We also tap into mental wellness and the groundbreaking potential of psychedelics in treating PTSD and addiction. Dr. Chalmers leads us through his experiences beyond the traditional healthcare fence, discussing his work with Delta 8 for pain management and his successful ventures in utilizing ketamine and psilocybin. We share compelling personal accounts and historical research to paint a vivid picture of the healing powers these substances hold, particularly for veterans and first responders who have walked through the fire of trauma.
Key Moments:
-Dr. Chalmers's craziest sales story!
-Managing pain isn’t enough
- tackling addiction can be done.
-The power of using psychedelics and alternative therapies for treating ailments and diseases.
-How the impact of trauma on veterans and first responders can be regulated and treated with specific, innovative therapies.
Connect with Dr. Matt Chalmers: Dr. Matt Chalmers is a respected health and wellness expert known for his holistic approach to health issues. With a diverse clientele, including athletes and celebrities, he specializes in nutrition, women’s health, weight management, and holistic healing.
Dr. Chalmers addresses a range of conditions, from chronic fatigue to chiropractic problems, often when traditional treatments fall short. His bestselling book, “Pillars of Wellness,” simplifies wellness practices, while his role in transforming health journeys is highlighted in Deborah Bain, M.D.'s book. With degrees from Parker Chiropractic College and certifications in various fields, he continues to impact lives in Dallas alongside his wife. https://chalmerswellness.com/pages/cw-store/
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Highlights of the Podcast00:33 - The show by sales professionals
02:07 - The whole deal
02:54 - The guy who told me that we didn't need to do it
04:58 - The idea of protecting your heart and not wanting to have a heart attack.
06:48 - The Honda Accord gets you from point A to point B
08:13 - The thing that they don't want
09:57 - The kids don't listen to what you say
13:07 - The health and services and you don't really work with a lot of insurance.
17:29 - The car wrecks who are burned to death
19:11 - The mindset of just dealing with things that honestly
21:14 - What happened in Dallas a couple years ago with all the shootings
23:32 - The community is about helping people
25:46 - The receipt for the for the donation
28:15 - A real process to getting a result
Revolutionizing Wellness in the Workplace with Dr Matt Chalmers.mp4
Stuart Turley [00:00:04] Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Doctor Chalmers Insights, the wellness podcast. Doctor Chalmers got to visit with Ruby Wilson and Ruby is with called The Damn Leads. This is a hoot of a podcast Revolution in Wellness in the workplace with Doctor Matt Chalmers. I'll tell you what, this is a great episode. Sit back and enjoy and listen to the podcast. Have a great one.
Drewbie Wilson [00:00:30] What's up everybody? Welcome back to Call the Damn Leads, the show by sales professionals. For sales professionals, I'm your host, Drewbie Wilson. With more than two decades in the sales industry, I have seen it, heard about it, lived it. And I'm here to share all the crazy ass sales stories that we get working in the industry of sales and bringing something to the community. That really gets me excited. Because here's the truth sales to sales and sales. There's a lot of different stuff out there that we can sell. There's a million ways to make $1 million. The fun of it is getting to share within the community and talk about all of those crazy stories the good, the bad, the ugly, everything in between. Today's guest, someone I'm very, very excited to have on. He's a personal friend he and I have been working together for, I think, close to five years now, and today's episode is really about more than just sales. It's about understanding how important your health and wellness is when it comes to being successful in sales. So I'd like you to help me welcome my friend, Mr. Doctor Matt Chalmers. What's up bro?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:36] Hey what's up man? So okay, so I got, I got my, I got my feel sorry for you. And it is, I think hilarious and quite dark.
Drewbie Wilson [00:01:45] Well come on.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:46] So one of the, one of my buddies is a CEO. Brought me in to do kind of a sales pitch to the his whole C-suite about the executive physical. Hi there and stuff like that. And he was like, if you can sell our our accountant, our CFO, he was like, everybody, I'll do it. Like, all right. So I go in and I explain the whole thing. We talk about calcium keys and echocardiograms and the whole deal, and I talk about how, you know, this is the best way to figure out, you know, if you've got any issues with your heart or anything like that. And, and I told him, arch, it is the whole deal. And the guy goes, well, he was like, I get my cholesterol pole. And I've seen my doctor, you know, every year, religiously, every six months. So I don't think that this is something that we need to spend this type of money on. And so we're gone. And I was like, all right, fine. Yeah. Because I don't chase people like that's one of the weird things is like, if your health if you don't care enough about your health to do something about it, I'm not going to try to convince you to pay me and to care about yourself. So I just I'm like, cool. Whenever you guys decide it's important, call me back. So about four months later, I get a call from the CEO and he, like all of us, want you to come back and do your entire physical for everybody in the C-suite. And I was like, all right. I was like, what made you change your mind? The guy who told me that we didn't need to do it had a heart attack, and we would never have done the echocardiogram, the calcium CT. We would have found it. We would have kept him from having the heart attack. So, you know, it's one of those things that like it was a really easy sell. Once I said, if you do these things, you'll know if you're gonna have a heart attack. And he was like, we don't need that. And then the dude literally has a heart attack like a couple months later. So that was my favorite sales story because that that like office not only got there, but I got like 4 or 5 other offices that they're all friends with. So it was, it was a great, great day because I got like 20 or 30 sales out of it. And luckily the guy did survive. We were able to help him kind of go back to health, but that was just the thing it was. So that was just my favorite thing because it's like, hey, the guy who the sales guy who came and told you all this stuff, the expert you had come in and explain all this stuff to you and you were like, man, that's just sales trash. That's not real. It is like immediately we find out, no, it's not sale stuff, it's real. So that was my that's my favorite story that I've got so far.
Drewbie Wilson [00:03:54] That is absolutely hilarious. And, you know, divine timing. I shared a meme earlier and I'm going to have to cut it into this clip. And it's it's two parts, but it's basically the first part is, hey, you chose not to move forward. And then the second part is, and you're still having the same problems, and it's just so perfect for this scenario because like, thankfully the guy didn't die right here. He survived. He made it on. But like what an awareness to have something like that happen. And if you're in sales, there's two things to take away from this. A you can't fucking predict the future. Like I love you, but you can't predict the future. There's just no I don't care how healthy you feel, how healthy you might be, if you are not regularly checking the oil and getting yourself tuned up, you are 100% setting yourself up for failure. And also being someone personally who has had my addictions and life, whatever they may be. Caffeine especially being one that I'm a big fan of these days. You know, the idea of protecting your heart and not wanting to have a heart attack. I mean, sales is one of. The most stressful jobs in the world. So, Matt, what was it that made you really get into selling this service and protecting high C-suite level executives? Because, I mean, we've talked about it, but I love the listener to understand how important this truly is.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:20] So basically, what a lot of this came back from for me was I wake up at four and I do research, and I just read medical research, and I've done it for over a decade, at least two hours a day. And I started finding all these things that I was like, why am I not doing this? And then, you know, so I would go out and I get to sleep, study. And that's how I figured out how to fix epilepsy and stuff like that. And so, you know, I was like, oh, I did this for me, and oh, I need to do this echocardiogram for me and for my kids and stuff like that. And so I started as I do this research and I start figuring out we, we know how to prevent things we know. Have a look now to look at the future. The difference is that insurance will only pay for a problem once you've got it. And most of the time, if you have a heart attack, you have one because the first heart attack you have kills you. And so I was like, well, I don't want to walk down that road. My grandfather died of a heart attack. My, you know, I've got family numbers. So I'm going to look into this. And I found out how easy it was for that. And I was like, oh, all you gotta do is just pay cash for this stuff and you can get all this stuff, all these tests done. So I put this together, more of, just the stuff that I've done for me because, you know, it was important and the research was very, very obvious on the massive benefits. And so I was like, well, I'm just going to do these things for me. And then people started coming up being like, hey, what do you do? Like what do you do for you? And I gave them the list and they're like, why did you do all this? I broke it all down for I'm like, oh, well, I want to do this. And so that's kind of how it started. You know, building up was so like, do you need a McLaren? Well, the Honda Accord gets you from point A to point B, but if you want the very best of everything, the the best brakes and the best, you know, everything, you kind of stuff up to that, to that level. Until you get to that level, you don't really know how nice it is. But yeah, we found we did calcium CT that looks for plaque in the arteries. And I found I found a cyst growing around a tumor growing around the guy's heart. That would have killed him until I sent it to my cardiac surgeon had it cut out. It's funny, because he. My cardiothoracic surgeon calls this guy and he goes, you're going to be my office on Tuesday for surgery. He goes Tuesday. My patient goes two days, doesn't work right for me. And he goes, I don't think you understand. He's like, this is going to wrap around your heart and kill you. Maybe next week, maybe a month from now, I don't know, but it's sick. And so he had to go and had it all cut out and he was like, oh my gosh, that was a big, big piece of chunk to separate wrapped around my heart. So the big thing is if we don't look, we don't know. And you know, there's a lot of things like diabetes is super easy to fix, and it's even easier to fix if I know about it coming into it. If we look for it, we like you're walking down the road of insulin sensitivity or insulin resistance to diabetes. I can fix it today a whole lot easier. So, you know, that's just the thing is, if we look today, find the problems today, we can fix them back.
Drewbie Wilson [00:07:58] You know, Matt, that's so beautiful because it correlates so well to sales, right. As sales professionals, our job is to ask questions, get a feel for what someone's doing, going through, dealing with, and then put something in place to preventatively not get them the thing that they don't want. It's like, hey, you don't want to lose your business. Well, let's get you some lead so you can call the damn things and make more money. Oh, you don't have a process. Well, hey, let's install a process so that, you know, there's consistency with every lead, and you can track every dollar you spend with an ROI to it. It's like, hey, man, every time you go out to eat, you pick something healthy instead of getting deep fried fast food. And I know sales are sales. I love Taco Bell. I love convenience eating. That is the way I roll. Don't get me wrong, I'm not perfect. I do recognize, though, that the 300 pound version of myself was not nearly as successful, did not have near the energy, and didn't truly have the confidence that the 200 200 pound version of myself does today. And that all comes from having someone who's like, hey man, here's your choices. You can keep doing what you're doing and getting the same results that you've been getting. Or we can make a couple of small changes and and see what happens. And these are the expected results. And the expected results also include not dying, not letting some other asshole sleep in your wife's bed, in your home that you paid for, and raising your children because you were too much of an asshole to go and get a test done. And it's like, well.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:27] And that means that.
Drewbie Wilson [00:09:28] Yes, that's a sale.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:29] Does the last part, that's the biggest one for me because like, you know, if it was just as much as, you know, and everybody who knows me know by my feelings about how unbelievably amazing Luis. But, you know, if I died, I know lose me five. That's not that big of a deal. My whole terrified thing is, I'm not. I don't want anybody else to raise my kids. I want that's that's my job. I want to do it. And so, you know, the other thing is, is that, you know, one of the things I heard a long time ago that I've found is probably the most true thing about raising kids is the kids don't listen to what you say. They watch what you do. And so if you want your kids to be healthy, you got to be. If you want them to read, you got to read. You know, if you want them to, if you want to. Then it'll be good to them. To their. Their future wife or husband. River. You have to model that at home. And so that was my big thing. It's like what I want my kids to be healthy. I want them to know what's going on. And so I have to I have to embody that. I have to be the example. Otherwise we're not going to get where we want to go. And so that was the rapid. And the real big thing for me is whenever I think about something and I'm like, do I really want to do this? It's always like, well, who's watching me? Well then and laser watching me. And then they say they repeat stuff I've said. I don't even know they were listening to it. So yeah, yeah, that's a scary, scary thing. But, you know, at the same time I, I want my, I want the best for my kids. So I'm going to model the best for my kids. And that's been, that's a, that's a personal decision that I made, you know. And that's one that's been, you know, reading all the psych, reading all the love languages things, learning to communicate, you know, that whole thing, the NLP stuff. Know I do, you know, all that kind of stuff just so I can better communicate with my kids and teach them that, you know, they've got to keep walking down this road, you know, and better themselves continuously. You know, that's that's just been one of the things that I've done. It again, that drives me more than anything is what my kids are saying, what my kids are going to be.
Drewbie Wilson [00:11:16] Man, that's so, so true. And such a great point because as professionals, our job is to be leaders. And if you've ever been in sales for any length of time and tried to raise a sales team, it's like working with a bunch of freaking toddlers. And in my opinion, if you can teach your kids at home to behave, have manners, operate by core values, and lead the way that you operate because you're 100% right, man. It's like they're going to watch what you're doing, and whatever you're saying don't mean shit. If you ain't following that same thing with your actions. Words mean nothing if your actions don't match and kids are like perfect at spotting that. Which is why it happens when you start training a sales team. If you're on your training, your sales team, and you, hey, you got to make 100 calls a day, you got to make 100 calls a day, but you only pick up the phone ten times. What are they going to do? They're going to pick up the phone.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:12:08] You know, it's funny because, you know, every once in a while as a parent, your kids say something and you're like, yeah. So the other day my son asked because I was doing I was in a fast I was in a Sunday, the Thursday fast. And he actually he was like, you have to make you a burger. And I was like, sorry, buddy. On Fashion Call Thursday. And he goes, that sounds really hard. And I was like, it's not easy here. That must see why you like it, because you like to do hard things. And I was like, that's right. I go, why do I like doing hard things? And he was like, because nothing great ever came from something easy. And I was like, yes. Like I was like, that's right. I was market. I read and I'm sort of cried. I was like, yes, yes, he's learned something from me, like I've done something right in the parenting category. So that was that was a lot of fun. So that was that was a big the opposite.
Drewbie Wilson [00:12:54] So yeah, I love that. And you know man that's one of the things too I appreciate about you and why I'm so glad you were able to come on and join me on the show, man, because you are in a unique industry, right? You're in the health and services and you don't really work with a lot of insurance. So people pay top dollar to work with you and to get the services you provide, because it is truly about preventative health. It's about, hey, where are you now? And what can we do to create longevity versus, hey, man, you're all fucked up. Here's a Band-Aid. Let's get let's get you back into the battle. It's like, no, no, we need to fix this so that you can go back to war for the long term. And yeah, you have some things that you're working on right now. Some some kind of special. I don't know what the word is, but some, some things that you're working on as far as giving back to the community. Right. Some projects. That was the word I was trying to pull out some projects where you're giving back to the community. You're going deep on truly helping sales professionals and business owners get clarity and dial in on, you know, health and wellness for themselves and for their team. Can you tell us a little bit about that?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:13:58] Yeah. So, so it's kind of a interesting story. So we developed a someone will strip for cannabis. So we have it on Delta so we can ship it across, you know, 30 different states. And we basically made it for pain that we could push back against the opioid epidemic. And I did a Ted talk on it, and it was fun. And my business partner was giving me a little grief. And he was like, hey, man, he's like, you figured out how to fix the pain portion is, if you can just figure out the addiction piece, you've got the opioid epidemic solved. And it was all funny and haha. So I was like, all right. And so of course the guy I am, I'm like, all right, let's go see if we can figure out how to fix addiction. It took me about a week or two. Yeah, exactly. It seemed like a week or two to find out. Then we figured out how to fix addiction, PTSD, depression, anxiety, all sorts of stuff in the 60s. But the pharmaceutical companies and the World Health Organization put a black box on it and said it moved all psychedelics and stuff to schedule one so we could no longer do research on, well, and then they rolled out all the remodeling, I mean, theory and other drugs for exciting and depression, stuff like that. But, you know, and so I started reading this stuff, and yeah, we can use things like ketamine and. Psilocybin really amazingly safely to go through and break PTSD and break addiction and stuff like that. And so the more research I get into it, the more validity I found in that. And then I did it myself. And one of the things that I didn't, I don't really talk about it till now is no point was I apparently had some PTSD when I was in college and my heart rate was sitting in the 90s all the time. Nobody could figure out what went on and all sorts of stuff. And then whatever. I went through Covid because I figured out how to fix Covid. We're pulling to our hospitals to work on this like that. I got Covid real bad a couple of times, and so my heart's in that stuff for about two and a half years, since about 2021, when I'd lay down. And I would be way too hard. And I everybody look at it. All my buddies, nobody can figure it out. So before I decide I'm going to do ketamine, I'm gonna push ketamine. Tell everybody about it. I was like, I'm gonna do this first because I and I realize not everybody feels I'll say that if I'm not willing to do it to myself, I don't feel like there's a lot of integrity with me being like, you should do it for you. So I went, I was gonna do it first. It was, it was, it was fine. Like, not something I would do for fun. I don't know what people do for fun, but, you know, I got nauseous afterwards, and I felt kind of bad. I get home and I go to lay down, and I lay down. And when I lay down for the first time in like two or, yeah, two and a half years where my heart didn't feel like it was beating to heart. So I go to sleep that night. I was like, well, that's cool. I wake up the next morning, my pulse, like my heart rate's in the 70s for the first time. I've seen it in almost 20 years. And so I was like, all right, this is more than just, you know, I feel good or whatever. And that's when I learn how much, how powerful this stuff is. And so we started using it with, veterans and first responders, and we're fixing their PTSD and fixing their addictions and stuff like that. And I was like, man, this is one of those things that when you find out about it, you got to do whatever you can to push it out. So I decided to do was to see all stories of all my supplements are so like that. I'm donating 100% of the profit from that to my charity, which is Citizen Mindset. Org and then we're going to use that money to pay for first responders. So that's police and fire paramedics and veterans to go through so we can break our PTSD. You know, we're looking at a point where, yeah, think it's 22 guys a day kill themselves, from PTSD and depression. So like that from our veterans group. And it's it's just as bad, if not worse with our first responders. Because who do you think this is? The four year old kids at a swimming pool. Yeah. Who goes to the car wrecks who are burned to death like our first responders have to see that day in and day out, and they kind of choose to put themselves between that trauma and us to help protect us. And so I was like, now we gotta we gotta give back. So all the money from the seawall store that we make goes to the charity so we can start fixing these guys. So we're using psychedelics like psilocybin. We're using ketamine to go through and fix these guys. But the big things were I'm teaching these guys how to do the set, the setting and the intentions. So these medications are amazing by themselves. But if you can learn how to use them properly, how to get your mind right, it does a tremendous amount of good for them to carry all the way through. So that's what we're doing with, you know, the see all sorts of like that. So the nice thing is, if you're already buying supplements from GNC or Walmart or wherever, get them from our store and know that the rest that money is, you're going to get great supplements, but the rest of that money is going to go to help a lot of people. So that's that's the big push we're going rock with right now, man.
Drewbie Wilson [00:18:26] There's so many great things about that. And again, I could give a million ways reasons why I love you so much, Matt. But the idea of a, hey, you know, there's all of these things out here that we are as sales professionals using to self-medicate because we don't want to go see a doctor, or we're not in a state where it's legal to go and get these things. And so we kind of find this methodology of home home service. But really the bigger part of that man is the the FIRStrillionESPONDERS, the veterans, the folks that are out there on the front lines. I find and personally have worked with so many from those fields who end up in sales because they don't necessarily fit in to your typical corporate job. Right. And maybe it is some of that PTSD and some of the mindset of just dealing with things that honestly, most humans on this planet aren't capable of dealing with. And so there are those few individuals who go above and beyond, like the first responders, as you mentioned, that they have to see these things and deal with this. And there's really I mean, it's hard to work through that. And so we do find that the self-medication and all that becomes a big deal. But the fact that there are ways that we can truly treat these problems and help people move past it for good versus just consistently putting a Band-Aid on it every day, smoking joints or drinking to the end of a bottle. It's so amazing that you've been able to go back and say, hey, listen, this already exists, but it's not anything new. It's not like we're having to create something, some brand new idea. It's like, hey, this already exists. We've proven it. And one of my favorite things that you say, and this is big for me in sales and selling. Any product or services. You did it for you first. You're like, hey, I will not sell this to someone. I will not give it to anyone unless I wholeheartedly believe in it and have proven and done it with myself. And to me, Matt, that is one of the greatest levels of integrity for a business owner and a sales professional is knowing I wouldn't sell this to you if I wouldn't use it myself. So I love that about you, man. That's just fantastic. And honestly, this whole movement that you're on of trying to help break addiction and the opioid crisis, man, there's there's so much good that I know is going to come from that in these coming years. And that's why I wanted to bring you on and share and make sure people know, hey, if you're buying supplements, get them from the see well store, like they're better quality, probably the same price that you're paying. And you know that any profits are going to help people who truly need it that are probably going to be there to help you in your time of need. So man, that is just freaking awesome.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:20:57] Well, you know, I've had we cut out of my car once, almost twice. And, you know, life flighted to parkland. So these guys had to take care of me. They've had to take care of my family members, my friends. And, you know, now that I've started meeting, a lot of these guys are real, our bodies are mine. And I just feel bad for them. You know, there's not a whole lot of help. Like, if you look at the what happened in Dallas a couple years ago with all the shootings, where they started shooting cops. There's a lot of guys who never got really the proper care for that. Like they got to talk about it, and that's helpful. But, you know, I want to walk through and be like, come on, guys, let's let's walk through this properly. Is using psilocybin was used in ketamine. Where where are those states going to allow us to use. And we'll get you guys better if the academy doesn't work here. Well let's why don't we fly? Want you guys to Colorado for a weekend or two where we can do so aside. And we'll walk through that because not everything works for everybody. Like the research shows ketamine to 85% of the time if you get to where you want to go. But that means 15% of the time we got to find something else. And so that's where we start walking through some of this stuff. And it's been spectacular being able to help these guys. We're going to start posting on the on a citizen mindset org. And then obviously all my social the doctor Chalmers number one just the doctor Thomas one. We're gonna be posting all these videos of these guys who, you know, we do the podcast us and they talk about how how rough things were. And then after we went through it, how much it benefited them. And so, you know, that's and I want to really set my goals to the point where we will post one video, one new video a day. So that means we've got to help at least 400 of these guys a year to get these things ready to post up. And so, you know, some of these things are a couple thousand dollars we got, you know, to get these guys fixed. So it's a big it's a big deal. We're asking for a lot of cash. But at the same time, like I said, if you want to donate, donate. But if you if you're just buying supplements for you and your family, get them from us. And then like I said, it'll really help a lot of people. So yeah. And that's that's been a that's been a real fun, real fun thing to start walking down. Because everybody I've talked to has been like, how can I help? And it's been really beneficial. And so that's why, you know, I reached out to you and you're like, come on my podcast. We'll get it knocked out. Let's tell as many people as we can, and hopefully they'll tell us even more as possible. So, you know, I told Ryan and he was like, all right. Yeah, Ryan. And he's like, I'm to hook you up with all my guys to go get you with drew. I'll get you with Jose. I'll get you with everybody. Like, we'll get it all squared away, like, and then we'll go do some stuff with my stuff as well. Oh my god. Cool. So but yeah, it's been really beneficial. Like that's why I love working with you guys from apex to, you know everybody there is just where you get to work down and where we're going to make sure people make positive change. And so that's why I'm so happy to be part of the group.
Drewbie Wilson [00:23:26] Hey man. And we're honestly, you know, happy to have you and why I love being a part of it as well. I mean, more than anything, the community is about helping people, whether you're, you know, in sales or you're in, in, you know, a corporate position, whatever it is, there's things that you're going through in your life or being around a community of like minded, success driven individuals can truly be a benefit. And you know, Matt, you've been an amazing example of that. You've gone way above and beyond. You're always pouring back into the community. You're always making a point to share this knowledge and this wisdom. And, you know, I can say from personal experience the products that you create top notch, my friend, the sublingual strips. If you guys are listening to this and you're into the, you know, the the smoking side of things, this guy has created a strip that is very, very powerful, very, very high quality. And it doesn't smell. There's no residual effects. You can use it and be free to carry on about your day and take care of business. So if that's the thing you're into, I may or may not, you know, vouch for the fact that they're really, really good emphasis on the men because I like them. So go in order some. And and again, more than anything, Matt, the reason I love working with you is everything that you're doing is about giving back to the community. That's what this show is about sharing crazy sales stories, sharing some tactics and some things that can help people. And you know, I'm very, very conscious of time. I know time is your most valuable asset, my most valuable asset. And everyone here's so two things I want to do before we get out of here. One, I want to tell you how much again, I appreciate you, man. And what is the best way for people to find your store? I'll make sure we have all the links in the show notes and everything. What you said. Citizens mind.org. And then what's the wellness store for the supplements?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:25:08] See? Well, storage. Just a letter c w e l l e.com. You can do it there. You can. Do you know the Thomas wellness.com. The C all source on that as well. And then if any of you guys have websites and you're like, hey add your c o for link to my website. We can. And then what the nice thing is it because we can track it. I can then go back and be like, hey, because the link from your website, 10,000 people box off last year. And so here's, you know, a thousand people donated money. So here's, you know, $100,000 in tax deduction that came from you. You put it on your website. Come on. Came through to us. Here's here's the receipt for the for the donation. So we can do that as well. So you know, anybody who wants to get, you know, get stuff together, you know, get Ahold of me through DM, whatever. Just like I said, Doctor Chalmers, one and all the socials and, you know, we'll be able to put it together because I think together we can all work together really well. It doesn't take a whole lot if you're buying a 100 or $200 a month for your family, a month and a thousand guys could get an excuse to do that as well. We're going to help a lot of people. And so, you know, everybody's like, well, I, I, I'm not going to help out. Yeah. Your your your your 2 or $300 a month with a giant help. You know, if you tell your friends, hey, if you're taking supplements, get them from here and we can help people as well. And then just follow me on the social media and you get to watch. You know what happens when we start getting these guys better? You get to see it all the time. And so that's that's the biggest thing is we all get to work together on this and you get to see actually what happened. Why did you give money to charity. And you're like, I mean, I hope it's going to where it's supposed to go. I hope it's helping people. But in this case, it's like now we're going to be that's the one of the things I don't demand, but I highly request you to do podcast before and after so people can see, you know, what that did help me. And the thing which we get into with our veterans and stuff like that is when you hang out with these guys long enough, they're a lot of these guys are your stereotypical like hard asses. And so they're like, oh, that works for somebody else. That's not gonna work for me. And so the idea is, once I see like 20 videos and they're like, oh, well worked for all those guys, maybe they'll work for me and they'll be able to go and try it out. So I will tell you the other thing. If you're are a sales professional and you're you're struggling with stuff, this isn't just for guys who've been in combat or just guys who you're fishing. Kids are cool. Like the number one thing we see is we see a slow like that constant pressure. I've got to make my number. Gotta do this. My kids need this. I gotta do this over here. Like, constant pressure will wear down on you. And it's a phenomenal thing for you guys to do. I got a lot of my guys who are sales professionals who are, you know, just, you know, CEOs just crushing it. They'll do ketamine on a quarterly basis just to keep their mind focused and everything sharp so everybody can do it. It's just the charity is specifically for these guys. And I would highly recommend everybody who have done ketamine hasn't done some of the psychedelic stuff. Get with somebody who knows what they're doing and get it done. It is wildly beneficial to your life.
Drewbie Wilson [00:28:01] Yeah, do it with a professional. Don't call Josie up the street and get the bag of mushrooms and go ham at the cabin. That's not the same setting, although it can be fun. I've been there, done that many times. It's not the professional setting we're talking about. What? What Matt talking about is truly having, like, a real process to getting a result with these, these treatments. And that's the whole thing, right? That's what it really correlates back to sales is that when you have a good process and you do things in the right order, with the proper expectations, you can get amazing results. And when you get amazing results, people are going to show up and go, hey man, how do I get those amazing results? Which is all of Matt story. Hey, I went and I did the thing. It worked for me. People asked me about it. I told them to do it. It worked for them. Now we're creating an entire opportunity to help individuals across the world, and I know I, for one, will 100% be putting this up, putting that store on there, making sure we have a link from the call the damn leads page so that we can send people to see wellness. Because I know this is something I've seen friends of mine personally benefiting from going through these treatments, and so I'm very excited to help and promote this. And the last thing that I want to do before we get out of here, if you have a crazy sales story, if you've been in sales and you've seen some crazy shit, I want you to come on the show. I want you to share your story. I want to help you put your mission out there. Guys like Matt come on here because they want to help the world. And I know if you're listening to this, it's because you care and you want to help your community too. So head over to call the Damn leads.com/podcast. You're going to be able to put your information in there. Share a little bit about your story. We'll set up a time to come on and share the show. If you like this, hit subscribe. Share it with your friends, take some screenshots, put some clips out there, tag and call the damn leads. And more than anything, make sure you go follow my man Matt and get involved with this movement because he is truly helping people change lives, and I am so grateful that I get to be a small part of this. So thank you again, Matt.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:29:59] Absolutely, and thanks for having me on.
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]]>Highlights of the Podcast
00:55 - COVID pneumonia
03:21 - The joyful times that you're supposed to be enjoying in life
05:27 - The minimum dosage
06:05 - Check your hormones
07:15 - A thing called mind blowing
09:54 - How to build that in your mind versus the other ones you did?
10:27 - When you have anxiety and you tell it in somebody
14:25 - Talking to your subconscious
16:04 - Bad part of COVID
18:06 - You got to figure out how to set your own intention
20:30 - PR surgery
22:15 - Psychotherapy or talk therapy
23:36 - The Academy thing
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] Is Dr. Cheever talking to her episode of Wellness Insights with Dr. Chalmers. And we're talking more about ketamine and we're talking about the setting intentions of the things that we're doing to make everything really kind of. Function a lot better. And so, yeah, I was I was talking about some stuff and Scott Richardson, I kind of got tangled together and we kind of walked through what we're going to do. Scott Walker's walk us through with what you were doing ahead of time. I haven't covered what you've done, what your experience with ketamine is so far.
Scott Richardson [00:00:35] Do you want me to talk about what led up to a why do it? Or like what was not working?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:40] Or if you're comfortable with your temple, with that animal, with how you know, how you got into it, what's going on? Like what you're going, Yeah, I'm fine.
Scott Richardson [00:00:49] So last year. On January 1st, 2022, my mom passed away from COVID pneumonia two weeks. She was only 66. That was unexpected. She approved our own event and everything. So like being the 9 hours later she was gone. So then two weeks after that, my dad, he's only 69. They've been married for 47 years. Though he the doctors basically said he disconnected from his cortex somehow. And I had to make the decision to take him off life support and watch him pass away. That was like literally like the week of my mom's funeral. And then nine months after that, we had my mother in law who me and my spouse were taking our taking care of were taking care of passed away in October. So literally nine months. After that, she went into the hospital and she was for a stroke and she getting covered while she was in there. And she was as end stage COPD patient, dialysis patient and several other things. And the COVID mixed with the COVID just it took her out. So within nine months, we lost three out of our four parents. So that's a lot of to deal with. So that's kind of in it better almost two years. Or actually, this is the first year we haven't had to deal with any deaths. So. Nothing was working. I didn't feel. I felt like. I'm stuck. I felt like. They didn't care anymore about life in general.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:41] Mm hmm.
[00:02:42] Like, I didn't find any joy in things. I. I love my nephews to death. I don't have any kids. My. My wife has a 28 year old son. I ain't 28. 29 now, and that's my stepson. But. You know, my nephews as he's older, my nephews are younger, and I just I didn't find any joy. Like all I found was despair. Like. Trying to think of the right words. Not depression so much, but just no joy in life, like period. Like I'd watch them and all I could think about was my parents. All I could think of. But, you know, in the the joyful times that you're supposed to be enjoying in life, that's all I could think about as well. My mom and dad aren't here to enjoy this with me, and my mom and dad were really my mom above this. My dad would love this. And so that made the times like that. You're supposed to be enjoying life that make life worth living, that made them very hard to deal with. So I we have a mutual friend that posted that he had tried ketamine and I was I was already kind of searching myself for different things like ayahuasca and stuff like that. And then we had a mutual friend post that he did ketamine treatments. And so I started to look into that because I would rather do it. You know, with somebody that knows what they're doing and willy nilly do it myself. And then I'm like on the Aaron Rodgers trip and I'm, you know. Yeah. So yeah. So that's and so I got into that and I have a thing with needles I pass out, so I couldn't do the intravenous thing. So I decided to do at home and the dissolvable tablets and I think the they, I think they work just, I don't think they work as well as intravenous, but I think with my condition I'm not able to I trip out when I go get needles.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:41] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:41] So I've I've been in is usually a little bit faster a little bit easier to take but the orals, they, they don't get you there.
Scott Richardson [00:04:51] Okay. So that's kind of what led me into doing this, because I didn't want to be on pills. I'm on some balls. I was on some balls that I still am. And I tried to get off some balls, too. And that was like. Yeah, that was that was like the second best I'd seen. My mom and dad died. That was like, one of the hardest things. Like, right after that, because I had suicidal thoughts, I had anger. I had just trying to get off of the Cymbalta, which I'm still not off, but I went from 60 milligrams to 20 milligrams, which I think is, you know, it's a third less than I was on. It's the minimum dosage. So I think that's awesome. And I think after the holidays and with more ketamine treatments and stuff, I think I'm going to like in April, I think I'm going to try to tackle it again and maybe get totally off Cymbalta because I feel I'm at a point where I could be off the antidepressants. Now. I just don't want to suffer through the withdrawal symptoms during the holidays and and everything else, because those were those were ROS those that's the roughest thing I've yeah, that was rough mentally was.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:56] Erica might come off as a horrible thing you know it's it's so hard you so hopefully they'll be able to you know as you start using more stuff to check your hormones as well if you get your testosterone out that will help you know really refill those neurotransmitters or a lot of your sirtuins in your gut. So there's lots of things you can do to kind of balance that and help get off the medication that you have. And if you can, if you can get a goal where you can get off and feel normal again, that's going to be a spectacular piece for him.
Scott Richardson [00:06:24] So that's what I'm that's what I'm working towards. But that's kind of how I got into the into the academy portion of it. I mean, I've never done anything besides marijuana, like and that's only at night, like I like to have control. It's I had never done like I never experiment with and I don't even drink. So I never experimented with anything when I was a kid. So it's for me to go into this and do like some psychedelics. It took a little bit for me to, but I was I was at that point, I was desperate. I, I didn't want to. I didn't care.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:57] Well, you know, I like doing these things because it's like, you know, if we can get these stories out, maybe people don't have to wait as long to torture themselves as much before they can get the care they need. So, again, I appreciate you helping us out, but go ahead. Continue to come in short.
Scott Richardson [00:07:12] Yeah. So no. So that's when I started this. I went through a thing called mind blowing where they do it at home because I don't know any other I don't know any other program where you're able to do it from home without the intravenous because we do have places that I do lives around Detroit. And I just I wasn't doing that with the I.V. I'm not comfortable. I'm not I'm good. So I got into that. I started with anxiety. Each week, I felt a little better. There are some weeks I feel like awesome. It seems to be that. And then we we just we talked and I dealt with that last week, but we could talk about that more later. But that's, that's kind of why I got into it. And but I'm not one to experiment with anything. It's like and I'm not opposed to it. I'm open minded. But at the same time I wasn't seeking it to get high or, you know, anything else, and I wanted to do it the right way. So that's and then once I saw a person that we both look up to kind of post about it, that's what I did. And it was like the it clicked in my head like, Oh, maybe I really need to look into this because he seems like he's doing a lot better with it and he says he's doing a lot better. So and I could not find any. I tried to find something bad and it should be easy to find something bad on Google. Like the negative pops out and I literally like the only thing, even with the ketamine are places around here. The only negative Google reviews you see is is some people that probably a little more high maintenance and they're like, well, I didn't get the care level that I needed from the doctor. Nothing about the academy, nothing that the ketamine didn't work, just that they they didn't like the staff. Well, that's no, you know, so obviously it does work. So after I did my research and really dive down and tried to find some negative and I just couldn't, that's when I decided to make the jump and pay the money to because it is so. Expensive and insurance doesn't cover it. But I mean, to get your peace of mind back and get get yourself back is I mean, it's been two years of hell, basically. And I'm starting to get I'm starting to get back to where I was beforehand. I don't think I'll ever be I don't know. You know, I haven't just first time lost parents and only time. But yeah, you know, I don't know if I'll ever be 100% back, but I'm hoping to get pretty close to that. They're better than you know, but I know I just got to keep working on it. And the ketamine is is significantly helped.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:45] Good. Very good. So how about the difference in health between when you and I talked about the the setting, the intentions and how to build that in your mind versus the other ones you did? Did you did you notice a significant any time? Yes. How are you?
Scott Richardson [00:10:02] Yeah. So. We discussed and I discuss some things with you for about a half hour and just kind of went over some of the things that I was dealing with. And because I was trying to get the most out of out of it because this is expensive. And when they don't. E don't have too much guidance. They want you to kind of figure it out on your own. And, you know, and that's great. But when you have anxiety and you tell it in somebody so desperate for results and you tell them while you got to set an intention, but then you just got to let it go, and that's basically all you say and all you get. It's like, okay, now I'm worried about sadness and tension. Am I doing this right? And I do it because all the anxiety kicks in. And so, yeah. And so it's like you can't so you got to kind of giving anxious people a little more direction to help them get over their anxiety, because then all these things are just running through their head and you're just like, I don't know what I'm doing. Am I doing the right thing? And then you're in it and you're just like pure consciousness and you're like, you're even thinking in it like, Am I doing this right? Or am I, you know, so, you know, am I doing what I'm supposed to be doing or. Yeah. So when we.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:11:13] Go ahead, walking people through it is, I think, pretty important. That's why I want to make sure we chat about that. So But yeah, go ahead. Yeah. So when we come to.
Scott Richardson [00:11:25] Yeah. When we talked, you thought that I needed to. And I think I did. I think after we talked, I had a realization that my mom died. My mom's funeral was on a monday. The ambulance called me on a Wednesday for my dad. So literally two days I had one whole day in between her funeral, and they called me at six in the morning on that Wednesday. So I literally had one like one complete day to try to process or anything. And then I went right into my dad and I think I had packed my mom. Not intentionally, but I think I packed my mom in the back of my head to deal with my dad and then, you know, deal with my mother in law nine months later. And I just never dealt with my mom. And so talking to you, you said I should probably try to say goodbye to my mom. And I went in with that intention of saying goodbye to my mom. And yeah, it was I basically when I went in, I'll get vulnerable with you. When I went in, I. I had like a conversation in my head with her, and I told her goodbye. She wasn't there. It's not like she was talking back to me, but I could hear what she would say. You know, because she's your mom. So, you know, like what? How. How that person's going to respond, how this is going to go. So it's kind of like I did have a conversation with their head, but I didn't because I know she's passed is not Academy's grade, but it doesn't connect you to the to the other side. So. So I did that. And then afterwards, I you know, I got a super emotional I to call my aunt. I cried for like an hour, like I haven't since they both died. And there's been times where during this process, where I've where I've wanted to, but I think us as men, we all that inside and we don't let it out. And that's not good either. Now that there's times you need to cry and you just don't and you hold it in and then you hold hold it until you explode. And that's part of the anxiety and what causes this. And then the next day I felt I was kind of in grief. So a little I still a little depressed, little sad and. No angry. You know, that's grief. And then I'm good. Not surprisingly, the day after, I'm good.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:13:56] So a lot of.
Scott Richardson [00:13:57] Times, I mean, I think I made peace with it.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:14:00] Good. Yeah, you get that closure and everything falls in place where it's supposed to be. So that's, that's, that's one of the things that I'm glad that we got to talk about and set that intention of specifically meeting with Mom and like the ideas we're going through and what your what you were needing to go through and get. Because a lot of times, again, we are like you said, you're not talking to mom, you're talking to your own head, you're talking to your subconscious. And so implanting those messages back into your head that we've done this, we've broken through, we're okay. It works really well and it's really important. And so that's that's the big piece. So I'm real, real happy that you were able to get that through, especially because you were taken a little bit, a little bit more than you probably should have or needed. So that that piece was helpful as well.
Scott Richardson [00:14:51] Yeah, I probably. Yeah, I was starting to fall asleep a little bit, and I think it's because it relaxes you so much that you do end up, you know, falling asleep here and there. But, you know, I was awake for the majority of the session.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:15:06] We're good. No, especially these these last few weeks. I'm glad I was able to chip away at it. So, as far as the mom pleasing everything, how is that? How is the rest of the quality of life and the game Enjoy back to life and that type of stuff. Is that is that come back or is it almost back?
Scott Richardson [00:15:22] It's. We're getting there. I still have I think I still got a lot of work to do. There's a lot to take on in my one brother's in North Carolina. My other brother, I'm the only one that has a business, so I'm a little more flexible if I need to be, you know. So I was there with my parents, like every day for like two months in the hospital. And obviously I wasn't there with my mom because they quarantined her. You know, and it's it was over her last Christmas. And I, like, begged. I thought I was just good enough salesmen to talk those nurses and at least let me put some PPE on and let me go in the room or at least see her through the window. And they were yelling at me because I was leaving on the floor, because it was during the, you know, the real bad part of COVID. So and people didn't know what we know now and and everything else. So. Yeah, but it's getting there. I was able to, you know, I got. I couldn't before. Like, I love my nephews and. I couldn't, like, watch. Like, I can't get them gifts even for like a birthday without seeing them. And I, you know, I break down. Mhm. I just wasn't, I just cry, I just and I'd have to hand the phone to my wife and. You know, and that's gone since I've done Academy. So that stuff's gone. So I'm able to enjoy that. It, it's, it's like the it's the good times, the bad times. You really don't want to either. Don't want them there. You don't miss them during the bad. Maybe I miss my dad and my mom, you know, you want some advice or whatever. That's what you miss. But you don't want them to see the bad times, the good times, and you want to enjoy those good times. And so I am starting to get there. It's the Academy is helping it a lot faster than than anything else has. But you also have to you said you have to have the right intent. You also have to work at it. You can't just you can't just take the medicine and just that's it. That's all you do.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:17:18] Yeah. And that's what I hope that people are trying to learn as well. I tell people, like a therapist is a great thing to go grab, you know, before or during, especially afterwards. But you know, some people can't make it through. So that's why I wanted to, you know, brush up and kind of show people that, you know, the intention piece that's set in your mind in the right position and right place for that ahead of time does, in fact, help quite a bit.
Scott Richardson [00:17:44] Yeah. Tell me, like after we talked and I mean, I was working on different things, but I think after we talked to you, you recognize that I really needed to work on that still. And that's actually helped me. So having the right intention and but it gets confusing because they're was sudden intention. And then you're like, okay, well, how do I do that? Well, you do it like this, but we're not going to help you like that. You got to figure out how to set your own intention. It's like, Well, sometimes we're not aware of what we need, and then someone talking to someone like you, you can pick up what we you can more pick up what we're not aware of and be able to, you know, assist in and help out. And that's what is exactly what you did. So I appreciate you.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:18:25] Absolutely. Man. I appreciate you coming on helping kind of shed more light on that scope. You know, the biggest thing is, is that people don't know about of yeah, like so I'm glad that you got to find out about it earlier but there's so many who who don't now and like I'll explain to people for addiction or for depression or for PTSD or whatever it is and they're like, why have I never heard about that? And, you know, that's always the thing for me. It's like, you know, we've got to get out and tell people. And I tell you on our team all the time, I'm like, There's going to be people who commit suicide because we don't get to them in time. The information doesn't get to them. And so I really appreciate you coming on and kind of telling your story so everybody can kind of see it like, Oh, I got a lot of things that I got the same stuff. And so maybe that, you know, take take the option of, you know, Jonathan Academy before they start doing it or, you know, the drugs that make you a zombie or, you know, doing something worse thing so.
Scott Richardson [00:19:14] And it's okay to be messed up. I think we're all messed up in our own way. We are. We're all dealing with a lot of stuff. And and when you go through that much in such a short period of time, you really face it and it can really be a negative. It really throws you in a negative spiral you can't get out of. And this has helped me. Yeah, but I mean, a lot of people I talked to, they they're like, What's ketamine like? Yeah. You know, And then some people are like, Oh, that's special K And it's like, No, I'm not getting off the street. It's, you know. So yeah, so you kind of got to explain it to them in an ad and you know, and then there's still some people that you know, because it is psychedelics, there's still some people that, you know, they're worried about me or like family members, but they see now that it's working and they've changed their mind and, you know, stuff like that. But at first it's like, you know, no, I'm not just taking acid or I'm not going on the street and getting ketamine and treating myself or, you know, or getting something because, you know, so much, you know, street drugs are laced with fentanyl now, and there's so many people that are not doing good and dying. And so I get the worry, but it's like, no, this is a legitimate thing because, you know, some people hear ketamine and they're like, oh, that's a street drug or, you know, this and that too. And it's not I mean.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:20:26] So what is the it's the number one drug use and PR surgery. It's one of the number one drugs using anesthesia. Fentanyl is probably over to the number, the highest used, but it's the safest one we know of. It doesn't affect breathing centers. And so you're you still breathing. So it's one of the safest way to go about it. All of the psychedelics are actually from research. Very, very, very. So, you know, ketamine is just the most easy access legal one that we have. We have access to it. It works. It works really well because it lifts all the all the receptors, the doping, the GABA, that serotonin, first of all. And so that's one of the things that really helps kind of break pattern and break, you know, you know, you're hearing this, right? You're feeling terrible. Like it helps kind of kick you out of those things so you can reprocess and design your own life again. So but it's yeah.
Scott Richardson [00:21:13] Like.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:21:14] Awesome.
Scott Richardson [00:21:15] Last year I was a mess, especially during the holidays. This year, I'm. Abel. I've been. It's been rough even this year with all that piled on top of each other. I mean, it's really only been this is a second this is like going on to four years. Yeah. And every time I would talk to like a therapist or anything, their eyes would get all big when I told them, you know, my, my what, my story. And I'm not trying to impress. My job is not to trust my impress the therapist with the trauma that I have, you know, for them to be like, Oh, my God, That's that's dude, really, that's a lot, you know? And it's like, man, why are you. Do you know how to talk to me? So, you know, so yeah. So it's but I've been to that. I talked to a therapist. I did, I did all that stuff.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:22:04] Well, yeah.
Scott Richardson [00:22:05] And like I said, I was on Cymbalta. I haven't. No, no, you're good. I'm done.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:22:12] Okay, well, yeah, and the research has shown that, you know, psychotherapy or talk therapy is very, very helpful, especially during and after the academy. But it's kind of like doing a year, five or ten years of therapy all in one little session with the Academy. That's why that's one of the things that really, really benefits, you know, the therapy if you're doing it with psychotherapy. That's why ketamine with psychotherapy so beneficial.
Scott Richardson [00:22:35] Yeah, so. But I mean, without it, I, I don't know where I'd be right now with the holiday, with Christmas coming up in a few days and. You know, I don't know where I would be mentally. What? Without this?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:22:49] Well, you know. You know, if you're starting to feel bad, you know, it's one of those things that, you know, jump out of it, make sure you get it early, because it's one of those things that once you start down the path a little bit too far, you want to make sure you concentrate before you start earning some kind of again. But yeah, that's fantastic. And I'm glad that whether you're you're in a position now where you can go to the holidays, you know, we're not too far off and go to the holidays and feel better, you know, be functional with the rest of your family. Still have that joy. That's a that's a giant, giant step. And I'm super excited that, you know, coming to help you out.
Scott Richardson [00:23:20] Yeah. No, I am too. And I'm glad that I found it. And our friend posted about it because like I said, I was devout. I was trying to find different things because I was desperate to get out of this, but I just didn't know why. And I just. And then didn't hear about the Academy thing, you know, so. Yeah, it's just kind of a kick in awareness about it because I really don't think that is surprising. Like how many people just don't know that they have no clue.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:23:49] Especially with a giant, giant need we have in the country. I mean, depression, anxiety, PTSD, addiction. Like, that's that's a that's 100 million people. It's more than that. Oh. So but yeah, I'm glad. I thank you for coming on and helping to talk and gain some awareness and everything. So it's been really beneficial. Well, you know, we keep moving forward. You know, once you've kind of gone through more, if you're like, Hey, I wanna come back and talk about something, let's let's do that. You stay in touch, try to make sure that we get any information out there like, Hey, when I did it this way, it helped me to, you know, set the intention, aspire to set the setting and the mindset this way. It really helped me on this thing that informational help, you know, come back as well. So we'll you know, we're going to start a Facebook group for everybody so I can kind of talk about the Wellness Insight Facebook group I guess is going to work for right now. We'll change the names in order, but that would be great. So if you're ever there checking things, we'll be there checking on it. So but now I really appreciate it, man. So we'll check back with you and have that later. So thanks so much for coming.
Scott Richardson [00:24:53] All right. Thanks, brother. I appreciate you.
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00:16 - The psychological trauma that we get
02:24 - Ignorant to PTSD and very naive about it
05:34 - The mindset you needed
12:00 - Excellent book on trauma, PTSD
17:59 - Traditional therapy modalities
22:47 -The triggers, the associations
31:08 - It's not necessarily a one-and-done lifetime
35:30 - The COE and discharging and I started with the doctor
38:21 - People are putting on 65 medications
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Dr Chalmer's Wellness Podcast with Matt Vemea PTSD Firefighter.mp4
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] Hey, Dr. Chalmers, welcome back to another episode of Wellness Insights with Dr. Chalmers. What we're doing today is we're kind of going through some of the stuff we've been working with ketamine for PTSD, depression, anxiety, stuff like that. The trauma, the psychological trauma that we get, especially with our first responders and our veterans and say that was with us today. We're going to kind of go through kind of his stuff and with his journey through ketamine. So, Matt, thanks for coming in and talking with us, I think is going to help lots of people. So thanks for coming.
Matt Vemea [00:00:33] Absolutely. Thank you for having me. And thank you for the treatment. It's been a huge blessing.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:38] Absolutely. MAN Yeah, that's that's been I've been super excited about it kind of going through. So I started a body off to, you know, go through kind of your stuff. You know, you've been you've been a first responder for a long time. You've done a lot of stuff kind of go through and that tells you the stuff that you've done. You know, you kind of we're life kind of ended up and how how bad it got and then we'll kind of run through the treatment. So Guided, jump in with your stuff.
Matt Vemea [00:01:02] Yeah I'll try to even best to recap started the fire service in high school as a cadet 2000 to shortly after 911 and then professionally, right after I graduated 18 2004, MTA firefighter became a paramedic. 2021 did about 18 years of professional service. I worked all over California, kind of some of the some of the worst spots as well in the country I did about a decade in Stockton, also worked in Oakland, San Francisco Bay Area, as well as for the state. So so a lot of trauma, a lot everything from, you know, accidental shooting, stabbings, being shot at, being attacked, fighting people on drugs and PCP on a more regular basis and then should be for certain lost lost folks in the line of duty that I've worked with, lost a lot of guys on and off duty just saw a lot of tragedy, a lot of death. I kind of was that black cloud as well. Like something crazy was going to happen. It was going to be my call, I was going to be on it. And that carried across every agency I worked with in my whole career. So that translated. I think. Now, looking back, I think, like I said in our initial interview. I was very, I'm just going to say, ignorant to PTSD and very naive about it, Especially my earlier career. We knew little to nothing about it. It was barely being talked about in the earlier 2000, even to probably the last five years. I would say that I knew almost nothing. And it sort of put the pieces together, realizing symptoms. But it really took me a long time. Now, knowing what I know, I probably added at 21, probably few years ago, I saw more in my first couple of years of my career than most most guys will in their entire career. And there's new studies I would say felt that way. And then there's data that came out. There were folks that retired or would have started per se in like the seventies and retired, let's say, on the average 30 year career, about 2000. Now, anybody coming in and their first 3 to 5 years across the board on average is going to see more than somebody would a 35 year career. 35 years ago. 30 years ago.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:23] Across the border is that you have police, fire, paramedics.
Matt Vemea [00:03:27] Yeah, that's. That's all. All first responders. Emergency services across the board. So anybody showing up tonight on call? Yeah, like somebody in 3 to 5 years now across the board, you know, it's going to differ on the call volume in areas. But across the board, they did a national study in 35 years. Now people will see more than people did an entire career over decades previous years ago. Just the increase in accidents, the increase in violence. I guess studies are just a lot more going on, especially the mental health crisis. I would say there's a lot more suicides, so there's a whole lot more trauma that these first responders are being exposed to, that it is significantly increased level than it used to be.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:12] And, you know, when I talk to you about this, it's like you talk about combat veterans are like, oh, I totally get that. I'm like, what? And a lot of times it's worse as our first responders and they look at me kind of funny and I'm like, Well, who do you think sees all the car wrecks? Who do you think this is? The four year old kids out of pools? Like, who do you think sees the gunshot wounds and the burned bodies? And so, like, our first responders put themselves between that trauma and us for us. And so that's kind of one of those things. And we start explaining to our like, oh my gosh, And you think about that Like, I, I have a whole new respect for the firefighters and the police officers and things like that in my area. And, you know, it's it's true. Like we pull up to Iraq, you know, if you're driving by Iraq and there's the cops and firefighters out there like everybody looks, because we don't really want to see mangled bodies. But, you know, that's what you're looking for. And you guys have to see it and clean it up and move these guys around and tell them they're going to be fine when you know they're not like that. That's there's a lot of really, really bad stuff that you guys have to deal with. So, you know, that's one of the reasons I was like, we got to include you guys in the charity stuff. Um, so, so when it was, you know, you saw that stuff. Real quick, if we can recap kind of how your life was as far as what PTSD felt like and what it was doing to you and to your family just a little bit. So can run through that for us a little bit.
Matt Vemea [00:05:28] Yeah. I've always been kind of a, you know, very type-A guy, and I figured that was just the mindset you needed. And I've been doing that more than half my life now, the majority of my life and my entire adult life. So it really was my identity in second generation public safety as well. My my dad was was in law enforcement. So it's kind of all I've ever known that I grew up around a lot of trauma and a lot of chaos where I was. So now I'm looking back with what I've learned, the treatment I went through, like how early it probably really started and all the contributing factors, but it basically escalated to the point where I just I thought I had pretty bad A.D.D.. That's just was my assumption for the longest time. Really easy to be irritable, distracted. I just thought I had a temper and a lack of patience, but I cared about people willing to help them, right? So almost like an oxymoron. I'm very, very conflicted. There. Didn't really make sense. Really, really bad. Insomnia. My sleep was that awful for years and years and years now. And I know that's the shift work, the emergencies. It's just, you know, I wake up after like 2 hours and I couldn't go back to sleep no matter what I tried melatonin. That increases insomnia. I mean, I've tried so many just different things. So the insomnia was really bad. The irritability would definitely cause a lot of strain with the kids getting easily trigger and overwhelmed. It really escalated to the point where I started having some dissociative episodes, which was definitely scary. Thank God none of mine got to the point in the extreme that some other people I know with PTSD, with PTSD started started on T or T, slightly helpful but didn't fix it. I tried CBT, I tried different other modalities. Trying to figure stuff out was really dealing with irritability, depression, and in denial. I was not even in denial. So finally. We're also short staffed. Just like law enforcement, it's really no different anymore. In the early 2000 California, there were 5000 qualified applicants per position for opening. It was like the most competitive job of the country. And then fast forward about 20 years later, we can't even get enough qualified applicants for positions. But that is how drastic it has changed with society, with our culture of people that don't want to serve anymore. People don't want to deal with it. It's not what it was. It's definitely gotten worse. Unfortunately, the working conditions, the environment, the treatment, the things we see all of that is is gotten worse for the first responders. So it's definitely not helping in the recruitment and marketing side of things as the numbers dictate. You know, the numbers that actually spell it out. So things change a lot. So. So with that being short staffed, I was working like two full time shifts for years minimum plus in California. And we'd had fire season, which ran at least half the year. So we'd be sent out, for instance, for that backfilling behind it. So I was at work just almost all the time. Like my younger daughters, I worked almost the entire lives, you know, when it came to holidays, they just knew they were going to the firehouse to see me. If I wasn't out on a larger fire incident, there was a short window. We finally got staffed up and I'm like, Maybe that's it. Maybe I'll just overwork. I'm stressed out, I'm tired, maybe I'll get some sleep. Maybe that's all it was like, you know, get some actual days off, you know, like that kid you're going to make six figures will only work ten days month. It's going to be glorious, right? Like a part time job. But, you know, and here I am working, you know, 1000 hours a month, but, you know, not, you know, minimum, only six straight. Just none of it was what I thought it would be. So with that, I finally got some days off where things are gonna get better. I want to be able to chill out, get some stuff done around the house with some time with the family. And it didn't. It got worse. And that was I think it was one of the biggest takeaways from me. I finally had some time off in years. Things got worse all of a sudden as I experienced the irritability, the triggers. Like I was so excited to come home, I'd be gone at least five days and be excited to see the young kids. I'd get home and just instantly get set off worrying about this. We didn't lock that Hypervigilance was through the roof. Ten out of ten. You know, that's that's
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:46] Real quick. I'm not going to explain what that is because a lot of people don't understand what that means. So the walk through walk through what that feels like and sounds like there's a lot of guys who have that and they don't know it.
Matt Vemea [00:09:56] Yeah, it is. I would say probably every first has at least a degree of and you have to really just kind of keep you alive, but it's more of a sympathetic, you know, fight response where you're looking for exits, looking for threats, making sure stuff secure. I mean, I've even caught my teenager sneak out of the house because of my extreme hypervigilance, right? So there's some good and some bad with it. It'll keep you safe, but it also keep you miserable if it's bad because you're just at that heightened sense of awareness where you can't you can't like, engage, be present or enjoy anything. You're there, but you're not like you're physically there. Mentally, you're checking threats, you're being distracted. What about this guy over here? What about that?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:38] Yeah, well, yeah, I was talking to he was talking about in a restaurant. He was like, I can't go to a restaurant because I'll have to sit with my back to the wall. And every single thing that moves. Everyone who comes in, everybody who's member, I have to assess that and be like, Is that a threat or is that not like I can't even enjoy a meal? And so, like, that's the funny thing. That was the big one. So I talked to the guys together. I, you know, I kind of have that too. And so that's why I was like, you got this hypervigilance from X, Y, Z. So that's why I want to make sure we covered it. But yeah.
Matt Vemea [00:11:05] Yeah, that's it. You know, you double, triple check in. The doors are locked. You know, if guys have cameras, you know not I wouldn't say full blown. Some people may. Confused with paranoia to an extent, if you will, but you're walking around distressed. I wound up in the door, get shut in this, get checked about. And I attribute a lot of that to being a firefighter. Medic. Look, I got to show up and handle any emergency at any time. And, you know, Hey, hey, I can't do it head on what to do here. Forgot my stuff. Like, none of those are acceptable answers when you know somebody a loved one of their life on the line. And I think that's it. It's like a death by a thousand cuts or more. You just don't realize, like, how much that that gets to you. 24, seven, seven. Be ready for anything and everything at any moment's notice. You got to be ready for anything and everything under the sun so that, you know, you just can't disengage and like step away from that. And what's weird is the the body keeps score. Excellent book on trauma, PTSD, excellent book, if anybody hasn't. Dr. Bessel Van Kerkhove probably saying his name wrong, but he was kind of the one that really pioneered it from war neuroses to shellshock to really what PTSD is now. And a lot of the early information, a lot of psycho for him as well. And he talked about that. And a lot of it really resonated with me, made sense about PTSD and trauma. And there were studies done, but one of them was people that seek these careers. A lot of them have experienced trauma, which adds up for me and makes sense in their youth or childhood that seek these things. Like one of the things was like dangerous, dangerous behavior, reckless behavior, things like that. And I was like, Wow, I'm pretty disciplined. I'm squared away, I'm responsible, have kids, And then I'm sitting back thinking like, well, my job is dangerous. I work in much dangerous city. I'm doing tactical medicine. At one point, I was doing a fugitive recovery. On my days off, my wife should head down. And then I started to go back and think. I'm like, Yeah, okay. I guess I was trying to get myself killed on and off duty every day. Like, okay, you know, definitely I think checks the box to qualify at that point. You know, I was in denial of a lot of my symptoms and a lot of my behaviors to say, well.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:13:20] So so okay. Walk us through the orchestra, how the ketamine treatment piece went and then kind of how how things are now and contrast to how they were.
Matt Vemea [00:13:31] Yeah, absolutely. Like like we were just talking about my hypervigilance was was to the point where I couldn't really enjoy life, you know, outside the house, especially driving. It's much better. That was a real struggle just because I've seen so many accidents, threats, unsafe drivers that like if anybody asked me anything or made a noisy walls drive and they would start away like pretty significant or really trigger that sympathetic response and get me really worked up to where it wasn't pleasant for my family or enjoyable at all, to say the least. So like road trips and that were miserable, were not fun or super stressful having young kids. And that's the element, you know, doesn't make it easier, but it's normal life that I should be able to live and anybody else should like. It shouldn't trigger me to the point or extent that it did. You know, talking about going out, I didn't go to the movies, to a movie theater for five, six years. I just wouldn't go because it was it was the stress was just too much like. So many people. Unknown elements, the things that I saw. Maybe even the simple things like that, just not enjoyable, which is not cool. So was there a lot of treatment leading up to ketamine? Circling back to that, finally got some time off. Things got worse. The no, you know, the noise, the that's where I was getting out with that is traumatize people, seek trauma. So like, on those calls, on those emergencies, I was my happy place and my sense of peace in that chaos. And I thrived in that. And I worked really well, which didn't really make sense because you would think of difficult situations where you struggle. But it was actually all the normal day to day life. The simple things were I struggled the most significantly, and so that's when I sought help. I finally found saw a specialist with specialized PTSD, first responders, and Baxter and her her dad was a chief of police in Tel Aviv, Israel, and he had really bad PTSD. He saw bombings and trauma like literally every single day over there. So that's what got her to seek the path and treating that. So pretty cool history. And she did EMDR but it was I wasn't there maybe 1020 minutes and she was like, yeah, you have severe PTSD really bad. And she's like, You're a couple of years too late. We're going to do we can do like you should not be working. She's like, This is really bad. Like all the symptoms you described or PTSD to the max, she's like you based that every qualifying criteria affected. I'm like, Oh, great. You know, it's kind of like I was in denial and avoiding it, but it was getting worse, getting worse, and that was it when it really you know, when I really. Picked up a little bit of self-awareness and saw how much it was affecting the family. That's when I went and saw how if it was me and like a lot of other guys, you know, they're selfless. We're also really stubborn. You know, those two things are not not a good combination, especially with like mental health or self care. So there's a lot of guys that will get help because it felt like they're like guys now. I got pulled off on the holidays. I felt terrible letting my guys down, let the crew down. But in hindsight, obviously, I'm glad I did it for myself and my family. Things are much better because of getting that help. And also, I got to gas my department, went and got help shortly thereafter that were were not doing good. I mean, to the point where, you know, one of my guys, a little police chief, found a walk to the beach with a loaded gun. So, like, thank God, got there on time and he's getting treatment. He was he reached out touch base with me, which is great. So you just really don't know how bad I think people are struggling and how many issues are really out there until you bring that up. And I think that's it, too. We're such a proud community of stubborn, tough guys that it's hard enough. For me, it was like information or the lack thereof. I didn't even know I could get PTSD. I thought that was going to combat this. And then we talked for out a lot of guys coming back. I worked with. There were medics that were Medivac that were reservists. Still, they're coming back and like, Man, I feel like I never left Afghanistan, never left Iraq until I saw more shootings today, when I saw my last deployment, like in one shift. And I was like,.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:17:40] Yeah.
Matt Vemea [00:17:40] So I'm sort of piece all those things back together and then it makes sense, right, where where it all comes from. So with that. I ended up retiring out of service, retire from the PTSD. That got a lot of treatment, basically hit maximum medical treatment is what they've qualified it as. After traditional therapy modalities, I went to the IFF COE, the center of Excellence, which is just outside of DC, an incredible place just for professional firefighters. Many of them were veterans that were there as well, and they treat trauma, PTSD, so went through EMDR and a lot of other therapy there, which is very helpful, really just to kind of get a better understanding. But it still didn't mitigate all my symptoms. And I also didn't want to be a medicated zombie. I've seen so many bad experiences there with people just getting hooked up on a ton of segments, a lot of bad experiences personally that I've seen with many people I know and through my career. So I've been stuck in this really, really difficult place. I'm struggling. I think things are going to get worse. Woman on psych meds. I've seen the worst for people. So, like, you know, between a rock and a hard place, what I do and then somehow, you know, I think the grace of God. I got a hold of your comment feed or something came across from some mutual friends about you with the charity and the academy. And then we touch base started the treatment and it's so helpful. I believe I it's six sessions in total and each one I definitely got more relief, which was incredible. I think just to start with the I took notes and I was reviewing after each session as well kind of how I was doing the treatments changes and that was one of the things was like I got my first, I think I stuck like 6 hours and I think I was probably averaging like two, two and a half up to at that point, like I track it with my watch. So that was huge. One thing I wasn't ready for and it only happened the first session. I know we're rewiring pathways and I really think that happened because that first session I had the most splitting headache and I was I was hydrated. It was it was a lot the first night it went away after a few hours, but it was intense. But I really think I was actually feeling my brain being reset in a good way because shortly after that it was like my thoughts were less foggy. I was thinking more clear. Things were moving a lot better, which I know decreased the frustration level. My frustration level was very high. I was able to at least I think a lot of the stress and anxiety has definitely turned out. I don't know about a percentage, but a significant amount significantly decreased the anxiety, which I thought was just stress before. I never knew I was anxious until I started getting treatment and
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:20:31] Will pick it. I felt like, Oh, I don't have any anxiety. I'm like, How about stress? Like, Oh, I ain't over stress. I got all the stress in the world, but I don't have anything.
Matt Vemea [00:20:40] Yeah,.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:20:40] It's the same.
Matt Vemea [00:20:42] Anxieties for women. Stress is for men, right?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:20:46] That's right, Yeah,
Matt Vemea [00:20:47] Yeah, yeah. So when they told me that I had that I had really, really bad anxiety, you know, secondary to my PTSD. Well, that, that was just still something I had to sit with. And, you know, it made sense as I absorbed it. Processed it. But the. Doing Traditional treatment therapy helps a little EMDR help a little more. But it wasn't enough. Like I was still having a lot of the dreams, the nightmares, the insomnia, my hypervigilance.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:21:17] How the nightmares Now.
Matt Vemea [00:21:18] I would say they're almost gone in. My sleep has been substantially better.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:21:26] So you had you had multiple nightmares that night for years. And then after the ketamine, they're more or less gone.
Matt Vemea [00:21:31] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is significant. Like, that's that's the biggest thing is I've been able to actually sleep now and be somewhat of a normal human, which is incredible.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:21:41] How has the anger been? Because that's when I talk to people all the time. One of my buddies told me he was like, My anger is gone is like, I don't know. I don't know how to live without it. He's like, So we had to walk through that. But how was your anger then?
Matt Vemea [00:21:53] Yeah, I can I can definitely resonate with that because that was my to my anger, my temper, like, have a big heart. But I was easy to get trigger and easy to get frustrated. And especially having toddlers, teenagers, you get tested daily by the dozens. She. I think that was the thing. Like I kind of say almost is like a release like, like almost like a controlled delete dumped. A lot of the stress and the anger. Was just, I think, stuck in there that nothing else was helping get rid of that, process it out almost like a cheat code, you know, almost too quick, too easy, which is awesome, especially after years of struggle and years of treatment, getting the only, you know, smidgen of improvement, if you will. So that's one huge cut down, insomnia cut down. On the triggers, the associations. I don't think I've had any sense where I would get super stressed or be in like situations. And that was one of the things that made me make the decision to go to the center. I didn't want to leave my family for almost two months. You know, it wasn't an easy decision to make, especially through the holidays last year, but it was one of those ones where I realized like I needed to because of how I was, again, how I was affecting them. And that was the craziest thing, is getting off work. I actually got substantially worse and it was like the noise settled and then all the trauma and all the other stuff showed up. Definitely wasn't ready for that. You know, and I think that's another thing too, is so many of us were like, Oh, I'll just take a vacation, I'll take some days off and it'll be fine. And it's normally almost always not the case at all with everybody that I've talked to by the hundreds, you know, that have dealt with this. So the dose dissociation is being gone and that's basically where you get to a point where your mind will actually separate and check out because of the stress levels. Right. And then with PTSD, your prefrontal cortex is pretty messed up and misfire and it gets triggered really easy. And that's what sets this stuff off when you hit that fight or flight. So that's substantially cut down to almost none. There was like one incident where my wife jumped in my blinds while she was at the door, ran around the back doors. I'm back enough for her. Scared the hell out of me like restarted that, but I was able to like, reset the process, which before would have been like would have been it. Yeah. Yeah. So I was able to actually, like, work through that so. And still do therapy, working through a lot, but I'm actually able to make significant progress now instead of getting stuck. So huge difference there.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:24:25] How about like restaurants and theaters? You said you couldn't even go see a movie. How how are you now? Can you be in a movie theater and around?
Matt Vemea [00:24:33] Yeah. Yeah, I have. You know, I still the hydrogens are still there to a degree, but it's it's probably, you know, a to what it used to be a ten something like that. You know, it's, it's substantially less. I was able to take my daughters just over the weekend and everything was good so it's nice nice to be able to live
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:24:52] Your daily we're going to do numbers on a scale like your normal day of just anxiety and stress and crazy. Where was it then and kind of where is it now?
Matt Vemea [00:25:02] I would say before I started the treatment, especially with you, is the worst that ever been, you know, on the personal side, affecting the personal life, the family, the marriage. I'd say it's pretty it was pretty close to a ten. I would say on. Probably between the two and three now. Baseline.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:25:18] Yeah.
Matt Vemea [00:25:18] So way, way better, Way better. No, the mayor's way better communication is way better. We made a ton of progress, you know, and counseling for ourselves as well as when I was. I feel like this was this was kind of that missing link that's really helped me make a ton of progress that I just wasn't able to get before. And I've literally saw it from more treatment than anybody I know traditionally, you know, and going through extensive in-patient at the Center of Excellence, doing all of it and again, all of it was helpful. I don't I don't at all want to say anything bad about that. And those people are great. But it only got me so far. You know, I feel like I was pretty stuck. Treading water is really what it felt like on a daily, just treading water, trying to keep my head above. And this is finally like kind of in that life raft, if you will. It's like, okay, now I can actually catch my breath. It makes it progress. So it's been huge.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:26:13] Good, good, good. Has your family noticed the anger, as have they noticed the decrease?
Matt Vemea [00:26:18] Yeah. Yeah. My wife, obviously, she probably doesn't better than anybody, you know, good, bad and everything in between. And. And she's also incredibly intuitive. Like she for years has known that I was either triggered or about to be and wound up and could pick up on all the symptoms of me blowing up and not flared all the things that I was just completely unaware of. She would pick up on all that before. I'm like, What's the issue? And I'm like, There's nothing. She she always knew it. So she was the first one. She took me to treatment. And she actually was you know, she was opposed to it at first too, because it's new. It's scary. It's different.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:26:54] Yeah.
Matt Vemea [00:26:55] Yeah. I think it really just had to do with just a lack of information. Education, you know, we know that we look at our academy as super safe, helpful, or I know a few other people that have taken it too with PTSD and same thing, been incredibly helpful for them. And so she she saw almost instant changes and the level of frustration I think she had with me and what I put her through with the PTSD, for her to say anything, I think to some significant change on my part. Before shooting me was to admit anything. So her admitting anything at all is significant. And she did. Towards the end of the treatment in my last couple sessions, she said she saw a huge difference. And it's it's been great for for the family because in the marriage definitely.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:27:39] Yeah one of my buddies is Tommy. He was with his kids in his car and I mean, cut him off. He didn't say anything. And his son was like, Wow, Dad, you're a lot more calm. Do that. Used to rip that guy up. You told me you think he was. Yeah. Okay. Yes. And later he was like, What environment was I was I creating for my children? Like, what kind of toxic environment was I been handing my children because I hadn't been able to deal with my stuff? And he's like, that's usually is like I will start crying because like, I realize what I've been doing. And now that he was able to deal with his stuff better, he was like, I'm like, now I can create an environment for my children where they can grow up with without the trauma that, you know, without that stuff. So that's why I asked to that the kids. So you told me a story and I don't even know if you remember it stuck out so well for my mind. Tell me the story about the dog. You told me a story about how you sit down next to your dog.
Matt Vemea [00:28:33] Oh, yeah? Yeah, I got a dog. Is he still somewhat of. He's almost two years old now. I guess so. He's. But he's still horrible anxiety. Like, he's been super anxious, always anxious around me, super skittish. He's never been hit. Be really good with the dogs. But he just. The breeder told us not to take them. But my wife fell in love with them, probably because of her bleeding heart. And he was, you know, all the all the love he needed that I just did not have the capacity for at all, not even kind over the patients. And and I came home after the first treatment and he normally he would kind of avoid me and be really skittish and he came up and was just totally like almost normal with me leaning up against me wanting to pet him and that I was like, What in the world? That was significant too, you know? And I know dogs obviously are incredibly intelligent, intuitive and pick up on a lot. And that was that was for me, that was eye opening. Like, whoa, kind of like the story of the kids in and car And did you notice that big of a difference for me just after the first treatment? And he has been much better. You know, I mean, there were there was a definitive timeline there where there was no deny, you know, there was nothing else different other than that right then and there. And that was like instantaneous. Yeah. When I came home and he was just totally chill and comfortable sitting next to me, walking up and I would listen and normally he'd be skittish under his crate, wouldn't want to come out. So that was pretty cool. That was
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:30:02] We see dogs to sniff diabetes to sniff out epilepsy. They'll do all sorts of things if they feel your back have a seizure. Like this has been well documented.
Matt Vemea [00:30:10] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:30:11] And so, you know, that's always one of the things, you know, people always say, oh, you know, if my dog doesn't like you, I don't like you because, you know, dogs have such a great, you know, ability to sense people. So that's when you told me that story. I was like, oh, that means so much more to me than everything else. I was so excited when you told that story. So yeah, that was fantastic. So I guess, you know, we went from a ten to a two or three. So, you know, in what how long did it take you to do these treatments? But three or four,
Matt Vemea [00:30:42] We just Yeah. Just under a month. Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:30:44] Yeah.
Matt Vemea [00:30:44] It's been, it's been almost it's been about three right out three months. Just over three months since the last treatment. So which is good.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:30:54] So have you noticed a big uptick back to where you were or are you pretty much level like you're still good.
Matt Vemea [00:30:59] I would say pretty level. I know they've talked about you know, I've talked to other people in herself about, you know, prob they I think they're recommending maybe quarterly write in maintenance. It's not necessarily a one and done lifetime. I would say maybe it's crept back up to a five at times a little bit. But for the most part it's been pretty consistent. I can definitely see the need to do it. Maybe quarterly, you know. You know, some type of modality that's very doable and reasonable for sure, but definitely been a substantial help and and for an extended period of time. Right. It's been several months and I'm still doing still doing pretty good. Way better. So that's a yeah, you know, I definitely I would say I would like to do it again on a, you know, a therapeutic level every so often. And I know only time will tell is we we work through that but it's definitely been incredibly helpful. Incredibly helpful. I did when I was at the center. Some people, because of my anxiety, I was basically stuck right in the fight response just indefinitely. Fully aggressive, ready to go, ready to fight, ready to hit the door. Any noise. I was trigger and I was just, you know, I was ready to go in the worst of ways, in a good way if there was, you know, a life or death situation that in a terrible way for everything else in life, which is almost all of it's best for me now, off duty. That's all of life. So I was stuck there and there was a there was a doctor, anesthesiologist who was a combat vet and a military doc. No, private. And he he does is offered elsewhere this sub the still a gameplay block and some people said it was phenomenal there were probably doesn't guys that got it was there like some guys wouldn't even talk to you because they were so angry it wound up they even are old people right guys worked with and all that in the community, which is helpful. They wouldn't even talk to you. And then one of the guys, you know, got the shot and he came back in tears, hugging everybody. And it was great. And the responses were very varied. So people felt nothing. So people to help for a month. Some people help for a week. And so I went and they laid on the table. If anybody's not familiar, there's some videos you can look up SGB and strap me down. They ended up missing the first time you get essentially a dart through your neck. They're looking at those. And, you know, it was not fun. You know, me being a medic, I know enough about anatomy physiology, where they were like there was a lot of risk and just not fun. So I'm laying there, I'm listening. My heart starts back in a way. And they missed the first time. So you fall over again and the second time at one they're pulling my head to manipulate it. They actually took a resistance band around my wrist, tied it down to the end of the bed to pull my shoulder and hyperextended get through. Like my traps were in the way just from my anatomy. I'm not little and they were having a hard time accessing it. So yeah, I did that twice and they did it. And instantly you feel it, You feel the nerve block. But it helped me for probably a week, two weeks, just like it's like, okay, cool. I came down from attended probably of five for a week. It wasn't very long.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:34:21] Yeah,.
Matt Vemea [00:34:22] Not only that, it was one of the most miserable, uncomfortable experiences of my life. I was on that bed for 45 minutes with them poking and prodding in my neck until it was miserable as hell.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:34:33] And the worst part about that in this is this is the thing that I whenever I have to go to a hospital to stop because like, you know, they're sticking needles in your neck, right? You're like if you miss at all, I'm in a really bad place. And so you got to deal with that the whole time, I guess me and saying,
Matt Vemea [00:34:50] Yeah. My anxiety was already here. And then I just hear my heart attack it on the monitor and they got , you know. So there's this noise. I'm tied down, I can't move. I'm being hyperextended. I'm being stabbed. I mean, it was it was like it was like, you know, the perfect storm for anybody anxious. Like,
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:35:10] That's the worst possible thing to do to somebody with PTSD.
Matt Vemea [00:35:12] Yeah. Yeah, it was. It was a traumatizing experience all on its own, Right. And then it was like, you know, you're the most difficult patient I've ever had, like, anatomy wise to do that. I'm like, Of course. Oh, my God. It makes me feel if that all makes it all better, right? So,.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:35:27] Yeah.
Matt Vemea [00:35:28] So when I was leaving, when I graduated the COE and discharging and I started with the doctor, the medical director or psychiatrist, Look, I know you don't want to talk about segments. You don't want to be a zombie, Get it? But your PTSD is so bad, your anxiety is so bad. We recommend you getting frequent PTSD shots. The absence like there's got to be a better way. I'd rather jump off a bridge like, No, thanks. So I'm super grateful for the Academy option, especially with that being my other treatment that was recommended that wasn't successful or helpful. Like it was not where even if it would have been great for a month or two, it was not worth how miserable that experience was. So yeah, I would really like to avoid that. And ketamine was helped me and was much better. So I'm very grateful, very grateful for that.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:36:16] Well, absolutely. I'm just I'm just real happy that we could, you know, we be able to get in and help somebody. You know, the thing is, is that, you know, I would kind of talk about the psych meds. Don't work very well. You know, we tried I'm not saying we didn't try like we did it. We did what we could, which like methods didn't work. They don't work for what we're talking about, you know, And then we've got some other stuff. Some of these nerve blocks are helpful for some of the guys. But, you know, we talk to guys like yourself who are at the very peak of problem right there at the ten level. This being the only thing that breaks down. I'm really, really glad that we're able to, you know, get this information out because, you know, I talk to guys, I talk to these that I talk to, you know, I talk to the first responders all the time. And we have these conversations. I'm like, have you guys been told about ketamine? And they're like, well, yeah, we use it all the time. And I'm like, No, for now. They're like, What do you mean? Like knock people out no matter? I don't know. It's great. And so that's one of the reasons I want to make sure we did this, is that for the guys like yourself who have given so selflessly and helped so many people and had to deal with all this trauma, you know, have we not had this conversation, you would never find out about it. And so that's why I'm hoping that, you know, with the charity and everything else, we can start, you know, getting more guys in. We can start having more conversations. We can be like, look, you know, and the thing is, is that like you said, you know, ketamine does an amazing job. And the way I like to use ketamine is we use in to take you from the ten to the two and then, you know, we can use quarterly things to just, you know, reset everything and then hopefully we'll get some laws changed so we can use some of the daily psilocybin to kind of keep things at that lower level as well. The research on a spectacular. So, you know, this is where we're trying to go, where we're trying to change the world, we're trying to change the country and we're trying to change mental health. I believe that the psychedelics academy can easily be a renaissance in mental health because it's not like it helps a little bit better than everything else. It helps substantially more than everything else. And it's not a it's not a miracle. Like here. Here you go. Now you're fixed. But, you know, this is the thing. We should be spending our time and energy on, you know, not trying to People are putting on 65 medications and then they go, you know, shoot up or school or do something like that, like we can actually fix the problem or fix the problem. And so that's why I was so excited about this. And everyone I've talked to who's done it has been like it helped either helped a lot or it fix the problem. No one's done like I did it, and I didn't do anything. Like, I haven't talked to anybody. And I'm sure those guys are out there. But this has been the thing I've been so excited about, have been so happy with the results were getting. Because like I said, you guys put yourselves between us and the trauma. I don't I don't want to be around that stuff. I don't want that stuff around my kids. So thank you guys for doing that. But that's really why we started the charity. I think we got to help these guys out and do whatever we can. So, you know, people ask me, I got I'm in this all the time. I'm talking to guys like you. I'm talking to the guys who are having a problem, talking to you guys about how much better they're doing. And people are like, like, why did you dedicate your whole statement? Sort of that I'm like, because this is now my life. Like, I don't understand how you can be part of this and help, you know, have people tell you the stories that he told me and be like, That's nice. I don't really want to. That's I'm not all in on that. Like because it's it's it's real easy to go like if you're a guy who likes to help people, it's easy to go all in on this because it's like if all I do is just tell other people about this and you guys can go find somebody else to do it, fantastic. Because as long as you know you can do it, you can make the decision to go get help. And so, yeah, I'm super excited about be able to do this. And so I'm very happy that you and your wife both have the trust and what we were doing to, you know, to go through it. And I'm really, really glad that it's been able to help you guys. You know, it's one of those things I talk to vets and I talked to first responders who go through divorces and they lose their kids and stuff like that and they tell the stories and you're just like, it's horrible. And I talked to so many of them. They're like, you know what? It's better for them now. What do you talk about? I'm such an ass like I would I would already scream at my kids, my wife and I was always angry and I could never get rid of it. And so I'm just glad that they're not around this anymore. And I was just always broke. My heart was like. We can just fix you. So.
Matt Vemea [00:40:27] Yeah, yeah, no, that's definitely the thing. And like you said, I know a lot of people have done every other traditional therapy and it's been across the board and it was successful. But ketamine has been the one with everybody that I have talked to. Probably a dozen in total. Personally, they've gotten a lot of help, so it definitely helped me a ton. I'm definitely, definitely advocating and hopefully, you know, we can get the message out. I think that's another thing, too, for guys on duty. You know, guys are still on the job. I'm sure they're concerned about that, about being able to get back to work if they do do the treatment. There's still a lot of still a lot of judgment out there, Still a lot of, you know, tough guys that they want to put people down. And there's still a lot of judgment guys are worried about for sure in that. And, you know, it definitely takes some bravery to reach out and to get some help. But another thing for those guys, anybody that does or is on the fence, I was functional same day. No problem. You know, I know everybody responds slightly different, but it didn't set me out. It didn't knock me out. It didn't set me back other than, you know, needing to rest for a few hours of being a little lethargic. That's that's it. That was the extent of it. There was no hangover. I wasn't out of service for days on end, anything like that. I could have I could have absolutely done the treatment, had been to work the next morning, you know, no problem. And I would say cognitively, you know, guys probably familiar like Alpha Brain see a lot of the ads. Joe Rogan, I was talking about how sharp you know, he is with that. I felt I felt like ketamine was like what they describe alpha brain, you know, symptoms are supposed to be I was I was sharp. I felt like my thoughts, my speech, everything has been more clear and fired a lot better. So I said, So you're going to be go back to work in better shape for sure than than you were, I would say, after ketamine. So. There's nothing to if if you share this, you know, my socials are just my name here. I'm on Facebook, Instagram with any of the guys do want to reach out if there's any other nonprofits or first funders, and that's connected with the few, hopefully we can do a lot more work. But if any of them want to have a personal conversation with me to, you know, I'm happy to have that, feel free to reach out.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:42:42] Well, you know, my whole thing is getting this information out. So if you've got guys that, you know, you want to bring to the group, like bring to the charity, please do. If there's ways that we can help you reach out to everybody else. But let's build that out, you know, if we can. And I think one of those deals that, you know, and I'm literally thinking about this as we're talking, I've got a Facebook group here to use the Wellness Insights, Facebook group, where you can just kind of take that over for that and everybody can go in and, you know, we'll add some items or something that we'll be able to help discuss it. Like, hey, you know, this is what's going on. This might be like, have you done this? Have you done that? Like, I think that'll help everything else. Well, we'll add of all that in and see if we can form a group that, you know, where we can all talk and be like, hey, you know, this is this is what did did for me and it's worth it for me. So I think that, you know, putting this all together for me a good idea. So I'll start setting that up. But.
Matt Vemea [00:43:31] Absolutely, I'd love to.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:43:34] Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, you know, you're first you choose to be a first responder because you like to help people, you know, that's that's. You know what? No one becomes a firefighter and does little things you do if you don't want to help people. So, like, well, I'll set it up, we'll get started, we'll chat. I've got some guys of the guys. Who is that? I was a cannabis company in Colorado. I'm sorry, in California. They're they're doing some great stuff and we're bringing them in. We got I got meetings with guys today, so we're going to we're going to build this out pretty well. So I'm really excited about what the able to do to help people. And so, yeah, mean we'll do we'll do everything we can to get the word out and talk. So I just appreciate it so much now and, you know, trusting me to do this. But then, you know, having the love for your fellow brothers to come out and tell your story and tell how much has helped you, everybody else can kind of get over a piece of the pieces piece and call
Matt Vemea [00:44:26] Yeah, I hope so. You know, I know there's a lot of guys out there that need it for sure, but I just want to understand. I'm grateful for you. You know, everything you done to to create this opportunity for us to get help. So thank you very much for that.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:44:37] Absolutely. Well, thanks, man. Well, like I said, I'll make sure that when we start setting this stuff up that, you know, you've got a spot on the board to talk to these guys and we'll get it all pushed through. But thank you so much for everything that you've done and rollout. We're going to go on, but thanks for being on.
Matt Vemea [00:44:51] Love it. Thank you.
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Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] So. Today we're just talking about mindset. We talked about this a little bit earlier when I made a personal issue long ago about, you know, when we talk about changing diets and using glycemic function in the whole big deal and how the most important part of the having a trainer or a coach is. To maintain mindset function. So you do this a lot and what you do. Walk me through how some of this, of course, for you.
Maaxx West [00:00:32] You mean when I coach people?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:33] Yeah.
Maaxx West [00:00:34] So I said, I think I've told you this last time. Like a long time back. I started as a trainer, like normal. I did training plans, I did diet plans. But I felt like it wasn't really it wasn't it didn't feel right. It didn't really it wasn't what I wanted to do. And I help people. But I had this one client that was really struggling, and I think she was like that turning point for me because I try to help her. And she was really following through like she was doing what she was supposed to. She was training, she was eating right. But then nothing was working for her. And I just started talking to this woman and we were just talking, talking, talking. And it turned out that she had she went through hell in her life and it was issues in her relationship and it was issues at work. And she was abused and he was just along just shit show of things. And so I just started talking to her and we were talking for months, so I wasn't even focusing on her doing her training and the eating and stuff. Like, you know, she had her plan and everything and she was doing what she could. But we were just talking and a couple of months later, because I wasn't telling her what to do, it was more just us talking as friends almost. And I said, Well, and I always like to ask people, even if I talk to two friends, if I talk to you, if I talk to anybody and you have an issue and you want to just vent to me about it, these days, I don't really try to say, Oh my God, I think you should do this. I just say this. Okay, so this is what you're going through right now, and if this doesn't change, can you live with that? And people always say no. And I said, there you have your answer.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:10] Yeah,.
Maaxx West [00:02:10] You all you just answered yourself. You need to change. You need to change something. So she ended up leaving her ex moved to a different city, got a new house for her and her daughter and got a new job. And it was just like it changed your whole life.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:26] Well, yeah. It's always fun. And I talk to people. It's just there. Like you say, Hey, could you change this thing, you know, Or your life can carry on. You're like, No. I'm like, Well, then why don't you change it? I think the biggest use is that they just don't. People will recognize things to change, but they're so fraid to just go ahead and take action on something like especially something large that they need to really going to help them like know you're making the right decision.
Maaxx West [00:02:54] Yeah
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:54] To do This thing.
Maaxx West [00:02:55] Well, people are so scared of change because, you know, something is going on. And even if it's bad, you're afraid of the unknown. Right?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:04] Right.
Maaxx West [00:03:04] You don't you're afraid of something because you don't know what it is, even though you know deep down in your heart that it could be much better.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:11] Yeah.
Maaxx West [00:03:12] And. Could it be worse? I guess. Yeah, but if you're if you're in this position right now and it's just really shitty. Is it now worth the risk?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:23] I always think of this.
Maaxx West [00:03:23] I think so. Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:25] You know, that's, you know, I we also look at our lives. I think both of us do this and it's always the. What can I work on to be better tomorrow.
Maaxx West [00:03:33] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:33] And that's you know, and I guess a lot of will that's not the given mindset they wake up with. Yeah. And so, you know, that's always been the thing that people who will be stagnant for years like I went back to my old I went back to Tulsa after 20 years and it hadn't changed at all. And that was the thing that I was the most sad about.
Maaxx West [00:03:52] That is that's scary to me when things don't change.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:55] Yeah, exactly. When I was was when I was in high school and I was I was 40 years old and I was just like now, like frescos changed a ton. But, you know, that's new growth. And that's that's always the big thing is. But I hang out with, you know, a lot of motivational speakers. I hang out.
Maaxx West [00:04:12] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:12] You know, business coaches and I hang out with, you know, professional athletes and stuff like that. So I think that we've all kind of just we become, you know, either a motivating force or a champion.
Maaxx West [00:04:23] Mhm.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:23] You've kind of got the thing down where you're going to, you know, work yourself to the position where you're going to be better every day.
Maaxx West [00:04:28] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:29] So I guess I always say trust.
Maaxx West [00:04:31] I tell people so I have for my clients so I give them basically little habits or little homework when it comes to mindsets. And I don't want to give people too much. Everyone is individual. I give them a couple of things at a time that they need to work on. But one thing that is very similar for all of them is that they need to start a morning in the night routine, basically starting, first of all, to figure out how to even do it. I have them write things down so as that my sister was just here. I did it with her in person. But so I tell people to take a whiteboard or a paper or a book or whatever that how you got and start just. Vomiting. Ouch.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:08] Yeah.
Maaxx West [00:05:09] Write things down that you want to achieve. Like your dreams, your goals. And it should be mental goals. It should be like work related things. It should be physical items. It should be everything. Like, just write down everything you need and then try to prioritize them. And then you pick your most important things because I don't think you should do too many things. At the same time. I like to say maybe pick three things or so. That's what I've done for myself. I have a lot of vision, but I focus on three at a time and then you're going to start writing them down as your manifestations. And then every morning, every night and them same different depending on the person. But you're going to repeat these things. You're going to read them or repeat them in your mind or write them or say them out loud. So it's different for each person. But repeat this every morning, every night. And it only it only takes a couple of minutes. But and then basically for every time you do it, you need to get better at it and maybe changed a sentence. And for every time you say it, try to envision yourself where you're already there. So let's say like, okay, you want to have a house, the same house. Okay. You figure out what do I need to say? So let's say I'm just making shit up Now I want to have a big blue house by the beach next, you know, next year. Okay. Okay. So let's. Let's go more deep into it. Okay. So I want to have a big blue house on the beach that is already paid for in cash. You know, like, whatever. Like he can be whatever it is for the person and the for every time you said, like, in wishing that you're sitting in that house, that blue house on the beach and it's already paid for and just think that you're sitting there already and then you can do this with anything. You can apply it to absolutely anything. So that's I have these routines for all my clients now. And then on top of that, like all everything, so matching goes into it. So one thing that I also like to have as a very high priority self-care,.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:03] Yeah.
Maaxx West [00:07:04] So I have all my clients have at least once a week they have to do something for themselves that makes them feel good because this all goes into it. And I said, Yeah, eating well and exercising and all of it. It all makes your mind better and clearer and their function better and everything about, I don't know, like ultimately I just because we come so far in it, I, I wish you could just give it all to somebody at the same time. But you can't. So I take it in baby steps. I give them a little bit a thing to start at first and then when they perfected it. So I actually have a good, very good client of mine. She's very coachable. Some people are not coachable. This woman is very coachable, so she's amazing. With her training, her diet, she really follows everything and she has her dedicated cheat days and all these things. So I gave her the mindset routine. She's been doing it for months and she sent me a message the other day. I even think I showed it to you. And she said, I feel so much better and I'm so focused on the things that matter. I no longer focus on any bullshit. And she even said she has a job that she doesn't necessarily love. And she said, I have to work this weekend. She doesn't normally do it, she said, and it doesn't even bother me. And I said, Oh my God, this is amazing. So it's like she's there now. So then I applied a new routine to her, which is so I was like, Are you ready for another one? I said, Because now you got this in like, let's do something else. So then I keep adding new things into them, like all the time, because you have to do things like people are always, some people have indicated and they'll be like, okay, I don't work out right now and I don't eat according to a meal plan. I want to train six days a week and I'm going to I'm like, No, you're not.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:45] No,.
Maaxx West [00:08:46] You're not. How about two?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:48] Yeah, yeah,.
Maaxx West [00:08:49] No,.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:50] That's it.
Maaxx West [00:08:50] You know, or I'm going to drink a gallon of water every day that I'm going to have zero cheat meals. But I don't want you to do that.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:57] Yeah, it's all we're looking for. Sustainability.
Maaxx West [00:09:00] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:01] Yeah.
Maaxx West [00:09:02] People always like to do too much at the same time. And I said, that's my my goal. Like, I give them little bits and pieces and as soon as they have perfected something, okay, let's do something else.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:11] Well, you know, it's always funny is like, I'll start with people. I'm like, okay, what are your goals? And then, you know, who are like, I don't really know.
Maaxx West [00:09:18] Yeah,.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:18] This is staggering to me. And so I'm like, All right, well, let's, let's figure that out first.
Maaxx West [00:09:22] Yeah,.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:23] Yeah, we had to. We had to at first because we had to make sure we.
Maaxx West [00:09:25] I know that everybody has them in there. It's just a matter of and I sort of say like, take something to write off. Just start barking.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:34] All of it.
Maaxx West [00:09:35] Brain vomiting, everything. Just think of anything and everything in the whole world that you want.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:40] Well, and the big things are you're going to do that because people always start doing that and then they'll go home and this. All right. No, that's stupid. No, no,.
Maaxx West [00:09:46] No.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:46] Right. The stupid ones down to like, we will filter out the stupid ones later. No, I just need all the ideas that are in your head. Out of your head on the page.
Maaxx West [00:09:53] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:54] I don't care how the dumb they are, because you're always going to get some that are just really stupid and like, you'll write it down and you're like, That was dumb. But if I did it this way, it would be good. So that's why you write the dumb runs down because. Later, it will spur you to think of something else.
Maaxx West [00:10:08] Mm hmm.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:09] So but that's, you know, that is the big thing is, you know, getting your goals down, getting, you know, because without a point, we're shooting for this thing. How do we plan how to get to that point?
Maaxx West [00:10:19] Mm hmm.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:19] That's always what I tell people is, like, without a goal we have, we can't have a direction.
Maaxx West [00:10:23] No.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:23] So, you know, that's always the big. The big first thing with us is that I'll always try to figure out what their goals are. And then sometimes, you know, like you say, they're like, I don't do anything now and I want to do 17 things.
Maaxx West [00:10:36] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:36] And you're like, No, you're not. Or I feel like I want to do all the things you do. And I'm like, It's taken me 43 years to get here. Like, you know, you do all the stuff.
Maaxx West [00:10:44] I want to achieve a million things to. But I even do it like I'm applying the same thing to myself as I do for my clients. Like, I want a lot of things and I do the same thing. I write it all down. But then I prioritize. Okay, what is most important to me right now? Because you can't focus on 85 things at the same time. You can't be. I used to be that person. And then I read many, many years ago, maybe ten years ago, I read the one thing and we read the book.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:11:09] I am not.
Maaxx West [00:11:10] The one thing. So it's about how to focus on one thing at a time. And I'm I have ADHD and all this thing. Like I always focus on the 85 things at the same time, but it doesn't work, you know. So I read the book and I was like, Wow, I really need to start working on this. So I still get a little sometimes like every now and then, but it's very rare and it doesn't. I This used to be 24 seven for me, and it doesn't even happen every week now that I get like that.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:11:39] Well, when you get really focused on, you know, to you can always dig down deep into one goal and fill your entire day with it. So if you're going to have 2 or 3, it would be pretty easy to be still really busy working on those, just 2 or 3. So yeah, and that's I think we I think I have about I think I keep about 2 or 3. I don't, I don't necessarily limit it, but I'm like, I focus on myself. Yeah but what it's really funny is the mindset piece is. Is important. It is for normal daily life. It's super hypercritical for any psychedelic or academy work because you've got to set up because it's always funny because there's a lot of research and there's a whole big medical group that thinks that. And to to be fair to them, the medication, the ketamine does an amazing amount of the work. However, if you you have to block it with that mindset if you. Okay. What is our intention for doing this? What is the setting we're going into? How is our mindset going to be going in? And then after you get through with it, it's what did I just see and experience and then how do I then utilize that information to apply to my life and then how do I feel? And so if you don't take in, I like to individualize it for my individual, like my concierge patients. But when you when you streamline like that, you get a lot more benefit out of it. But again, it's preparing the mindset for the mindset change you get with a psychotic drug like a calendar.
Maaxx West [00:13:03] So like we mentioned this for I've never done anything like this, but I said because I want to recommend it to somebody I love. I do want to I never want to recommend something I haven't tried and.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:13:13] Correct.
Maaxx West [00:13:13] Is that I am going to do it. And I don't know exactly for it's not a for a specific reason or a specific issue or anything, but I want to do it. And if I do it, can we document it?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:13:23] Absolutely. We'll walk through it so we can do we can do a couple of different things we want. We can do psilocybin or we can do ketamine, or we could do ketamine one weekend and then psilocybin another. Because I think once you start understanding. So the thing I like about you is that you have a very strong driven mind and you're very, very extremely open to change and getting more viewpoints and, and just exploring that piece. And so you'll do really well with both ketamine and psilocybin, because what happens in it is the I me part of it, which we call the ego dissolves into it. And so what we typically look at in young, we talk about this a lot. You have the you have the the ego, which is the I and me, the thing that we typically call ourselves. And we have the self, which is basically our subconscious. And then you have a third level, which is the universal subconscious. And this gets into really cool stuff where, you know, we're all part of one unit and that's one thing. But when you dissolve the self, I mean dissolve the ego into the self, this is where all your subconscious things are. So any problem that you will have that you're dealing with, maybe you don't even think about, that's when that comes up. And so that's why it's super important to set the mindset ahead of time of this is the path we're going to go. And so when these things come up, this is how we're going to greet them, this is how we're going to see them, this is how we're going to bring them into our lives. And then as it comes back through and you get done and you reintegrate, it's really it's a giant. Like you see some stuff here like. Yeah. If you explain anybody else, people like that is just a random craziness, you know, like. No, that made a lot of sense to me because it's like a dream rather than like a dream that nobody else would make sense to me. That makes any Sense.
Maaxx West [00:15:02] I don't think anything is weird. Nothing. I don't think there's anything that can be weird to me.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:15:09] And, you know, we were 100% documented, and so there's a couple of ways we can do that. So but yeah, we want 100%. And I'll walk you through that because a psilocybin deal, especially the first time you do it, you really want a guy to be there to kind of help you kind of steer back and forth. Because if you I don't think you would necessarily do this. But there's people and you start to kind of curve just a little bit left, right or a little bit towards the negative. And then because psilocybin really enhances the direction that your mind's going, you can push yourself into a really negative space pretty easily. If you don't know how to pull yourself back, you don't have a guy there to then pull you back.
Maaxx West [00:15:47] Okay?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:15:48] So it's like, Hey, remember that thing you told me about the puppies? And you're like, Oh, puppies? Yeah, you just cycle back into the happy. And so, like, that's what the guy said, that it's not necessarily that easy all the time, but that's kind of how it goes. But that's that piece of the mindset. We've had people get through and just come out and just tell us that it was the greatest experience of their lives, that the stuff that they were sitting time on that wasn't that important they don't care about at all anymore. And the things that were really important. But we're kind of on the back burner, like I'm laser focused on that stuff. So I think you would be Yeah, I think you would really.
Maaxx West [00:16:19] I know what I was focused on, but I'm very curious though, like what, what this was.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:16:24] Well, and it's funny because like I had when I did my exact same reason breaks. I talked to, you know, my dog buddy, my dog partner, and I was like, hey. And I was like, I got to do this. And he was like, Why? What's wrong with you? I was like, Nothing. My life's awesome. And he was like, Well, that we can't do this. And I was like, Legally, we can't, like, you know? And so we finally came up was like, okay, I have some anxiety. And it's funny because we were like joking around about it. And I'm like, Yeah, I guess we all have a little PTSD. So I thought I had a I had PTSD because my heart rate at the time was in the 90s. And I don't like I'm not trying to hide this for like the past 20 years. My heart, my resting heart rate has been in the 90s and nobody could figure out why. Well, so I do ketamine and the next morning it was in the 70s and it was in the 70s for like the past three months.
Maaxx West [00:17:12] Then guess what my resting heart rate is.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:17:16] So well for for women. I've seen resting heart rates in the like high end athletes in the 40s.
Maaxx West [00:17:21] Yeah. That's where I am.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:17:22] Yeah.
Maaxx West [00:17:23] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:17:23] So but for guys like so mine, if you got all my sympathetic issues fixed mine would probably be in the 60s. But that, that was how I knew I was broken because it was like my heart rate shouldn't be this high.
Maaxx West [00:17:35] Yeah, that's a lot.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:17:36] And the only thing I can trace it back to is a car wreck. I was when I was like 18, 19 years old. And so but I know it was high because I when I first went and did neuro testing, my neurology teacher, like Saturn's like, Are you high? And I was like, no. And was like, Are you feeling okay? I was like, Yeah. He's like, your heart rates 90 use like for someone in your shape, it should be 60. And I was like, Alright, whatever. And so for like 20 years is where it was. And then when I did my ketamine, yep, I had this choose that I didn't, I didn't even recognize I had until afterwards. And now my heart's Like,
Maaxx West [00:18:10] Oh, I'm sure I have something.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:18:11] That everybody it's not something.
Maaxx West [00:18:12] Yeah, definitely.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:18:13] That's why it was funny because I just.
Maaxx West [00:18:15] I just it feels like I'm not saying I think does it feels like I've been able to work it through. I it feels like I've been able to work everything through that I had. But I am sure that is not the case.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:18:27] Well, and that's, you know, it's funny because that's how I feel too, because like when I have an issue, like I got mad at somebody the other day, I got angry at a family member the other day, and then I walked it through my head and it was like. You're not angry. You had the same emotion of, you know, basically longing for X amount of time. And, you know, you didn't listen to these emotions so that they're now they're presenting as anger. And so, like that type of stuff, you can start walking back through that. And that's not super difficult to understand or grasp. Yeah. But the fun thing is that when you do the ketamine and you do some of these psychedelics, there's things that you didn't even remember from 20 years ago that pop up and you're like, Oh, I remember that now. That was a little stressful and then it's gone.
Maaxx West [00:19:12] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:19:14] That's that's that's the big thing right now. The one thing that everyone has too much of is stress and psychological trauma. And the the only way we're going to get through this is if we do a lot of mindset work, therapy work, you know. And I really think the psychedelics really come in and really help boost that through. We're able to do things with psychedelics that we, you know, you do a little bit of mindset, work with them again at the beginning and then we can hit them with the psychedelics and then your coach, your therapists, whoever can then walk you through the next couple steps of where you need to go. And I think that's a really big benefit to the things that you and I are doing. But the thing is just for mental health in the next couple of years regardless. So it's real exciting. But I I'm super excited about it. We talk about all the time, but.
Maaxx West [00:20:01] I was saying as I like my thing has been the no blow club. Like I want to help people with gut issues and I want to help people understand nutrition. But mindset is, here's when I picked the name Noble Club, I was picking between that and another name that had to do with mind. And I was like, What's going to apply more to people? Everyone's bloated, right? Yeah, that's how I picked a name. But to be completely honest, is almost a 5050 there.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:20:29] Well, and the biggest thing is that when you start looking from a neurologic side, the second or the psych psychiatric or the psychological stress that people get into shuts off, it shuts units into a sympathetic nervous system state and shuts off all the functions of your gut. So you can't really fix the gut until you fix the mind.
Maaxx West [00:20:48] Yep. Mind goes first.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:20:50] Yeah,.
Maaxx West [00:20:50] 100%.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:20:51] And that's always been the big thing for I think both of us are just something we talk about.
Maaxx West [00:20:56] Yeah. But I think to us that like having conversations with people just in general, a lot of people. Are not there to to understand that.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:21:09] Yeah,
Maaxx West [00:21:11] I don't even know why or how somebody thinks that way, but it is. Common. And like I said, I'm not as socialized a lot, but when I am out and socializing, I talk a lot and I have conversations with people and it's it's very common that. People don't think that the mindset matters.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:21:34] Which is why I think I would just go through life without. I don't know if there's any time on it.
Maaxx West [00:21:40] Yeah,.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:21:40] Because every time you talk to some, you talk it through. I'm like, those are the like, I don't think it matters how much you talk to me for five minutes. Like I. I guess it matters quite a bit, but I, I don't think that people put enough thought into, you know, if I just go and do this thing, I don't know how I feel or think or look at life. This thing is still going to be the same way. It's done the same way. And the problem is, is that the way you look at stuff, the way that you decide to attack life, the way that you decide to focus yourself on a task matters tremendously to your long term health and to the function of how long it's going to be that you're doing this task. You you do the same task 50 times. You still love it or it can drive you insane. Yeah, just depends on how you want to look at it.
Maaxx West [00:22:22] Yeah. As that I actually, as I have, I've been thinking this way for many, many years, but it was like this one sentence that actually Tommy, Tommy told me once that everything in life happens for you and nothing happens to you. And ever since he said that sentence. I have not since that day is that everything in life is either good or just it is.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:22:43] Yeah.
Maaxx West [00:22:44] There's no positive and negative. For me, it's positive. And the other thing just is like, so whenever something happens in my life that is not a very is just not a directly positive thing, it's just a thing.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:23:02] Yeah.
Maaxx West [00:23:02] And I'm just like, okay, that's the thing. And we handle it and that's great. And I learned something, but I it's, it's not a bad thing because I learned something. So, I mean, it will end up to be a positive thing, too.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:23:16] Yeah.
Maaxx West [00:23:17] And I think. All the time. You just hear people. Why does this happening to me?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:23:22] Yeah.
Maaxx West [00:23:23] Because it didn't happen to you. But you just told yourself it did.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:23:27] Yeah. You put yourself in that position where something's happening to you.
Maaxx West [00:23:30] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:23:31] You know. Not for you or with you. You know, it's one of those things that, you know, we talk about this a lot. You know, you either get it gives you wanted or you got a lesson. And if you take it that way and you figure out, okay, well, this is how I'm going to be able to fix it in the future, then that's, you know, that makes a tremendous difference in how you're going to go about things. So, yeah, my big thing and people ask me like, you know, we talk about diet all the time and people are like, Hey, you weren't you weren't at 22 too fast. Is that is that the like the best way to lose weight is that I'm like, no, I do it because it's hard. The more the more hard things you choose to do, the easier hard things get to do.
Maaxx West [00:24:12] Yes. Right.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:24:14] That's, you know, with life, if you're if your daily hard is a 2 or 3. And life throws you a five, you are going to get crushed. Yes. But if you're like, hey, my daily life is a 4 or 5 hard by my choosing. Then life throws you a five year like I did not enjoy this. But you can deal with it.
Maaxx West [00:24:31] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:24:32] And so that's that's. I think, you know, why do we do long, fast? Why do we do like, why do we work out to the point where we can't move? Like, there's all the things that you do and you're like, I'm going to do these things because they're hard.
Maaxx West [00:24:42] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:24:43] You know, like it was Ryan set up a whole building your machine deal, and it was like, okay, write a bestselling book. Okay. I did that and I did a TEDTalk, and we've done all the other things. And it's just like, you know, you start looking for those things, you're like, I never would have thought I could have done this.
Maaxx West [00:24:57] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:24:58] 6 or 7 years ago.
Maaxx West [00:24:59] Mm hmm.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:24:59] But then you just decide when you get in the right mindset, but you turn around the right people. Right?
Maaxx West [00:25:05] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's actually one thing I do with my clients now. I have them think about in questioning the people in their lives.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:25:13] Yes.
Maaxx West [00:25:13] Because I tell them if. If you're an example, I have a client that. Her surrounding liked to do things that she doesn't necessarily like to do, as I want to say. So anybody knows who it is. But she they want to do things that she doesn't necessarily do, but she feels like she has to do it, you know, and it's repeatedly like this. And she doesn't you know, she just does it because she feels like she's kind of like an asshole if she doesn't do it. And I said to her, so if you don't do these things, just your friends get annoyed at you. Yeah. Yeah, they do. I said, Is that a friend?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:25:50] Yeah.
Maaxx West [00:25:50] What kind of friend is that? So I said, I know this sounds crazy, but maybe you should start surrounding yourself. Go to new places. Go find a new fucking restaurant or new coffee. Shop around you, Jim. Start talking to other people. There are other people out there. But is that I am at that point in my life where? I've cut a lot of people out of my life. And if somebody is my friend and it just does that, we don't align anymore. I still love you and you're great, but we don't need to hang out anymore.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:26:21] Well, you know, I always tell you, like, because, like, I talk about this a lot with people as they are, as are growing up in their company. They're growing up as a person and they're like, you know, these people don't serve me anymore. They're bringing me down. And I'm like, Look, like, it's not that you're leaving them or you're leaving. You're cutting them out. Here's basically what happened. You know your neighbors, right? You walked around the block and then you got back to your house and you were like, I think I'm going to go one more time. And they said, I've had enough. I'm not. And so you had to go on by yourself. It wasn't that they were bad. It was their journey was over. And you're still had places to go. And that's what's going on. You're not necessarily cutting people out. You're just like, I am growing. And I love and respect the fact that you were here for this part of my journey.
Maaxx West [00:27:03] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:27:03] But from here on out, I need to go do something else.
Maaxx West [00:27:05] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:27:06] And you get that way a lot where you'll find that, like, the vaccine thing, I think was a big, big deal.
Maaxx West [00:27:12] Yes,.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:27:12] Because we talked to a lot like we we we had family members who, like we finally had to tell them like, you know, we're not going to do the vaccine. You guys can do whatever you want to, but we're kind of done talking about it.
Maaxx West [00:27:23] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:27:24] So, you know, that was a big I think everybody comes to those things where there's, you know, the person you're dating or something like that. You kind of just or the job you get or where you want to go. It's so funny. One of my friends, her husband's going to be a welder and one of the other parents in the LA group thought it was just such a so, so terrible. And she was all about how horrible it was. And I explained to her how much others make. And then it was like, Oh, okay. And I'm like, How could you be around this person? Like, you know, this is like, this is what I want to do, like with my life and like, well, that's not good.
Maaxx West [00:28:03] Even if they didn't make that much money. Like what? What?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:28:05] I don't know.
Maaxx West [00:28:06] What is that?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:28:07] I don't know. Like, it's like we need welders a lot. Like, it's. It's not even like, you know, it's only like I'm going to sit at home.
Maaxx West [00:28:17] My friend is a welder, actually. And they make. Yeah, they Make..
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:28:19] They, they they do well. So, yeah, like people always ask me like, do you want your kids to be doctors? Mike No, I want them to be plumbers ratio guys because like the trades, again, this is a mindset thing. People do. Like, I have to go to college if I want to make any money. The trades are the where it's at right now because like for every three plumber, for every plumber, we gain and we lose three. And I have several plumbers as patients of mine. And it's always funny because they're like, if you're if you have a leak in your hardwood floors and it's it's $1,000 for me to come out, work on that or you lose a $40,000 floor, which one you want. And I'm like, I'm going to pay you the thousands. Of course you are. Is like everybody is. And I was like, Man, I have the wrong job.
Maaxx West [00:29:05] Well, I think that I was like, Damn, I should have done that. Now I'm doing exactly what makes me happy.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:29:11] So that's that is the other thing is, you know. If you can find the thing, if you can find a way to make money off the thing that you really enjoy.
Maaxx West [00:29:21] I think it's the only way.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:29:22] That's the only way to do it.
Maaxx West [00:29:23] If somebody says something that people tell me all the time is, you know, I, I can work from anywhere I want. I travel wherever I want, whenever I want. And I kind of just I work when I want to.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:29:36] Yeah.
Maaxx West [00:29:36] And if I have a day as I love what I do, so I typically always work. But if I have a day and I just don't want to do anything work related, I can't just skip it. So people always say, Oh, thanks, I wish I had your life and I wish I could do that. And you know, everything is so sad, but you can What? No, I can't because and then this, this season and I said, Well, you made that choice, though. Like, you made that choice to be that. And do you want to know what my dream was when I was a kid to be free? That was my number one dream because every day I saw my mom having to she was doing curtains and she was cooking food and she had to do this as you had to do that because my dad was always traveling.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:30:18] Yeah.
Maaxx West [00:30:19] And my dream was to be free. When I was very tiny, I didn't really know what that meant. So I wanted to be a flight attendant because I thought if I was a flight attendant, I would never be home. And then I realized I don't want to be a flight attendant. That was not what it was, but I wanted to be free. And that's what I am now. Very think that I have changed the profession in which I am free. I've done I mean, I'm a photographer, I am a coach, and I compete. And then I soon launching actually a coffee company. And, you know, I do a lot of fun things. But everything I do, I still maintain that I need to be free.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:30:53] Yeah,.
Maaxx West [00:30:53] Because that was my biggest dream of my life.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:30:56] Well, and that's that's one of those things that, you know, that that's also really important to remember because everyone's fall. Something's going to come along and seem like, well, you get something really cool if you sacrifice just a little bit of your dream and then enough of those things come up. This is how I see this all the time with people.
Maaxx West [00:31:12] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:31:12] And they make it's not a one concession. It's not like you gave up all your dream all at once. People give up on stuff. Little bits at a time.
Maaxx West [00:31:20] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:31:21] And then 3%. 2%, 5%. And then all of a sudden, you know, they've given up.
Maaxx West [00:31:26] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:31:26] And you kind of had to walk it back through me. Like, do you see these choices?
Maaxx West [00:31:30] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:31:31] And they're like, Yeah, but, you know, like, well, you know, we can work,.
Maaxx West [00:31:34] But what?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:31:35] Exactly. We can work through these all the time. But, you know, if this is really your dream and you're miserable, it's probably because you're grinding against your purpose.
Maaxx West [00:31:42] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:31:43] If you grind with your purpose, you like, you know, it's like a before and read medical research every day. And I still love it, but there's more than it still happens all the time where it's 6:00 and I'm ready to go, you know workout with my, my, my oldest and what am I in the middle of an article that I I'm really interested in? And so, you know, I've been doing that for a decade. But that's, again, in line with my purpose. And so, you know, that amount of grinding is never going to get tiresome, you know.
Maaxx West [00:32:11] But I think, too, I do. I love working. I really freaking love working. I could sometimes when I am so inspired, I just don't go to bed. At night, just work as. I do. You know, my favorite thing is to do like a Friday or Saturday night. People might, you know, go out, whatever the hell they do. I love sitting by my computer and work on all the ideas I have.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:32:36] Well, and that's you to get around
Maaxx West [00:32:38] Because I'm but I love it. So I love it because I do something that I'm passionate about, but also because I mean, I don't have to do any of this. Nobody sitting there telling me that, oh, I have to work because it's this time of the day now.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:32:51] Yeah. Well, and that goes back to that. Do something hard. It's like everyone's trying to be like, okay, I'm going to read an extra hour just because and then I go to this thing I want to do.
Maaxx West [00:33:00] Yeah,.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:33:00] Right. Because it's like sooner or later it's going to to the point where like, no, you're going to be pushed up against a deadline and you're going to have to work harder and you're going to have your minds. You start wondering. You have to learn how to bring it back to focus. And so that's always been one of those things that, again, I'm like, you know what? It's not that big of a sacrifice to give it, you know, 30 more minutes or give it another hour just so you'll be ready the next time you need it. And that's been a big piece that, you know, I think I've done that I've tried to impart on. Other people are just kind of the focus piece. But that's always been that's what's been helpful for me.
Maaxx West [00:33:34] Well, I think I like her too, actually. Are you talking about the fast before I tell you so my whole life I've been against fasting and I've always had this.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:33:43] So why? Why? Why? Against fasting?
Maaxx West [00:33:44] No, but I did it fast. I told You.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:33:46] I know. I know.
Maaxx West [00:33:47] 42 hours.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:33:48] Yeah.
Maaxx West [00:33:49] Was my whole life. But I've tried before, and I always felt not okay. I would have these blood sugar crashes ever since I was a kid. If I didn't eat, I would be on the ground shaking, feeling I'm going to throw up. And I've done, you know, blood work and such in the past. And they will tell me you have this blood sugar sensitivity, yada, yada. So I was always against fasting, and I know a lot of people that do it. And I said, you know, for some people this is perfect.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:34:14] Yeah.
Maaxx West [00:34:14] But I said so. I met somebody that does a lot of fasting, right? And we're talking about it a lot. And I was like, fuck. He's like, It's annoying to me that I feel so sick if I don't eat. I mean, what if what if shit goes down in the world and we're not getting food? Like, I can't be laying down the ground shaking. I need to be out hunting, right? So I said, no, I'm really going to try and I'm going to do it like all in here.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:34:39] Yeah.
Maaxx West [00:34:39] So it was actually when I was on the cannabis last time.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:34:42] Oh yeah.
Maaxx West [00:34:43] But I did the speech there and I was thinking because I really listened to my speech afterwards and I didn't even say or anything. One time I was like, Oh my God, I did that speech so good. I was like, Maybe because so fast.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:34:56] It's so it's weird.
Maaxx West [00:34:57] Just your head. I felt so bad I was hurting. My whole body hurts so bad. I'm on the phone with my friend and I was like, I don't know, this is so weird. I said, I'm in pain and I'm in pain like my chest. I'm having trouble breathing so much. It hurts so much. But I'm so happy and I'm so my head is so clear. I'm like, This makes no sense, you know? I'm like, I'm such a good mood, right? That's what I'm walking around and I'm just like, I was so.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:35:26] So I was like, would I do long fasts like this? Like, I don't get I don't get hungry. I do miss the meal, though.
Maaxx West [00:35:33] Yeah,.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:35:33] In a weird way. But I. Yeah, I feel. I feel more in control. I feel like I might just might. My abs are tighter. Like I have more control.
Maaxx West [00:35:46] you swell up like a balloon. That's that's the thing. But so I fast.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:35:50] Supplement when you fast are just nothing but water.
Maaxx West [00:35:52] Salt. Yeah. No, I mean, I just did that one time. I've done, like, little shorter things, but I swell up my stomach, look like I'm pregnant. But the moment I start eating, it all goes away. So I get very, very swollen and bloated and watery and like, my joints hurt and everything, but it goes right away when I start eating. Because my friend me, she's like, Oh, I'm fast and I look all dry and shredded. I'm like oh.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:36:17] I would, I would, I would actually, I think be interesting to get like a continuous glucose monitor on you and kind of like maybe run some insulin on as you're doing it. That would be very fun.
Maaxx West [00:36:28] Insulin.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:36:29] Oh yeah. So now people don't sell insulin. They're like, My God, that is my it. You can I tell you, it's how you detect and fix diabetes. It's how you like, it's how you fix none of all syndrome, like it's all insulin based. And the amount of people that like people will come in and bring me their labs and they're like, my doctor said, I'm fine, but I feel miserable and I'm tired and I hurt. And I look at their labs, I'm like, okay. And then I'll go pull their hormones, their insulin, and, you know, I'll look for the metabolic stuff and we'll do DNA and stuff like that. And I'll be like, Okay, here's exactly why you feel like crap. And they're like. And so I was like, Well, how come, you know, they didn't pull us? I don't know. I don't know why. I don't know why they're not pulling the last most of it, the insulins, the big one, that's why it's one of the ones that you've really got to watch that tells you a ton about the body. So if we can figure out where your insulin is when you're in this fast and we know glucose as it might be, one of those things where we're just like, look, if you're going to do this, you've got to do it this way with this supplementation, otherwise you're gonna have this process.
Maaxx West [00:37:28] I don't to me, I don't see a benefit in doing it. I would happily do it once in a while for health reasons, but in my life and how I do things and my training and my everything I do, I did it because I wanted to push myself
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:37:45] Well And so that. There's a lot of things I think people should do for mindset work. Like, for instance.
Maaxx West [00:37:51] I just like a challenge.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:37:52] And I'm going to get I'm going to get crucified for this, but I don't I have not read research I understand from you and I like and that supports. Cold plunging in the way that people talk about it like this, you know, 2 or 3 times the calorie burn for the day, if you like. And I'm like, I don't think that's how you.
Maaxx West [00:38:16] Know, I don't know that I've always heard because I call sweet and. When I live there, I had a actually an ex-boyfriend that was from way up north where it's cool, this shit. And I've always heard this like, this is just 25 years ago. I heard that, you know, you're the body burns more if you're in a very cold climate or something. So it might be something to that. But if it's actually I heard that thing with the coal plants, too. I mean, where do they get that from, though?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:38:43] Well, I think so. So I would hundred percent get it. If you're cold right now, you will burn a lot more calories.
Maaxx West [00:38:49] Yeah,.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:38:50] Right. But the problem I get into is like, so you did a ten minute cold plunge and you tripled the calories you burned when you were sitting still being cold. So you might have burned for extra calories like but just the I don't know.
Maaxx West [00:39:03] Oh, like they counted like that.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:39:05] Right. But I don't I mean, if you burn six and then you burn four actually.
Maaxx West [00:39:08] That's sounds good for a promo.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:39:10] Well and so that but that's I don't like and that's I'm not saying I'm not saying it's wrong. I just I don't. I don't get I don't get some of that stuff. So, you know. But.
Maaxx West [00:39:20] I mean, has a lot of benefits. I don't know if that's the one I would push for.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:39:24] Well, it's like I like I like I like some of that stuff for a lot of reasons. My number one reason is always going to be if you decide to wake up in the morning and do something that is already miserable for ten minutes, you're going to get a lot of mental gain. That is for me by far. I don't care what we want to write chemistry because I'm a neuron. I'm a guy, I'm a mind guy. That whole thing, the consistency of choosing to be miserable for a benefit that you're going to get diluted on the road is, I think, the best part of that whole.
Maaxx West [00:39:54] Yeah. I don't have a cable show. I did. I hate cold. I swear, I've always said my mom. I swear I'm like, allergic to cold.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:40:01] Yeah,.
Maaxx West [00:40:01] My body just shuts down. It's like I'm not even cold. It's like I'm dead. I don't do well in court. So the first time ever, which is only a couple of years ago, I tried, like, a crier session.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:40:13] Alright?
Maaxx West [00:40:13] I thought I was not going to make it out. I really thought that. And then I was done, and I was like, my whole nose are like, just together. I couldn't breathe. And I was like, oh, my God, I can't live like this. And I was like, What the fuck, Maaxx? I was like, this, You know, this. Like, people do this shit. Like I got to be able to do it. So then I think I went there the next time I was like, I'm going to do it again. This is only like two days later or something. I was like, I'm going to fucking do it. And I remember I walked in and I did like twice the time and it wasn't even that bad. And then I walked out. I was like, Oh, I can do this. And then after that, I've done it so many times, I swear I going to that class and I just tell myself. This is fucking nothing. And then I just sit there and I'm like, I was sitting in my friend's house and she's like, You're just sitting there like nothing and just talking. And I was like, I can't even feel this thing even more. It's I mean, it's so it's all mental.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:41:10] Well, it's so I guess that's why I love it for mental. But from the chemistry set, what I just like. So back on the fasting thing, I don't think this goes back to the whole everybody's chemistry is different. I don't think fasting is as beneficial for everybody as everybody says it is.
Maaxx West [00:41:26] No.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:41:27] So like, I think it's wildly beneficial for fat burning people. So you're you're in no more of your Mazo and those, you know, maybe your margins are pretty small.
Maaxx West [00:41:37] As far as like virus and stuff like for healing.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:41:41] So if you are sick with oh, so the adrenaline rush, you know what? I'm not I'm not opposed to cold plunging when you're sick. It's just.
Maaxx West [00:41:51] You know, talking about the fasting. All right.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:41:53] Oh, sorry. Fasting. So again, if you're sick, you need to feed your body more so nutrients than with calories unnecessarily. But. Now, if you stick with, like, it like like a flu. If you're if you're, you know, if you're not hungry, you don't have to eat. But I wouldn't be fasting while you have the flu. But if you're there's a lot of bacteria, there's a lot of like gut stuff that there's a lot of yeast stuff that just not eating in faster and keeping everything out of all the chemistry out is a really easy way to purge things out. So it depends on it depends on which issue you have, why you're sick. Quote unquote, why you're feeling bad as to whether or not, you know, that would be great. I really like it for when we have gallbladder issues, which are usually liver issues, are not really gallbladder issues. So if you can fast for a couple of days and we can pump you full of methylated B vitamins, specifically methylated sex and keep everything clean, it helps clean the liberal but faster because it gives a chance to going to catch up.
Maaxx West [00:43:02] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:43:03] But I don't know. I like the idea that you should always fast when you're sick. I've read that and I'm like,
Maaxx West [00:43:10] Yeah. Well, I have somebody I know that had Covid and festered like two days and then was basically okay, then this is like a healthy person anyway. It's not a regular average person.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:43:27] Yeah, I would definitely not I would not specifically fast for Covid covid's vascular issue. And you've got to keep nutrient and function high. When you're when you're wearing a hypoxic state. Because here's the so here's the problem, right? So you look at like epileptics. And so when they have sleep apnea, which a lot of them do and nobody ever checks for it when they when they have that every day. So they have hypoxia issues all the time. Right. And can give you hypoxia issues. However, when they then don't eat right and not enough sleep, they have a seizure. So if you've got if you've got something depressed in your system, like like a virus to, say Covid, especially in the oxygen category, the last thing you want to do is restrict any creation of ATP or any creation of nutrient or any any glucose crashes. That'll that'll be really, really bad for you all the way across the body. So because when you when you have energy issues or glucose shock issues, it shocks the entire system. And so the things are trying to fight the virus. It's in shock them, too. So in that case, I would try I would probably want to just feed properly while you.
Maaxx West [00:44:39] Yeah, that's I mean, personally, that's what I would do if I don't. First of all, I don't get sick. But if I had anything, I would be any even more perfect with my with my meals.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:44:52] And that's, you know, I was taught I've talked to people all the time. Do you think taking supplements during fasting makes it no longer fasting? And
Maaxx West [00:45:01] I guess it depends what kind of supplements.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:45:04] But you know, are B vitamins and stuff like that. Like I can kind of understand if you're taking omega three fatty acids, you're like, well, that's oil. And, you know,.
Maaxx West [00:45:11] Yeah,.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:45:12] I'm a So this you got into the fasting thing is I am a glycemic change person If you do eat any if you consume anything that will affect the glycemic change at all, then you've broken your fast. So which is why you can do bone broth, Why you can do water and coffee and tea and stuff like that, which have obviously nutrients and lots of those things have a little bit of calories, but they don't change your glycemic function, so they don't actually break your fast. And I always think it's funny because like I have people who I argue with and they're like, are you going to bone broth that you can't do supplements? Like what about like college and supplements? Like, No, no supplements make The reason that you're consuming the bone broth is for the amino acids that's in the collagen. The same reason I'm taking collagen supplementation and they're like, Oh, well, it's just different. I'm like, okay. But so but the thing is, I just in that statement, I pissed off 100 different fasting people, right? Because like, everybody thinks that the way that they do it is the only way to do it.
Maaxx West [00:46:12] But where did they learn this from? Where do they.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:46:15] Well, the other thing is, is the philosophy thing, right? Cause I'm like your body see two things. They need calories and they need nutrients. And the idea of, well, we'll just work off the stored nutrients. Well, one of first of all, how do you know you have stored nutrients like our food is so trash and unless you sub heavily every day, you probably don't have anything stored up. And so you're just going to go without. So you're going to have no calories and no nutrition. And so I don't understand how that's a beneficial function. So like when we like when I do like for Windows, it is the easiest way to cut. Like you get into a cathartic state no more and you just give yourself some supplementation and fast for 4 or 5 days and it's just gone. And so, like, that's the fastest way for guys like me to lose fat. But you've got to do it right, because if you don't do it right, you're going to be miserable. But you know, and it's going to hurt you. But again, it's, you know, who is doing it, What is the goal we're going for? And then how do we apply that goal to their chemistry to make their body get where we want to go?
Maaxx West [00:47:20] So what is this is we're talking about the body type. So what would be the according to you, the best way for an actor of like me to lose fat?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:47:29] To lose fat?
Maaxx West [00:47:32] Is I know what I do, but.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:47:34] You guys have the hardest time keeping. So if you running. So we're okay. So we're talking about let's say,
Maaxx West [00:47:39] I dont want to lose muscle,
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:47:41] Right? So we don't want to lose muscle. Do you want to shred out right for a contest or something like that? So what I would do so so actor monster are extremely tight with their like string function. So I would you can cut the glycemic function down just a skosh but keep the calories where they are even even the carbohydrate load the same but just swap foods out so you have a lower set of your glycemic function and that should stretch you out really, really easily.
Maaxx West [00:48:05] Is that so? I mean, what I do when I am on prep, I don't really cook the calories. That's not what I do. I just get extremely precise with the exact foods and I eat the same freaking thing all the time. There is no flexible if I can, nothing.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:48:21] No.
Maaxx West [00:48:21] And that's just as I'm eating the same calories up until I am only weeks out.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:48:28] Yeah well that's that's you know and.
Maaxx West [00:48:30] It's it's just like magic happens it's, it's only I said if I would actually cut a little bit sooner I probably drop faster but if I it's like I'm here and I don't change anything and I don't change anything and I don't change it and all the weight just comes off. And I didn't change anything little like I just, well, kept being consistent.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:48:50] You diluted, more, a little bit more. A little bit more than just something that's all.
Maaxx West [00:48:54] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:48:55] With the problem that we've got with actor Morse and we you and I have this conversation a couple times is privately is that you've got to be careful that you're not going to take off too much.
Maaxx West [00:49:05] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:49:06] Because yes it'll all fall off.
Maaxx West [00:49:07] Yes.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:49:08] And so you're done with it. And it's just like, yeah, I just lost 5 pounds. Like that was not what we were trying to do. But the biggest thing is, is that so when you look at somebody who's in a highly glucose hard state, like an actor, morph and we're trying not to lose muscle mass, the number one thing you've got to do is flood the body with loose, easy proteins like collagen. There's others, but like like collagen. And the reason for that is because the reason your body breaks in your muscle tissue is to use it through gluconeogenesis to create more sugar to run your body. So you give it loose based protein. So we can use those amino acids to go back to the system, you know, extra lactate and stuff like that. So I can can break that stuff down instead of breaking your muscle tissues down, then that's how we maintain mass during a fast. That's how we maintain mass. You know, in someone like yourself when we're cutting because we have to really because you can't be like, well, just increase, you know, eat four more steaks. That's. That's. I can't do that. I've got to shrink the organs to. To make everything.
Maaxx West [00:50:04] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:50:05] So the collagen comes in and plays a really great role. Those loose, those loose bound proteins work really, really well for that. So
Maaxx West [00:50:11] This should be a whole other it's on podcasts.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:50:14] But it's the science. It's funny because I tell everybody all the time it's chemistry over calories as far as weight loss goes. And the reason I say that is because it's you know, I always, you know, look at the DNA first, you know, and that's how they give you that. See, the DNA really does is it gives you a really good job of a viewpoint and where you're smarter type is. And then once you can dial that smile, type it in really well, that's even your macro. Then you look at all the hormone function and then you can kind of go back down and say, okay, now one of the weird things that we have, this is where we start playing with mental stuff, is where we start playing with, you know, you need more manganese, you need more of this or that. We start really dialing it in. But if you do those first, just the just basically the smarter type and the hormones, 85% of people are going to get where they want to go. Like, you're going to have the you're going to have the guys who are like, I want to be on stage reading more stuff. The vast majority of people, if you just figure out those two things, easy peasy.
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Thanksgiving dinner, for example, is one of these splurge meals, therefore you'll need to plan ahead by cutting calories before and after, nutrition experts agree.
"Treat Thanksgiving as one meal on one day, and not a 4-day holiday," Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA and Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine tells us. "Try to go for a walk after dinner to start the digestion process and officially end the meal," he suggests. "Treat but don't overeat!"
"Remember your body takes everything as an average," health and wellness expert Dr. Matt Chalmers tells us. "If you cut back calories and increase physical activity for the week you can enjoy more. Take a couple hundred calories out the days before and after and just move a little more, and you can have the foods you want on the actual day. The problem most people get into is they make no changes before or after. The increase in calories, and especially, the sugars make a big difference."
So, how does this relate to exercise, for example? If you normally go to the gym, spend a little extra intensity on your workout and a little more time, Dr. Chalmers says. Or, if you do not go to the gym start walking a bit and that will help.
Don't plan to show up at any of the holiday parties that may be happening again this year with an empty stomach and a big appetitie.
"There will almost never be healthy options [at parties] and you will eat too many bad foods if you are hungry," Dr. Chalmers warns.
"Don’t show up to a party with an empty stomach," board-certified internist and bariatric specialist Dr. Amy Lee of Nucific agrees. "Prepare yourself by not showing up starved."
Watch The Alcohol
It can be easy to get carried away with alcohol consumption, too, doctors warn.
"Don’t down alcohol, just because it is free," Dr. Lee advises. "Not only are we acquiring calories, but once we are buzzed, our inhibition goes out the door when it comes to appetizers, etc.
"Alcohol is one of the biggest reasons we gain weight all by itself," Dr. Chalmers agrees. Also, once we have had a couple drinks, our moderation on other bad foods goes away." So true!
Enjoy The Quality Time With Loved Ones
Holidays are about the people first, the food second. Engage in quality conversations during meals, rather than obsessing or focusing solely on the food, experts say.
"You can relish and enjoy every bite of your food without acting as if you are having the last meal of your life. If you focus on the company, the conversation, the environment, the atmosphere, and having a calm and relaxing time, you will have a much better experience, and enjoy your food even more," Bethenny advises in Naturally Thin.
"When we go home for the holidays, more often than not, we are going to eat some comfort food made from our parents or family members," Dr. Lee explains. This can include comfort foods that are high in calories and fats, but are "traditions" none the less. Some of these foods you can really only have a small portion of--but you don't want to offend your mother-in-law! So, what do you do in those scenario? Rather than overeating out of politeness, Dr. Lee suggests taking a different approach: "This is what I typically do: I dish it up, eat super slow and make sure I do eat all the healthier options on the table as well; so at least you are still engaging and showing that you are eating."
And sometimes you just have to throw the worry out the window, knowing that there are more important things in life than the weight that's on the scale. "While [weight gain] is avoidable [during the holidays] if you create a plan, do not worry about it," Dr. Chalmers says. "The most important thing is that you spend time with your family and friends and enjoy yourself. We have all noticed how fragile and important that is. If you gain a few pounds from a day of eating you can easily lose it from a week of small cutbacks and a little more movement."
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]]>The discussion focused on how cannabis, contrary to popular assumption, benefits brain health. The speaker emphasized its function in seizure reduction by increasing the firing threshold in the brain, boosting overall neurological well-being.Moreover, the discussion underscored cannabis's efficacy in pain management, equating its effectiveness with opioids. Personal anecdotes were shared, citing instances of using cannabis as a pain-relieving agent after surgery, minimizing discomfort without inducing a "high."
The advocate argued for a more nuanced knowledge of cannabis dosing, challenging skewed research approaches that use extremely high amounts to discredit ordinary cannabis use. Sublingual delivery was highlighted as an effective strategy, emphasizing the importance of proper dosage strategies.
In response to worries about supplement sourcing, the advocate advised the C Well Store (cwellstore.com) as a dependable supplier, assuring access to high-quality items.
The advocate's claim that cannabis has medicinal potential for anxiety, depression, PTSD, and pain management was detailed in the article. It also criticized biased study approaches that exaggerate harmful effects caused by inappropriate dose.
The speaker's own experiences and insights offered at MJ Bicon attempted to combat existing cannabis stigmas and misinformation.
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]]>Lysine, an important amino acid, is critical in the fight against viruses. Lysine, which can be found in supplements at places like CellStore.com, is particularly helpful against cold sores, herpes, and many forms of flu. It is a top recommendation for keeping good health because of its capacity to boost the body's protection against viruses.
While getting enough Vitamin C is important, it's even more important to receive it from natural sources rather than manufactured ones like ascorbic acid. Genuine Vitamin C can considerably improve immune system performance, protecting against colds and other seasonal ailments.
Because of its role in assisting the body's absorption and distribution of critical ions, D3 is more correctly categorized as a hormone rather than a vitamin. This nutrient promotes bone health, heart health, and, most importantly, immune system strength. For maximum effectiveness, take 5000 IU for every 100 pounds of body weight, preferably split between morning and evening doses.
Even in the colder months, staying hydrated is crucial. Dry winter air can suck moisture from your skin, causing chapped lips and dry skin. Water facilitates detoxification, helps maintain biological functioning, and supports the immune system by washing out toxins and improving overall well-being.
Because of its role in assisting the body's absorption and distribution of critical ions, D3 is more correctly categorized as a hormone rather than a vitamin. This nutrient promotes bone health, heart health, and, most importantly, immune system strength. For maximum effectiveness, take 5000 IU for every 100 pounds of body weight, preferably split between morning and evening doses.
Even in the colder months, staying hydrated is crucial. Dry winter air can suck moisture from your skin, causing chapped lips and dry skin. Water facilitates detoxification, helps maintain biological functioning, and supports the immune system by washing out toxins and improving overall well-being.
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]]>The thyroid, a resilient organ, faces challenges primarily due to metabolic breakdowns rather than inherent weaknesses. I emphasize that our body's ability to metabolize substances influences thyroid health, much like baking a cake without all the necessary ingredients.
Key Insights for Optimal Thyroid Health:
Metabolic Function and Its Influence:
o Metabolic breakdown disrupts the body's internal chemistry, affecting hormone production and functionality.
o Restoring metabolic function, often through methylation, becomes pivotal. It involves ensuring adequate levels of fully methylated B vitamins and essential chemicals for liver and bodily functions.
Iodine's Role in Thyroid Health:
o Iodine plays a crucial role in thyroid hormone production (T3 and T4). T3 contains three iodine molecules, while T4 has four.
o Addressing iodine deficiency is vital, as insufficient intake can hinder thyroid function. Standard iodine sources, like iodine salt, might not provide adequate levels.
Approach to Diagnosis and Testing:
o Conventional TSH tests, although useful, only indicate brain signaling to the thyroid, not the actual hormone levels.
o Evaluating free T3, T4, and reverse T3 levels for a comprehensive understanding of thyroid hormone functionality.
Holistic Approach to Healing:
o Treating thyroid issues involves more than simply supplementing thyroid hormones.
o A holistic approach includes addressing gut health, liver function, eliminating parasites, restoring probiotics, and balancing the sympathetic nervous system.
Importance of Metabolic Reset:
o Resetting metabolic function becomes crucial in managing thyroid and other organ-related issues.
o Focus on regulating glycemic function, hormone balance, and supporting proper methylation.
What are my Recommendations and Solutions:
- Emphasizes the significance of proper metabolic function over calorie intake.
- Advocates for a shift towards clean, natural foods to support the body's chemical processes.
- Urges seeking specialized guidance from professionals knowledgeable about thyroid health and metabolic function.
The intricate connection between metabolic function and thyroid health is pivotal for the effective management of thyroid disorders. I emphasize the need for a holistic approach that addresses underlying metabolic imbalances alongside specific thyroid-related issues.
For more information or assistance in managing thyroid or metabolic health, reach out to me at chalmerswellness.com. Taking proactive steps toward restoring metabolic balance can significantly improve thyroid health and overall well-being.
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]]>This is critical when taking blood to check your testosterone levels. All too often, folks will have their shot on Monday and then have their blood drawn on Tuesday or Wednesday. They are then taken aback when their test results are too high for their doctor. Many doctors are unable to read blood tests and must rely on reference ranges. If the number on the report is outside of the range, it is poor regardless. So, if you ask a doctor how my testosterone is, and it's in the 200-800 area, as I've seen, and your test level is 955, they'll tell you that you need to reduce your testosterone.
The issue is that you want to be at the upper end of the range on trough day, or when your testosterone is at its lowest. If you talk to your doctor, any doctor, regarding testosterone, assume they don't know anything about it and have your blood checked as far away from the injection as possible. I teach medical doctors how to use hormone therapy all the time, and this is still a problem for them. I'd like to urge you to only work with people who know what they're doing, but many of them will tell you they do but don't.
If you tell your doctor you're on testosterone and they don't run a CBC and CMP, simply testosterone levels, they have NO IDEA what they're doing. I had a patient who went to the doctor and informed him that he was on testosterone. The doctor took his test levels and ordered him to cease taking medication without questioning when he took it. The doctor never ordered a CBC and CMP.
His test level at the trough was 1100, which was too high for the doctor. That, by the way, was taken a day and a half after he shot. So, in this scenario, he may be taking too little, rather than too much. Take care who you listen to for health advice.
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]]>That is, when your body runs low on important hormones such as testosterone, vitamin D, cortisol, adrenaline, and a variety of other substances, it responds by attempting to produce more.
Cholesterol is the building block for many of the body's important molecules. Assume the body is attempting to manage itself by producing more of the chemicals it requires, and cholesterol is a precursor. In that instance, it follows to reason that greater cholesterol levels are caused only by a chemical shortage and not by any other factor. When testosterone, D3, and adrenal supplements are combined, LDL levels fall.
When the body detects that the appropriate levels of the aforementioned substances are present, the liver ceases to produce cholesterol at excessive levels. But I need your assistance with this.
If you have high cholesterol, please have your testosterone and D3 levels evaluated. I'm seeking for a link between lower testosterone levels (less than 500 in a man or 60 in a woman) and lower D3 levels (less than 50 in either) and greater LDL cholesterol.
LDL cholesterol levels have been demonstrated in study and at my clinic to decrease as we address these two concerns and clean up the bile function. However, more research is needed in this area because the medical establishment has decided that statins are the only thing we should investigate when we observe high cholesterol and not vitamin deficiencies.
For example, taking a statin lowers LDL, which has a significant impact on D3 since your body produces D2, which is delivered to the kidney by LDL cholesterol. According to study, statins boost D2 synthesis in the liver.
This is due to the body attempting to release additional D2 to be converted to D3, but failing due to a lack of LDL. Furthermore, cholesterol serves as the foundation for all hormones. If your body need more testosterone, it stands to reason that it will produce more cholesterol in order to produce more testosterone.
This is why testosterone therapy frequently results in lower LDL cholesterol levels. Please get your labs done and come back to me if you have elevated cholesterol.
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]]>Similarly, if we are all the same, why do peanuts kill some individuals but not others? Why do some people adhere to a diet plan to the letter but fail to achieve the same outcomes as others? I see a lot of patients come into the office on various diets that are centered on calories rather than chemistry, and these folks are unhappy and not accomplishing their goals. Calories exist, and we must account for them. That is not the point of my argument. My point is that different substances are required by different persons.
I believe the "calories are all that matter" craze began when people saw fantastic results on mesomorphs and assumed everyone else was the same, so suck it up, be devoted, and simply eat less. Oh, you didn't drop the weight by dieting. It's got to be your fault. You must improve, stick to the plan, and exercise more. No, the person who wrote your diet did not correctly complete the chemical component. Now, reducing the last 3% to get on stage requires a masterful cut plan that often restricts calories.
It is, however, still placed in a restricted macro set. Before you give up, research somatotype and hormones. You will discover a way to your goals if you can locate the path to your chemistry. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't be helped or damaged because you don't fit in the box. You must figure out your box, but that is mostly why we are here.
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]]>In this case, Lysine appears to be the main player. Remember, the purpose here is to provide the body with the chemicals it requires to fight. Lysine is an amino acid that aids the body in its battle against viruses of all kinds. D3 is a hormone that aids the body in absorbing critical ions to aid in the production of everything in the body, including white blood cells for the immune system. Vitamin C is essential for turning cholesterol into bile salts, making B vitamins like folic acid more useful, and increasing serotonin production.
In a nutshell, we consume increased doses of C for digestion, brain function, energy, and liver function. While quinine has been proved to be quite antiviral and aid in blood vessel tone, it does not have the same influence on other "issues." I would still take it, but if you're looking for a strategy to cut costs, I would skip the quinine. The detox organs play a significant role in this.
So, if you can perform the kidney castor packs and enemas, it will be extremely beneficial. You can also include lysine in the enema, which appears to be beneficial because it travels directly to the liver. Finally, remember to stay hydrated by drinking plenty of water. Attempt to reach 100% of your body weight in ounces.
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00:51 - How does your body handle sugar or insulin functionality
02:48 - The impact of macro sets (high fat, high carb, or even distribution) on metabolic function
03:07 - Hormones and their role in metabolism, including testosterone, insulin, estrogen, and thyroid
hormones.
04:34 - Testosterone as the healing hormone.
07:12 - Personal examples of incorporating keto-friendly desserts into the diet.
07:24 - Impact of seed oils, gluten, glyphosate, and processing on metabolic health.
12:40 - Mindset in achieving health and fitness goals.
14:11 - Consistency and staying the course in fitness and health journeys.
15:47 - The idea that calories are important, but chemistry matters more in achieving desired results.
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Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] This is Dr. Chalmers. Welcome to Wellness Insights with me. Dr. Chalmers. You guys keep asking me, what do I mean when I keep saying it's chemistry over calories?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:13] So first of all, the idea that you know, every human being with all of our diversity, you know, everything short, tall, fat, then everything everybody has, the metabolic system is exactly the same, is kind of a little bit silly. It's not really how it works.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:28] So what we're at is we're going to go through a lot of the things that matter. It's a little bit more complex, but you guys should get kind of gross understanding what's going on. So whenever I look at somebody, we're trying to figure out how to get their body where it needs to be in metabolic function, that type of thing.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:44] The first thing I always start with is called somatic typing. So somatic typing is basically how your body handles sugars or insulin functionality. So it is a little bit hormonal, but there's a little bit more than that to it. So sometimes typing, remember, is a scale. It's not it's a spectrum, it's not an A, B or C thing, but so.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:08] Basically you have you have couple different groups. You have ecto morphs, which those are the guys that everybody knows this type of people where they can eat whatever they want to.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:15] They never gain an ounce. You know, the person who can eat the large deep dish pizza with all the toppings and drink a case of beer and not get announced the next day. Those guys, those are your exomars and it sounds awesome. And they're like, Oh, I hate those guys. Those guys have a problem gaining weight. So, like, they have their own problems. Then you got your mesmer versus the guys in the middle. Their bodies burn fat and sugar is pretty much evenly. And so those are the guys. If you cut their calories, they do really, really well. They lose fat. It's really easy to maintain muscle mass. It's a little bit of amino acid function, a little bit of protein, and they're good and have guys on the other end of the spectrum, which is where I live, called Indo Morphs.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:54] Our bodies really want to burn fat. If you give us sugar, if you give us carbohydrates, we will turn it into fat to hopefully burn lighter. So it's really hard, really easy for an amorphous to gain fat, really, really hard for us to lose fat. This is where Akito lives and does really, really well. So that's the first kind of piece of it. Now, again, like I said, it's a spectrum, so you have your hard ecto morphs, which you got to give tons of sugar to lots of tests to do it, to get them again anyway. And then you've got your, your ecto mesmos, which you're kind of in the middle of that and you're mazo actos and you're Mazo then you're Mazo Endo, your endo Mazo and your endo. So I guess it's a big spectrum. You have to figure out where people are on it to really kind of hold this end.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:41] But you know, it's not super difficult. So that's the first place you start is, you know, what kind of macro set are we looking at? Are we looking at high fat or are we looking at high carb or are we looking at kind of an even distribution of our macro sets like that? So so that's the first place you start. So that that's a part of the caloric thing is, you know, obviously where your macro set is up. Now the other thing is is hormones. So hormones are a little bit interesting because it's not just the number on the blood sheet.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:17] What you have to understand is that you have a couple of different factors playing it with hormones. So first of all, you have the actual number. So let's play with testosterone, for example. So for a guy, you want to be at 1000 on trough day more or less, right? And so some people will have 700 on their testosterone scale and they feel amazing. And some people have 700 and they feel okay, but not great. Well, you what you have to understand is that you have two parts. For every hormone function, you have the amount of hormone you have or the keys, and then you have the amount of receptor sites you have or the locks. They have to come together and work together for a function to happen. Right? So you can have a good level of hormone, but you can have a either a low amount of receptors or a good amount of receptors with low functionality.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:02] Youu get low result or you can have a lot of receptors that have high functionality. And so you get a little bit of hormone and this massive reaction inside the body. And so you kind of have to understand, one, what each hormones job is, what it really does, how it affects the body. And then you can start complying with the levels like, okay, at this level of hormone, I'm getting X level of reaction. Is that what we're looking to do? And so that's one of the big pieces that you have to kind of look at with hormones. But we can kind of run through some of that.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:34] Testosterone is probably the most important hormone you can be able to add to the body to affect healthy fat, you know, muscle ligament, brain got all the good things. Testosterone is the healing hormone. It's the one that tells you right, to go back and repair and regenerate and heal and increase metabolic function and restore all the things. And you guys know how much how I made 55 videos about testosterone. So the other one is insulin insulin's job is to control the glucose fed state so.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:05] What happens is that your body consumes food, turns it into sugar, the sugar goes in your blood. And then the insulin's job is to take it from the from the blood and push it into the tissues. So that's what insulin does, which is also why it's super easy to fix diabetes with ketosis because you don't need insulin anymore for ketosis. But anyway, so that's what insulin does. Insulin's very helpful. It's anabolic. It's a great thing to use. We've destroyed our insulin receptors with the amount of fake sugars we have. But again, that's another story. So insulin is a big player and that's what you see when you talk about the glycemic index. We were talking about complex carbs and they're talking about, you know, low GI. It's how much insulin responses it's going to create in the body that's more or less what we're talking about. So insulin, the big player estrogen is going to be a player for everybody. Estrogen is. Not a great hormone if you're not trying have a baby. But especially in guys, it'll hold. It'll hold water on you.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:07] It'll make you puffy. It does. It does stuff you really don't want to do. So checking your estrogens keep those levels down is important. And there's a lot of Zino and phytoestrogens. You know, BPA is AstraZeneca. There's all sorts of things that are out in the market that are they're messing with you. So you've got to check those. And some of those don't even show up on an estrogen test. So that was a little scary. But so estrogen is a player and, you know, thyroid does does make a play. But, you know, if you're worried about your thyroid levels, radically increase your iodine, that helps a lot. But so you have a hormonal function as well.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:38] You've got to make sure that you're checking that. But those those are kind of the, you know, motion actually obviously helps, but those are kind of the big parameters. So you got your smarter typing in your hormones, you know, in your macro set, which gives that amount of typing. So. You know, if you're if you're kind of lost in this whole I don't understand why I'm so fat or why I say things like, you know, for instance, a lot of people. Alto, the actor morphs. A lot of people will do a bunch better measures and does the whole deal. If you guys will swap your desserts out for keto desserts and especially if you make them yourself. Because here's one of the things we have to recognize that is the odd player out. Seed Oils. Gluten. Glyphosate. Processing. All the chemicals we use for that. Tear the body apart. You know when you fix metabolic syndrome, that's one of the things you do. You put you on a cathartic diet. You strip out all the preservatives and that's how you heal the body back up. But that's one of those big things is that, you know, if you if you take like if you take like the normal brownie mix that has flour and, you know, the gluten, the glyphosate and the, you know, the sugar and stuff like that, the calorie counts really high.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:57] But if you can turn around, you're like, all right, I'm going to use butter and almond flour and erythritol and eggs. And that's where the calorie count actually comes down quite a bit. But the chemistry is much, much stiffer. And this is one of those things I keep saying chemistry over calories is that when you use things like Erythritol, not only is it amazingly beneficial for your heart and blood vessels, but it decreases glycemic function and it has no calories. So what ends up happening is that the amount of insulin that your body produces, the the hormone that feeds fat cells decreases, and then your body can process the eggs and the butter and the oil and flour and lots of really, really well. So you don't have any extra inflammatory issues.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:39] You're also missing the gluten and the glyphosate, which causes all sorts of gut damage and inflammation to your body is going to hold extra fluids and things like that. So, you know, and then you have all the processing that's in normal, you know, sugary cakey stuff. So that's what I'm talking about. So when I talk about, you know, hey, even if you're not in those, if you're if you're mesmos or maso acto, if you guys will swap out your your chemistry, if you start making some of these things at home, if you start changing the way that you're doing these things, so, you know, it'll help a lot as an endo the guy who is everybody gets any kind of sugar, it turns into fat. You know, I have I have pancakes all the time. I have pizza all the time. I have. I usually have these are pancakes and peanut butter, you know, four nights out of the week. You know, it's just one of the things I eat. So but they're they're they're almond flour, They're egg, you know, there's no sugar in them. And so they still look and taste the same, but they don't have the chemistry. You know, I have brownies all the time.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:41] I want we more dessert stuff now on keto than we've ever done before. We make it, but we eat a ton more. And so if you guys will start looking at the easiest thing to do is to grab. There's a, there's a Kido cookbook, I think it's called the Ultimate Keto Cookbook. It's Desserts White. It's fantastic. You don't have to be in ketosis again to use it. I would recommend that you use more sweetener. I like things sweeter than than the book was, but so Erythritol is my favorite, you know, monk fruit or restaurateur. All those other things are my favorite. Just because arithmetic is so unbelievably healthy, good for your heart and blood vessels. And with the COVID issues like everybody needs the extra help with the heart and blood vessel issues. So Erythritol is my favorite. Stevia is a great one. Monk fruit's great.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:30] Yeah. If you're going to use different, you know, different or alternative sugars or alternative sweeteners, check the glycemic on them. The multiple volatile actually has a glycemic index. It's a little bit higher than you want, but that's kind of that's kind of where we're talking about. So you know this this fat things a little bit bigger than just you didn't exercise enough, you didn't stick to the plan enough. You know, that's why you didn't you didn't lose the weight. You know, it really does matter what the chemistry in your food and what that chemistry does, make it in your side of your body. So, you know, if you're if you're trying to figure out the similar type thing, look at the glycemic index. Look at, you know, glycemic load, that type of thing. If you're worried about your health, make sure your doctor is pulling your insulin levels.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:11:13] Because, I mean, one of the biggest things I see is, you know, people are like, oh, they you know, they come to me and they feel terrible. The doctor tells them their lives are normal, but they're like their doctor didn't pull testosterone. They didn't pull, you know, 99% of the non-polar. Right. Thyroid lives to begin with, you know, free T3, free T4, reverse T3. They just pull to SAGE, which I've talked about a lot. But, you know, those things are going to kind of help kind of put everything back where it needs to be. So this Christmas, this Thanksgiving, that type of thing, if you guys are looking for good desserts, really kind of lean into the keto desserts because all you're really changing is the preservatives and the amount of glycemic load or insulin release from these things.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:11:54] My mom made a key that Mary Aquino pecan pie that I swear to God, I cannot tell the difference between this one and a normal pecan pie. It is so good. It was unbelievable. We make cookies all the time. Like I said, we eat a lot more desserts now than ever. My wife makes a seven layer what we call a chocolate lasagna. It's basically just layers and layers of different types of chocolate, and it's deliciously amazing. But it doesn't it doesn't have any sugar in it. So it doesn't raise your glycemic function at all. So that's kind of what we're talking about when we talk about this type of stuff.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:12:26] If you guys need more help with this, there's a lot of guys out that can do this, not just me grab some keto books like read some keto stuff that I make. All my guys are great. When I work with people on this, I make them all read the books because you know, the more involved you get with your own health care, the better results you're going to get. So grab some of those. There's a white one. It's called the Keto Bible on Amazon. It's with my Ph.D. that I like that one and I'll give you some good information. And so one of the things I want to make sure, because I've talked to people about this before and they're like, Oh, so I don't need my trainer anymore. Man. If you think that your trainers sold jobs, they give you a diet plan. You've missed the entire purpose of your trainer.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:13:09] You're the most important thing that you can do for your health, for anything is your mindset, is your mind mental function? You know, mental function, I'll tell you, is, number one, diets. Number two, hormones. Number three, I'll make the argument back and forth on hormones and diet. But mental peace is the most important. And when you have a good trainer, you don't have you don't have personal best anymore. You have team teams like that trainer. If he's a good he or she is a good trainer. They cannot succeed unless you succeed. They can't win unless you win. They're their metrics of how well they're doing are 100% dependent upon you reaching your goals. And so there's a lot of times where you're losing fat and gaining muscle. And guess what happens if you lose a pound of fat and you gain a pound of muscle? The scale doesn't move at all.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:13:58] It's plus one minus one. So it doesn't move. And there's there's times where you're like, man, am I going anywhere? I don't think this is working. And you need that trainer to step in and go, You're on the path. You're doing fine. Stick with it. Consistency is what wins because we all get in our heads. We're all like, I'm messing up. I'm not doing the right thing, and I need to change something because I'm not seeing immediate results. And you need that trainer to be like, No, no, stay the course. This is the time game. Stay the course. You know? And it's funny because I talk to people that I well, I don't think I need a trainer. I work with a lot of professional like top of the line you know bikini champions muscle the guys on stage who are winning everything. All of them have at least one coach. Most of them have a training coach to lift with opposing coach, to pose with a diet coach to work on stuff like that. So they have the higher you go, the more coaches you get. It's not that, you know, they don't need it because they're on stage and they know everything. So you definitely need one.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:14:57] And you know, if you're just trying to lose a little bit of weight and try to get back in healthy. So, you know, make sure you're using your trainer. A lot of times the trainers piece, especially if I'm on my side, we end up being therapists as well because, you know, life sucks. Things hit you in the face and you know, you've got to go deal with them and you show up at the gym and you're pissy and you know, you start working out and you start talking about and all of a sudden you get down to the end of the day and you're good. So there's a lot of neurology in there as well.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:15:24] But, you know, that's the thing. So lean into your trainers. You know, they're going to really be able to help you kind of get the mental piece going to stick with consistency. And a lot of the times it's it's just like I do weekly check ins with my guys. It's just accountability. It's like, did you go to the gym? Did you do the things you said you were going to do? Like that helps out a lot. So stick with your trainers. They're wildly more important than just a diet plan. But, you know, if we'll all sort of recognizing that this this calories in, calories out thing is a part, calories are a thing. I'm not saying they're not like, you know, but the other side of that is I talk to you all the time.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:16:00] They're like, you know, I'm still fat because I just can't stick to my diet plan. I'm always 100 calories, 150 calories over. And, you know, I just can't get it done, guys. 100 calories is not going to matter at all. Like, there's there's a lot of days where, you know, I'll eat five, 600 calories more or I'll eat. And then my wife would be like one of ice cream with me. I'm like, all right. And so that's another five, 600 calories that I'll have right there. But it doesn't matter as much because the macro sets where it's supposed to be and because everything else, the hormones, everything else is set where it's supposed to be. So how can you eat 1000 5000 calories a day over every day? Now, that's gonna be a problem because it's so chemistry, right? Has to deal with.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:16:38] But there's a lot more functionality there. So a lot of you guys who have been doing the program have been staying the course. You guys have been eating. Right. You know, according your diet plan, you're eating and you're just not getting the results.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:16:50] You know, check the glycemic function because we got to look at insulin hormones like is that were supposed to be check your testosterone levels, make sure that's where it supposed to be. You know, and you've heard me like I've made lots and lots of ideas going off about how to source from it's not cheating. It's it's hypercritical to your health to make sure your levels are right. So, you know, get that old eighties, George W Bush, you know, strap out of your head. You know, recognize it's the most important thing you can add to your body for your overall health. But that's kind of that's kind of where a lot of this stuff is.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:17:20] So when I talk about it's chemistry or calories, that's what I mean. So if you're lost in the calories thing, look at the glycemic function. Look in this amount of typing, If you can figure out where you are on the spanner type chart, it's really going to help you kind of figure out what type of chemistry you need to put in your body or what macro set or what diet you need to put in your body. A lot of you Indo Mazo guys, which are more endo morphs and mezza morphs, you'll cut your calories, you'll get really, really tired and you'll lose some weight and you'll start feeling good.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:17:48] But you don't go where you want to go. And then, you know, you'll do some keto stuff. You'll be like, Oh, this is like I'm getting all the results and you're like, Well, kilos unsustainable. I've been doing keto for three years. It's super easy, you know, it just takes a little bit of effort, you know, get with someone who knows what they're doing. The only thing I can't replace is French fries. Like I say, I have pizza. I have.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:18:09] Like my wife will eat half the pizza and I'll eat the other half of hers and my whole pizza like once a week. So I have a pizza and a half every week. So you can have pizza. There's all sorts of things you guys can have.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:18:20] The problem is that you're going have to make some of this stuff yourself. And that's that's that's where the crux of this is. And that's the only time that it's like, okay, well, your laziness is going to play a factor. I'm like, Well, I've got kids. I've got this cool. Like, Yeah, I'll go every week and I'll get a big thing of pulled pork and sausage and brisket, and I'll come home and I'll eat that. And, you know, on Sundays we'll get together, we'll make a bunch of stuff and we make our pizzas as a family. And so that's really fun. Like, my my oldest son is actually two and he's 11, and he can make some of the best steaks I've ever had. He also he also does really good with with his pizzas.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:18:58] These kids can do it. And the great thing is, is that if you'll spend the time cooking with your kids and learning together, you've just handed your kids a skill that is hyper critical to their health and to their their their wealth and everything else, because they, you know, you can oftentimes make really good, healthy food cheaper than you can buy junk food. So, you know, and that's a big piece of it as well. So, you know, I didn't go very deep on any of this stuff cause I wanted to get to kind of all the topics and the overview of it all here, you know, because we're almost 20 minutes now and, you know, we didn't go real deep.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:19:31] But if you have more stuff, I've made more videos about this type of stuff. If you guys have more questions, ask I'm going to start doing more, you know, Instagram, live things and answer some of these sure questions, But that's kind of where we're at. So if you guys can start to recognize that, yes, calories are a thing, but the chemistry's more important. What's your somatic type? Where are your hormones? You know, those type of things. You know, it's really, really important. Sleep's a giant piece of this as well.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:19:55] Methylation is a big piece of this. There's other things. But if you'll figure out your cyanotype, your macro set, you'll figure out your hormones and just do those things, you're going to be in a really good place as far as, you know, figuring out more about how your body works and how to manipulate the chemistry to get the results you're looking for.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:20:13] You guys have any questions? You know, like I said, there's lots of other podcasts I've done on this type of stuff. You know, if you guys want, you know, we get the hippie office pillars of wellness Chalmers Wellness dot com.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:20:23] But you know Dr. Chalmers one one all my socials I don't think that Twitter works very well because after I put out the my treatment for COVID, all of my social got crushed.
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]]>Cannabis, specifically Delta 8, has been shown to be as effective as THC for pain control, with THC being able to replace opioids in 64% of cases. In my clinic, I've used Delta 8 instead of opioids to treat pain from herniated discs, car accidents, muscular spasms, sprains and strains, sciatica, migraine and tension headaches, and fractured bones. I've had wonderful success with it, and it provides individuals and children with an option to drugs, which have a significant danger of addiction and death. One of the most common replies was that respondents enjoyed the soothing effect, as well as how peaceful they felt and slept.
The amount or dose taken for pain is not the same as the amount taken for recreation. But don't forget about that. A parent inquired if I would want my children to use this for recreation, and I believe this is a valid concern. What we compare it to determines the answer. If they're going to work out, I'd rather they do it for fun than for any other purpose.
When compared to alcohol, however, there is no contest. I'd rather have kids on Delta 8 or cannabis than on alcohol. The reason for this is that cannabis, unlike alcohol, will not kill you. Because there are no cannabis receptor sites in the pons, no amount of cannabis will cause you to stop breathing. The pons, on the other hand, has alcohol and opioid receptors. Both medications kill you in this way.
You pass out and stop breathing. If you cease breathing, you definitely die. So I'd always choose the option that won't kill you. I understand that our government has spread a lot of misinformation about how awful cannabis is and how bad people who use it are, but I would encourage you to read the data and make your own conclusion.
Showing that Delta 8 is just as effective with less side effects as medications already on the market. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34797727/
Cannabis
Showing that cannabis greatly reduced pain and the only real issue was cost and stigma. Reduced opioid use by 64% with a 17% reduction in opioid fatalities. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK574562/
Many of the studies showing negative effects of cannabis on pain were set up to fail. Cannabis has been shown to be better than codeine https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK224384/
A good summary of how CBR1 receptors work and where they are. The research suggests that CBR1 is almost exclusively inhibitory to neural tissue. This widespread systemic placement of ligand-based and cytoplastic receptor function, which is again inhibitory, demonstrates cannabinoid-specific and dose-dependent cannabis functionality all throughout the body except the upper brainstem, which houses the breathing center. Activating CBR1 decreases excitotoxicity and glutamate levels, which could be enough to terminate seizure activity.
This also demonstrates significant protection against oxygen deprivation and reperfusion so the benefit to concussion and all oxygen deprivation functions like epilepsy, and Parkinson's where oxygen deprivation is a significant issue, especially from sleep apnea issues. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5877694/
Opioid issues: https://www.addictionresource.net/opioids/overdose-deaths/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35105535/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK553166/
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]]>All the other options we have for pain and mental health carry significant health issues, including addiction and death, while cannabis does not. The argument that people will just use these recreationally is not an argument but a benefit. Cannabis is significantly better for your health than alcohol or tobacco and it causes significantly less social issues, such as violence. Cannabis, including Delta 8 have also shown to be effective in the treatment of mental health issues such as PTSD.
This is great move forward for not just pain but for mental health and medical freedom. I applaud the state of Georgia for showing the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of its citizens.
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ATLANTA — The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that products with Delta-8 THC, Delta-10 THC, and other hemp-derived cannabinoids are not controlled substances -- potentially paving the way for their legal sale in the state.
The ruling comes after several police raids over the past few years on businesses that sell the products. It all started with a raid of the Elements Distribution company in February 2022.
"What happened was that the Gwinnett County D.A. and the local drug task force raided several small businesses in the area, including our clients who are hemp products and other product distributors," said Trial Attorney Tom Church, with the Church Law Firm.
Church presented the plaintiff, who supplies vape stores with hemp products, including Delta 8 and 10 THC products typically sold as gummies.
"For the first time in Georgia history, cannabis became explicitly legal as long as it didn't have too much of Delta THC, which is the type of THC that makes users high," Church said.
Church added he hopes this ruling sets a precedent for similar cases throughout the state.
"I think this is a powerful message for folks around Georgia that these are legal products. The legislature specifically legalized them in 2019 and that law enforcement has no authority to go after businesses that are legally selling these products," Church said.
The Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office can decide whether to appeal the decision in the Georgia Supreme Court.
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]]>This closes the airway, allowing for snoring, or as I like to call it, the sound of you suffocating on your own body. So we have a huge fall in oxygen levels, which will be damaging, if not death. Then individuals like to put their head on a pillow, which forces their chin to their chest, and we lie there for hours in the worst conceivable head and neck position. Meanwhile, if you have a butt, it will prop your pelvis up, lowering your lumbar curve and causing core tone difficulties and lower back pain.
However, lying on your stomach with your head slightly rotated will keep the airway open and allow you to breathe freely all night. This will also allow you to rest flat and avoid putting excessive pressure on your pelvic, which can lead to low back pain difficulties. Those with a belly or larger breasts may need to place a pillow under their pelvis if lying on their stomach, but this is a body-specific adjustment issue that becomes customized to the person.
Remember that no one sleeps on their side; instead, they sleep on their ribs, which causes shoulder and rib problems. While this is preferable to the back, I would still want to try the stomach. So, if you snore or don't get enough sleep, consider sleeping in a different posture.
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]]>Needless to say, this hurt a lot and made it difficult to walk or move. This experience made him hesitant to return to the field for a while. This allowed me to speak with him about playing through pain and doing the things we should even when it hurts. I asked him if he was seriously hurt or just terrified.
He said he was terrified, but he was also hurt and couldn't go. We were then able to discuss doing things even if it hurt. Even when you don't want to be there for your team, you must. I was able to inform him that decisions are not always simple. Things can be painful and frightening at times, but we must persevere and carry on. I was able to convince him that small decisions like this one shape our entire life.
Are we going to let minor incidents like this one determine what we do and who we are, or are we going to decide for ourselves? I told him it was absolutely up to him which path he chose. He thought he could go back in and play the next game. He later told me that he was terrified, and that while they were taking shots, he could feel himself recoil away from the ball at first. But then he claimed he decided to just play harder, and at the end of it, he said he wasn't terrified anymore, and his leg did feel a bit better.
Will we let tiny instances like this one define what we do and who we are, or will we decide for ourselves? I informed him that it was entirely up to him which road he chose. He believed he may return and play the next game. He later told me that he was afraid and that he could feel himself flinch away from the ball at first when they were shooting. But then he said he just determined to play harder, and at the end, he stated he wasn't scared anymore, and his leg felt a little better.
Will we let tiny instances like this one define what we do and who we are, or will we decide for ourselves? I informed him that it was entirely up to him which road he choose. He believed he may return and play the next game. He later told me that he was afraid and that he could feel himself flinch away from the ball at first when they were shooting. But then he said he just determined to play harder, and at the end, he stated he wasn't scared anymore, and his leg felt a little better.
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]]>First, I enjoy how three doctors in a hospital are unable to solve a problem, leading them to believe that no one can—a terrific way to instill hope. Second, they were looking at the feet and ankles since that is where the disease is visible, not where it originates.
So the solution to his being pigeon-toed and his toes pointing in is the same as it is for someone whose toes point out. The pelvis is to blame. This individual has extremely tight iliopsoas, hip flexors, and muscles. What was happening was that the entire leg was being dragged in, not just the top.
By the time it reached to his feet, this little twist was generating a substantial disruption. Although one foot rolled in more than the other, which is normal, they both rolled in. The solution is to raise tone, not strength, in the muscles that externally rotate and roll away from the femoral center line. We were able to practice the exercises in the office, and you could instantly notice a difference.
Always begin with the notion that things can be fixed, and never allow that notion leave your mind. Find better doctors if necessary, but don't let anyone convince you to give up. If you're wondering what the exercise was, I tied a band around his foot and had him push his toes out 60 times under low resistance in the direction we wanted them to go.
I also had him practice glute med kickbacks with a concentration on the far end of the range of motion. We adjust the tone by activating muscles under tiny resistance several times, therefore he must do so. But, now that he understands the source of the problem is in his hip, he can concentrate on feeling those muscles contract.
There's nothing wrong with asking questions and exploring other people's perspectives. Never lose hope because there are always solutions.
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]]>It aids in the battle against cancer and other diseases. It is frequently referred to as the money with which the body is compensated for its efforts. Consider that if it causes muscle movement, that means that every time your heart beats, it requires ATP to do it. When you run out of ATP, your body returns to the excellent electron transport chain to produce more. This mechanism works quite well, but what if you don't produce enough or are using a cholesterol-lowering medication? Everything in your body begins to shut down, much like a car engine running out of gas.
You begin to think slower and experience frequent brain fog, your muscles become weaker and softer, your heart struggles to operate, and your quality of life rapidly declines until you die. As a side note, this is why it irritates me when patients come in who are on cholesterol statins but their doctor did not prescribe high levels of CoQ-10. Statin medications inhibit a critical enzyme called HMG CoA reductase, which produces cholesterol but also allows CoQ-10 to function.
So you're taking a medicine because we're concerned about your heart and brain, but it eventually causes your heart and brain to fail. Isn't it brilliant? In a nutshell, CoQ-10 makes everything in the body work by supplying ATP. Statin medicines deplete the body of CoQ-10, thus you must supplement with significant doses of CoQ-10 or your heart and brain will stop working.
It is crucial that you take CoQ-10 if you are taking a statin. If you are not, it is critical that you take CoQ-10. It is one of the vitamins I recommend to all athletes and business owners. My wife and I both take it on a daily basis. I take approximately 800mg per day, and my wife takes approximately 400mg per day. I usually recommend high dosages to those on statins, so if you're on one, take additional CoQ-10 because your body desperately needs it.
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]]>The natural pH of stomach acid is hydrochloric acid. Individuals can efficiently indicate to the stomach that it has enough acid by supplying the body with the appropriate pH, limiting the overproduction of weaker and potentially dangerous acids. When the stomach receives the proper pH, it regulates acid production, lowering the chance of heartburn and related diseases like GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease).
Many patients have claimed success using hydrochloric acid to alleviate their heartburn. Many people who suffer from chronic heartburn find relief by introducing HCL pills into their daily routine. While HCL has proven successful for many, those with ulcers should proceed with caution and speak with a healthcare expert before using this strategy.
While utilizing hydrochloric acid to cure heartburn may appear illogical, the science behind it provides a solid rationale for its effectiveness. Individuals can find relief without relying on standard antacids by addressing the core cause of heartburn, an imbalance in stomach pH.
Before starting new therapies, as with any health-related decision, it is best to consult with a medical professional, especially if you have a pre-existing ailment. The surprise hydrochloric acid solution could be the secret to providing long-term comfort for those suffering from chronic heartburn.
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]]>We measured a journey through the parking garage and back down the stairs with a pedometer and step counter. He would walk this trail a few times throughout his shift whenever things got sluggish, and he ended up earning 15000 extra steps in per shift. As previously stated, some of these were steps. This helped him lose weight by keeping him from nibbling, but the improvement in energy and muscle tone was remarkable.
It took him around 15 minutes to finish the full walk, which has greatly improved his health outlook. You don't need a gym or to devote a lot of time to exercise; simply get out and move. Find a spot where you can climb stairs or go for a walk to start changing your health. Many individuals buy treadmills but never use them since running is unpleasant for the majority of people.
If you acquire a treadmill and walk while watching TV, you may do a lot of good for your health and it isn't nearly as difficult as you think. The truth is, if you can just get up and exercise, your body will respond by being healthier, so find a way to simply get up and move.
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]]>Finally, practically every major religion mentions being judged, but consider what and why we are evaluated. Everything we are assessed on centers around what we choose to do and become. I've never seen somewhere where it says you're good as long as you do what everyone else does. Everyone is judged based on who they are and what they do with their lives. This is significant because we must pause for a moment to acknowledge that who we choose to be matters. At the end of the day, we are all accountable for the decisions we make.
No matter how difficult the decision, we must make it and live with the consequences. Even if you hire a coach, which I highly encourage, the decision to pursue an idea is ultimately yours. People who assisted the Nazis made the same decision as those who assisted with the underground railroad. In either scenario, those people had to answer for what they did and what they chose.
It wasn't okay since they were just following orders, and no one says, "Well, you didn't start the railroad, so you don't get any credit." What we chose shapes who we are. Remember that when you're feeling helpless or powerful. What you do and why you do it is important.
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]]>They considered it and had coaches who assisted them in honing their craft. They worked on it until it became second nature to them. This also operates on the psyche. In our daily lives, we can all find things that stress us out and break us down. We can also locate things that uplift and inspire us. We can choose to prioritize one over the other based on our preferences. It can be difficult at times and appear impossible at others. However, much like in athletics, you can focus on finding hope and positivity.
One of the most beneficial things I've learned is to always look on the bright side of things. Look for the good in every day. Find a way to make the future better than it is today and plan for it. You can choose to think more positively. You have the option of focusing on the positive, even if it is small, dim, and hardly visible. The point is, you must be constant if you want this to happen for you, for this style of thinking to become who you are.
This is something I would start working on right away because we never know if the future would make things easier or tougher. So, find something to be glad about today and something to be positive about in the future. Yes, horrible things will happen to you and others you care about. Recognize it, deal with it, and then choose to focus on something positive. lingering on negativity trains our minds to focus on the negative, whilst lingering on positivity trains our minds to focus on the positive. You must, however, practice this.
Find the positive and tell yourself about it, write it down, and build a list of the good today and the probable good tomorrow. If you practice discovering the good, your entire attitude on life will change, and your life will change as well.
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]]>I prefer to approach care from a long-term, wellness perspective, which will almost always include some drugs as we go. We shall do everything possible to reduce our use, but we will still consume some. We can often take medication to treat a condition for a short period of time and then discontinue it once the underlying cause of the problem has been addressed. Consider blood pressure problems. I frequently see patients with blood pressures of 160/100 or higher, and these patients require medication to lower their risk of a heart attack or stroke.
However, when we address the underlying condition that is causing these symptoms, we will be able to reduce and eventually discontinue the medicine. Having said that, we must recognize that using any medication frequently results in adverse effects, some of which are severe. As long as those issues are checked and balanced, you should be fine. Testosterone, for example, can thicken the blood, putting more strain on the heart and blood vessels. This elevated pressure may result in a heart attack or stroke. We balance this by measuring hemoglobin and hematocrit, or H&H.
You are secure from that problem as long as the H&H is good. There are several new medications on the market that some individuals are considering purchasing or administering to their children. This novel drug has received no long-term and very little short-term study. All we have is what we have observed in recent months. The majority of unfavorable factual material is not easily accessible on the internet. Most doctors have been taught exactly what they may and cannot say or risk losing their medical license. People are filled with questions. Please message me and I will do my best to address any questions you may have.
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]]>One thing to keep in mind in all of this is the effect it has on the gut. If you have any of the aforementioned conditions, or any combination of them, your gut is most likely not operating properly. The amount of serotonin produced will be affected if the gut microbiota is not working properly.
Low serotonin levels can cause emotional instability, emotions of anger, anguish, and irritation, as well as weight gain, further digestive troubles, insomnia, and a variety of other problems. These are frequently treated as individual issues, sometimes with drugs such as SSRIs. However, these medications do not always function as well as they should. You are feeling better, but not completely.
This is because we are not addressing the root cause, which is the gut and how we treat it. When I see this in the office and we reset the gut biome and give folks a lot of 5-HTP, they feel a lot better for a while. After a few months, they revert to their former lifestyle patterns and begin to feel ill again.
We can survive in a crazy world as long as we realize that the machine we live in, our bodies, will always require maintenance. If you have troubles that are or may be related to serotonin, clear out your gut and begin working on a solution to either abandon the previous negative habits or biochemically balance them.
There is no method that you can follow or perform that will permanently fix you. Our bodies work the way they do not only because of the chemicals we put into them, but also because of the substances we don't put in.
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]]>I asked about what they were consuming, which was a really excellent macro set and food selection for the individual. We ultimately figured out the problem when we started going over what they ate and when they ate it. They were not eating enough even though they were taking their vitamins and eating the required macro set.
Eating fewer calories than you need on occasion is fine, but doing so on a regular basis is not. Fasting, which I advocate, and consuming too few calories are not synonymous. That changes how your body processes things. This person also requires a modest carb load, therefore eating too little carbs can result in symptoms comparable to low blood sugar.
They were only losing roughly 600 calories each day. But it had been approximately a week, and they weren't doing so well. When you prepare for a show and limit your calories and carbs to inadequate levels, I see this in the competitive body-building world. The message is that vitamins and macronutrients are important, but you also need to eat the appropriate calories.
Remember to eat even if you're trying to lose weight or fat. Getting an RMR and then going by that number is a solid starting point. For this, I use Dexafit.com, but you can use anybody you like.
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]]>Maaxx West is a dynamic content creator, influencer, and now the 2023 WBFF Bikini World Champion. In this podcast episode, we talk about Maaxx’s insights to success. Overcoming being teased about how she talked was just the start of her path to mental fortitude. Being strong mentally and physically is part of the path to wellness. In my book “Pillars of Wellness,” I cover how the body and mind have to work as one so that people can enjoy their lives even 20 years from now.
Maaxx has succeeded in achieving many goals that may have been unobtainable if not for her insights and learning how to tune her mental and physical fortitude.
Her website is
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madmaaxx.media
officialpureblood.com
A significant social media reach and impact across TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] All right. Well, welcome to the Dr. Chalmers podcast. Today we're talking with Max West, the new pro bikini champ in the world.
Maaxx West [00:00:13] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:14] That's your official title.
Maaxx West [00:00:17] The official title is Miss WB F Bikini World.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:21] Very nice. Very nice. And you got that one added to your tattoo list Is is that right away.
Maaxx West [00:00:29] Ex I don't know if I can show you. Can you see it.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:33] Yeah I can see it. Yeah.
Maaxx West [00:00:35] I have a poster of my Instagram or I guess in a picture. Yeah. I got a tattooed I want to make kind of like a band shirt. You know how that bands go on tour and then they have all the dates like that, so I'm going to do my shows.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:46] Oh, no, that's a great idea that you should 100% do that. You do that for the true blood line. The pyramid.
Maaxx West [00:00:55] What about it?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:56] Is that exactly what you're searching for?
Maaxx West [00:00:58] That we should. We should do about it. That's a good idea. No, I was joking about doing it with my competitions, but I should use the pyramid, too, For sure.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:07] Yeah. Now that'll be fun.
Maaxx West [00:01:09] That's a good idea.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:10] All right, so just recently, you're hanging out with me for a couple days ago, and then you went and did another podcast that we touched on. So what's the podcast? And kind of walk through the insanity of that one?
Maaxx West [00:01:24] Well, I was on the Drinking Rose podcast, which my friend told me about. It connected me with him, and I hadn't really listened to the podcast before. I know these guys do a lot of different things, like to do sports stuff and, you know, a lot of serious subjects and then a lot of humor. But I hadn't actually listened to us one on the podcast. And, you know, first they're asking about my crown and my competition. So I put my crown on because I had it with me. And then very fast, it just spiraled into just complete madness. And when I walked into the studio, I told them, Hey, guys, if you just, you know, I have no secrets. I have nothing to hide, no photos. Let's go. You know, I was like, I got to tell you, but I don't know when it's coming out. But yeah, it was.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:10] And we have to tell you all the Instagram because I want to see it. I can't wait to see this one.
Maaxx West [00:02:16] So sorry.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:17] I said, I can't wait to see this one when it comes out on the. If you have to tell us.
Maaxx West [00:02:22] Yeah, absolutely, I will. Well, I don't know if they're going to send me all the promos when it's done, and I will be promoting for sure. But it was, you know, here's the I, I love to, you know, do serious things and talk about serious subjects and, you know, help people with that health and everything. But I believe that you need to be able to make people laugh. And that's what I'm all about. I want to help people. I want to say something serious and then I want to make them laugh. And if I do that, then I, you know, mission accomplished.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:49] Then you win. That's right. You touched on all the points, the educational, the, you know, emotional for making them laugh. Now, that's fantastic.
Maaxx West [00:02:55] Yeah. So I think people need to not take themselves so seriously all the time.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:02] That is that is 100% of that. You know, all the stress that, you know, I work with the people on. That's probably the number one thing that we end up seeing is that, you know, they're taking themselves way too seriously and it's just into the end. You know, that's where the stress comes from.
Maaxx West [00:03:14] Yeah, definitely. And I was I worked a lot of myself and stress and everything. And I know I'm going to tell you this. I think that I talk about you to somebody every single day, actually.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:29] Well, it's because, you know, it's well, once you find out that like, oh, there is there is a way for like the allergy stuff, once you figure out there is a way to get rid of allergies, you know, it really, really helps make everything better. And so if you're trying to help people, people get better like you do with all your work, it's one of those things that that's obviously something you're going to throw out.
Maaxx West [00:03:46] Yeah, I think it's incredible. I mean, just to talk a little bit about what you did for me, I did my allergy reset with you and I don't remember. It was a classic event. I don't can't recall what month that was. Was it April or something? No.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:01] Yeah, yeah. MASH somewhere in there.
Maaxx West [00:04:05] Yeah, it was a while ago and it was before my competition. So I remember we did it all and I was sensitive to, I don't know, 70 different foods or something and a bunch of other stuff. And I just thought that you know, I just have to stop eating all these things, which is what I had done. And I had gotten a lot better and I was feeling healthy, but I was avoiding everything, right? Yeah. And then I had never heard of this. I just figure that, you know, you figure out what you can use and I just don't use it. And then you have a great life. But then, like you tell me And I said, You know what I've said to you many times? I said, I don't need to eat this and I don't need to do that. But you have said to me several times, But yeah, but you should be able to. And I was like, Yeah, that is true. I should be able to and I shouldn't have to avoid everything all the time. So of all the things that we reset last time, I have tried almost everything. The only thing I haven't had is chicken, which is because I hate chicken and I probably would never eat it. But besides that, I'm eating eggs every day. I'm eating ginger every day. And those were my really bad ones.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:09] Yeah, it's a lot of fun. Like the ones I have so bad for me. Oh, yeah. I have a peanut allergy. If I eat it, I die. And I'm like, Yeah.
Maaxx West [00:05:17] We. Can I talk about my family?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:19] Yeah, we can make sure not die.
Maaxx West [00:05:22] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:22] Yeah, I would. I would try that one out. So.
Maaxx West [00:05:25] Yeah, we have a, we have a new, a new person for you that gets really sick from meat.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:32] Ooh. So there's a.
Maaxx West [00:05:34] Tick, then.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:35] There's a tick that actually, if it bites you, you become very like red meat. Now, that's very noxious to you. I can't remember the name of the tick. Someone's going to mention it in the description, but like, I can't remember. Tick. But if you get bit by this tick, then all of a sudden it's real bad for you as far as far as Rodriguez, because it makes you nauseous from that point out.
Maaxx West [00:05:57] Oh, wow. Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:58] So I'd love to get one of those guys in civilian help with that because the limes you get from Tex and we take limes out all the time. So I wonder if we could do it with, with that other the other tech. That's interesting. But yeah, I can't wait to see this person play something in.
Maaxx West [00:06:12] Oh, actually, I know we're talking about all kinds of stuff. I, I have a friend who's very allergic to. It's some sort of mosquito or a fly or something done to that too, you think?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:27] Well, so yeah. So like we do, we do dogs and cats and stuff like that all the time. Horses, we've done goats, all sorts of stuff. So if there's a saliva or there's a, there's a thing that's on that fly, as long as we can get a sample of that, we can decent size and yeah.
Maaxx West [00:06:43] We need to catch one then. Yes. I can't remember who told me that. So somebody is somebody I know very well and told me this and they asked was like, do you think that can be done? I was like, I'm sure. But you know.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:54] Well, the other ones that are kind of difficult are like medications. Yeah. So we still run them because, like, if I can knock your penicillin allergy down by 50%, that's going to help you out a lot. So yeah, yeah, we'll still run them when we run all the other stuff. But you know, that one's the only one that's every once in a while it's iffy and that's because it's a synthetic frequency. But you know, outside of that, everything else pretty easy.
Maaxx West [00:07:18] Yeah. Oh and remember too, that last time I told you about my testosterone being low and that I tried to do testosterone replacement, but I reacted so badly to it. So I have I just haven't done anything. And then we checked it. Right. And I did have sensitivity to it.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:34] Yes. Yeah. So we'll run to test next time because it's one of those things where I don't think that it's the testosterone. I think it's the carrier oil that's in it. So that's the thing. So we'll we should test you against those carrier oils as well. But that's usually what it is. So the testosterone, again, testosterone is all that different because I'm ready to use it as a drug. But it's not it's a it's more of a supplement to your body. It makes normally, but deeply, desperately needing. So that's why I think that it's the carrier oil and not the actual chemical, because that should theoretically work, but regardless that you're off to it. So I have to reset it.
Maaxx West [00:08:12] Yeah. Well, I said I will be back frequently, I'm sure. Yes. Yes.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:17] Well, I'll try to get to. So, you know, we're kind of, you know.
Maaxx West [00:08:21] Uh huh. Oh yeah. And I will definitely come back. There's. I had a great time there.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:26] Yeah, that was a good time. Do you have any more shows out here? Are they planning any of the shows you come out here to see or.
Maaxx West [00:08:32] No. So. Yeah. I was at the WB, a friend's amateur show over there, and I was the emcee, which was super fun. It was the first time I did that, the commentator during the show, and I'm sure I'll be doing more. As far as Dallas, I think there's I think there's just one show a year, maybe two. I'm not 100% sure. Actually, that was the first time I was at that show, though.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:58] So. Okay. So I do want to go into that one because you and I both talk a lot about mindset and, you know, the way our mind works and how you can, you know, better yourself with your mind work and stuff like that. But. Walked down the path that you the vision path that you took getting you not only on stage but to the public speaking the whole thing because this is a really big thing I want people to understand when they're trying to redirect their life. So tell them the story.
Maaxx West [00:09:25] Well, so I'm going to say, when I was younger, I've always been a very quiet person. If they or not, I was very quiet, very shy. I didn't really talk much. But I do remember when I was young that typically I, I actually was more okay with talking in front of people than to talk like this. I talking to one person, I always get very just shut down and I don't know why, but this was back in Sweden.
And then I remember I came to to the United States about 12 years ago and, you know, I speak very good English, but it's not my first language. And I do remember that. But, you know, before I was pretty quiet when I first came to, even though I'm not shy, but I just wouldn't really talk the way I do today. And a few years ago I met my best friend at Kilis and I remember that whenever we hung out, he just always got me talking a lot and he asked me, he's like, Max, why are you not speaking like this in front of people? Like all these things that you are telling me. This is incredible things and you need to talk about it. And I told him, You know what? I don't know why I haven't. I have never felt comfortable knowing how I'm supposed to say things like I didn't know how to properly express myself.
Whenever I hang out with him, he would just get me talking just by his from his energy. You know, I was just feeling comfortable and. Just around him. And sometimes he would sneakily record me with his phone while I was talking and he would send it to me and I was like, Oh my God, I didn't know you were recording this. And I remember the first time I did it, I was talking for 2 hours, I think, and he recorded the whole thing. And then he said all of this, You told me you have to say this. And I just said, Oh my God, I never before known how to express all of this. It just but now we just all came out and I said, I don't know if it's because English wasn't my first language.
I didn't know exactly how to say it, or if I just hadn't figured out how I wanted to say it. Because there's one thing when you think something in your mind and it all makes sense to you by then, when you say it, it doesn't make sense anyway. So either way, after, you know, hanging out with him and he's saying this, I started doing a little bit more talking just on my social media and things like that, and not really any public speaking, just talking on my social media. And, you know, I realized I really like this and I really like talking. As long as I have something of meaning to say, I don't want to just ramble. And then in 2020, COVID hit and I was, you know, pretty much all by myself during the lockdown and everything. I just separated from my ex-husband.
So I was living by myself. And a friend of mine convinced me basically to do this WB off competition. I had tried and saw it 11 years ago I did two shows and you know, it was fun, but it wasn't really my thing. I felt like this is not where I belong. So I've always lived the lifestyle, just training and eating this way. My friends helped me about the WB if and I have seen all those crazy costumes online. I remember, but I didn't really know what it was. And first I just said No, no, no, I don't want to compete. I'm not interested. This is not for me to introduce you to my current coach.
And they together managed to convince me somehow to try this channel. So I said, Fine, I'll do it. I'll try show why not one time. So during COVID year, I was on prep the whole year, and I think thanks to that prep, it just got me focused on that. And I actually had one of the best years of my life. I met incredible people. I actually enjoyed being by myself and for the first time ever, I actually had time to do something for myself. Yeah, the whole prep and health and I started working on myself mentally and tried even like meditation and I'm hyperactive, ADHD, ADHD, all the things. So meditation has always been very difficult for me because I get so like this. And I just started working on it and got better and better at it. And today I think I'm just really good at all of this and just putting me in the right mindset and everything. Either way, the show I was supposed to do got canceled because it was COVID and I just kept prepping and prepping and prepping and all the shows get canceled one by one.
They ended up doing a virtual competition. So I did one competition basically over the phone like this, and I got my pro card. Not on the first one. We're on the second virtual one. I got a pro card. So by the time it was time to actually compete for real, it was in November and I had already prepped since January. So it was a very long prep. But thanks to that, I thought I was ready. And I think if I had done a show after three or four months, which was the original plan, I don't know if I would have won. But now I had 11 months to work on myself, work my body, everything in my body as I lose weight very fast. So my prep was I lose the weight too fast and then I have to start increasing calories and basically not do cardio to not disappear. But I had so much time to work on my mindset. And every day I remember in the beginning I was thinking, I don't know if I'm good enough, I'm not muscular enough. You know, my pulse is not good enough. And then just suddenly, one day I just told myself, Max, stop saying this, you're great, you fucking worked hard and you can do this. And then from that day, for the last one or two months, every single day, I was standing in front of the mirror and I said out loud to myself, I have fucking busted my ass and I'm going to go up there and I'm going to kick ass. And I've already won this show. Like I told myself that every day in the mirror and they fucking worked. And I went in on that stage and I won the show. And I tell every client I coach, I say this. I said,
As ridiculous as it sounds, start talking to yourself and talk loud. And it might seem silly at first, but it's if you do this every day, one day you're just going to believe yourself and then everything just works.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:15:31] Yeah. Which we can shift the mindset to, you know, where we want to go. And so where we're afraid of going, it helps us in all sorts of different ways psychologically. And, you know, it's like prayer because, you know, once we get, you know, aligned with where we're going to go, it seems that we get there a lot faster. And the funny thing is. Is it, people? Well, that's silly and that's stupid. Well, how are you going to get anywhere? Have passion for anything you're going to go if you don't wake up every morning and go, I'm going to do this thing like that. If you don't have that passion, I don't know if you can get things done. So that's that's why I tell everybody, if you want to get stuff done, tell yourself how you're going to do it and that you're going to get there.
Maaxx West [00:16:09] So I think that when you first start doing this, it seems silly, right? And you're almost like, this is ridiculous. But I think when you have done it and it's worked for you, it's good that there's just no doubt when I do it now and I will sit in my car where I mean sit in the kitchen and I will yell things just out. And it doesn't seem silly anymore because I know it's going to work. So it only feels dumb when you don't know.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:16:38] Correct. Well, that's the faith part. Right. It's the I'm going to do this. And then the more you believe it, the more it helps drive you to where you need to go.
Maaxx West [00:16:47] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:16:48] I can just see through that. Sorry. The picture of you screaming things just randomly, like looking through your car window, watching you do that picture popped my head. And that's quite hilarious.
Maaxx West [00:16:58] I do it every day. Every day. Is there a certain.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:17:02] Time you do this? Because, like I this would be something I think would be fun to watch.
Maaxx West [00:17:08] Oh, no. I mean, wherever. I've just been doing it in the car because it's like I listen to instead of I listen to music still sometimes, but I listen to a lot of, like, inspirational things. And I've been listening a lot to like Andy for sell out or podcasts or about, you know, like winner mentality and all this stuff. And I realized that my whole life I've loved metal music and a lot of the metal music is very depressing, like the lyrics. I still love the music, but I don't I don't associate it with it anymore. And even the other day I actually had a company sending me t shirts. They asked, you know, if you some t shirt. I was like, Yeah, let's do a trade. I guess I'm just, I'm so glad. And I got a t shirts and I take them out of the box and it says something about like I work out because it kills, you know, the sad voices in my head. And I was like, I don't even want to put this shirt on. It doesn't feel right because I'm not sad, I'm not depressed anymore, and it just does. It's not the same thing then. See, that's.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:18:12] The other thing. I'm really glad you made that decision, because here's the thing. If a bunch of these little you know, I say little, I'm so old now that 25 year olds are little to me. So that's how old I am.
Maaxx West [00:18:23] But.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:18:24] Well, so the thing is that so you get these people in, right? And they start seeing some of that they idolize some of the who's is respected in their community, like yourself, wearing a shirt that talks about how she has negative voices in her head. And then all of a sudden these people go, oh, I guess that's normal there. You know, that could lead to the manifesting their own negative thoughts, or at least not telling them that they need to push themselves in the opposite direction. So, you know, I get the point that, you know, exercise is therapy. And I talk about this all the time, but, you know, it's the other side of there.
Maaxx West [00:18:55] I've been there the past, but I'm not that person anymore.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:18:59] You know, I'll tell you, there's a lot of days. There's a lot of days I don't want to do the workout when I when I get like it's time I get to go workout and I don't really want to do it, but I'm always the second half of my day is always so much better after I workout. Just from the clarity in my head, just, you know, everything afterwards. So I get like we all we all use all of us who workout use it as therapy in some form or other, like everybody talks about that that's part of the art or deal. But yeah, perpetuating the stereotype that we all have Superbad negative things in our head is I'm glad you didn't. Glad you didn't step into that one, because I think there's a lot of there's a lot of negative function out there, especially in women, that we can put it back away from.
Maaxx West [00:19:42] Yeah, but it's the same I these days. I put very little energy and focus on things that doesn't feel right to me. And I remember I mean, I guess we've all been there where something small happens or something that makes you angry or sad awareness and then you keep thinking of it and you think about it and it just makes it worse. And now when I think that I was like, Why would you even put thoughts into it? Because how is she going to make it better? It's not going to make it better. So if something happens and I'm just like, okay, let's move on, you know, it's not even worth my energy. And then suddenly everything gets better.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:20:19] Yeah, yeah. And it's kind of the whole due back to the whole, you know, there's two wolves in you. Which one? You know, the one that takes over is the one you feed. So. Yeah.
Maxx West [00:20:28] Yeah. That's the thing that they should teach you things in schools. Like as a child, I can't remember anyone ever talking about anything like this.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:20:37] So it's funny cause I have this crazy thought that we should quit teaching kids geometry and, you know, high level calculus and stuff like that. Trigonometry. And we should teach them emotional quantum things like, Hey, you have to deal with your own mind and you have to deal with other human beings who have emotions and minds as well. Why don't we have some conversation on how to deal with that? Like that, I think is a lot more important. And Trig is now, you know, math people out there are losing their minds. But that's always been a thing that I've always thought, you know, hey, I don't have to do I don't have to, you know, find the hypotenuse of a square or a triangle or anything very often. But I do have to deal with other human beings every day. So if we're trying to prepare our kids, this is definitely a road we should walk down. I mean, so we do it with our kids now. But yeah, it is. It is. And that we should be teaching in schools how to deal with your own mind.
Maaxx West [00:21:30] Yeah, but it's the same the, like spirituality and you know, energy and stuff like that. Because I said before, I come from Sweden and in Sweden, I'm not going to say everybody, but we're not religious, we're not really believers or anything like that. And I was always, you know, I was never an atheist or anything like that, but I was just, you know, I didn't believe in anything specific.
I was always that person who needed proof for everything. And then I said, the last couple of years with that, I've met some incredible people that I have in my life. And I can tell you, I came with my best friend, cellist Tommy Rex and Emily Haden are some of them. They're very spiritual people. And I remember when I started hanging out with them, I was not that, but I do remember them talking about it and telling me stories. I found it so interesting that the more I listened to it, the more I started feeling that way too. And now I am very much like that. And now I've even experienced my own things. So now I don't even have doubts anymore.
And I remember I had this one very crazy experience happened to me, and after it happened, I called my mom and I was like, I need to tell my mom, but I don't know how she's going to take this because I said, My family is not like that. And I tell her and she tells me that, Oh my God, yes, she thinks like that, too. And then I talked to my sister and then my mom says, You've got to call your aunt. She talks to spirits. And I was like, Wait, why have we never talked about these things? Why have we never spoken of this? And now I'm like, And now we do, because now we're all on the same page. But I was like, How is it that we never talked about it?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:23:16] You know, it's funny because, like, that's what me and my friends talk about, but we don't like. And it's always kind of funny how we filter that down to our children. You know what? Because here's the problem with the kids. I'll tell you this because I have these conversations with you, with all these guys all the time. But it's what can I tell my ten year old that he can then go back to school tomorrow and repeat about 80% of what I told him. That's not going to get him or us or anybody else in trouble. So that's the only thing from the from the parent's standpoint because I want to talk about all this with my kids really badly. But I also can't trust them to not go say the wrong thing once they get there.
Maaxx West [00:23:57] Isn't it funny, though, how I mean, now the older we get and the more we dig into this, we're becoming children again. Almost. Yeah, because children are open to this stuff. But then you start going to school and like you're in the world and all of that gets shut out because it's so it's, it's so wrong, right? And then you start thinking that and then in the middle there, you think children are crazy, right? And they're like, Oh, they're just children. They're thinking of this crazy stuff. And I'm like, Yeah, but they were it's right.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:24:27] Now it's we're much more connected to not only to each other, but to all those weird. Because here's the thing, the reason that like and this is a great example, you know, you guys were an atheist, you guys, no one in your family talked about it, so you didn't really get your information from those guys. But you had you had you had these thoughts beforehand. You saw this stuff beforehand. It was enough beforehand that you're like, this is I know that you guys told me no, but this is really weird.
Maaxx West [00:24:55] Sometimes I wonder because I had no proof before and it was like almost. And sometimes I ask myself what made me keep going because I had no proof. Because I was a person who always wanted proof. But somehow, in some weird way, I still kept working for all the things, thinking that it's going to work and then eventually did. And now when I just know everything is happening way faster for me, but I don't know. I'm like sometimes, like, I'm so glad that I kept doing things even though I had absolutely no reason to or no proof to do it. And so maybe, maybe somehow my parents still raised me in a way to be kind of open-minded. I don't know. I don't really know.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:25:41] There are a lot of people that, you know, you just you know, even with you know, even with the idea that you can fix allergies with frequencies, right. Or electromagnetic function logically, I can explain it to some people and they go, All right, well, that kind of makes some sense because you're like, You just can't do that. And I'm like.
Maaxx West [00:25:57] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:25:58] Why do you say that? Like, I have all these people who've come out and said, Yes, I'm better now, but you know, because you're told it by somebody else, it doesn't work. You're like, Oh, okay. So it's just that that open mind of, all right, I'm going to I'm going to go check it out, you know, on both sides of things. Right? Because like, you know, when we talk about, you know, the vaccine stuff and I talk to medical doctors all the time and they're like, you know, they don't cause any problems. They don't cause any problems. You know, I've read the research. There is no research. But there I've read the research and I'm like, all of these parents have come to you and said that this thing happened. If it was one or two or three over ten years, I get it. But when it's hundreds of them, you don't want to just stop and even ask a question like, I know I was told that these are okay.
However, I keep hearing all these things that these patients are telling us how we checked on this stuff. I think it's those types of questions that kind of go through everything, regardless of what we've been told. We've been told that, you know, there is no sixth sense, there is no universal consent, there is no God, however you want to call it, you know, but we all feel like I don't think that's 100% accurate. But there's something in me. I keep seeing stuff and it's the people who quit asking the questions are the people who don't find the answers they want to. So, you know, the stuff that you're doing. I think it was hilarious because your parents obviously went through it to never talk to you about it. So that wasn't your influence. You guys just all saw so many things that your brains just went, No, no, no, there's something else. And you guys dug into it. So I think that's pretty cool that you guys ended up that doing that.
Maaxx West [00:27:31] Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:27:32] How often you guys talk about this stuff now?
Maxx West [00:27:35] I mean, so my first like a real spiritual event or whatever to call this was actually this year, early this year. I mean I guess say so that's here. I went to Sweden to visit my family. I hadn't been back for seven years and I met up, so we're going to have dinner with my mom and my sister and my grandfather. And I remember my grandmother passed away a few years ago. She was actually they thought she had dementia, but it might have been some B12. Funk, whatever. So either way, she was not she was not doing well. My grandfather was taking care of her, and then she passed away and it was like finally he could. Be free, if that makes sense. She was a she was. She didn't remember any of us. It was pretty bad. So she was like getting out there. And he. He was also not having health issues, but he was you know, you could tell before that it was just hard on him. And now I saw him and I was like, Oh, my God, this man is shining. I swear he had fewer wrinkles than I do.
And he's 91 years old. He just looked incredible, Like his skin was great. He looks great. He's so happy. And I met him and he was like, oh, you know, it's been so long. And we're sitting there and we're having this great deep conversation about because he had a new girlfriend a while back. So we're talking about relationships and stuff, and then we're eating dinner and suddenly he just collapses like, just like that. And I run over and I was like, Shit, what do I do? He's not breathing. Okay, I got to do CPR, so I just throw myself down. It's the first time I've done CPR classes a lot of times with this. The first time I actually do it on a person, I just throw myself down and start doing CPR. And I'm just my mom is just paralyzed. Like she doesn't even know what to do. And I was like, you know, call the fucking ambulance right now. I said, okay, So I have them on the phone and I keep doing CPR, and the first thing I'm thinking is, Holy shit, he's so old, I'm going to crack his chest right now. I was like, But I didn't. I just did it. And they told me afterward it wouldn't have mattered if I did or not like he was gone. And I don't know exactly. I said my personal.
Opinion on this is that it was the vaccine. There was nothing wrong with them. They vaccinated older people in Sweden. It was never a mandate by anyone over 75. They went out and said, you know, you should definitely do that. So that's what I think. I don't know. I don't have the autopsy or anything, so I don't know about either way. So he passed away. And immediately my mom just opened the window, she said. Open the window. Open the window. Now his sole has to fly out. I was like, okay, that's an interesting comment from my mom. I'm thinking. But yeah, okay. I run over and open the window and then, you know, we're sitting there. It's, you know, it was very sad, but I guess we all just kind of like, sat on the floor and just talked about it, that we were very happy that he died. So happy. He was so happy like he was living life like fucking playing in a in a band. And he was like,
Do you ever like activities everyday? Like, you know, it was not like he was 90 plus years old. So we said, you know, as sad as it was, we're very happy that it happened that way. And then I'm back home after that. I just moved into this fairly new house with Tell Tommy and I never remember my dreams like ever I. I probably dream, but I don't remember them. When I wake up, it's usually just nothing. So I woke up in the middle of the night because I remembered my dream and my mom was in it. And typically when I dream things, it's never like a place or a person really that exists, if that makes sense. The few times I do remember my dreams. So my mom was there and I remember that I have to leave her for some reason and I go somewhere and everything feels weird and I call her and I said, I don't know, something is wrong. I need to come back right now. That's all I say. I wake up, I'm in my room and I know I'm right awake. Why so open? I'm looking around. I'm like, Oh, I'm in my bedroom.
Everything's fine. And then. I feel something in the room. Kind of like. A wind. And then I hear a man's voice very fucking loud. Say, my Swedish birth name, which, first of all, nobody knows in this country, really. And I'm like, Well, I freaked out and I run out and I run to tell me, Oh my God. And then it was like, Oh my God, what was that? And then we start talking about it. And he said, You know, who knows? It could have been something good. It could have been something bad like you don't know. And I was like, It was my grandfather.
I know it was my grandfather. And I don't know why. I just knew it was him. And that's when I called my mom and I told this whole story and we had never talked about anything. And she's like, Yeah, I think so, too, she said. And I was like, Wow, that was so weird. And I've never had anything like this in my entire life. And I was wide awake. That was not a dream. I know that. I was wide awake, sitting up. I was open. It was very trippy. And after that was that.
That was the first time ever I've had anything happen. And then I talked to my mom and my sister and aunts and whatnot. And they have a lot of experiences like this, but I didn't know that because we had never talked about it before.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:32:53] Well. So that's and that's kind of the whole path, you know, not just the whole energetic spirit, the whole, you know, piece of the universe. The other thing that, you know, is right down this alley that we talked about was, you know, earlier was all about, you know. They're bringing things out of out of the ether, like concentrating on so much that, you know, it comes together. So, you know, it's it kind of goes full circle with, you know, where all these things are.
But, yeah, there's a lot of people who, you know, when we start talking about psychedelic work, you know, with all the stuff we're doing for, you know, the PTSD, the addiction, and stuff like that, it's always funny to me. And other people have raised this point. A lot of times with D.A., which is high ayahuasca, people will come back and report that they spoke to this unhuman-looking being and they got this information that was very profound for them. And lots of different people will say this.
The people, the way they describe them, all look the same, but they don't look like humans with a description. I think Rogen talked about this. Jordan Peterson talked about this. So the idea that there's more going on than where either we either understand or are allowed to understand by different governments or whatever the cultural stuff, whatever it is, I think the evidence is there that there's something else a little bit larger going on that I think is really, really fun. You know, some of those things as we start working with some of the psychedelics, you know, psilocybin and DMT a little bit more, I think we're going to get more and more research on that type of thing. And I'm not saying that is proof of anything or anything like that. I just think it's a very interesting comment that keeps doing that. So but it is kind of neat how it all ties together.
Maaxx West [00:34:37] Yeah, because I've always so as I don't know why, but my I'm very sensitive to two things that makes you feel different. So it was very simple. I don't really like drinking because I don't feel like myself. I've never I have I haven't tried much like drug wise and stuff in my life, but I just don't I like when I feel like I'm in full control. And that's why this ayahuasca and everything, like, you know, people talk about, it's like, I would love to do it, but I don't know how I feel about the whole psychedelic thing. So I for the past couple of years, I've been trying to, like, train myself to do certain things without anything like that. So that's for example, I always had trouble sleeping when I was younger and I can the best way to describe it is just like I just shut down my body completely. I almost leave it. That's how I go to bed and I can fall asleep in 5 seconds. So I would lay down and I'll do my little manifestation thing. And then I just shut up and my whole body starts to tingle as if I can't feel it anymore. And then I'm asleep. Like that and it's so easy. And before I used to not like it because when I was a kid, I always had, like my legs. You know, when your body parts kind of start to tingle because they're like, Get it falling asleep. And it would always make me so uncomfortable. So whenever that happened, I would start moving like this. But as soon as you start moving, you're waking yourself up. So I think that's why I never could fall asleep then and now. Actually, thanks to a breathwork session I did. His name is Justin Lovato, so we did Breathwork. And like after you do this whole breathing thing, your body starts to tingle like that and it's uncomfortable. But I remember I'm there in this room and I'm there with the killers and Emily and this guy Justin. And it started the tango and I just kept telling myself, Max, everything is fine. You're with good people, everything is okay. And then you just work. And I said, after that day, whenever that tingle starts, I'm okay with it. And that's. That's how I fall asleep every single day.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:36:39] Very nice.
Maaxx West [00:36:41] So I'm like, trying to still get better at the same. I can't, like, leave my body, but I know you can definitely train yourself to do these things.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:36:50] Well, if you decide that you want to try any of the psilocybin or the ketamine or any that type of stuff, make sure to tell me because I can walk you through it.
Maaxx West [00:36:58] It'll be yeah, it will definitely be with you.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:37:03] Well, the the ketamine thing is to be fun. So we started seeing patients next week. And my whole team, I've told everybody that, you know, one of the perks or however we're going to call it, all my team members have to go through ketamine. Any patient touching person has to go through it from our corporate team because I don't want any I want everybody to all say, Hey, this was my personal experience when I did it. And it's one of those things where this is one of those few treatments that you can say, Everybody has to do this because everybody needs it. Because like when I did it, my heart rate. So we go back years and years ago, I was in a car wreck and I got apparently I got PTSD from it, not from the actual impact, but from what one of the firemen said to me as at the door afterwards, the car wreck. So my heart rate had been in the nineties for 20 years. And so that was just my resting heart rate was in the nineties. No matter how much exercise idea, that's just where it was. I Oh that's real hot. Yeah. That's way too high.
Maaxx West [00:38:02] That -45 I think.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:38:05] Yeah. Tachycardic is anything over 99 and I'm sitting there 93, 95 all the time. So and then they're after COVID because I, I got COVID, everyone's like you can't get COVID more than once. I got it three or four times because I was I'm pulling people out of hospitals like, you know, which to fix them. And, you know, because.
Maaxx West [00:38:23] We can only get COVID once. What kind of bullshit is that?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:38:26] That's, that's, that's the more of the whole, you know, the whole immunity thing to it. So it's like, you know, it's like a flu more times like a bunch of times.
Maaxx West [00:38:36] So like a lot of people have been getting it a lot of.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:38:38] Times that was that's always what I've seen. I know people say you can't, but that's not that's not what I see. That's not what we've been saying. But so I got it several times. It messed up my heart. So for last two, three years, when I would lay down, I could feel my heart beating way harder and is supposed to. And I did all the echos, I did all the stuff, and nobody could figure it out well. So I go in to test the ketamine because I wasn't going to tell somebody to do something I wasn't willing to do myself. So I did the ketamine that was supposed to be one time just to see how it went. So it made me sick.
I don't understand why people do this for Fun is a drug not my choice in any way for fun as a drug. But afterwards, like I laid down and I feel terrible. I go to lay down. And that was the first time I lay down in years where I couldn't feel my heart beating too hard anymore.
And I was like, Well, that's fun. And I wake up the next morning, my heart aches in the seventies. So what we're finding that this stuff does and this is, you know, kind of where I my brain neurologically is focused on on trauma is that trauma neurologically turns the sympathetic nervous system up. And so you start getting jittery, your heart starts racing, you start having sale stuff and you just kind of you're over, you're buzzing. You're always if it gets too high. Well, what this with the psychedelics the ketamine basically doing is turning that dial back down.
And so like I didn't like I said, it felt sick afterward, but the next day it was you know, if you take your hurry from the nineties, the seventies, there's not a whole lot of research that doesn't say that that's going to radically increase the quality of life and the number of years you have. So if I can do ketamine quarterly or whatever or whatever, it has to be like once a month, whatever it ends up being to keep my heart rate in the seventies and keep that stuff down.
Maaxx West [00:40:17] It's like a session, right? You do? Yeah, like a session with that. How long how long does it go on.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:40:25] Well, so they're like 45 to 90 minutes depending on what we're doing. And it's I prefer I.V. just because the way the medicine's delivered and the way that everything works is I.V., in my opinion, is much, much better for ketamine. Oral would be fine for like, hey, I need to do a touch-up like, you know. Once a quarter is like that. But so that's how long they stay last. We're partnering them with psychotherapy so that you have somebody to go walk you through.
That's a good guide for the journey to kind of walk you through, you know. Here are some questions I want you to remember while you're going through it and then afterward journal these things make a video of these things and then you go talk to the psychotherapist the next day and you're like, Here's what happened, here's what I think it is.
And so you guys can work through this in a much more positive manner because that's the research on that is actually showing better functionality overall. So like, the PTSD really gets a major hit from the ketamine, but the psychotherapy helps you put together the pieces of what happened. And so that's been that's been really fun. And you'll have to you guys, let's come down and run through that because I think the jail, because everybody has trauma somewhere in their life. So I think be I think you guys would enjoy the the release.
Maaxx West [00:41:35] I'm very curious. Yeah, well, I said I remember the the reason was we've gotten to know each other a lot, like pretty fast. As I remember the first time I met you. And it was just I'm all about energy now, and I met you, and there was just there's just good energy about you and that I'm like, I trusted you with the whole. RB We said the first time because the first time when I heard it, I was like, What the hell is this? Is this even possible? And I'm like, Hey, let's just do it. Let's just do it now.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:42:09] I'm glad you did because it's funny because, like, you know, a lot of the patients I have here have gotten used to because, like, we're walking through really weird stuff with muscle testing and different things like that, and then it works. And so they're like, Hey, you know what? Whatever weird stuff you got going on, that's fine. Let's I'm willing to try it. So yeah, that's been that's been beneficial.
Maaxx West [00:42:28] Go ahead. Go ahead. Sorry.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:42:30] It's just kind of difficult when you when you tell somebody outside the group. Right. Like you're very open-minded. You like you said you could. The energy helps you trust that, you know. And that's right. And there's, you know, two or three people who are there who are like, yeah, you should you know, you should trust me as the doc for our group just like that. So yeah, but telling of the people. And so that's hard for me because I hear all these people who have all these horrible allergies and stuff like that, and I just feel so bad for them. It's so easy to fix. Like, I wish you guys had the tech.
Maaxx West [00:42:58] I wish people said I told my family about it because I want my family to talk to you. And I was you know, I was a little. Skeptical. I was like, I don't know how they're going to take this when I explain it to them, but I explained it and they were all just like, Hey, I can go. Let's do it. And then both my mom and sister said, You know what? First of all, you got to you got to trust and you got to believe. And they're like, they've tried everything. They've tried everything, normal stuff, and it doesn't work. So they were just like, You know what? Let's go. I was like, Oh, well, that was easy.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:43:34] Well, you know, getting them to come hang out with you would probably isn't a hard, hard ask to begin with.
Maaxx West [00:43:40] Sorry.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:43:40] I said, asking them to come hang out with you. Come. Come to the U.S. and hang out with you for a little bit.
Maaxx West [00:43:44] No, I was. But I don't know if we should say where my sister could. My mom can't travel.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:43:50] Oh, all right, Well, we can. I am sure there's a good reason for us to go to Switzerland and hang out with them. So that would be great.
Maaxx West [00:43:56] In Sweden.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:43:57] Sweden. Sorry. Sweden. So. So this is. This is. This is the sad thing. So, like, I am the typical American who has a vague grasp of where things are in Europe. Like, I know where Italy is and I know where Lebanon is because I have to. But it's funny because, like, when I talk to my wife about like, that area and she's always like, how do you not know where everything is? And I'm.
Maaxx West [00:44:20] Like, I can thinks Sweden and Switzerland is the same.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:44:26] Yeah. And that's, that's, that's on us. My bad. But yeah, I don't know why it's funny. It's because here's the thing. I know I should know that stuff and I don't, but I. It's like I can't spell it all, and I don't care about that, but I can't. I don't know where things are in the world, and I do care about that, so I should probably spend a minute and figure that out.
Maaxx West [00:44:45] I also know in Sweden, for example, I know or I know, I don't know. I've never been to school in this country. And I think that over here they teach you a lot about over here. Right. While in Europe, for example, they teach us about everything. They teach us just as much about here as they do of their like. We're just have a freaking you have to pass a test knowing all the 50 states in the United States, even though it makes no difference for us in Sweden, we still got it. No, it.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:45:16] Wow.
Maaxx West [00:45:17] Uh huh.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:45:18] Yeah. We don't. We don't have to know. And we don't have to know very much about over there. Like, it was funny because our kids didn't want to learn all the state capitals. Yeah, and it was funny because they were like, This is why my son comes to me and goes, This is pointless. He's like, I'm never going to know this. And if I need to know, I can just look it up. And I was like.
Maaxx West [00:45:37] I mean, that is true in a way, I guess.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:45:40] But it was so hard for me because I was like, I 100% agree with you. But for some reason, because I'm dad, I have to tell you that you got to learn the capital. So that was that was another fun dad moment. But yeah, yeah. So that, but that's the thing like, so I guess I guess even today I don't, I don't put that much pressure into it so I don't know that's, that's not good.
Maaxx West [00:46:00] You know what, I think we should, we should do regular podcasts.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:46:03] I think we fun.
Maaxx West [00:46:04] I have so many things we can talk about.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:46:07] Yeah. Because you can help teach. You are, you know, all the important things in the world are.
Maaxx West [00:46:11] Yeah but it's just. Well, I'll tell you why that was so damn funny later. Okay. All right.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:46:22] So you're going to you're going to hang out at M.J. because come with us, right, in November?
Maaxx West [00:46:26] Yeah, I think so, Yes. So first, we're going to Olympian out in a couple of weeks with pure blood. We have a booth over there, and then after that I'll be in Vegas and then we're doing that. I'm very excited for that. Yeah, I can't wait 2028. Right.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:46:40] So yeah, I think it's the 28th through the 30th. I want to say that I'm going to be up there, I'm going to meet there's a whole bunch of group of people we got to meet up there for both Aura and some of the rest.
Maaxx West [00:46:50] Of our public speaking here.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:46:52] Yes. Yes. Well, if you get your.
Maaxx West [00:46:55] I started manifesting the whole public speaking and then only days later we went to that event in Cali and they asked me, Hey, Max, you want to talk? And I'm like, Oh my God, it's already happening.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:47:06] Yeah, you did great, too. I think you did a fantastic job.
Maaxx West [00:47:10] I need a freestyle. I can pre plan and pre practice things. I'm a like a freestyle. Just go with the flow kind of person.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:47:19] So it's funny because like, I can do podcasts and stuff, I can get up and just talk on stage. The hardest speech I ever give gave was my TEDx talk because I had I had to memorize that 15 minute speech and do it word for word. That was by far the hardest time I've ever done.
Maaxx West [00:47:35] It is I don't I'm not good at practicing things like that now.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:47:40] Even the night before, like it was late, I was late. I'm staring at the screen and I'm trying to memorize it even more because it's just I just I can't. I can't retain word for word stuff. Very well, so. But yeah, no, it's talking like this is much easier.
Maaxx West [00:47:55] Yeah, I have my grandfather had photographic memory and my aunt US too. And it's crazy. I definitely do not.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:48:03] That would be that would be handy. Like there's a I watch I don't know if you ever seen the show suits, but one of the guys in the show has an athletic memory and he remembers everything. And so I was like, That would be really handy.
Maaxx West [00:48:14] Yeah, right. Well, we got other skills.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:48:18] But yeah, we guys, we got the other stuff. So that's that. That works out. That works out. So what do you have coming up besides Olympia and MJ? Best? You have anything around?
Maaxx West [00:48:27] Anything else I got going on here? Well, I have a million projects all the time. I do so many things. I have a lot of I do products, product content and photographer. I do a lot of product content and I have a lot of product shoes coming up, like for companies like paid advertisement stuff and then some travel.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:48:46] We talk about. Can you talk about any of the products you're taking pictures of?
Maaxx West [00:48:50] Oh, there's a lot of supplement companies, so I'm known for my crazy flavor content. I would call it. So like protein powders, pre-workout, stuff like that. And I do these crazy flying food, fruits type of style photography. So I oh, every time I go on a trip, everybody reaches out to book me. So I always joke about that. I was like, if I ever not have any work, all I need to do is go on a trip and they all come. It's like they know, like she's busy. Let's call her now.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:49:19] Yes. Yeah, that's always. That's always how it is. You know, I'll be going away for new patients cause I'm like, Oh, we're going to go through the. Yeah, we need to go through the intake now. And I'm like, I am leaving tomorrow, so. Yeah. No, I feel you on that one.
Maaxx West [00:49:33] Then I'm just rebuilding and working on some new building out some new stuff for Pure Blood. I'm working on a new website. We're going to have more stuff coming up here. All my accessories, more everything. So it's always stuff going on.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:49:48] Yeah, I remember talking about this earlier. I got to get one of those. The the red writing on the black hat.
Maaxx West [00:49:54] Oh, yeah. The new. Ah, yes.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:49:56] Yeah, yeah. That was Tony got one of those and I think he got the last one we were in. Yeah.
Maaxx West [00:50:01] I just put it on so you can get it on the website. I just put them up now but I want to start making more like unique items and not just like, clothes. Other stuff too. And yes, a lot going on. And they are also I do my coaching as a re-renamed or rebranded myself a little while ago. So I call it the No Bloat Club.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:50:23] Yeah. So. Because that was your thing for a long time. So walk us through that because I know a lot of women are having these types of issues and so this would be a good thing for them to hear. Yeah, but.
Maaxx West [00:50:34] I honestly, I had like really no problems up until. It was basically just woke up one day and my stomach was so big and it hurt so bad and I was on prep to compete. So I was like, weigh my life, you know, eating the same things, like sleeping in a certain way. And I had not done anything different. And it all came out of the blue. And I guess it was like you told me at some point comes from trauma. I had some rough things going on in my life at that point. So suddenly I was sensitive to all foods. I got allergic to spray tan. So I did a spray tan is when I completed it. I never had any issues with any of these things before. And it just it just hit me one day and it took a while to figure out what was wrong because obviously I went to regular doctors first and all they kept telling me was, Oh, you need antibiotics.
And I said, That's out of the question. I said I am not taking medication. My mom has been sick for 20 years due to medication, so I'm very much like that. I will not take a painkiller unless I'm dying. I will not touch anything. And I kept telling them, I just want to know what's wrong with me. Please help me figure out why this is happening. And, you know, obviously, they had no answers for me. Doctor after doctor after doctor. Nobody knows anything. And they kept telling me the stupidest thing. I remember that there was one doctor I went to and they said, Oh my God, you got to meet this doctor because she's actually a professional athlete.
And I was like, You know what? That maybe that's better at least. And she's like, Yeah, you got to stop drinking protein shakes. And I was like, I haven't had a protein shake in ten years. I had not had a protein shake in ten years. I was like, You're just making stuff. You're just vomiting stuff out of your asshole right now. But yeah, I'm like, you know, I can't. And then she told me to stop taking vitamins. That was the next step. And I was like.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:52:22] Yeah, because your body doesn't need the chemistry. Yeah, that's, that's, that's fine.
Maaxx West [00:52:25] Yeah. So, like, long story short, I found this holistic guy in my I lived in Miami, and I found this guy and he did all the food testing on me. And this I was so bad. And we did food testing like gut bacteria tests and stool tests. We did everything. And it cost me like an arm and a leg, basically. But I was desperate. And I think unfortunately, like a lot of people, you need to hit rock bottom to realize that you have to actually do something. And that's what I'm trying to do now. I'm really trying to share information and help people before they get to that. But a lot of people these days, all they see is like, Oh, I can't afford to do this test. Oh, so you can't afford to spend like $500 now? Do you rather wait until you spend 20 grand like I did? It cost me $20,000 to do the tests and stuff because I was so bad. And I and but it's really difficult if you haven't had an issue, you can't see it that way. And I hope and I said, all I'm here for is to try to tell people to make a small investment in your health now so that you don't have to give everything you have later when you are really sick.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:53:31] Well, that's the thing is that you're gonna spend a lot more later, and the time between now and then you're going to feel like trash more and more and more. So the worst thing you spend and this is, you know, I'm going to get help from this, too. But spending money is one that you can make more money when you give up your time. When you spend your time. Yeah, I'll I'm going to have five years of of feeling like trash. Why would you spend your life that way? That's always been my thing. So your quality of life is a big push for me, but that's a wellness thing. So, yeah, you know, it is where it is.
Maaxx West [00:54:01] I've always felt that way anyway, because. I if somebody wastes my money, you know, it sucks, but I'll get like, that's okay. But people wasting my time is the worst thing I know. That's why I especially like in business and whatnot, if somebody doesn't do things properly and waste my time, you're. I'm not doing business with you. Yeah. That simple.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:54:27] Yeah. Yeah. There's lots of other things that could be doing with my time then, you know?
Maaxx West [00:54:30] Yeah, Because you're right. Time is worth more than money. Because you can always get more money, I guess.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:54:36] Yeah. So. Well, thanks for coming on with us and kind of chatting with. I do think we should do this more often. We'll have to do some live stuff from M.J.. I think that'd be fun.
Maaxx West [00:54:45] Yeah, but, I mean, I'll come visit again soon. We can do it on. On location as well.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:54:50] Absolutely. Absolutely. I'll. I'll have to. Because. Because. Because the messed up last time, I'll have to take you to dinner. I feel. I feel bad about that.
Maaxx West [00:54:57] That's the thing that I say. Don't focus your energy on small things. You. I remember you told me. Oh, my God, The sun got messed up. I'm so sorry. And I said, That's cool. Like, yeah, I was like, you know, we can redo it. It's not a big deal because it isn't a big deal because what am I going to do? Be mad at you for no reason? No, that's just an example of like, I don't, I don't really there isn't really much that can annoy me or upset me.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:55:26] That is that is the one thing that I there's one thing I really have noticed about like stuff rolls off your back so easily, like you've put yourself into a mental place that's so, so positive.
Maaxx West [00:55:38] That.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:55:40] You recognize things happen that are unavoidable, so you're not going to have a negative emotional response to it, but you still have all your your positive emotional response because there's like, I've seen you happy all the time. So it's one of the things that's what I mean is that's why it's so much fun. That's why it's so enjoyable to be around you because you're just you're a positive person all the time. So but like you said, you've worked 30-something years to put yourself in that position.
Maaxx West [00:56:06] I mean, lots and lots of work. Definitely not always like so.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:56:10] So when you when you coach, I know you're doing the no bloat club thing, but as when you coach, how much of the coaching do you do is mentorship and mindset and stuff like that?
Maaxx West [00:56:18] The majority So I said I used to you, I don't like calling myself a trainer or a nutritionist or anything like that because I am a trainer, I'm educated and all these things, I'm certified in all of that. And if you're my client, yes, you are going to get a training plan, you are going to get a meal plan, you're going to get all of these things. But you can't you can train perfectly. You can eat perfectly. But if your mind isn't right and your gut is fucked up, it's not going to work. And it's actually thanks to a client years back. And I just I'm just working on a video. It's thanks to her that I changed everything because she was one of my clients who furloughed everything to the T, and then it turned out that she was in an abusive relationship.
So instead of helping her with her training and diet, we just started talking and we were just talking and talking and she just needed to like, get shit out there and then realized I need to leave this relationship. And she did, and she is so happy. And now suddenly she looks incredible. Everything about like the weight came off, she's glowing. And it wasn't because she was training properly and it wasn't because she was eating wrong. It was just the mind wasn't there.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:57:26] Yeah. Nothing looks better on anybody than happy. Yeah. You know, when somebody walks in the room and they're just like, like bouncing, they're so happy. Yeah. That's always the person you want in the room.
Maaxx West [00:57:36] So. Yeah, yeah. Like my, my training program, I always try to figure out, you know, everybody's routines are different. Like, I like to do certain things at night and I do certain things in my car, you know, that might be different for everybody. So I always tell people, like, be sure that you write down your gratitude and be sure you have a certain night routine that would put you in a good state of mind before you fall asleep. And, you know, so it's more like that. I'm just helping them figure out what works for them not to do what I do. Yeah, because everybody's different, obviously.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:58:06] And that's the big thing. It's like, you know, there is no diet for people. There is no, you know, thing that works for you mindset-wise. There's nothing that, you know. So having a coach kind of walk you through some options and stuff like that has always been beneficial for everything we've done since I do. I read a lot of different philosophical thinking and that type of thing, and that's helped kind of push me down where I need to go. But yeah, it's always, you know, I have lots of friends. Stillman's about my, you know, I've got four or five other, you know, Jesse was a good friend of mine that as coaches, you know, whether it's a sales coach or business coach or whatever, this all of it was personal development. It was, you know, changing how you think and you know, where your mind is pointed that has the biggest influence. So it's good that.
Maaxx West [00:58:50] You're so that you think.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:58:53] That that's part of your.
Maaxx West [00:58:53] Plan. Well, I think a lot of fitness people it's so much about that's why a lot of people are doing this automated program thing. You know, you can make a lot of money, but I just somebody asked me, Why are you not doing this? I said Because I don't like it. It doesn't help people. And I said, I'd rather have fewer clients and charge them more money and actually make a difference because as a coach, I'm not here to tell you,
Oh, you should train exactly like this or you should eat exactly like this, and then you should exactly do this. I'm here to help figure it out with you. What is going to work great for you? Because that's what a coach is. I'm supposed to help you figure it out, not tell you exactly what to do. Because every single person is unique. There is no one freaking program that's going to work for everybody.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:59:47] Yeah, and that's always been my thing with, you know, when I start working on people trying to clean their diets up a little bit, I always say, What foods do you like? And people are like, Well, I'll just eat anything, you know, Tell me what to eat. I'm like, No, that's not sustainable. If I don't know what you like, I don't know how to make this thing work for you. And so that's been a big piece, is making everything work for that individual. Because, like you say, everybody has different, you know, allergies or drug things or, you know, so you got to put them all together individually. Trying to put everybody into one box has never worked.
Maaxx West [01:00:14] Yeah. Actually, one of my favorite fastest progressing clients right now. She's so. Like she's just so great. So I. And I posted a transformation about it the other day, and it's like a five week transformation. And she looks incredible and her gut is like fucking happy and flat and she's super happy and everything. And then I had other clients asking me,
Oh my God, why am I not making this progress? And I said, You are right. Because I asked her, because people say, Oh, but I don't want to have a cheat meal. I can stick to this. I can stick to that because I always ask my clients, what would you like to do? So I made her specific programs that she loves to go out for dinner with her husband every week, so she'll be faking it. And then she also said, Oh, my God. But, you know, I really like wine. I said, So have one. But she has it on that date and she can have after, you know, certain guidelines, but she can have that wine that she loves and she can have that dinner that she loves and she can do it every single week and it works freaking great. And she's so happy and everything just works so well. And then I have those other people that want to try to like, no, I'm not going to have a cheat meal and I'm not going to do that. And then they end up going over and like having a snack freaking several times a week and then they're not telling me about it. And then I find out later that they had an extra snack and then they freaked out and then they did extra cardio and then, you know, like the spiral of things.
And I used to be that person that would eat bad and then I would feel bad. I'm going to do like 2 hours of cardio. And these days, like, I don't really do cardio. I'm an actor more if I want to gain muscle. And a lot of cardio is not good for me. But long story short, like when I eat bad now, I don't feel bad about it. I just let myself do it. And I was like, That's great. Extra fuel for my muscle. I'm not going to go freak out and over a train and I'm just going to let myself do that. And in that way I actually want to do it less.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [01:02:07] So it's funny because on the day stuff, I actually make all my people quit calling it that because I'm like, I want you to earn it. It's a reward. Yeah, because the thing I've noticed is that when you say, Look, I want you to earn this day and it's a reward, more people tell me that they can make it because they're looking forward to rewarding themselves because cheating is a negative term no matter how you use it. So telling that you know, planning on cheating on yourself, planning on cheating in your diet doesn't build that mindspace that I like. So I always tell people that your reward date. It's so funny because.
Maaxx West [01:02:40] I like that. Yeah because.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [01:02:41] My.
Maaxx West [01:02:42] Oldest I usually call it a treat day actually.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [01:02:45] Treat days fine. It's just psychologically, I found that reward. You know, everyone understands that you have to earn a reward. So. Yeah.
Maxx West [01:02:54] So that's what I saw. Body Builder. Like, I don't really call it bulk season. I call it building season.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [01:03:01] Yeah.
Maaxx West [01:03:02] You know, so, you know, whatever feels better and sounds better.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [01:03:06] So I will tell you from that one, just as a guy and this might be a guy girl thing, but I like bulk because, like, it just relaxes my mind. Like, oh, I can eat like my diet just went up mass a whole big amount because I could eat anything else. So. Yeah, but the downside of about a quarter of the way through bulk, I was always like, I'm going to take this off sooner or later.
Maaxx West [01:03:32] That's all I did when I was in Texas. Now I purposely. Usually, I fly with my air fryer and I cook my own food and everything. So purposely I was like, No, I'm going to be a regular person for a week, not bring anything and I'm just going to figure it out and I'm going to eat out and do all these things. And I do. Then I immediately realized, take me two days to realize that I didn't like it. I don't like it at all. It makes me feel so good and so happy when I can do my own food that I don't even want to do it. So I said, Every now and then I do it like that. I was like, I don't even know how people live this way. I don't know.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [01:04:06] Well, it's funny because, like, you know, because I run so run a 22 two. Sometimes I'll be out with friends and we don't get to it very well. So I just, I usually won't eat that day. And you're like, Well, why don't you just eat something else? It kind of makes me feel terrible the next day. Not that I broke my diet and I feel that something the chemicals that I'm going to put in my body are going to make me feel bad for a couple of days. And so I would rather just be, you know, slightly hungry, then feel bad for two days.
Maaxx West [01:04:33] I do that, too. I get pain because of arthritis in my whole body and typically I don't have any pain and then I eat bad things and I so hurting. Huh? What am I? And people say I don't have any issues. Yeah, but you're 25. Wait, I have no issues until I turn, like, 35.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [01:04:52] Yeah, No, that's. That's always the thing. It's like, so. But that's. I talk about this all the time. If you're off a little bit long enough, it's going to destroy you. If you sail from Miami to Spain and you're off one degree, you're going to end up in a different country. So if you're 25 and you're doing all these things, the guys who are 30, 35, and 40 are telling you don't do. I did that. That messed me up. Yeah, well, I feel fine. Yeah, Yeah. I haven't I haven't done it wrong long enough that your body hasn't worn down to nothing. And so that's. That's the big thing. I try. I try. It's all these little, you know, the young kids, the 25-year-olds, they're like, I can eat whatever I want. I'm like, No, you can't.
Maaxx West [01:05:29] But then the same, How do you make them? Because even if you say it, it's I don't think they it's not like they don't believe you, but they don't understand it. Well, it can be about it.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [01:05:39] Well, you know that that's true, but a lot of times, even if they haven't felt it, the thing was the one thing I will say like everybody wants to. Ah, negative stuff out about the, you know, the generations blow them. But the guys who are in their twenties and thirties right now, like they can, they're willing to change their minds if you give them research. Like I have never had anybody just like argue tooth and nail and then you give them research and like still now like are like, oh, I didn't, I didn't have access to this or like, oh, I didn't know this. And they're like, All right, cool.
Now it makes sense. And I'm like, cool. And like, they'll change their opinion. Like, but that's, that's something I think that is very because guys my age, I, I have friends that are my age. I still give them research and they're like, I don't care what you say. And I'm like, it's not me. It's for different types of research. And they're like, Well, whatever. But the younger kids, I think, are getting to the point where they'll, they'll take new information and easier.
Maaxx West [01:06:29] Mhm. Well, I do a lot of talk about it because I have a lot of injuries from the past and I don't take any medication, I don't take any painkillers or anything and I work out and you know, things to my workout, like I maintain it really well the way I eat and I post about it a lot and people are always arguing, Oh, that's major bullshit, you know, injury this and I have this injury and it doesn't work. And I was like, You know what? It's not like, you know, you can look at all the pictures of all my injuries. It's not I don't have them. I have them. And then you see me and I am always happy and I have no pain, no, almost ever. And oh, but it's always people arguing with me.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [01:07:08] Well, it's.
Maaxx West [01:07:09] Taking it all up.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [01:07:11] Yeah. Did you try those things You did, You know, I just know that doesn't work. How do you know? Yeah, that's how most of it is. So. Yeah, but the, the, the one funny thing, you know, like I told you, I mentioned earlier that I just spoke to my head about videos and stuff. I know that, like, the rough stuff doesn't get to you at all, but it was really fun because you showed me that video of that girl who's excited to see you because.
Maaxx West [01:07:38] You're.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [01:07:39] You're her leader, you're her mentor. And that was fun to tell that story because that was that was fun for me to watch you get happy about something like that.
Maaxx West [01:07:47] Yeah. I had a girl at this competition in Dallas. I met her, you know, she was super excited and we took pictures and everything, and then she posted on her Instagram later a video where she's almost a little teary in her eyes and explaining, you know, how excited she was to. So she was talking about me first. She was mentioning other people, too, but she said she was it was so exciting. And she was just so just all over the place about, oh, my God, I actually met them in real life. And I was amazing. And I messaged her and I said, you know what? That's the way you feel about that. That's how I feel about that video. I said, That is just the sweetest thing. I even get goosebumps just talking about it. It's the cutest thing ever. And like, that is why I keep doing what I do. Because to me I said I'm no different than her. I'm just another person. Like, I don't I don't see myself as being anything more special than anybody else. And I said because I used to be her. And now she says that about me. And I was like, I am still that person in my mind.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [01:08:50] Well, it's funny because like, but you're also at the end of the road, right? That's everybody's, you know, whether people want to talk about it or not. If you're willing to go to a show, you don't want to do a show, you want to win and you want to win the whole damn thing. And so for a lot of women, a lot of people who are just getting into this, like your journey is the one everybody wants. And so, you know, you're they're you're their inspiration. So it's.
Maaxx West [01:09:13] Up to them to them they can both Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [01:09:16] Yeah. And that's I think the fun thing is you know because a lot of times it's people start to become champions and things like that. They, they recognize all the people who've been watching them the whole time, taking inspiration. It's kind of, it's kind of nice to see that when it when it finally starts breaking. So that's why it was so much fun for me to talk to you about that video. Because we were at dinner when that video came out. Yeah.
Maaxx West [01:09:42] If you ask him, I'm going to show that them because. Oh yeah, it probably was. Yeah.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [01:09:46] Because that's when.
Maaxx West [01:09:46] You showed it to him. Yeah, it was. But it says that, you know, it's also a long journey and you know, people there's always hate about things, but people are thinking, Oh my God, you know, after somebody wins and there's a bunch of should talk and whatnot and I was good people forget it. I turned 38 years old. So it's not like. It did that. And then suddenly I achieved all of this. And then, yeah, maybe my journey wasn't the actual competition a long time ago, but I always had big goals for myself and I kept working every single day. That, you know, it can happen sooner in life or it can happen later. But I also think no matter what age people are like, it's never too late. I said, I've even told people like, how old are you? I'm like, Yeah, I'm almost 40.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [01:10:37] So there's one more thing. There's one more thing. I always ask all my professional female athletes especially. A lot of women, regardless of what they look like, start struggling with body dysmorphia. And they think that you know, sometimes they think they look at something like herself and say, well, she's never had to deal with this. Like, I'm dealing with this because she's perfect. So real quick, walk us through kind of your journey on your body dysmorphia stuff so that we can kind of maybe let people know that the both are in is a lot bigger and a lot more fake than they think it is.
Maaxx West [01:11:09] Well, first of all, what is perfect anyway? I think that everyone's opinion on what is perfect is different. And I remember when I was younger, my dream in life was to look like a skinny supermodel. And I'm from Sweden and, you know, that's what we wanted to look like. So that's what I worked for back then. And then but then I think that I achieved that. I achieved that super skinny. I mean, if people have seen my before pictures and when I was that skinny, I thought that was great.
But now when I look at it, I was like, Holy shit, that's insane. And I wasn't happy and I wasn't healthy and now I don't want to look like that at all, but that's what I want. And I think that will always change. And these days I just want to get curvier and more muscular because that's what I like now. And it's not only about what I like, but how I feel. I feel incredible. And I think back then I achieved a skinny look, but I wasn't feeling great, so I wasn't satisfied. And now I'm always going to work for something, but I'm very satisfied. And now I like it when I'm lean, but I also like it when I'm thicker because I feel great. And I think that always changes. And a lot of people, if you know anyone who's on social media a lot, you get a lot of weird comments. People saying,
Oh my God, I don't understand why you look like that. There is no man that likes that. And then I'm just thinking, No, you don't like that. That's an opinion. Everybody has a different opinion and that's great and that's perfect. And we should have different opinions because that just means there's something for everybody. But and I said, if a person feels that way about me, that the way I look is just gross or whatever, they think, well, we're not a match anyway, so why does it matter? It doesn't matter because I will never be with that person anyway.
So I don't I don't care. I don't care at all. And to me, it's more about as long as I'm if I'm happy and I feel good, that's all that matters. So if I wake up in the morning or if I go out and eat shitty things, then I feel bad and I get very swollen and bloated. It's not so much what it looks like in the mirror that bothers me. It's the feeling that bothers me. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I don't care about shredded season or off or whether it's not bad. It's about what I'm feeding myself and how I feel.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [01:13:27] You know, it's always funny when you were saying, you know, there's no man who likes that. If there's one thing I can tell you about the male population, it doesn't matter how you look. There's a guy who. That's his thing. If you give me really fat, that's some guy's thing. Really funny, really skinny, some guys thing. So that's the silliest thing I've ever heard, is that there's going to be no guy who likes that thing. Exactly, because that's just stupid.
Maaxx West [01:13:50] But yeah, I hear that a lot. A lot of comments like that. But it's just it's always so interesting to me and I'm just thinking, yeah, that's your opinion and that's perfectly fine. You're entitled to have that, but.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [01:14:02] Well, thanks for coming on. I know it's kind of later where you guys are, so thanks so much for coming on, and hanging out with us. I will see you for sure at N.J. and we'll do some more live stuff there. So.
Maaxx West [01:14:12] Yeah, definite. Awesome.
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]]>The majority of DHT is produced by testosterone conversion. As a result, if you have a family history of prostate cancer, you should exercise extreme caution when using testosterone replacement treatment. Ask your doctor about Nandrolone Decanoate, which does not convert to estrogen or DHT. For prostate difficulties, my team frequently uses Deca in a stack or alone. Aside from hormone therapy, the prostate might have a variety of problems.
Aside from hormone therapy, the prostate might have a variety of problems. This is frequently attributable to men's low levels of antioxidants and the specific foods they consume for their prostate. While the standard maintenance that I normally propose, cleaning the liver and kidneys first, remains true, cleaning the digestive system and colon is equally critical. Increasing your fiber and water consumption to transport congested trapped fecal matter out of the intestines aids in the reduction of harmful buildup inside the large intestine.
The big intestine surrounds the prostate, and if the environment around the intestines is poisonous, so is the prostate. Increasing your intake of antioxidants such as Omega 3, EPA/DHA, green tea, and Coq-10 is also beneficial. Lycopene, histidine, and folate, as well as B6, selenium, and saw palmetto, are all beneficial to the prostate. However, biomechanical factors also exert pressure on the prostate. Sitting all day is not only harmful for your back; it can also put pressure on the prostate and alter the way the pelvic floor works.
This alteration may cause more waste items to accumulate on and around the prostate, preventing appropriate lymphatic and blood flow. The easy remedy is to get up and walk about more in our daily lives. Going to the gym, going for a stroll, or even simply getting up and walking about the office every now and again will help a lot. So, if you haven't given prostate health much thought, it's a good idea to start now, before it becomes a problem.
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]]>Typically, I will screen them for DHT once a year, or more frequently if there is a problem. Normally, you don't need to check until you've been on testosterone for more than 6 months. However, getting numbers up front is also a smart idea. If you are taking testosterone, regardless of who you work with, you must get those labs drawn. If your doctor refuses or is unsure what to do with them, you can get them through my website by clicking the link.
Then simply go to any LabCorp location in the United States and get your blood drawn. It takes around 7 business days to acquire the findings, but it could impact what occurs with your hairline or prostate. There are natural ways to reduce DHT that do not have all of the sexual negative effects that the prescription versions do, and I am striving to make these solutions available to you. However, I would check in now to see where you are.
If your doctor isn't testing these numbers, or estrogen, or hemoglobin and hematocrit levels quarterly, I'd go to the site and get examined more frequently.
Just DHT: https://pillarsofwellness.com/product/blood-work-dihydrotestosterone/
All the labs I pull for hormones: https://pillarsofwellness.com/product/complete-hormone-panel-includes-testosterone-estrogen-thyroid-cbc-cmp-vitamin-d-lipid-panel/
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]]>The best treatment we've discovered for this problem is to alternate renal castor packs and coffee enemas while taking higher doses of L-lysine, Vitamin C, D3, and quinine, which appears to assist but doesn't carry as much of a punch as I would think. In this case, Lysine appears to be the main player. Remember, the purpose here is to provide the body with the chemicals it requires to fight. Lysine is an amino acid that aids the body in its battle against viruses of all kinds.
D3 is a hormone that aids the body in absorbing critical ions to aid in the production of everything in the body, including white blood cells for the immune system. Vitamin C is essential for turning cholesterol into bile salts, making B vitamins like folic acid more useful, and increasing serotonin production. In a nutshell, we consume increased doses of C for digestion, brain function, energy, and liver function.
While quinine has been proved to be quite antiviral and aid in blood vessel tone, it does not have the same influence on other "issues." I would still take it, but if you're looking for a strategy to cut costs, I would skip the quinine. The detox organs play a significant role in this. So, if you can perform the kidney castor packs and enemas, it will be extremely beneficial. You can also include lysine in the enema, which appears to be beneficial because it travels directly to the liver. Finally, remember to stay hydrated by drinking plenty of water. Attempt to reach 100% of your body weight in ounces.
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