Welcome to the Adaptive Mindset. I'm Brett Gallant, cybersecurity thought leader and founder of Adaptive Office Solutions. Here, we don't just talk tech, we unlock the strategies, stories, and mindset shifts you need to stay secure, lead boldly, and thrive in a digital world. Let's get started. Welcome back to the Adaptive Mindset. I'm really pleased to have with me today, Dr. Matt Chalmers, a chiropractor, author, and performance health expert, who's challenging how we think about wellness. Dr. Chalmers believes that healing doesn't start with prescriptions or calorie counting. It starts in the mind. He teaches that stress is often sadness, guilt, or fear disguised, and that if we don't face those emotions, our physical health will eventually pay the price. And Dr. Chalmers, I just want to say, I can completely align with that, because I've had my own transformation journey. And it's such a pleasure to have you on our show, because I know what you have to share is going to impact a lot of people. So welcome to the show. Well, thanks for having me. Yes, it's great. You said something powerful in your message that we call stress is really sadness, guilt, or fear. Can you unpack that Yeah, so I've spent, you know, I have specialty in neurology, specialty in hormones and all sorts of stuff. And what I started recognizing when people was their stress was messing with their nervous system, their sympathetic parasympathetic nervous system. And I would ask, you know, a lot of the athletes and the men and the guys I was working with, do you have any, any anxiety? And they're like, No, I don't have anxiety. Like, I have stress, I have lots of stress. And I started thinking about it. And I was like, well, everybody admits they have stress. And we talked about stress. And there's all this research on on stress. What is it? And, you know, I've spent the last several years studying psychology and, you know, the way our words work. And so like that, what I found out was that Stress is really a bundle of emotions. It's fear. Primarily, it's fear, it's guilt, and it's sadness. And what it is, is I talk to divorced men. And it's always funny, because when I talk to divorced men who have children, sooner or later, we get to the point where they're like, I've had this discussion so many times. And they're just, I feel like I'm a bad dad. And that's the number one thing that they're worried about. Not the money and the cars and all that stuff. They're worried about their kids, primarily. And I'm like, well, here's the thing. I'm like, the fact that you that you're worried about being a bad dad means you're not a bad dad, a bad dad wouldn't care. And I've just telling people that I've watched them start crying, because they just that release was important. But the guilt of, you know, being a bad dad, the guilt of being a bad husband or wife, the guilt of, you know, whatever they're carrying, is where the term they use for that is stress. When they're afraid of things that are going to happen in the future, which is the definition of anxiety, fear of the future, they call that stress. And so it's important for me, like if you're going to attack a problem, you need to get zeroed in on it. And calling it stress, this giant ambiguous thing, is easy from the I don't want to talk about emotions standpoint, but from a we're going to fix this, it's very damaging. And so we've got to zero in and be like, what exactly is it we're dealing with? And the three main things coming up. Yeah, exactly. The three that Yeah. You must have had a tremendous impact with helping men, particularly men and women. I know myself, I've worn that hat. I know even in the past, I've thought, geez, was I a bad dad? No, no. But there's lies that we tell ourselves. And Yeah, there's a lot of lies, a lot of limiting beliefs. And it's kind of fun, because when you start unpacking it, and you're like, OK. you have ongoing guilt about, let's use the bad dad, about being a bad dad. And so what we'll do is we'll be like, okay, you've got, you know, easy scenario, you got two kids. And then we'll go through and be like, okay, well, let's, let's check these boxes. And we go through like, what is what is kid one? What is his love language may go through, we figure out what that what is important to that child, what love means to that kid. And let's say that this one is physical touch. I'm like, go wrestle with him, like put it on your calendar, like Tuesday, I'm gonna go home and wrestle with kid one. And then like the other kid is say quality time, like go play video games with him, go watch a football game or whatever, watch an anime, just sit with him. And there you go, you can check that box. So you're feeding into each one of your kids deliberately, the things that they consider love. Like if you'll put that on your calendar, you can be like, I'm doing my dad diligence. And I can kind of check that box. And that really helps to assuage that guilt. And as you start doing that, after a period of time, you watch the relationship with their children get better. And they come back in, and they're just like, Oh, my gosh, I feel so much better about my job about my life about everything, because they've been able to check the box on I don't feel guilty, because I figured out what it was that was causing the guilt. And I did something proactively to assuage it. That's gone, I don't need to worry about that. And that's been super beneficial for Nice. So what made you realize that the emotional battle So, you know, for about 15 or so years, I got really good at, you know, figuring out the biochemicals piece. You know, I could fix fibromyalgia and product fatigue and celiac and Lyme's and COVID and like all the things. And what I kept figuring out was like, I felt like I was bringing people to a specific spot and they would just stop. And this is like, we'd start like, good days, bad days, good days, bad days. And I started looking at it. And I was like, what am I missing? Like, what am I missing from the holistic thing? And I was talking to a buddy of mine, Nathan Rossi. And I was and he made some comment, I can't remember where it was. And I was like, that's it. And I was like, the psychological and the spiritual, like, those are the two pieces of the pillars of wellness that I'm missing is the psychological and spiritual. And so I started really digging into the psych piece that you know, and I started finding out that you know, we talk about the schizophrenia and we talk about the narcissism, we talk about the fringe stuff, the one to five, 7%, and we deem that, you know, therapy worthy, but we don't talk about the struggles everybody has throughout the day that is literally shifting them into this panic fight flight mode, which is then chemically shutting off their gut and causing all sorts of other problems. And I'm like, if we don't start addressing this, the psych piece, it doesn't matter what supplements we take at the end of the day, like you can bring somebody to a specific point metabolically, But then you've got to start working on the mind because the mind is now taking over for all the problems. And so that's where I started realizing it like this is the part of this thing that we really need to get into. And as I started looking into it, it is one of those things that especially for men, we do not have a support system for No, it's not normalized that it's OK for us to talk about it. I'll be completely vulnerable here. I struggled with my own health for a number of years. until I got to a point in October, 2023, I was 349 pounds. And today I weigh 225. Congrats, a hundred percent. But what helped, I put in the work, I was going to the gym, getting the health of fitness programs, but there was a combination of a couple of things that I decided needed to work on myself. and put myself first. And a lot of our listeners, I know many of our listeners are entrepreneurs, and a lot of us are on an island, and we don't normalize that it's okay to get help for mental health. I had therapy for a couple of years that helped me, but I also started to buy back my time. And so example, a normal routine for me now is 5 a.m. gym, and I went for a walk after I put the kids on the bus for an hour. I would not allow myself to do that. But it's the best thing to do. It's helped my mental health, and my overall well being that in having, you know, feeding my mind having conversations with people like you. You know, it's funny how people I'm gonna, I'm gonna really blessed position, because I've gotten to, through my patients and whatnot, I got, you know, I spend time with each one of them. So I get to, you know, talk until I've gotten to see the people who had the 20 year olds who raised great kids. And so I was able to be like, what did you do? And I've seen the guys who are 70, who have, you know, grandkids, I'm like, what did you do? Like those things have been really, really beneficial. It helped me figure out how to run everything else. And I'll tell you the thing I think is one of the most important things I've done is I have a coach. I have a mentor. I have a guy that I have several different guys I work with on different aspects. Because the only way to get through is to ask me like, what am I not seeing? What is the blind spot in this that I'm not seeing? And like Nathan, for example, will be like, we'll walk through something. And it's funny because I'm like, Oh, he just laughed. He's like, I've been walking you around the circle for the past 20 minutes. So you figure it out. I'm like, oh, because once you see it, you're like, oh, my gosh. I'm like, there's so much room over here. Like, I didn't I didn't know this was here. Like, yeah. And Have you seen it with your coach? And I've seen this that they said numerous times, but you weren't ready to receive the Yeah, for me, I can't tell you how many times my longtime coach said, Brett, you need to put on your oxygen mask. And I knew what he meant. Yeah. I finally started to embrace that in October, put my oxygen mask on first, putting myself first. I think sometimes we just need to, sometimes it needs to those messages we hear in the coaches and surrounding ourselves by coaches and people that inspire us and challenge us to find those gaps when we're ready to receive the message and see it. And you see that blind spot, like Oh man, it's been, it's been so beneficial. Um, and you know, it's been fun to work with a lot of other guys and a lot, I've worked with women too, but I've worked with a lot of people and, they'll finally see it and you can kind of watch them kind of like as they get the realization or the awareness of it. And it's been fantastic. And it's been really, really, really helpful. Like one of the things that, you know, we walk through as I walk through people are like anger is not a primary emotion. So if something pisses you off, remember it because it wasn't anger. It was sadness. It was guilt. It was lonely. It was something else. And if we can figure out what that emotion actually was and we can unpack it, we can go through and kind of figure out where, why that, where that came from. And so there's, there's things your unconscious mind's trying to get to, but it can't. So when something happens, you're like, I got real pissed off at that. And I, that Well, and that's, um, I'm in a coaching program with Dan Martell and he says, the world will show you where you're not free. And there's been a lot of things in the past that would trigger me. But when you find something that triggers you and it gets you angry, like I would still be like, that's, that's the biggest, that's the biggest red flag of, okay, Hey, hold on, hold on. Something's going on and I haven't addressed it yet. And so, and like, that's, you know, you can unpack a lot of those by yourself, but you know, with the right tools and everything, but it's super beneficial to go and be like, all right, Hey, this thing pissed me off the other day. And I don't know why. And you can like, you can have a coach can walk you through it. And it's, it's super impactful because a lot of times. Those things that make you mad when you like, go ahead and walk all the way through it, you realize so much about yourself and they can make you feel really, really good. So, you know, it's, it's super important. But again, without somebody to kind of help you walk through it. And it's not like the way that at least the way that we're I've taught, I've been taught to do it. And the way I do it is you just ask people questions. And you're like, what does that actually mean? Like, walk me through it. You know, we do a lot of stuff on, you know, education on communication. And we always start with I make everybody the first time people come in, I make them read the five love languages. And it's a great book, and it has a great, it's a great starting point, because the premise I'm trying to get across to people is, you know, we all use the term love, right? Everybody knows love, love is the greatest thing in the world, you know, so, you know, God so loved the world, he gave his one and only son, like all those things, we hang this giant thing on love. However, you'll read the book, you'll be like, well, that one word has five very distinct, very different definitions to different people. So when I'm talking about love, and I'm thinking about this, you're thinking about this. And so we're miscommunicating, even though we're using the same words. You start to understand that a lot of times I'll have people like they'll say something like, hold on, just so I understand, what is your definition of that word? And it's funny, because guys will stop and people will stop and go. Because they haven't ever defined it. And then they'll define it out. And I'm like, okay, good. Now that I have an understanding of what that means to you, that's an important statement to you. I need to know fleshed out what it means to you. And a lot of times people haven't defined these things out. They haven't figured that out. And when they as they do, they're like, Oh, And then so what we'll do is like a lot of times this is, you know, we'll build an avatar. We're like, okay, what are all the things you find important to find these things out? What does this look like in action? And then how do we get you from where you are now to the avatar you just built to the person that you think is where you should be? Because a lot of people haven't, they haven't designed out the roadmap on who they want to be or where they want to go. And this is this, this Yeah, a lot of times we're living life on autopilot and we haven't really set Yeah, yeah. So you did a little bit of research on you. You've said the medical system is broken. Yes. I don't know if broken is right. Yeah, I've been lying to us, sorry. You corrupted, lying to us for decades. What was the breaking point Um, so I've always been the fat guy. Um, I could never lose weight. I counted the calories. I did all the things I was told to do. I couldn't figure it out. And then finally I sat down and I was like, all right, I'm just going to sit down and read all the biochemistry. I'm going to figure out where these calories are, how they play in where we're going. And I sat down and I found out that calories are not in the, they're not real. They're not a thing. And your body doesn't run on calories, it runs on a chemical called adenosine triphosphate. We make it from fat, we make it from sugar. And so I memorized, I learned the entire chemical pathways. And in doing so, I figured out how to fix dementia and fibromyalgia and diabetes and all sorts of stuff. And as I started reading the actual literature and finding out what's actually going on, We've been lied to about calories, about cholesterol, about testosterone, about how to build muscle, about how to lose fat, about what's going on in our minds, the vaccines, like every single thing, the BMI, everything that the medical system, the NIH, the CDC, the FDA, that they've told us, 100% of it's been a lie. And the reason that they're doing this is the only reason I can come up with is that if we listen to what they say, we I read somewhere and seen it somewhere. I think this goes way back to, I'm going to Yeah. I don't know if it has any connection with that when he was funding the education system and then medical using oils, oil for pharmaceutical. Is there any So where that all comes from is like 100 years ago, what they decided to do was they found out that there's other, because they had all the oil, and they're like, what else can we sell oil for? What other market can we push it into? And they found out that they could make pharmaceuticals out of it. And so what they started doing was they started highly funding all the medical schools to only teach pharmaceutical medicine, to not teach herbalism, not teach nutrition, not teach exercise, just teach the pharmaceuticals. And then they started making it illegal to teach anything else. And so they took over the entire thing. selling basically petroleum as the cure-all for everything. And you want to talk about snake oil salesmen, that's where it came from. And then it's So there's a whole number of things to unpack here. So when you went down Well, so, yeah. It took me four months to figure out how to fix COVID. We were using quinine as a vasodilator to open the blood vessels back up. We were using hyperbaric oxygen to oxygenate the tissue and we saved 50, 60, 100 people, pulled them out of hospitals to save them. And I was like, this is information that people need to know. And so I posted it on social media and it destroyed my social media and it destroyed my Google rankings and I got crushed for it and it damaged the business. Oh yeah, yeah. So what you have to understand about what actually happened with COVID, was, and I'll walk you through it, and again, it's one of those awarenesses things, as I walk you through it, it becomes clear. COVID was created by the NIH and our government in a lab, and then it got out, you wanna say released, you wanna say got out, however it got out, it got out. And they were working on the vaccine before it got out. And so what ended up happening was that when it got out, people like myself found other ways of treating it, ivermectin, butazine, a bunch of different ways. And so our government forced the social media companies to suppress all conversation about anything that was going to help with this disease. We had doctors from other countries come and give long, beautiful lectures with research in numbers about how great ivermectin was helping. And they not only shut it down, they kicked them out of the country and they didn't let anybody talk about it. The reason people know about ivermectin is because Joe Rogan had the balls to go out and actually talk about it, and they couldn't cancel him. They canceled everybody else, but they couldn't cancel him. Doctors lost their licenses for treating people with Budazine, for treating people with ivermectin. So what happened was that our government just created the most powerful plague that we've seen. because they had a vaccine to sell for it, then they prevented life-saving options from getting to market because they wanted everybody to be terrified enough that they would take their vaccine so they could sell their vaccine. And if you listen to Bill Gates' 2008 TED Talk, what he says in the first three minutes of that TED Talk was his goal and his team's goal was to reduce the population of the planet by 15% using vaccines, verbatim what he said. And what we've seen with this vaccine is that it kills people and it radically reduces fertility. And if you check into Bill Gates, Bill Gates has been kicked out of multiple countries in Africa for giving them vaccines that specifically reduce the fertility rate of their women. So what has happened is that our government created a disease. They created a cure they wanted us to take. It was poison to depopulate the planet. And then they specifically restricted all other life-saving medications and information from the people so they couldn't have any help. They couldn't have any help. That's exactly what happened. Take that from wherever you want, but that is literally what happened. And so that was the other turning point for me. And I was like, this is like, where else does this go? Everybody's talking about the vaccines and the Tylenol thing right now. We've known this in the natural community. We've known it for 20 years, 25, 30 years. We've known that Tylenol depletes glutathione. We've known that vaccines are causing autism. We've known that they've been creating autoimmune diseases. We've been talking about it. And so that takes you to the point of, you know, and RFK released the memo that showed that the NIH and the CDC and the FDA knew that the MMR vaccine increased autism by 1135 percent, but they didn't do anything about it. So if we all knew, and they had memos showing that they knew, the only thing you can take from that is that they knew that they were creating long-term chronic illnesses. And that was the point of these childhood vaccines, because there's nothing more profitable than a sick child. Plus, if you're sick from the birth, they get to sell you pharmaceuticals the entire time that you're alive. And so that's what these to unpack here and it leads to what, you know, what you discovered that there is, you know, and it goes back a hundred years with the pharmaceuticals when it started there and maybe it started before. But I know like COVID has been real for me. It's been real for everyone. I believe I'm holding up an inhaler. I've been using this now since I've had COVID a few times. Didn't have that before. I don't know if that's related or if it's just, I've always had asthma, but Well, and so COVID is not respiratory, COVID is actually vascular. And so what happens is that when you get COVID, your blood vessels constrict. So it decreases the blood flow and the oxygen and the nutrient flow, which allows cancers and things like that to form. But the reason why we feel it in our lungs is because our lungs are one of the most vascular places on our body. And so when they constrict and it's hard to breathe, we use steroids to force release all the blood vessels and release everything. So it opens up. And so that's one of the things we see. What we have seen that's really, really amazing at this and so many other things like is stem cells, but stem cells are illegal to use and talk about in this country because they work so well. I've got, I work with, I work with veterans who couldn't walk. They went down to CPI in Mexico through Miracle Hope, and they got stem cells injections, and now they can run with their kids. It's amazing the amount of healing that stem cells can offer, but we don't allow it. The FDA came out and said, they used to make BP-157 in compounding pharmacies. And the FDA came out and said, you guys can't do this. It doesn't really work. So there's no efficacy. You guys can't use it. You can't make it. Anybody who's used BP 157 knows it works. My nurse practitioner was on three arthritis medications, got up all of them. All she uses is BP 157. So our government is actively restricting the things that are It's interesting where everything's being controlled. For people who are listening, they're stuck in this daily cycle of pills, diets, and frustration. Where do they begin knowing all this, or So, you know, so I try to do, I try to do some stuff online. Um, and it's funny cause my, my buddy, Sean Hendricks, um, he was looking at my, he, we, we, he did a post. So he came down and he was literally dying of COVID and he made a post about, he was, he was asking for prayers. And then, um, he flew down Dallas to do something else. He was asking for prayers cause he was going to die, uh, from COVID cause he couldn't breathe. His pulse oxygen is really low and his lungs are all messed up. And, and so he was like, Hey, since I'm here, and I can't do my event, he's like, I'm gonna come see you. We gave him the quinine stuck in the hybrid chamber. And two days later, he was talking about how great his workouts were, which is about 48 hours to 72 hours is usually what it took me to take somebody from a hospital to they're totally fine. And he was like, so he posted about it. And afterwards, he called me and he goes, Hey, does anybody talk to you on x? I was like, No. And he was like, He was like, the post that I made, he was like, should have gotten really good reception. He's like, got nothing. He's like, you're banned. He's like, you're not just shadowed. You're toxic. He's like, you have to start your account over. I was like, all right. So I started my account over, and he's like, you got to talk about this. And so we're going to start talking about it. And one of the things I try to do in the mornings is, you know, do about a 10, 15 minute podcast and be like, look, here's what's going on. Right. So like depression, like, look, you know, Dr. Amen, who's a great doc. I like, I respect Dr. Amen. He's done phenomenal work. The problem was that he has this big hit piece out against cannabis because he's like, you know, cannabis is eating all your gray matter and, you know, it's doing all these things. Well, it's a very medical look. It is a what is wrong? And the problem is that he walked right up to the finish line of helping all these people and then stopped. So what he showed was that we have a decrease in dopamine. And so what I try to do is go through and be like, let me explain to you how we make dopamine. It's an amino acid, tyrosine, phenylalanine, and here's the process for how we make dopamine. This is why exercise helps, this is why oxygen helps, this is why sleep apnea, and I go through the whole thing. So what I try to do is just be like, look, here's the information. Take what I, transcribe what I say, throw it in the GROK or GBT, and it's gonna tell you I'm wrong. And the reason it's going to tell you I'm wrong is because AI is really great at taking the average of the information. So if you ask a question, it'll say, hey, there's 10,000 people who have been trained medically to talk about this subject. What are they saying? Not what are the outliers saying? And so that's one of the first things people need to know. But the other thing is that look it up, like physiologically, like, does it make sense? And it's funny because I tell people like, this is what you have to do to create dopamine. And these guys with PTSD, these guys who have depression, they go, that always works for me. Like when I eat the meat and I exercise and I get my sleep, like I always feel great. And I'm like, here's the, here's the physiological pathway. Why? And they go, oh my gosh, like I never knew that. And I'm like, why didn't my doctors tell me that? And I'm like, to be fair to your doctors, they No, I mean, for me, it's pretty obvious just from my own path, getting up for a walk in nature has been the best medicine for me. Yeah. Over 120 pounds released is proof. That's a big We have research that shows walks in the woods are more effective than SSRIs. SSRIs are barely as good as the placebos they test against them. They just don't work. But they do create Suicidalization, they create dissociation. So all these kids who are doing school shootings, almost every one of them is on these psychiatric drugs. as far as getting the information, the only thing I can do is, is try to give it out on social media. So I'll tell people like, you know, on X, I'm the Dr. Chalmers, you know, or whatever to follow me, follow some of these guys like Brekka and these guys who are giving you information about genetics and about here, here's how the physiology works. Here's how God designed your body. And the closer we get back to the God's original design, the healthier we will always be. And so that's just kind of where it Well, and for everyone listening, I would challenge you to consider just even my own truth and get out. At first, when I first started on my journey, I would go for 20 minutes and stop a few times to catch my breath. Then I would go longer. But something magical happens, especially when you get out in nature or even go around your neighborhood for 10 minutes You're designed to be outside the sunlight, the air, that if you feel ground on the earth, our electromagnetic field is the same as the earth's. It's almost as if we were made from the earth. You get out on it and it will reset everything. And it's a beautiful thing to That's why I talk a lot about, I have a newsletter weekly reset, just about remembering to put ourselves first. Find those moments where you can reset. I think in the busyness of life, we forget to do that. We look for the quick fixes. We look for the SSRIs to help us with our mood or even the weight loss drugs to help us, like GLP and all Well, it's funny, because we're actually taught that we're taught, you know, this isn't about you. Don't be selfish. And what we need to do is be like, no, no, no, this is my walk. This is my life. I'm what I need to do is make me the best person I can for those around me. I need to pour into me so that I can help deal everything else. Every it's funny, because once you start to recognize every one of the problems you have, You You can control your mind. And Jim Rohn said it so well. I love listening to Jim Rohn. He said, a lot of people say, hey, you take care of me. Take care of me. But he pivots and says, I'll take care of you. I'll take care of me so I can take care of you. Yeah. Yeah. And we forget about that. I mean, we have to put our Well, and there's a, there's a saying that you can't see something in somebody else. You don't see in yourself, which means you can't really love someone else until you Oh, that's so true. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, there's a lot of people out there who, you know, don't really love themselves and they're attached to other people and they end up sucking the life out of them because they're looking for something they need. That's in here, but they're looking out here. And they're like, give So you can give it and receive it. Yeah. Yeah. So. A lot of times you're focusing on resetting mindset and health. Besides what we already said, what can people do to help them with resetting So much of this is mental, but at the other side, I always start with the metabolic. And the reason I do that, and everybody's seen this, your metabolic and your psychological dysfunction are directly tied together. And the way I explain this is if you've ever seen anyone who's So so the metabolic needs were not met. And so as the metabolic system started to collapse, the psychological emotional also collapsed. They went from happy, fun, you know, oh, we're all good to grouchy, bitchy, tired, moany, like we've all seen hangry. And then you feed that person and their metabolic needs come back and all of a sudden their psychological, emotional needs come back. So I Let's kill the parasites, let's kill the yeast, let's restore the gut function so that your nutrients can come in, fill you back up with the B vitamins, the minerals, and all the chemicals that God requires for the body to function, get that back up, and then we go forward with the mental stuff. It's kind of like, if you're familiar with Maslow's hierarchy of needs, we don't start working on how great our minds are and how great society can be if we're starving. And so it's, okay. Let's find the water, find the food, find the shelter, find these things. I've dealt with all these basic needs. Now I can start looking up and dealing with the bigger needs, which is also, from a societal standpoint, if you want to have control over people, you destabilize the bottom so that they're worried about their money, they're worried about their shelter, they're worried about their economy, they're worried about all these things, so they can't look up and start working on themselves. And so there is, there's a suppression there, but that's, that's the biggest thing is, you know, we bring up the metabolic function, then we sit down and we're like, okay, let's just start walking through simple stuff. And we set what's called frames, which is like the five love languages books. And we kind of go through like how this all works. And then we start walking through it. And I'm like, who do you want to be? Let's figure out who you want to be. And let's Yeah. Yeah. How do you help people with that? Yeah, so a lot of times we'll sit down and I'll be like, you know, is there something that you're struggling with right now? Is there a problem that you know of that we can start working on? And if, you know, sooner or later, people are like, not really, or if I work with college kids, you know, and they're, they're, they're in this, like, vapor lock, because they were, you know, straight A students till their junior year, and then all of a sudden, they just fall apart, because they have no purpose. It sits down, we're like, let's divide, let's figure out what God's purpose for you is. Like, what is the thing, like, for instance, I can sit down, and I've done this for 15 years now, I can sit down and read medical research and stuff like that for four hours and be pissy, I've got to stop reading so I can go do something else. Because that's my thing, right? Like I got guys who like know everything there is to know about the Dallas Cowboys, because that's their thing, or about cars or about whatever. Let's find your thing, the thing that you interest you to know in. And let's try to figure out how that, you know, works into what you should be doing and who you should be. Because if we can help find your purpose, Everything else comes tied to your purpose, because if you're starting to do walk the path God set for you, joy comes in, light comes in, everything positive starts coming in. So, you know, a lot of people just, it's funny because I work with 20, 30, 40 year old guys and women too. I say guys as a plural, but at the end of the day, it's like, what do you want? What is you? Who are you? What is important to you? What gives Yeah. What frees you? What makes the world disappear and you live in this thing? What is that? And so once we kind of narrow down what those things are, that gives us kind of a direction. And then we can start kind of like, OK, let's let's evaluate what's in this direction, what it is about this that you like, like what specifically what are the what are the characteristics for the things, the dedication, like all the things. And then let's lean into this and start walking this road. And it's funny because like a lot of people tell me they feel lost, you know, men and women, you know, teenagers all the way up through 60, 70. Like I just feel lost. Of course you are. If you don't have a direction to set your sails to, set your navigation to, you're always going to be lost. Because, you know, like I think it was Seneca said, you know, someone who without a port, there is no favorable win. Because if you don't know where you're going, how do you know if you're getting there? You're never going to reach your destination. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so that's kind of what that's the first thing we try to do is figure out where are we trying to go with this? Like, what is your purpose? Why are we where? Why are you here? What's going on? And it's one of those things where people are like, oh, it's a specific thing. Maybe. But if it's in this direction, why don't we start looking in this direction instead of just flailing around? So let's find a direction. Let's start walking. And oftentimes, it's like, hey, I thought it was over here, but it's not. It's right here. I'm like, well, it's definitely not this way, though. So the fact that you found out that it was right there, even though we had to course correct a little bit, we were really walking down the road towards the thing you were needing. So that's been super beneficial for a lot of people. It's just kind of helping them find the direction that God gave them that's in their head somewhere they just haven't looked Well, just a lot of them slow down because people are so, we're on a lot of times in life, we're on autopilot and we don't actually take the time with ourselves or with someone like yourself to put the work in to figure that out. What gives me the juice? Yeah. Yeah. Well, and this is, you know, it's funny, because like, the other part of it is, there's a lot of desire, like, I see this with marriage all the time. I talk to people in their marriages, you know, and guys, it's so funny, because if guys could just figure out what the hell it was, or what our wives wanted, we would give it to them all the time. We just can't figure it out. Because again, I don't know if the women know exactly what it is they want. So it's hard for them And so like there's a lot of time for that love language, though, too, that we're Well, and that's that's that's a great that's a great place to start. It's like, OK, like have her take the test and then I'll sit down and be like, well, she's this she's she's acts of service and she's quality time. And I don't know what that means. I'm like, great. Well, let's sit down. Let's unpack it. Like, here's what it means, right? Like, you know, make your wife coffee. Yeah, do the laundry. Like, you know, like, here are the little things like this is what this is what this this term, this box means. These are the things and as you go through it, like, look, you know, sometimes it might be a thing that, you know, she had on her plate that she didn't want to do. And so you do that thing. And it's great. And I was like, oh, I did this thing over here. I mowed the lawn. I'm like, buddy, that wasn't on her list of things she had to do. So she might appreciate that it got done, but that wasn't a thing for her. And so they go, Oh, now I get it. And you're like, yeah. And so like little things like that, again, you know, just, just this little, like, this is what this means. These are ways to kind of tweak into this. And then like, here's how we record things. If this happens, put a check mark next to it and be like, do more of that. If this happens, do less of that. And it's funny because like, you know, you'd think that that would just be, well, that's obvious. And it is. But again, it's a blind spot. That's why you get somebody to be like, look, I've done this 57 times. Trust me, this has always worked out. This is kind of how we're going to play this game. And it's so beneficial to be able to work with people who've been doing this type of thing for a long time, because they've already done the research and done the work and figured out the trial and error and stuff. And they can just give you the meat. You don't have to go through right on and you get to your destination a lot faster bliss instead of trying to do it on your own. Yeah, yeah. And I can, I have lived that. So I've heard a few times you brought up faith. Yeah. You talked about the power that made the body, the power that helps heal the body. Where does that belief come from? Do Absolutely. So the quote I use, and I've stolen it from chiropractic, is the power that made the body heals the body. So there's two big faith-based functions in chiropractic, is the power that made the body heals the body. And then healing comes from above, down, inside, out. And those two have been really, really beneficial. It's funny to me because the more I learn about the body, the more 100% convinced I am that it was designed and it was created. It is such a beautifully working machine that everything like, it's like a Rube Goldberg machine. Like when we just talk about utilization of energy creation of ATP. So if your insulin comes up, it shuts off glucagon. And then as, as the sugars come away and the insulin starts coming down, it hits like a lever and the glucagon comes up and it starts making sugar. And as the sugar starts coming up, the insulin starts coming up. And so it shuts off glucagon. The way that your body is designed to function, you're like, there's not a chance that this just as quickly come, It's like, well, obviously, this is what's going on. But, you know, my, my Christian faith has been really, really bolstered by everything I've done, which is, I think, ironic. The thing that I think has has pushed me in the right direction more than anything, was Hiawaska. So when I did my DMT, it was an amazing experience. It changed me more than anything. And it was funny, because like, with the way I explained it was, I got a message from God that I could that I could do more, that there was more I could do like, but it wasn't one of those, like, you're not doing enough. So the way I describe it is like, imagine you're eating this brownie and it's the best brownie you've ever had. And you're just like, this is the best brownie in the world. And then someone comes along and goes, vanilla ice cream. And you're like, oh my God, it's so much better now. Like that type of thing. It's that type of a thing. And, you know, as I've leaned back into it, I've realized that, you know, the structure and the function and the actual path that the Bible presents, not the one the church presents. So there are some great churches, but not all of them are pushing this. the focus on the path God has before you, you know, and it will lead you where you need to go. Not all of us have the same path. We're all here for specific reasons. We're all here for a different purpose. Yeah. And if we can lean into that and follow the path, it really is the path to joy and the path to freedom and the path to, you know, Like, I love every minute of my life. I feel so bad for people Yeah. So, you know, and it's been the more I learn, the more sure I am of that's that's the direction of the piece I need to be in. And, you know, it's great because Nathan Rossi, who my coach, is probably one of the most well, the best biblical scholars ever known about. I love talking to Nathan because he'll be like, all right, I'm gonna take three sentences out of the Bible and spend 90 minutes dissecting them for you. And it's been a giant part of who I am up till now. And the Yeah, see, I can relate to my own story that I connect with, with the faith of somebody's Christian faith, but also the faith in their mindset. And this goes back, oh, 18, 19 years, when I was working for a company, we were doing an Alzheimer's walk, walk for memories. And I was walking with my good friend, and I call him my friend, because I love working with him. We were running the track and he had to stop. He said, Bretster, called me Bretster, I'm not feeling right. And we found out a week later that he had cancer. And he wasn't given the best of news diagnostics and all that, but he went, I live in Canada, we're in Eastern Canada. He went to a specialist in Toronto, but his mindset and his faith, he's a man of deep faith, I think the combination of the two is what I believe helped him considerably. Number one, what he did is he registered an email so he could stay in touch. And his mindset was kickingcancersassatyahoo.ca. And a year and a half later, cancer free. That's not true for everyone, but his mindset and his And that's that we see that a lot. Like you talk to you talk to surgeons and you're like, who survives? And a lot of times will be like the people who have the right mindset, people who decide, you know, and you know, that there's a lot to that, you know, but at the same time, it's where do you, where do you drive, like, you know, where do you drive the boundaries? Where do you drive the functional base moral function? And, you know, it's again, the more I, the more I learn, the more I read in the Christian faith, the more, the more I'm drawn to it. The, the, what I, what I found kind of discovered, nobody, I can't, I can't think of who I told me this, but, the entirety of the Christian religion is based on free will. You have to choose to follow Christ. It is up to you. And if I think like, okay, they say that God is a loving God. The old That's the thing. He gave us free will. He's like, OK, you guys go do whatever you want to do. Here's the path you should walk. Go do whatever you want to do. I will allow you to do whatever it is you want to do. And by the way, if you make bad decisions, bad things are going to happen. I'm not saying to make the right decisions, everything's going to be peaceful. But here's the path. and that was that it's the Christian religion is the only one that's like make your decision. Come, go, ask the deep questions, don't ask the deep questions, whatever it is you want to do, you're free and open to do anything. So that's one of the reasons why I'm like, this is the faith for me. And again, that's not talked about very much, but when you start looking again, when you start looking at the Bible, it's all over the place. There's such I could go on about that for hours, especially just with even the message of the Prodigal Son, and I've had proof of that in my own life, that there's mercy. You can come back if you're willing to come back, but free will. You have the choice. So, Dr. Chalmers, I want to start wrapping up here. First of all, I want to make sure, how do people find you? I know you have various social media. What's the best way for Well, so I'm trying to grow my x right now, because I think there's more freedom of speech there. So it's at the Dr. Chalmers on that one. Pillars of wellness.com and Chalmers wellness.com will also get you to us. But I would I would jump on the x because I'm gonna start giving about I'm gonna try to give us a three minute little chats about different health things that I think will help people. So the Dr. Chalmers on I do on Instagram. And so, and then Facebook and stuff like that. I'm Okay, perfect. Please reach out to Dr. Chalmers, man of great wisdom. And I know you'll be be enlightened with conversation, just reaching out and following him. There's no better way to say thanks to him from the bottom of our heart for being on our show today. But I'd like to do something a little fun, a little different than I've been doing regularly. Rapid fire questions, okay? First thing that comes to your mind, Dr. Chalmers, okay? All right, sounds good. Okay, first question. What's one thing the medical system got totally wrong? Yeah, I would, I would probably start, I would start with the philosophy of the fact that, you know, their, their, their look from the evolution standpoint, instead of the creation standpoint, because if you look at the, if you look at the body as a machine that was designed intelligently, it's easy for you to be like, oh, here's the break. Here's how we fix that we go through because if you look at the Good chemistry and bad chemistry, if you start looking at it from that standpoint, it's a lot easier to fix than it is the way that they're looking at right now. So I'd say that the root functional philosophy Health habit that's a non-negotiable for you? Working out. I got a lift. There you go. Yeah, me too. A You know, that one's hard. I don't know. I The one that inspires me probably the most, you know, the Bible is an easy answer. I don't want to use that one. Probably the one that has inspired me the most was the one that I wrote. And it's not because, you know, whatever it is, because That's when I decided to make a stop and be like, no, I'm going to come out and I'm going to start telling people that this is not the way it is. The way I look at it, there's a turning point for me before I wrote it and published it and afterwards where I was like, well, now that I've said it, I can't take it back. And so that's probably the one that has encouraged me, like, you better be right about everything you say, because you just said a bunch of That's encouraged me to make sure that I do the research. So that's probably the one that, Yeah, start today, start right now. Yeah. Yeah. Mindset by far, because the reason that you show up at the gym every day is because you've made a decision. The reason that you choose to eat the way you do is because the decisions you've made. So your mindset has to be first. I have to decide I'm going to do this before Decision day. Yep. Yeah. Favorite daily ritual for grounding yourself? Prayer every morning. Right on. Okay. One word that defines health for you. It would have to be holistic. You've got to do all of it. Okay. And finish this sentence. Healing begins when you finally. Take responsibility. Yes, ownership, isn't that true? Dr. Chalmers, I really appreciate this conversation today. I learned a lot. I know our listeners have. And please, everyone, share this episode with people. Let's make an impact on people's lives, because that's what we're here to do, help each other. And you can help someone by sharing all the insights and wisdom that Dr. Chalmers has shared with us. Real pleasure to have Thank you. Thanks for tuning into the Adaptive Mindset. If you found value in today's episode, don't forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who's ready to thrive in the digital age. Stay secure, stay