Body Resistance to Life: A Prescription for Wellness

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of Weltopia Pharmacy in Mequon, Thamesville joins us again as we reconvene a life-changing message that he brings to us.

I'm so thrilled and excited to always have Dr. Omar and his eloquence and his knowledge and the impact that he's had on my life.

So it's always great to see him.

Good morning to you, Dr. Omar.

How you doing?

Good morning, Earl.

Happy Sunshine Day for you and for everybody.

Yes, well, I've got on a yellow shirt.

And then representing the, you know, life.

And so we got a great conversation as always that we're going to have.

But before we get into that conversation, Dr. Omar, I was just talking to you a little bit early.

I've got friends in my age demographic.

And who, you know, go to the gym sometimes and try to eat right.

And they're complaining to me about how dragged down and tired they are.

And just get up in the morning and not full of vigor.

And they're dragging on through these latter years of our lives.

And then they look over at me and they say, man, what are you doing?

I said, well, you know, I got a guy who has been able to come into my life and bring some knowledge about my body, about the systems that are part of this wonderful creation.

And a man who really speaks in plain terms,

about what our body is.

I didn't know, you know, Dr. Omer, I'm not ashamed of it.

But I knew a little bit about sales.

I learned that way back when I was in school.

But I never knew what they really were, the impact of them.

And I never will forget.

So one of these guys was over my house a few weeks ago.

He's telling me how drained he was.

And I started telling him about sales.

The old sales die out.

And the new sales feed off, Dr. Omar, he looked at me in disbelief.

But you know what?

I didn't know anything about that until you presented it.

And then I looked into it a little bit more.

And so the average person,

doesn't know the body, doesn't know the systems.

And so we don't know those things.

We haven't gone and been trained and that's why you are a doctor.

And so you know it, but just the knowledge that you bring, I have to tell you, it has changed my life and hopefully we can continue to change many others' lives because I'm telling you.

I get up, I mean, I feel strong.

I go to bed, I sleep good, I exercise.

Well, I'm still always a struggle to make sure I'm eating the right stuff at the right times.

But man, I feel like I can run through a brick wall.

And it has a lot to do with the conversations you and I have, and then me putting those things into practice.

I want to give you credit for something very important that I've noticed from the interactions we have together over the last couple of years.

And I can see your movement, you are everywhere.

And your ability to build a community around you is very important.

And it's a very strong anti-aging mechanism that have been studied in the blue zones around the world, where people live healthier, longer, and they die at like 100 years of age and above.

And those people that live in the blue zones, some of them, they are not

eating the best diet, they're not eating the healthiest food, but they create communities around them.

They are not sitting alone.

They take action, they play sports, they embrace life.

As you mentioned, you wake up and you see the sun, you wear a yellow shirt, you embrace every moment.

So that feeling alone can be life changing and giving time, giving life.

So I have to give you credit for that.

Seeking truth, seeking connections is always empowering.

And you try to transcend that knowledge.

You don't live for yourself.

So the push mechanism that you use, your energy, your ability to search something, your ability to improve and listen to something that improves your soul and your mind is one part of the equation, but the other part, the pull force.

your responsibilities and the people that you want to live for and advise and connect, that I think is a great formula for health and it can work in any domain of life.

Dr.

Omar, body resistance to life.

I mean, I'm inculcating that in my mind.

Body resistance to life.

Very powerful sentence.

Let's break down what that is.

Yeah, so we wake up in the morning and we drink the coffee and it's just not working.

I'm still feeling like I want to sleep.

Do I need a stronger coffee?

Do I need to change it?

Or we go to sleep for eight hours and then you wake up in the morning and you feel like, I didn't sleep.

I feel like I've been drained.

I don't have any energy.

So the thing is like there is a signal that is sent and the receptor that receives it is like deaf cannot see it.

Or the signal can be too loud, too often, too long, like the coffee example when we drink a cup after a cup after a cup.

But when those receptors turn it down, that's resistance.

It's not weakness, it's a protection.

And there are five phases of this resistance.

Insulin.

where your pancreas is screaming, sugar is coming, open the door, the cells stopped listening years ago, so sugar sits in the blood, we call that diabetes.

But truly, it is the body covering its ears.

It is something else called lipton resistance.

You just ate a full plate, your fat cells are yelling, we are full, stop eating.

The brain doesn't hear it.

So you open the fridge again at 9 p.m., you're not weak, your signal is broken.

And there is the dopamine.

Remember when a phone call from a friend made your whole day, now it takes a vacation, a new car, a TikTok bench, and you still feel flat.

That's the brain that's been overfed for so long and nothing tastes like anything anymore.

And then there is cortisol where you finally get to the beach.

The phone is off.

toes in the sand and your shoulders won't drop.

Your jaws won't unclench.

The lion left the room a week ago, but your body didn't get the memo.

And finally, there is the caffeine.

First cup, nothing.

Second cup, nothing.

Third cup, you're tired and anxious.

The caffeine didn't get weaker.

Your receptors got deaf.

They are not listening.

So Dr. Omar, what creates that type of...

environment.

It's not solely the aging process, I take it.

There's certainly different steps.

This doesn't happen overnight.

I agree with you.

It happens over years and years, and there is something that we call low-grade inflammation.

It's a coin determined by a German scientist, I think in 2017, low-grade inflammation.

in which we keep insulting our bodies day and night, night and day, day after day, until it is just kind of, we can't take it anymore.

And by that I'm talking about stress, I'm talking about eating habits, I'm talking about toxic relationships that keep feeding bad cortisol through the day and through the night, and I'm talking about the screen time that keep us

up all night and all morning.

To give you an example, something I did today, I woke up at 4.30 a.m.

and I just grabbed my phone and I had that choice.

Going to go to Facebook to know what's happening in the world or not.

And I decided I choose not.

I decided to open a notes and app and just write three things I'm grateful for that happened last night.

And I wrote them down.

And I just felt relaxed.

I felt empowered.

I felt, oh, you know what?

I'm going to go to the sauna.

I'm going to do something different.

I am not going to let the stress take hold of me in the morning.

And I'm going to be ready.

So day after day, the smaller changes that you do in your life, they have what we can call big achievement for your health, for your body, for your soul.

But resistance is key.

when it comes to utilization of a medication.

To give you an example, there is something that is called side effects for drugs.

And those side effects, you would get side effects if you go beyond the certain concentration of the drug.

Statin medication, Aturva Statin and Rusuva Statin.

The Acrestor, the Rusuva Statin, you get most of the benefits.

at 5 and 10 milligram, maximum 20 milligram.

After 20 milligram for the Resuva Staten, we start to see more side effect and less benefits.

So it's okay to have high cholesterol and high LDL, but you should be working hard to improve the concentration of the drug that comes to your body.

And you can do that by improving your health, improving your heart.

So if today I'm taking 20 milligram Rusuvastatin or Crestor, maybe in three months or six months or a year, I only take 10 milligram.

So I have less side effects and I have more benefit.

How can I do that?

That's the prescription we're talking about.

You know, Dr. Ma, this information that we're talking about today, body resistance to life,

So when you have a family and a young family, how important is this knowledge and information?

Because if you understood this as a young person with a family, then you start preparing your children at a very young age, and certainly their lives will be different.

But if we don't know these things and we're finding out, like I'm finding out later in life, my goal is to constantly just talk to people about the importance of it and wish I had known it many years ago.

And you would have had that kind of an impact with your own children.

It's not just about you.

knowing these things, right?

It's about you being able to take that information and spread it as far as you can in order to improve the lives of human beings, right?

I am glad that you mentioned it.

You have a family because each one of us who's surrounded by people that they love, you either gain from them or you give them.

And the symbiotic relationship of

Living for people and gaining and learning from people is very important I look at my children and I always have a choice how to make the interaction better I was give you an example like last weekend.

I was like my son was playing I found like my my five years old was playing in the In the front of the house with a ball and I just went and I

I was doing something very important, finances for the pharmacy.

And I was like stressed out and trying to do this, do that.

Then he told me, Bava, come play with me.

So I went, I played with him for a little bit.

But I was counting how many times I catch the ball because I wanted to finish so I can go back to what I do.

Then I decided, you know what?

I'm going to count.

Instead of counting 10 balls, I'm going to throw to him.

I'm going to count 100.

Then I said, I'm going to count it in a loud voice.

And then I decided, you know what, I'm going to enjoy it.

I'm going to let him say I am bored and I want to stop playing.

So I started to start to be interested in the activity I'm doing with my son.

And I started to feel like, OK, let me bring something else to the fun.

So let me throw the ball in a different way, in a different direction.

So it was fun.

It was engaging.

And after we were done, I went back and I completed my financial thing that I was doing.

But I had a moment of happiness that I enjoyed myself, lowered my cortisol, and became more sensitive to those moments of happiness that I have.

And that's why when I talk about resistance of the body, we have to work on increasing the sensitivity of the human body.

Because people are sick.

We are all sick.

We are overstimulated, overfed, overalerted, and we're underrested.

and biologically, we're numb.

So that is the key.

We want to work on what we call receptor rehabilitation.

Think of a drug like mitformin.

Mitformin is a medication that helps to lower the blood sugar and it's also used as an anti-aging drug.

One of the key ways that mitformin does is that it increases the sensitivity of the insulin receptors.

It makes the resistance less so we can feel the insulin more in our bodies.

Works for type 2 diabetes.

It's one of the first line of treatment for type 2 diabetes.

It's a great medication, especially at a lower dose, 500 milligram.

Maximum dose, 2000 milligram.

We try to get...

People to this dose less because at this dose it can or beyond that dose it can affect the kidneys but just generally if I am going to take a medication like mitformin to increase the sensitivity of the insulin receptors as an anti-aging factor that's not a bad idea because it's going to help increase the sensitivity of the receptor.

So I want people to look at the tools that they use as ways

to improve our health.

It doesn't need to be the trendiest thing out in the market, but it needs to be something specific that works for me.

Because we have too much sugar, too much stress, too much noise, too much scrolling, too much stimulation.

And we want sometimes to get less of things and then add exactly what I need for a period of time.

and then move on.

You know, Dr. Omar, you talked about the, and it should be considered a parable.

You talked about this interaction with your five-year-old son in the ball, and it's fascinating because it's what you got out of it.

It's not just the fact of what the young, and this is what I keep telling people about interacting and doing for others.

and the reward that you get from doing that and uplifting somebody else.

You were able to just oppose not just the fact that it's still on the ball.

I gotta go out here and I'll do it in a few minutes.

And you were able to understand that this is healing for...

for me as well as, you know, what it meant to your son, but you're able to get to a point that our systems, who we are, our souls need that kind of, isn't that an inner healing in itself with all the different things that happen to us?

In our lives, we look for all these major things and all the medicines and other kind of things.

You kind of got a little dopamine out of that, didn't you?

Yeah, yeah.

I agree.

It gave me dopamine.

It made me feel like as a kid again.

And we see people and we see happiness in their eyes and souls.

And they enjoy the moment.

We just received, OK, two weeks ago, we got handcrafted cookies.

from one of our patients who just turned 100 years old and he sent us the gift and he was so proud with his achievement he walks into the pharmacy he picks up his medications and he wanted to celebrate with us 100 years of life and I was just asking myself

That's someone who's enjoying every moment.

So if we can create enough moments of meaningful moments through the day, we're going to have healthier life.

I had an interaction with a woman who works with a supplements company, and I was talking to her.

I know that she was very sick at a certain time in her life two years ago.

And I told her, you look great.

You look fabulous.

What is your secret?

What did you do different?

And she told me I didn't do anything different.

I just looked at myself, my inner core, and I tried to kind of ask myself what makes me happy.

And I tried to use the tools that I've been always using, but with more appreciation and love to myself.

And I realized I have everything I need.

And suddenly, my body is responding.

My perimenopost symptoms are getting less.

I don't have night sweats.

I can sleep better.

and it all happened at the moment of appreciation.

So healing of the soul is very important.

Sometimes all what we need to do is to make a phone call to fix a relationship with someone we love.

Maybe that's going to fix the blood pressure that keeps going up at night because we're stressed out about this relationship.

So I have some prescriptions to help fix that resistance in the body.

And I want to go over them one by one.

All right, let's go.

Prescription number one, sleep.

The current version, maybe it's not the best.

Your brain cleans itself during deep sleep, not metaphorically, literally.

The glymphetic system washes the metabolic waste out of the brain while you are sleeping.

If you can't sleep, you can't maintenance.

We're talking about seven, eight hours of deep, great sleep.

You can get them by shutting down the

phone and everything that is coming to you one hour before you go to bed.

If you use the sauna, sauna, all right, four to seven times a week, that's the best.

If not, just kind of a hot shower and go to bed, but seven, eight hours of sleep.

That is great to help your body recalibrate.

One extra hour of sleep is going to improve your relationship, your sexual life, your testosterone for men and for women.

It's going to improve energy the next day.

It's going to clean the body, detoxify the system and advance in life and improve days to come.

Strong anti-aging prescription early.

Sleep.

Sleep.

You know, we kind of take it for granted.

You know, I was a guy who, again, prior to meeting you.

Yeah, Bernie Kettler was both ends.

You know, a friend of mine was talking about me yesterday.

He said, uh, then he said, you're in bed by 10 o'clock every day.

He said, man, what's wrong with you?

I said, I said, I said, look, man, I try to get, I am in bed by 10 o'clock every night.

Yeah, I'm guilty.

but I'm getting up at five o'clock, okay?

And so I'm getting up at five.

I like getting up at five o'clock every morning, Dr. Omar.

It gives me a chance to recalibrate and plan and my mind seems to be clear.

But if I'm gonna get up at five o'clock in the morning every morning, whether I'm working or not, then it doesn't mean I'm up to 12 or one o'clock in the morning.

It defeats the purpose, right?

Yeah.

When I go back home to Egypt, people are sleeping at 2, 3 a.m.

and they are just kind of it's day and night and then they're very tired all day long.

And I tell them, man, it's just I can't do that.

9pm, 10pm, I'm in bed.

But of course, sleep, it's unnegotiable for healthy life.

I listened to one of the prominent strength trainers who was training people to be number one and number two in the Olympic Games.

So he was on a level that kind of no one else was on when training people.

So they're like, you are an Olympic.

player who goes to this guy, I tell him I want to be number one and number two.

That trainer is called, his name is Charlize Pollock one and he's like role model, he's like miraculous.

I was listening to him like seven years ago and he was saying on a podcast when he was asking, what would you wish to do earlier in your life that you would have changed it today?

His answer was very simple.

He said, I wish I slipped more.

And he didn't really explain what he meant, like he didn't really explain the physiology or the biology, but I know that this man is friends with one of the top cardiologists, functional medicine cardiologists in the world.

I know that he's in his circle and I understand that Charles Pollock when understands biology.

Charles Pollock when his body was perfect, his arm was like, can, can weigh two people of me.

He was really very strong.

But you know what?

Early, he died 53 years old, heart attack, unknown reason.

We don't know how it happened in his sleep.

And just kind of... I was listening to him.

I understand he was under a lot of stress all the time.

And stress is a killer.

Is this the reason?

I'm not sure.

I don't know.

But you kind of try to connect the dots, you know?

And that's why my prescription number two that comes after sleep is food.

And in simplicity, just to make sure that we're giving meaningful information, we want fiber before the carbohydrates, before the carbs.

Because most people are eating naked carbs all day long, sugar without fiber, without protein.

without the breaks to this sugar that spikes the blood sugar.

So your breakfast should not look like dessert.

You should eat avocado.

What's wrong with avocado?

It's great.

What's wrong with eggs?

Eggs is proteins.

You can eat up to 47 or 49 eggs every week without worrying about cholesterol.

You need to eat breakfast like a king.

Eat lunch like a prince.

and eat dinner like a poor man.

Dr. Omar, I have

to stop you there because all these mixed signals, I've been reading where they're saying eggs are no good for you.

I mean, why are these, they're mixed signals from people who are supposedly in the know, they've scared me off of eating eggs.

Because of some of the information I've been, or you don't need to be, it's one of the worst things you can possibly eat as eggs.

Here, you are saying something completely different.

Who's right?

It's just, well, actually the eggs are one of the most nutrient-dense foods humans can eat.

The reason you hear mixed signals is just because nutrition science is messy.

Food studies are often, like, they can be weak easily, and people get confused.

with what is the association, if something is a study is associated with another study, and there is a causation that this is the cause and effect.

But eggs are exceptionally good.

They are near perfect proteins.

They contain all essential amino acids.

highly bioavailable form.

One large egg contains 6 to 7 grams of protein, rich in leucine, which helps muscle protein synthesis.

Highly digestible, easy to eat.

So for aging, metabolism, recovery, and satiety, eggs are elite.

Nutrition dense, it contains choline, B12, selenium, vitamin A,

Biotin, it's multivitamin that you take in the eggs, right?

And if you can eat eggs without bread, that's usually the best.

You eat eggs as an omelet and you put the veggies on it, that is wonderful.

Then there is a satiety, the feeling that I'm not hungry anymore.

Eggs reduce hunger better than many breakfast foods.

So compare eggs plus proteins plus healthy fats like avocado versus cereal.

toast plus juice all right the second and spikes sugar crashes hunger faster in many people all right but the first is giving you satiety is giving you energy but it needs planning 10 15 minutes of planning for breakfast every day creates a beautiful future beautiful anti-aging component of your life and this is the second prescription food

and breakfast.

Well, Dr.

Omar, again, the information that you give, I've been scared off of eggs because this thing right here, Dr. Omar, that I'm holding up, this thing I'm holding up right here.

Yeah.

And you go on there and you're watching this and there are people on there and you don't know who they are in there.

They're swearing that you shouldn't be.

eating the eggs.

And so I stopped for more or less eating something.

I enjoyed eating eggs.

Now, when I get home, I'm going to eat me a couple eggs and I'll be eating more eggs again, Dr. Omavatiza.

These are the kinds of things and this is the kind of information that we're talking about body resistance to life.

We're getting a lot of false information that

that makes our lives a lot more difficult to deal with.

But anyway, what's number three?

All right, number three.

And that is a very important one, all right?

Number three is dopamine.

Dopamine, okay.

For those of us who don't know what dopamine is, what does that

mean?

So we want to talk about the dopamine reset.

Dopamine is like when you get a...

20 years ago when you get a phone call from a friend and you feel very happy, right?

Now we have something called TikTok that gives you, feed you this dopamine, the feeling of satisfaction, feeling of I did something, 10 seconds, 20 seconds video and then another one, another one, scrolling, scrolling two, three hours past and I got used to it.

So now I need something which is more exciting.

to make me happy and suddenly I have this resistance that nothing makes me feel happy anymore.

And just kind of, if we silence the dopamine, it feels uncomfortable.

And it's not personality, it's withdrawal.

So your brain needs moments where nothing is happening, nothing is happening.

And that's where motivation regenerates.

To give you an example, when you read a book, remember when we used to read books?

We have a book and we're reading a book.

That doesn't produce a lot of dopamine.

It needs a lot of training to know how to read a book and live in a book and live a life that's beyond your life because you read the experience, the juice of that book.

But you're not like scrolling.

So if you train yourself to read 30 minutes or one hour a day, then you start to reset your dopamine.

So you start to feel the beauty of life.

I call it feel again, the beauty of life.

And I get this.

nudging me, the father in me, when I sit with any family or friend member and I see a kid scrolling in TikTok on the phone, I look at them and I tell them, you know what, I worry about you, and I think this TikTok is going to grow donkeys in your head, in your brain.

And if they are young enough, they want to ask their mothers, tell them, Uncle Omar told me that I'm going to have donkeys in my brain.

And they kind of comply with that.

And then my daughter came to me the other day and she told me, you told me, I'm going to have donkeys in my brain.

And I don't think this is true.

So it's just we have to train the younger generations to feel the beauty of life and reset that.

But we have to start with ourselves, start to read like a couple of pages every day and try to read more and try to have those moments of silence.

One of the greatest things I love about Sana

All right, when you go to Asana, infrared or dry sauna, is that you can't have your phone with you or your AirPods with you.

Maybe you can take a book with you to the sauna, but it's moments of silence that you need in order to relax every day.

And that has a great impact on life.

You know, Dr. Marty, amazing thing is I was in the sauna yesterday morning and there are guys in there with their phones.

And I don't know how you can sit in there.

It's so hot.

But they've got their phones and their earpieces sitting in the sun.

And I went in once and I tried it once for heaven's sakes.

I was only in there a few minutes and the phone got so hot in the head.

And so I realized I can't have this in here.

But there are people who still do that they just can't separate even just for 10 to 15 minutes that they're in the sauna Because

they're

so

addicted to a couple of things I'm glad that you mentioned that a couple of things here When you go to the sauna and you leave the sauna and you take a cold shower you are actually offering your body a

a lot of stress in the sauna and then it's for a short period of time, the 10, 15, 20 minutes that you are in the sauna and then that change in temperature you need.

So there is stress and then de-stress and that helps with detoxification of the body.

But if you are adding the cortisol of influence of having a phone with you and keep this social media and just kind of this kind of feed of news and everything,

you're actually negating that effect and also I looked it up because I saw this kind of not just one person many people are doing it they are on the phone in the sauna and they are

of having the phone.

So it's actually destroys the phone.

There is no phones that are resistant to the temperature in the sauna and the water vapor if it's hot sauna it will destroy the seal of the device but it's more dangerous for the air pods because they are plastic and the high temperature can affect that plastic and increase the risk of having microplastics leach.

into your body and your system.

So if you want to go to the sauna just kind of disconnect for a few minutes and I found that I can do a lot of activities in the sauna.

I can have these kind of notepads that do not get wet with water.

And I have a pen that I use inside and I just write, jot some notes.

But even that error I found that sometimes it's stressful in my system.

I just want to relax.

I want a moment of disconnect.

And this moment of disconnect can be the most creative moment in the day.

Can help you to take decisions, research your system, especially if you go to the sauna, it's very hot inside.

It can go up to 174 degrees Fahrenheit.

Then you go take a shower and make it cold for like one minute, two minutes.

then suddenly you feel you're ready.

You can do things.

One of the inspirational leaders who talked about how Sana and Cold Plunge help him every day is Tony Robbins.

He says, when I go to the Sana and the Cold Plunge, it makes me feel I can

Do it now.

I can do anything now.

I'm ready to go.

I'm ready to go speak in front of 15, 20,000 people.

I am ready to go at any moment.

So I try to adopt these ways and kind of tell people, find a way to do it.

If you can do it in the health club, great.

If you can do it in the home, that's great.

If you can take just a cold shower in the morning for one or two minutes, that is great.

If we can't do everything, we can do something.

We can try something.

And of course, if you have cardiovascular condition, heart condition, check with your doctor.

We want everyone to be safe.

We want everyone to be able to do the prescriptions we talk about in a safe manner, but that is our third prescription.

So

Dr. Omar, sleep, food, and the third is what?

Dopamine.

So

what's the fourth?

Caffeine Caffeine Caffeine is not energy.

It's borrowed alertness So you have to ask yourself does your buddy need all of that coffee that you drink every single morning?

And how many cups of coffee am I drinking and why am I ex hosted even with all of those gallons of coffee?

I am drinking I was in a Starbucks the other day and my daughter she's 12 She's buying her coffee and she's asking for that

She's drinking coffee at 12.

Yes, one shot of espresso in her coffee.

And then she's asking for a venti coffee.

I ask her, what's the venti?

It's the biggest 16 ounce cup of coffee.

And I just ask her, so I can buy it for you today, but it's going to be small.

You can get a small one and she accepted it because I thought that's the money I can afford today.

Just get a small one She took it and she drank it and she didn't have a problem.

She she had a smaller cup of coffee, of course we try to We try to make our kids not not drink any of those drinks, but sometimes right the pressure is strong, but I Asked myself, okay next time I'm going to drink my coffee.

I'm going to make it a smaller cup so

I did that one day, I did that the other day, but then I decided I'm going to count how many cups of coffee I'm drinking every day and I found that there is difference between I need the coffee and I have the habit of getting the coffee.

So the amount of caffeine should be also be controlled and you shouldn't take caffeine before 2pm and you should always question yourself, am I having this energy from the coffee or I am extra alerted and nervous.

and anxious and go through times that you try to make a detox of you know what I'm going to take few days just drinking water and see how my body is going to react to that and I bet you we're going to all have headaches because this happens in Ramadan when I don't drink coffee in the morning for 30 days and the first five days there's headache man I feel it I can't function because I'm used to do this head of

of caffeine in the morning and it takes few days until my body resets on my receptors are sensitive again and I find that after that month of fasting I can just drink less coffee and I can be fine so the third prescription is caffeine it is great we love it it can be having anti-aging it's great health benefits

But you should control how much caffeine you take because caffeine is going to take about 12 hours to leave the body.

So if you take it after 2pm, you're not going to be able to have a good night's sleep.

If you kind of take more coffee, it might be affecting your sleep.

So we need to focus on

that.

So Dr. Omar, you began this conversation by the resistance to life.

And then you talked about

you had some prescriptions that you wanted to talk about.

And so we've gone through four, and you haven't mentioned a physical prescription, which is kind of what I thought you would be alluding to.

You're talking about something, when we think about prescriptions, most of us are thinking about something that you're administering.

to someone.

But in this case, the administering that you're offering is advice on how to better live your life.

Nothing physical.

Why?

It's because these medicines and supplements are meant to support what you build.

It's the 20% after the 80% is already there, or the 90% is already there.

So to give you an example, a very simple example is

if someone is smoking you ask them how much are you smoking they tell you I smoke a pack a day or two packs a day and then they tell you well I am smoking less now I smoke 10 cigarettes a day and then you ask them do you are you taking do you have any problem in breathing yeah yeah I take my inhaler how many times do you take your inhaler once a day once a day so if you're smoking one cigarette a day you are still a smoker because whatever you do here you are actually negating that if we say that

which is not true, the inhaler is protecting your lungs from the damaging effect of the cigarette, well you're actually smoking much more.

So we're introducing harmful things to our body much more than we are detoxifying our body.

So the best thing you will do to yourself if you are a smoker, not to take an inhaler but to stop smoking.

So

I always love that people ask questions about the peptides, about the testosterone injectable, about this, about that.

But I want to do that.

OK, let's talk.

Let's have this discussion.

But let's talk about what we can do first to support our body and make it make it last longer, because God created us perfect.

God is perfect, created us perfect.

Dr. Omar, body resistance to life.

You know, stress is built into our lives.

There's no way to escape stress.

Just living is stressful, right?

I mean, if you and I just lived on the earth ourselves and we didn't have to worry about other people and other things,

and not be responsible for the lives of others like our children, and even being married and dealing with your spouse and those things.

All of those things are stress.

For heaven's sakes, you run an unbelievable business.

You've got all these people you're responsible for, all the things that go along with being a proprietor, all the different people's lives that are intertwined with yours, and that's a recipe.

That's stress on top of stress, on top of stress, on top of stress that you have chosen for your life.

And yet you are saying, even in the face of that, you still, there's a process, there's a way that you can minimize that.

Yeah, I'm glad that you mentioned that earlier yesterday.

I was talking I had a consult with with a lawyer who was complaining to me about like his job and his overwhelming stress and he told me something very peculiar He told me I can handle stress at work because I can call it calculated stress.

I Told him okay.

That is great But I think there is balance that need to be there between the calculated stress and the uncalculated stress when we go home

And I find that one of the great ways to handle stress is to calculate the time and calculate the stress that's going to happen after the working hours with the beloved ones.

Because for people who are juggling between life and work, which is all of us, the balance is the key.

Balancing everything is the key.

So that is why we want to always be in the middle in terms of

accepting that kind of stress and dealing with it.

And that's why I train my, most of my patients that come to my consults, I train them on breathing exercise, how to take a deep breath, hold it and then breathe out.

I call it four, seven, eight.

You take a deep breath, hold for four, hold for seven and then breathe out, counting to eight, four times morning and night.

Do this for one month.

It's going to be better than any Alprazolam that you can use because it's natural way of detoxifying your stress hormone.

And then I can give you another thing, adaptogen, to help dampen the stress hormone.

But stress is life.

We are ordered when we came to life to keep running.

But run as much as you want.

You're only gonna get what is written for you That's kind of a belief system that I have and you know what Errol?

I want to tell you a personal story There is a part of our business that we lost several months ago To a competition and I had a very important meeting to try to make an offer and get this business back I just kind of overthinking what can I offer what can I offer and I just I told myself you know what Omar?

It's written, like, if this business is going to come back, it's going to come back.

You did everything you can at this moment.

That's fine.

Just relax and breathe.

And I did that error.

And it's kind of utilized the script that I had.

I made the offer that I had.

And they were happy.

They told me, Omar, we want to come back.

And this is, we want this kind of pricing, this kind of plan.

But we really miss you.

We miss your quality.

We miss working with you.

And we were just waiting for you.

to invite us to come back.

And then I told myself, well, I was so stressed out about talking to them.

I could have talked to them a couple of months ago, but I didn't, because I was stressing out about what I can offer.

So managing cortisol and stress is going to be a very important component of anyone to find that balance in life.

So is there a number five?

There is number five, and it's very important and physiological.

it's called muscle because after age of 35 the muscle is retirement savings for the body retirement saving account muscle is not cosmetic tissue it's a metabolic armor and the two patients can weigh the same and the patient with more muscle usually handles sugar aging illness surgery and medications better muscle

has a very important component called protein intake and physical exercise.

Protein intake is miscommunication on the protein intake because someone come and tell you, I ate heavy dinner or heavy lunch, but actually your body is not storing amino acids, the breakdown of proteins.

You need protein intake every eight hours.

And it's okay to fast.

Two days a week, that's fine.

Do fasting, 18 hours, the rest of it you're just eating, it's fine.

Two days a week is fine.

But every day, every eight hours, you need proteins, especially for people who take GLP-1 agonist that affects the food noise.

They're not hungry, they're not eating, but you need the proteins.

And proteins doesn't need to come from animal source.

There is plant-based proteins, animal-based proteins,

There are protein shakes that you can use and substitute through the day.

Every eight hours with breakfast, with lunch, with dinner, that is important component.

And then there is a physical exercise, going to the gym, group exercises.

But that movement is very important for the muscle.

I tell patients who go through anti-aging plans, people who are overweight, who say and come to the pharmacy, I lost 10 pounds last month.

I lost seven pounds last month.

I tell them, remember, if you're not eating proteins and hitting the gym, you are losing 30% muscle mass.

So be aware and be confident that you are eating every eight hours proteins.

So once you've...

started to lose muscle mass.

It's permanent.

It's harder to get that muscle again because when you lose the muscle, it's kind of, it's harder to get it back.

So to give you an example, I want to lose weight.

Okay, you can lose weight.

It's much, much easier to lose weight, right?

But it's much harder to gain muscle again.

It takes time and effort.

And as we age, our ability to just get those muscles back are not going to be as we do in a younger age.

In a younger age, I say today.

So Dr.

Amar, the purpose of muscle mass is not just to be Mr. Universe.

There is a purpose that the muscle must serve.

And why you're saying it's so important?

Yeah, it's a metabolic organ, a glucose reservoir, a hormone regulator, a longevity protector, and the physical insurance policy against aging.

Because after you eat, the muscle absorbs the glucose, stores the glycogen, improve insulin sensitivity, so that decreases that resistance.

Low muscle mass is strongly linked to insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome.

So the more functional muscle generally means better glucose handling, lower insulin demand, better metabolic flexibility.

I start with type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance because it's key to cardiovascular risk and cardiovascular health.

And I always like to invest in the 80%

that makes me take care of the other 20%.

So if you improve your insulin resistance, you're doing a lot of good things for your body.

And that's why I try to always go for the low-hanging fruit of health for the body.

So I try to give real prescriptions to people to improve their health, to improve their bodies and abilities to sustain energy.

And the nice thing about pharmacists in general is that many of them are unbiased.

trying to be good and give honest information because we have many tools that we learn about.

And I encourage my colleagues to talk to people about the knowledge that we gain and stop talking to screens because screens don't talk back, you know.

But people need that information.

Dr. Omar,

I have to say to you, you talked about these five options.

to deal with body resistance to life.

And not one of them cost a red cent.

That's what's, I think out of all the things that we talk about in all of the times that we've been doing this, this is the most fascinating one to me because all of these things you talked about,

They don't cost you one red cent.

You have the ability to heal yourself.

Your body itself can heal itself just by following some common sense kind of things that you have pointed out here.

Thank you, Earl.

How do you think?

I agree with you that the goal is not to become stronger and stronger and stronger.

I think the goal is to just become sensitive again, sensitive to rest, sensitive to peace, sensitive to purpose, sensitive to God, sensitive to the people that you love.

Because a body that can no longer feel the small things eventually stops feeling the big things too.

And I think that

Just a moment of realization of the tools that we already have is very important.

Many patients who I meet, they already got the recipe for success for their body and health before they meet with me.

They went to the best doctors, they saw the best practitioners, went to the best hospitals, and the plan is waiting out there in their drawer or on the computer or in the lab work.

but they just need to look at it with a perspective of appreciation, understanding, and that's why I ask everyone in health care field who have the sense of communication to communicate in easy language the main ideas and the main points that is personalized for the people that they communicate with in order for us to be able to kind of

help the community and help each other.

You know, Dr. Omar, I listen to you intently.

Every time we have these discussions and conversations and you always say it's not going to change overnight.

Give yourself an opportunity at this

Give yourself a chance.

It didn't happen overnight.

You didn't get where you are overnight.

So give yourself, give your body a chance.

What do you say to people who think that this is supposed to be instantaneous?

Body resistance to life, the things that you just talked about, if they begin to do it tomorrow and they want to see results on Friday, you say what to that?

Well, I tell them whatever is broken within years is going to take few weeks to fix and just having a belief in the system and in the way that the practitioner wants to work with you is very important and Everything takes time.

So just we have to be patient and train ourselves to be patient and Sometimes it's not that your body is broken, but the biology has simply adapted to the chaos

and you need to just adapt it.

We see in biology and physiology it takes about 90 days for the body cells to adapt to change.

So that's why many times we do that change and then we say okay we're going to do that this results in 90 days, 90.

And then we're going to see the results and if they're not what we're aiming for we can repurpose and find

that sit back as a new plan.

And that's why I try to make in my consultations a roadmap for a whole year to kind of create points where we can check and we can advance and move forward.

Dr. Omar, how can people get in touch with you?

You can always give us a call at 262-429-9429 or text the same number or go to www.wiltopiarx.com and send us a message.

You know, Dr. Omar, I just, I always feel better after having had these conversations with you.

Came in feeling really good this morning as I do most mornings, but I feel even better.

after having what I think is a spiritual connection with you.

Because again, what you do is I get this information from you and then I go spread it, right?

In my life, I go talk to people about it.

And so they just,

And I see them, and I see my former self in them.

And so I know it can happen, right?

I mean, I know that the information that you are giving is life changing.

You know how I know cost to change my life.

And so I will come and say, again, how can people get in touch with you?

Give us a call at 262-429-9429 or visit www.wiltopiarx.com.

Dr. Oma, I love you.

I love doing these podcasts with you.

I've got to come out and see you anyway, not you physically, but those great supplements that you have that kind of help me maintain my health.

you know my wife was out there I think yesterday she's she's out there as much as I am sometimes and so we we we bought into it it's changed our lives I'll soon be a month from now a guy willing I'll be 72 and um man I'm looking forward to a healthy longer life and and I'll tell you I don't

As a matter of fact, I know, had I not met you, I was no telling where I'd be.

I'd probably be double over and walking around in a cane by it, with a cane by now.

You're funny.

No, no, man, you're great.

You're great, man.

Dr. Oma,

we got to put a pin in it.

I'll see you later on today.

And until the next time, the one and only, Dr. Oma.

the founder and proprietor of Weltopia Pharmacy in Mechwan, Thamesville.

Kiss the babies.

I'll see you the next time.

See you the next time.

Thank you.

All right, that's a wrap on what's going on with Earl

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