Dr Chalmers Path to Pro - Why Holistic Matters
Learn how real healing starts by looking at the whole body not just the symptoms. The focus is on how stress, poor sleep, diet, and gut health all influence daily well-being, from energy levels to mental clarity.
It also explores how deeper issues like hormone imbalances, PCOS, or memory problems can sometimes trace back to metabolism and inflammation. The goal is to identify the root cause and make simple, lasting changes for better overall health.
Highlights of the Podcast
00:04 - What "holistic" actually means
01:00 - PTSD and erectile dysfunction connection
03:00 - Gut health and stress
04:35 - The holistic healing process
06:10 - PCOS and insulin resistance
09:00 - Dementia and metabolic health
11:25 - Metabolic health drives emotional health
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] When we start looking at stuff, and we start talking about holistic health, and people are, you know, oh, I wanna do things holistically, not medically. Okay, great. But a lot of people don't understand what that means. A lot of you will think holistic means natural, and it doesn't mean natural. It means we treat the whole body. The reason why this is important is because of things like, so for instance, I was having a conversation with a group yesterday, we're doing that. There's two charities I'm partnered with, and we're gonna start doing some stuff for veterans. We're gonna break PTSD and. Reset everything in their body. And we were talking about different things they had going on. And, you know, one of the things we brought up was that a lot of these guys are suffering from erectile dysfunction. And they're like, yeah, so we'll do the PTSD and maybe we do something for erectile disfunction. I was like, we don't have to. They're like what do you mean? I was like, as we fix the PTSD, we're gonna fix the erectile dysfunction issues. And they were like, how? Well, what you have to understand is that what PTSD is, is that you're the way your nervous system works real quick. You've got sympathetic and parasympathetic. Sympathic is fight, flight, freeze. Parasympatetic is resting, digesting. Obviously, you can't be freaking out and running away from a tiger and chill and relax and laying on the beach and watching the waves roll in. Like these are literally opposites, right? Two sides of the same coin type of thing. Well, what you have to understand is that if you have PTSD, you're in what's called sympathetic escape. So your sympathetic nervous system is going all the time. And so you can't then use the body's parasympathetic function like an erection.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:41] So this also is a true thing for women. So women are super stressed out, their orgasm function is going to be really bad. Their sexual function is gonna be really bad. Their libido is going be really So, as we go through and we fix things like in PTSD, for example, and we start breaking that sympathetic escape problem, all the other stuff in the body starts getting back. Like, we don't have to treat the erection issues per se, because the vast majority of these guys, the erections issues are going to go away as we treat the root cause of the PTSD. So we're going to treat the whole body. By attacking the root causes of the actual issues we're dealing with, which is the sympathetic escape, which is basically, you know, where their body's in this massive, massive issue with stress. And this is one of those things that, you, know, isn't necessarily, you know, on off. It's not that you either are all the way over here or you're all the way over there. And so a lot of people that I work with, their bodies have been broken because of the stress, because of psychological stress they're under. So they've got parasitic infections because they got stressed out, their head's caught gas and their gut went away. They replaced it with lactobutyric acid, so ends up happening there. We have heartburn, we have GERD. We don't have a strong enough acid to kill the viruses, the bacteria, the parasites. Parasites get in, they eat the probiotic.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:02] The yeast then overgrows. We have... Uh will we have damage to the adrenal function because we're not bringing in nutrients and bang there you go and you're like i have you know everything's off right they're passing insulin gets off because they're you know they're they've shifted into this fight flight issue so they're sympathetically eating uh it tears it all up and so what ends up happening is that now all the hormones get off and so everything kind of falls apart And so if we don't treat the body holistically, which is like, okay, I'm going to look at everything that's going on and I'm gonna design uh, I'm, gonna design my My protocols to fix all of the things right because we have to like tie them all together. Okay. Well, what's going? On we have this big gut issue. All right, we can't fix the for instance. We can't Fix the parasitic issues We can i'm sorry We can fix the ptse issues until we deal with the parasitc issues and deal with The gut so we'll go through we'll clean up the gut get everything all good where that is Then what we're gonna do is then we're going to go through and sustain everything, hold it together with, you know, supplements and stuff like that. Then we're to go up and we're fix them up. So like one of the things that we do when we walk people through our protocol is we kill the parasites, we kill yeast, we, you know reset the good floor and the gut, reset hormonal function. So we usually, this is testosterone, not always, but it's usually testosterone. And then we focus on insulin. So we get those insulin issues, the insulin resistance issues or the diabetic issues to calm down. While we're doing that, we can clean and feed the liver and the kidneys so the body can detoxify properly. And that kind of puts you back to like what we call baseline.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:35] So all of that work is to get you back to baseline, then we're gonna go to sleep. Are you breathing while you're asleep? Are you breeding properly? Are you getting deep and REM sleep? Are you the two major functional factors, your diet and your sleep? Are these two things working for you or against you? Once we get those two things tied in, the vast majority of people are doing a really, really a lot better. That's when you start working on the stress. That's when we can start working in your mental side. That's where you start working on getting everything to kind of settle down and function again. Those are the big pieces that we start moving through. So that's kind of the process that we go through, but that's the holistic approach. It's not just the, oh, I have an issue, we'll take lysine for that. Why have this issue? We'll take a B vitamin for that, it's what is going on with your whole person and how do we start pulling the levers to make all these things right again. And that's one of those things and you know people are like, oh, well, there's so much work to do I gotta do some supplementation. I gotta change my diet and then I start exercising. I got to start sleeping better like without any knowledge without any like of the massive amount of research i've read without all the neurology without all the stuff think about that all right in order to be healthy i've got to eat right i've gotta do some type of exercise i've gonna sleep i'm gonna manage my stress which of those things do you look at and go no not one of those is wrong like I don't have to do that thing to be healthy, like legitimately. Like that's all we're doing we're returning again returning the body back to baseline How was the body designed go back to original design will be fine.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:10] So that's where a lot of this comes in So like I was talking to somebody who had pcos and they're like, yeah My doctor's really trying to figure out how to you know, fix the testosterone issue. I'm like Like, don't spot check things. Look at the entire picture and be like, where is this off with what's going on? PCOS is another great example. Like, well, it's insulin resistance. No, it myoenastazole issues. No, its DNS cell issues. No, you know, it is estrogen issues. Well, it testosterone problems like, and they look at those as all individual things that individually have to be dealt with. They all work together. So if you can find the pull pull the thread, okay, we got to put this all back together Like that's the way you do it. So for instance with pcos, you know what we walk through the same thing. We're baseline Okay, so the insulin resistance issues are solved with dietary function dietary and exercise function. So bang those two are done now To complicate that if you've got sleep happening, you're gonna have insulin issues there So we do have to bring that sleep in but for about 90 percent of these people 85 percent of people we can get most of stuff fixed with just diet and a little bit of exercise, just movement, right? So bang, there's your insulin resistance issues. Now you're not going to pick up my own on your diet. So we have to supplement with my own acetyl, fine, great. Now we can look at it and be okay. What is your actual issue? Why do you have higher testosterone? Well, women often produce testosterone and then convert it in estrogen through aromatase. All right. Are you have aromatases issues? Is that a chemical substrate, you know, enzyme breakdown in you? Cool.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:44] If it is, we can supplement that. We can kind of put that on the other side, give you a little bit of estrogen, luteinizing hormone, whatever it's going to take because what actually is going on with PCOS is that the eggs that are formed in the ovary usually don't form a lot. You eject one, you form three or five. And so what ends up happening is that as you form, as you never get to that critical mass where you eject one, let the other ones dissolve back kind of into the system. And then you kind of go on with the next part of the cycle. So you kind get halfway through the cycle in PCOS, and then you just kind of like meh, and then start again, you start again. And so there's thousands of cysts of eggs that were supposed to go through this process of, one gets kicked out and the rest of them resolve, but none of them resolved. And usually that's an estrogen progesterone issue. Progesterone feeds the uterus, so it has a blood supply it needs. We have enough, you know, basically estrogen, there's luteinizing and FSH and all those other fun things that play in. But basically. Make it easy. Estrogen comes up, kicks out one egg out, and then everything kind of resets. That's how the cycle plays out. Lots of things can play into this and make it not work. Birth control issues can definitely cause it. There's atrazine in the water, which we're seeing is causing some of these issues. There are all sorts of processing foods that are creating some of the issues.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:00] So again, when you look at the body and someone goes, I have this issue, dementia, Another great one. Dementia, it's one of those things where, okay, the vast majority, not every one of them, but the vast majority of dementia patients have insulin resistance problems, right? So that one of the main functional issues with dementia is that we're not getting ATP created in the brain because either we have high insulin resistance, which means the brain's literally sitting in sugar, but it can't get any in, or we need to shift away from sugar and we need to go into a ketotic diet so the body can actually start fixing and feeding and repairing the brain. But anyway, it's an energy into the brain thing, but you've got to fix in some resistance regardless. And then you've gotta bring in methyl-A to B vitamins, specifically L-methyl to tri-hydrofolate. You've got bring the oxygen levels up. You've gotta basically restore ATP production and then you're gonna pull the waste out. And then you gotta give the body the ability to repair. So you give it some cholesterol, you give all the things the brain needs to grow, heal, and repair. You gotta fix the gut so you can bring the neurotransmitter levels up. But again, see how all of these things kinda start fitting together. There's not a thing or a drug or a problem. You go, well, here, we'll just fix this one. We'll flip this one switch and everything gets better. That's not how it works.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:11] But here's the fun thing, specifically if you're looking like a dementia. Well, we're gonna fix your gut. We're gonna your hormone stuff. We're gonna fix all these things and then bring it all kind of back together or the other way of looking at it We're going to bring it back to baseline So that's basically all that we do when we're trying to put things back together is we return to the original design The way your body was designed to work Where you were created to function? When we get back to that everything gets better So that's the whole thrust. That's what holistic medicine is. I wouldn't even use the term medicine. I hate using that term. That's where holistic health care is. It's actually health care. It's taking care of the entire body. Because if you're leaving parts of the body out, you haven't done this holistically. You haven't taken into account all of the things that we need to bring in together. And that's, you know. That's your your metabolic, your chemistry, that's your movement issue, because that's how your neurology functional builds up and works. And then you've got to work on, you know, getting that sleep in so that you can actually resettle this stuff, which is part of the neurology and part of biochemistry. And then we got to look on the mind. But if you don't fix the metabolic stuff before you work on the mine, you're going to be spinning your wheels.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:11:25] And the reason I say that is because. We've all seen how metabolic function plays into psychological function, and I use this term a lot, but if you've ever seen anybody who's been hangry, right? So they're so hungry, they're now angry and pissy and bitchy and tired. Metabolic needs weren't met. Great massive effect on emotional psychological function. Then we feed those people and they get better, right. So then we fulfill the metabolic needs and the emotional issues come back to where they're us a bit. We see this all the time. We just don't pick up on it and go, that's how it should work. That's all we're doing. We're just taking people, again, back to baseline. So if that's something that you are getting done, great, you're on the right track. If you're not being brought back to the baseline, if you're having somebody work on those specific things in your life, you gonna get burnt out. You're gonna have sex drive issues. You're going to have fat issues. You're to have emotional issues. You're go have cancer issues. You're have insert whatever problem comes. From not being where you need to be. So if you don't have somebody working on that with you, give us a call, I'll walk you through what we do.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:12:32] And then once you get to the emotional piece, there's so many different things. My wife is amazing at this. She's so much better than I am. So she does a lot of the emotional work. I interviewed Sarah on a podcast, Sarah Sparkle. She's great. There's hypnosis. Two of the best people I've ever met at this are Christie Miller and Nathan Rossi, who are gonna come down and help us with the charity stuff. Um, so like there's different people we can be like, okay, now you need to go over with this person And i've got guys who are like, Okay, i'm like i'll do all the biochemistry You need to work out with this trainer. This trainer will get you where you need To go. This is the best chiropractor for you. You need To have this person do it, but the philosophy and the pathway That one everybody can do. So you guys are having trouble with that. Or if you're like, okay, these are the things that I need to start learning more about, give us a call. We work with people all over the world. So if you guys need anything, we'll walk you through it. Thanks for your time. Have a great day.
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