Caleb's recovery was so good Dr's didn't believe

Um, basically I'd had rotator cuff surgery November 7th and I know for a fact that it's been a huge help in that aspect. My doctor was like he actually took a video of me when I went in. Oh, really? Yeah. When I went in 6 weeks after I was there after I my surgery um for my visit, he was very surprised with that my range of motion of my shoulder and he was so surprised that he asked if he could take a video of you know my movements and everything from that. Yeah. Yeah, man. So, what did you do to kind of like walk me through like kind of experience with like the plan coming up with it kind of that whole process? Um well, really, you know, as far as what now as far as the surgery or the the functional like what we did with functional medicine? Um, well, I think the approach was to to help me with my weight loss and just my my testosterone level levels were completely tank tanked. Um, I had no energy. I was tired all the time. My mood, everything. Uh, basically life was was just, you know, wasn't the greatest um to be honest. And I was hoping to get uh more out of life than just, you know, going through the motions and, you know, I just wanted to live my start living my best life. And I feel like since I've been on, you know, this journey, I' I'm things are starting to click. It took a little while for me to try to get in the routine of doing my my part of the program, but once I put the food together with the with a little bit of exercise, it's things have been really good. That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What So like what are some of the improvements you've noticed and like how's that showing up? Just energy levels. Uh my intimacy is way better, but just daytoday life, you know? you know, I'm much happier person, you know. That's awesome. Yeah. How So, how long did the kind of take to start seeing results? Well, I think it it it actually for me because I was would have taken less time if I put the food together with a little bit of walking a little more, a little bit of exercise with that aspect. But it took about 3 months for me to really start to feel and notice a big difference. But then I had a I had a little bit of a setback with my I had a a hernia surgery uh last summer, but I mean because I was on the stuff I feel I really feel like because I was I was on the stuff that I was on um it made healing much much quicker. What was kind of just like the difference cuz like between functional medicine cuz each has their place, right? You can use surgery like like medicine but like what was kind of the difference with the whole like experience between Yeah. Well, I felt like, you know, coming here, I I really felt heard. Um, I feel like the things that matter, the needs that are ma that matter to me were met here where they where in regular medicine, you know, they just want to prescribe stuff to you, you know, cuz it it's that helps them, I guess, which is the biggest difference. I feel like you guys are doing stuff here that really helps improve your life. I have a regular physician and I have great insurance through through them and and all that, but they're they're always just trying to prescribe stuff to you that isn't necessarily health the best for you, you know? Yeah. Um where and it doesn't really better your life like this stuff here. So with just curious like with like the lifestyle implications like you mentioned like the diet, nutrition like how was Yeah. Just walk me through like the support because we try to provide really good support to our patients like curious what your experience was there. That was that was pretty good. Um, I didn't utilize your your services as far as as much as I should have with that, but I've still got it dialed in. And that I do feel like that was the the the the extra step that made everything start to click. So, it's it's crucial. The nutrition is crucial to the rest of the program. If you get that dialed in, you start to see results much much quicker. You know, we can do what we can with some of the more holistic medicine we have access to, but like, you know, you got to do some of the work, too, with the light. Yeah, it's so important. It's so important to to put it all together. I guess in the beginning of the journey, I was just so not believing it was going to work. So, I was just kind of like hesitant. So, on my end, I didn't do what I was supposed to be doing. It took a little longer. And I think that's the reason I it took a little longer for me to see results because I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing as much cuz I wasn't confident that it was going to work. You know what I mean? So, I think that if I took the initiative sooner in the beginning stages, it would have happened much quicker for me. What was the moment that kind of made you like Sarah, all right, I'm going to I'm going to focus on my health like I'm going to start taking this seriously. I think, you know, my wife getting breast cancer and stuff like that was a huge eye opener for me. So, yeah, but I just want to live a healthy normal life, you know, and and not be struggle with, you know, I was struggling with back pain, with knee pain cuz, you know, because of the type of work that I do. do I own a Heartskate business? And it's just taken its toll over the years, you know, but with this it's definitely it's gone. Like I don't have I have a little here and there, but it's nothing like it was. It was crippling before, you know? I'd wake up stiff and sore and just, you know, when you have that day after day after day, it's demoralizing. So to wake up and not feel that, you're like, "Wow." So my quality of life is completely different. Yeah. I'm so hear that. And I think the scary thing is a lot of patients do kind of go the other route where they, you know, they take the painkillers, they take the, you know, all the other medications and they kind of cover up the symptoms. They don't Yeah. figure it out when, you know, it's definitely a better approach. Yeah. Um, last question. I think a lot of patients before they come in, they just want to know kind of like what that first visit is like with the, you know, hour long where you did like the full blood work up. Yeah. What was it like getting like all that testing done and then sitting down for like the full hour? It was, it was really simple. Um, you guys made me completely relaxed when I came in and I felt very made me feel very comfortable and it was pretty pain. It was easy. Mhm. And what was it like like going through all that? I imagine was a little bit more in depth and kind of It was a lot more in depth than than the typical blood work and stuff that that I get at, you know, my my regular doctor. Um, which like again I was very surprised to see that cuz normally you don't get that type of service. you know, it feel it just felt very important when I came in, like it was all about me.