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Apr 21, 2015

Welcome back. This is Dr. Altman and today I have a very special guest with you.  His name is Garrett Gunderson. He is a financial guru that has a fabulous book out called ‘Killing Sacred Cows.’ 

He’s done numerous TV shows. and they run a very successful financial program here in Salt Lake City.  Today, I want to bring you a little bit more with him because he does something that a lot of very successful people don’t do very well, that is take good care of their health, and I want to let him kind of give you a little information on his health journey, maybe some success tips, and in general, make your life a lot better. So I’ve just got to turn it over to Garrett, if he has anything new to say, but also I kind of want to know how your journey into better health started.

 

Garrett: Well for me, I think it was 2005, I want to…What I told my wife, I said… It was a spa, but it was actually a week long health retreat that we went to.

 

Dr. A: Is this the one at Sanoviv

 

Garrett: It was, yes. Sanoviv that we went to.  What happened was, I was speaking in Colorado, and at that time, I usually kept my hair short. It’s kind of long now, but I started growing it long and someone said, “Why are you growing your hair?” And so I just told the group, when I was speaking, I was like “I want to grow it and not get it cut, until I get in the type of health that I want to get into.” And this guy came up and told me about Sanoviv and so I booked the trip. 

 

That all kick started it. “I’m just gonna immersed myself in it,” And I learned that there was so much more that I didn’t know, that I got a full kind of assessment of all sorts of different things about myself.  So, that’s where the journey began.  

 

I’d started to read on health. I started to meet health professionals. I… I then met Dr. Patrick Gentempo went to a 3-day course that was really meant for doctors, that I got to sit through.  Then I became a speaker at it on the financial side.  So that was a big part, but it really kind of turned a  corner when my son was having some issues.  We were seeing what we could do to help his health.  Then when my wife got involved that way, it’s been a journey of navigating through all that stuff.

 

Dr. A: I actually have two questions to piggy back on that. When you went to Sanoviv, what was the one thing that just stood out to you, that you just didn’t realized about health? 

 

Garrett: It seems almost naïve now, because it seems so basic, but I wasn’t mindful about what I ate at all. I just ate whatever I wanted to eat, whenever I wanted to eat it. All of a sudden, you know I was like “Oh, so look at this. This is impacting all sorts of stuff that’s going on with me,” You know because I was in my 20’s at that time, it’s like, metabolism and being young can compensate for really bad choices.  It was just starting to catch up. I mean I had high triglycerides. I had higher cholesterol. I had stuff that was surprising for someone my age. And I was definitely heavier than  I should be, but I still carried my weight well. So it wasn’t like anyone would look at me and call me fat, but I definitely had much higher percentage body fat.  I hadn’t really thought about what eating healthy meant because people eating healthy is something different, unless they’re maybe reading your stuff, listening to you. I mean a lot of people think, you know “Oh, well, I had my heart healthy cheerios,” but that’s all grains. And we know that a lot of grains cause a whole lot of gut issues.

 

...Or you know I’ve had my yogurt. “Oh yeah, that yogurt has high fructose corn syrup in it” because I mean when I was... when I was going to Sanoviv, they send you a list of things like, “Hey, stop eating any dairies. Stop--especially don’t have yogurt” because I was thinking like the… The normal kind of sugary stuff that I was “Oh, yogurt’s got that good healthy bacteria in it, right”

 

Dr. A: Right.

 

Garrett: Underneath all the sugar apparently.  I started reading, “Don’t use… Don’t be… Don’t bring colognes.” Like you start realizing all the toxic things that were exposing our body to every single day. And I was just an awakening for me.

 

Dr. A: I know you’ve done some chiropractic stuff as well, how has that affected your family?

 

Garrett: Well, I started under, my first chiropractic visit, was probably 12-13 years ago. I went just because my feet were going numb when I was running.  The chiropractor made a big difference in a short period of time, and he really sold me on “Hey, you know, your body is this machine, do you want to keep it fine-tuned? You want to do well with it or do you just want to come in and fix a problem,  and wait for the next problem to happen.” So I’ve been in chiropractic care for… for a very long time. 

 

When I went to Sanoviv, they actually have chiropractors, plus MDs, and they had dentist's there, it was a comprehensive place.  It wasn’t like “Oh, I’m an MD and this is a chiropractor”, so we just disagree with everything. They subscribe to a philosophy which helped me out quite a bit. Chiropractic made the biggest difference for my son, because he was really struggling having auditory processing issues. Chiropractors brought in the right nutritionist. Chiropractors brought in the right chiropractors that did specific types of adjustments.  They really bonded together. They coordinated and referred us to the right people, they were really were the catalyst to help us get him in a much, much better place.

 

Dr. A: That’s cool. I wish more people would use that for their kids because we see some pretty amazing things with kids. People don’t realize that it is even something that can be beneficial to kids.

 

Garrett: Yeah, I mean when our second son was born for the first couple of days, he was very fussy and so I took him in the chiropractor. My wife was very reluctant. She hadn’t been exposed to it quite like I had, and our chiropractor at that time was 245 pounds of muscle, like a big giant Norwegian looking Viking.  She was worried. But he’s super gentle and it made immediate difference. Think about going through the birth canal and all the tugging and pulling and, everything that’s happening to the spine. Now, my wife’s really an advocate for it. She’s telling a whole bunch of people about it. She’s gotten her father into it, who really is skeptical about a lot of stuff, but he’s started seeing results and my whole family is in to it now.

 

Dr. A: Now, sitting here looking at you, you still have long hair.

 

Garrett: Yeah.

 

Dr. A: Are you still on to health journey?

 

Garrett: Yeah, I guess we’re always on a health journey but… I just have long hair because in my world you have two types of haircuts. You shaved your head because then you just go and do it in your garage at any time or you grow it long because that way if you don’t get it cut, it doesn’t really look that different from week to week.  I just don’t really enjoy going to get my haircut. Plus, my wife likes it long.

 

Dr. A: Okay. I was just checking because to me health really is a never ending journey.

 

Garrett: Exactly.

 

Dr. A:  You don’t get to the finish line and ring the bell and go “woohoo, I’m healthy,”  I was just curious.

 

Garrett: It is a journey. I mean, because the body is a complex mechanism. It has got so much going on and we have so many things we’re exposed to from an emotional standpoint, from a chemical standpoint, from a physical standpoint. I look at it like, you don’t just go exercise once and call it good for life. You don’t get to eat once and call it good for life. So health is a daily journey from the emotions that we have in how we think to,  just who we spent our time with impacts our health. I’m going be on an airplane tomorrow. I think that’s gonna impact my health. I wanna get adjusted after that.

 

There’s just certain things that you know and what I boiled it down to is this, and I’m not saying this is right, and it will probably evolve. But one, I feel like sleep is one of the most important things that we could do for our health. Second, having enough water, because I think a lot of people are just chronically dehydrated. Third thing is, I think meditation is big for health because so many people are constantly stressed and they’re not in the present and because of that it really tends to take away from how they feel overall and how they operate. I think getting adjusted regularly, that just makes a lot of sense because when we have stresses, things are going to shut down and the body can protect us, so that it won't get overworked. 

 

But, If you don’t release that or open that back up, then you’re going to have blockage or interference and a less than an ideal situation. I think in addition to that is getting some testing. Like that when I went in with you, you got me a blood test to kind of figure out what my omega 3 levels to omega 6 levels and ratios were. And that was a big insight because even though I was eating relatively healthy, I was eating a lot of nuts. You know I’m eating a lot of cashews. Those have a lot of omega 6’s and anti-nutrients you know, a lot of almonds. Those were what I was snacking on then. Look I’m a big guy. Those things go pretty quick and I’m like “Oh, that was actually a whole bunch of stuff that had problems”. Even though it may not have been a grain, it still had some issues. I found out that I had more information than I would like, by getting that test. And I was able to counter that by limiting the amount of intake I had with the nuts, but at the same time increasing my intake of omega3’s, and then when we retested, I was actually in the proper range.

 

Dr. A: That’s kind of what I want to sit down with you today is just so people understand that there are things available out there that you just don’t necessarily know. Today we’re going talk about cod liver oil and later on in the blog post and so, this would be a dovetail into that very issue.  Those of you listening to this, make sure you check out the podcast and the blog post because we’ll have more info on that test, and the omega 3 testing and the benefits of omega 3 fatty acids.

 

Garrett: Just to finish out the list, I think exercise. I think movement. There’s just a lot of people that they think they’re too busy for it, but at the same time, they have so much less energy because they don’t do it.

 

I think exercise is a big part of that. I think what’s not a big part of that is... I just don’t take any pharmaceutical pills. There was one time where my blood pressure was higher and they were trying to get me on pharmaceutical pills and I was like “Well, I think that the body actually is responding to something else going on.” And by taking that, now I’m actually potentially exacerbating that problem. And what I need to do is say “What else is happening that might be increasing that blood pressure?” and for me, meditation helped out with that. For me, eating right helped with that, exercise, doing things that I enjoy, spending less time with negative people. I mean there were several factors, but part of it is I have genetic things with my family, with my kidneys, but I’ve really adopted this philosophy of epigenetics of saying “Look, okay. I’ve got my genes and that’s not my destiny. It may limit what my overall potential is but through my choices, I can impact what my health is. It’s not a predestined event.”

 

Dr. A: I think you’re the perfect guy for this next question because I’ve heard you talk about the relationship between success and health / wellness.  How do you see those correlating together? The more successful you get, a lot of times, people focus more on health, eventually.  I’m wondering how those correlate because sometimes people sacrifice one for the other.

 

If you are reading ahead, this is the kind of interview, that is best listened to.  But, if you'd like to read more, just jump over to our blog

Some of the questions I ask

1. I’ve heard you talk about 5 tracks of wealth before... So what would you say? Would you give up your health for all the money in the world?

2.  You talked about something called easy hard and hard easy.

3. A lot of people look up to you for advice, all over the world.  Who do you look up to?

4. If you’d go back in time, what would you say to a 30 year old? Or what have you learned about success and wellness? What advice would you give yourself maybe if you were 30?

5. How would define wellness?

6. How would define success?

More amazing links in the show notes on our blog.  SLCSAW.com

Apr 8, 2015

Dr. A: So, if there’s one thing you could help people with, that say, “Hey, I need some more energy.” Where would they start looking?
 
Karen: Energy, Dr. Altman. They just have to spark it up a little bit, right?
 
Dr. A: I know. I know.
 
Karen: Sparky, come on! All energy, every single symptom I feel that’s wrong with any one, any animal or any human being, is a lack of minerals. Minerals are needed for every single action in the body because they carry an electrical current. The coolest part is minerals all come from the ground.

 

The rest of the ENERGY interview is filled with nuggets of wisdom.

Read more here.

All you need to know about Karen and classes.

karensenergy.com

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Mar 29, 2015

Dr. A: Welcome back, this is Dr. Altman, and today we have a very special guest. This is Jake South. He is our local MMA fighter of the month, and maybe the year. He has a big career ahead of him. He has a fight coming up April 4th at the Davis Conference Center in Layton, Utah.  I thought I'd give him a little promotion.  You can learn a little more about mixed martial arts.  Without any more intro, I think he can best tell you about his career. It's pretty awesome. He has some cool things to share with you, because he has a different style than every one else.

Jake, why don't you tell every one how you got into fighting?

Jake: I started out in 2007. I started with the modern army combatives program in Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Dr. A: You should tell people, you are a full time military guy.

Jake: Yes, I'll be a career army guy. I have almost 15 years in. I didn't start my fighting career until 7 years into the military. But, once I started the Jiu Jitsu, and boxing, Muay Tai, and everything else the Army instills in us, and getting us ready for hand to hand combat. I picked it up really fast.  I excelled and started fighting for the Army and I went on to win the all-army combatives tournament twice at Fort Benning.  I took first in 2007 and 2009. I took second place in 2010.

READ MORE

Some of the questions I ask

So, what does your wife think of this?

What's training like for you?

Has fighting affected your life? Changed your life? Improved your life?

Who wins most of the time? (Between brothers)

Who's the hardest guy to spar with?

What about Jiu Jitsu? Who's your toughest guy?

what advice would you give yourself?

In your general healing, how's chiropractic helped? Are there specific things you've noticed?

Anything else diet wise? Doing a special diet for this?

Gyms Mentioned

Unified Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Absolute MMA

The Pit Elevated

The Garage

Mar 24, 2015

 

Dr. A: Alright, we are back with a very special guest today This lady is an inspiration to me and she will most likely be a very big inspiration to you. Because she has one of the coolest stories on cancer survival that I have heard, and I want you to hear this straight from her, so that you understand that cancer is a nasty thing that takes a lot of work to get over and there is no one simple cure and there are a lot of things you can do. I interviewed multiple cancer survivors, and they all have one thing in common, they have done a whole lot of different stuff. She's going to talk about some of things she's done, just to give you an idea of things that are out there. If there are more questions, just add them in the comments.

I met Jamie last year, and she helped me with some cancer things and she turned me onto some sites that I just had never heard of before. She is an absolute wonderful resource, so what I'm going to do, is let her tell you her story and I'll  jump in periodically. I'm going to let you start by telling people what kind of cancer, and what you did, and just some basics.

READ MORE. of this informative interview and get full show notes.

Mar 11, 2015

Can you imaging laying on the couch achy, tired, and basically unable to move? This happened to a friends wife, when she started a detox program. She was so polluted with junk that when she forced too much out, too fast, her liver and kidneys couldn't keep up.  This is fairly common, because most people are very full of toxic debris. 

What $15,000 can buy you in testing

National Geographic paid that to test one journalist for 320 chemicals. Interestingly, he tested off the charts for PBDE, a flame-retardant chemical, ie... from mattreses, carpets, TV's, automobiles, and especially the insides of airplanes are drenched with these chemicals. These  chemicals are so wide spread, they have been found in polar bears in the arctic.

Read full article...

Mar 3, 2015

The Lord has blessed me with many trials and troubles in life. At the time they are not much fun, but looking back, I see the lesson and the wisdom. Just for your reference, I've taught 100's of classes on health. I don't remember most of them, but I do remember the one I taught on cholesterol about 15 years ago. I've done almost all the classes for private groups except a few, and this cholesterol class was for a Rotary Club. This is the one and only time I got in a public argument over a health topic. This is a very polarizing topic and it doesn't have to be.

I was teaching on the benefits of cholesterol and the complexity and unknowns of heart disease. Basically, it was a class about not demonizing cholesterol. There was a guy in the back of the room, that could not even for the slightest moment, believe his cardiologist didn't walk on water. No matter how much research I presented from the medical journals, history, and PhD's, it was a complete mental block. It taught me a lot about the power of belief. Now here we are 15 years later, and the government is thinking about cracking open the idea that eating cholesterol isn't bad for you. I'm going to try and tackle this issue from a natural health perspective, because I know a lot of people are very confused about nutrition and it doesn't have to be confusing.Before you move on and read any more, I want you to honestly answer this question?

Read the rest...

LINKS

What Causes Heart Attacks? My favorite article

Cholesterol Myths - Uffe Ravnskov
Benefits of high cholesterol - Uffe Ravnskov

It's a real brain bender.

Dr. Mary Enig on Cholesterol
She crazy smart and well worth your time to read.

Feb 17, 2015

The BS of Eat less, Exercise more, Read this if you aren't losing weight.

As many of you know, I've been on a documentary kick. I watch 3-4 a day and many of them multiple times. The latest one is "Fed Up". I really think, if every American watched it, we could be a new nation. It has many good points. I'm just going to give you a summary of the first half.

 

In 1953, It all started with a mouse and its exercise. Researchers noticed that the mouse that exercised was thinner.  I don't know about you, but I know plenty of women that exercise religiously and never lose weight. My wife used to be one of them, until we figured out she had a hormone problem. Boom, she lost 33 lbs, that year. She actually exercised less. 

 

I used to have a body fat percentage that was immovable. I worked out, hard, three times a week. It wasn't until I stopped exercising and significantly destressed my life, that my body fat dropped a percentage a month. I couldn't believe it.

 

Between the years, 1980-2000 fitness club memberships doubled, ironically so did obesity. You can actually see the graphs on the CDC's website of the states, year by year. They have been tracking obesity.

 

In the movie they have a 12 year old that weights 212 lbs. It's kind of a sad story, because she wants to weigh less, but is at a total loss on how.  Swims 4 days a week, and walks her dog on the weekend.  Doctor told he to join weight watchers, shes not old enough, though. He mom is going through the pantry and talking about how she looks for reduced fat and high fiber foods. She pulls out a box of Reduced fat Triscuits. 

 

***Here's a side note, the box of crackers, is nothing more than a devitalized, processed, sugar spiking, tasty square of fat-storing, diabetes inducing, goodness. As the camera pans through the kitchen we see 5-6 boxes of cereal. This has the same fat storing effect as the crackers. She uses the cereal as the go-to food. I feel bad for the kid, because none of it is actually food.***

 

She says "My weight stays the same".

 

People can't exercise their way out of this problem. 

A 20 oz. Soft drink means you have to bike an hour and 15 min. I don't have time for that. To me that's a terrible trade off, because a Calorie is not a calorie. They aren't created equal. They use the example below: 

 

160 calories of almonds. They have lots of good fiber, therefore they digest slowly and blood sugar rises slow.

160 calorie soft drink. Has no fiber. It absorbed directly by the liver. It nails your body and pancreas with an instant sugar hit, which is then stored as fat. 

 

Which calories do you want? The commercials are lying to you.

 

The next kid is in the same boat, Age 13, 180lbs. He's standing in the kitchen eating Special K chips. Same problem as our crackers. The kids has no chance of losing weight. They interview his doctor and the kids weight is accelerating. He's worried he'll have a heart attack. The kids only 13. The point of this interview was to highlight that the mom only bought processed foods because they are cheaper. Like many people, she doesn't realize that it can be cheaper to eat healthy.

 

This is not a genetic problem, and this the tragedy of American youth.  

In 1980, Type 2 diabetes in adolescents was (0). Yes, they actually called it adult-onset diabetes.

In 2010, Type 2 diabetes in adolescents was 57,638. If you are pretty disgusted at that number, I'll show you how to reverse it.

 

This all started in 1977

In 1977, Senator George McGovern released a report stating that obesity would soon be the number one form of malnutrition and rising medical costs. Yes, you read that right, even back then, they recognized obesity as malnutrition. We will be covering this much more in the next few weeks, but remember that for now.

 

He called for "Reduced Intake" of fats, like eggs and meat, and sugar. Well, the political lobbyist jumped into full action and forced a rewrite of the senator's report. 

 

"Reduced intake" of fat was removed to now promote LOW FAT. Now, a new industry was born. Guess what, low fat means they now increased sugar to give it some taste. From 1977-2000 Americans have doubled their intake of sugar. That's a pretty close correlation to the type 2 diabetes increase and obesity.  Disease doesn't happen in one meal , but it does in a 1000.

 

600,000 food items in America, 80% have added sugar. 

American Heart Association recommends

6-9 tsp sugar a day  (Cereal and orange juice will hit this threshold = 8.5 tsp)

Actual average in america 41 tsp.

 

So, you might be thinking that having some artificial sweeteners will be the answer

There is a big problem, artificial sweeteners trick the brain and makes you hungry. Thats not awesome if you are not good on your diet.

Ie.. The diets of those kids

Lets recap:

#1 Obesity = Malnutrition

#2 Seriously reduce your sugar, It sneaks into 80% of foods

 

 

 

Feb 15, 2015
Why a multivitamin can help you and make some big differences

 

This is a story from a patient who was in desperate need of help. You are not likely this bad off, but it highlights how a few simple things can make a huge impact.

 

“In a nutshell… Dr. Altman saved my life. When I first came to Dr. Altman 6 weeks ago I felt hopeless. I’m 36 years old and I truly felt that I was dying. I was so deeply entrenched in medical problems and worries since I was 6 years old, but I didn’t care what medications I took just as long as I could temporarily feel better. After all I thought didn’t have much longer to live, even my body support this feeling.

 

I was lethargic, depressed, forgetful, and had pain everywhere. I was taking 2 to 10 Ibuprofen a day. I was going through a bottle of antacids per week. This was in addition to my prescription. For asthma allergies and high blood pressure, but I was still having health problems.

 

I was referred to Dr. Altman and after my first adjustment I felt like new and I could actually move around without being stiff or in pain. I was put on a special diet with supplements (Catalyn and Organic minerals). Each week that passed, I was able to ween myself off, of different medications and I didn’t have any more problems with heart burn or body aches, and I have more energy and can even work out without using my asthma rescue inhaler. I even lost 10 pounds without even trying.
 ...
- Monica Spees 

 

I wanted to let you read this to highlight two points.

 

#1 She improved significantly when her body started functioning better with chiropractic adjustments. You can learn more cool, and amazing things about chiropractic here.

 

#2 She improved even more when she added nutritional supplements back into her life.

 

This lady suffered for 30 years because she lacked these two fundamental things in her life. How on earth do problems develop? In our modern society they start with lack of nutrition. Five years after Monica was born, a report was issued that highlighted the coming epidemic of problems.

 

In 1977, Senator George McGovern released a report stating that obesity would soon be the number one form of malnutrition and rising medical costs. Yes, you read that right, even back then, they recognized obesity as malnutrition. But, in true governmental fashion, it was rewritten by food manufacturing lobbyists. The adulteration of foods kicked into high gear.

 

So why does that matter?

 ...That's the rest of the podcast.

Feb 15, 2015

Last month when I did a survey with patients about what they were most interested in...detoxification was the run away winner.

 

Two months ago, I had a patient with chronic pain do a very simple cleansing diet. I mean very simple, and even with just diet changes, it was amazing. Within 5 days, she had almost no pain. I meet patients every month that have no idea what life would be like without pain, OR they have had pain so long they think it is normal. Yes, some people think that everyone has low back pain, or that everyone has headaches, or…. (fill in the blank).  A lot of people may have those problems and it may be “common”, but it is not normal.

 

Do this simple detox diet test. Just answer Yes or No  

Y / N -Headaches 

Y / N -Fatigue 

Y / N -Digestive Problems 

Y / N -Food Cravings 

Y / N -Weight gain 

Y / N -Low mental focus 

Y / N -I drink alcohol 

Y / N -I drink soda 

Y / N -I eat fast food 

Y / N -I drink tap water 

Y / N -I don’t eat organic food 

 

If you circled “Y” for any of them, you may want to keep reading. If you had all “N”s, then you have lived a good year. If you have one or more of the problems, they may be related to all the stuff you have been eating, drinking, or breathing this past year. What goes in, must come out, right? Not so.

 LINKS:

Purification Program, from Standard Process

Catalyn (multivitamin)

Cod liver oil (natural essential omega 3 fatty acids, Vit. A and Vit. D)

Livaplex (liver health, support, and cleaning)

 

You and I are exposed to toxic chemicals, Daily. If you don't keep a steady supply of liver friendly nutrients coming in, your liver has to go into storage mode. Some of these liver cleaning power foods are,

Artichokes, 

Lemons

Turmeric 

beets, 

Brussels sprouts, 

kale, 

spinach, and 

broccoli just to name a few. 

They are the powerhouses that supply your body the raw materials to clean itself. Eating them once a week isn’t really good enough. So for most people, a detox program is a really good idea, at least once a year.

Full show notes at SLCSAW.com under podcasts

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