From The Front Line to The Front of Health with Dr. Mark Sherwood

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And if you've got a little bit of hope in that, you can do something different and better that keeps you going forward.

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But when you lose hope, you go backwards.

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And law enforcement man.

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This is the truth.

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People need to listen to this right now.

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You are gifted.

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You're gifted because you've faced life in all kinds of circumstances.

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You've seen the best and the worst of humanity.

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Welcome to Courageous Leadership with Travis Yates, where leaders find the insights, advice and encouragement they need to lead courageously.

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On today's show we have Dr Mark Sherwood.

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He's a retired police sergeant from the Tulsa Police Department.

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He dedicated 24 years of service to his community in a variety of capacities, including SWAT, training and patrol.

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He revolutionized the wellness section of the agency and was in charge of that section when he retired.

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Mark is a former Oklahoma State and regional bodybuilding champion, professional baseball player and traveled the world for over 10 years with the world famous power team.

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He's completed training and certifications in age management, nutrigenetics, nutrigenomics, peptide therapy, hormone therapy, stress management, gi health and immunology.

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He's a dynamic, motivational speaker whose presentations are sought by audiences nationwide and currently works with his wife, Dr.

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Michelle Neil, at their clinic, the Functional Medical Institute in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and they serve patients nationwide.

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Along with his wife, they have authored multiple books and produced and acted in multiple movies, including the popular documentary Fork your Life.

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You can find this and a lot more at www.

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Sherwood.

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tv.

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Man, I'm doing well.

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Well, I appreciate it.

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I appreciate it Absolutely.

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Yeah, man, I've been looking forward to doing this and it was just time.

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You know, it seems the further, the further we go down this road called life, the sicker and sicker people are getting, especially in the law enforcement profession, and you have just excelled in that area for many, many years.

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Of course, you've helped me out tremendously in that area, as well as other people, and I just wanted to start off with obviously, you were in law enforcement for 24 years but specifically, what got you interested in the fitness and wellness space?

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Well, I think, probably as a kid, you know, I wasn't the most fit person, but I always had the drive to achieve things and I always admired, you know, fit people.

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And I wasn't necessarily fit, I was more fat than fit.

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And then, when I got in the police department, well, actually back up a little bit, I was a baseball player, and professionally, and I was living in Australia, Travis, and I was all alone, I had nothing to do in the day.

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This was before cell phones and before computers.

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I know people are listening right now.

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Really, there was such a day as that.

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Yes, there was, and I lived in it and so did you probably somewhat.

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But I started to go into a gym, you know, during the day, and when I came back after living abroad for a year, my whole body had changed and people saw me differently, they related to me differently and I realized that, you know, fitness was something that could affect me in a positive way and could help myself as a team, and that was kind of how it started.

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And then, when I got in the police department, being on the SWAT team, you had to kind of be in a level of shape and, as you know, I was given the opportunity to teach a few classes while employed at the Tulsa Police Department, and that got me looking at statistics, and this really got me going.

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I saw the statistic that's well known to law enforcement.

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That was an FBI study back in the 70s, as I recall, but the average life expectancy for the male police officer who served 20 years was 66 years of age, and so this was back in the early 2000s when I was put in charge of the wellness program development for the Tulsa Police Department.

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I started digging into those same statistics and I thought, well, golly, what is it for Oklahoma?

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What is it for Tulsa and Travis?

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I found out it was the same 64 and 66 years of age respectively.

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And that kind of broke my heart because I thought people work really hard in law enforcement and the officer is certainly under the gun a lot with stress and the way they serve and protect our communities their heroes, in my opinion.

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And they're not getting to enjoy that retirement at all.

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And then we brag about the pension systems being so healthy.

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Well, that's because the officers are so unhealthy.

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It's kind of an obvious, and I kind of made an omission to that point to go figure out why.

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And that got me into studying about health and learning about health, and that's now 24 years ago and I haven't stopped yet.

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I realize that people are probably too sick right now, more sick than they should be.

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We're increasing sick span and decreasing life span and there are unscrupulous people in our world that are profiting off of sick people and specifically with law enforcement, I have always thought, always thought and still absolutely am convinced that officer wellness is officer safety and it is not looked at nearly enough at all in regard to those areas.

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So that got me started.

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My passion hasn't changed at all.

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I'm still serving and protecting as best I know how.

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And no, I mean you're exactly right.

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I mean you look at professional sports teams.

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They treat their employees, their athletes, like athletes.

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You know they don't just stop when they get hired and don't pay attention to their fitness anymore.

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And in law enforcement, as we all know, that's pretty much what happens.

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You got to get in really good shape before you get to the academy.

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They keep you in shape in the academy, then they just forget about you and the rest is history and you just describe the statistics.

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And one thing I want to make sure our audience knows, mark, is obviously you were an expert in the profession, in law enforcement, in this area, but you lived it.

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I worked with you for a year on graveyard and you know when you've been on, I retired for 30 years and there's not a whole lot of things that are ingrained in your mind.

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After all, that time is sort of culminated together.

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But the one thing I always remember is is we'd be on graveyard I think you were a sergeant and I was a corporal working for you and all the guys or gals would be going to the Denny's or the IHOP or the breakfast place it's almost a social gathering, right and you would come because you're a nice guy and we would all be eating whatever crazy thing we would eat and you'd bring your chicken or you'd bring your little packaged meal and I, you know, and you were the only person I ever knew that did that and you never missed a beat.

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I can remember being with you one day and I was just begging you to eat a piece of pizza and you just wouldn't do it.

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I just from whether you know it or not, that's inspiring.

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And you obviously took wellness to a different level on the job.

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But you've done more than that.

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I've spoken to you about mindset and motivation a lot and your accomplishments away from the job, what you're doing now.

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They go far beyond just a general interest or even a business.

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I mean, a lot of those in law enforcement today are suffering from what I call an imposter syndrome, meaning that many of them just don't believe they have the skills and talents to do things outside of that profession.

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But you clearly are a unicorn mark.

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I mean you have excelled, in my opinion, much more away from the police department and what you're doing now than even when you were in the police department, because regardless of how expert you were, you were still constrained by the rules, or who you work for, or your assignments and whatever else may be.

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Tell us why you think you're so different and what people in the profession now can learn from that.

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Well, I think that I just have, and I've always had, the desire to sort of think and work outside the box, to believe in this thing called hope.

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The hope is what drives the system and drives the body and drives our life and drives our motivation.

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If you got a little bit of hope in that you can do something different and better, that keeps you going forward.

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But when you lose hope, you go backwards.

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And law enforcement man, this is the truth.

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People need to listen to this right now.

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You are gifted.

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You're gifted because you've faced life in all kinds of circumstances.

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You've seen the best and the worst of humanity and you face it head on.

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You see it, you have a wide range of experience and you can relate.

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You also realize with law enforcement that only by the grace of God is that you are not capable of anything goofy and also anything good.

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And it's kept me in track.

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And through that process I realized that what I learned in law enforcement was something that I could share with the world in an area of creativity.

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That was what reflected of me yes, fitness, yes, health, but I was able to sort of keep learning and go back and become a naturopathic doctor and really become this, that we became this thing, my wife and I, that we represent hope now in health for 12,000 people around the world.

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I would have never seen that coming, but now that I look back on it, the law enforcement experience set the tone for that, travis, and it really.

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It inspired me and it trained me and it worked on me until it helped me become who I am today, and there's not a person out there that has served in law enforcement that doesn't have the same capabilities.

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It's not doing the same thing, but it's going beyond who you think you can be.

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I've watched too many cops that are just broken down and beat down that can't get rid of the gun because they don't think they can do something else.

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I'm not saying that guns are bad.

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I'm saying just all you know.

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You think all you got is security.

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You retire and all you got is security.

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It's hard to stop.

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No, you don't.

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You've got more protection and service to do.

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Find the areas of protection and service that motivate you and go for it.

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You, if people have served in law enforcement and have been successful or still alive, come on, man, there's nothing you can't achieve.

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Yeah, I mean I watched it firsthand and for those listening, I mean I watched Mark Sherwood when he goes, I think I'm going to learn Spanish.

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Then he just goes out and next thing you know he's no Spanish.

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And then you retire, mark, and within just a matter of a few years you've got your doctoral, yeah, and.

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And you just start doing all this amazing stuff and, as you said, helping thousands of people across the world.

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And it's not about money, because I know plenty of people, included myself, that have easy access to you for you to help, and you don't ask for a dime, and it's so you take, you've taken that service that you had in law enforcement, but you're still in service, just in a different capacity, and I can't think of any better advice.

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And so you and your wife, you specialize in functional medicine.

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I want you to kind of explain to our audience, because I talk to people all the time about this and they think whatever their doctor tells them, whatever their insurance tells them, is always in the best interest of them.

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But here's the problem with your doctor.

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Your doctor is trained to solve, to, to, to, to wait till you're sick, right they?

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And then they.

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They're not always trained in how to prevent the sickness.

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It's just to maybe put a bandage, so to speak, on the sickness, and so there's a huge difference with a medical, medical philosophy.

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And some of you listening maybe familiar with some of the biohackers out there or maybe watch some of the YouTube folks out there, but there's a whole different world of medicine that very few people in law enforcement, in the general public are exposed to because it's not part of the health care system, or should I say the sick care system, and so kind of explain to us what you do there at the Functional Medical Institute and why that is so important.

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Well, certainly, what we do is kind of a cross between functional medicine, conventional medicine and biohacking.

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But to really get into understanding the point you're making is, health care is one of the biggest conjobs that has get this.

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I'm going to say something strong hurt and killed more cops than any bad guy on the street ever could.

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Here's why Because police officers are trained, go to the academy, you prepare, you prepare, you prepare.

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You go through annual in-services, you prepare, prepare, prepare.

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You have trainings, you prepare, prepare, prepare.

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We have these mandatory in-services of preparation, preparations of mindset.

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Except in one area, health.

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We don't prepare at all.

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We are trained to react.

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Conventional health system is not health at all, it's sick care system.

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We have an expectation of a medically trained doctor to know what to do to keep you healthy.

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That is not what they're trained in Travis and I'm not knocking, there's some of the most brilliant people around but they're trained like this If you go in and you present or you show up with certain symptoms, the symptoms are a cough, stuffy nose, maybe watery eyes they assess that symptom algorithm formula to prescribe a medication.

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The medication is a pharmaceutical drug that's designed to either stop or mitigate the symptoms.

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It never goes into what created that presentation of those symptoms.

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It is downstream philosophy only.

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It's like this Pretend that you and I are people that live next to a river, and this is the illustration what people catch.

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When the water comes up and you live near the river and it's flooding, it's over the river, over the flood stage, it's getting up near your front door.

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That's like your life.

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When you get sick, you go to the doctor.

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The doctor gives you a medication that's synonymous with giving you a sandbag.

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Well, the water keeps coming.

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You go back and get another pill slash sandbag.

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So what happens is nobody ever determines why the water came up.

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Eventually, you're gonna run out of sandbags and the water's gonna flood out your house.

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You're gonna die.

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That's what happens, law enforcement officers.

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But I wanna know what created the flood.

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So if you go back to that analogy, I go back upstream and I see a big dam up there.

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Well, the dam is my genes, or my genetics, and we check that.

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I wanna know how my dam genes work, if you get the analogy.

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And above that, I wanna know what the reservoir looks like.

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The environment and I know the cop environment is tough.

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So you get that reservoir, dam, river analogy in your head.

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So to really get to the root cause of disease, you have to go back and understand what was the origination of the issues that led to the imbalances that led to the symptoms, that led to the medication.

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We look at it differently.

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We're not we are experts at the symptom treatment, but I also wanna know what caused it.

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So upstream, we look at genetics, environment, lifestyle, et cetera.

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We remediate or fix the cause.

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Therefore, the symptoms go away.

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Therefore, disease then becomes irrelevant, and so this is a healing mentality.

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The conventional system manages diseases.

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The functional medicine, biohacking, et cetera prevents diseases.

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We need to have the option today to pick which side we're on, and I've not seen a police department yet not one in all of my years that took what I just said seriously and did anything about it.

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No, we very much have to understand that, while we may have trust in doctors, we have to understand who we're trusting and I agree, some of the smartest human beings we have on this planet.

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But the fact is doctors get less than a day of nutrition classes in medical school, and the fact is that whatever they graduate with the knowledge of medical school is they go out through their career and work in the healthcare system where they're getting more 20, 30 patients a day with hardly no time to talk to any of them.

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They're not getting retrained, they have to choose to do that and so that's why when I go to a doctor that's maybe 67 years old, this guy's talking old school to me, because I have gone out there and looked for myself and people don't want to hear that, because they just want an easy solution and easy answer.

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They want to get a pill, but that whole system is broken.

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If you care about your health, you must listen to what Dr Mark is talking about, and it's interesting.

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You talk about the research you did, mark, because I was with you when you pulled the pension data from the state of Oklahoma and found that 64 number and how it had not changed in 20 years.

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Well, the same is happening to the civilians in America.

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Our life expectancy is actually going down.

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It's one of the few, you know, not a third world.

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It's one of the few major countries on the planet where our life expectancy is not growing.

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It's actually going down, which kind of defies logic in a technology savvy country as we are, and it's because the system that's designed to give that longevity is completely broken.

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It is broken and I believe it's beyond repair because, as you also know, I'm very politically savvy, having ran a campaign at one time.

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Well, how did that?

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not make it into bio Mark?

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Sure would ran for the governor.

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I don't know how I left that out.

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Well, it is fine, but I learned a lot.

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I learned about lobby.

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So Big Pharma is one of the most powerful lobbyists.

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Most politicians take money from Big Pharma Travis.

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We are one of two countries in the whole world Us and New Zealand that allow Big Pharma to advertise directly on public television to our people.

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How twisted and sick is that?

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We are?

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Absolutely, and I'm glad you shared that.

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About life expectancy it has declined the last couple of years for the first time in the last five decades and it's been primarily because of what you talked about.

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We are looking for a pill for an ill.

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We are taught that the Big Pharma, big Medicine, big Government is here to help you.

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But, as we all know, using the police analogy, when you're out on the street man, you gotta know how to take care of yourself or you're gonna get killed.

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This is the same thing people need to do with the healthcare.

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That thing is an enemy of itself.

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Not that we don't need pills sometimes, not that we don't need the acute emergency care, because we've got some good ones out there, but our preventive care is horrible.

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We spend more money per person on this fictitious healthcare than any other country in the world and we're near the bottom of return, or near the bottom of health of all the industrialized nations in that same world.

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So look at that, I'm like that's not working.

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And if it's not working and it hasn't worked in 75 years, it's probably time to start embracing what I would consider more traditional care, as what my wife and I do, more care that's been around for the last thousands of years, and really support systems like that so that more of them will come up.

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Because, as you know, we're kinda out there a lot doing what we do by ourselves a lot of the time.

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Now we're starting to get some traction, but, man, it's been a hard road.

00:20:37.609 --> 00:20:46.636
Yeah, and I applaud you for it, because going down that narrative path the way we've always done it path that's easy and that's what we talk about in courageous leadership.

00:20:46.636 --> 00:20:57.157
That is not helping us, and you and your wife have been extremely courageous, because that is not only a difficult path, it doesn't always pay as well as the other path, and so you guys truly believe in this.

00:20:57.157 --> 00:21:03.459
I don't wanna go too far down this rabbit hole, but I want the audience to understand how broken everything is.

00:21:03.459 --> 00:21:07.715
One of my wife and I's passions is when we listen, we watch television and we hear.

00:21:07.715 --> 00:21:08.954
See the pharmaceuticals commercials.

00:21:08.954 --> 00:21:15.814
We wait to the very end and we hear all of the potential side effects and they say them really quick.

00:21:15.814 --> 00:21:19.900
But it is outstanding and crazy when you hear that.

00:21:20.009 --> 00:21:40.496
But people need to understand the studies that you have to produce to the FDA to get a drug approved are studies financed by the same drug manufacturer, and then you have many of the people that approve these pills or medicines, for people then get jobs when they leave the FDA with the pharmaceutical companies.

00:21:40.589 --> 00:21:57.914
We have similar things in law enforcement the police chiefs that are down with the DOJ end up getting jobs as DOJ consultants and it's all about the money, but it is a twisted system that our own government is permitting, and when you've made that statement early on that this is actually killing us more than any bad guy ever could.

00:21:57.914 --> 00:22:02.499
That is why Because the system is set up to harm you.

00:22:02.499 --> 00:22:08.898
And if anybody has any question about this, watch some of those documentaries on OxyCotin.

00:22:08.898 --> 00:22:18.919
Oxycotin, I mean I think Hulu's got some, netflix has some but it shows you that it was our own government that said this was not addictive.

00:22:18.919 --> 00:22:33.275
And now we're losing over 100,000 people a year in overdose deaths because of what our own government approved and it's, I think a lot of people mark they don't want to know this because they don't want to believe this.

00:22:33.275 --> 00:22:38.915
But if you don't understand this and you don't study this, you are risking your health, are you not?

00:22:39.858 --> 00:22:42.717
Yeah, you really are, and people need to understand that.

00:22:42.717 --> 00:22:52.270
And I think it's kind of comical but also very sad when you play those commercials, that at the end of those they always talk about these side effects.

00:22:52.270 --> 00:22:55.369
But side effects are not unknown side effects.

00:22:55.369 --> 00:23:03.007
Those are noted in the studies, noted in the studies, so much so that they tell you that that these should be expected.

00:23:03.007 --> 00:23:15.964
Well, a lot of people don't understand this statistic I'm getting ready to say the third leading cause of death, depending on what database you look at, is properly prescribed medication and properly done procedures.

00:23:16.546 --> 00:23:18.771
Now, come on, does that even make any sense?

00:23:18.771 --> 00:23:21.685
Now, most of law enforcement.

00:23:21.685 --> 00:23:23.991
I'm just going to use a simple little analogy that I use.

00:23:23.991 --> 00:23:35.890
When law enforcement officers work, shift work and all that, they end up getting on about three medications before they've been on about ten years Blood pressure medication, blood sugar medication and probably antidepressant.

00:23:35.890 --> 00:23:42.067
So you know, when I look at my database and I go, okay, what nutrients does that pull out?

00:23:42.126 --> 00:23:49.021
Nutrients is what drives the system right, and so if I put in those three drugs into my system, get this.

00:23:49.021 --> 00:23:53.047
I get pulled out zinc, which is important for immune system.

00:23:53.047 --> 00:24:01.608
We pull out folic acid, b12, which is important for blood health, brain health, energy and we pull out sodium, which is important for heart.

00:24:01.608 --> 00:24:08.652
Okay, so when you take drugs you actually can get nutrient pullouts that actually create more harm.

00:24:08.652 --> 00:24:14.109
Wouldn't it be better to go back and say how can we fix blood pressure, how can we fix blood sugar, how can we fix our mindset?

00:24:14.109 --> 00:24:27.567
We need to put drugs in the right category, travis, use them appropriately, but one of our mission statements here at our clinic is to avoid all unnecessary uses of medication.

00:24:27.567 --> 00:24:34.071
The other one we have is to reverse or eradicate all self-imposed, choice-driven diseases.

00:24:34.071 --> 00:24:42.453
When I say it's bad, I mean I don't even think that word even comes close to the criteria of how bad it is.

00:24:42.453 --> 00:24:49.471
People have been completely conned and they're in bondage right now to a system that has them enslaved.

00:24:50.840 --> 00:24:57.566
Yeah, I mean, you're right, I'll speak to like some elderly folks that have sort of been inside the system for so long and you just can't convince them.

00:24:57.566 --> 00:25:01.900
Like, people are just so sold out to these doctors and the pharmaceutical companies.

00:25:01.900 --> 00:25:03.202
I'll give you one quick example.

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Obviously, I do a lot of reading about this and I found some studies on metformin and, by the way, we're not giving medical advice here, but I found some studies on metformin.

00:25:11.049 --> 00:25:14.976
Metformin is one of the most prescribed drugs for diabetics.

00:25:14.976 --> 00:25:16.000
It keeps your insulin down.

00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:24.279
Of course, insulin is a driver for weight gain, and so there's some studies out there that say, hey, the studies show that people that weren't diabetic took metformin.

00:25:24.279 --> 00:25:26.689
Their lives were actually extended.

00:25:26.689 --> 00:25:36.279
They believe that the properties in this particular drug actually does, because it reduces the insulin over a long period of time, that your life is actually extended.

00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:43.351
So I'm at my regular doctor, mark, and she's asking me she made the mistake of saying is there anything I can do for you?

00:25:43.351 --> 00:25:50.707
And I say, well, yeah, you know, I've been reading these studies on metformin, I'm kind of interested in trying that out.

00:25:50.707 --> 00:25:52.748
And she says, well, you're not a diabetic.

00:25:52.748 --> 00:25:54.726
And I go, yeah, but these studies say this.

00:25:54.726 --> 00:25:59.609
And she tells me well, I know they say that, but you're not a diabetic.

00:25:59.609 --> 00:26:03.460
And unless you're a diabetic, I'm not going to give you this drug.

00:26:03.460 --> 00:26:04.242
What's what's no?

00:26:04.242 --> 00:26:04.664
Big deal.

00:26:04.826 --> 00:26:05.227
No big deal.

00:26:05.227 --> 00:26:05.540
We could.

00:26:05.540 --> 00:26:09.770
You know, there's some supplements and other things like that that we could get into that can do very similar things.

00:26:09.770 --> 00:26:21.269
But I will say this let's talk about supplements, because you talked about scams earlier and I have been talking to law enforcement and tell my head spins about the stuff that they're buying.

00:26:21.559 --> 00:26:22.505
They think that's in it.

00:26:22.505 --> 00:26:29.473
Every study I've ever seen on the general supplements off the shelf, the vast majority of them don't even have what it says it has.

00:26:29.473 --> 00:26:30.281
Of course it's not.

00:26:30.281 --> 00:26:33.351
You know, the supplements industry is a is a Wild West.

00:26:33.351 --> 00:26:33.820
It's not.

00:26:34.102 --> 00:26:49.612
There's no oversight to that, so to speak, and you can pretty much guarantee that if a supplement is sitting on a Walmart shelf, it probably doesn't work very well, or the pharmaceutical company would have taken it over, because that's exactly what they did with ozempic and some other ones, because those were around in the peptide form long before we heard this word ozempic.

00:26:49.612 --> 00:26:56.153
And so give some advice to the law enforcement officers, because law enforcement does they gravitate to.

00:26:56.153 --> 00:27:09.150
I mean, I think they understand that they want substances, they want things to make them better, they understand that athlete mindset, but they get sent off in so many different directions and you can't just go to Walmart and start grabbing stuff off a shelf.

00:27:09.150 --> 00:27:10.986
How would you tell?

00:27:10.986 --> 00:27:21.390
What would you tell them that they should do if they're wanting to, you know, add supplementation or add peptides or add certain things to help them, as any athlete should.

00:27:22.402 --> 00:27:23.500
Well, I agree with you.

00:27:23.500 --> 00:27:25.686
They need today supplementation.

00:27:25.686 --> 00:27:28.345
Peptide use I don't look as an option.

00:27:28.345 --> 00:27:31.101
I look at it as something we ought to be doing Everybody.

00:27:31.101 --> 00:27:35.352
Now, having said that the sub, just a couple of ground rules people need to keep in mind.

00:27:35.352 --> 00:27:44.088
The supplement industry is a hundred and fifty nine billion dollar industry as of last year and it is completely full of corruption.

00:27:44.088 --> 00:27:48.190
The supplement industry is regulated by the FDA.

00:27:48.190 --> 00:27:59.880
However, as long as you don't say the supplement treats, cures, mitigates, prevents diseases, it's perfectly legal to be on the market and that's a broad thing you can do.

00:27:59.880 --> 00:28:05.590
So you could hire a hired celebrity to give you a testimonial.

00:28:05.590 --> 00:28:06.332
That's a lie.

00:28:06.332 --> 00:28:12.571
But as long as he doesn't say that it treats diseases and falls the criteria, it sells a lot.

00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:25.646
The looseness of the guidelines out there in order to get something specific, to get it where it's actually pure, those are all over the roadmap.

00:28:25.646 --> 00:28:32.153
You got to look for something that's at least CGMP certified.

00:28:32.153 --> 00:28:41.952
Certified good manufacturing practices is what that stands for, but CGMP is kind of what you're looking for as a label of professionalism.

00:28:41.952 --> 00:28:46.559
I only deal with those companies that do that and meet the levels and actually go through the labs.

00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:50.226
I'm that crazy one that does that and people didn't look for that.

00:28:50.226 --> 00:28:58.473
I would not buy anything at all from a grocery store, from a supplement store.

00:28:58.473 --> 00:29:00.743
I wouldn't do that, I wouldn't buy it online.

00:29:00.743 --> 00:29:17.633
I would find somebody a clinician hopefully that knows that at least looks the part that they know and ask them the question and then have the clinician get them or connect them with the best sources at this point.

00:29:17.633 --> 00:29:23.285
Otherwise they're going to get ripped off and with peptides especially, those are able.

00:29:23.405 --> 00:29:26.712
You can get those right now kind of on the market out there.

00:29:26.712 --> 00:29:29.990
They say right on them, not for human use.

00:29:29.990 --> 00:29:35.518
You're setting yourself up for a potential problem because there's no one that's regulating that.

00:29:35.518 --> 00:29:39.390
It may be good, it may not be good, but you got to know what you're putting in your body.

00:29:39.390 --> 00:29:42.226
Just like you know how to put the bullets in your gun.

00:29:42.226 --> 00:29:44.271
You want to make sure they actually have a bullet in there.

00:29:44.271 --> 00:29:45.304
It's not just a casing.

00:29:45.304 --> 00:29:46.944
Pay attention to that.

00:29:46.944 --> 00:29:49.027
Find people that know what they're doing.

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Gravitate to those.

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I see it all the time.

00:29:51.343 --> 00:30:02.239
Travis, and I'll conclude that answer with this Know that you cannot bill away, pray away, hormone away, supplement away or exercise away a bad diet.

00:30:03.742 --> 00:30:06.069
Yeah, and what you said is so true.

00:30:06.069 --> 00:30:09.347
And I know why cops do it because they're cheap.

00:30:09.347 --> 00:30:11.883
We're cheap, our profession's cheap, we want the cheapest stuff.

00:30:11.883 --> 00:30:13.849
But you're literally wasting all your money.

00:30:13.849 --> 00:30:18.148
None of it's going to work and I know you and I both know all the companies that are great companies.

00:30:18.148 --> 00:30:22.449
Some of them are sold on Amazon, but the easiest thing to do is go to your website, Sherwoodtv.

00:30:22.449 --> 00:30:24.903
You guys actually sell supplements.

00:30:24.903 --> 00:30:32.669
You don't got to buy them from Mark, but you'll see these supplements companies that they're using and maybe it's not Mark, but maybe there's a functional doctor in your area.

00:30:32.669 --> 00:30:43.366
If they're carrying supplements inside that clinic, you can guarantee if they're a legitimate functional doctor they're going to be the ones you need to get and they're not that much more expensive.

00:30:43.366 --> 00:30:47.611
And plus, to know what you're getting is worth what you're getting.

00:30:48.181 --> 00:30:49.805
And there's a listen.

00:30:49.805 --> 00:30:54.929
It's been a godsend for me, Mark, because I've been talking to you for years and you've got me dialed in with the right supplements.

00:30:54.929 --> 00:30:57.287
I just talked to you a few weeks ago about grounding.

00:30:57.287 --> 00:30:58.028
I've been doing that.

00:30:58.028 --> 00:30:59.807
We're going to get back to that hopefully by the end of the show.

00:30:59.807 --> 00:31:10.450
That's been incredible, and so there's so many things that doesn't take a lot of time that you can really tune in what you're doing and make yourself feel amazing.

00:31:10.450 --> 00:31:23.451
I'm going to link up an interview with Dana White because he was a guy on his deathbed and he tuned in some of these things that we're talking about, things that you do in more Mark, that literally, that you can't even recognize a guy now.

00:31:23.451 --> 00:31:25.607
He looks so much different and he's so much happier.

00:31:25.819 --> 00:31:31.060
And so I do want to address this Mark, and sometimes we address health and healthy as well.

00:31:31.060 --> 00:31:39.163
I look fine, I feel okay, but one thing that I noticed after I left the job after 30 years is I didn't know how bad I actually felt.

00:31:39.163 --> 00:31:44.930
Stress induced mainly, and you don't know if you feel bad unless you feel good.

00:31:44.930 --> 00:31:48.368
So if you feel bad for a long time, you become used to that.

00:31:48.368 --> 00:31:49.451
That becomes the normal.

00:31:49.451 --> 00:31:51.768
So let's say, an officer is listening to us right now.

00:31:51.768 --> 00:31:53.645
They think they're doing everything right.

00:31:53.645 --> 00:31:57.243
Their regular doctor did that much to say to them they're never really sick that much.

00:31:57.243 --> 00:32:03.108
They look tactical, cool in their uniform and maybe even got some tightened up sleeves right.

00:32:03.108 --> 00:32:03.730
They're looking good.

00:32:03.730 --> 00:32:06.180
They lift a little weights.

00:32:06.180 --> 00:32:11.664
What would you tell them to do if they, if they really truly want to make sure that they are on that healthy path.

00:32:12.922 --> 00:32:21.924
Well, they need to get a quality blood work done, not your general practitioner blood work, because it's completely inadequate.

00:32:21.924 --> 00:32:26.442
In my opinion, is antiquated with old data and Mark, let me interrupt you.

00:32:26.503 --> 00:32:27.326
That's important.

00:32:27.326 --> 00:32:35.647
Yeah, the blood test that you get annually from your primary care physician or your health insurance mandated tells you literally nothing.

00:32:35.647 --> 00:32:37.070
That's right, nothing.

00:32:37.070 --> 00:32:42.251
You've got to get a legitimate full panel blood work done.

00:32:42.251 --> 00:32:43.182
I'll let you finish that.

00:32:44.106 --> 00:32:45.845
Yeah, you know they'll tell you other things.

00:32:45.845 --> 00:32:58.404
Fine, but just know the averages come from this population of people in our country and if you fall into an average of that, they're basically saying you're fine, slash, you're dying like everybody else.

00:32:58.404 --> 00:33:07.146
You need to get a more complex blood work panel done that and do it annually, and find a functional medicine doctor that does that.

00:33:07.146 --> 00:33:08.564
I mean we actually.

00:33:08.564 --> 00:33:18.686
Our panel is when we created, we run it through the Cleveland Heart Lab that looks at a variety of a broad based amount of markers so we can see where a person is on disease processes, and I see it all the time.

00:33:18.686 --> 00:33:21.173
You know, when people do that they're like shocked.

00:33:21.173 --> 00:33:21.981
They have no idea.

00:33:22.865 --> 00:33:24.260
That's one Number.

00:33:24.260 --> 00:33:26.769
Two check your body fat percentage.

00:33:26.769 --> 00:33:29.506
It's not about weight, it's about body fat percentage.

00:33:29.506 --> 00:33:37.124
I like men somewhere around 10 to about 18% and ladies somewhere between 18 and about 26%.

00:33:37.124 --> 00:33:43.865
Health cannot be equated to scale weight anymore and that's been the case for a number of years.

00:33:43.865 --> 00:33:47.968
Also, you know, check your ability to sleep.

00:33:47.968 --> 00:33:54.445
Sleeping is one that law enforcement officers suffer with because, as time goes on, shift work can take its toll on you.

00:33:54.445 --> 00:33:58.971
A lot of people don't take inventory of that and you just don't rest well.

00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:00.823
And one thing I find about myself.

00:34:00.823 --> 00:34:11.068
I found that I probably became more cynical and negative over the course of time because you're in a negative environment.

00:34:11.068 --> 00:34:11.440
You don't.

00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:15.690
People don't give a call for service and say, hey, come, let me buy you a cup of coffee.

00:34:15.690 --> 00:34:18.186
No, no, it's always a negative thing.

00:34:18.186 --> 00:34:25.592
So that can change you and you've got to kind of find things that interest you in other areas and challenge you in there.

00:34:25.592 --> 00:34:27.224
So I mentioned I learned Spanish.

00:34:27.224 --> 00:34:30.728
I look forward to my annual Mexico trip because I want to go.

00:34:30.728 --> 00:34:34.701
You don't have to go to Spain, you know.

00:34:34.701 --> 00:34:43.532
I need to practice it more, you know, and so I really think that learning new things and skills like that officers can do that and they should.

00:34:43.532 --> 00:34:48.050
So those are some things that people need to do actively speaking.

00:34:48.050 --> 00:35:01.766
And then, last thing, build relationships with people that are outside of your normal law enforcement circle, because you you see that there's a whole other world out there that that makes, basically, you need and that needs you.

00:35:03.320 --> 00:35:04.244
Well, I know this mark.

00:35:04.244 --> 00:35:09.947
The last time I met with you, you gave me that 10 to 18% body fat range and you told me 15.

00:35:09.947 --> 00:35:17.525
And I I tried to argue a little bit because I know that the government tells me that 20% is a healthy percentage.

00:35:17.525 --> 00:35:24.871
And I was right around that and you pretty much put me in my place because, as you just said, they're comparing me to the other sick population.

00:35:24.871 --> 00:35:27.168
So I'm fighting hard, brother.

00:35:27.168 --> 00:35:30.047
So the next time I see you you'll be happy with me.

00:35:30.047 --> 00:35:35.931
But you're right, we put so much stock into appearance and weight that literally has nothing to do with it.

00:35:35.931 --> 00:35:39.668
We've heard that term skinny fat or skinny sick.

00:35:39.668 --> 00:35:43.527
It doesn't matter what the appearance is, what's on the inside.

00:35:43.527 --> 00:35:48.628
And the healthcare system is just not set up to be accurate and tell you that.

00:35:48.628 --> 00:35:50.985
Right, because you go to the doctor, what do you do?

00:35:50.985 --> 00:35:51.884
You get on a scale and weigh.

00:35:51.884 --> 00:35:55.985
They don't take your body fat at the doctor's office, they just weigh you and you're good.

00:35:57.521 --> 00:36:01.811
Yeah, the the person is as old as their vessels, right?

00:36:01.811 --> 00:36:26.409
The whole idea of vascular health has got to be looked at and I think that you know we look at the biological aging processes and the biological aging speed and actuality different than we do the chronological age, and we actually have tests and things that we do that can actually slow down, even reverse, if you will, somewhat the biological aging processes and speeds.

00:36:26.409 --> 00:36:30.010
So we can actually test that, quantify that and move the needle in that.

00:36:30.010 --> 00:36:37.097
That's a whole different way to look at it and that's what I would encourage people listening to sort of get their mind around that.

00:36:37.539 --> 00:36:44.496
We've been told that this is the way you do it you get sick, you go to the doctor, you get a pill and move on.

00:36:44.496 --> 00:36:50.371
We've been told that you retire and if you live five years, that's good, if you live to 70, you've had a good life.

00:36:50.371 --> 00:36:52.710
Stop Hard, stop.

00:36:52.710 --> 00:36:54.534
That is not the case at all.

00:36:54.534 --> 00:37:04.945
I believe our organ systems as a whole are generally created, in all things being equal, to live and exist about 120 years.

00:37:04.945 --> 00:37:21.630
That doesn't mean we're going to live that long, that's not the point, travis but it means that we need to start exhibiting a higher quality of life in the years, as opposed to a decline of years in life, and that's increasing six-span.

00:37:21.630 --> 00:37:23.574
We don't need to do that anymore.

00:37:23.574 --> 00:37:26.713
We need to increase the fullness of lifespan.

00:37:28.105 --> 00:37:37.306
Yeah, and you know, when I read the Bible you'll read about people living for hundreds of years, and there's some theologians that will tell you that that's I believe that.

00:37:37.306 --> 00:37:38.510
Let me tell you why I believe it, mark.

00:37:38.510 --> 00:37:50.016
Because back then we didn't have what's in our water now we didn't have what's in our food now, we didn't have all the artificial lights and all the things in the environment that, literally, is killing us.

00:37:50.016 --> 00:37:51.909
We didn't have any of that.

00:37:51.909 --> 00:37:56.295
And you look what the generations have done to the body.

00:37:56.295 --> 00:38:03.653
Because, I agree, I think we are set up to live much longer than what we're told, but it's almost like we expect to live, to be in our 70s.

00:38:03.653 --> 00:38:06.527
That'd be great, right, we're going to get to 80.

00:38:06.527 --> 00:38:09.315
But what you're saying is that's not the case at all.

00:38:09.315 --> 00:38:11.391
But we have to put some effort into it.

00:38:11.945 --> 00:38:14.693
Before I get to this one question, I want to sort of preface the audience here.

00:38:14.693 --> 00:38:21.652
You've got to change your mindset about healthiness and wellness, and here's how, because it took me a while to do it.

00:38:21.652 --> 00:38:24.925
Once I did it, my life was forever changed for the better.

00:38:24.925 --> 00:38:27.905
You're going to have to spend money to be healthy.

00:38:27.905 --> 00:38:38.905
Your health care system, where you pay your deductible or you pay $5 to see a doctor or you get your prescriptions for $15, that is not set up to keep you healthy.

00:38:38.905 --> 00:38:50.795
So when you start diving into these issues we're talking about, you're going to have to understand I'm going to spend some money, but what better thing to spend money on than being able to live a long, happy life?

00:38:52.405 --> 00:38:58.798