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Jan. 25, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Situation Update, 1/25/23 - To be INFORMED in 2023...

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	All right.
	Welcome to the Situation Update for Wednesday, January 25th, 2023.
	Mike Adams here.
	Thank you for joining me.
	I have done four interviews today.
	And as you may have known, one of the interviews in studio today was Randall Carlson, who was on with Joe Rogan earlier.
	And then so he was in town.
	Joe Rogan is on the west side of Austin.
	So Randall Carlson came to my studio, which is in Central Texas, and we did a wonderful interview with him and also with the founder of the Cosmic Summit for 2023.
	So both of those interviews are in production right now.
	Those will run pretty soon.
	And there's another third interview I did there.
	And then I interviewed Dr.
	Bashima Williams about functional medicine.
	That's the interview we're going to run for you here in the podcast tonight, but My voice is just about over for today because I've done several interviews and a couple other podcasts in the meantime.
	So I'm going to keep this relatively short.
	Well, I mean, we'll see.
	That's what I'm promising, but we'll see.
	I do have a special report also on the New York Stock Exchange cratering.
	I'm going to run that for you here in a few minutes.
	I recorded that earlier today.
	The big news today is not only the New York Stock Exchange going down, but also then in the Netherlands, they're shutting down the largest natural gas field in Europe right now.
	Some kind of bizarre anti-energy suicide mission that they're on in Europe.
	So the Netherlands is shutting that down.
	I can't believe it.
	A massive scandal in Ukraine, a corruption scandal, is rocking the news headlines in And it turns out that just as we said, that a lot of this money that went to Ukraine ended up being used as kickbacks and bribes and profiteering and money laundering.
	And yes, it has come out.
	At least some of it has come out.
	So we're going to talk about that as well.
	And then in California, they have a crazy new tax law where they're going to confiscate your wealth even if you flee the state of California.
	So if you leave California, To escape the crazy insane confiscation like wealthy tax plan and by wealthy it means pretty much anybody who works.
	They're gonna track you down and hunt you down and try to take your money even if you're already in Florida.
	So that's crazy.
	We're gonna talk about that too.
	Thank you for all your comments about yesterday's podcast.
	It was a fan favorite.
	I got a lot of wonderful comments about it.
	And I know that people really appreciated me talking about the ultrasound healing and some of the tuning forks information and things like that.
	I've got a positive news item for you today, too, about beetroot juice that just came out in another study.
	But yeah, I try to be positive wherever I've got stories and new studies and so on.
	That can cover that.
	And I think that ultrasound is a really powerful healing modality.
	And by the way, the interview we have coming up later today with Dr.
	Bashima Williams of Functional Medicine, it's all about lifestyle and how to prevent disease and how to enhance your health outcome.
	And we talk about nutrition.
	And she asked me about my health habits.
	So I really share the details of what I do daily in order to maintain this level of Functionality here in my mid-50s, doing four interviews a day, working really more than 16 hours most days and doing so many different things.
	But I kind of describe my secrets, which you've probably heard before, but it's all in one place in the interview coming up if you want to hear that.
	Oh, and by the way, speaking of being a productive person, Now, I'm sure you share this with me.
	Among the people that you know, your peer group, your friends, your family members, you, listening to this, you are probably, if not the most productive person, you're probably really close to the most productive person.
	You're probably, you know more also.
	You have more knowledge.
	You have a vast array of knowledge.
	And you probably...
	Have more life experiences than a typical person because you're curious about the way the world works.
	And, you know, you're a learner and you're also a critical thinker.
	Well, that's the way I am, too.
	And the way I've lived my life is always attempting new things and learning new things and exploring new areas, you know, like lab science or writing music and doing rap songs or formulating nutritional supplements or Doing inventions and all kinds of interesting things, right?
	Well, yesterday's podcast, there was a really funny comment that someone had posted underneath it, and someone else brought this to my attention.
	And the comment was something along the lines of...
	This is impossible.
	This guy, Mike Adams, claims to speak multiple languages.
	And he lived in different countries.
	And he says he runs these businesses and does this formulation.
	And on top of that, he does podcasts and he writes articles.
	And he repairs diesel engines on tractors and farm equipment and takes care of animals and grows his own food.
	And he's like, it's impossible!
	It's impossible!
	No one can do that!
	I thought it was the greatest compliment I've ever received, even though it might have been intended as a criticism.
	But I realized that the level of knowledge and productivity and life experience that I have achieved, which I would imagine most of you listening to this, you share this, that level that we have achieved is considered unfathomable by mainstream that level that we have achieved is considered unfathomable by mainstream sort of average
	They can't imagine someone knowing as much as what we know or someone doing as much as what we do or learning as much as what we have learned.
	And I found that really fascinating.
	It actually, it made my day.
	I was like, wow, that we've actually achieved a level that is so amazing to an average person that they think it can't be real.
	Like, they think that no one can learn all these skills and do all these different things.
	And, of course, you and I, the way we think about this is like...
	Shouldn't everybody learn how to do these things?
	Shouldn't everybody learn to grow food?
	Shouldn't everybody be able to do basic repairs on a piece of equipment?
	Shouldn't everybody understand the basics of nutrition and how to take care of animals and maybe raise chickens and get some chicken eggs, especially today with chicken prices through the roof?
	Aren't there lots of people who speak multiple languages?
	I'm not the only one.
	I mean, there are people who speak way more languages than I do.
	And far better than I, as well, because I've kind of forgotten a lot of the Spanish and the Chinese.
	I was more fluent before.
	But it's amazing.
	Oh, and someone was listening to my interview with John Perez two days ago.
	And they commented, they're like, how do you and John know so much?
	Like, how can you talk about everything?
	And it was kind of a funny...
	Almost criticism, but I was talking to John Perez after that.
	I was like, John, what do you make of this?
	Why do people think we know so much?
	And John said, well, we're news hounds.
	I mean, we absorb news and information all day, every day, constantly.
	And so very few people actually have time to do all that, you know?
	So, to someone who's not focused on this, it seems amazing.
	Like, how can you know about finance and money and BRICS and Russia and history and geography and all this stuff and nutrition and health?
	Make it your career to absorb all this info and keep learning and, you know, you can do the same thing.
	And that's the other message I want to mention here.
	We're all the same human beings here, folks.
	I'm no different than anybody else.
	I've got the same brain, the same genetics, the same biology.
	It's just that when I grew up, my parents never told me that I couldn't do something.
	I never had any negative reinforcement.
	Like, if I wanted to say, oh, I want to learn how to play the drums, you know, they're like, okay.
	Go for it.
	Or I want to build a treehouse.
	Okay, let's build a treehouse.
	I want to learn how to do this, whatever.
	I want to put on a puppet show for the kids.
	Okay, we'll do a puppet show.
	And that actually happened.
	They never told me I couldn't do something.
	So I never got any kind of a message in my youth of limits.
	It was like, whatever you want to learn how to do, you can do it.
	Whatever skill you want, keyboard, you know, they gave me piano lessons and I learned keyboarding and that's how I composed music.
	Whatever I wanted to do, there was a willingness to explore that.
	And so to this day, that same thing is true in my life.
	You know, a few years ago, I was like, hey, I want to learn how to run mass spec instruments.
	Let's do heavy metals testing.
	I didn't listen to the people who said, oh, that's impossible.
	You need a PhD.
	You've got to spend four years in college to do that.
	I'm like, no, you don't.
	I hired a PhD, and I brought him in for a week.
	And he taught me everything that I needed to get started in a week.
	And then after six months of experience and having a working, functioning brain, you get pretty good at things like that.
	So the point is, we all have incredible potential.
	And I find it amazing that there are people out there who can't believe what it means to be fully human.
	Right?
	Because the pop culture is so used to being dumbed down and sedentary lifestyles.
	And oh, you're supposed to focus on sports betting and celebrity stuff and fashion and waste time in whatever, watching TV or social partying all the time.
	I don't do any of that stuff.
	And it saves a tremendous amount of time that we can spend, you know, doing other things, learning other things and so on.
	But the average person has no clue what they're capable of.
	They've been brainwashed into this, I don't know, this lack of self-worth.
	Like they don't think that it's possible to do those things and they can't believe that anybody else can do them.
	So do you experience this in your life when you talk to people?
	Are they shocked at how much you know about the world?
	Because I get that all the time in certain situations.
	That's why I love talking to really high IQ people all the time.
	That's why I try to find really smart people to interview because it's so intellectually stimulating.
	That's why I had a great time interviewing Randall Carlson today.
	That'll come out in a couple of days.
	You'll love that.
	Oh, but one more note.
	This is really funny.
	When I lived in Ecuador, I taught myself how to use an excavator.
	And after using it for a few hours, I got pretty good with it.
	You know, digging and doing trenching and it had a blade on the front.
	You can do dozer-like activities and it had a thumb on it so you can pick up things.
	You can grip logs and you can move rocks and do all these things.
	And one of the other people down there was like, saw me using the excavator one day and said, where did you learn how to use the excavator?
	And I said, I learned it right here.
	This excavator became available, and so I just hopped on it.
	And I mean, it's just levers, man.
	You just try each thing and see what it does.
	And they were like, nobody showed you how to use the excavator?
	Don't you need lessons?
	Don't you need an excavator professor or something like that?
	Like, people, all kinds of everyday folks use excavators and skid steers and bulldozers.
	You don't have to be a genius.
	You just have to go in and try it.
	Why do people have all these artificial limitations?
	Like, I could never run a piece of heavy equipment.
	Of course you could.
	It's just levers, man.
	RPMs, understanding the hydraulics.
	Just get in and get a little practice.
	You can do it.
	You can fly a plane.
	I guarantee you, everybody listening to this, you can fly a plane.
	You can run a bulldozer.
	You can, I don't know, you can run an AR-15.
	You can be a gunsmith.
	You can do anything that you want to do like that, just whatever's on your priority list.
	There's no mystifying magic to it.
	It's just jumping in and learning it and just having the willingness to learn different things.
	You can repair a diesel engine if you want to.
	You can load your own ammo if you're not already doing that.
	I mean, you can learn chemistry if you want.
	You can learn another language.
	I've been wanting to learn Russian just because there's so much Russian going on with all the news.
	And...
	There was this really amazing battle documentary that came out.
	Where did I see this?
	I saw this on the Burning platform yesterday.
	Let me bring it up.
	It's called Best in Hell.
	And it's a war documentary that was just made.
	It was released by that mercenary group.
	What are they called?
	The Wagner group?
	They actually made this movie, Best in Hell.
	And the whole thing is, of course, the dialogue is in Russian and the subtitles are in Russian.
	And, you know, the narration is in Russian.
	They have English subtitles, but I really wish that I could understand the Russian.
	And as I was just listening to the Russian itself, not even paying attention for a moment to all the bullets flying and the mortars flying and the drones and the artillery and everything blowing up on the screen, I was listening to the Russian And I realized that the Russian language is a beautiful language.
	And I know that might sound funny to hear in the context of a war or even a world war or whatever, but I'm saying that just linguistically, the pronunciation, the sounds, the use of the formation of the mouth and tongue and the lips and the forming of the Russian language, it is truly a beautiful language.
	I mean, honestly, it's a beautiful language.
	I wish I could speak a little bit of that.
	Because that would be especially useful these days.
	And I wish I understood what all those letters were.
	You know, the Russian alphabet.
	I have no idea what all those symbols are.
	But I just know that's not English.
	But I would love to learn that.
	If I had more time, I would learn Russian.
	But unfortunately, I do not have the time.
	Alright, moving on.
	Let's talk about a couple of things.
	So from studyfinds.org, here's a new study or article about a study.
	Beetroot juice found to significantly increase muscle force while working out.
	So if you drink a bunch of beetroot juice and then you go to the gym, you are able to express the kinetic power of your muscles more efficiently.
	Now, why is this?
	What's in the beetroot juice that causes this to take place?
	And I guarantee you it's the nitric oxide.
	Now, I just know that as a matter of nutrition, you know, nitric oxide.
	And what is that supplement?
	John Hewlett has it.
	The nitric oxide production supplement.
	I'll find the name.
	I'll mention it for you here in a minute.
	But he's got that supplement out there.
	It's all about maximizing nitric oxide production.
	And it works.
	Nitric oxide is amazing for your vascular system.
	It's amazing for oxygenation of your brain.
	And it's amazing for maximizing your workouts, getting the most out of your muscles so that you actually gain more strength.
	And frankly, I'm thinking, do I have this here?
	Yeah.
	InfoWars had a product.
	I don't know if they still have this, but I have it in my hand.
	It's called VasoBeet.
	V-A-S-O-B-E-E-T. VasoBeet.
	Which is this really heavily concentrated beetroot juice.
	It's kind of partially dehydrated or concentrated almost into a syrup.
	It's quite tasty, by the way.
	They've got that.
	And I think in our store, I think we have a beetroot powder.
	In fact, I'm pretty sure we do as well.
	So there's some different sources of beetroot juice or concentrates or nitric oxide supplements like what John Hewlett has available.
	Oh, here it is.
	Cardio Miracle.
	That's the name.
	Yeah, slipped my mind for a minute.
	Cardio Miracle.
	I interviewed John a couple of months back.
	If you want to learn about that, that interview is on my channel.
	And he's really, I think, one of the experts in nitric oxide production.
	But this study shows that nitric oxide really boosts muscle performance.
	So not only does the nitric oxide then get circulated in the body, but there's an increase in nitrate levels in the muscles, and it causes an increase of muscle force of 7% compared to placebo.
	7%.
	That is a measurable physiological effect just from nutrition.
	That is extraordinary.
	I mean, you know, weightlifters, competitive lifters, and so on, They will win gold medals over like a half percent increase over their competitor.
	You know, the difference between the gold medal and the silver medal might be half a percent or 1% in terms of the amount of weight, like deadlift, weightlifting.
	If you can increase your muscle strength by 7% just by taking something, just consuming beet juice, That is crazy extraordinary.
	And that's backed up by the science here that's studied in studyfinds.org.
	So this study, by the way, came out of the United Kingdom.
	This was at the University of Exeter.
	And the key researcher was Andy Jones, a professor of applied physiology.
	So, there you go.
	Exeter University, I think that's how you say it.
	There you go.
	Interesting stuff.
	I'm going to start dropping this beet powder into my smoothie.
	It actually, it tastes really good too, you know.
	It's funny, every day I read about something else and it reminds me that, oh, I need to put this in the smoothie.
	You know, the other day it was bromelain.
	For the spike protein and N-acetylcysteine.
	And, you know, you can only put so much stuff into one smoothie, so don't go overboard.
	But beetroot juice or beet concentrate goes really well with even fruit smoothies.
	Beet is one of those things, or beetroot, it goes well with both the The banana avocado smoothies and also then like blueberry strawberry smoothies.
	Somehow it works with both of them.
	So very versatile substance.
	All right, let's go to the crazy insane California tax confiscation news from the Epoch Times.
	California's new wealth tax plan targets the wealthy even if they flee to another state.
	This is hilarious.
	How are they going to enforce that, by the way?
	Are they going to send bounty hunter teams to come find you in another state?
	Here it is.
	California Democrats, of course, are pushing for a new tax on the state's wealthiest residents.
	It includes the ability to tax them even after they've left the state or even after they move out of the country.
	So this is introduced by State Representative Alex Lee.
	It's called the Wealth Tax Act.
	It's Assembly Bill 259.
	And it's going to, it's proposed to be a constitutional amendment in the California state legislature.
	It's called to bring tax justice.
	You notice how everything on the left is about justice, social justice!
	And when they say justice, really they mean looting, stealing from you, taking everything from you.
	So the law includes provisions that would allow California to tax the, quote, worldwide net worth of former residents.
	Are you kidding me?
	People who have moved even abroad, which comes amid an exodus to red states that tend to have less onerous tax regimes, writes the Epoch Times.
	So California has high corporate tax rates, crazy high income tax rates as well, and since California is about to give out all this money to people of color for reparations, you know, $5 million for every black person, where do you think they're going to get that money?
	They're going to take it!
	Well, from white people.
	Essentially, I guess they're going to just take all the money from white people and give it to people of color.
	And if you try to flee the state, I guess they're going to try to come get you.
	I want to see how well that works.
	So it says that they're going to come after your worldwide wealth and But that does not include real estate held directly, but it does extend to real estate held indirectly, such as through a partnership or a trust.
	It also includes stocks or art collections.
	So let me get this straight.
	You leave California.
	You sell your house there.
	You move to Florida, or let's say to Austin, Texas, which a lot of people do.
	You move to Austin.
	You set up residency in Austin.
	You buy a house.
	You pay an electric bill in Austin.
	You vote in Austin.
	You have an Austin, you know, a Texas driver's license, and so on.
	California will send you a bill for the stocks that you own For being a resident of Austin, Texas.
	Or the art that you own if you're collecting art for some reason in Austin, Texas.
	They will send you a bill.
	I want to know how they're going to come collect on that.
	That's what I want to know.
	And the legality of this.
	Because wouldn't a judge immediately smack this down as no jurisdiction?
	You know, the state of California ends at the border of California.
	You leave California, you're no longer resident there.
	How does California have any claim to any assets that you have outside the state?
	But you see, the reason I even mention this is that Illinois is going to do the same thing.
	New York is going to do the same thing.
	Any of these states where the insane leftists are in charge and they are looting everybody and they are destroying everything and they're basically begging you to leave.
	They're pretty much saying, get the hell out or we're just going to take everything you own and give it to these other people.
	And then when you leave, they're basically going to say, we're going to come find you.
	Doesn't this sound like a mafia type of tactic?
	Like, we know where you live, man.
	We're going to find out where you forwarded your mail.
	We're going to come knocking on your door in Texas.
	Wait until they find out about the Second Amendment in Texas.
	By the way, that should be interesting.
	See how that goes down.
	You stalked me here?
	You want me to give you all my money?
	It sounds like a robbery in progress.
	You know what I mean?
	But I want to know if they're going to send out tax collection bounty hunters to other states.
	I want to see how that goes down.
	Because that's going to be really funny.
	First of all, just to get California bureaucrats to leave the state of California and visit the real world.
	Like, welcome to Indiana.
	Or welcome to Utah or...
	You know, Arkansas or wherever.
	This is the real world.
	You don't have jurisdiction here.
	Go back to your artificial Truman Show California place.
	But this shows the arrogance of the California bureaucrats.
	They're like, we're going to tax you wherever you go, man.
	Even if you go to Mars, like you're going to pay an interplanetary cosmic tax.
	I don't care if you leave the planet.
	We're going to track you down in the solar system.
	California is so desperate for tax money, they'll probably pass a new law that says you have to pay taxes after you die.
	You know, they say, well, the only two things that are permanent are death and taxes.
	And in California, they'll probably say, well, death doesn't stop the taxes now.
	You have to pay from the afterlife to If you are wealthy there, if you have riches, if you have a golden harp, you have to pay an inventory tax on the golden harp.
	And you have to pay it to Governor Newsom, who you can find in hell, by the way.
	That's where he will be stationed, in hell.
	Pay your taxes from heaven to hell in order to fund California Democrats, or they will come find you.
	You realize what California is actually saying in this?
	They say that in the state of California, you can legally change from a man to a woman, but you can never change from being a California tax slave.
	Even if you leave, even if you flee the state, you're never allowed to make that change.
	One more thought on this, by the way.
	What do you think wealthy people are pondering at the moment about moving into the state of California?
	Do you realize what message this sends?
	If you have money and you were thinking about moving to California, now you see this law, you're going to think twice.
	Like, wait a second.
	You mean once I move into California, I can never actually be free from California taxes?
	Yep.
	So why would anybody move in?
	Nobody would.
	No sane person would move to California at this point.
	Because it's a trap.
	It's a one-way trap.
	It's like a roach motel.
	You know, you check in, but you don't check out.
	Never.
	And by the way, in Canada, I forgot which province, maybe it was Toronto, there was a proposal of a new tax on homes that aren't being sold in a timely manner.
	So if you have a house that's sitting there vacant for more than six months, they were saying that you're going to have to pay 1% each year of the value of the home to the local government.
	So as you're trying to sell your house and nobody wants to buy it because who wants to move to a crazy liberal left-wing city like Toronto, for example, who wants to subject themselves to that kind of insanity?
	They're going to charge you basically rent on your own home that you can't sell.
	You gotta pay 1% every year to the government.
	Now, the reason I mention that is because what do you think is going through the minds of people who are considering buying real estate in Toronto?
	if you have trouble selling your house, you have to start paying rent to the government, then you might think twice about ever buying a house in that city or province in the first place, correct?
	It's kind of like Illinois.
	You know that Illinois is broke because, you know, corruption, handouts, bribery, fraud, whatever.
	And you know that at some point Illinois is going to get so desperate they're just going to start taxing people's homes and bank accounts and everything else, and they're going to probably try to pull a California.
	It's like, if you leave Illinois, we're going to track you down.
	You cross into Missouri or someplace, the free state of Missouri, Which is one of the freest states in the Midwest these days.
	We're going to track you down and take your money and we're going to haul it back to Illinois.
	Well, I want to see how they're going to pull all this off.
	Because those old Kurt Russell movies, you know, like Escape from New York and Escape from L.A., that's no longer science fiction, folks.
	You notice that communist regimes, they have to build fences, you know, to keep people in, like North Korea.
	You can't escape.
	And you see that California is going in that direction.
	You can't escape, California.
	Pretty soon they're going to have checkpoints on the highways going out of California.
	There's going to be a checkpoint there.
	And they won't let you leave until you pay the wealth tax or the vacant house tax or the unsold property tax or whatever.
	They won't even let you leave.
	That day is coming.
	Mark my words, that day is coming.
	And if anybody listening, if you're thinking of moving into California, Illinois, New York, even Portland, Seattle, places like that, Denver, forget it.
	Forget it.
	Don't even think about it.
	They will take your assets.
	They will go full commie.
	You will own nothing, and you probably won't be happy about it.
	But that's what's coming.
	All right, now let's cover some other insanity.
	This is the story I mentioned earlier.
	Netherlands is going to shut down Europe's largest natural gas field.
	And this is covered by oilprice.com.
	The Dutch government plans to close the Groningen gas field this year.
	Despite Europe's precarious supply position, Groningen is the largest gas field in Europe.
	So, let's see.
	A government official from The Hague told the Financial Times that the field is dangerous.
	It's dangerous to tap into gas.
	It explodes.
	We won't open up more because of the safety issues.
	Hans Vigbrief told the Financial Times, it is politically totally unviable.
	But apart from that, I'm not going to do it because it means that you increase the chances of earthquakes.
	It sounds like a crazy person, which I don't want to be responsible for.
	So they're saying that if you use the energy that's in Europe...
	The earth will shake.
	Doesn't this sound like some ancient cult?
	Like, you know, if you don't rip the heart out of your child, you'll anger the gods, and the sun will go dark, you know?
	That kind of thing.
	If we take energy from the ground, the earth will shake all across Europe.
	These people are bonkers, man.
	Production from Groningen has been curtailed.
	They're just going to phase it out.
	It's gone.
	The Nord Stream pipeline's all blown up.
	There's an energy crisis all across Europe, of course.
	They've got the energy, which guests we've had on, like Michael Yan, have talked about.
	They've got the energy.
	They're just not willing to tap into it.
	You know, how much you want to bet Little Miss Bossy Pants, Greta Thunderpants here, is part of this?
	Don't use the gas!
	How dare you!
	How dare you have energy!
	Okay.
	All right, well, I mean, you do realize that the bureaucrats of Europe are a suicide cult, right?
	It's all about committing suicide.
	Now, let's move over to Ukraine here.
	And this story was widely reported by a number of outlets.
	I'm going to be reading from Zero Hedge.
	Ukraine rocked by corruption scandal.
	Wave of top officials resign.
	Sports cars, mansions, and luxury vacations as people suffered.
	What'd I tell you, folks?
	What'd I tell you?
	I knew this money was going to corruption, bribery, fraud, kickbacks, because I know it's not going to the soldiers, not the Ukrainian soldiers.
	It's going into the pockets of these corrupt Ukrainian officials.
	So, the government on Tuesday confirmed the resignation of multiple high-ranking officials amid a large-scale corruption allegation investigation, what's being called the biggest mass resignation and graft scandal since the Russian invasion began.
	So, about a dozen officials have quit their posts.
	They were accused of bribery, big surprise, mismanaging aid funds for the purchasing of overpriced food with kickbacks, embezzlement, driving expensive cars while the people are starving.
	Let's see, a top presidential advisor and four deputy ministers, including two defense officials and five regional governors were forced out of their posts.
	So in other words, this is widespread corruption.
	Let's see.
	This included officials overseeing regions that have seen fighting, such as the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, where Russian forces have lately reported gains.
	So you see what's happening here, folks?
	It's that these corrupt Ukrainian officials are taking the money for themselves, And buying cars and luxury properties and who knows, you know, hookers and blow and whatever else that they are partying with Zelensky with.
	And the money is not going to the soldiers.
	It's not going to the ammunition.
	It's not going to boots.
	It's not going to, you know, fighting the war.
	It's just going into their own pockets.
	So we have all these people who have resigned.
	And of course, why should we be surprised at all?
	Now, I'm not saying that corruption is in any way limited to Ukraine, obviously.
	Believe me, there are corrupt kickbacks going to people in the United States, decision makers, members of Congress, for certain.
	Did I just say sewer?
	A little Freudian slip.
	For sewer!
	Money for sewers in Congress.
	For sure.
	And all kinds of, like, under the table, probably some secret crypto transactions and things like that.
	You know, you don't send $120 billion to Ukraine without a whole lot of that, many billions coming back to the decision makers that approve that.
	So this is a massive money laundering operation, primarily to benefit the Democrat Party.
	So that's why they need war.
	It's just, it's a money laundering machine.
	There you go.
	All right.
	And now, in addition to that, the New York Stock Exchange has gone down.
	I have about a 15-minute special report on that that I'm going to insert here.
	I recorded it earlier, but it contains my thoughts on the integrity of the banking system and why you should not trust the stock market or the banking system or the FDIC or the Federal Reserve or even the fiat currency system.
	But let's go to that report.
	I'll be back with you on the other side.
	So you notice the New York Stock Exchange went down, right?
	Went down for, I don't know, an hour or two.
	Just at the opening of the trading, the whole system went down because apparently there was a flurry of sell orders.
	And you know, the stock market can't allow people to sell, so they had to shut it down.
	And then they blamed a computer glitch.
	You notice how often computer glitches are being blamed for everything from the Pakistan power grid going down to the FAA screwing up and grounding all commercial air traffic all at once across the entire country.
	And now the stock market goes down.
	They always say, oh, it's a computer glitch.
	It's a computer problem.
	There was a voltage change.
	There was a variation.
	They never blame people.
	Even though people are in charge of running all these systems, they never blame people.
	Isn't that interesting?
	They can never say that somebody screwed up or that some idiot wasn't properly trained on the system.
	But what you're really witnessing here, in my opinion, is an accelerating breakdown of the infrastructure upon which society functions.
	And I think it's going to get far worse from here forward.
	Because I think we've reached the end of a functional, sustainable society.
	We've reached the end of a fresh group of people who know what they're doing.
	Our schools are now churning out woke idiots at this point who have no knowledge, no skills.
	They can't do basic math.
	They can't engage in reason or rationality of any kind.
	They don't even know who they are, where they came from.
	They don't have any realistic understanding of human history or even the human present, come to think of it.
	And they're supposed to run our society?
	Nope.
	They're just going to run it into the ground.
	So I ask you this question.
	Given how frequently things are failing, catastrophically, do you trust your money in the bank?
	Seriously, no.
	Do you trust your money in the stock market?
	Because, you know, when you invest in stocks, you're basically turning in money, you're surrendering money into a virtual game.
	A game of numbers that you hope one day that you can redeem for cash again.
	Or redeem for something of value, right?
	That's the whole point.
	Because you can't use money when it's in the stock market.
	You have to redeem it.
	You have to sell.
	Well, what happens if the system craters before you get out?
	And frankly, it's the same question with crypto as well.
	And a lot of people just found out that, well, it's too late.
	They did not get out.
	Now Genesis has declared bankruptcy and FTX has collapsed and Three Arrows Capital, a bunch of others.
	And it looks like it's going to go all the way to stablecoins, perhaps Tether, perhaps Binance.
	Not looking good, folks.
	People who didn't get out, they got screwed.
	And so the lesson today is, at least in my opinion, get out of the banking system as much as you possibly can.
	Because the banking system is going to go down.
	And when it goes down, you won't be able to get money out of it.
	You will have no access.
	There will be bail-ins.
	There will be bankruptcies.
	There might be a digital currency reset where they'll say, okay, yeah, you can have your money back, but only if you agree to this mark of the beast digital wallet system.
	And you can start with an iris scan or other biometrics.
	And then that's how you'll have your money.
	It has to be digital.
	Are you going to go for that?
	Because I'm not going for that.
	And people who think that banks are just going to work reliably the way they always have, they're kidding themselves.
	These banks aren't going to function much longer.
	There's going to be bank holidays and bank freezes and bank bail-ins, which just means they're taking your money, just stealing your money, looting it, and saying that it's ours now.
	So, of course, we come back to the same basic strategies.
	How do you get out of the banking system?
	Well, you convert dollars.
	Into something real.
	And I'm not going to go through the list again because you've heard me say that a thousand times.
	But it is time to get serious about this.
	What is the minimum amount of accessible, you know, liquid cash that you really need to function?
	Because outside of that, I would try to have that money in other vehicles that actually hold value.
	And that's a tough challenge because, of course, if you put it in, let's say, a piece of land, that's not exactly liquid.
	Or even if you put it into gold and silver and you have physical gold, you know, selling that back means you have to ship it to somebody or sell it locally.
	And there's going to be a little bit of a margin spread on that, too.
	You'll take a little bit of a loss.
	Not much, but it is some.
	But the bigger risk is holding cash in the banks.
	There, you're subjected to potentially a 100% loss.
	I'm not saying it's going to be 100%, but it could be.
	I think it'll be more than 90%.
	I think people are going to lose basically everything.
	It might be 99% when this great reset happens.
	Now, what's the timing of this?
	Well, I don't attribute it to a specific calendar day, but rather a series of events or what we might say mile markers.
	And I think one of the big markers is going to be Russia launching its new major offensive against Ukraine.
	When that happens, because I think it's going to be a major offensive, much bigger than anything we've seen in recent memory, China will, I believe, use that as a trigger point or a launching pad for its own economic warfare against the United States.
	And I look for countries like China, Russia, Iran, Maybe even Turkey and India and Brazil to join in the new global reserve currency system and to announce it sometime this year and to say, hey, look, we have a new basic digital stablecoin backed by gold.
	Would you like to use this world?
	And I think most populations around the world, at least those engaged in international trade and asset protection and international transfers and settlements of purchases and so on, they're going to want to use a gold-backed stablecoin.
	That's not Bitcoin, folks.
	That's not the U.S. dollar.
	That's not the SWIFT system.
	It's none of that.
	A gold-backed stablecoin is going to be something launched by Again, China, Russia, Iran, those countries.
	And it's going to end up being the most stable store of wealth in the world.
	And so all kinds of people are going to flock to it.
	And how are they going to buy their shares of that, that gold-backed stablecoin?
	They're going to sell dollars.
	They're going to sell stocks and bonds and Bitcoin.
	And why wouldn't they?
	Because, well, the dollar's losing value, the stock market's On the precipice of collapse, right?
	Fiat currencies don't hold value at all.
	So, of course, they're going to sell those things and they're going to buy gold-backed stablecoins.
	That's going to cause a lot of dollars to come flooding back to the United States, a lot of redemptions of portfolio of assets, It will cause a plunge in the stock market, in the bond market, maybe even in the real estate market.
	And when it's all said and done, anybody who isn't left holding something that's got real value attached to it, real 3D world physical value, is going to lose almost everything.
	So whatever form that you choose for your real world value Whether you choose to have, I don't know, physical coins in your hand or valuable firearms or ammunition or land or whatever, or maybe you buy into this new goldback stablecoin,
	whatever it is, if you hope to have anything remaining after this catastrophe, this global debt implosion, It will need to be backed by something physical, something that can't disappear.
	And what are the things that can't disappear?
	It's the same list, you know, is the things I already mentioned.
	This is the time to get serious about it, in my opinion.
	Now, for the record, I'm obviously not your financial advisor.
	Because the mainstream financial advisors that work in most banks are idiots, just to be honest.
	Thank God I'm not a mainstream banking system financial advisor.
	Because the requirements include having a very low IQ, high obedience factors, and gullibility to so-called official sources of information.
	These mainstream financial advisors are still thinking and peddling the idea that we're only going to go through a recession.
	They think the dollar is going to be around forever.
	They think that gold and silver are ancient useless relics.
	They do.
	And they don't know anything about BRICS nations.
	They don't know about gold-backed stablecoins.
	They don't know why China is buying up thousands of tons of gold.
	They're not even aware that that's happening.
	They don't know who blew up Nord Stream, okay?
	They have no clue what's happening in the world.
	So be careful about your financial advisors.
	Again, I can't be your financial advisor, and you do need a competent financial advisor.
	But the mainstream ones, at least the ones I've seen from the banks, kind of the...
	The big banking giants, their advisors, they are idiots.
	They will get everybody killed financially in this, just like they did in the subprime housing market collapse.
	Remember the bankers all laughing?
	It's so funny.
	And then in the dot-com collapse, the same thing.
	The same people, the same woke idiot financial advisors in the banks who were clueless and they cost their clients untold hundreds of billions of dollars in losses.
	And that's about to happen again on an even larger scale.
	And by the way, the more digitized your money becomes, the more vulnerable it is to systemic failure.
	So I don't know if you are old enough to remember back in the old days, back in the 1970s or early 1980s, you had deposits at a bank and you went in and you had a bank book, like a physical little, like a checkbook size thing.
	It was your bank deposit book.
	And you go in and you give them, here's $10.
	It's my lawnmower money.
	And you give them your $10.
	And they take your book and they run it through a printer.
	And it physically prints ink in the book.
	And it prints a line that says, oh, plus $10.
	And here's your current balance.
	And yes, it was computerized on the banking side.
	But you had a physical record.
	You had at least a book with ink in it on a piece of paper.
	Where you could go in and you could argue with them if something was wrong.
	Look, you printed this.
	This was the balance.
	This is the ink.
	This is the book.
	There's the date.
	There's the paper.
	Transaction ID. It's all right there.
	Today, you can't do anything.
	You call up the bank like, where'd my money go?
	I'm sorry.
	You call customer service.
	We can't do anything.
	Like, you just vanished thousands of dollars of my money.
	What am I supposed to do?
	We're sorry.
	It's a computer system problem.
	And it just never ends.
	And you realize you people don't know anything, do you?
	You have no clue how anything works.
	You're basically just like human biological vending machines for the banking products here, but you don't actually know anything.
	You don't even know what money is, it turns out.
	I've experienced this myself, and I don't mean to insult the many well-informed and high-quality finance people out there, but even you know that the banking industry has lately, over the last few years, it has been attracting some of the most low-IQ morons that you could possibly recruit for jobs.
	Because it's so hard to find anybody who wants to show up to work, right?
	So the banks end up with these cashiers that are just...
	I don't know, D students?
	That might be generous.
	They're just beyond clueless.
	And they're handling your money and they don't know anything.
	Do you trust that system?
	Is what I'm saying.
	Do you trust that those people can keep that system up and running?
	Do you trust that they will honor their obligations of, you know, giving you your money back when you want it?
	Because, folks, the banks should not be trusted.
	The banks are not going to be solvent.
	They're not solvent now.
	They're not going to be rescued, not when there's a systemic failure.
	And there aren't even enough intelligent, qualified people running the banks to even begin to help you get your money back.
	So as the system craters, the integrity of your bank is a pipe dream.
	Just keep that in mind.
	I don't trust the banks one bit.
	And I even know in advance that I'm going to lose whatever deposits that I have in those banks.
	I already know it.
	That's why I'm minimizing it, but you decide what's right for you.
	I'm just going to try to minimize my exposure because I know the losses are coming.
	That's my take on things.
	Or, you know, you can contact your favorite big corporate globalist bank and ask them for their advice, and they'll be happy to steer you in a direction that will loot your pockets and cause you to lose almost everything while they benefit.
	Yeah, they'll be happy to do that.
	That's called financial advising right there in the mainstream.
	But if you don't want to lose all your money, get information from the alternative and independent media because we will be the ones left standing in all of this when the music stops.
	All right.
	Hope you enjoyed that special report.
	Interesting stuff to think about.
	Now, we're about to jump into today's feature interview, which is with Dr.
	Bashima Williams of beingfunctional.com.
	We're going to talk about integrative medicine, functional medicine, and nutrition prevention and all of that, and also kind of what's wrong with conventional medicine or mainstream medicine.
	We're going to get into that.
	A couple of products I want to mention first.
	In our store, healthrangerstore.com, we have back in stock now the capsules of our broccoli sprout powder.
	Why is this interesting?
	Because it contains sulforaphane.
	And if you look up sulforaphane, you will find some interesting things about it.
	I encourage you to do so.
	But it's very high density in broccoli sprouts.
	And so...
	Our vendor, our supplier for this grows the sprouts, powders them.
	We sell both the powder and then we encapsulate it and sell it in capsules in case you don't like the flavor of the broccoli sprout powder.
	I put some of this powder into my smoothie, by the way.
	Not a lot.
	It's maybe half a tablespoon because it does have a pretty strong taste.
	But I know I'm getting sulforaphane every day because of that.
	So look up the benefits of sulforaphane and you'll see what I'm talking about.
	The other thing I want to mention is, you know, you can do your own broccoli sprouts.
	So if the pre-made product is too expensive or you're cutting back on your budget, remember you can buy broccoli sprout seeds and then you can sprout it in your own mason jars with a sprouting lid and you just rinse it two or three times a day and you can sprout them yourself and munch on them yourself, put them in salads, put them on sandwiches or put them in your smoothies, blend them in if you wish.
	That's the other way to do it.
	You're going to get the same result.
	And in fact, if you grow it fresh, you're going to get living enzymes because it's raw, fresh living.
	So just think about broccoli sprout powder is the convenient form of this if you don't have time to sprout it yourself.
	But as a nutritionist, I would encourage you, if you can, if you want this stuff, this sulforaphane, sprout it yourself.
	Learn sprouting, practice sprouting, and you're going to get amazing benefits.
	Anyway, healthrangerstore.com if you want us to do the work for you and you just want the convenience of it, and that's fine too.
	I get it.
	It's in a canister that you can travel with and you can take it to the office, put it in your car, take it on an airplane if you wish.
	So that's available.
	Also, springtime is coming up.
	Going to be more people planting.
	I want to mention the two seed companies that have been sponsors of our show.
	Just giving them both a shout out here.
	HHseeds.com.
	That stands for Heaven's Harvest.
	HHseeds.com.
	And there's also ArkSeedKits.com.
	A-R-K, arkseedkits.com.
	Use discount code Ranger on either one of those companies and you'll get either free shipping or a discount.
	Just try the discount code there, Ranger, and see what it offers you.
	But both of those companies are ramping up for springtime production.
	And if you do want to plant this spring, it's a good idea to order these seeds before the big rush, which is going to happen starting in about...
	Two weeks, frankly.
	So this is something to jump on and support those companies.
	Get yourself some heirloom non-GMO seeds.
	All right.
	With that said, we're going to jump into the interview here with Dr.
	Bashima Williams.
	It's a fascinating interview.
	Now, I do want to say that...
	She is also plugging a service that she offers, like a patient consulting service, which is kind of on the pricey side.
	It includes lab tests and multiple advisory conversations and analysis and everything.
	It's a really personalized telemedicine approach to helping people revolutionize their health.
	So that is going to be plugged in the interview.
	But aside from that, even if you're not interested in such a service, She and I have a great conversation about nutrition, health prevention, about the philosophies of medicine, the limitations of conventional Western medicine, owning your own health outcome, taking responsibility for your health, and some really great stories of personal health transformation.
	Including some of my own story and some of the health habits that I pursue each day in order to maintain this level of activity and cognitive function and physical health and so on.
	So it's a really great interview even if you're not interested in the service.
	If you want the service, she tells you how to get that during the interview.
	So let's go to that interview.
	Enjoy it.
	I'll be back with you tomorrow and I'm pretty sure we'll have more to talk about then.
	But until then, have a great day.
	Stay healthy.
	Stay informed.
	And blow the minds of the people around you by being informed.
	I didn't realize until today how astonishing it is to the uninformed to encounter someone who is actually informed.
	Like, if you know stuff, you're considered some kind of a freak of society, some kind of a genius.
	Just from knowing stuff, just knowing everyday stuff, you're, I guess, perceived as something impossible, like a demigod or something.
	No, we're just regular human beings who don't waste time on stupid things.
	And we learn.
	We learn, we explore, we practice skills, we gain knowledge.
	And that's normal.
	Should be normal.
	Shouldn't be extraordinary, frankly.
	I wish more people would do the same thing.
	In any case, have a great day.
	We'll talk to you tomorrow.
	Take care.
	All right.
	Welcome, folks.
	Mike Adams here of brighteon.com.
	And today we're joined by a first-time guest.
	Now, what's interesting is I mentioned what she's doing a few weeks ago in my podcast.
	I mean, I must have mentioned just a couple of sentences because she does this functional medicine, and it's kind of a telemedicine arrangement where she helps...
	Really a small number of patients in a very in-depth kind of way to revitalize their entire lifestyle, food, biomarkers in their blood, everything.
	And we had a ton of interest from that.
	And I got requests from people to say, well, why don't you talk to this doctor or can we hear more?
	And so...
	That's what we're doing right now.
	She's our guest today, Bashima Williams from beingfunctional.com, and that's spelled B-E-I-N-G, being, like a human being, beingfunctional.com.
	Dr.
	Bashima Williams joins us right now to talk about all of this and more.
	Dr.
	Williams, thank you for joining me.
	It's great to have you on.
	Mike, thank you so much for having me on and allowing us the opportunity to really share with your listeners what functional medicine is and just how they can take control of their own lives and their own health.
	And they can definitely be a lot more active in their own health.
	You know, and not just relying on traditional medicine.
	Yeah, I want to talk about really what is functional medicine and how people are becoming more advanced in their understanding of medicine now.
	I think taking more responsibility for it, but isn't that part of the functional medicine philosophy is that you're not just outsourcing your health to a doctor or a shot or a pill.
	You're actually owning The whole health experience and the results.
	Is that correct?
	Yes, that is very correct.
	I think with this information that we have available to us at our fingertips, especially with everything you can look up online and everything, and also intuitively, my patients know that there's something else out there.
	Now, functional medicine looks at root cause of illness rather than just the illness.
	So rather than just prescribing a prescription, which sometimes is definitely needed, there are prescriptions that are really focused on more lifestyle changes rather than just a simple fix.
	Therefore, it does take longer to see patients.
	For example, I see my patients for one hour.
	It's not a five- or ten-minute visit.
	We go through everything.
	We go through their sleep habits, their exercise habits, their diet, and we prescribe a tailored plan for our patients.
	So it's really, really helpful in that sense and definitely different.
	from just practicing traditional medicine.
	You know, that's really interesting.
	And by the way, when you say traditional medicine, are you meaning conventional medicine?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Because I just want to be sure we're not confusing it with traditional Chinese medicine, TCM.
	No, no, no, no.
	You're talking about just kind of pharmaceutical general practitioner, mainstream medicine when you use that term?
	Okay.
	Yes.
	All right, just to be clear.
	And you are a licensed physician, and you offer these services, as I understand, in four different states currently.
	Is that correct?
	Yes, three currently, California, Missouri, and Florida, and we're working on Texas.
	Okay, great.
	Okay, great.
	Yeah, you're going to have a lot of interest from Texas.
	So here's something interesting.
	Even though I'm not a doctor, and you are, Because I talk a lot about health and nutrition, people sometimes come up to me and they ask me questions like, hey, I have this symptom.
	What can I do for that?
	Like there's one thing, you know?
	And my answer often to those people is, well, if I were to even begin to answer that question, I would need your food log for the last week.
	What do you eat?
	I would need the log of what you put on your body.
	What's in your bathroom, your skincare, your laundry?
	What are you exposed to?
	What are you ingesting?
	What are you eating and drinking?
	Or smoking, perhaps.
	I need to know all of it if I were to even have an answer.
	But I'm not a doctor, so I can't even give you an answer.
	But there's not just like this allopathic mindset of, oh, I have this one thing.
	Give me one thing to...
	Stop that one thing.
	That is not the way to get to health, is it?
	That's right.
	I just had about 300 thoughts in my head right now while you were talking, including if I can just go back to when I started practicing medicine.
	It was about 25 years ago.
	About 12, 13 years into it, I was being asked the same thing from my patients.
	Hey, what if I change my diet?
	And I'm like, well, let's try it.
	So we were experimenting a lot.
	And then I started looking into it more because my patients who were, for example, giving up gluten or dairy, something so basic, were actually in less pain.
	Their joints hurt less.
	And so what was the science behind it?
	it.
	That was really what was driving me and also driving me equally as hard is the fact that my family history has a lot of heart disease.
	And so I thought, what can I do now so that when I'm 60, I'm not having a heart attack or when I'm 70, I'm still being functional, which is, you know, hence the name being functional.com.
	What can I do now?
	And so the way medicine was being practiced early on in my own practice, because this is what we're taught in medical school, is there's an illness and there's a prescription for it.
	And very little time is spent on nutrition and lifestyle changes and things of that sort, as you mentioned.
	And also, hence that one-hour visit.
	It takes a long time for us to look at toxic exposure, dietary changes that we have to make, Right.
	increase when we are not socially communicating and being with other people.
	Right.
	So definitely so much more fun doing functional medicine than it was my first you know 12 years of medicine.
	And it's an additional three years of training.
	Who has time for that when they're already in full practice, which is why there aren't a lot of board-certified medical doctors who are also certified in functional medicine.
	I think that with information and the way our younger generation is growing up We're good to go.
	That's amazing.
	I think that's the future of medicine actually is a lot of telemedicine.
	And there's another interesting thing.
	I'd like your response on this, but I brought this up.
	Are you familiar with that AI system called ChatGPT that's being talked about everywhere now?
	Have you heard of this?
	A little bit.
	Well, ChatGPT...
	Is that the AI? Yeah, it's a Microsoft-funded AI learning system.
	And they recently had this ChatGPT system take the final exam of the Wharton Business School MBA, and it passed.
	And then there was a lot of speculation.
	Well, it could pass a medical school final examination.
	And I said in my podcast, I said, well, you know...
	If you're practicing medicine like a robot, you're obsolete, right?
	If you're a glorified human vending machine working for big pharma, where it's just match this symptom with this drug and X equals Y, yeah, you're obsolete, but...
	If you're, like you are, a functional medicine doctor, which means you have to have a holistic picture, you have to express compassion, empathy, understanding for people's lifestyle and their decisions and their specific challenges.
	Not everybody can implement everything that you want them to implement right away.
	Now, you're human.
	You're not only being functional, you're being human.
	And that means that no AI system can ever replace your kind of medicine.
	So I think that this relationship that you offer patients will outlast any kind of automation that will ever come into existence.
	I agree with you 100%.
	I actually just listened to that podcast that you had and I 100% agree with you.
	The bottom line is I followed my passion in terms of what I know I was being called to do.
	And when you do that, when your passion and what you're good at kind of meet, you're going to have things like empathy.
	You're going to have things like a drive to really figure things out.
	And then you're going to get really good at, you know, certain things.
	You can't be great at everything, but you're going to be really good at certain things that you have passion for.
	But I 100% agree with that statement.
	And, you know, the AI lawyer, the AI doctor, if you're really rigid and, you know, it's right now.
	We see it right now.
	The joke in medical offices is, Dr.
	Google diagnosed me with blah, blah, blah.
	And a lot of times they're wrong.
	But equally as important, we can't rely on a machine, obviously, to diagnose and treat.
	That's where we went to medical school.
	We touched people.
	We examined people.
	You can't do that with a machine.
	But also, after almost 25 years of practice, Knowing, you know, virtually, knowing what my limits are are actually really, really important.
	There are some patients that I actually, you know, as a virtual medicine, functional medicine provider, we actually do ask our patients to maintain relationships with a physical doctor as their primary care because we're going to need that touch at times.
	We're going to need that personal exam at times.
	So, yeah, it's crazy what's happening out there.
	So is your beingfunctional.com, are you accepting new patients right now?
	And if so, only in those four states, I would assume.
	Is that correct?
	Yes.
	We're going to open up our practice right now, primarily in two separate ways.
	One is we are focusing on a preventative healthcare visit, which is really close and dear to my heart, sort of the reason why I went into functional medicine to begin with, because preventing disease is a lot more fun than having to treat a disease later.
	And if we can prevent a heart attack Or a stroke, that has huge life implications to not just the patient, but to everyone involved in the care of the patient.
	So if we can use advanced biomarkers now to look and see and predict what a person's heart attack rate, heart risk is, for example, measuring something called an ApoB protein, if we can...
	Assess that now and better assess their risk in 5, 10, and 20 years from now.
	Why are we not doing that?
	And if we can use maybe even some genetic studies that can better assess risks for certain illnesses that we can do something about now, why are we not implementing that?
	So preventative health care is huge in our practice.
	It's probably about 50% of our practice focused on the top killers in this country.
	Primarily cardiovascular-related.
	And then second is just a functional medicine consultation.
	So the typical person who has bloating, IBS has been told, they have IBS by six doctors.
	So a lot of gut issues.
	We focus a lot on the gut because 80% of the immune system is there.
	And if the immune system in the gut isn't happy, there's probably secondary problems.
	Migraines, eczema.
	Joint pains, things like that.
	So we really focus on gut health.
	And we also focus on hormones.
	And when I say hormones, women's hormones, men's hormones, and also thyroid hormones, adrenals, all of that, all those hormones.
	So when somebody signs up with you as a new patient, as I understand it, you send them to a lab or two.
	They get a couple of blood draws.
	They get this analysis that goes to you.
	You or your husband, who's part of your practice, as I understand it, You can analyze this, you're looking for the markers of hormone levels and certain blood markers and so on, and combined with information from the new patient, diet, lifestyle decisions, stresses, sleep quality, all these things, then am I correct that you're able to paint this picture of what's going to be the most effective at bringing this person back into balance with their health goals?
	You're 100% correct.
	And we also utilize other things.
	Like, for example, I'll just focus on cardiovascular illness.
	We'll do advanced testing even.
	We'll do carotid dopplers.
	We'll do carotid endometrial lining thickening.
	What about D-dimer tests, the microclotting test?
	Sorry to interrupt, but can you order D-dimer tests?
	A lot of people are concerned about shedding from other people.
	D-dimer, I mean, we can definitely order that if a patient wants it.
	I do not order that on a regular basis because it's too nonspecific.
	So specifically for that test, the levels are...
	It's not specific to one thing.
	Typically, we order a D-dimer when we suspect a PE in the ER. However, that is not something that, you know, that's more acute medicine.
	If I were to ever order a D-dimer, it would be at the request of a patient if there was a reason for ordering it.
	And usually those reasons are more urgent and would require generally more in-person evaluations.
	Okay, fair enough.
	Thank you for providing that answer.
	I know some people will ask about that.
	What have you heard?
	Because I know that when I mentioned you a few weeks ago, some people reached out to you because I heard back from some people.
	But without giving anybody's name, obviously, because you protect patient privacy, what generally have you heard from people about being able to connect with your brand of functional medicine versus maybe their other previous physician experiences?
	So like I said earlier, I think it's mostly a patient's intuition to knowing that there's something better out there that can complement the current conventional doctor, if you will.
	And that is, you know, that's where we bridge that gap.
	And so, yes, we had a lot of patients reach out and we had a lot of interest in preventative healthcare.
	That was probably our biggest draw.
	And most commonly it is, you know, you read all these studies and you listen to these health related podcasts and you have all these amazing pieces to this great, beautiful puzzle, but you have no idea how to put it all together.
	And that's what my job is.
	My job is to help you filter out the things that don't matter with the things that really are important and really to tailor a plan of action that is individualized for you, not for your neighbor, not for You know, your friend, just for you.
	And so we all are individuals and we should all, you know, be treated that way.
	Yeah, that's a really important point.
	instead of us being seen as just another statistic in a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study or live trial on humans for an experimental injection or pharmaceutical, to treat us as humans, which also means to treat patients with dignity.
	And that's something that is lacking, unfortunately, in a lot of mainstream GPs today.
	There's this kind of arrogance where they treat patients with disdain.
	A patient comes in, and even if they've done a little bit of research, like, oh, I think that maybe this is what I'm experiencing.
	Or I did look at Dr.
	Google, as you say, and found that this symptom might be called this.
	So often they're treated with disdain, even though in many cases it's people just trying to understand.
	Even if they're wrong, at least they're not walking in blind.
	You know what I mean?
	When you're going to Google to figure out what you have, There is a problem, and there's a disconnect with communication, for sure.
	Well, plus Google banishes all the best information about holistic health, too, on top of that.
	There's that factor.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I don't know.
	I know that for my patients who are looking at Google are definitely desperate.
	Interesting.
	And are so thankful when we talk to them.
	That, you know, they're so worried they've got this horrible illness and they're so relieved when we tell them, no, you don't have that because of these negative findings or these negative things in your history or these negative clinical exam findings, you know, whatever it is.
	But you might have this.
	And so we start, you know, obviously that's what we're trained to do.
	We're trained to take the most important part of our visit is the history of Taking is that one hour we spend with our patients.
	So, you know, to your point, that disconnect between physician and patient Leads more and more people to try to self-diagnose because one, either they're not being heard or two, they don't have confidence in the competency of their physician.
	And so then they start looking.
	And so that's where a lot of my patients come in where they have been looking and they haven't gotten answers they want.
	And we're here to help.
	In those areas.
	And certainly if a patient wants to sign up in our practice, and I'm very honest, if I'm not the right fit for you, I will probably know who is, and I will refer you to that person instead.
	You know, we want our patients to get better.
	At the end of the day, that's what our passion is for our patients.
	And, you know, like you said, that's something a computer can't do.
	So if someone contacts you, goes to your website, signs up, makes an appointment, and then the first thing you hear from them is where they have symptoms that sound like, let's say, acute stage 4 liver cancer, you're not going to say, oh, just eat more carrots or whatever.
	You're going to direct them to who you think maybe can handle that acute situation more appropriately.
	That's what I'm hearing from you.
	Is that right?
	Correct.
	But your philosophy is catching things early.
	So even if someone starts to have early symptoms or fatigue or sleep quality, hormone changes, even sexual activity changes can be precursors of hormone changes that may impact their life.
	That's the time to start talking about what are you eating, what's your lifestyle, what's your level of exercise, those kinds of things.
	And that's where you really can help a lot as I'm understanding it.
	Yes, we can help a lot with, you know, so for example, hormones, which I will tell you probably about 8 out of 10 of my patients, and this is just not in any, you know, journals or anything, but about 8 out of 10 of my patients,
	When we start to talk about hormones, and this is just an example of what's out there in the public and what you might research, they're so afraid to go on hormones because of breast cancer risk.
	And, you know, those studies are so antique, and yet that's in their head because they remember when their mom was on hormones and they stopped taking hormones all of a sudden because of these reports from the WHI study, for example. people.
	So when I look at hormones, I don't look at, you know, I do look at hot flashes, night sweats, vaginal dryness, irritability, mood swings, insomnia, weight gain.
	We look at all that, but we also look at the invisible things, which are very, very important to me.
	The invisible things, you know, the heart attack rates increasing, the osteoporosis, the Dementia increasing.
	Those are the things.
	When we say functional medicine looks at root cause and prevention, what we're trying to do is we're trying to take this person who's 55 and talk to them about hormones.
	Because when they're 65, we don't want them in our office with cognitive decline to the point where they're no longer being functional and independent on their own.
	And so that's a really big part of our practice.
	So that's just taking hormones as an example.
	But really, you can do that with anything.
	Okay.
	I have a ton of questions for you, but on a practical note, let me go to your website, beingfunctional.com.
	For people who want to reach out to you, I see you have a button there, sign up to be a patient.
	I assume that's the right button for people to click.
	Yes.
	So you can choose two things.
	One, you can either choose a functional medicine consultation.
	So if you have gut issues, hormone issues, thyroid issues, and you need a more in-depth evaluation, you can do a functional medicine consultation.
	That's an hour with me or with my husband, Mike.
	And we'll vet that most of the time if it's a patient who fits my strengths better or Mike's strengths.
	So we can work around that.
	We'll do that on our end.
	That's about a $2,500 package, Mike.
	I want to be up front with my patients all the time.
	There's no surprises at the end of the treatment or anything like that.
	But that includes all the lab analysis, the lab draws, the lab analysis, the reports.
	And that's usually over the course of about a year.
	Oh, okay.
	So it's a multi-stage package.
	Functional medicine patients require probably about three or four visits.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	And then the second type I see on your website is a preventative wellness visit?
	That's a preventative.
	The reason why we put that package together is at the end of the day, if we can prevent heart attacks and strokes or at least decrease or early detection to save heart muscle, things like that, just more medical things from our perspective, if we can have a chance at doing that, Then we, you know, that makes us feel so good.
	So we put this package together that includes a set of labs and two consultations, one before and after.
	And the one after, you'll have a full detailed plan of action.
	Again, that's individualized for you based on your risk factors.
	So that one includes two visits and your labs, and that one is $1,900.
	I know it sounds a lot, and this is all cash pay practice.
	That's what most functional medicine doctors do.
	But really, for the amount of care that you're getting, It's, you know, it's actually a really good price.
	I think we have to put it in perspective.
	cheaper than one night in a hospital bed in like an urgent care wing after a heart attack.
	I mean it's way cheaper than that.
	I've seen people go go into a hospital one just one night and oh it turns out it's appendicitis boom $25,000 they had to have an emergency surgery or ten grand in procedures and lab tests as the doctors are hunting for what's wrong with this person.
	That can add up quickly.
	And sometimes insurance doesn't cover what you think it's going to or you have a big out-of-pocket payment up front.
	So what you just described, you said it's cash pay.
	Insurance doesn't cover it, but sounds like it can save people a lot in the long run.
	Absolutely.
	That's our goal.
	We are very conscientious of it.
	You know, as medical doctors, we want to be conscientious of cost and where we can get the most, you know, sort of bang for our buck, if you will, but also for us, do the most amount of change in people's lives.
	And that education that you will receive is priceless.
	It's dependable.
	It's accurate.
	It's based on science.
	Research and medical evidence.
	It's not based on just, you know, hokey pokey stuff.
	Also, no one who's ever worked with me, I don't know how to say this, but no one has ever worked with me at the end of their visits with me and they felt better.
	No one has ever complained about the price.
	So I always take that to be a really good sign that we're doing what we're supposed to be doing.
	Yeah, really good point because quality of life is priceless.
	Even just quality of sleep is priceless.
	You know, there's a saying in traditional Chinese medicine, actually, and it's about...
	Sorry to be so kind of graphic, but can you poop and pee and sleep?
	Because if you can't do those three things or one of those three things, your quality of life becomes insane.
	And you've got to reestablish those three things in order to even think about whatever else is wrong with you.
	But I also want to comment on, I love the fact that your attitude is helpful, it's positive, it's healing for people because...
	Especially in the cancer industry, there are so many people that go to conventional cancer doctors and they get this crazy, insane pessimism.
	Like, oh, you're going to die in three months if you don't agree today to this radical thing.
	And a friend of mine who's actually in the preparedness industry over a year ago called me.
	And said he's been diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer, a large tumor, bad cancer.
	And he said, like, what did I think that he should look into?
	And I said, oh, really?
	Okay, you've got this diagnosis.
	That's interesting.
	Have you looked at this and this and this?
	Go read this, check this out, and do that.
	And at the end of it, he said, you know, Mike, you're the only person that I've called He talked to all his friends and family members.
	You're the only person who didn't say, oh, it was nice knowing you, sad you're going to die.
	And guess what?
	By the way, today, his tumor is virtually gone.
	He's active.
	He's 67 years old, jogging, super fit.
	The doctors can't believe what's happening.
	But because he did the kinds of things that probably you would also recommend after an analysis, but he did those things.
	And a diagnosis is not a death sentence.
	I think you get that.
	No, it's not.
	Yeah, you're absolutely right.
	And with our, you know, having hope just in and of itself is very therapeutic.
	Taking control back, I think, is extremely valuable for my patients.
	Knowing that their destiny is in their hands, not in the hands of someone else.
	I have a great appreciation for lifestyle effects on certain things like tumors.
	And certainly, cancer is not one of my strong suits.
	I do have a great...
	I have several people that I do refer my cancer patients to.
	I think that that's such a special area.
	And there's so many programs that, you know, when we treat cancer patients, it's not, here are these supplements, here's this diet.
	It's also supportive care, emotional care.
	It's learning to do things like meditation, which, you know, and a lot of times our patients who are diagnosed with something like that, you see such an evolution, right?
	And, you know, they say sometimes when something bad happens, you become better.
	And that's where we see that a lot is in our cancer patients and even in our post heart attack patients who decide, again, to take ownership of their problems.
	So basically, we want to empower our patients to To take control of their own life.
	We just want to help them along the way.
	And we want to, you know, we want to give them a, you know, the trust of a physician who sort of has had all that training, but also just a place that they can safely ask questions and get the answers that, you know, things that have been vetted out all the, you know, vetted out all the garbage and here's what really works.
	And this is what really works based on not just our experience, but also really backed by science.
	That all makes sense.
	And I'm probably going to get complaints for showing this because it's almost gone.
	But this is my daily prevention right here is my superfood smoothie, my turmeric.
	And I want to ask you about the power of daily habits.
	Because part of the allopathic approach to medicine is that, oh, you wait until it's broken.
	And then you take something.
	You take something very yucky tasting and potent.
	And then that's supposed to fix the thing that's broken.
	And then you go back.
	To what you were doing that caused the problem in the first place.
	And I have to say, the power of daily habits...
	You know, I take resveratrol every day as a supplement, by the way.
	I drink turmeric every day.
	I have healthy fats every day.
	And I don't eat canola oil.
	I don't eat soy, corn oil, any of those garbage oils.
	I haven't had them for literally decades.
	And it's that daily habit which you can educate people about.
	That you extend that over a decade and you are on a completely different trajectory than someone else with the same genetics, the same chronology of age, but different habits puts you in a totally different outcome.
	Your thoughts?
	100% right.
	I want to share a personal story with you, if it's okay.
	I am a very driven person, so I can easily work from 6 in the morning until 7 or 8 at night.
	And I love what I'm doing, so I can do that.
	And I have no problems doing it.
	I have a lot of energy.
	Everyone tells me I have too much energy.
	I don't drink caffeine most of the time, most days.
	But what I found was I was giving too much of myself.
	And so why am I telling these people about lifestyle when I'm not interjecting my own daily habits?
	So I actually, sort of about three years ago, sort of took control of that.
	And I found that if I can take control of my mornings, then I invest in myself first, and then I can give more to others.
	So I wake up in the morning.
	I have my Bible study time.
	Prayer time, and then I go work out, and I sit in my sauna for 22 minutes.
	I work out for about an hour, hour and 20 minutes or so, sit in my sauna for 22 minutes, have a little meditation time, shower, get ready for my day, and I'm ready to go.
	I'll have my, you know, green, I have green juice.
	I don't do turmeric.
	I do juice turmeric, though, sometimes, fresh, organic turmeric.
	It will give you orange back teeth, by the way.
	I know, I know.
	I heard, I heard.
	As long as the front teeth look good, Mike, you're good.
	The front teeth are fine.
	The back teeth, if you have dental work, it'll turn orange.
	That's like turmeric proof.
	That's how you know you're a turmeric veteran.
	Yeah.
	So, you know, I'd love to see what the insides look like on you one of these days.
	I've never had that kind of question posed to me before, but thank you.
	I'll take that as a compliment.
	I bet it's pretty clean.
	Well, it's going to be orange.
	That's for sure.
	It's going to be orange all the way.
	I freak out my dentist.
	I have to warn them in advance.
	Nevertheless, I grew up on a lot of processed food, actually, and so I had a lot of dental work when I was younger.
	Only later in life did I get turned on to nutrition and prevention and health and so on.
	Since then, teeth have been great, but I'm still dealing with the old cavities.
	Right?
	You know, kind of the previous stuff.
	And I think you probably run into that a lot with your patients where even if they radically change their lifestyle and they get healthier, sometimes you still have to overcome what you've been through or perhaps, you know, damage that's been done before, you know, bone density even that you weren't paying attention to for many years and now you're paying attention, things like that.
	A hundred percent.
	The sooner you start, the better it is.
	So, you know, I know it's really easy to say I'm 18 or I'm 20 and just postpone it.
	But the earlier you start, the better it is.
	So we actually do consultations on, you know, a lot of families, you know, a lot of times the mom will see me and then she'll say, oh, hey, can you see my husband?
	And, oh, hey, can you see my kids?
	Usually that's the order it is.
	Interesting.
	But, you know, I have to tell you, Mike, the biggest compliment I got yesterday was from my 19-year-old daughter who said, Mom...
	You need to make a cookbook because you actually know how to make vegetables that taste good.
	And it dawned on me, what in the world are you getting in college?
	What are you eating that you would actually call me just to say that?
	And so, yes, there's a lot to unpack there.
	But I think one of the biggest things we need to unpack is that We are being sold convenience in so many levels.
	We are being sold fast foods because it's fast and it's time-saving, and that's what we're being sold.
	We're not being sold on the lack of nutritional value that it has or, hey, you know what?
	Sitting in a kitchen for an hour cooking is actually therapeutic.
	So that's how I end my day.
	I try to finish.
	I have a hard stop around 4 or 5, so I can spend an hour in my kitchen because, for me, that's meditation and therapy, and plus it's great food that you can make.
	Usually, most of my meals are done in about 15 to 20 minutes, to be honest, because I know how to chop things up really fast, because I've been doing it my whole life.
	That's how we grew up.
	You know, in another country, we didn't grow up with fast food stores and all this other stuff.
	So we learned how to do everything growing up.
	So that's really, really important.
	But then also...
	We've been sold convenience in a doctor's office.
	Like, hey, I'll take this pill if I get to eat whatever I want.
	But that's all lack of education.
	I think that if we really educated people, we would soon find out that you're just delaying something bad happening later.
	But the sooner you start, the better.
	You can't start soon enough.
	This is, I think, you brought up something that's a great demonstration, the difference between allopathic medicine and functional medicine or holistic medicine.
	So if a patient says, doctor, I'd love to eat ice cream and donuts, and I want to have more ice cream and donuts, an allopathic doctor will say, great, here's more insulin.
	A functional doctor will say, let's talk about the ice cream and what's behind that desire and how do we balance that in the rest of your life so that perhaps you're not getting 30% of your calories from donuts and ice cream, right?
	I mean, it's about getting deeper into what's behind these things rather than just saying, oh, we'll hit it with more insulin and continue with that lifestyle, right?
	Right.
	Right on everything you just said.
	So definitely, you know, it's a challenge.
	I think of this one patient who came to see me when I started my functional medicine practice.
	I was still in a more traditional, conventional practice, but I was seeing patients during my lunchtime for functional medicine on my own.
	Just because I was so fascinated with it, and I couldn't believe the results I was getting.
	So I just worked through lunch and just saw these patients.
	And one of my patients referred someone else to me.
	So when I saw her, I assumed because of the reference, she wanted to get off of her, you know, some medications that she was on.
	She was on two medications.
	And I thought she wanted to do the same thing that her friend did, which her friend actually was able to get off of most of her medications.
	And when I started talking to her about functional medicine, she's like, can you just write me my scripts?
	Right.
	I'm like, all right, well, I guess we're done in about five minutes.
	But, you know, you have to give the patients what they want.
	Not everyone wants to do this, and that's okay.
	Not everyone is ready for it.
	There are some people that want it so bad, but like you said...
	Why are they still eating the pizza?
	Why are they still eating the ice cream?
	Why are they still, you know, drinking soda when they know it's not good for them?
	Why is that?
	And a lot of times you're 100% right.
	I would say about 95% of my patients, it's a mental issue that they have to overcome.
	And you do that by what you said earlier.
	You start stacking healthy habits together and, you know, you kind of put yourself in a position where you're more likely to succeed.
	And I don't mean to turn this into a mental health episode, but in my experience, talking with a lot of people over many decades about nutrition and health, and I just want to know if you have seen this yourself, You start peeling back the layers of what's behind the ice cream,
	what's behind a self-destructive activity and you know what it usually comes down to in a mental health aspect is self-worth and it's often an adult who as a child I know it sounds like, like, whoa, how are we getting so deep so quickly?
	But honestly, I've seen that over and over and over again.
	And sometimes I've seen people, they go talk to a competent therapist, they address some childhood issues, And then they can talk to someone like you and actually have the self-worth attitude to start taking that advice to get healthy.
	It's like they had to overcome this mental block firsthand.
	Have you ever seen that?
	All the time.
	We see it all the time in our practice.
	In fact, when we spend that first hour with our patients, we actually do something called a timeline, where we start with infancy when they were born.
	You know, were they vaginal, spontaneous vaginal delivery?
	Or were they C-section?
	Were they bottle-fed?
	Did mom and dad get along at home?
	Was it a peaceful home?
	Was it a hectic home?
	Was there alcohol involved in the home, especially early on?
	What kind of food did mom cook or did anyone cook?
	Or did you go out to eat all the time?
	Was it free pantry of junk food after school every day?
	Antibiotics over and over again.
	So we go, we timeline people from birth all the way to where they're at right now.
	Wow.
	And we elicit from that timeline something called antecedents, certain things that people are predisposed to.
	Like, for example, if you're genetically predisposed to Alzheimer's dementia, you bet we're going to get out all of our sort of big anti-dementia think protocols that we're going to use because we want to preserve your brain function.
	And, um, What if you had a triggering event?
	What if you went to Brazil and came back?
	And these are all real-life patients I'm thinking about.
	I had a patient who went to Brazil, came back, and for 10 years had diarrhea.
	And it turns out he had really bad parasites.
	Once we treated that, the other reason he had finally come to a functional medicine doctor is he started having some peripheral neuropathy in his fingers.
	And that, too, started to get better.
	Wow.
	So we timeline and then we look at mediators of illness.
	What is promoting that specific, you know, illness?
	So for example, lots of antibiotic use, proton pump inhibitors, or diet from birth through now, you know, and somebody who hasn't changed like you have.
	I mean, I love that drink that you drink every day.
	And I think that having that habit Like you have is really making it foolproof for you because that's just something you just automatically do.
	And some people automatically go to a drive-thru at McDonald's on their way home.
	But you can change that to, hey, I can automatically go home and it's all a mindset.
	So absolutely, we look at, you know, childhood trauma and things like that because we do have to refer you out to a therapist.
	I can't do therapy.
	Obviously, I'm not...
	I'm not a certified therapist, but we can find these people that need that level of care.
	We also work with health coaches in our office.
	We work with dietitians who are not only RDs, but also certified in functional medicine.
	A lot of the diets that we use to help people heal are therapeutic diets, so you kind of have to know that.
	So yes, it takes a village to get better.
	It is not a one and done.
	There's no magic here.
	You will have to do the work.
	And when you're ready to do the work, those are the patients I want.
	If you're not ready or you think this is going to be easy, then you've been sold a bunch of lies and you have a bunch of lies that has been running your life.
	You know, the lies of convenience and the lies of, I'll do this later, without addressing sort of the root cause.
	Yeah, but I want to interject on that when you say it's not going to be easy.
	And I agree with you in the sense of just the initial learning curve and some habit changing.
	But I got to say, after you get through that transition, living a healthy lifestyle is...
	You are not giving up anything.
	From what I drink and what I eat, there's not any moment where I feel like, oh, I wish I could have a giant piece of that wedding cake or, oh, I wish I could drink a six-pack of soda.
	You don't miss it.
	In fact, your body rejects it.
	Once you get those toxins out of your system, the phosphoric acid, the partially hydrogenated soybean oil icing, all the refined sugar overload, too much salt in the food, you get this out of your system, your body Actually begins to value healthier food and cuisine, all the different tastes and the colors and the sensory input and the olfactory awakening that happens with food and so on.
	I don't lack anything.
	I have a more fulfilling sensory experience, I believe, eating healthy than people who are living on junk food and Pop-Tarts.
	There's no comparison.
	I think one of the biggest experiments I have my patients do is increase self-awareness with how food makes you feel after you eat it.
	And if you are tired and dragging and want to take a nap, that's probably not a good food for you.
	And if you continue to have energy and you're vibrant and your brain is still working past lunchtime, then that's probably a good, you know, a good thing to do.
	So, a good thing to eat.
	So, yeah, absolutely.
	I think the trade-off is, you know, again, the convenience.
	You actually have to cook a little and you actually have to spend some time preparing.
	But the truth is, Your reward is freaking amazing.
	Absolutely.
	I mean, you've got more energy, you get better sleep, you have less pain.
	It's like, why would you not want that?
	Yeah.
	But again, it's that communication and educational aspect that's really missing right now.
	Yeah.
	That's why we're here.
	Exactly.
	We're here to kind of watch people through that.
	And I know I've kept you a little longer than I had planned, so I thank you for spending time, but I also want to give a disclaimer to the audience that even though Dr.
	Williams here is a licensed physician, don't interpret any of this as personalized medical advice to you personally.
	Because these are just general answers, right?
	So you need to be seen, advised, perhaps diagnosed, and so on if you want personalized medical advice.
	And that's what Dr.
	Williams does at beingfunctional.com.
	But, you know, get competent help in whatever your health challenges are.
	But I agree with what you just said, Bashima, which is that self-awareness, that people need to be aware of how am I feeling?
	How does that food make me feel?
	How does this habit make me feel?
	Exercise habits, sleep habits, and so on.
	Sedentary habits, you know, sitting in front of TV, binge-watching a Netflix thing for six hours.
	How does that make you feel, actually?
	Probably not that great, you know?
	The blood's not really moving everywhere that it should be.
	So that self-awareness is key, and combined with expert advising and the lab tests and looking at the quality of your blood, you can make remarkable gains.
	That's my take.
	I agree with you 100%.
	I would like to interject a couple of things.
	Number one, we would be happy to see you in our office at beingfunctional.com.
	Also, if you are a person who wants to be seen in person and you live in California or Missouri and you want to fly to Missouri, you can call my husband's practice, ultrawellnessmedical.com, and the number is 636-333-9820.
	Also, because we're only two people right now in our practice, and while we are growing, we are going to limit the number of people that actually come into the beingfunctional.com to 300 and to the ultra-wellness medical to 200.
	That's our capacity right now for what we're able to do.
	Yeah, I would assume that's probably, that's going to fill up your calendar for the year, I would think.
	You know what?
	It's a blessing because we are doing consulting work.
	We are no longer primary care, so now we can actually help people get better and along that journey.
	Help educate them for forever change.
	We don't want repeat customers.
	We don't want people to keep coming over and over and over to us.
	We want to treat them and educate and empower.
	But I also want to just mention the Institute of Functional Medicine's website, ifm.org.
	There's a button there for find a practitioner that you can also use to find a local practitioner that maybe you want to be seen in person or maybe you want to be seen virtually but in another state that I can't serve you right now.
	That is definitely an option for you.
	We are growing and so as we grow we'll hire more doctors but then there's quality control issues and all that other stuff that we definitely want to be mindful of.
	We want the same quality with the same passion and Kind of everything what we've already talked about.
	We want to be well aligned with our future partners.
	But right now, this is what we're capable of doing.
	Would you put New York high on your list?
	Because I know a lot of our viewers, believe it or not, are in the state of New York.
	Not necessarily New York City, but upstate New York, Long Island, and so on.
	And you've already got California, Florida.
	You're working on Texas.
	New York would be the next most populous state.
	There's just a suggestion.
	Yeah.
	Well, thank you for that suggestion.
	Yeah, it's like giving you more work to do, you know.
	It's just like, here we are.
	We're growing, so we're good.
	Yeah.
	I mean, and we're up late, too.
	Yeah, this has been such a pleasure talking with you.
	Yeah, it's been great.
	Thank you for spending time.
	And for those folks watching, just as an example of what this can do, I don't know what your day has been like, Dr.
	Williams, but here we are.
	It's like 10, 15 p.m.
	I did three interviews before this one today, plus a bunch of other stuff.
	This is like my typical 16-hour workday, and I feel like I could talk to you for another hour because this is so fascinating.
	But we've got to wrap it up.
	You know what?
	Good nutrition powers you as far as you want to go and good holistic health practices and getting good advice about what to do.
	So thank you, Dr.
	Williams.
	It's great to have this conversation with you.
	Yeah, it's good having it with you, too.
	And I'm going to have to borrow that comment you made about the traditional Chinese medicine.
	You know, if you're not sleeping, if you sleep, eat, and poop well, you're probably pretty good.
	Is that what it was?
	Sleep, eat, and poop?
	Yeah, you've got to be able to poop and pee and sleep.
	And actually, sometimes they say and eat.
	You've got to eat, too.
	If you can eat, poop, and sleep, you have the bases covered for the most part.
	It'd be nice to be able to walk as well so you don't need assistance with the other three things.
	That's right.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	I love it.
	It's so true.
	It's so fundamental, but yet so true.
	So thank you so much for that.
	Well, thank you.
	And thank you for what you're doing.
	And the website, again, folks, is beingfunctional.com.
	And I'd really love to invite you back.
	Down the road, after you get some patience from this interview, I want to hear the feedback.
	I know I'll hear from people too, but I want to hear it from your point of view of how you're able to help people and set them on a path that empowers them to have really improved health outcomes because it's all possible, folks.
	We're living proof of it.
	You change your habits, you change your outcome.
	It's that simple.
	You just got to know how to change.
	Mike, I really wanted to know, what are your daily habits and how we stack habits and things like that?
	What do you do every day that keeps you so alive at 10 o'clock at night?
	Okay, number one, I walk in nature every day.
	So I probably only miss one or two days a year due to extreme weather.
	But other than that, I'm walking in nature.
	So I'm hearing the birds, the crickets, the frogs.
	I'm surrounded by trees and grass and I'm walking my animals.
	So I have all this interaction with animals.
	Secondly, the only water I drink right here is rainwater.
	I don't drink city water and I don't drink well water and I don't drink distilled water or filtered water.
	Frankly, it's all rain water that is, of course, sanitized, UV light.
	And I believe that a lot of people get extra minerals in their water and they end up with, frankly, things like calcification of arteries and kidneys and so on because of these inorganic forms of calcium that are in the water, calcium carbonate and so on.
	So I think that's actually huge and not a lot of people talk about that.
	Thirdly, I avoid all artificial fragrances of all kinds in everything.
	And people hear me talk about this a lot.
	Laundry detergent, fabric softeners, personal care products.
	And I even have rules like this at my lab, at my studio, at the warehouse.
	No one is allowed to bring in artificial fragrance that I can smell.
	And since my nose is like a mass spec instrument, if you're wearing it, I'm going to send you home.
	Because I'll smell it.
	And everybody learns that very quickly after they're sent home a couple of times.
	They have to change their laundry detergent.
	So I avoid all these fragrances.
	I avoid these toxins.
	I take iodine.
	I take vitamin D. I take resveratrol.
	I take MSM. There's a long list of supplements that I take.
	Astaxanthin, non-GMO vitamin C, and so on.
	But I don't consider supplements a replacement for the food habits that I have.
	So food habits, I do the smoothie every day.
	Avocados, bananas, coconut water, whey protein, flax seeds, plus some other...
	I blend in kale, fresh kale that I grow in my hydroponic systems.
	Kale is real easy to grow.
	I take a big leaf like this and I stick it in the blender every day, so I'm getting blended raw kale with the enzymes in it.
	In addition, I use a combination of chlorella and spirulina, just a small amount, in the smoothie.
	Makes it a little green and orange, both.
	In addition to that, I sleep well.
	I'll sleep a full eight hours sometimes.
	Seven to eight is my typical habit.
	I'm not one of these people that can get by on four hours.
	I don't try to do that.
	I don't oversleep and I don't undersleep.
	I get just the right amount of sleep, get up, ready to go.
	I do resistance training, kettlebells, Weight machines, you know, different kind of lifting.
	I already mentioned the walking, so I get cardio that way.
	Oh, I do rolling.
	I do body rolling every evening.
	So I have a big roller, a foam roller, and I roll on my sides and I roll my legs and the IT band, as it's called.
	So I do a lot of rolling.
	And that's also exercising shoulders and abdominal and so on.
	That's kind of an overview of what I do.
	But it's all a daily habit.
	Yeah, and you have to be intentional.
	You have to be intentional about growing that kale.
	So all the little steps that go into it, you have to be intentional about.
	And I'm like you.
	I could sleep.
	I could probably be functional for four hours, but you know what?
	I know how valuable sleep is.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	So I have to shut my...
	I believe that sleep is also that learning integration time.
	So I know that learning is a process of exposing yourself to information.
	Yes.
	And then while you're sleeping, your brain is reorganizing and creating the hierarchical structures of knowledge.
	And so if you don't have good sleep, you don't learn.
	Right.
	So what I do during the day is I'm absorbing information, even if I'm on tractor equipment.
	I'm listening to audio books.
	I'm reading hundreds of headlines and articles per day.
	And then at night, I'm structuring that.
	And then that's when it's learned.
	So for me, it's like each day is a nutritional journey and a cognitive journey and physical skills, exercise, movement, and then plenty of rest to integrate everything and then wake up the next day and do it again.
	Yep.
	I mean, I have challenges, too.
	Like everybody, you know, I get injured every once in a while, especially in my martial arts activities.
	So I'll deal with injuries, too.
	Yeah.
	But, you know, you work through it.
	Yes, for sure.
	Well, thank you so much for sharing that.
	That was really helpful and good.
	And you know what?
	If you can do all that, we can certainly start making, you know, changes to our breakfast, for example.
	And that's sometimes where we start in our own practice, so...
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, like when I travel to, you know, I showed people this, but I bring a blender.
	So I bring a blender.
	I bring the avocados.
	I travel with my food.
	Okay.
	And that's why I don't travel by air, by the way.
	Or one of the reasons.
	But I haul like...
	My grocery store with me wherever I'm going.
	And then I can make what my body is expecting.
	I've got my supplements.
	I've got my water.
	I bring rainwater with me wherever I go.
	I also don't trust hotel water, obviously.
	I can't imagine the difference between the rainwater.
	No, I've been invited before to go to really fancy resorts, and I go, and I'm like, this sucks.
	My place is way better than this.
	We have silver-infused pillows at home, and rainwater, and awesome nutrition, and super clean turmeric, and nature walks, and interactions with the donkeys.
	So what am I at this spa for?
	That sounds amazing.
	That sounds amazing.
	Well, thank you so much for sharing that.
	That is really...
	Well, thank you for asking.
	Oh, yeah.
	I love hearing...
	I actually love hearing those stories about how...
	And a lot of times it's those journeys, those first initial changes that then you start stacking on those habits that then all of a sudden a year later you look down the road and you've made all these amazing changes.
	So thank you for that.
	True, true.
	And you may not know this about me, but 25 plus years ago, I was borderline type 2 diabetic, borderline obese, and suffered from chronic back pain at the time.
	Oh, and I had crazy high cholesterol.
	So that's where I came from.
	And I will never be back in that place again.
	That is awesome.
	Just by the things I shared.
	Yeah.
	That is awesome.
	And there you go.
	The empowerment of you being able to take control of your own destiny.
	Had you not made those changes, it definitely would have been a high risk for a heart attack, for example, at this point in your life.
	And you may be horrified by hearing this since you are a doctor, but I don't have a GP and I don't go to doctors.
	I don't do checkups.
	I don't do visits.
	Nothing.
	Am I the first doctor you've seen in a long time?
	This is true.
	You're the first doctor I've talked with in a long time.
	I am so honored.
	I mean, what is my doctor going to tell me that I'm not already tracking, right?
	Except for maybe blood tests, which is where you're an expert.
	So I'm open to that.
	But there's nothing a GP can tell me that I don't already know.
	I'm way ahead of them on what's going on.
	So I don't visit doctors.
	No need.
	And I also, I don't eat toxins.
	So there you go.
	You don't eat toxins.
	And you know what you said earlier?
	I just want to clarify for listeners, the exposure of chemicals can be ingested orally or breathed in.
	So assimilation happens in multiple ways, you know, through your skin and Through the air.
	If you're going to wash your clothes with certain detergents, you're going to smell them, and that smell, you're breathing it in, plus it's touching your skin.
	There's a lot to be learned and unpacked with everything that we said today.
	There's a lot.
	And when you sweat, your sweat is an extraction solvent that pulls the fragrance chemicals out of your clothes, and then it gets absorbed right through your skin.
	And we've done experiments where if you put a jug of water next to a box of fabric softener, dryer sheets, the chemicals of the fabric softener go through the bottle into the water, and you can drink the water and taste it.
	So, yeah.
	Where else do you think it's going?
	It's going everywhere.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I hear you.
	Yep.
	Yep.
	Pretty wild, but thanks for asking.
	My pleasure.
	Anyway.
	All right.
	Thank you so much for joining me.
	I really appreciate you.
	Have a wonderful evening, Dr.
	Williams.
	My pleasure.
	You too.
	Okay.
	Thanks for watching, folks.
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