Dr Chalmers Path to Pro - The Most Important Thing for Health
Taking care of your health starts with the right mindset. It's not just about following a diet or going to the gym it’s about staying committed and motivated every day. The way you think about your goals can make a big difference in how successful you are over time.
It also explores how diabetes, especially type 2, affects the body and why it’s often not treated in the most effective way. It explains how things like insulin resistance, poor sleep, and hormone issues are all connected, and why a more natural, full-body approach is often the better path to real healing.
Highlights of the Podcast
00:04 - Mindset is the Foundation of Health
01:32 - Delaying Action on Diabetes is Dangerous
03:10 - Insulin Resistance Affects the Brain
04:51 - Quality of Life Plummets with Diabetes
06:43 - The Medical System Maintains, Not Cures
08:01 - Walking Through a Holistic Recovery
09:15 - Reversing Diabetes Requires Full-Body Reset
10:45 - Insulin Injections Worsen Resistance
11:45 - Calories are a Misleading Metric
13:00 - The System Profits from Keeping You Sick
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] So the most important thing that you can do for your health is get your mindset back where it needs to be. So that's the thing. So when we talk about mindset, it's the it's thing that drives everything. You're like, well, you should get on this particular diet. What keeps you going on that diet? Your mindset, your motivation, the way that you decide to do things. What keeps your going to the gym? Your mindset. Your commitment. That type of thing. You know, we do a lot, a lot a lot of work on mindset. So for instance, when people come in, we started talking about diet. One of the things I don't let people refer to is cheat day. Like you don't get to talk about cheat day, not when you're working with me. The reason for that is that there is no incidence in your mind where cheating is a positive function. You know if the other team cheats, if you're significant other cheats like there is not positive function for cheating. So why would you tell yourself that you're going to cheat on your own diet? Why would you yourself you're going to cheat in your own goals? There's no possible way that cheating is beneficial. Now, the other side of that is that you've got to make a decision to do stuff. You've got to be like, OK, I'm going to make the decision. I'm going to do the things. And one of the things that I will take on me that I probably don't do well enough is scare people into making decisions. Maybe I should do that more. I guess we'll see.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:32] The reason I say is I had a guy come in in April, I think it was. And I told him, I was like, hey man, cause we ran blood. And I was, like, hey man you're diabetic. And he was like oh yeah, my A1C has been high. Doctor said this and that. And I'm like, this is something you should get on. Like quick. And he's like, all right. He's like as soon as the school year gets back in after the summer, he's gonna get on it. So like a week ago, he calls the office and he's like, hey, I just went to my doctor and I've got significant kidney damage from diabetes. And he was like, and the doctor's telling me I got to get on these drugs, and we might have to be looking at dialysis in the next couple of years. And he's like, you know, it's really bad. And he is like, I'm freaking out. And I was like well, I told you, like you had diabetes. Where do you think this goes? Guys, diabetes goes nowhere good. It's like you're like, well, you have good diabetes. You're like oh, I'll be fine for the next 20 years. That's not how it happens. There were a lot of people who were fine. No one who, no one who has diabetes is fine. They might not have massive symptoms that requires them to have a kidney transplant or or dialysis. But at the same time, they're messed up. Quality of life is down, your entire body is degrading. So it's not as easy as this. But dementia is basically type three diabetes. If you got type two long enough, it's gonna start damaging your brain. Whether or not you're fully diagnosed with dementia or not, it's going to start damaging your brain. Insulin resistance keeps your brain from communicating properly, flat out.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:10] So your brain will not work right when you have insulin resistance. So, you know, none of the other body can deal with the amount of sugars that your body keeps sending either way. Your kidneys get hammered, your heart gets damaged. Most of the time you mix this with sleep apnea. So now we have high sugars. We have low oxygen. We're going to have low testosterone. We're gonna have dysregulated sleep. We're to have decreased functionality at the brain. This is how we end up with cancer. This is now we end with heart attacks and strokes. This is we end it with, you know, damage to the long-term function of your brain, energy, quality of life, joint pain. All of these things come from this insulin resistance that leads to. Being diagnosed as diabetes. So. That's your big issue. Like if you really are looking at you're like, Oh, you know, oh, yeah, yeah. Doc said was diabetic, but you know not to worry about it. There's lots of things that they can do to treat it. I'll just get on that form and take that pill every day for a while and then if it advances, we'll start taking insulin and then I'll get an insulin pump and yeah, great plan. Great plan. Don't forget that in there, your quality of life goes to hell, your energy goes to Hell, your sex drive, your erection functionality, like everything in your body literally starts breaking down because you have chemicals in the system, the system cannot function with them where they're at. There's no benefit. It's only going to get worse.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:51] So yeah, I mean, you can get feet, toes and feet and stuff amputated and you can survive because you probably weren't walking a whole lot, right? Or walking is not a big deal. You just get those toes and those feet amputate. No reason to work on your diet. No reason try to fix it. And that's the way, it is 100% diabetes, type two diabetes is 100 percent reversible in the vast majority of people. So there's little things you got to take into account as you walk through it. I see people missing all the time. I would primarily start looking at the damage that surrounds diabetes. You're gonna have sleep apnea issues, you're gonna arterial plaque issues, you're going to have kidney damage issues, you're to have hormonal issues. There's a lot of problems that are going to be in there that you're have to deal with that are secondary to the actual diabetes. So when they talk about diabetes is worth $120 billion a year to the medical system, which is again, they won't fix it. It's all these other things as well. It's the amputations, it's the. You know, all the CGMs they sell, all the treatment plants they sell. It's all the, you know, keep coming back, we're gonna monitor this thing until you die from it, because they won't fix it. Because, dude, once you get in the hospital with it, once you got cancer from it. Once you get dementia from it once you like, the amount they make just goes through the roof. So, why would they pull the fuel out of their own cash rocket? So that's how the FDA, the CDC, and the NIH see this. And that's why they teach their doctors to treat it the way they do, to maintain it the they do instead of fixing it. Now, I'll tell you, maintaining it's super easy from a doctor's standpoint. You come in, write you a script for metformin. When that doesn't work, we write you stronger metformine.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:43] When that don't work we start putting maybe a little insulin in. When that does not work, we'll start doing insulin pump. And then you start cutting things off. Super easy from the doctor's perspective. The more difficult way is when you take people in, you go, all right, I'm going to work with you on this. I'm gonna teach you how to eat. I'm teach, I mean, look at your, you know, all the secondary things. We're gonna look at you, your cardiovascular function. We're going to look at, your hormones. We're to look, at your sleep. We're we're going look at your exercise. We're look at mental state. We're looking at you from a holistic standpoint. And then I'm a walk with you. I'm to teach you, how to do these things. And we're gonna kind of keep you motivated until you get to the point where you can run these things for yourself. And that's what we do. So typically, what we will end up doing is let us spend three months with people. Now they are like, all right, here's the diet. Here's the exercise. Here are the hormones. Here is all the pieces of this. And as they start walking through it, we meet on a regular basis. Hey, you know, I want more X, Y, Z, or, you're talking about this cheesecake the other day. You're talking with this cookie the other day. I can have you talking about all this stuff, you I really want X, Y, Z. All right, cool. We'll figure out how to make it. Like somebody asked us for biscuits and gravy the other day. So glad, so glad. Somebody asked us for biscuits in gravy.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:01] The biscuits and the gravy we figured out how to make are amazing. Super glad. Like I'd never had, like I was just like, this is not a thing I ate. And then we started making them. I'm like, this is amazing. So biscuits and gravure are now a thing I eat. So yeah, I love it when people ask us to find new foods. Cause when we do, they're usually amazing. But it's all about the chemistry and it's not, my part's not super difficult. Walking people through it is a lot of fun for us. Like I said, we find new things all the time, but it's one of those things that it's not just change your diet, there's a lot other things. It's, you know, like I said you've been if you've been diabetic for a while, you're going to have secondary and tertiary system damage that we're going have to walk through and fix. I have never been able to give people's diabetes to fully get back. Where we want it to be without resetting a lot of other systems. Killing the parasites is critical. One of the big things people miss is sleep apnea and fixing that properly. Hormonal peace is a giant part of it. The amount of minerals that people need are huge. Not just calcium, magnesium. Those are great. We got to get the magnesium up really high. But the other piece of that is, you know, what about selenium? What about molybdenum? What about, you, know, copper?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:15] There's a lot of other ones that you've got to kind of, you know, make sure you get in the right amounts. But this is one of those things that the chemistry is pretty clear on, and so walking people through this is not super difficult. So if you or somebody you love has diabetes and they're willing to do some work on it, this isn't one of, those take this pill three out of seven days a week, you now and you know. It'll get there eventually. That's not how this works. There is there's actually work involved in this um But if people want to get healthy, they want to be addressed. They want to address this in a holistic fashion And they want, you know help change the chemistry That creates the diabetes I'd love to walk them through it. Um Like I said it is Probably one of the things that i'm not doing enough because I don't want to use fear as a tactic to quote-unquote sell stuff But guys, if you've had anything where you're showing diabetic function, if a medical doctor told you that you're looking like you're diabetic from A1C or from glucose levels, you've been diabetic a long time, or at least you've have insulin resistance a long. It's a big, big, deal. I don't think people really kind of recognize by the time they're diagnosed diabetic, you've that problem for a long-time. Uh, and so it just going away, isn't something that's going to happen. And it will never go away or get better if you go down the typical medical path for it, which is metformin and insulin.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:45] Once you start injecting insulin, your insulin resistance problems are through the roof. Because what happened like thinking about the insulin deal, like your body's producing as much insulin as it possibly can, and it's not getting the job done, so you're like, cool, I'll throw even more insulin on my insulin resistance problems and make my body even more resistant to the hormone insulin. Great plan. That's definitely not going to cause problems down the road, especially with your brain. Since again, your brain uses insulin to communicate. And if you're insulin resistant, it can't really use that insulin to communicate very well because it doesn't hear its own insulin that's being produced. So yeah. Not a great option to start injecting insulin unless you absolutely have to. Type 1 is a little bit different story. There are a whole lot of people who are diagnosed type 1 who can manage their symptoms would just manage their issues with just diet. I know people have been lied to until that's not true, but here's the other thing. Most of these medical doctors are also under the impression that calories are what the body runs on.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:11:45] Anyone, anyone who talks to you about calorie deficits, or make sure you get your calories from XYZ, or puts calories in your diet at all, has absolutely zero understanding of metabolic biochemistry. They will not be able to help you with diabetes. They will not able to be able with dementia. They will not to be be able help you anything that is biochemically related. Because if you believe that calories somehow play into the way the body works, you have no idea how the body work. This is why, this is why I'm such a big stickler for, you know, telling people that calories don't matter. The caloric function doesn't exist. The reason that they push it is to keep you from figuring out how to fix diabetes because the chemical path, once you figure out how, how the body actually produces energy and actually works the chemical path to fixing diabetes is extremely apparent. It's like, Oh, this is how you fix it. It's super easy. When you look at some of these other things like dementia, it's Oh, here's the chemical path out That's why they keep telling you guys about calories, because it's legitimately, if they taught metabolic hormone function, they taught the chemical version of how your body produces energy, especially from food, very, very, rare few people will be diabetic.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:13:00] And that 120 billion a year would go to, I don't know, three or four billion a a year? They're not gonna allow that. That's what they don't teach it in schools, that's why I don't teach you. That's they don't t teach their doctors. How to fix it, because if you taught medical doctors how to fix it. A lot of them would fix it a lot of the more. It's not this is not a doctor issue. This is a system problem. So anyway, if you guys have diabetes, you don't want to have diabetes anymore. Give the office a call. We'll walk you through it. It is a it's a process. But if you'll get through it, you'll be wildly healthier. You're most likely feel better and look better as well. So because you're because your body chemistry that great news. If you want to get your body chemistry back where it needs to be, thus eliminating the root cause of a lot of disease, including diabetes, give us a call. We'll walk you through it. Anyway, if you don't do something about your diabetes, don't just let it sit there. You know, I don't know why you'd want to maintain a problem, let it grow. But if you, that's your path, that your path. That's the medical option. But give us somebody who knows how to do this. You guys have a fabulous day. Thanks for your time. Bye.
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