Week in Review #43 | Hormones, Menopause, Varicose Veins, and Why Movement Matters

Welcome back to The FARM Podcast for Week in Review #43 – an in-depth, unfiltered conversation blending functional medicine, sports performance, and real patient case breakdowns. In this episode, Dr. Beau Beard and team cover everything from menopause-related pain and hormone therapy misconceptions to golf swing analysis, endurance events, and the science behind varicose veins.

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  Description teBeau Beard (00:00.728)

  Boo! I'm doing that because the guy that's now editing the videos, I don't know if he'll use that somehow, but he gave me a like three minute sample and it was a million times better than anything I've ever done. So off of our last weekend review, he just took the beginning and was like, Hey, let me play around with it. It's not fancy, but I was like, I've wasted so much time with putting out a subpar product that yeah, just kind of makes me mad. But looking for a little like sparks come off the fingers or

  Flame. So what do want him to do? So if you had super power, what would you want him to put in? We'll see if he is... I'm thinking when Thor gets the axe and comes back down to Wakanda. the lightning kind of. You mean Stormbreaker? Yes. Okay. So lightning... If you're going to refer to it, please refer to its name. Thank you. eyes turn. I would like... I don't know, maybe a little Dragon Ball Z action. Like if you like put your hand out like this, and I'm sure he'll use my hand now that I did this.

  Like a little tea picking. So much more work for him. He's like, I'm not doing it. He's done. But anyways, this is Week in Review 43. This is the second to last week of March. And we said we're going to do these until end of April. And then we'll take a break for the summer because May gets super busy. then I forgot we said that. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. Maybe we'll do them more sparse than maybe one a month. I don't know. Maybe we'll just keep going. Don't know.

  Maybe if get enough fan feedback, subscribers, reviews, sponsorship money, we'll just keep going. I don't know. Updates, what's new with the team? I got a wild hair at my ass and we're putting a golf simulator in the front office. We moved the recovery room, which I actually like better. Yeah, so now at the farm, you'd be able to come hit golf balls, especially on a day like this. It's like 40 mile per hour winds. Last night, middle of the night,

  The wind kicked up. thought our house is going to fall down first fall. It started creaking and like, it really like get windy last night? Yeah. And then somehow our house is still standing. have a big metal. didn't hear it at all. Yeah. We have a big like movable metal barrier thing. So people can't see me like showering from the next door neighbor. And I just hear that thing. And the Maddox is like, ah, cool. I didn't even know it was supposed to I didn't even know it was supposed to rain. I just woke up this morning and it was like 30 degrees. It's like 30 degrees less than.

  Beau Beard (02:23.758)

  the weather's like that, you'll be able to come to the farm, some golf balls, get some golf swing analysis, movement analysis, and then we'll probably, I don't know for sure, so hope I'm not speaking out both sides of my mouth here, but doing a little bit more work with the Blackburn Performance Center out at Greystone in terms of what we're doing with our golfers. So look forward to more of that. Other updates? We survived a tornado. Yeah, I mean, I'm not saying eh.

  I mean, nothing was around us. threat. So there was, there were a few, but so as everybody sands me was in our garage with helmets on, think slung out on my climbing helmet. forgot his helmet. Yeah. goes, showed up with the helmet. was like, that's what he said to do. I got a picture of Alex in a helmet and I just know his birthday's coming up next week. And if he says one more crack at me, I'm just telling you right now he's going to.

  through the day. think the cracks at you versus me, that might be my third. And you're talking triple digits, partly. Did you just stutter? That's why I need the helmet. It's got a soft spot. If I get it one more time, the stutter goes into full. Can't speak. But no, the cell was right over the polygon. The polygon. It right over us. The polygones. If I had to hear that one more time, I just wanted to watch the players championship, and I had to hear the polygon 18 times. And then I heard James Spans underling.

  the younger guy say, turns into night, it's gonna get dark, it's gonna make it hard to see those storms. Can you imagine if somebody came in and I go, hey, I hear your back hurts, and they're like, yeah, go, guess what, I'm guessing that your back's been hurting you, Like something like, I if you go to sleep, you're not gonna feel it. Cool, thanks for the info there, bro. But anyways, the cell was right over us, no wind, no rain.

  Yeah, had we had literally when it was supposed to be the worst nothing and then it you know rain and stuff and there were tornadoes around us and I know there are casualties and stuff so I'm not trying to downplay it but around us it was not much yeah but it's storm season so we heard him saying it was headed towards the Narrows and I said well hope we have work on Monday so what was it 2023 was that one that ripped over we weren't here yet so 2020 we were in a different off-sailing in the same little area and I'm from Illinois so you can see

  Beau Beard (04:49.87)

  tornado in Illinois coming here. They're what's called rain wrapped. So it's just like in this massive storm and Oak Mountain is right behind our office here. we have patients in the office and lights are going off and on.

  Beau Beard (05:04.142)

  you know, look if the storm's coming and I opened the back door and I can't remember what patient was standing right next to me and you could see the tornado going like across the top of the mountain. And I was like, well, thought tornadoes wouldn't go across mountains. And it just literally ripped over the top of double look mountain and up and down some mountains for like three miles out to highway 43 while Sloan at that point, house with no basement was in our closet with Maddox and her at a time with helmets on and it was heading towards our house. And then it just took a left turn up the highway.

  Yeah, pretty wild. He used to back on the highway. It went straight down 43 for like, it was wild driving down 43. I mean, it was just like, the tornado knows how to drive better than some people. That's crazy. Probably went speed one too. Alec is losing an eyeball over here. lost an eyeball. We're going have to do some conversion strolls. He should have done that a while ago. And there we go. Contact's such a... I don't want to ever have to deal I'm supposed to only wear one.

  but I only wore it. You're supposed be mono vision man? Yeah, that's typically what I am. Yours is not that strong though, right? my worst, because my worst I think on this side is my right side is like 0.5 or 0.75. So here's a little tip since we're just meandering, we'll give you some health advice. So mono vision, mono vision can basically show up a couple different ways. So the most common one is somebody has Lasik surgery. So when you

  have Lasik obviously they're taking off layers of your corneas that creates for somebody that has glaucoma or cataracts can help with clarity of vision but then you lose a lot of your depth perception because you're basically losing the density of the lens itself. So what they'll do is a lot of people is put them in mono vision contact. So like one eye is far, one eye is close and then your brain through the what chiasm? The optic chiasm? my God.

  where it relays, it's going to cross that and then you get some information that's binocular, but it's not true. So what we see with a lot of people is, and that can be in contacts, it can be in glasses, it can be in wearing one contact for a variety of reasons, is that if you do things like running or riding a bike and you do them for a long period of time, your brain starts to have a harder time basically processing this like far long from not true binocular vision. We actually had a guy, I think I talked about him on this podcast before, that had bailed out of every

  Beau Beard (07:27.982)

  100 miler at about the same distance around 75 miles not based on any fitness Anything not the most fit guy in the world, but I think you push through it But he would literally go blind it would like white out and you would say his vision would just start to go and then I asked him that question He's like I do have mono vision. I did have a lazy can I don't know I don't like he's around 100 milers since I think last year But it's very common for people have depth perception and balance issues with mono vision. They're never told anything about that so just think it's kind of one of those things that

  If you're going have a surgery and then they want to slay me in context, should at least tell you that that might be a possibility. But kind of like the whole, my opinion, the world of behavioral optometry is kind of like looked at as functional neurology in our world, like a little like, I don't know. I would assume that a lot of, you know, ophthalmologists and, you know, eye surgeons probably don't, I would, maybe I'm wrong, don't think about the movement kind of visual connection as much as I think we should. So if you're out there and you're

  Looking through one eye long, one eye far. I don't know. Check your balance with one eye open and then the other eye open and see if it changes drastically or if you're running. We always ask people when they're having issues, like if they are in the office, they have contacts and then a lot of people will not wear those things when they bike or run. Your visual acuity and your feedback, know, depth perception is off. So like you can have mismatches and I've just, I've just seen show or stuff show up like that. So something to think about.

  I put mine in only during baseball. That's actually the only reason I got it. Yeah. Because I started noticing that I was… Yeah. started missing. I couldn't see the spin on the ball because I was facing pitchers that I had… I guess that was like my 10th grade year. I was facing pitchers that I had seen since middle school and I started just like missing pitches and I was like, I should be hitting that. I can either get under it or just completely miss it. And then actually, fun fact, I only hit one home run and it was the week after in like the next game.

  That you got your contact? got my contact and a guy put it right down, basically right down the middle and I hit it dead center. That was my only home run. So I was like, contacts work. One contact works. And you guys said you didn't know, you've seen Major League. Yeah. Okay. Ricky Vaughn. Yeah. He gets the glasses and starts zipping it down the middle. That's what I think about. Any other updates with the crew?

  Beau Beard (09:50.936)

  personal stuff. I guess you could talk about your race or the race we got this weekend. yeah. We'll go into events. Yeah, that's our first thing. We have the Rump Shaker, which that's used to be down by Sloss Furnace. And now it's, I don't know how long it's been at Regents Field, but most of those races downtown are at Regents Field. Is that a track shack race? No. I think it's for PTC. okay. Yeah. So basically, Yeah. Yeah. It'll be, it'll start and finish at the baseball field there.

  I think there's 1400 people signed up now. There's also a virtual, so there's probably like a thousand. Wow. There's a five K and a one terrible for the barn burner registration. Now scratching a hundred. I just got a text from a guy who's looking to come here yesterday. I said that he's gonna be running him and a friend around in the bar burner. Yeah. We've got like six signups, which is the most we've had this early at this point. Yeah. Cause they pour in and it lasts like two weeks, my patients actually has hip pain right now. And I was like,

  That's how she heard about us and she actually heard about us because of a sign that's posted like on 41. She goes, yeah, my friend was just like, yeah, we want to run like a 10 K or a half marathon. And I was like, which one do you want to do? And she was like, looked up at my board and goes, actually that one right there. And I was like, really? She goes, yeah, it's actually how I heard about y'all was I saw the sign down there and I was like, let's get you ready for it. put that sign up at the, the new P Vine or sorry, the new track of Vulture up there.

  Three hours later, I put it up. I got a text from FJ slash Fat Joe. Man, you're marketing earlier this year, Dr. Burner. Damn right, FJ. So he works for Shelby County and that's the, kind of partner with us. And I was thinking he was going to tell me to, that's a little too early to put that sign out, but I mean, it's helping the park. So, but yeah, we have six signups and what else am going to say? Sloan might run the Rump Shaker this weekend because her friends training for her.

  ran half marathon or train for one, she wanted to run 10K but they might go do that. I don't know. I asked her if she was going to be there. She said no. She's not supposed to be there. Her friends are coming to town for the SEC championships. So they're all going to be here but then her friend asked her to run. So then they might go down there. I doubt they will because what time does it start? 7. And they get in at like 6 p.m. Friday. Assuming there's going to be shenanigans. We're going to be there 6 6.30. Yeah. I also found out they're supposed to be, I don't know, I got some patience.

  Beau Beard (12:18.402)

  that one of them is her cousin's coming into town because he's like, I guess racing and like there's a motocross thing that's happening at Regents Field that afternoon. At Regents? My buddies could be there, yeah. Because I was like, when is that? says Saturday. No, no, no, it's probably Protective Stadium. she said it was one of the ones downtown. Yeah, they've had that there. They can put a motocross in the fall. Yeah, they had two there last year, I think. Wow. So Regents Field is where like the Birmingham Bowl was this year where Legion Soccer plays.

  That's Region is baseball. Yeah. Birmingham. Oh, sorry. Yeah. I know the motocross is at protective. Yeah. Or UAV. Yeah. Yeah. Bigger bowl. Besides that, we same weekend, we have two things going on the same weekend. So we have DNSA in Nashville, which were, they were sitting at 12 signups outside. So like myself, Seth will be there. Dr. Art, Audra, I think both of her other doctors will be there.

  pretty sure, so there's five of us. Sloan will be there too. So we're gonna have, mean, we're almost up to 20 with the Shed Fitness crew that's there, and then I'm hoping we get another five or six, and then it'll kind of be a full house. And luckily, or unluckily, we have to bring our own chairs all the way from Birmingham, but it's a whole other thing. I'm in charge of them. So if I don't come, It's a good day you got a buddy. We only got 10 or 11, so I don't know. We'll figure out what to do. I want to be able to get nine and be like,

  holding one out in the interstate. Same weekend, the Oak Mountain running a tree put on by our friend, Jonathan Croy and whatever the multitude of his companies are called now, Finish Line Catering. I don't, I don't honestly know. Yeah, there's a lot of Finish Line Catering is a bigger one or the main one. But there's a bunch of speakers. talked about Corey Waltering, Alex is going to be out there doing a talk and leading the hike and what else we got? got somebody.

  Who are the other speakers? There's four on Friday night. a bunch of information on Facebook, Jonathan Croy, Finishline Catering. Another thing that I saw they're putting on with Xterra. So the Xterra North American Championships are May, third week of May, so 21st this year, sometime around there. But that Xterra, basically the director of Xterra is moving to Birmingham.

  Beau Beard (14:40.79)

  Steve Andrus and then via that they're going to be doing more stuff in Birmingham because Oak Mountain, Oak Mountain is a like nationally recognized park. Like it's absolutely huge. It's awesome. So they're doing the Appalachian Trail Fest or Appalachian Trail Fest in October or September. And there's, if I'm, I should have brought up the website, but it's a 15 and 35 K, which are the national or world championship distances for the X-Tier Trail Run. So they used to have a trail running. So

  Exterior used to go Friday, they did all the talks and stuff like that. Saturday they did a triathlon, both sprint, the exercise or the sprint and the full. And then Sunday they would do, they didn't have the short course triathlon thing that's televised and they had the trail runs and they would do 5K, 10K half marathon or 21K. And that was the world championship distance was a 21K. And then they started adding on the marathon and they went into these ultras. So don't know why it's 15 and 35, which is neither one of the previous distances, but.

  Um, so I'm glad to bring that stuff back, but I don't know. I think I saw that the world championships in the UK, if I'm correct on that too. So it used to be in Kailua, Hawaii, where I went to it in 2016, but I think it moves every year. Um, yeah. And then again, the world championships for Xterra triathlon will be here next year. So we have the North American championships two years in a row and then world championships will be here or maybe 28 to the next year or 28.

  So they typically have the North American Championships. It moves. I think it's moved every year. think last year was Italy or Spain North American North American North American so always here. No it used to Again, I'm gonna get some of this wrong North American Championships were always in Ogden, And then that's the world championship is always in Hawaii. That's how it just went forever Then they moved I think the North American Championships to Vermont for a year or two and then it came into here

  And now I think they're trying to set up the continent or regional, whatever they call them are going to stay and then the world championship will move around. I think that's what Steve's saying, but who knows? I don't work for Exeter. kind of suck. It'd probably still be cold. be Killington in May. Well, I think the world championship for trail running is in June. And I think that's where the Vermont one was. I don't think the Tri was. The Tri still was in white. Yeah. And those are on two different islands for the triathlon and the trail run. They were during different times.

  Beau Beard (17:06.104)

  which always thought would have been better to have them at the same time on the same Island. The Pacific's still cold. yeah. Sure. But it's cool. They put on really cool events. mean, the one here is pretty big. The one in Hawaii is gigantic. And that company has changed a lot since, I mean, we first started working with them. That's first year we're in practice. That's first year we worked the events. So yeah, they're changing quite a bit. So we'll be doing some more stuff with them. In terms of events, right now going on Southern States 200.

  They actually have a live feed that Alex Morrow, the Resolute Running owner and coach is putting on. I've actually checked up on that, but that started yesterday. Yeah, Wednesday. So it'll go all the way through Saturday, is pretty weird. Sunday. Is Jim Womsey still running? No. Was he? No, not Southern States. No, no, Oh, not Western States. this is David Tostray. So this goes from Georgia to back to Alabama for 200 miles.

  point to point, they're trying to build this race up to be one of because there's a 200 and 100 that you can do. It could very easily be a Western states qualifier, but then you have Eastern states that is like the premier East Coast race. That's like the mirror of Western states. But I don't know how big the field was. I think it was, I want to say 30 something. Can imagine. We'll see. Pretty crazy. But yeah, 14 eight stations point to point 200 miles or you pick up halfway at 100. And that started, I think started today.

  starts Friday. remember which one. Anyways, yeah. So check that out if you're local. David Tosh, Southeastern Trail Series, Southern States. then the next, the start of the Southeastern Trail Series, Tranquility Trail is April. No. maybe they moved it to April. Second weekend in April, I think is what it's pegged as. Here I got it right here. I think it goes April, May, June. Last year was March. April 19th. So it's a little bit later because Lake Martin 100, which this may be the last year of Lake Martin.

  That's what they said maybe. I don't know if that's true, but that's April 5th and then Tranquility Trail April 19th. And the next one is run for kids May 3rd. And then kind of going. And then yeah, XTAR is May 16th through the 18th this year. a lot of stuff coming up. April may get super busy. And then everything dies off in June around here because it gets so hot in terms of racing, but that's why we have a race in June. April 19th, should be my like Mr. Triathlon, one of them.

  Beau Beard (19:34.104)

  Tranquil, yeah. All right, what do we got? So it looks like Ethan Strand's got some more news. yeah, we had NCAA. Tell everybody that in case they don't know and they're listening who Ethan Strand is real quick. I mean, we've been following Ethan Strand for the last few years and it's just cool to see one of the top collegians now and soon to be professionals who ran at Vestavia Hills High School. His dad, Scott Strand on the track shack, local Birmingham guy as well. so him and his family. trial guy as well.

  Him and family have been around for while. Marathon? Marathon and steeplechase. 3K steeplechase. And then Ethan ran in the Olympic trials last summer for the 1500. This past weekend at the indoor national championships, he anchored their distance medley relay and got second, which was a really good race. The fact that you get second split 349 on the mile leg and the guy in front of you just happens to split 348 is pretty crazy. And

  watched an interview with him after that race and he won the 3K the next day, his first indoor title. And he basically just said, hey, I learned from, I went too early in my kick the night before. So he waited a little bit and closed, he closed his last lap in 25.3. Last 200 meters in 25.3. His kick is world-class. Yeah. It was pretty insane. So it's just, again, it's cool to see him doing well. Their team scored pretty well too. And then

  Uh, Sam Ruth, I'm going to say is how you pronounce his last name. He's Australian. Ruth with an E. Yeah. Ruthie. Um, he became, so he, this past weekend broke Jakob Ingebrigtsen's age group world record as the youngest person to ever break four minutes for the mile. So if you've been following him, he, I recently just saw him in social media in the last few months, but, um, he ran 358.3 at 15 years old, 11 months, six days. So previous record.

  I think Jacob was almost 17 when he ran 358 point something, whatever. So a full year younger than him. And if you are in the track and field world, you know the name, Jakob Ingebrigtsen. So it would be, you know, be really cool to see where he goes in the next few years. feel like there are plenty of guys that we've seen run well at a young age. Do they always pan out? know, tends to favor men better than women, but you never know. So. I think in the.

  Beau Beard (21:58.702)

  I don't know in the mile like that if you have that kind of speed because we know speed is basically going to be gained or know bought basically early in life and then you can build the endurance on top so that pans out better than people that are like really good across country the 5k and stuff and then maybe you already have running quite a bit endurance and yeah so I know I think being you know a standout in the mile or something like that maybe has more carryover into later in college and stuff like that so let's see any talk where he's going to school? Oh no I didn't want me to

  a sophomore. Yeah, but I'm assuming he's talking to people and I'm sure it's going to be in the States. would assume. Yeah, maybe. And honestly, I in Cross, I need to put this up to my mouth. I think in Cross, you can't talk to people until they're like a junior or senior. Oh, yeah. Because that's different. Like baseball, you can talk super young. You can reach out to them. They can't reach out to you. Yeah, I think you can reach out to them at junior year. Coaches can't talk. Coaches can't reach out to you until I think your senior year. least when we were going to Granite, we were fixing to have our 10-year high school reunion.

  yeah. walkers out. Get your walkers out. Do you have yours? Yeah, it's pulled up back here. It's got to be rusted by now. That's not a golf club, that's cane. I can't believe it survived the like fossil age. Petrified wood over First edition walker. It's made of mammoth bones. Did you see the woolly mice? What? So they took the genes from the woolly mammoth and used them in mice to...

  do the first, this is what I saw. Maybe this isn't true. Who knows what's true nowadays. Like who knows? Is that basically an R-O-U-S? What? Or that's an unusual size, Princess Bride. I get the reference now, but I was lost there at first. I like, no, they weren't any bigger. They just had wooly, long brown hair. I again, maybe that's We need to stop playing with stuff. I, yeah. We need to stop playing with I agree, but I would go to Jurassic Park if

  Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Those little, those little like hamster balls that get to like drop around in there. I don't know about that. I, yeah, that's, that's dicey. Have like a T-Rex claw go through it. They'd be kind I'd for sure go though. Oh yeah. I would go. I would have to. Yeah. Yeah. Even if they're like 50 % chance of dying, like, yeah. Like, okay. Having a Patera d'Ac will fly over you. Yeah. But completely switching subjects back to my cane in the golf club.

  Beau Beard (24:23.18)

  One thing I didn't mention since we were talking about just kind of the sports updates, Roy McElroy back in the winter circle after I don't know how long, I guess he didn't win. He won not too long ago, but not a big, event, even though this wasn't a major. So it won the players championship and a Monday playoff against JJ spawn. which JJ spawn just has resting basically, I guess upset face, not bitch face. Cause you would hear him talking and he was like, happy, but he just looked pissed. yeah, he fell apart on the Monday playoff and it was just a runaway, but.

  That being said, now there's all this talk of Rory's gonna win the Masters and being picked, which I kinda like to see him win, even though I do think Rory's bit of a dick. I don't know, I'm sure everybody saw that took the Texas Longhorns golfers phone from him. Did you guys see this? So first or second day, he teed off and somebody right before he teed off said, just like the 2011 Masters or something when he basically choked. And Rory tees off, picks up his tee, heads back to, puts the...

  club in his bag goes over to the guy goes, let me see your phone. And the guy goes and like hands him his phone. just walks off. I like it. Later find out that guy plays golf for university of Texas. So then the coach has to make a comment. The guy wrote a letter to Rory and the PGA and all this stuff. And it's, and then it's like, well, is Rory being a Dick? I mean, the guy, kind of wish you to just snapped it. I don't like, I don't know.

  You know, they need to be fine. If they do something in their swing, I get it. But the guy wasn't like yelling in a swing is something he said before. think that's, you know, because you also people stop all the time. He stopped on the last day, like in the middle of super windy on the drive on 17, I think. And somebody was saying something. He just like pulled off. Anyway, so he's back in it. Also, the crazy thing, they were doing these comparative analysis on earnings, like basically inflation.

  What am I trying to say? So back like when Arnold Palmer won versus now, like if the inflation rating was the same, know, or consistent, but then seeing like Tiger Woods, his one, I think it was close to, I don't know what it was, close to a billion dollar or not a billion dollars. It was a hundred million of winnings total. Obviously he's got way more money than that. But then Rory was right behind him as a second earner with not as nearly as many earnings. But then they looked at somebody like Tommy Fleetwood. He's never won a PGA event and he's still earned 25.

  Beau Beard (26:43.768)

  So it's crazy amount of money that they used to win versus what they win now. Cause I mean the winnings for the players, I think 3.6 million for the first place, something like that. I mean, it's just wild. Like how much money is that? Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of money in golf. I also saw Auburn now as a $14 million golf facility for the college golfers. I need to go back to college. Yeah. Just some money in them. Golf would have been so much more fun than running.

  Yeah, except if you want to run at Auburn, have to have unrealistic walk-on standards and then not live up to it in college. Yeah, but like so much less pain. just like mentally get torched. Okay. That's like every day in here. And the cool thing with golf in college is you can go play in like pro events as an amateur and be like kind of building, obviously not winning money. Cause who was it last year, two years ago? it was Nick from here. Dunlap.

  Right. One, what tournament he went to? It wasn't the FedEx. He got invited to that. No, he won a tournament and couldn't take the winnings. Yeah, that's right. then he didn't declare for whatever it's like, why is he not declaring? It took like two weeks. I think talking with his agent and stuff and then he declared pro status. Yeah, it's like $1.4 million or something. Sure. He's made that up in sponsorship, but Nick Dunlap is a local guy here. So follow him if you haven't. I think that's it for our kind of just events, updates, happenings.

  I only have one research article that I looked up because I was speaking with somebody the other day that, and actually there's two things, so I'll talk about the same time because it same patient visit. She said, you know, I had all this pain start right when I started going through menopause. She's like both my hips started hurting, my shoulders started hurting. Her main complaint was she had neck pain that was kind of radiating to both shoulders.

  And she goes, it's worse at night, but then I'll wake up, it's stiff, it gets better through the day, and it's worse at night. And that's kind of the pattern. Nothing's changed in terms of activities. She used to do CrossFit. She's now gotten away from CrossFit because she thought it was just too hard on her body. She's in her mid-50s, late 56. But there was a couple of interesting things. So I was trying to explain to her that, well, when you go through menopause or you have some sort of hormonal change, you change your pain sensitivity thresholds. And so there's just an article that I'll put in the show notes.

  Beau Beard (29:06.862)

  titled the role of sex hormones in pain-related conditions. So when you go through menopause in particular, you get a reduction in both testosterone and estrogen. And the first one that reduces is actually testosterone because that's a precursor to estrogen. So when there's a lot of research that shows that men have a higher pain threshold, which I know a lot of women would disagree with from childbirth, maybe guys too, because of the amount of testosterone that they have. So then as we see testosterone lower and then your ability to basically produce estrogen,

  that we see that you have a decreased pain threshold or increased pain sensitivity. What she was told, and this was the next thing I was gonna talk about it towards the end in these common questions, then she went through this laundry list of what she was told by her primary care physician. The first thing was without doing any labs on her hormones, they just, because I go, well, if you don't have any hormone replacement therapy, she goes, well, I tried topical testosterone for six months and I didn't see any change. And I go, well, why did we do that?

  She goes, well, my physician told me to just try it and see if I liked it.

  I didn't want to dig into it anymore. I want to be like, you like it? Like you feel better? Should we not base giving somebody a topical hormone based on need versus how you feel? I get that you can have mood alterations, energy, like, but do you need, I mean, somebody might not need vitamin D and have all the symptoms of vitamin D deficiency and we give them vitamin D and they get toxicosis because it's fat soluble vitamin. Like that's stupid, right? so that was why I was like, okay. Then we dug into the why does she quit CrossFit?

  Well, she had x-rays of her neck and then had dexascan and it showed slight osteopenia, right? Female in America, even though she's working out. And she has arthritis, so she was told her joint pain, these multi-site joint pains that showed up the exact same time as menopause were arthritic. Her arthritis was because she's been active her whole life. Never played a professional sport, didn't play a collegiate sport, didn't do anything one in particular, yet her being active caused her

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  global arthritic changes even though she's in her 50s. And then she was told that she shouldn't do any heavy weight lifting or impact things because of the joint pain or the arthritis and osteopenia. So when she told me all that, then I had to open my mouth. I wasn't just going to sit there and be like, here we go. Shut that a little bit. You guys turned, we all turned into ghosts there. So the way I address this with her, go,

  When she brought up all that, go, well, let's just kind of chat about, because she's like, I don't do jumping anymore, like, you know, box jumps and things like that. I don't lift heavy weights, because I only lift eight to 10 pound weights. I was like, okay, well, we know for a fact that loading the skeletal system is the thing that you need the most, you know, nutrients and load go hand in hand, right? You need nutrients after the load to kind of replenish or, you know, have this osteoblastic, clastic, you know, kind of function play out. But you need that to have strong bones.

  So eight to 10 pounds, probably not enough load. Impact by itself we know is good, but also running has a threshold. You run for a certain period of time and then that kind of stops or goes backwards. And then it's, know, bouts. So I do three miles, you know, a couple of times a week or whatever. That's kind of that sweet spot or time, I guess, improved bone density versus a detraction. That's also only lower body, right? You're not getting anything upper body or spine or whatever I'm gonna say. So we address that, address, told her about how hormones can change and then,

  as we're going through this, she also had a bladder sling surgery, I want to say six, seven years ago, and she goes, well, it worked. And I was like, oh, so you know incontinence with jumping or anything? She goes, no, like I can jump just fine. So here's somebody that was active, that was weightlifting, that was jumping without any of the typical things we see in a female of this age, and everything that she should be doing to actually help her, they literally told her not to do. Is it just, do they say that?

  because they think, well, they could risk falling, breaking a bone because they're osteopenic. Is that what they're? I shouldn't say probably, maybe. My thing is, A, where I think the, I don't think, I know where the thought process goes wrong is them telling her that your generalized arthritic changes and your body degenerative changes, normal, signs of aging, right, are because you're active. And that's the one that I tackle first. said,

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  actually all the research would show because you've been active, you probably offset that tremendously. And your diet would have, you know, and lifestyle would have like caught up to you much sooner had you not been active your whole life. And especially she's like, I've done all sorts of stuff, tennis and golf and dance. She never did one thing in particular. So like that right there, as soon as somebody says that, and then all the other stuff, I'm like, well, if they think that, then they probably do think, you know, you shouldn't lift weights because it causes arthritis. You shouldn't jump because it causes arthritis. What are we talking about?

  You know, and I address it nuance and say, yeah, if you don't have great mechanics, yeah, sometimes if you have a previous injury, sometimes because she brought up, she goes, what about pro athletes? You know, they don't, they have the germs. go, they're the extremes, right? I go, my wife, two surgeries on each shoulder. Her shoulders are not going to move or operate like yours and eyes, but they didn't before the surgeries either because of the amount of stress she put on them. The surgeries maybe were needed, maybe not. Now she's had planned trauma four times.

  and she'll have early degenerative change, but she better work really hard knowing that's the case. like, there was just all this stuff. was like, Jesus, how many people are being told this crap? And then this is somebody that was doing all the right stuff, went through a normal hormonal change, and literally is telling her physician and me, that's when all my pain started, and then we're addressing it in a non-functional medicine way. And that's why I was trying to get to her.

  hey, we gotta rule out the mechanical, see if we can get you to get a little bit better, but I there's a big functional medicine play and I'm not gonna dive into that female hormone thing. We gotta find somebody to work with her on that. like, it just blew my mind that, let's slap on some testosterone cream and stop lifting weights and stop jumping and like what, mean, not, and again, if it was benign, I'd be like, eh, okay, but that's, like, you're gonna go the other way. Right? Not just, I'm not bad, I'm just not better. Well, you're gonna go downhill. So that's- And she had no signs of

  those activities were making you worse? No, she, she thought, she just thought CrossFit was too on our body. I'm not going to deny as you get older, if you don't move perfect and you're not the fittest person in world, CrossFit's hard on people in general because of how it's programmed. intensity, you get fatigued, you're going through big complex movements. You've never been trained in those properly. Yeah. I'm not against that. It's why different kinds of gyms, but now she, well, here's the kicker. Here's the real one.

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  So there's a very good trainer that does classes at a gym here, Brenda, that is amazing. Like every class is literally different. So if you're a personal trainer out there and you're doing these circuit type, whatever you're call it, classes and imagine every one of them is different. Like that's astounding. She's been doing this for 15 years. She quit doing her classes because she felt like she didn't wanna do the impact stuff and she couldn't keep up with the class because she thought it was too intense and I was like,

  I go, what did Brenda say? And she goes, well, Brenda just told me that like if like the squats are hurting my knees or my hips or the jump, she goes, just do isometrics. Cause that's kind of going to load this like she's telling her like something good. I go, perfect. But I go, I bet Brenda would also want you to kind of like push back into like more aggressive stuff is that's better. So just that like was kind of the tipping point. I was like, you're stopping doing a class that like you have one of the best trainers that I know that's

  watchdogging a small group and doing a different type of novel class, full body movement up and down off the ground. And you're now going to get rid of that. Like that was, was like, okay, I'm going to talk about this. Cause some people had, let's get through this visit. Let's get you feeling better. Let's address the mechanical musculoskeletal side. And then we'll start talking about all this stuff that maybe is mis-education or functional medicine stuff. And I just, if she never came back, I would still feel like I did the right thing of like open Pandora's box, you know? And I've seen her husband and stuff like that, but

  The only other crazy thing, I'm not calling this patient out, just this is the time we live in. She had on her paperwork that she only takes Simiglutide and then BPC 157. So I was just like, hey, I'm curious why'd start taking that? How'd you get it? Yeah. So that's how go, are you just taking oral? She goes, no, injection. go, oh, where are you getting it? She goes, I don't know. My son gets it for me. And I was like, since 19 or something, I was like, oh, because you can get injectables off Amazon.

  You have no clue what's in it, first of all, where it's from, if it's even a peptide. I told Sloan this. Where it gets crazy, and if she's listening, I'm not dogging you, I'm telling this for other people to learn. When we went to get ready to adjust her mid-back, she's like, well, I've only been to chiropractor twice, I'm kind of scared to adjust it, and I poked fun at her, go, but you'll inject things into your body that you have no clue where they're from. And she kind of snickered to, and I was like, come on.

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  we talking about? Because again, Keith Barr on Tim Ferriss podcast basically tore down the the ideas of BPC 157 and 156 actually having changes in terms of like repairing tissue and things like that. He's like, there's changes that are occurring, but it's not remodeling like we think. So that's go listen to him first podcast. I don't know where it is in the show.

  He talks about how increases growth hormone receptors or growth hormone in particular to tendons means nothing in terms of basically making that tendon more robust or strong because they don't respond to growth hormone. So he goes, yeah, they did studies and they just found those receptors uptick and then they published that showing that's a good thing because there's no correlation of that's an improvement to tendon health. Well, welcome to research in a nutshell. Find a finding and you're like, oh, look, it's good. And you're like, well, does that actually matter? Don't know. So yeah.

  long-winded on that but I hit to our research article a common question that I had on the arthritis and that one just drove me through the wall of being active your whole life is bad for you. No, I don't think so. All right, moving into cases. I Alex, this is yours, isn't it? Yeah. So this is a mouthful so let you go for it. Yeah, I don't have a lot on it because I've only seen him once but he would be coming back tomorrow. Was a current patient, was a patient of Daniel's. I don't know how long ago, maybe a year or two.

  Um, there's an 11 year old boy who, um, he was seeing, he came in because he was having back pain and he had seen Daniel for like knees, knee pain. Um, it's active, doesn't necessarily play on sports teams, but like, like shoot basketball, um, big video gamer though. So it's like, he'll, he'll play and then sitting for a long period time. everybody else go to your crossword class instead of work. I don't know why I feel so terrible. I got an idea.

  When I was looking through his notes, I had seen something, was like, this is different to me. So obviously, I'm talk to his parents about it. But they had mentioned that he had congenital diffuse venous malformations. Like multiples. Yeah, like his entire body. So whenever I looked it up, it's more common that it would be small, like a specific area in your body. And when you look at him, you can see discoloration in the veins. That's saying. can see His face, his neck, his

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  is mostly his right side of his body. It's on both sides, like swelling on his right hand and arm, right foot. And those obviously get worse depending on what he does. And he's had numerous surgeries. And from what I looked at and his mom had explained in surgeries that they'll do is it's called sclerotherapy. And they'll basically inject an agent in the vein, saline, to then shrink because they're enlarged, which I'm hearing that.

  that's super painful and like, can't believe you did that on a kid, like if it's your whole body, what do you know? Now what I'd seen they do that more often, they get on the specific areas harder to do that for your whole body. But he was basically in, he had said, Hey, like I have blood clots pretty often. cause initially in my head I was like, yeah, is this a blood clot? Which he said, this does not feel like when I've had blood clots, they've been up in my shoulder or my neck.

  And they feel a lot different than this does. It's terrifying. And so basically this all started, he had, normally he plays video games kind of every evening, but on the weekends he'll play a lot more. And his mom was like, yeah, he played like all weekend. So this started on Monday and he doesn't know what happened. And so in my head I said, okay, well, he just didn't move for a while. He already has a venous.

  backflow problem where he can't move blood. And so he just for a long, you know, hours on end playing video games, flexion intolerant, low back pain, which has an 11 year old kid. not really thinking that he has a disc problem. but we, we essentially just did some general movement, some breathing. And I talked to him about getting up and moving in between if he's going to play video games, like, just get up and move here and there. That might be gone in your basket, your driveway and shoe basketball.

  and then come back or whatever it is. I gave him a couple of movements to work on just in between. as I was reading more on it, I was like, well, duh. He has a hard time with blood flow in general. And then he sits for a long period of time. No wonder. And he's even explained that that's how his knees will get if he doesn't get up and move. So we're just explaining the same things to him. And I...

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  tried my hand at Chad GPT, which I don't ever do. don't, literally my, my people will mention I had this question. So I went to chat, chat GPT about it. And in my head, I'm like, that never crosses my mind to think about going use that. I went, and I went, I asked three questions based on what I found. And then the next question and then built it the next question. No, it was just, I was looking at conservative options for a congenital diffuse, penis malformation. cause the articles I was reading on, was like, well,

  He has had the surgeries. They talk about wanting to avoid surgery if possible because he's so young. And there are lot of the same things that we would advise and that we can do in here. Low impact aerobic exercise, obviously avoiding prolonged sitting, muscular contractions, especially in the area where they're affected or if there's atrophy in those areas, compression therapy. And then as far as dietarily, like an anti-inflammatory diet, trying to get more fruits, vegetables, omega-3s.

  and then avoiding things that would be pro-inflammatory refined carb sugars, which for an 11 year old kid, like it's not going to be the easiest thing, his mom, I'm assuming his dad, his mom's very invested in making sure that his health is good and that he's setting himself up well for, cause they've been doing this his whole life. So, yeah, it was just interesting. I've never obviously never seen that and then hadn't even really heard of it diffusely like that. Yeah. And I'll probably.

  A little bit different, but there's a lot of crossover. Sloan around her first pregnancy started having some right-sided like varicosity stuff that was really painful was a big thing. And then it became more of a visual aesthetic thing after the second. So I've done a deep dive and actually I won't put the article in this one because I'll do a full video on this as we get further into it and have somebody that can edit videos now. But I've found a cool research article because I was just like, well, I wonder if there's

  It doesn't make sense the mechanism they talk about with this, which is different, right? He's having basically this torturous, know, malformations within his venous system versus, you know, veracosity. They're saying that the valves are basically becoming damaged, right? To do backflow pressure. there's a, a precipitating event that causes valve damage, right? Cause they kind of say that you go through a hormonal change, you become more relaxed. The valves start, you know, basically collapse and they become.

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  dysfunctional is like, well, what's precipitating that like dysfunction that doesn't make sense to me. So I found an article showing entrapment sites of lower extremity veins, and then six major entrapment sites based on trigger points. Now we're back into the trigger point conversation 256 patients and they use dry needling between eight to 12 visits depending on I don't know what the dependence was on there at the specific trigger point site that they deemed off of clinical exam.

  where they found basically, think based on pressure, if they got backflow into the vein and things like that, that was measured on ultrasound, not just somebody like, know, seeing distension or feeling it. I'm not gonna quote it completely, but I think it was 91 % resolution of symptoms. And that also lasted over a year. By draining. So that makes more sense to me that you're like, you can have neurovascular compromise. We know you can have nerve entrapments. Okay, now you're.

  pressing a neurovascular bundle, a vein or something, you get backflow and now maybe that damages the valve. So I've been doing some work with Sloan on entrapment sites and we've done some before photos. We'll be kind of following that as we go and then looking at that. Some other stuff that I've looked at, which you were talking about dietary stuff. So I've done a deep dive into varicosities and what you can do. Because some of the things that can make varicosities worse are heat. So when someone gets in the hot tub,

  itching occurs because what's happening is you get a histamine response within the vein or really within the artery first and as that vein dilates that histamine response comes and she'll have intense itching and the pain gets a little bit worse. So what kind of didn't make sense to me was well if I have vasodilation we know that for like blood pressure and like general like regulation of blood flow that's actually a good thing. We want to have vasodilation which causes constriction and that like basically pumping the walls.

  So was like, that doesn't make sense either that you should avoid things that are vasodilators, right? Nice oxide, yeah, heat. So then you dive, take a deep dive into the research and then you start to find out, actually it's kind of a moot point. It's about 50-50. It's not negative. They just say some people show up with more symptoms of itching, but it doesn't necessarily make the varicosities worse. Then you find a research shows that it actually does improve varicosities. So I was like, okay. So what can be

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  Houghton vasodilators besides getting in a sauna or hot tub. And I'm not saying to do that because there's contraindications and I can't be the person saying it's good. But we have Sloan on the following things. L-Arginine, which is a precursor to nitric oxide. This is an important note. Some people are very sensitive to nitric oxide, like pre-workouts and stuff. They'll get itchy. They have a histamine response or a pump response.

  Um, but LR genein and then you can have beta alanine is also a precursor to nitric oxide. They are like second stage vasodilator or sorry, uh, vasodilators. So we have it on that vitamin D and vitamin C and vitamin E are potent for endothelial health. So it's like for this kid, I he's young endothelial health, vein wall health arterial. It's going to be paramount. So yeah, you don't want the inflammatory cascade, right? So this gets back into like the cholesterol.

  atherosclerosis concept where we're like, the cholesterol's not causing the issue, right? Just like in a forest fire, the wood didn't cause the fire, but you have a lot of wood. So if you have cholesterol present, you're gonna be like, my God, I got atherosclerosis. No, the spark is like inflammatory responses, insulin resistance. Same thing with this kid. That's terrible for him. So we gotta control the inflammatory response.

  Other things that we have are on in methylfolate, endothelial health. A lot of people have methylation defects. We just ran or I just ran on myself, Kit, our youngest, and then Sloan, all our genetic data through three by four. We've already done Maddox's, just looking at everything. Asparagus extract, which again was another endothelial wall or endothelial health promoter along with sulforaphane. So I actually found, and again in the...

  video that I'll do specifically on this, I'll put what, she's only taken four supplements. So it sounds like a lot, but I found things that combine a lot of these things. So we're again, I'm doing the soft tissue kind of protocols on her. got her doing this. We got her doing some other stuff and she's already seen a big reduction in pain. Cause that's her biggest complaint is like pain, especially around, you know, menstrual cycle. And then a little bit of change from an aesthetic standpoint. And then I'm also looking at the aesthetics. The two biggest ones are intense pulse light and then

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  a couple different laser therapies, then sclerotherapy, like you said, they're injecting saline into the vein to kill the vein, thinking that you'll have an angiogenic response and like, you know, basically just form new veins around it. Still doesn't. And what do most people see? That tends to, they change and you get more varicosity is probably because you're not finding out why. What doesn't make sense to me is why is someone only have on the right, not the left. That is not a systemic vein wall, elastin breakdown issue. You have something going on.

  She's always had right hip symptoms. That was the biggest pain point during pregnancy or delivery for the second. So it just got me thinking. So we'll see what we find on that, but just kind of poking around and questioning some of the long stuff, long held stuff of like, don't do this or this is bad. And it just didn't make sense when you think about to me at all. There's just, your valves are becoming dysfunctional. It's an autonomic response. So why is it that systemic? don't know. That's like similar with, one of my patients that

  I've seen for a while, she's the one that had the right ACL, like back like in, I don't know, 25 years ago or something like that. She also has right low back pain and then she has varicose veins on the right that she is having the surgery for in like, don't know, a couple weeks. They're going in and they're like, basically like, caulking up like her like femoral vein. And then that should like reduce everything on that.

  Which is such a dumb idea to me. You know, I don't know. None of it makes They're stopping it up so that way, like you said, like angiotensin stuff happens, so they like reform or regrow like new veins. I'm like, I don't know if you're regrowing, I think you're just like putting more force to the capillaries, which are already like smaller, which I would think would just cause more spider thread veins. And I don't know. I'm not obviously.

  you know, cardiologist or somebody that's in that, you know, working with people that are dealing with blood pressure, arterial, venous issues. It just doesn't make sense. And if we've learned anything, as doctors still out there telling people that arthritis is caused by generalized movement, which is the exact opposite of true. So why not question anything? And then you can dive into the research like anybody else and kind of make your own interpretation. And then if everything's benign, right, but

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  I'll put up that article when we, I'll do a video here in the next few weeks on that research article. What we're doing with Sloan, the exact protocol, because there's a ton of women that like pain is their biggest thing. I've had people where I think the complaint they're coming in for is being caused by varicosities, not like anything else. Then you get into the whole, okay, veins and nerves or sorry, veins and arteries have their own nerve supply and they can have their own pain supply, nevina morum and things like this. So it's like, you know, where does it stop? What's starting what? And I don't know.

  So just keep questioning it and think around it and you know, don't just take it for what it is, especially for women. Cause I know it bothers Sloan a lot from an aesthetic standpoint. So that's where I was like, if I could help at all, you know, try it. But cause she did a console to do sclerotherapy, which was six sessions. And then they basically say, it'll probably come back. And it's a lot of money and not insurance covered. I don't know. don't know. When you start, here's my thing. You start caulking up things.

  They don't put cock in there for me. No, that's just what… They're basically stopping the flow through The reason she said that is because she said that's what her doctor told her is it's basically like Well, they'll cauterize veins. Yeah, they stick something in there and it fills it. Does that not put more stress on the cardio system? So you're just, again, they're thinking that you're to backflow around it. Yeah, divert it. To me, I'm like, cool. Yeah, you have an angiogenic… I mean, you are growing new vessels all the time, right? Through capillary beds and out of…

  microtubules and stuff, but like doesn't make any sense to me. Same thing with radio frequency ablations and cauterization of nerves. Like, yeah, you go under neurogenesis, but the whole thing is like, you're going to kill that nerve to kill a pain response. Like we know enough about chronic pain now to know that you're going to have the same response and maybe worse because you're already having an angiogenic and neurogenic or neurogenic response to that because that's what happens in chronic pain. You grow more nerves and capillary beds because your body's kind of saying like, I have a lot of feedback going on.

  So like that's the response. You get more stuff. Just like you load bone, you get more bone instead of less. Welcome to gender change. Like, what, what were the, did you ever say what were the four things that you've met Sloan's found that if she takes those four hits, a lot of the, don't want to, I, I'm to do a deep dive and I'll, I'll give the whole supplement list and that. Um, but I'm to do a standalone video on again, showing her before fit photos, she's okay with that. And then like what we've done, cause we've only done, I've dry needled,

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  Son does not like needles. And one of the spots is literally like right in her hip flexor, like pectinus, which is not a fun area, but that's where basically your femoral nerve artery and vein come out underneath your inguinal ligament there. And that's not a fun spot. So it's been a lot of soft tissue. I think you can use, again, the mechanism of dry needling are not well understood of like, why is it work? Does it work? Is it the best tool?

  think you can do a lot of hands-on stuff, but a lot of things around the inguinal canal and operator canal on her or operator hiatus is where symptoms are. Makes sense because the worst varicosity is right across like, know, medial thigh. So we'll just see, but I know a ton of women that if we could help at all, like, I mean, honestly, the only thing I've ever heard about soft tissue and varicosity comes from, I think her name's Ashley Black and that damn fascia blaster thing. You know I'm talking about at all? This lady has been sued 10 ways a Tuesday.

  So it's a saying that they would just fascia blast all over, cause massive bruising and things. And then she started advertising it for varicose in particular. And I'm not saying she doesn't, she's not a doctor and you have to be a doctor, no, up. She was just a lay person that got into fascia stuff because of varicose and cellulite saying that if you look up fascia blaster, if you've ever heard of this, which is a terrible name, because it just takes your brain in a whole lot of different places, but Ashley Black, she had a documentary about it. She got sued.

  Like want to say $10 billion worth of lawsuits or something. Would there be any? people that bought it, didn't work or had adverse reactions. Maybe I'm wrong. a chance of an embolism with it? Yeah, that's what I'd say. Yeah. that's again, we have people, I think it started with cellulite. So again, let's look it up a little bit while we're on here. So Ashley Black was definitely the creator. And if we get in here, I bet if I type Ashley Black, yeah. Ash Blaster. Massage.

  Let's see lawsuit.

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  Class action from 2021, the court because the company offers a thousand day money back guarantee. That's a long S. So there's Ashley Black. Lawsuits presumed to be just one aspect of various attacks on Black and her companies. That sounds like they're on her side. Being that the Fasplaster is FDA registered, does that mean that it's a certified Class 1 medical advice? Okay, today neither FDA nor Black's companies have received a single verifiable injury report. Okay.

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  Fasciology there. We made that up the source. That's what's up. Yeah source for later links actually black guru guru She wrote this article. No wonder it's on her side Yeah, welcome to Ashley black. I should PR genius. Oh, yeah, I remember in the documentary I camera she came up with yeah the fasciology She was actually for a thousand-day warranty. I don't again. I'm not gonna say that she

  is wrong because we don't know enough about what we don't know but on $175 million lawsuit. I said she was sued actually but it was dismissed because her product has a thousand day warranty. So you can give it back in a thousand days. She has like a three and a half year warranty on that thing. So I wonder when that warranty went into effect. Like when and the complaint cycle which a thousand day warranty you're either thinking one or two things. It's an amazing product and you're that confident that I'll give you a thousand days to use this thing or there can be a lot of problems. want to make sure you got a thousand days to return this thing.

  get off the, cause I'm assuming if you return it, you wave all rights of, you know, coming out, whatever. I'm not trying to watch. I'll probably get Ashley black people coming at me. this was a huge thing like eight years ago or something that she was just like run amok with fasciology and all her fun stuff. People are just bruising themselves. mean like literally to the point where they're like black and blue bruises. Yeah. yeah. Look that up. Another fun thing, the fasciology and all the fun, which

  takes us back into the fascia stuff with somebody that might be coming on podcasts here pretty soon, but we won't get enough right now. You got a case or anything you wanna talk about? We kind of rambled. We're hitting the 10 to 45 mark here, which is usually our shutdown, because we start seeing patients at 11. I might have a fun one, but I'll do it like the next time. Yeah. Because I see like a couple more visits. Yeah. Yeah, so look forward for a few things. There'll be a video coming. I have two long form videos that'll be coming out. One on...

  varicose veins is that it pertains to kind of musculoskeletal entrapment sites. The other one that'll be coming out that might come out before or after the podcast that I'll be doing that I was kind of alluding to is I basically went through all of the research from the early 1900s to now on trigger points, peripheral and central sensitization, and then also getting into pain and movement, like how they interplay, and literally walking down a timeline of like where we're at now from what is the consensus.

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  There's no law with that. Medical laws or like human biology laws are also laws as we stand from the knowledge now. So I say that because there's nothing being proven with our research. They're not saying, this is why trigger points happen. This is what's happening with pain. This is myofascial pain syndrome. What they're saying is this is the most commonly held consensus based around this. And I think stuff is poorly understood. That's the whole talk I did in Florida last year.

  I think if we use the current research as it states rather than what people are telling us or what we were taught maybe in school, you're going to have better results. We talk about that all the time in here. But I will be doing a long form video on that, maybe even a class for professionals on that. So look for that in the next month or maybe six weeks. Outside of that, if you're listening, hit us up with a five star review. Maybe tell us what you like, what you don't like, maybe less of the don't. And we'll see you next time.