How Lorraine Started Waking Up Ready to Go

Good luck. So, what led you to our practice? So, um do I start like You can start however you want. Okay. So, like a year and a half ago probably, I joined the gym. Mhm. And I was going to the gym 5 days a week. And I was working with a nutritionist. Mhm. And I really didn't feel like I was getting anywhere. Like I was tracking my food, I was tracking everything, working out 5 days a week. Um and the last thing after 9 months with the nutritionist, the last thing she said to me was, "Maybe you're just supposed to be this weight." Actually? Mhm. And I was like, "Okay." And so, I kind of was like, "Well, I guess, you know." Cuz nothing was working no matter what I was doing. I'm so sorry. Wait, can I Hold on. Again, I do a lot of these, so I'm a little I'm a little shocked. Um what what did she do to bring her to that conclusion? Like, well, I had been tracking I I was tracking everything. I was tracking my food, tracking my, you know, water intake. I was doing everything that should have been leading to weight loss. Yeah. And it just wasn't producing weight loss. Did she measure anything? um well, measuring like how like we do the InBody scan? Yeah, so So, at my gym we have an InBody, and so I would do my InBody every 4 weeks, and um I wasn't doing blood work. She was so we weren't measuring anything that way. Um I do know I have a thyroid um disorder, so I've been taking levothyroxine for that for like, I don't even know how long anymore, 20 years probably. Um so, I just figured it was my thyroid or whatever. And I think And she was trying to be supportive when she said that. Like, you know, she was like, "Don't feel bad. Maybe this is just how your body's supposed to be." And you know. And I was like, "This is not how I want to be." Um so, I still continued to go to the gym. I'm still continuing with the gym, but I was just like, well, maybe this is just how it is. And then I just even still eating well and eating the way we had determined, I was like starting to gain all the weight back that I had lost. I had lost some and what I was still gaining back and whatever. And so I saw an ad for Med Matrix on Facebook, actually, is what led me here. Um, and I was like, okay, well, I guess I'll try this out and see. Um, I really, really, really did not want to go a medication route. I really wanted to do things naturally, I guess, in my head was what I was thinking. Holistically. Yeah. So trying to eat right and trying to do the gym and trying to do, you know, the the things that they tell you you should do. Um, so then I met with Dr. Rose and decided to do hormone replacement therapy and try a GLP-1, which was really was a mental struggle for me to decide to do that. Um, but at this point now it's been 6 months and I can see that it was definitely worth it and a good decision and uh She does such a great job explaining Yeah. like everything I know about GLP-1s, peptides, hormones, like the entire journey. Mhm. It's all from her, you know? She does a great job explaining it. And it is in the sense like medication wise kind of holistic. Yeah. The way that peptides work and things like that. Um, wow. So let's just go back to this experience that you had and then you saw this ad. What was like your What would you say was like a turning point? Some people have like a moment where they're like, well, I got to I got to do something new. Or was it just you saw this ad and it was like perfect timing? Yeah, I think I just saw that ad and it was perfect timing and um I've been through a health journey with my daughter where the medical field did not necessarily work well for her. Um just doctors and being gaslit and all of that kind of stuff. Which gave me insight into that um That's what they do. Yeah, I'm like how do I want to say this? You have to be your own best advocate and they're just taught to they're taught to do what they're taught. And so it's not necessarily the best thing for us. Them. They I mean they're they're just keeping us mid-level. I don't know, you know, like it's not about helping you improve necessarily or um I'm trying to think how to put into words like this. sick care. It's sick Yeah, it's sick care. Yeah. And yeah and preventative care looking for you know, things that could be there but not the education on being healthy and doing what's best and optimal for us. Um it's just keeping us Not sick. Basically yeah, exactly. Not sick. Yeah. Um yeah. So how would you say your um some of the challenges you were facing were affecting your day-to-day? Um well, I was really tired a lot. I had a lot of brain fog. Um I just was sluggish. Um and even doing all this work at the gym, um I was like why am I not feeling better? Like you should feel Yeah. better. And have more energy and have you know, the purpose of doing all of that was for to feel better. And I still even putting in all of that work, I still wasn't feeling you know, perfect or whatever. Good, normal. Yeah, yeah. I'm like, yeah, yeah. able to operate. Yeah. Um so, what about that first interaction with Med Matrix? So, past the ad, you had a discovery call. How did that go? Um it went well. I'm trying to remember. It was 6 months ago. I'm like, Um yeah, it went it went well. It seemed like I still was nervous about the step, like am I doing the right thing? Should I do this? Should I not do this? You know, I'm doing something that I thought was not a great thing to do. I think it maybe clarified added some clarity to the process, clarity what we do, clarity to what your journey had could be, or if you don't remember, that's also okay. don't really remember. Okay. So, what about that first visit here to get your blood work and InBody done? Um that was really great. Um the nurses were awesome taking the blood, talking to them. Um uh doing the InBody I was familiar with because I we have one at the gym, so um I was already doing that regularly, so that was good. And what about that process of explanation? Do you think that was like thorough enough? Like, what was your Yeah, I feel like it was thorough enough um and that they were, you know, good and Perfect, yeah. And then, what about that first visit with Dr. Rose? So, my first visit with Dr. Rose was good, and she was great, but I had a lot I was a telehealth, and I had a lot of technical difficulties that day. It always happens, right? Yeah. And so, my internet was in and out, and so we couldn't get the video to work, so she ended up we had we were on video, but she also had to call me. So, it was not a great But, do you feel let's say going into it maybe maybe that was like a divine timing if you were a little nervous going in and then it was like oh everything went wrong and then you leave and you're like oh okay. So how do you think going into it differ than you leaving you going in? So I did feel like I felt like I understood things you know better or like okay I'm just taking a leap of faith and I'm doing this even if I'm not sure if it's the right thing um I trusted what she told me you know um and I was willing to try it and just see what happened. And then now that you've been trying it what would you say? um Now like I feel so much better I think like there's so much I sleep better um I feel much more clear um we actually bought a new business which expanded the business we had. Oh. So this last month um so we had a landscaping and excavation business um and I've done the bookkeeping for that for 24 years um and we bought another business that is a retail business selling dirt basically. So it kind of goes hand in hand with the excavation business but that made me have to step up and um take on a lot more work because of this expansion and my husband's busy with what we already had whatever I'm really handling a lot of the transition and um I could see where I would not have been would not have had the energy or the clarity or whatever to handle it the way that I've handled it now in the last we've only had it 6 weeks so it's been Well that's I mean a very vital time. I've been very very very busy with the transition um but I keep thinking about how much a difference the medications have made to how I feel to be able to handle the transition. It's incredible. Yeah. And one of the some of those challenges I know you talked about being tired and not having the energy. Do you have a moment that you're like, "Whoa, I feel different." Did you have a moment like that? know if I had a specific moment, but I've had especially during this transition with the business where I wake up in the morning and my brain just starts going. Whereas before I would be like, "I never wanted to get out of bed." I was just so tired. It didn't matter how much sleep I got, I would still not wake up um clear and ready to go. And this last 6 weeks has been completely different feeling, different I wake up, I get up. I don't even usually need an alarm anymore. And I wake up ready to move, ready to go, ready to Like, yeah. I used to have to really slow into my morning and I was like, "Me." So, what about um your experience with the team? Now like talking to the providers assistants and Dr. Rose throughout this process, how's it been? Um, it's been great. Um, when I've had questions, I just message on the portal and I get a response um pretty timely. Um working with Dr. Rose has been great. Um, I've had I've only had two sessions with her so far. Um I've watched a couple of the webinars that they do. Um, if it had something that interests me, which is really yeah. Yeah, it's great. Like I love watching them cuz I like information. I like to know how things work and why you're doing it or you know, Yeah. They really are like patient resource. And the providers really really enjoy doing them, which is She's She's away right now. She's on a vacation. So, I'm missing her. I'm on the back end. I'm scheduling the July like webinar topics right now. Like Dr. Rose from Italy. What do you think about that and So, it's always great to hear that people are really finding benefit and like that they really like them. So, and you should be able to like pick and choose you know which ones are interesting to you. Yeah. So, that's awesome. Yeah. For me. Yeah. Um and then I guess full circle, what what do you think about functional medicine? Um If this is your first experience in functional medicine, what are your thoughts? You know, you said you were a little skeptical at first, like Yeah, well I was more skeptical about the medication than the functional medicine. The functional medicine I think is great and I think that it's too bad that in our medical system that it's not available to everybody unless you can afford it. Yeah. Um Alternative. Yeah, because we could feel we could all feel so much better if we had it as a resource or availability. Um And also, sorry to backtrack, I forgot about the levothyroxine. How have you and Dr. Rose, I guess like talked about thyroid and like you know, your TSH, learning about thyroid labs and like taking things? Yeah, so we've talked a lot about that um in our sessions. Um and actually when I had them checked for my physical, I'm trying to think it was probably like a April. We were just talking about when I changed my meds, April. Um This is the first time that my thyroid level has been like dead center of normal. Ever? Ever. That I can remember. Like all of the time it's up and down. It would be it's abnormal and I have to increase my levothyroxine and then go up and down and what it's just I it's never been normal and my most recent blood work when we were checking to see if I needed to change my dose was dead center of normal. That's amazing. Yeah, that is amazing. I'm sure you feel like the benefits of that, too. Yeah, yep. Wow. It's incredible. Yeah, so Okay, so back to functional medicine, how would you describe it to a friend who knows nothing about functional medicine? I know that's a great question. I'm like, I don't know. Um they're looking at what is optimal for our body, not the normal to take the entire population and be like, okay, this is the average, this is normal. It's what's best for your body, the way your body works, the way you function. Um and I don't Good explanation. Oh, thanks. And if somebody were to say, "I'm on the fence. I don't know." what would you say to them? Um well, I think it's worth giving it a try. The if it ends up not working out for you, then that's not for you, but it's definitely worth giving it a try and I know people have a lot of pain points. Like, obviously we we wish insurance would cover. We wish more um health care practices would get involved, you know. We wish it was more accessible, basically, and that's a big pain point. So, what would you say to those people? Um your health is very valuable and a lot of times we put it to the bottom of the priority list, but it really needs to be top priority to be able to participate in your life and feel well and enjoy things and That's a very beautiful way to put it. Truly. Thanks, you're right. We do deprioritize it. I'm telling you, I feel tired all the time, right? Yeah, yeah. I work here. So, you're so right. Is there anything else that you would want to add? I think so. Okay. I mean, we covered a lot, so. Well, thank you so much for your time. This was, again, I'm in a very lucky position. I get to hear about people's journeys. So, I really appreciate you not only sharing with us, but sharing with me. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. And we are good. What's that? All right. That is it.