore, just like just like Levi. So that's a good thing because those people that are dedicated to wanting to be better and willing to do what I tell them to do, there's only one way to go, and that's up. None of my people will stay the same, and none of them will get worse, they will always get better. And so, like yourself, your brother's doing well. I believe you have your mother involved as well, right?

SPEAKER_02 13:28

Yes, yes, sir. Yes, sir. Um, she started almost a month ago. She's feeling great. She actually really likes all the food that's on the program. Uh and she just she says she feels grand. She's just wanting to keep going on the next one.

SPEAKER_01 13:45

Yeah, matter of fact, we're gonna send out her colon liver cleanse this week. Uh your wife was reminding me of that earlier, so that's interesting because we're gonna get her on that second phase and get her feeling euphoric like you, get her feeling even better and uh continue on with the rest of the family. You got you also have a daughter that's a part of our program, right? Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_02 14:01

She uh started probably seven months ago.

SPEAKER_01 14:06

Right. And she's doing well too, isn't she?

SPEAKER_02 14:09

Yes, sir. She's doing good. Um, she's in in your weight room lifting with you and everything. And I don't know if it's okay to really say it, but the martial arts that you do that I've gotten into is really helping me as well. It's it's one of them, it's keeping me in more shape than what I normally would work construction and get to work out, but not even with the Supermans that we do and stuff. That's crazy. Right.

SPEAKER_01 14:33

And Levi is a part of our martial arts program at Dr. Sears Ultimate Martial Arts program at our facility. So that's interesting because he was uh a wrestler and we knew that he'd do great in jujitsu. So we got him in class. Now he's loving it. And so I'm so happy to have him in class. He's a great athlete, great on the ground, and all the guys look forward to getting in there and grabbing him because he's so good and he's so strong. I can't wait to get him in the gym next because he's gonna be he's gonna be breaking some backs when we get him pumping some iron uh because he's uh so good on the mat. So I'd be looking forward to um having him involved in the gym pretty soon too as well. So uh I know we have his daughter, his wife, his mom, his brother up in Ohio, all of them uh you know involved in the program, they're doing really well. So I wish we could have the whole family in here with us today so they could tell our story. But Levi can definitely vouch for them and tell them how well they've done, and we appreciate him bringing all those patients in to us because, like you said, when you feel good, you want to tell the world. Yes. And that's what we do with our patients. We get them feeling so good they go out and then they themselves start doing well, and these churches and people we deal um work with, they want to bring the whole congregation in because you're taking care of these pastors and their wives and people, and it's just good to see people flip that switch and do the godly thing God's way, and then when they start to get feeling better, they want to tell the world. So Levi is just a prime example of that. So we appreciate him doing what he does, and not only for his family, but for others as well, trying to help other people get well. Because when you feel good, you want other people around you to feel good as well. Absolutely. So once again, we thank you for coming in. Now we're gonna switch gears and go over to uh another one of our patients who's absolutely amazing, and um we're gonna let her tell her story a little bit and uh a little bit more long-winded, which is great because I want everyone to hear the story from a female perspective, and uh let her tell us about herself. Her name is Christy, amazing young lady, and she's been with us now. And uh, Christy, first of all, welcome and thanks for being in the studio with us, and tell us how long have you been on our program now.

SPEAKER_00 16:43

Thanks for having me today, and I've been on the program for about 10 months now.

SPEAKER_01 16:49

Ten months, very good. You're from Ohio as well. So tell us how you uh found us and why did you seek a naturopathic uh help as well?

SPEAKER_00 17:00

Well, Go Buckeye is O-H-I-O. Um, other than that. So about two and a half years before I came to see you, I was in really bad health. Um my story kind of goes back to when I was nine years old, I had an ulcer. At 11 years old, I was diagnosed with IBS, I had to be on Tagumet, all kinds of different medicine. So they kind of got me early, I guess, in the rat wheel of being on medications and being told that I have to stay on them and going off of it, that the problems would just come back. Um, about two and a half years, like I said, prior to the 10 months of doing this program, I went away for the weekend with my husband, and everyone had actually gotten food poisoning, but mine never left. I continued to throw up, all kinds of digestive issues, diarrhea for pretty much the next two and a half years. I went to so many doctors, so many specialists. Ended up with three different gut health specialist doctors. There was so many emergency room trips due to me being dehydrated because I couldn't keep foods and liquids in my system. Um, I was hospitalized for about a week. They did testing there, couldn't figure out anything that was going on. My hair was falling out and thinning. My toenails were falling off. Um, I couldn't grow fingernails. I ended up getting down to 107 pounds and with my frame, it was not attractive at all. Um, I was very unhealthy. My life started revolving being on a couch. I did not feel good all the time. I was constantly tired, exhausted. I was in lots of pain, inflammation. And then what really started to scare me was the brain fog that set in. I thought at 43 years of age, and I talked to my husband about it several times. Like, I think I need to go get tested for early onset Alzheimer's or dementia. Like, that is how bad it was. I would have a conversation with my husband or my daughter in the next day, and they would say, Oh, do you remember saying blah, blah, blah, or we discussed this? No, I don't. Like, you could have you could hook me up to a lie detector test and I would pass it. Like, that is how severe my brain fog was. I couldn't tell you what day it was, what time it was. I couldn't keep anything in my brain. And I was on nausea medicine for that whole time. They, on top of at least a dozen other medications, and then, you know, side effects come with that. So then they throw me on something else. And, you know, some of these nausea pills were ones that crossed the blood brain barrier. Um, you know, they were reserved for AIDS patient and cancer patients that were going through chemo because I couldn't keep food in me, and I was pretty much malnutritioned. I mean, I looked it and felt it. And um, the time that I was in the hospital, I think it was like day six, and they were coming back with test results, and the amount of doctors that were in and out of my room was insane, and they couldn't tell me anything. Um, I left, I checked myself out, and they're like, Well, you you really shouldn't leave. You're in not good shape, you're still dehydrated, you know, this and that. I'm like, you guys aren't doing anything for me. I'm like, you guys are telling me absolutely nothing. I can be sick in my own home just as much as I am here. And of course, the whole time they were uh serving me gluten in my food, bread, soup with gluten noodles, uh gluten chips, um, and pumping me um full of fluids because you know, couldn't keep stuff down on top of being on that nausea medication. Like I was puking through all that stuff, and I just I had enough. I went home and I pretty much had given up that I was ever gonna get healthy again because in the back of my brain I really had these thoughts that I think I'm gonna waste away till I'm not here anymore.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

You've been through so much you didn't know where to turn and what to do, so you just kept on down that road and uh continued taking medicine because you don't have anybody else to look for. So I get it. We see that a lot here. So and where'd you go? What happened after that?

SPEAKER_00 21:31

Well, my husband really had to take the reins at that point because I was so depressed and couldn't tell you what day it was. He just kept calling places, looking for anyone that did anything natural, any kind of uh like he you know, one of the questions he would ask is about parasites and heavy metals. You know, we had asked the one got doctor that I saw and got told no, uh humans don't get parasites, which everyone has parasites, you know. All these other countries are on parasite regimens, and we got told straight to her face, no, you actually have Crohn's and we're probably gonna have to go ahead and resect a good portion of your large intestine and you know it was just a scary nightmare.

SPEAKER_01 22:16

That's not good. That's a terrible situation to be in. So after you went through that and you found out that you had serious gut issues uh and you couldn't keep anything down, and uh that had to been a horrible experience. And I know I see a lot here in the clinic, people come in like yourself and we straighten the gut health out pretty quickly. So what did you decide to do and how did you how did you find us uh and what did you decide to do when you did? Tell us a little about that.

SPEAKER_00 22:49

Well, my husband, we were sitting on the porch um and he got his phone out and started googling Naturopaths again and literally thank the Lord. I thank him and pray about this all the time. That your website popped up and he called and we had an appointment for the for the next week within six days. We had an appointment to come in and you know, you discussed the um testing that you do with the vitamins and minerals, amino acids, and you know, we talked about parasite testing and heavy metal testing, and it was everything that me and my husband had been looking for and more. Um, you know, I thought that you know, I kind of ate healthy and kind of knew about supplements and stuff, you know, before this 10 month of healing journey, but I had no clue and and um it yeah, so you and because you were you were really into fitness, so you enjoyed the train back many, many years back, and you weren't able to do that as well, were you?

SPEAKER_01 23:53

Couldn't train.

SPEAKER_00 23:54

And that was really upsetting for me because working out truly made me feel so good, and to be able to see your body healthy like that, and then just not be able to do it anymore was also kind of depressive. So I'm very grateful that I'm back to working out several days a week and I'm starting to get muscle definition back and put on healthy weight. You know, I mentioned earlier that I had gotten very skinny. One thing that your program has done for me is it's helped me put on healthy weight and and fill out and get muscle back in my body.

SPEAKER_01 24:31

Well, how's your gut? Well, I mean, we we talked about your gut. How's your gut health now? You've been on a program how long?

SPEAKER_00 24:36

Ten months. Uh it hasn't always been smooth sailing with my gut, but I was very messed up before I got here for years. I mean, I mentioned since I was nine years old. So it's just I'm not on these medications anymore. I'm down to one medication. I don't take nausea pills. Um, I mean, I'm not throwing up. Like I have my life back. I'm not on the toilet. Um I just I can't say like I can eat food. I I get to eat and enjoy eating, and it stays in me.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

And you're on our supplement protocol too, right? You're taking our supplements, lifeguard nutrition supplements.

SPEAKER_00 25:17

Yep, lifeguard nutrition supplements, and then of course my custom minerals that are the vitamins and minerals, amino acids that my body in particular needs.

SPEAKER_01 25:26

Right. We build those custom for your body like everybody. So we do that testing uh for you that are just not joining us listening. We do a VMA, vitamin mineral, amino acid test on all our patients. And like Christy said, most people do have parasites. We do a lot of parasite testing. We do all types of testing for our patients, and those are just two that are extremely important. And so we tested Christy's as well. And not only did we see and find the VMAs, uh, vitamins, metals, and amino acids that she was missing, we built a custom formula for her, like we do all of our patients, and Levi and Alina and everyone else around the world. And then we found parasites, we put them on a parasite protocol, work on that, and every six months we retest for parasites. So if you're someone listening, thinking about trying to seek help, find someone that can help you, we can help you out with that area too, because parasites are extremely important. One day I'm going to just show strictly on parasites and help educate you, the public, the listeners on that, so you can have a better understanding about how that works. So, overall, uh Christy, on a scale of one to ten, I'll ask you, like I ask um Levi, uh, how well would you say you're feeling, comparatively speaking, in ten months on our program and being a part of our nutrition program? And now you're back working out, you're in the gym training, pumping iron four days a week. So, how well would you say you're feeling overall, comparatively speaking, from when you started?

SPEAKER_00 26:55

I'm gonna say I came at a zero. Um, and I'm gonna say a lot of it. It's pretty bottomed out for sure. Yes. I'm gonna say a nine because I can't wait to see how much even better I'm gonna have clarity and my and just my gut even a hundred percent healed at that point, and really being able to bust out in the gym, you know, this next, you know, a few months to a year. So I'm leaving that extra point because I know it's gonna be even more.

SPEAKER_01 27:24

Yeah, you are gonna get better. And I tell you, uh people that are listening, I know you can't see uh our guest in here in the studio with us, but both of them have changed dramatically, not only from their disposition or how they feel, but the way they look. Um Chrissy's a very pretty lady. When she came to me, you could look at her like so many people and you could tell they're distraught, they're wore out. They don't have any other place to go. So when they come in and we put them on a program, you can watch the clarity in their face, watch their eyes light up, watch their skin change. Because truly, when you have gut health problems, it doesn't matter whether it's IBS, Crohn's, it doesn't matter what it is, and you change the structure and function of how the colon's now working comparatively to how it was working for the past eight, ten, twenty years of her life, you can clearly see it in their demeanor, the way they feel, their attitude, uh, and their face. I mean, you can see it on the skin because of all of our patients skin brushing, and that makes a huge difference. Most people in America are not used to that, so that in itself is pretty interesting. So just the look that we see in our people, including the people that we have in our studio with us today, Levi and Christy both, you can see the difference in their face tremendously. And when our patients walk in, you can see that change in two to four weeks pretty quickly because we're changing the integrity of the gut, which starts to take about 21 days to do. And then of course the rest of it manifests in their skin and the way they look, and and Christy walks in there with a smile on her face um 99% of the time nowadays, unless somebody pulls out in front of her to stop light and makes her want to run over somebody. But other than that, uh that's just that's just life. Um so but but uh in in in regards to her overall well-being, I know she looks amazing. She's done a great job, and like she said, we all have room for improvement, and she's saving that 10% because she knows she's got a little bit more to work to do, just like everyone. But she's done an amazing job and want to thank her for being here with us today. She has a daughter that's on the program as well, and she's done very well. So I know being being a mom of you know, two kids, she wants the best for her kids like we all do. So she brought her daughter in and got her started. Now I think she's done very well with the program, and she could talk about that at a later date as well. So we want to thank uh Christy for being in here with us today in the studio and telling her story as well. And I want to thank you listeners for tuning in each week and checking out our show, The Nutrition Factor. I'm your host, Dr. Jimmy Steiger. And remember, if you want to learn more about what we do, go to drjimmystiger.com. Give us a call here at the office at 251-660-1240. We'd love to have you as a patient. It doesn't matter where you're at. We're set up to take care of people all over the world and have been doing that for the past 45 years. And uh, we want to help you be the best you can be too. So please feel free to give us a call or check us out on the website and uh give us a call. We'd love to have you. Until next time, stay healthy. God bless.