What, what's your thoughts on the future of mankind here with all of the things that seem to be happening around us?

Well, I, I wouldn't, I wouldn't...

I would argue neither better nor worse.

You, you understand? I mean, it's transformation.

I've read, I've read so much of the history of the world, and I look back and I go, wow, we just keep transforming.

You know, we get...

We kinda gain, we lose, we gain, we lose, we transform here, we transform there, and so this is just another period in history.

Hit me.

So why don't you share with us the story behind the story of what got you from where you were to where you are today?

All right.

That's lovely introductions.

Thanks very much, Jeff, and this opportunity to share.

The story behind the story is people ask me, they go, "How'd you get into currently a practicing chiropractor?" I'm third generation, as you hear, and meaning my dad was, my grandfather was.

I practice with my wife, my brothers, my dad, my uncles, my cousins, you know, big family, and been very influential.

But Everybody goes, "Well, then you must have just wanted to do that your whole life." I go, "No." When I was a teenager, like most of us, who are smarter than our parents, right? And so I used to be the kid that said, "I'm never gonna do what Dad does because I got my own thing." I'm- I got my undergrad degree in theater.

Mm-hmm.

In the context of men over 50, can you describe what you've s- what you have been seeing as you work with men and why this framework is so applicable?

Well, here, here, let me...

I'll give you a little history 'cause it was, it was me and my buddy throwing ideas around, uh, y- you know, as one does.

And we, we kinda took a riff on the 30 Under 30 by Forbes, where we looked and they're like...

And, and they're fantastic people and individuals to follow, but they're outliers.

And we said, "What's the average?" So he asked me, he said, "What's the average age of patients that come into your office not just to get their symptom taken care of but really wanna do something for their health, for their life in the long term?" And we, we pulled, pulled up thousands of people and kinda looked at it and go, "You know, it's probably anywhere from like 42, 43 to l- l- uh, early 50s." So that...

And, and then 40 over 40 worked really well.

Um- So can you share, Kyle, a couple of these, um, ideas from your framework that might be applicable to men and, you know, just to give them some actionable ideas they may not be thinking about?

Right.

Um, and, and we're going, but we're going to be able to advise you.

But it's...

I, I find the, the wisest way for a consumer, and I've had people that leave, you know, they move from my place and they say, "We want to find a chiropractor like you," and I go, "I'm, I..." You know, if I don't know them personally, I don't know.

You have to kind of go audition them, and the same way you do with a medical doctor.

I've had people that they got a, you know, somebody's doctor just retired in my practice, and they go, "Do you know anybody?" I go, "You know, a lot of these guys have moved or retired." And, and they'll go try two or three medical doctors until they [laughs] find one that's actually gonna sit down and talk and listen to them.

It, um, I think, I think as a consumer if you go in and nobody puts their hands on you when you say you have a muscular issue and doesn't try to move you around and check you, you may be in the wrong place.

[laughs]

What is chiropractor? Your third generation, what does that have to do with this?

Well, and I'll just correct your language chiropractic is but the there's the interesting thing on chiropractic chiropractic is unique in health care, Steve, in that we're the only health care profession that's actually founded on a philosophy, that the body is a self-healing, self-regulating organism and underlying that.

And in the entire, there's a whole deductive reasoning piece behind that and an inductive science to study it that we work through those principles.

But it started with what Dr. D.D. Palmer was trying to do was he was trying to find the cause of all disease in mankind, which a lot of people were trying to do in the late 1800s.

And he found that removing interference, adjusting the segments of the spine and removing interference was certainly affecting a lot of different things.

And he wasn't the first person to figure that out.

Hippocrates spoke about this.

And if you think about breathing, OK, what is it about beliefs like aging, success, health, whatever most often needs to be reconsidered after 40

you don't really think about bones carrying these type of things, you know? What is it about our bodies that, what can you explain to our audience in layman's terms that can help us to understand what is it about these emotions that we tend to hold, our body holds onto?

Well, don't think of it so much.

It's not the bone that's holding it.

So there's 24 movable segments that make up your spine.

And the average, some people have 26, some people have 23.

But some people have had fusion, so they have fewer.

it's see these bones are supposed to move and your nerves come out between the vertebra and they go it's that's the communication system this is how your brain communicates to all the different aspects of your body and the brain is sending signals out to tell the body how to move right now if you can see the video my brain is telling my left arm to go up and down and that's got to be a conscious signal to do that an unconscious signal would be you know where it twitches And then there's feedback from the body, from the sensory part of the body and from the organs and from all the musculature and bone tissue.

it? Maybe a suddenness to it.

things

and experimenting and everything.

But that doesn't mean that they're not, you know, and some people, some people play around.

Some people, you know, they get flirty.

They do, you know, I know people that do role play and I know people that, that do other little things to, because they have fun with it.

It's a way that they connect and, and just, they, you know, you sort of that whole refreshing.

And one of my other tips is play games.

What, what say you?

Yeah.

And so it was actually originally a play on Forbes 30 Under 30, where my friend and I were looking at it, and they go, "It's interesting when you look at that, 'cause where are those 30 under 30 these days when you get to that, and then what's the average?" And being in a, a busy, you know, it's a 77-year-old family practice that we're in, we have lots and lots of clinical interaction.

So my friend asked, he goes, "What's the average age?" 'Cause as you know, people can come to healthcare for, "I want just this immediate problem fixed, thank you, and nothing else," "I want it fixed.

I'd like to learn some stuff to get a little bit healthier," or, "I really wanna come in and change the way I'm doing things, and I wanna make this part of a lifestyle and, and sort of a longevity thing." And we go, great.

And we, we take care of all of them.

So he said, "What's the average age of the people that come in to really say, 'I wanna change something for the rest of my life and go forward at a different level, a different place?'" And when we looked at that, the ones that are really doing long-term and in-depth chiropractic care, they tend to be in their 40s and early 50s when they make that decision.

What kind of advice would you give to someone that is overly anxious about everything that's going on in the world and afraid of a lot of things?

I'd say, "Why?" And not only that, when you see people, individuals that way, and they'll go, "Ah, it's just, it's just everything going on," I go, be very specific.

Yes.

And then we go, "Oh, we feel stressed.

I can't adapt to what's being thrown at me.

I feel stressed." However, and then they talk about that being distress, you know, bad, malicious stress.

And then there's eustress.

There's good stress.

There's, you know, I'm challenged.

Or not in the comments, I'm sorry, in the description.

What, what is that connection? How is it so connected to the other parts of the body? And if we are going in for this, this alignment, how is it helping these other parts?

So we'll give you the basic rundown.

Your brain's main objective with you physically is to keep these trillions of cells running in coordination, in harmony, and all the time.

It is continuously working to adapt you to the inputs that it gets and, and the great stresses that are on it, which, you know, on Earth is gravity.

And, and we've got gravity, and we've got air pressure, and we've got barometric pressure, and we've got...

That's why people say, "Oh, the weather changed and, you know, my cough came back or my knee aches," and your body's working to adapt you to these things.

Your br- your brain is getting this information.

Yeah