Breaking Addiction with Cold Laser Therapy: Does It Really Work? - Insights from Meridee Hlokoff

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on any of it. All right, let's jump into today's show.
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Welcome back to functional health today. If you are looking for alternative
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health care that gives you the power, you are on the right show today.
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If you have struggles quitting an addiction, and let's be real,
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we all have something that we need to quit, whether it's sugar or alcohol or
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smoking or bad food, right?
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We all know we need some changes in our life.
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I actually have the easy button for you. It is so rare that something comes
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along that gives you the power to make a change like that.
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And today we are going to be jumping into it.
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Meredith, welcome to the show. How are you doing today?
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I am fantastic. And thank you so much for having me on the show.
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I'm super excited to share with you guys all this magical stuff.
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Awesome. So if you guys are listening to this and you're like,
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what is she going to like hit me with a Harry Potter wand? What are we getting into?
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Meredith's story is really, really unique. She, I will let her tell it,
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but she lost both of her parents to cancer.
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And that's kind of where the impetus of this whole story starts and how she
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has been able to help people quit smoking.
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She's been able to help people quit porn. She's been able to help people quit
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bad eating habits, all kinds of stuff. And we're going to jump into how she
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does it. Where'd this all start?
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So I will quickly clarify, I've lost all of my family members on the higher level.
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So I do have my mom and my dad still, but every grandparent,
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every great aunt and uncle, basically all eight sides on the sides of the family,
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everyone has passed from cancer.
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There is no other disease that has run through our family.
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That being said, this has been a passion project for me because of all of the
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people that we've lost due to cancer.
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And then on top of that both my parents were smokers and
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then by the time I was 11 years old I was
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a full-fledged smoker and you know
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I remember being 11 and having my first puff
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and thinking it was so gross but not inhaling and my sister being like
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don't waste the cigarettes and punching me in the stomach so that
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I would go to inhale the cigarette so I
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was smoking as a smoker by 11
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years old I did have that older sister influence that
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like led me down that path unfortunately but I ended
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up of course like most women you know I get pregnant I'm able to quit but it
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was a temporary quit and then I got divorced and during my process of divorce
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like many many other people there was this big middle finger to the world around me because.
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If I'm going through this divorce and it's such a horrible experience
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my ex-husband was one of the reasons that I had quit because he
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found it so gross and us splitting
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up I literally was like here's my middle finger to
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you watch me smoke and he was like well if you're gonna kill yourself you
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do you you stink good luck finding someone like all the things and I was like
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oh but then I started dating someone and I just could not quit and so and he
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was really lovely about the whole thing he just I'd come in and you know like
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sit beside him and he'd be like sit somewhere else you stink Like, you know, and you put on,
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I would buy $150 perfumes and spray it only to smell like a perfume. It's the worst.
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Yeah, like a cigarette, an ashtray with perfume in it. Like it was awful.
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And so he didn't even suggest it.
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It was more the fact of like that rejection because I stunk that made me want
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to quit. Also, I knew what it was doing to my health.
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And so I ended up kind of just like falling into, I posted on my Facebook. I had tried Champix.
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I had tried Zyban. I had tried the gums. I had tried the patches.
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I had tried everything and nothing stuck, much like every addiction that you find with people.
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And the more people I work with, that literally is their thing.
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I've been to rehab five times. I have tried every pill. I've tried this.
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I've tried that. Nothing worked for me.
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And I posted on my Facebook, I've tried everything, help me.
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And one of my friends posted, you need to try cold laser therapy.
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And her friend commented underneath it, you smoke, you can't tell her how to quit.
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And so I messaged her and said, tell me more about whatever it is you're talking about.
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And she had commented below, I chose to smoke again. It has nothing to do with
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the therapy I had. And if I ever choose to quit again, I'll go back.
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And so I messaged her and said, tell me, tell me all of the things I want to know.
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And I ended up going to see this lady and I walked in, I had a 30 minute session
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with her and as I was leaving, she said to me, just don't smoke again.
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And I was like, it's so easy for you to say.
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I got in my car it was a three-hour drive to go to have
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this therapy done and I got
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in my car and I drove home and the interesting part was on my drive home
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not once did I think about it and now us as addicts one of the hardest parts
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whether that is you know giving up food like sugar doing anything that we're
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trying to stop doing the hardest part about it is the fact that your brain just
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constantly says the thing that you're not doing so you're trying to distract yourself from that.
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But the whole time, all you can hear is that thing that you're not supposed to do.
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So I just kept, I normally would hear smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke the entire time.
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I had this treatment and I'm driving home and not once did I hear it.
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I didn't think about smoking, like it was just gone.
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But the guy with me said, are you going to stop smoking at some point?
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And I said, I don't even know, what are you, like, what? What are you talking
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about? How did, how did we end up here?
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And he's like, well, you keep rolling down your window and patting the center
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console and then just going back to driving.
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And I was like, oh, that's interesting because all my patterns are still there,
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but my brain's not thinking about it.
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And he's like, you're telling me that you're reaching for cigarettes without
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thinking about it. And I'm like, oh, big time.
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So I ended up quitting five years. It was amazing. It was the easiest thing I've ever done.
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It was an immediate quick fix. It didn't feel like I had even had anything done.
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And then I stayed quit for that long period of time. And then all of a sudden,
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you know, I'm having a party in my backyard. We're having a barbecue.
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And every single person in my backyard is smoking a cigarette.
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So I ask, hey, can I have a puff of that? And I take the cigarette,
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I take a puff, and I am absolutely repulsed.
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I cough, it burns my throat, it tastes like crap, all the things.
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But the next day I start smoking again, which is so common.
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None of us like the taste of alcohol. None of us like the taste of cigarettes.
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And yet we continue to do it until we enjoy it in some way.
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Well, we habituate ourselves to it. We're like, oh, well, I must enjoy it.
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Everybody around me is enjoying it.
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I must have fun with that. It
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does something good, right? We tell those stories. So what happened next?
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So I ended up smoking and then I went, I knew where to go because I was like,
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I'm not doing this anymore.
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It made me feel so crappy, like getting out of bed in the morning suddenly was
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a chore. Whereas for five years, I didn't have that anymore.
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I didn't feel like now I'm feeling lethargic all the time.
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I'm feeling less motivated. I didn't realize how impactful smoking was on my
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health until I hadn't done it for five years and started doing it again.
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And I was like, I don't want to do this anymore. It makes me feel like crap.
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So I went back down. I had this treatment and I made an agreement with the lady
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to buy the training and the laser and then spent and gave her her money and
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spent an hour with her. And she's like, there you go.
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Have a nice day. And I was just like, I just gave you a whole lot of money for
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you to spend an hour with me.
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So I ended up investing with this acupuncture doctor
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and I would spend a significant amount of time with him
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I spent about five thousand dollars working with him he taught me
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a lot of things he ended up sending all of his smokers to me because
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I was getting better success than him because I was really digging into like
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the addiction side of it underneath what's happening the the treatment itself
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and how it was working like I really found it interesting so I started working
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deeply with it and he was like you're so passionate about this and he was so
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focused on curing Lyme disease using cold laser therapy.
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And so for me, I just was like, there is so much to this and I want this to be the best.
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Our average success rates are say 85%.
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Mine are 95% if you use the programs that are designed for this.
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So our gold programs and everything have 95 or higher success rates at one year or more.
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And that's because I spent the first five years like doing experiments on people
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and trying different sequencing, different timing, different lasers,
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all the different things because I was more curious than anything else.
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And I've created these programs that are just unbelievable. And what it comes
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down to is that we use acupuncture points with cold laser therapy.
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Cold laser therapy is LED light. So you hear about red light therapy these days.
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It's like this new thing, except it's not a new thing.
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It's been around for years and years and years. It's just now trending.
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It is incredibly good for you. There's many, many health benefits to it.
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So we're using that red light therapy combined with low level radiation.
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Now, I know a lot of people are scared when it comes to radiation therapies of any kind.
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I am not going to poison you or make any toxic substances in your body.
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I'm doing nothing dangerous.
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But the combination of low-level radiation and LED light therapy actually creates
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this incredible energy inside the energy systems within your body.
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So I'm basically giving your body instruction to fix itself.
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So this is completely holistic. There is no pain. There's no needles.
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There is nothing being injected into your system. I instruct your body to fix itself.
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So one of the things that I found with like my studies of addictions is that
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more often than not, and now more with like heavier addictions,
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so alcohol, drugs, those types of things,
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porn and gambling are a habitual as well as a dopamine release.
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But if we're looking at alcohol and drugs, what happens is you actually change
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the physical and chemistry of your brain.
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And then what it takes when you stop doing that, it takes your brain 14 to 18
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months to recover and go back to as normal as it can.
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Now, it's never going to go back to complete look normal because of the toxic
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substances you are putting into your body.
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So what we're able to do is regulate your brain almost immediately with this
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treatment, which is why you said quick fix,
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because I'm taking and releasing so many endorphins in your brain that are directly
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from your reward center, which is why you drink or use drugs in the first place.
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You're releasing massive levels of different endorphins in your brain that make
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you feel a certain kind of way when you use.
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Now, the reason that drinking is different than, say, using drugs is because
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they release different levels of different endorphins.
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You know, for example, alcohol will release high levels of dopamine,
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but that only lasts about 20 minutes before you crash, which is why you'll find
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a lot of people will end up requiring another drink within 20 minutes because
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now they've started to hit the depressant side of it.
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With what we do with laser quit is we actually release
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all of the endorphins including the bliss
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molecule that is released by cbd we release
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all of those at the same levels so the most you're going to feel is
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euphoric you're not going to feel stoned you're not going to
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feel high you're not going to feel drunk you just
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feel really amazing now we
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are using your body to also naturally detox you
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without a lot of the symptoms that come with detox
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which is how come a lot of our clients are able to go without suboxone without
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methadone not all but most
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and now instead of it taking that 14 to 18 months for your brain to recover
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your brain is starting to recover immediately because we've forced it into that
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process so we're able to get your brain to start making the chemicals and then
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it starts to read your body will start to readjust to go back to what it was before,
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so the process that we've created has really made it so that there's a lot less
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struggle in the recovery side of it because it allows your brain to get to where
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it needs to be a lot faster and that's how come so many people relapse is that
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waiting 18 months and staying sober for 18 months,
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when their brain is not functioning the way that it needs to.
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Right. So that's where the big struggle comes from. And that's where laser quit
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makes things so different.
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Well, that's, I mean, I can speak to that. I, so I quit smoking when I was 30.
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I smoked from the time I was 15 till 30 and the hardest I quit twice before,
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but they were like one month to like three months stints. Right.
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I found if I just like, when I quit, when I was 30, I was like,
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I've got to make it past three months.
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It was just like, push, push, push. I actually moved. I was like,
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I'm moving to a new place.
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Nobody there will know that I smoke. Like I'm going to change all of my habits.
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And it, I mean, it's stuck and I haven't touched anything since.
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Let's go back. I mean, you, you covered so, so many different things.
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So how does this actually work? Like you're using red light therapy,
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intense red light therapy through the laser on acupuncture points to release energy.
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How does this help somebody quit? Like let's actually, because I think what
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I can hear people say is, yeah, that sounds nice.
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Now, granted, you have a 95% success rate across thousands of people.
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So you've proven that this works, but let's jump into the science of it a little
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bit. I'm nerdy. How is it actually working?
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All right, let's get back to the show. So if you look up acupuncture,
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they talk about the energy meridians, the life energy that moves through your
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body. So if we go like way back to like.
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Albert Einstein, he talks about how everything is energy, right?
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Matter, everything vibrates, every cell vibrates, every cell vibrates at different levels.
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So what we're doing is we're going all the way back to that basis.
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And we are using the energies within your body to help make your body go back
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to the way it is supposed to be. So back to homeostasis.
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Now, if we look at like way, way, way back when, when we were cavemen,
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we had the survival brain and our survival mode kept our nervous system working
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in such a way that we were on high alert.
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So when you left your cave, there was this chance that you were going to be killed immediately.
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Now we've evolved into this place where you leave your house,
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you're not likely to die, but our nervous system is still so wound up that we
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allow ourselves to, you know, social media stresses us out, porn, all of these things.
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And these things will help us to, you know, we, our bodies being in this stress
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state, we are looking for something to help us escape those things.
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And this is the core of addiction.
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Everyone says the drug is the problem, but I'm going to tell you now the drug is not the problem.
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The drug is never the problem. The drug is what they think is the solution to
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the problem of needing to feel feelings.
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The problem we actually have is that we don't know how to process our emotions.
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We don't know how to work through things. And our body and our nervous system
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being in this state puts us into like this high intensity, high level of stress
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state, which is lowering our endorphins.
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It lowers dopamine. And then when we, for example, scroll social media,
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watch porn, gamble, drink, do drugs, smoke cigarettes.
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We're releasing these endorphins from our reward center and we get this immediate fix.
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So now when you are stressed out, I know for me as a smoker,
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when I was stressed out, a cigarette helped me calm down.
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The reason the cigarette helped me calm down was because it would release endorphins
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in my brain that calmed my entire nervous system down.
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So what I'm doing is I'm actually taking the body's energies and I am instigating
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your body to release these endorphins naturally at higher levels so that you can calm yourself down.
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Now, if we look at, say, a baseline of someone who has no vices,
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for example, myself, because I don't drink, I don't do drugs,
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I don't smoke pot, I don't smoke cigarettes, like I literally have no vices.
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I do drink coffee, but I do not drink it every day.
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So I would tell you, if you look at, say, a normal person's baseline,
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your endorphins are going up and down slightly every single day.
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What we do when we use drugs, alcohol, any of those things, is we're giving
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ourselves a bigger spike.
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But when we crash, we go so far below our normal that we need to use again so that we feel okay.
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Because once you're so low below normal, you just feel like crap.
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So people who use cocaine, they have this huge spike in dopamine. It's not long-lasting.
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And then they will crash. And when they crash, they get so below that.
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And I'm sure people listening, if you've used cocaine and the next day you notice
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you hate yourself, you hate your
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life, you would a lot of people will tell me, like, I just want to die.
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Today is the most awful day ever. I hate my life.
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Everything is terrible. That is your endorphins crashing. You don't actually want to die.
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Yeah. I mean, that's called the cocaine blues, the coke blues.
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Right. And like, it's, I remember in college, there was a guy that like,
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you knew, like, you know what I mean? Like, he was just a terror.
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And I was like, man, I don't, I don't care how good the high is.
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I don't ever want the low.
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Like, I do not know from experience.
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Place there that that cocaine blues that's where
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addiction starts and that's what what we're
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trying to avoid so when we hit that crash down below a
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normal level we need something to bring us back up
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and a lot of people won't suffer through the cocaine blues because they
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literally feel like they should die so they'll use again there and
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now they'll bring themselves back up slightly higher than normal but
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i'm sure you've also heard of this the term chasing the
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high yeah you'll never get that high again
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right and so they start to reuse it
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regularly and before you know it they're using it just to try
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and get below a normal average high like a normal average endorphin and they're
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using every day so like i work with ceos who are super stressed out business
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people all these things that are using drugs to learn how to cope but then it
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becomes a thing that when they crash they can't handle the crash because it's
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so much worse than their already hard life.
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So we end up working with them to to help
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get them off of the drugs by regulating their endorphins as
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well as getting them heightened endorphins and then the
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big thing that makes us so different is that we don't just get you
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to that place and then let you do your thing we
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actually get you to that place and then we retreat you to teach your brain how
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to create that as a new level of normal and the
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only way you screw that up is by going and using drugs alcohol smoking
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any of those things now because your body is such
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a powerful thing even if you go and smoke or drink after you've had one of our
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treatments it's not necessarily going to screw it up it's going to take this
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spike that we're working on and bring it down a little bit but your body's fighting
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that bring down while we're trying
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to spike you back up again so it's this really interesting intricate,
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energy system within your body and there's multiple energy lines that run through
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your body And we trigger the ones that are the most important to help your brain recover.
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And so really what we're doing is we're helping your reward system regulate itself.
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Now, one of the things that happens with overuse of these,
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like, say, cocaine, is that your body is producing so much dopamine or your
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brain is producing so much dopamine, but your dopamine receptors can't take
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it anymore. So a lot of them will start to shut down or die.
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So with with laser quit we're actually able to
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help your body recover itself get your dopamine receptors
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working again get the release working properly so we're
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regulating you we're not giving you making you high so what what does a session
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look like because this i mean you can literally use this for anything you can
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use this for stopping smoking you use this for eating sugar you could use this
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for overeating right if you need to go on a diet and you're having a hard time,
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that's probably the biggest thing I hear all the time.
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I know I need to eat better. I know I need to lose weight. I know I need to
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cut back on junk food and I can't do it.
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And I can't speak for Canada, but here in the States, food companies make the
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food as addictive as possible. And they're doing that on purpose.
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There are 10,000 plus additives they can put in food.
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So this actually helps with all of that. What does a session look like?
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So basically I want to quickly touch base on that exact thing.
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So sugar, your brain reacts better to sugar and chocolate because of the cocoa in chocolate.
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Your brain reacts better to that than it does to heroin or cocaine.
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So that's how come it's so addictive. And that's how come you have so much trouble
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walking away from it because your detox symptoms, which most people are like,
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how does that even make sense? Like I only ate a little bit of chocolate.
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Yeah, you have a sugar crash afterwards. Now getting out of that sugar crash,
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if you can imagine being an addict, they can't get out of that sugar crash either,
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even though it's not sugar.
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It's the endorphin crash that you're actually suffering through.
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So the way that a session would look is you come in, we do have forms that need to be signed.
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And then we take you in and we, it depends on which location that you're working
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at, but we have either a massage table that you're going to lay down on with a blanket, a pillow.
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Quiet, it's dimly lit, much like the room you're in, very dimly lit,
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it's very comfortable, soothing, relaxing.
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We play some quiet music. Now it depends on your preference as well there.
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Oftentimes I play a chanting music because it helps with meditation and really letting you relax.
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And then your job is to focus on your breathing or have a nap.
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So you don't have to do anything. And then what we're going to do is you close
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your eyes and you let us do our thing.
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It takes anywhere between 15 and 25 minutes.
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Now, my specialists have been trained on how to watch your body's reaction.
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So if it's not reacting exactly the way we want to, we'll go a little deeper.
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We'll do a little more. And we basically are going to treat various places on your body to,
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and I'm not going to give you too many of my secrets because I can't give that
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stuff away, but we treat different places on your body, face, head,
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ears, hands to be able to release a massive amount of endorphins immediately
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that are then going to continue to release over the next eight weeks.
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So it's going to continue to climb. You'll leave my office feeling pretty great,
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but as you continue throughout your weeks, you're going to notice different things.
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So like with our weight loss program is what we call it. It's actually a sugar addiction program.
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What we do is we treat these people. And then, and I actually have chocolate
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in the room every single time.
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And I will show them this mini chocolate bar and be like, how do you feel about
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this? And they're like, my mouth is watering and I want to eat it.
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Can I have it? And I'm like, no, you can't lay down. I'm going to give you your treatment.
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I give them their treatment. And then I show them the chocolate bar afterwards.
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And I will tell you that 99% of people will look at me and be like,
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that makes me want to throw up. And I'm like, isn't that interesting?
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Because your body knows what's good for it. But when we have tricked it into
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thinking that, oh, this dopamine release feels so good.
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And don't get me wrong. Chocolate is delicious.
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Okay. I'm not saying it's not.
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But when we've tricked our body into this dopamine release, we're so conditioned
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to that dopamine release. We're getting that from social media,
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porn, gambling, sugar, all the things.
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And so when I show them this afterwards, they're like, ew, I'm like,
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go to the grocery store right now.
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Because if they go to the grocery store immediately after their treatment,
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they're going to be finding that they're like normally walking,
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you know, the center of the aisles is they tell you if you want a good diet,
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walk all the way around the outsides of the grocery store.
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The center is where you're going to find all the bad things.
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You're going to find the sugary everything, anything processed or canned or
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manufactured that way has sugar in it.
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And if it says low fat, it's probably high sugar.
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If it says no sugar, it's probably high fat.
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So all of those processed things have this in there. Sugar is a preservative.
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So they use this to get you in there. Now, my clients will walk in and walk
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around because they'll walk over and be like, oh, broccoli.
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What? I want broccoli. I don't like broccoli. Your body wants broccoli.
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So you'll find, especially in that first eight week period, how to change the diet.
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And then it's after that, it's definitely going to require some discipline and
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consistency on your behalf to stick to it.
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But after eight weeks you have started
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to create this lovely habit if you stick to your habit and
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keep getting your treatments you're going to see amazing results come from
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it now we also offer like hormone treatments because a lot of women will come
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to us and be like i am craving sugar so bad and i gain weight mostly around
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my midsection when someone says that to me i know that your hormones are out
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now it doesn't matter if you've just had a baby if you've never had kids If
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you're going through menopause,
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males included in this, because I've treated many males for testosterone,
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low testosterone, things like that.
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When our hormones are out of balance, not only do we feel crazy in our brain
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and make stupid decisions, which is why men talk about women's periods being
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the reason for everything.
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It is not. Let me promise you, it is not. We think these things the entire time.
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It's just that at our period, we no longer have the ability to keep our mouths
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shut because our hormones are heightened so we do give out these hormone treatments
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and a lot of my clients who have the females for sure who come in and have these
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hormone treatments their husbands will message me and be like i don't know what
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you did to her but she's amazing now,
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you know they're the hot flashes that they may have had during menopause are
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now gone they're not craving bad things and the average person will lose one
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to two pounds a week and they haven't changed anything.
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And it's because of the fact that you're not craving the bad things anymore.
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So the outcome of what we're doing, again, is regulating your body.
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I'm not doing anything except instructing your body on how to do what it needs to do in the first place.
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We've just tricked our body into thinking that maybe a different route is a better way to do things.
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That, I mean, it does definitely sound like the easy button.
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And we've talked through so many different ways that you can help people.
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We're linking if you have found this conversation informative
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if you want to know more we are linking the website
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down below in the show notes you can learn quite a
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bit about this i mean i've heard of cold laser before i have
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not heard of it being used in this way so is it one treatment am i understanding
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this correctly they come in is it one treatment your first treatment is where
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you're going to see the results for sure but that being said it's like a pill
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it's like any holistic Now,
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I know a lot of people, you know, if we use holistic methods,
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it's often like, here's 18 supplements to take,
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whereas your doctor will give you one pill that you have to take every day instead.
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So if it's pharmaceutical, it's one pill because they've condensed it and made
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it this like synthetic something.
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Whereas if we go holistic, it's 18 pills of all these natural things you need to take.
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Laserquit is come in, have your treatment. We like to retreat you every six to eight weeks.
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We're trying to teach your brain how to do what we're trying to teach it how
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to do over a period of time. because if not, the eight weeks is going to happen
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and then the next eight weeks it's going to go the opposite direction.
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You'll be back where you started by 16 weeks. So if someone comes in and has,
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say, a quit smoking treatment and they only have one, I see about 60% of them
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back in my office within six to nine months.
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I don't like that. That is not success to me. So for me, I like to see people
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use a minimum of four treatments to see the most success.
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But any treatments over and above that also will help continue to teach your
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body to do what it needs to do.
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Again also remembering that if you
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do the things but then start eating sugar again you're
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reversing what we've done which means you're going to have to come back and i'm not
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saying any sugar or small amounts of sugar i'm saying if you go back to binge
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eating sugar if you go back to drinking on a regular basis you know like if
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you go back to doing the habits then you're going to find that the result is
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going to be back to what it was before so obviously a little discipline and
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consistency is going to help keep our treatments going.
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But the beauty of what we do is that we don't need as much discipline or consistency
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because the treatment really teaches your body and you won't even want the thing
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anymore for the most part anyways.
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So even with like my smokers, they'll have some of them will be like,
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oh, I still want to smoke.
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And I'm like, well, we don't have this miracle cure for addiction,
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but we have something that's making it so that when have you ever gone this long without smoking?
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And they're like, oh, your desire will still could still be there.
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And the way I explain it to people is 85% of people forget, 15% struggle,
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no matter what treatment we're using.
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I can help you because I've created coaching programs that go along with it
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to help support you to create the outcome that you want.
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But there is a miracle cure and there isn't in the sense that there's still
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going to be work that needs to be done with it.
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Yeah, there's always some work, but it's definitely a 95% quit rate.
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If I have to go for two sessions or three sessions is pretty amazing.
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Mary D, I want to say thank you so much for coming on and sharing.
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If you guys have enjoyed the show, make sure you check out her clinic. She is in Canada.
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It'll give you a good excuse to get out of the US.
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I mean, we're also expanding. So if anyone's interested in potentially partnering
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with us, make sure you reach out because we are expanding into the rest of the
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world as well with our treatments.
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We're doing licensing opportunities for people. So there is that as well. Just reach out.
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Awesome. Thank you so much for coming on to everybody else out there.
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Remember, great information, learning as much as you can is the cornerstone
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of alternative of healthcare.
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Be an advocate for yourself, and we will see you next time here on Functional
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Health Today. Have an awesome day, guys.
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