The Profitable Chiro Network w/ Dr. Daniel Kimbley
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The Profitable Chiro Network w/ Dr. Daniel Kimbley
Ep 4: The Neuroscience of Burnout (family impacts, prayer and neurochemistry)
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Welcome back to another episode of the Profitable Cairo Network with my beautiful queen, heather, and we are so excited to talk about what we're going to talk about today. Yes, do you know what we're going to talk about today? Why don't you share? Yeah, we're going to talk about family and we're going to talk about burnout, and I think that we're going to get into a couple of things. So one I would love to tell a bunch of stories. Okay, so the rule is you have to interrupt me, and I'm such a great storyteller. Yeah, well, we can just add you found $5 at the end of every story, and it will be more engaging. But no, so obviously there's a neuro chemistry involved with burnout, right, so I want to talk about that, but I also want to talk about what it has to do with family.
Speaker 1:Maybe some people listening are business owners, so this will speak to them. Maybe some people aren't business owners but would want to be business owners. It doesn't really matter where they're at. Maybe some people are just listening because they want to know more about the brain and how their body works from a God perspective, and we're going to kind of cover all of that stuff, but under the umbrella of specifically what burnout looks like, what it is, and then how that ties in with family, and then, at the end, what I want to go through is some very practical things on every single piece of neuroscience that we talk about, to give people practical tips on how to activate certain parts of the brain through doing different things.
Speaker 1:So you got to wait to get to the end if you really want to know. Like all right, what do I do with all that info? But I feel like it should be valuable and should be worth it as we go. So we kind of talked about this before. I'm just going to queue it up with the story. So, when we talk about burnout, the thing that you have to understand is that chronic stress is what causes burnout. Okay, and on another episode of the podcast we'll talk about what happens when we are chronically stressed out, which is called a subcortical stress response, but I'm not going to get into that today. Um, do you remember when I had a mentor who lost his mind on me and it ruined me for like six months?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yes, I do.
Speaker 1:What was your like if you had to describe? I'll tell the story after, but I would love for you to just describe, like what do you, what did you see in me as I kind of went through that after what was the wake of this huge, stressful event? That was super stressful for me?
Speaker 3:Sure, I think the biggest thing that I noticed within you was like your motivation was completely gone. Like you're, you're typically a person that wakes up pretty early in the morning, and always have been since chiropractic school that I know of, and um, at that point, you were sleeping in every single day, just like you were back when you were teaching, by the way, and um, didn't go.
Speaker 1:If you didn't listen to the first episode, go back and listen to it, cause it'll shed some light on why I was sleeping in every day. Yes, teaching. Yes, rushing out the door. Sorry to interrupt.
Speaker 3:No, that's good. You didn't want to work out which is like completely unheard of for you, because that was something that I knew of you doing like practically every single day to some extent since I had met you. And then, in general, you just wanted to like gorge on like crappy food, which is not normal for you either. So, like all these traits that were complete opposite of who I knew to be at the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you saw a little bit of that when I was teaching. What have you ever experienced that Personally? Yeah, just feeling that like burnout, that sense of I'm not motivated, I want to eat crappy, I don't want to work out, I don't want to do the things I normally do.
Speaker 3:For sure.
Speaker 1:Yes, so I think everyone has, and I think what's important about it is that when we think about burnout, it's just a physiology that happens in the body and we can totally hack it, but we have to be aware of it, which I was not aware of it, and so like you didn't know that you were experiencing burnout at the time. No, I wouldn't even call it burnout.
Speaker 1:Like, if you would have asked me, probably four months ago, before I thought about doing this podcast episode. I probably wouldn't have called it burned out. I would just say that, like, well, I was just in a weird season, but the weird yeah, the weird season was burnout. And so here's kind of what happened, and I don't know how much of the details you remember, so I'll just share it, but I was at an event that I was speaking at.
Speaker 1:I was invited to go to this event in Texas, and when I was at the event, I feel like very clearly, god spoke to me and said hey, this other thing that you had already signed up for.
Speaker 1:So, to set the context, I paid $10,000 to go to an event that was going to be in Las Vegas with a person who I look up to and who is a mentor of mine and has helped me in a ton of ways. Right, so I'd already paid the money to go to this event, and I'm in Texas at a different event, and I feel like God very clearly said hey, you're not going to Vegas, you're not going to go to that event and you're going to ask for your money back. And that was not an easy thing to do. No, because there was a piece of pride. Yes, there was some ego in it and also there was some embarrassment. So the back story as to why is because I had a tax bill that was like 10K and not that that's a crazy amount of money, but I think for anybody like 10K is going to sting.
Speaker 3:Totally.
Speaker 1:And so I asked for the money back and the team was fine, they're like yep, no big deal, refunded it, no question. The person who was close mentor of mine. And running the event and running the event, lost, absolutely lost his mind on me Like, yelled at me in the office and the context of getting adjusted and then, I mean literally less than an hour later, sent me a very long video calling me out and telling me how dumb it was. Wrote an email out to his whole network about telling the story of what happened and I get where he was coming from.
Speaker 1:but because I looked up to him and I would almost say that like I idolized him in a way that it wrecked me and specifically it wrecked my physiology, because it was so stressful, yeah, so so stressful, and I know you remember being in the office and you're like dude, you're going to like let him talk to you that way.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I distinctly remember the next several days like being very harsh just because of wanting to like, protect you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which is, um, I don't know how many people have experienced this, but I know. For me, most of my frustration with you comes when you're trying to protect me, which sounds so ridiculous. But it's like this thing that I think a lot of guys have, or a lot of people who are producers and like can do cool stuff that we struggle with. When someone's trying to protect us, we almost feel as like. Like we feel this sense of insecurity, but why? I don't know why. I think it goes back to the physiology that we'll talk about in a second.
Speaker 1:Okay, we talk about the brain.
Speaker 1:That's a great question, and you know, like an example would be something as simple as like hey, we need to have a conversation with XYZ about something in the office, and immediately I'll feel like it's a challenge to me, because I already knew that I was supposed to have the conversation, but I just hadn't had it yet, or like had the time to, or whatever. So then I feel unworthy and I feel this sense of Because I brought it up, because you brought it up, okay and it almost feels like well, she thinks that I'm a bad leader, and this is the kind of stuff that leads to burnout. Like for real is where there's these tension, and we have a unique relationship, and I know some people listening for sure. They work with their spouse in their office, which is such a unique dynamic because in everything, if you're not good, everything comes home with you.
Speaker 1:True, and when it comes home, that creates more tension, yes, but the point is that the tension creates stress, okay, and if we're chronically stressed, that negatively affects the brain. And if we're chronically stressed, that negatively affects the brain. And so it starts with the hypothalamopatuitary adrenal axis and how that fires up our adrenal glands. Our body releases a specific set of hormones, and then those hormones the cortisol, adrenaline, norepinephrine you guys will hear me talk about that a lot. You'll hear me talk.
Speaker 1:You've heard me talk about that forever since we started practicing. Those hormones are what lead to burnout long-term, short-term. They're great. They keep us safe and protected. Most of the safety and protection that you and I and anyone listening or looking for is not safety and protection from a bear trying to attack us in the woods. It's from these emotional attacks or me feeling insecure, not worthy, as I just talked about, like when you would bring something up and I knew that I should do it but I just hadn't done it yet, or something that I should say. Or you felt like I should say. We've had this with other employees where you're like that person literally just takes so much advantage and like is a time suck. Those stress hormones lead to burnout.
Speaker 3:And you specifically touched on like adrenals. So, talking about that, there are so many people out there right now that have like adrenal fatigue. Would that be because that we live in a society where most people are burnt out? They just don't necessarily know that they're burnt out.
Speaker 1:I think so, yeah, so when we that's such a great question, I don't. I don't want to project on people and tell them that they're burnt out if they don't feel burnt out.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 1:But I know there have been.
Speaker 3:I've experienced it where I haven't felt like I was burnt out, until like a year later I'm like, oh yeah, I really was actually burnt out at that time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we had this conversation a few nights ago where you're like I don't know if I've ever really felt burnt out before.
Speaker 3:Well, I was like dude, not to the extent. Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1:But not like. Not like I was, because it's different for everybody. But and this is just one example, right Of many there's so many examples of people feeling burnt out, and that's what I so that you can start to identify it, because then, if you can identify it, I can give you tips and strategies at the end, so that you don't start to neglect your family like I did, start to neglect myself like I did not working out, feeling unworthy, watching the business struggle. Was that in 2022?
Speaker 3:I don't remember.
Speaker 1:I think that it was, which was also the year that everything kind of went like sideways anyway, because God was like, hey, stop doing this, start doing that, and I was just being very obedient, but it was a challenging time in life.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, there are levels to burnout and I think being able to identify where you may be and understand the physiology involved is what allows people, will allow people this like freedom from it. That I didn't even have back when we talked about this thing happening, where I asked for money back and then got chewed out and like just kind of looked at as a loser and I felt that way about myself and then you were just trying to protect me and then I felt even worse, cause I'm like why is she trying to protect me? I'm not worthy of that, et cetera. Yeah, we doing good so far, okay, so, um, first thing, so when our body has chronic stress so I'm not talking about like a one-time stressful situation, chronic stress so the chronic stress comes from the thoughts that we think, the beliefs that we have about ourselves so you know.
Speaker 1:A simple example would be if you've ever been on, let let's say, social media this is a really good one for me but you've ever been on social media and you see what somebody else has or somebody else is doing and you're like man, like I should have the recognition for that, like I know more than them, I'm better than them, I'm smarter than them. This happens to me a lot, which also kind of reflects like where I'm at, I think, spiritually in a way, where God's just trying to show me like hey, dude, these are places that you need to work Right. So I'm not trying to sit here and say that I'm perfect, but those things, that comparison to other people is a stress in the system. Yes, your body will release hormones. So it's interesting because humans are the only animal that can trigger their own stress response.
Speaker 1:By thought alone Crazy Can trigger their own stress response. By thought alone, crazy, that we're the only species of animal that has a cortex powerful enough to trigger our own stress response, meaning that it can come internally versus something from externally.
Speaker 3:Right. So when you think about a specific time good or bad you can create that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no-transcript. My cousin and her now husband were nervous to be up there. Sure, like he was nervous, I know his heart was racing.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:When she's walking down the aisle.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But though that feeling in her stomach and that feeling in his stomach is a stress response.
Speaker 1:Those are the same cortisol, adrenaline, norepinephrine that would fire if someone was going to come in here and attack us and try to like, rob this place, yeah. Or if a bear was going to attack us in the woods. Or the other day, when you're out hiking and you saw a mountain lion and I'm sure you had a little bit of that like stress response, even though it was farther away, I felt so brave, yeah, well, you're better than me. So here's what happens. Can we get into the neuroscience like the neuro? All right, so first thing that happens is we've released hormones. There's a whole process involved in that.
Speaker 1:I won't go too far into it, but we file, fire the HPA axis. This leads to chronic stress, so long-term, if we're chronically stressed out in all the places, that we can get stressed out and go back and listen to the other episodes, cause I've already talked about that. Um, but the first thing we do is we affect dopamine, and so everybody knows dopamine as the like. That's the reward chemical in the brain. But what's interesting about dopamine that I don't think most people talk about is it's actually not the reward neurotransmitter, it's actually the anticipation of a reward.
Speaker 1:Okay, so like scrolling, most people talk about that with dopamine yep, I'm anticipating the next thing that's going to catch my attention, just like gambling I was just going to say when I'm pulling the thing, yeah I don't get as much of a reward.
Speaker 1:I get a reward from getting bar bar, bar, seven, seven, seven or whatever, but what's actually where the dopamine is released is anticipation of what's about to come, and this is why you know, like someone who is a cocaine addict, like they're going to have to use more, more, more, more, more, because the anticipation and their body just gets depleted in it and so they need more to get that same like level of feeling or whatever. The dopamine gets depleted Exactly, and it gets depleted through stress. So here's what happens when we increase cortisol, which is one of the stress hormones, we decrease dopamine, and specifically not just dopamine but the regulators. Um, they get down, regulated. So what that means is like your synapses cannot take as much of it up. When, so, it's not like you have less dopamine, but literally your neurons will change how they're firing and what they're absorbing so that you don't get as much of a hit of dopamine. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Can you say that a different way?
Speaker 1:Yeah. So if you had, I guess an example of this would be like if normally we are releasing, let's just say, a hundred pieces of dopamine, they can all be absorbed by the synapse which are just where two neurons like connect.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's where the chemical reactions take place and there's a whole process in that, but I'm not getting into like the cellular stuff of it because too much. And then there's also varying when we talk about vibration and energy and lock and key. There's a whole bunch of stuff in there. So when, let's say, we release a hundred pieces of dopamine and a neuron can take up all a hundred pieces of it at the synapse in fight or flight, when our body releases cortisol, we may have a hundred pieces in there, but now cortisol only allows for like 50 of them to be absorbed instead of all 100. Okay. And so we downregulate the receptors and its ability to pick up and soak those into, so we get a chemical reaction within the brain. Okay, chemically speaking, you cannot be as happy. Just off of that, 100%. So here's what happens is what used to be rewarding? That's such a great point. What used to be rewarding becomes meaningless. And so check this out. If you want to talk about burnout, go ahead. You're going to say something.
Speaker 3:No no.
Speaker 1:So think about the person who is like I want my business to, I want to do a hundred K, I want to do 300 K, I want to do 600 K, I want to do 800 K, I want to do a million. I want to do every time Olympic athletes you look at like my favorite is the CrossFit world, so that's what I would talk about. But look at people who are high achievers and Olympic at like. I remember the story you probably remember this too, but Katrin Ben Bergeron, talking about Katrin Davis daughter um, when she won the CrossFit games immediately like she has a metal around her neck and they're backstage like cooling down and she just won like best fittest athlete in the entire world, right, this gives me goosebumps thinking about it. She literally said to him she's like I thought this would feel better than what it does.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 1:So what happens is reward becomes meaningless. So, literally, like we all, we're going to continue to need more and more and more and more, and then, over time, it leads to apathy. This is in chronic stress.
Speaker 3:That's crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So like yes, I'm working out as a chronic stress, and this is part of the problem is that it's not like Facebook and Instagram don't know these things, oh for sure. And a simple example of this would be like eye movements. If we up and down eye movements actually trigger the sympathetic system. Why? Because think about all the dating apps. Which way do you swipe in the dating apps left and right? You don't think somebody's smart enough to understand and realize that like oh, this actually triggers more of the parasympathetic healing system and doesn't mess with our dopamine. So we feel more of the reward and we get more reward out of the dating stuff, whereas, like when you're going left and right when you're going left and right versus when you're going up and down.
Speaker 1:I want the next thing. Oh, I need more. I need more. I need more. I need more because I don't feel rewarded enough.
Speaker 3:But why would they do that for the dating apps, though Left and right Like? Why wouldn't they want more and more?
Speaker 1:Because you've got to feel fulfilled, like getting that connection.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so if we talk about dopamine, is dopamine decreases or our bodies can't use as much dopamine, then what happens is that we end up getting to a point where we feel a sense of apathy and apathy is like the lowest level of energy that you could possibly be at, and we don't have to talk about levels of energy. This is Frederick Dodson's work in the book Levels of Energy, so that apathy is just kind of this feeling of like nothing's good, everything sucks. My life is meaningless, so what used to be rewarding becomes meaningless.
Speaker 1:And then what's the only thing we can do? We need more of a hit of dopamine.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:The risk needs to be greater. The anticipation needs to be greater to get the next thing, which also means that we're never happy and we're constantly seeking. Also, a low level of energy would be desire instead of like appreciation.
Speaker 3:Like always wanting more and more and more.
Speaker 1:And so we can.
Speaker 1:I can go into another episode where we talk about that and how people get stuck at like, and this is where I was.
Speaker 1:If we go back to episode one, when I was teaching, I never felt fulfilled because I was chronically stressed out, because I didn't really like my life, and so that thought of like, is this all it's going to be?
Speaker 1:Because you are essentially burnout, I'm never going to have enough money, I'm always going to be poor, I'm not smart enough, I'm not good enough, like all these kind of self-limiting thoughts and beliefs trigger stress response. Those triggers and stress response deplete our body's ability to use dopamine, because cortisol and dopamine work in inverse to each other, and so then that leads to what what used to be rewarding becomes meaningless, and then you get into procrastination and then you get into, I think, which, arguably, where I was when I was teaching, is a loss of purpose. Like I felt like I was helping people, but I felt like I could do more and I didn't know how to do it. And since I didn't have a sense of purpose people, but I felt like I could do more and I didn't know how to do it, and since I didn't have a sense of purpose what was my?
Speaker 1:way to boost my dopamine drugs. How are we doing Good, yeah, so that is just the effect of cortisol, one of the stress hormones, on just dopamine and we can have all of those things. So you could see how, if I had the stress of a mentor who I looked up to but who then like basically called me a loser and said that I was an idiot and understand why he wanted to see me do well and do more. But then my thoughts about it were like maybe I am a loser and maybe I am an idiot. And then I'm like, yeah, I just had these feelings coming from him that were projected on me, and then that triggered my body's ability to create cortisol and I'm thinking about it all the time. And then I get to the point where it's like the gym doesn't fulfill me anymore. I don't care about the gym Waking up in the morning and I don't think I was doing Bible studies yet back then.
Speaker 3:So it was like you still had your morning routine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I had my morning routine, but I didn't have strategies to get myself out of the burnout that I was feeling. And I almost felt like a loss of purpose, like maybe I am a loser, maybe I should have, maybe this was a mistake, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe all these things, yeah, so that's dopamine. If we go into stress hormones and their effects on the prefrontal cortex, one of the things we do is when we increase glutamate. So glutamate have you ever heard of MSG?
Speaker 3:You know MSG. You guys know what msg is. Talk about that in chinese food, yeah, so monosodium glutamate.
Speaker 1:So glutamate is interesting because it's excitatory to the nervous system, so it actually it works kind of like dopamine does, where it makes the nervous system, the brain, excited. But the problem with it is if we have too much of it it shrinks the cells of the prefrontal cortex and that negatively affects yeah, whoa, yeah. So it negatively affects our memory, our focus, our mood, our attention, our drive and our willpower. And then the frontal cortex in general is responsible for grit, willpower, uh, presence, productivity, profit all the stuff we talk about.
Speaker 1:What's up? West People are unknowingly dumber just for eating Top Ramen. I don't know if Top Ramen has MSG in it, so I can't, so if it does, then yes. So there's this interesting interplay between what we put in our bodies and when we feel burnt out or when we don't, and again remember that we need more of the thing to give us the reward.
Speaker 3:Which is why you also wanted to eat like crap when you weren't like, which I mean, that's how I've always felt, too, when I've been burnt out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you've ever felt like I just don't care, I'm going to eat a burger and fries.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:We did this this weekend Straight up full disclosure.
Speaker 2:It was like shout out to burger.
Speaker 1:We got off, we got like landed in orange County the hard like smash the ground landing.
Speaker 2:At least the pilots for the first time ever, gave us a warning.
Speaker 1:If you ever land in orange County. It's insane. You literally feel like they messed up, but it's just that the runway short, so anyway, that creates a stress response if you're not. But the reason I share that is because, yeah, so like chronic stress. There's a number of reasons why, but chronic stress is going to. You're going to make poor decisions, but you also want quick, quickest, easy energy possible and usually it's going to be fattery and sugary foods, Right? So yeah, in a very real sense, like the food that you eat can make you smarter or dumber. The interesting part is that the brain can always be influenced, Like we just took IQ tests and you actually have a higher IQ.
Speaker 3:I do According to the test. Take notes, take notes.
Speaker 1:I started guessing on all of the what were those.
Speaker 3:I'm never going to let you live that down.
Speaker 1:No, you're not. I'm just going to keep practicing so I get better. So anyway, I have a lower IQ than Heather, for anyone watching.
Speaker 3:So really on the smart one.
Speaker 1:Heather's a smart one. She should be talking about all this, not me. But if you, if you've ever eaten like really crappy Chinese food or maybe not even crappy Chinese food, but food that has MSG and if you've ever eaten food and afterwards you feel like foggy and lethargic and just want to take a nap. Just want to take a nap and really not do anything, and even though you know you should move your body, you don't feel like you should just want to watch movies, yep.
Speaker 1:That is the result of glutamate, which makes it excites the nervous system, but it shrinks the prefrontal cortex specifically. That's wild. Yeah, shrinks it prominently. Or is there like a recovery process? No, there's a recovery process for sure. Yeah, so it's never a temporary shrink. Yep, a temporary, but over. But think about the people who don't know this right, and they're pumping their bodies and like, oh yeah, I just can eat whatever one want my grandma lived to 103 and it's like, yeah, you can but, if you're looking for more, and I would hope that anybody watching this is like.
Speaker 1:They're looking for more in their lives. They're looking for how to optimize it. They're looking for more, and I would hope that anybody watching this is like. They're looking for more in their lives. They're looking for how to optimize it. They're looking at how to have a sense of purpose. Yes, what can I do to literally carry with me everything that God promised to me, everything that God called me to be? And it starts in the brain, and it's just a literal set of chemical reactions that affect what happens when we process stress, when we process food. Food can be a form of stress, by the way, and so yeah, so think about like. Just like someone can get addicted to a drug, they can also get addicted to food.
Speaker 3:Right, I feel like most people have heard that, right, yeah.
Speaker 1:And it's real. So it goes back to that dopamine and then there's an interplay with what happens with glutamate as well, because glutamate affects the part of the brain that's responsible for our decision making which is why, if we go back, like you can remember, when we first started practicing, I wanted habit burger, like five nights a week, every single night. You would ask for it because I felt so stressed, yes, and so pressure, yes, but what I still felt is like I had this sense of purpose that was different than teaching.
Speaker 3:So it wasn't fully burnout, would you say.
Speaker 1:I don't think I was burnout, yeah, in that season of life it was just stress. Yeah, Because, like the getting the results we were getting adjusting people was so rewarding. Getting adjusting people was so rewarding Um, you know, making, making more money than we ever had in our lives is like that was rewarding.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And so it's not like we weren't chasing just like the next reward, and so I had some things to kind of keep it balanced, but I still felt this immense amount of pressure and stress which I think if I let it go and I continue to eat poorly and I didn't have you to say like, hey, dude, you should think about it, then I would probably be that Cairo, that is not a pillar of health, right and the same in the medical profession or whatever. Yes, so we talked about prefrontal cortex, we talked about um, just in general, what happens with dopamine? So if we talk about the amygdala, so what happens when we fire up our stress hormones? The amygdala is responsible for our fear, anxiety, worry, okay, and so that gets fired up, which also is going to lead to emotional outburst. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:And kids, kids. So if we come back to kids in a second, okay. So if we think about from an adult perspective like me, why would I get so pissed at you when you were just trying to protect me?
Speaker 3:It has to do with your amygdala.
Speaker 1:Yes, Because the stress hormones chronically are going to lead me to emotional outbursts. The front part of the brain, the cells shrink. I make worse decisions. So I can't think like rationally of oh, my wife is trying to protect me right so, instead, what do I want to do?
Speaker 3:I want to snap on you take it out on me, yeah, yeah you got to cut that out.
Speaker 1:Actually, you don't have to. If you don't want, it's fine. Is there a point at which a person should take ownership and not just blame it on the brain? Yeah, that's the interplay, right? So we can't just blame it on the brain, because we're, in a sense, we're designed this way, but we also have personal responsibility always. So if you just blame it on the brain, then you become a victim.
Speaker 4:So if you just blame it on the brain, then you become a victim.
Speaker 1:And if you're a victim, then you're going to let every single outside circumstance dictate what happens in your life and this is what's cool is what we'll talk about at the end when I give specific strategies is that there are things that you can do to overcome these processes that are happening in the brain. Okay, but you have to be proactive. This is what's crazy. So I learned this from Dr Hall, who's, like great mentor of mine, learned so much from him about the brain is that the brain can actually never be overstimulated and the brain wants to, generally speaking, operate in a parasympathetic or a healing or I'm sorry, a sympathetic or stressed out state. What, well, what do you mean by the brain? Wants to, generally speaking, operate in a parasympathetic or a healing or, I'm sorry, a sympathetic or stressed out state.
Speaker 3:What well? What do you mean by the brain can never be overstimulated? Why is it that, like three fourths of mothers, feel overstimulated all the time?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so everybody uses. I love that you're asking this question, because I get fired up about it. My kid gets overstimulated. I get overstimulated when I go to this place. Right, our brain is so good at processing information and filtering out information that it can never have an overload. The problem is that, instead of having the overload, what we have is an inability to process well, and so it's not the overstimulation, it's our inability to inhibit what all is happening inside of the brain that would allow us to have certain reactions in the first place. So, for instance, when we talk about the amygdala, the frontal cortex, the prefrontal cortex is what tells the amygdala to turn off. So if the prefrontal cortex is strong, it can say hey, cool down, you don't need to operate in worry, you don't need to be fearful right now. Everything's going to be all good.
Speaker 1:The everything's going to be all good thought process, optimism, persistence, willpower, hope, faith. That's prefrontal cortex. Only Amygdala is the opposite of that fear, worry, anxiety. So stress hormones, what I say? Stress hormones change how we process rewards through dopamine. Stress hormones shrink the prefrontal cortex because our body releases glutamate, which those shrink the cells of the prefrontal cortex, and so, from a brain perspective, when we release stress hormones it actually turns off the part of the brain that's responsible for faith, hope, optimism. Right, so we have to keep the frontal cortex strong. Did I answer your question? I think so.
Speaker 3:Maybe we can.
Speaker 1:Maybe strategies will help with that, yeah for sure, and so, yeah, perfect. So then if the prefrontal cortex gets weakened, then that's going to lead to what we talked about Exhaustion, me wanting to sleep in all the time, emotional outburst, depersonalization, a lot of the stuff people deal with, right. So the reason that I would snap on you when you're trying to protect me is because of stress hormones negatively affecting the brain. It's just physiology and if I don't take personal responsibility for things that I have, which I literally took me six months like get myself fully out of it, then I'll forever stay stuck. So an example of this would be like if you've ever seen we see this a lot in the office like the dad who he wife comes in, kids come in, he doesn't really care, doesn't really believe in it, kind of apathetic, like yeah, it works. Whatever, I just work for the weekend so I can watch sports and like tune out.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I don't want to really be present with the kids and whatever. And then dad starts getting adjusted. Mom works a miracle and she's like hey, you should start coming in. What do we see happen with the dad?
Speaker 3:he's like I'm taking the kids to school in the morning so I can't come at 7 am more motivated to at the end of the day to spend time with the family yeah, exactly, I can turn off the switch.
Speaker 1:Uh, being like grind on work mode and actually want to be with my family and so that, like literally by addressing the brain, you can help with burnout.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think that's so crazy to me because we have friends that own businesses that experience burnout regularly because they're working such long hours and never taking time for themselves or their family. Like what, what about if they are getting adjusted?
Speaker 1:yeah, so only that. This is what's interesting is like. And you know where I go? Yeah, always. But the decisions that we make are what are going to trigger this or not trigger this Right? So, even if they're getting adjusted regularly, we have to change our mindset about certain things, and if my only solution to any of my issues in life is just working, grind harder and hope I make more money, right, you're going to forever be stuck Cause that's like the dopamine, exactly.
Speaker 3:Yeah, always reaching for the next thing for that hit.
Speaker 1:And remember that desire. So if we talk about that, I have to share this now. So Frederick Dotson wrote this book. It's called Levels of Energy. Yes, in the book Levels of Energy he lays out there's a spectrum of energy levels from zero to a thousand. There's actually negative two, but we won't get into that. So in the book he talks about, apathy is like the lowest level.
Speaker 1:So, remember, if we're totally depleted in dopamine, eventually we're going to get to the apathy with level which is like life is meaningless, I don't care about anything, nothing makes me happy, nothing makes me sad. So if we bump up the energy level just a little bit, anger is better than apathy, because now we're experiencing something Apathy is like emotion, some type of emotion, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:And so then we go from anger into, if we get to like level 200 to 10, that's going to be where I was when I was teaching. So I had everything I was told I was supposed to have Right, and how did I feel? I just wanted more, but I didn't know what. I didn't know where to get it. I felt like I was stuck. So felt like I was stuck.
Speaker 1:So desire is like a level 200, 210 emotion. But if we desire things, that implies a lack, that we don't have them Right, and if we have a lack that we don't have them and we experience that now we're comparing ourselves to other people and we're triggering this exact same physiology in our bodies. Zero would be like apathy. Zero would really probably be death in some ways, and then on the high end of the scale will be a thousand, which would be like apathy. Zero would really probably be death in some ways, and then on the high end of the scale will be a thousand, which would be, I mean, I would say, the only person. There's probably others too, but I would argue the only person that hit a thousand is Jesus and normal person is going to operate below 200. I think the number in his book is like 85% of the world's population.
Speaker 1:World's population operates below level 200. So it's like the 80-20 rule, but for levels of energy. Exactly, it's exactly like that. And the 80-20 rule applies to everything. So like it doesn't, that's the thing. You can apply that to principle, to literally anything.
Speaker 1:Anything yeah, so, yeah, there's. So the levels of energy is interesting because when we get, if we're just being taught how to desire and I gotta be careful not to get on a soapbox about this because I'll start calling people out and taking shots on people that I don't want to, I do want to but I don't not do it that desire is not helpful to you. Transcending to higher levels of energy, which would be a different way, a different place that takes you out of lack and into abundance, would be appreciation.
Speaker 3:What do you agree? That if somebody is constantly desiring in that way as well and seeking for that dopamine hit, if you will that they're not being true to who they are and what their true identity is?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so the thing, yeah, so identity is like so interesting, right, and a lot. There's different definitions of identity and we if you want me to talk about the book that I just read, I can do that. Um, david, and David perceived he was King. But when we just desire, that's like that's not what Jesus. Jesus didn't call call us here to and he didn't talk about in the Bible like, hey, just desire a bunch of stuff, yeah, want more. Just like, want more stuff, right. No, his whole thing was like bring heaven here on earth. You don't do that by wanting more stuff, right. You do that by helping people by serving people by giving out
Speaker 1:love by the golden rule treat people like you would want to be treated. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:So like you can't do that in desire because there's an implied thought process of I don't have this thing, that I want and somebody else does, and if I can't, if they get that thing, then that means I can't, and so a better level to ascend would be to appreciation, like I appreciate that they have a super expensive watch and I appreciate what they did to work for that or the car or the house, or the spouse or the girlfriend. It doesn't really matter what the or the business numbers, it doesn't matter what it is. But most places people are just being taught to desire, in my opinion, which leads to burnout, and then, when we lead to burnout, that affects the whole family.
Speaker 3:That's so true. Yeah, I would also. So my story, my most recent story, I guess you could say for burnout, which you tell me was burnout, but I still like I'm trying to find the correlation, for that was like several years, a few years ago, when I felt like I didn't necessarily, I guess, have a purpose. So, yes, um, I felt like all I was doing was living for you, living for Coco, very much, like I could probably say most moms and spouses and women can relate to at some stage of being a mother. You're just like working for everybody else and you like let go of yourself and who you are and what brings joy to your life. And I certainly was feeling that way at that point, and so I was like searching for, like how, what can I do for myself that creates joy just for me that has absolutely nothing to do with you, has absolutely nothing to do with Coco, that I could like fill my cup up with.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you wanted a deeper sense of purpose. Yeah, because what you felt like, I think, is what a lot of people feel, like like somebody who's a business owner. Well, I just make money for the family and like that's all they need me for, right, or that's all they need me for Right, or that's all I'm. I'm just an.
Speaker 1:ATM which isn't a sense of purpose and so again, that triggers a stress response. Yeah, and then we just start chasing like higher number, bigger number, get more stuff, whatever. So I let what was interesting about our conversation when that happened is like I remember you sitting on the bed and I think we had just moved into our new and you're like hey, I think I want to hire a coach.
Speaker 1:It was so random for you so I had no idea. Yeah, that's what's wild about it is, I think. So often we feel like we can't share our emotions and we can't share where we're coming from, and it just messes us up.
Speaker 3:I think my biggest thing with not wanting to share it for you is because it felt like you had so much going on in your life and I didn't want to add another stress or burden to your life by me feeling the way that I was feeling at the time. Yeah, which also plays a role with, like, the family dynamic and burnout.
Speaker 1:For sure, because then, like I felt the weight of that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and.
Speaker 1:I'm like, and again like I'm a dude, so I kind of want to be a fixer. I'm like well, let me fix it. Like how can I fix it? And you're like you can't do anything. This is about me, it's not about you. But we had to have a real raw conversation about hey, I want to hire a coach. And I was kind of shocked and I'm like, well, I could be your coach. And you're like, no, that's not what I need.
Speaker 1:I need something that's like not you and not Heather, because I think being a parent in general is a lot.
Speaker 3:It is. It's one of the most selfless things that you are called to do.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And so then like if you didn't feel a sense of purpose, then we're kind of left wondering like well, why doesn't house like feel happy and fulfilled?
Speaker 2:And why?
Speaker 1:does it feel like we're just passing each other in the hallway and then become like all these things?
Speaker 1:that had nothing to do with me, but it was just a lack of awareness on my part, Cause I'm in my own world and I think that's what's interesting about marriage and relationships and family and burnout is a lot of times like we don't even give each other the space to share, like, hey, here's where we're at Right, which is why I've loved doing what we've been doing, where we read the Eldridge book. Yes, because we get to sit down every night and then we can just kind of talk about marriage and like where we're at with things, and it just gives us a way to do it. That's fun, free strategy for anyone listening. If you haven't done that, so yeah, and then what's crazy is like okay. So if we go next step, so we're shrinking ourselves with prefrontal cortex, we're messing with the amygdala, we're messing with our dopamine, we also stress hormones, decrease serotonin so serotonin.
Speaker 1:If we don't have serotonin, that's what leads to depression. Um, and then even more. So I'm just making sure I'm not missing anything. There's one other neurotransmitter called GABA, and GABA is inhibitory to the nervous system, so it just cools down the brain, basically. It would be kind of like natural alcohol. If you remember when I was taking the, there were those supplements like the World Domination. Do you remember when I had all those, like that box of supplements that would come?
Speaker 3:every month. Oh yes, all the nootropics, nootropics, so one of those was gaba okay and you would take gaba, and it would.
Speaker 1:It would be like having a drink without having a drink, oh, and so that would trigger the neurotransmitter gaba to cool the system down. But then we in stress, because you don't want gaba high, uh, you do. You want itBA high, you do you want it to be. You want everything to be balanced? Yeah, sure so, and that's like that what's called homeostasis in the body. It's just, the body's always trying to balance itself out. So we deplete GABA and we deplete serotonin, and then that leads to insomnia and that leads to fear and worry and then eventually, depression.
Speaker 1:Yes, it affects the gut, which kills off gut bacteria, which produces vitamin K, which is a precursor for serotonin. There's this whole physiological process and again it just gets back to chronic stress. So when you're chronically stressed, especially if you're not aware of it, which most people are, this is why their testosterone is tanked. This is why they don't feel a sense of purpose. This is why, in your sense, like you had so much stress taking care of Coco, we're still trying to run a business.
Speaker 1:We just moved into a new house, like there's just a ton of moving parts.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So it all comes back to neurochemistry and how God designed us to keep us safe and protected.
Speaker 2:How would you tie in spiritually when you came out of those seasons of burnout? How was your relationship with Jesus contributing to that process of getting out, and what did that look like practically?
Speaker 3:I like that question.
Speaker 1:It's really good, do you want to try and answer that?
Speaker 3:You can start and I can contribute.
Speaker 1:Okay. So the question was what, like spiritually, where did that play into getting out of these seasons of burnout?
Speaker 2:right, and how can someone apply that to their own lives practically. If someone's watching right now and they're learning about the brain, but they also want to know, like spiritually, how does this coincide with me?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so spiritually, and I'll talk about that when we go to strategies too, when I talk about prayer specifically. But this is what's crazy, right? So like, if you don't feel like, you have a sense, and this gets into identity. So this is not my words, this is Dale Mast, but it's like completely transformed the way I think about identity. So Dale Mast in his book, and David perceived he was king which Heather got me. I didn't think I was gonna read it and then I ended up picking it up and I couldn't put it down and I just like, identity is not just faith in Christ, identity is faith in what God can do through you. Wow, that is identity. So then there's a promise on your life. There was a promise on my life when I was teaching, when I was miserable and I felt burnt out.
Speaker 1:There was a promise on my life as a chiropractor when I had a mentor who just like, completely, for lack of a better term, shit on me, chiropractor when I had a mentor who just like completely for lack of a better term shit on me and like completely broke my spirit. There was a calling on my life, but I didn't have he took away.
Speaker 1:It's like the enemy, through his words, took away the faith that I had in myself, and it's not about putting myself up as like I'm the man, but what God can do through you and he gave everybody a promise, but what God can do through you, and he gave everybody a promise.
Speaker 1:So as soon as we can start to remember that, that he made a promise and he's probably showed every every person I've ever talked to, I can sit down with them and be like what do you feel? Like you were called to do and people can usually answer the question because God's put it in them at some point. Sure, so when they have the reminder that like, oh, this is my identity and it's not what you do, like my identity is not a chiropractor, I would argue that my identity is teaching people about the potential within them, and I did this when I was teaching, when I was learning about the hidden curriculum. I do this now.
Speaker 1:There's a million other formats that I could do it in, but teaching people about the potential they have within them, that God gave them, and realizing that, like God already made you perfectly, so that gives me a sense of purpose. If I have a sense of purpose, I don't feel stressed out about my life if something goes wrong or if someone says I suck as a chiropractor.
Speaker 1:Like yeah, those words hurt but it doesn't completely wreck my world for six months, so spiritually, as I've grown to trust God more and built a better relationship with him which, by the way, you can only do when you're not in a stressed out state, because the front part of the brain gets turned off by the stress hormones and the front part of the brain is responsible for our faith, our hope and our optimism. If we don't have that connection in our brain, it's hard to have that connection with God.
Speaker 3:And prayer also puts you in that state of better connection to the prefrontal cortex.
Speaker 1:Prayer literally strengthens the prefrontal cortex.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a great question. So what happens is, when we pray, we stop letting circumstances define us. This goes back to what West asked me a little bit ago when he said he didn't say these words, but like, how does someone not be a victim?
Speaker 1:right, right Prayer brings me into a place where I'm not letting circumstances define me. I get to define the circumstances and it's really easy. So, like, I'll give an example of this that I've been doing. So I feel like right now, I think you and I both are in a challenging season. Would you agree with that? Yes, and like full disclosure. Financially it's been harder, let's see. Or the office has been slower. Our travel schedule has been absolutely insane Hectic. Yes, some things that I thought were going to happen didn't happen, which kind of like let me down with people in my life, um, plus doing Joshua's program, just like. There's just a ton of moving parts in our life right now. Right.
Speaker 1:Coco, going to school, coco and ballet. Like our life is insane most weekends and for me before I would have just been like life sucks. Everything's hard. I don't know what to do. I give up Apathy. Nothing's rewarding. I quit working out. I start eating crappy.
Speaker 3:Well, you would spend like an entire day to do absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1:Spend an entire day just laying on the couch watching movies, not doing anything at all because I was burnt out, yeah. But what's cool is now I can go. I can sit in the sauna, which is beneficial. We'll talk about that in a second to the brain and.
Speaker 1:I can say God about that in a second to the brain, and I can say God like, what are you trying to show me? So none of it is bad. It's a lesson to learn, to grow, in my opinion, so that I can help more people see the potential that they have within themselves.
Speaker 1:Yes, that's identity. But if I don't have a sense of that and what I'm supposed to do here on this planet? And like, yes, there's a process of figuring it out, it's not like you just wake up one day and you know, but having the identity and knowing like, no, I was called here for something greater and.
Speaker 1:I trust that the promises that are in the Bible for me and for anybody who believes in it, like those things are true and they're real. And then it just becomes a question instead of like why me, it's, what are you trying to show me?
Speaker 3:Right. What can I learn from this?
Speaker 1:Yeah, how can I grow and not just praying to get out of it either? Like God, just give me more money in my bank account. God, just give me a new car. God, just whatever it's more of like? What are you trying to teach me? Where are you trying to show me that there might be flaws in my character that would allow me to ascend to the next level so you can be a better person Of energy? Yeah, so I'm not just desiring anymore. Maybe I'm not even appreciating anymore, but I'm just straight up grateful for everything that I already have Higher level of energy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that Higher level of energy. Yeah.
Speaker 3:That's good. Okay, tell us some strategies to get to that space, because that is a space that I feel like so many people really want to ascend to, as you said.
Speaker 1:For sure. So, all right, let me get set real quick. Okay, here's what you can do. Okay, so, none of these are the end-all be-all, so I have to remind people that these are hacks. It takes work, though, as a person, to literally change your identity, so you can't just get in the cold plunge every day and change your identity. It's just not possible. Wouldn't that be nice? It would be super cool if it was, but then everybody would have a perfect identity and we would all be walking around like Christ in the world would be a different place. That's not how it works. So there's a journey that is involved.
Speaker 1:Some of the stuff I'm not sharing, but what I will share with you is this so if we talk about we talked about the hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis, right, the HPA axis. So it's a. It's what fires up the stress response. It's the first thing, really, that gets fired, that tells our body to release cortisol, adrenaline or epinephrine. Okay, so three things you could do. One is cold exposure. So getting into cold actually cools down the HPA axis, and so what you're doing is you're learning to control the firing of your stress system, which is why, if you've ever gotten into a cold plunge which I don't know if you haven't, I know you have, but anyone listening if, or even cold water in general, like I'll give two examples. So I had my mom when she was out in was it in November when she tried to do it?
Speaker 3:I think it was like a year and a half ago or something.
Speaker 1:So I had my mom try to get in the cold plunge. At our house Water's 42 degrees, very cold, and she got in for about eight seconds, which is like such a boss move by my mom to even try to do it in the first place. So cause most people would just be like, no, I can't do it. Or like dip their toe in.
Speaker 1:So she got all the way in but her breath and she had to get out. She couldn't breathe. She felt like she couldn't breathe and she thought like she was going to die, like have a heart attack for eight seconds. Yeah, so, but she did it for a second. So if we train that process over and over again, the thing that makes us feel like we're going to die, we can start to be able to handle and breathe into which is why, like after a minute typically, it's significantly easier for most people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because you learn to control the HPA axis, firing up and telling you that you're going to die.
Speaker 3:You are physically controlling your HPA axis.
Speaker 1:You're starting to use parts of your brain to re-regulate itself. Okay, yes, so instead of letting your brain just run and your physiology just run the show, yes, you can start to be the controller. Cool Prayer does the same thing. Yeah, we'll talk about that in a second. Okay, so here's what's interesting cold exposure and excessive heat both trigger stress response, but it's our ability to control what happens when we're in those environments. So my mom nothing against her, but very little control, just because she hadn't trained. Because she hasn't trained, yeah, yeah, and she's had.
Speaker 3:She's older, she's third. Are you just going to call her 30? No, no, no.
Speaker 1:I was just trying to figure out like yeah, she's 20 some years older than me, so she has 20 more years of not training it than I have yeah and I've been training it for like the last. I don't know. We could say five, but it's probably longer than that. So yeah, of course it would be more challenging for her because she hasn't trained it.
Speaker 3:So anybody that has never done any type of cold therapy or extreme heat therapy like it's going to be slowly working into the process yeah, and I'm not like this is not medical advice, so I wouldn't.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't tell anybody just like, just go get in a cold plunge for three minutes. But no, I get that. I think that there's a level of you just have to like at some point you just have to do it right, like the hardest part, literally the hardest part of it is you making that decision is getting in. Yeah, I will see, you know me procrastinate so hard tell, just tell, just say it, the whole thing share.
Speaker 3:It's so funny, it's so funny you just take forever to get into the cold plunge you like have to psych yourself up every single time. You do it like you're listening to music really loud, standing out there walking around and trying to find things to do just to psych yourself up, whereas like I can literally just pop in. I have to pop in immediately or I will talk myself out of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah I. I take a long time to get in the cold punch yeah in. You do it, yeah, but I take a long time. Yeah, it's hard, it's. For me it's very challenging where I'm like oh, I got to go like get a drink of water. I got to go downstairs to do.
Speaker 3:You sound like Coco before bed. Oh, I need to do this. Oh, somehow you have so many things to do before.
Speaker 1:So it's hard, but I, you, and it never gets any easier. That's the craziest part, never so cold exposure. Obviously we're just learning how to control, and then with that is breathwork, so being able to breathe in a certain way.
Speaker 1:Again this is why, when you're taught if someone who does it well they're teaching cold exposure, they're also in some way or form teaching breathwork. Anyway, you just have to breathe through it, cause once you get to about a minute you're fine anyway. Right, and then, um, vegas nerve activation. There's a million ways to do it. Chiropractic care is a way to do it. Um, they have Vegas nerve stimulators connecting, like staring someone in the eyes, as a way to stimulate the Vegas nerve.
Speaker 3:Really, I didn't know that. So there's three, okay. So everybody, how long? How long do you have to do it? As long as possible. Oh, okay, I was gonna say, do it right now.
Speaker 1:That is like major vegas stimulation yeah, so think about connection with other people releases oxytocin um connecting with another person in general like it literally you're going to like making eye contact with someone helps you feel safe and protect and like protect it, and so it stimulates. There's a there's a branch of the Vegas nerve called the social Vegas, so connecting with people is super important. This is why building your practice in a way where people like to come to it, yeah.
Speaker 1:I like they start. Dr Hall said this. He's like people should be getting better on the way to your office.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Why? Because that activates a social nerve or the social Vegas, so any sort of form of Vegas nerve activation in general. Okay, uh, for dopamine resistance training and novelty and rewards. So if you can learn how to um like 75 Hard would be a good example of this. It's new, it's novel and there's a reward of taking a picture of yourself every day, seeing how your body looks. Those things train your body to rebalance out dopamine. And resistance training so heavy lifting, lifting weights, rebalances out dopamine For the prefrontal cortex. Prayer so praying literally strengthens your body's ability to say hey, we don't need to stress about external circumstances, they don't define me, I get to define them and when we can start to ask different questions, our life will change.
Speaker 1:The other thing you can do for prefrontal cortex activation, the fastest way that I know of, the most important way I know of, is brain-based, neurologically-based chiropractic care with somebody who's actually going to measure where the front part of the brain is in balance and adjust accordingly. Yes, um, I could talk about that on a whole episode for the amygdala heart rate variability training.
Speaker 1:So we're talking about going from hot to cold, as you asked before, um, and then grounding, like literally changing the electrical charge within your body. Being connected to the earth is super regulatory to the amygdala. It decreases fear, anxiety, worry, anxiousness, et cetera. For serotonin, morning light, morning sunlight and then blocking blue light at night. So remember, blue light triggers a stress response and it messes up our circadian rhythm.
Speaker 2:So, simple.
Speaker 1:I'm given like the simple thing. So morning sunlight and sunlight throughout the day, and then blocking blue light at night.
Speaker 3:So don't wear your sunglasses.
Speaker 1:Don't wear your sunglasses outside.
Speaker 3:It's the worst thing you can do.
Speaker 1:And then get rid of like there's a whole bunch of ways that people who are extreme have red lights in their house at night. Rid of like there's a whole bunch of ways that people who are extreme have red lights in their house at night. Um, our computer screens are all red and orange but wearing blue blockers at night. That's another option as well. Probably not the best option, um for inflammation in the brain, which is another part that I didn't even talk about taking omega threes is super important, and then fasting is the other thing, and so there are all these ways.
Speaker 1:These are just strategies that can literally get you out. What's so interesting is like most of these are just it's like get in nature, do stuff that-. Yeah, like general health Is mostly free. Yeah, that God designed.
Speaker 3:That's true, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then, most importantly, getting adjusted Good, good stuff, what else? So that kind of wraps it Like, if you want to deal with burnout or not experienced burnout, you have a bunch of strategies now that can help you just build your brain in a way and literally cheat code your physiology.
Speaker 3:Is there one that's more important than anything else?
Speaker 1:You're asking the most biased person ever. Wow. Yeah, getting adjusted to chiropractic care. Okay, hands down by far, the most important one by far in my opinion. I'm so biased.
Speaker 1:This is what I do every day. I see people's lives transform. They're all great, but brain-based chiropractic care is number one, because we're directly affecting the prefrontal cortex with every adjustment, which is why we can see the results that we see with people we take care of. Yeah, what else? One really important question for college students around the world Does the prayer at the beginning of a meal offset the MSG consumed in the meal? Prayer does not offset the MSG consumed in the meal.
Speaker 1:It's about prefrontal cortex and improvement on studies Like this could affect the generation. I mean, yeah, we could do a study on it and we could see. So that's it Like family burnout. If you want to have a better family life, if you want to have better relationships. Being aware that you might be burnout and understanding that, if you're feeling like a sense and a lack of purpose that there's more for your life, there's a higher calling on your life, yes, on all of us. Purpose that there's more for your life.
Speaker 1:There's a higher calling on your life, on all of us, and God gave it to you and it's already within you and these strategies should be a gateway for you to be able to start to access parts of your brain that may be shut down. And when you can do it and you do it well, guaranteed game changer. Life will change. I've seen it in my life. I've seen it in your life.
Speaker 1:How our daughter is raised and growing is just epic, and the tons and tons and I mean literally thousands of families that we've taken care of yeah all right, fam love you. We'll come at you next week. Peace, peace.
