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The Thyroid (and Hormone) Fixer Podcast: Thyropause, Menopause, Metabolism and How to Fix It
521. Fixing Your Body: It's Not What You Think with The Fitness Doctor, Robbie Stahl
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Dr. Amy
Welcome to the Thyroid Fixer podcast, where I'm all about helping you lose that stubborn weight that won't come off no matter what you do. Get off your couch at 2pm and get through your day with energy and stop counting the hairs that come out of your head. I'm your host, Dr. Amy, and I'm here to help you get optimized with your thyroid and your hormones. It's all part of living our mantra. Better thyroid, better hormones equals a better life. So let's get you back to being being the badass human that you're meant to be. Let's approach it from a thyroid and hormone optimization standpoint. Between myself and my guests, you will be loaded down with information to take control of your health and get back to being you. So let's get started. So how frustrated are you at going from doctor to doctor, hoping and praying that someone will listen to you and ask you, how do you feel? And I'm talking conventional medicine, functional medicine, integrative medicine. It doesn't matter if you are struggling with symptoms and no one is giving you an answer for those symptoms, it is time to work with someone else. It is time to work with a thyroid and hormone expert like myself and my team. Listen, I completely understand the frustration that you feel when all you want is an answer to why your body is rebelling against you. I was there. I was there in your shoes. I went to six different doctors before one even diagnosed me. And then it took me, another doctor to actually get the right treatment and the right help. My goal for you is that you achieve optimization. I always joke. I want you in optimization land with me. I want you feeling your absolute best. You should not be gaining weight looking sideways at a brownie. You should be able to lose weight when you eat well and exercise. You should not be dragging your butt through the day because you're so tired. You should not be counting the hairs that come out of your head. You should not be forgetting your words. You should not have brain fog. You should not have zero libido. You should not have hot flashes or vaginal dryness. All of those symptoms are signs that your body is out of whack. But guess what? We can do something about it. We can bring you into optimization land. But we're doing it the right way because we know what we're doing. And when people ask me what makes you different, my answer is, because we know our stuff. We know exactly what to do. We can do this in our sleep. It's not a question roaming around in our head. We don't have to reach out to anyone else. We don't have to go to our textbooks. That's just based in conventional medicine anyways. We know what we're doing. We are the best of the best when it comes to thyroid and hormone treatment. So I'm going to encourage you. If you are on that struggle bus, if you are crying in your car like I was, if you are frustrated with the lack of answers and lack of real help, then you want to book a call with us. It's free. We're going to go over what have you tried, what works, what doesn't work, where are you in your health journey, and then we will go over the best path for you to move forward and really get optimized. So book a free discovery call. Get off of the frustration bus. We prescribe to all 50 states, most of Canada. We got you. And this has always been my goal. I've wanted to help people in every state, in every country. We're working on the countries, every state, every country. That is my goal for you. Did you know that there's actually a way to increase your basal metabolic rate? That is the amount of fat that you are burning, literally just sitting here. So many of you are suffering with a very slow metabolism. You're doing all of the things to lose weight and nothing is happening. 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Whether you are hypothyroid or not, this helps everyone. Yes, I call that thyroid fixer, but it helps every single person out there with a slow metabolism. It does not Affect your thyroid function. It has no cardiovascular effects, is totally safe. Let this rock your world. So I meet Robby at this big event that we're at in Vegas, and I'm watching him and his absolutely gorgeous wife walk with perfection. His shoulders are back. His posture is perfect. Her posture is perfect. And I'm looking at him, I go, I see you walking like that. How do you do that? Because anytime I think about holding my shoulders back and having proper posture, I always end up slumping over. And I said, you know, you can see this one shoulder, Robby. You can see it's falling forward. I have scoliosis. I have an S curve. I had surgery for it when I was little. My spine is fused. It's always going to be curved. Is there any hope for me whatsoever? And we get into this deep conversation about posture and your muscles and the right way to exercise and how we're exercising and not activating certain muscles and how that can actually age us quicker. And that's the last thing. You all know this. I don't want to age quickly. I want to age like Benjamin Button. I'm working to age in reverse. So I said, oh, my gosh, we need to talk more about this, because this is huge. My ladies, they're perimenopausal, menopausal. We're starting to lose muscle. We're starting to get injured left and right every time we work out. And I guarantee you, many of us have lost that beautiful form that we had in our 20s when we were working out. So I am bringing you Robbie Stahl, the fitness doctor, because his 27 years in kinesiology, and, I mean, studies, experience working one on one with people, working in groups, it just. It blew me away. So you all need to hear this, because what we do to our bodies and with our bodies and how we hold our bodies, how we breathe, how we exercise makes a huge difference in how we're going to age. So, Robbie, thank you for jumping on today.
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Robby Stahl
Well, Amy, thank you for having me. And I'm honored to connect, especially with your audience and share some gold nuggets on their functionality.
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Dr. Amy
So let's start with what you told me in Vegas about how all of this just connects. I mean, I'm just going to hand it over to you. You. You start there, because you know what our conversation was.
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Robby Stahl
Yeah. So you asked me, like, hey, you know, I have scoliosis, which of course is a congenital issue. It's not like you pick this up from exercising wrong. Although there's a lot of things we cause too that a lot of people don't realize, especially the ladies. Men, Men. True as this is true too. But especially for example in the feedback feet. Let's get there. But before we get there, you asked me, hey, what about like scoliosis? You can't really like necessarily like fix that without a surgery. And so this is the way that I explain this to you, plus everyone else and your feelings of your body misalignment. So we have a green zone, let's call it. We have a green, yellow and red zone. The green zone is like the ideal range that your body should be in within functionality and alignment. So like the way your shoulder should ideally, ideally position as you raise your arm over your head. Or the way your knee should ideally position when you squat or lunge down. And when the ideal position, it's going to range a little bit for different people. Just like your blood work. Right. It's not like oh, if looking at a specific blood marker, it must be 5.0 a 1c. And if it's not for 4.9. Right. If it's not exactly that, then it's bad. You don't want to be too far off, you want to be really close. But no, it doesn't need to be exactly 4.9 for a hundred percent of people. So first understand that and understand we're going to have some little bit of discrepancy between humans, but we are going to have an ideal range. And then we start to get into oh, and by the way, in the ideal range, this means that your muscles, when they contract are going to have the greatest capability to execute force where you want it to execute. So for example, if you're doing a squat and your knee is in the proper alignment, then you're going to from your butt muscle and your leg muscle, keep things simple. Contraction. Those forces are going to execute to the ground and you're going to have the greatest amount of strength. But if your knee, for example, fell inward, which is really common for a lot of females especially.
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Dr. Amy
Yep.
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Robby Stahl
You would have what's called sheer stress. And that means when the knee falls in, you have your hip muscle which is controlling femur angle. It's changing its position. So now your hip muscle is learning to function in a longer position. And then your knee joint is having sheer stress. Just for simple terms, friction. Friction stress placed on your knee when you really want. Most of our forces, mechanically speaking, should be compressive force, which is exactly what it sounds like. Like just one structure on top of the other and they press into each other. You don't want friction. So friction pressure in our bodies because of misalignments is really what causes a lot of excessive wear and tear. And this happens and can happen in all the joints and it happens throughout the spine. So you want green zone. When you start to get out of misalignment, you're starting to understand some of the things that can happen. And there's possible to happen in the yellow zone, but as you get really far out of alignment, you get into the red zone, which is like, basically, I can guarantee you from the research and all other 7 billion in humans that that is going to cause degeneration, early degeneration in your body, more aches, pain, stiffness, arthritis, all this stuff we don't want. So even if you have something like scoliosis or you fill in the blank, if you're really working on an optimizing your body alignment, at least you can get yourself into the yellow zone, if not the outer edge of the green zone, drastically decreasing the amount of degeneration and damage that's placed on your body with the way your body functions.
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Dr. Amy
Oh, my goodness. This is my. Just even what you said right there is mind blowing. I started thinking of so many things, what I see at the gym, right? I mean, even when I. I'm not even looking at myself, I'm looking at other people and their horrendous form, and I'm thinking, oh my gosh, girlfriend, you are going to blow your back out. You're going to blow your knees out. So just what you're telling me aligns with what I'm thinking when I look at this bad form on top of a load, like a pressure, a weight. And now you have the weight with the bad form. Oh, my gosh, it totally makes sense. And even my husband, he's blown out two knees, so two torn patellar tendons, right? Totally blown. And he, he remembers back in the day when he was training in a weight room for football, he was doing front squats and just the knee position. And maybe you like the knees to go over toes because there's that whole knees over toes guy. But he said, you know, dude walks into the weight room and goes, hey, buddy, you keep doing that, 20 years from now, you're not going to have knees left. He's like, he was right. Because that stress over time just wears and tears. And I know a lot of my ladies right now are dealing with arthritis and multiple injuries. I've heard about hip replacements in, in a woman's 40s, hip replacements, knee replacements, 40s and 50s. I mean, isn't that happening a lot younger than what it used to be happening at? Or are we just kind of able to repair things now faster?
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Robby Stahl
Yeah, well, we have so many more procedures that can help repair, but that's another interesting subject. So a lot of people think like, well, should I do something to like, improve my body mechanics or should I like, get this knee surgery? And so, like a lot of people who come to us, this is where their mind's at. This is like a totally incorrect way to think. And we help them reshape their thinking. But let's think about that. It's, it's exactly like saying, oh, my tire on my car is wearing out because of the alignment of the vehicle. So because the outer edge of the tire is wearing out early, I'm going to go replace the tire. That's synonymous with getting a surgery. Well, you go get the tire replaced or you go get the surgery, you still got misalignment, you just replace the tire. So you still have body parts and structures that helped you end up there. Unless you were like hit by a car. Right. You still have body alignment that's out, that's not functioning ideally the way it should. It's still going to lead to increased pain, stiffness, dysfunction, all kinds of stuff, especially as you age. And so ideally, like, look, I think we all know we should exercise, but like, what we specialize in is anti aging fitness. And like, what exactly does that mean? That means that you're going to exercise in a way that we remove all the negative stress or like excess breakdown on your body and put all the targeted stimulus into the right areas so you can get all the regenerative effects of exercise, but not have the degenerative effects. So, and this is so prevalent, Amy, 87% of people who exercise get injured exercising. And even with trainer supervised exercise, they've actually shown in high intensity training. And I'm not going to throw anybody under the bus, but I'll just share the data. 73.5% of people in some study groups of high intensity trainer supervised training get injured at some level. So for me, that's like just complete nonsense. So it's really. And you know, the other thing is, it's not just our body, our, our mind, which is our body, and our body is our mind, which is, we could create a whole segment on that so we won't go too deep there. But just know that as you age, your brain's connection with your body gets weaker. For example, by the age of 50, you lose 25% of the sensory perception in your foot. We know this from actual data and research. By age 80, you lose 75% of the sensory perception in your. But that really happens throughout the whole body. And when you go to move and function yourself, which you need to enjoy life, what happens is you got two major components. One is your sensory perception. So it's all the inputs of sensing and feeling and even emotions get mixed into this and positioning of the body in pain or not, all these sensory things. And that goes to your central nervous system. And then based on what you're wanting to do with your movement, a motor action comes back. Well, if you're sensing less, well, then you're going to have less motor action and weaker neurological connection. So the reason why people start feeling stiff as they age is the same reason as. Let me give you an example. If I give you a 10 or 20 pound weight, Amy, are you going to hold that out in front of you unless I ask you to, or are you going to bring that close to you?
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Dr. Amy
Bring close.
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Robby Stahl
Exactly. And everyone. Why?
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Dr. Amy
Well, because it's gonna hurt after a while if I hold it out there, my arms are gonna get tired.
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Robby Stahl
Exactly. And so your body does that same thing when you decrease neurological connection as you age. It goes, I'm not as strong, I don't have good connection. So I'm gonna shorten muscle fiber and become guarded. So people stretch and stretch and stretch and stretch endlessly. And there's a lot of people who are gonna hear this episode from today and go, that's me. And because they stretch, stretch, stretch, stretch, and they're like, yeah, it never really works. Or it only works for a couple of days. That's because just stretching is not the problem. It's be. You really need to reconnect your mind and connection of body alignment and functionality with your tissues so your body feels safe and stable. And when your body feels stable, it will allow mobility to happen. So a lot of people, what they're thinking happens in the body is actually the end result because they just don't have the data of understanding. Like how does the foundation functionality actually work of the body's mechanics?
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Dr. Amy
Oh, there is so much to unpack there. I'm going to work at the end and go backwards. My yoga ladies. And when you were talking about stretch, stretch, stretch, that's what I'm thinking. And I do the same thing. I try to stretch, I do yoga, I do hot yoga. But this might explain. I'm gonna, I'm gonna Let you explain this, but it might have a correlation here. When I was doing yoga like three days a week, I kind of got into a kick, especially the hot yoga. I was actually in more pain. I think I was over stretching and not strengthening the muscles that, that I need to be strengthened in order to balance out my misalignment. Does that, does that make sense? Am I on the right track?
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Robby Stahl
Yeah. And we'll think about it like this. Like I've actually had this show up in my own life. So in my immediate family growing up, my immediate family, I have four individuals outside of myself who all have real, a lot of back pain and back issues. And we all have kind of this like sway back, pelvis tip forward, excessive back arch. Okay. And we're not alone. There's a lot of people that have this or they might have the extreme opposite. So I have had a times in my life, especially because I used to do bodybuilding and all kinds of other extreme stuff. When people listen to me, they're probably like, oh, you must do like just a little therapeutic exercise. Like, no, not at all. That's not the case. And so my, like, my back bothered me a lot. Plus I did 20 years of full contact sports. So I've gained the greatest benefit from holding my pelvis in the right position and finding a longer position in my tissues when I do strength training than doing any other stretch. Because loading your body, like doing exercise, placing any kind of stress on your body and having it in the wrong position causes pain and breakdown. And your nervous system's telling you, hey, we're getting beat up. Here's your sensor letting you know we have pain and most of us don't know what to do with it or why we're feeling that. And it's usually simply because you're not in the green zone, maybe not even in the yellow zone. You're out in the red zone. So it's a matter of figuring out where your body's at in the red zones and coming back into that aligned green zone so you're not creating excessive stress on your body. You know, other places this shows up is we all sit a lot these days, right? And that's an interesting subject in itself, which, by the way, we actually don't sit that crazy amount more than people think we did like 500 plus years ago. The difference is every 20ish minutes in our previous generations, we would get up and move, like we'd constantly get up, then we go back to sitting and we would sit differently. And we wanted to Use a backrest. So, so we actually sat a lot. We just got up and moved. We don't just sit at a desk looking at a computer for four hours in a row. And so these type of postures change. Our shoulders rolling forward get us into different types of shortened tissues. And then when we go to exercise, it's the same body that's just sat at the desk. So now you go and put exercise stress on it and you're doing things misaligned. So now it starts to cause wear and tear and breakdown back back issues, like knots in your upper back. You know, for example, a lot of people think, oh, like I go to a massage therapist to get, you know, my knots worked on in my back. Well, stop doing that. Because for 99 of people, that issue is actually usually on the front side of your upper body where you need to mobilize your anterior front side shoulder tissues and chest tissues, which will make it so you stop pulling on your back tissues. So it's like all these details from your daily ergonomics to your exercise and then retraining the understanding of that, like that is what I call anti aging fitness or this fancy 50 cent term we came up called biomechanical optimization.
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Dr. Amy
I feel like, does anyone else feel like they're being punched in the face with truth? Everything that you're saying is resonating. And I literally feel like I'm being punched in the face with truth because I know that this is something that I need to do and I need to do it for me. Because like you said, when I think of aging and this is going to be my next question for you, I think of those older people that you see where they're start. They're hunched over to the point where I go, don't you know that you're walking hunched over? Didn't you realize that that was happening at some point? And maybe stand up straight and I know your answer is going to be, they don't know because it's such a slow progression. But, but that scares me. I don't want to be like that. And when you think about appearance, you know, yes, all day long we can talk hormones and your skin and all the different things you can do to anti age. But think about it. Picture a beautiful skinned, young looking woman, Raquel Welch, Christie Brinkley. Now hunch him over and make them shuffle a little bit. And they don't have that, that nice strong, confident gate. They're gonna look older than they are. It doesn't matter how their hair and face and makeup and skin is. They look old because of their body mechanics.
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Robby Stahl
It's so true.
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Dr. Amy
Yeah, it's so true. So what about those people that are hunched over? Am I right? That they literally don't notice the creep? Like, they don't even notice it happening. And one day they're like, oh, I'm hunched over like Hashimoto here.
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Robby Stahl
Yeah. So for them, it feels correct. And that's why they don't correct themselves, is because incorrect body alignment becomes it' Actually, we first need to understand that all these things are neurological. So just like our mindset might not be where we would love for it to be, and we have different head trash and emotions and all this stuff, but you become familiar with that. So, like, amazing. Imagine if you got another human's mind and all of a sudden you started thinking like them, you'd be like, whoa, like, I'm so uncomfortable. And it might even be like, you know, if you're a business owner and all of a sudden we give you Elon Musk's mind, that might be a really painful experience. Even though, like, this guy creates a crazy amount of success. Right. And so the same thing, like, with your body mechanic, that feels. Being hunched over feels normal to you right now. And so that's why you move like that. So, like, what we do is we. We have actually have a system where we show people, hey, here's what ideal alignment is. And we retrain their neurological awareness and understanding of positioning, and then we bring them towards that over a, like, progressional process to improve.
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Dr. Amy
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Robby Stahl
While we're on the subject though, with posture, one thing gold nugget that I'll throw out for everyone right now is one of the number one mistakes with posture is a lot of people think, what like one or what's one of the big things that come up with with posture? Shoulders back, right? Yes, shoulders back. Like you know, shoulders back, stand up straight. Shoulders back. There might be a few other things. So stand up straight. I'd agree, but shoulders back. Think about that. Like I can have my shoulders back, right?
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Dr. Amy
Yeah.
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Robby Stahl
And I can have my head forward. My shoulders are back, my head's forward, make it even like worse. But I can't stand up straight with the back top side of my head or your head going up tall towards the ceiling or sky and then have bad posture. So if you're going to think of one thing, which is really the way I like to think about it, like what's the one thing or two max that if I do, I'm going to get amazing results. And so when it comes to posture, the one thing is just pull the back top side of your head up tall that aligns your spine. So let me share with you greater detail here. So I actually have my good buddy Johnny Bones with me in my office. If this goes more Straight. And you actually don't want your spine to be straight. But. But most people have excessive curvature in the lower back, like rounding or arching or the upper background or the head forward. So it's one of these things. Like, you don't actually want to be a straight line in your spine, but you kind of feel and think like that so that you go towards the correct position. Okay, so with that being understood, y'all.
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Dr. Amy
Gotta watch this on YouTube, by the way, because he. He's showing a skeleton. You got to just see it.
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Robby Stahl
I'll verbalize so that when you hear this in a podcast format. So imagine pulling your head straight upwards and this starts to elongate your neck, and then that starts to elongate or straighten your. Your upper back, and then starts to elongate or straighten your lower back towards the alignment versus having excessive curvature. Well, when that happens, your shoulder blades or scapula, which are like, the thing that pretty much decide how healthy your shoulders are. Or in other words, if you're having shoulder issues, it's guaranteed, like, almost always going to have a lot to do with your shoulder blades. When your spine goes more straight, your shoulder blades naturally lie on your back where they should. If you're hunched over, the scapular are going to begin to roll forward because it's all attached to the same structure. And then your scapula are the only. One of the only bones in the entire body that attach to soft tissue. So they don't go bone to bone. They go bone to muscle and connective tissue. So if your back is straight and you have good alignment, the tissues they're connecting to are going to have good alignment. Right. It's like the old. The old song. You're, you know, your knee bones connected to your thigh bone, like. Right. One big tip. Pull your head back. Top side of your head, up tall. Number one thing you can do for your posture.
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Dr. Amy
That's crazy. I just did that, and it totally does make a difference. As opposed to trying to hold my shoulders back, and then as soon as you forget, they go forward again. So that's an amazing tip. Okay. People are gonna think, well, I'll just go to my physical therapist and they'll do it. So can you. Can you break that down? Because PTs don't. Yeah, I love it.
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Robby Stahl
And we have PTs on our team. And some of the better PTs, the best PTs are awesome. Nothing wrong with PTs or Kairos or anything else. It's depending on how you're applying, what you're applying it on. But think about this, let's say I am in your living room with you training you. It's going to be awesome. You're going to get great results. We're going to have a great energetic connection because that's the way I train. And I'm going to see all the details and nuances in your body. And so you're exercising and I see that your knee, for example, or leg or hip, whatever it might be, is kind of going out of alignment. So I verbally and, or physically cue and adjust you. And so I saw, I adjusted you. Did you learn something from it? Yeah. But what are the best biomechanical or body mechanics specimens in the world? Like an Usain Bolt, like the fastest man in the world? Those humans getting the best body mechanics results, what do they do? And what they do is they get video recorded and they get their body mechanics broken down so that they can slow it down and they can see from a third person perspective. Because all this stuff is not in your muscle tissue, it's originating in the higher centers in the motor control centers of your brain. So you need to contextually and fully understand your mechanics where you go wrong and where you can improve, improve so you can retrain where your movement starts. What we do is we actually record. That's why we, we're known as being the world's leader in anti aging fitness is because we have a system where we analyze our people on screen, break down their mechanics and my experts give a video analysis of their mechanics and how to improve. So they end up becoming smarter than 99% of fitness trainers on their own mechanics. Because we're teaching them what they look like, how they function, when they improve, how to improve and like all those details.
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Dr. Amy
And that makes sense, you get to do it from the comfort of your home instead of having to schlep to the PT three times a week. And then, and then, like you said, does it stick? Does it actually stick? Does it get embedded in your mind so that you have that mind body connection ongoing or do you just have to go to the PT for the rest of your life? I love that. I absolutely love that. And you're right. Top level athletes do exactly that. And to see, see yourself, oh gosh, that'd be. It's actually hard to see yourself because you go, oh, I'm doing that. I'm sure you have, I'm sure you have clients all the time. Like I had no idea.
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Robby Stahl
Right, Exactly. Yeah, I actually say this all the time. They say they see their analysis at MO at first and they say, wow, I didn't realize I was doing that. Exactly what you just said.
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Dr. Amy
Yeah, yeah. And the differences. All right, I want you to share a story, one of your success stories of. I know I'm totally putting you on the spot to come up with one. This was not planned at all, but I want to hear a story of someone exactly like that. Like they were a freaking disaster in the beginning. And then you move them to XYZ and from there. I do want to talk a little bit about protein because you do so much more than just what we're talking about here with the body mechanics. I mean, you get into full body fixing with nutrients and protein intake and I love talking protein. So first, start with a story for me.
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Robby Stahl
One of the stories that comes. I have many and. But one of the ones that I would share with you is I had a gentleman that was having trouble washing his hair because of how bad his shoulder issue was. And he had 7 center meter centimeter, which is quite a big tear through his supraspinatus into his infraspinatus. And this is basically what your two of your rotator cuff tissues. So it's through the top, top one into the next one down on the shoulder blade 7cm. This majorly can affect your mechanics. And he did not want to have surgery. Usually, you know, if, if a tear is new is really intelligent. Go see an orthopedic physician because there's a narrow window that you can get that repaired before fatty deposit develops around the muscle. And it actually makes it much more difficult for the surgeon to repair. What we did is we optimized his mechanics so much and all the other functionalities and connection points that he still had and optimizing his mobility and his motor control and all these things that within about max of two months, he was washing his hair without pain. And by the end of like the first year of working together, he was now off on his own. I haven't seen the guy for several years, but we touch base once in a while and, you know, it's been. I probably talked to him several months ago and this has been like seven years, eight years since we worked together. And he still was like, yep, I'm still doing exactly what you taught me and I'm still having amazing results. And I'm playing golf at a highly competitive level. And he's. He's in his late 60s.
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Dr. Amy
Wow. And no surgery. He never needed the surgery.
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Robby Stahl
Yeah, I mean, you're, you know, I.
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Dr. Amy
Never got the surgery in the beginning, so.
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Robby Stahl
So like full Disclaimer that doesn't like, no, Robbie did not reattach his tissue because we're doing some special exercise. But you know, he might be better off than other people who do have attached tissues because he's in all the other ways mechanically functioning so well versus someone else that has attached tissues but is not mechanically functioning well.
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Dr. Amy
Oh my gosh, I love this. Like, it just gives me hope that I can have a day where I will be pain free and better posture. Like if I catch myself, you know, walking by like a, a window or something, I'm like, get your shoulders back, aim. Like, seriously, like I, I want to look at myself and see myself as having better posture and obviously being less injury prone as well and out of pain. You're actually giving me hope that that is possible because I've kind of resigned myself like many of my listeners I'm sure have. Listen, this is just something we'll just have to deal with the rest of our life. It's part of aging, right? Joints just deteriorate, you get shorter. All of the things that. And I can't even believe that I believe that because it, it's the same things that I say to people with hormones. Like, no, you don't have to go without hormones and just, you're just getting older and you're just going to get fat and you're going to be tired, you're going to lose your hair. It's all right. You know, your libido is going to be in the toilet. Like the very things that I tell people. No, that's not true. I'm believing over here with my body mechanics and you're breaking through that and telling me no, that that's not true.
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Robby Stahl
Yeah, exactly. And what you just shared is incredibly valuable. And that's actually where we, that's where we start. So we, we're actually currently in an R and D system for will be the first fitness company in the world to have an entire somatosensory mind. Energy, emotion like connection with self where a lot of these emotional and sensory perceptions originate and then into the mechanics and then into the performance with an optimized functionality. The other biggest takeaway there I think is just like everything in life is, happens twice. So first in your mind and then second in your actions. So be careful what your mind's thinking about. Be careful how you're measuring your results and thinking about yourself because that's the direction you're going to go in.
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Dr. Amy
That is so true. So very true. That was gold right there. Okay. I Said I was going to ask you about protein. This is a beautiful transition in because you can't do any of this if your muscles are deteriorating because you're not feeding them properly. So I want to get your take on protein intake. What do you like, what do you don't like? Where do you tell people to be at? How important is it, all the things?
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Robby Stahl
Well, first of all, I'm not a fan of those who are like, I'm gonna eat one time a day and I'm gonna just like fast my life away. Because this guy at Harvard did this research and shows that, you know, if you eat more protein then you're going to stimulate more mtor and then MTOR leads to like a slower, a faster gene aging. And what happens when you are faced with sarcopenia, which is the age related loss of muscle and function and all that other biological talk you just came up with doesn't even matter anymore because you're losing strength. You don't have muscle function and muscles, which in the last decade actually become known as another organ because they secrete substances that give cell signaling and health stimulus to all other cells in the body. So when you lose your muscle functionality, you lose a lot of the cell signaling and functionality to every cell in your body. So you want the best of both worlds. So like overeating and like trying to like, you know, when you don't really need it go like far beyond more than a gram per pound of body weight. This type of thing with protein, I could see where we could have some detriment from that. There's also been research like I'm, I'm good friends with Jose Antonio, who's you know, one of the number one protein researchers in the world. And like he's done studies on individuals that have done like 2 grams of protein per pound of body weight and without really any negative results. So I'm not so far to go that side. But I would say that the more we age, we do need more protein because we do need, we're, we're less. Our body gets stimulated to redevelop and develop tissue that happens less easily. So you need more stimulus and protein is a stimulus. So if, especially if you're feeling like you're aging, you want to gain muscle, it's a good idea to have multiple bolus, as we would call it in science, multiple intakes of protein throughout the day and you want to try to head up toward words. My recommendation is 1 gram of protein per lean body weight. This is my recommendation because if you're very overweight and have a bunch of extra fat. I don't really see us counting that as part of what you need for your protein intake. So that's on the surface, but with detail, what I would share about.
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Dr. Amy
Yes, no, I say the same thing. That's amazing. Now do you happen to know, and I heard a, a good friend of mine who dives into research, he is such a PhD geek, she said, she was on the show and she said that women do really well with bookending protein. Meaning even if, you know, you hear all these things, don't do more than 30 grams of protein in one meal. She said, no, no, that's not true. And even for women, when we're looking at the absorption of protein, the utilization of those amino acids in a good animal based protein source, a woman can bookend it, meaning go ahead and do a 40 gram protein shake of preferably like a beef isolate with amino acids protein shake in the morning. And then, yeah, let's say you're crazy busy through the day, you're grabbing a yogurt, you're grabbing a beef stick and you end the day with a big old steak. Bookending the higher doses of protein seem to work pretty well for women. Does Jose say anything about that?
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Robby Stahl
Actually yes. You know, his thing is like, hey, how do you think we survived? Like we, we had feast and famine. If we couldn't process more than 30 grams, like none of us would be here. That's basically what he says. And he's one of the number one protein researchers in the world. He runs a laboratory in Florida at a university as a professor. And so yeah, like it depends, it depends like what's going on with you hormonally and what's the physical activity you just did and what is the food intake that you had in the previous several hours or previous few days.
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Dr. Amy
So very true, very true. But I love that you say one gram per pound of lean body mass. So that just ties in beautifully. And you do so much, I mean you really, you really do a full body fix with people where you're looking at, at more than what we talked about today. So you are going to be doing this amazing, amazing program that I'm going to jump into where I'm going to let you tell people about it because you told me and I was like, holy cow, this is incredible. We have to offer this to my community because it's a no brainer. You offer so much information and really do a, a full body breakdown. A full body fix.
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Robby Stahl
Yeah. So we've we've developed a very high quality, almost like a public service of sharing a lot of these details. Because I'm sure, you know, you've just listened to all these things that I've shared and it's like, well, like, how am I going to actually incorporate that into my body, my mechanics? He shared a lot of stuff and you got some gold nuggets. But there's a lot going on from toe to head that you could be applying. So like, how do you start learning about that stuff? So I've developed five sessions that for select individuals, Dr. Amy happens to be one of them, that you can get access for free to our event. And this is not a pitch fast. This is our first four sessions. We go through the whole body. We're going foot and ankle. We're going knees, hips, pelvis, lower back, upper back, shoulders, neck. Throughout those first four sessions, we're doing a deep dive. I'm showing you how should the body ideally function. I'm helping you to look at and evaluate your body specifically and see how you're doing compared to the ideal. And then I'm giving you specific exercises and understanding of your mechanics to improve towards the ideal. So basically I go through your whole body and show you how to do that. And then the fifth session is our breakthrough strategy session where we tie it all together. You do have also an opportunity in the fifth session to become one of our personal clients, which we call VIPs. But the first four and a half sessions is like all 100 educational deep dive, just a major value add to your life.
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Dr. Amy
That is crazy. And, and folks, he's not lying. Like, it's not a pitch fest. I know all y'all are used to going on different classes, master classes, workshops, all of that. And you're like, all right, what are you gonna sell me, right? But you legit. I've talked to people who have gone through this five day event. You get a ton of information. He is. You guys are so generous, so generous with what you teach. And you're right, it is not a pitch fest. You will learn so much. So I'm really going to encourage all of you to do this because realistically, even as we were talking today, I never thought about it this way. But it's like what I said earlier when you, when, when we talk about anti aging, you know, there's so much out there. Biohacking do, this device, that device, red light therapy, hyperbaric oxygen peptides, obviously my field of hormones, thyroid, all of it. But if we're not Using our muscles properly, if we are breaking down, if we are getting injured, if we have surgery at a later age, you don't heal that quickly. And that can create more problems than just from the immobility from, from that surgery. You know it, it, this really should be the starting point and the cornerstone of anti aging medicine. Because if we don't have this and proper body mechanics and our muscles, we have nothing.
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Robby Stahl
Yeah, it's, it's so true. And most people after surgery they get back about 25 to 50% of what we would consider full functional capacity. That's like the normal, that's after going to post op people pt. And yeah, you know the, the other thing is, think about it, your mood. We're, we're basically metabolic organisms. And what is the stimulus of your metabolic organism movement? And as you start to age and you lose your mechanics, you start to grow your can't do list.
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Dr. Amy
Yeah.
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Robby Stahl
And your can do list shrinks. So you start doing less activity, less of that. I can't do that. And then your mind goes to oh my body mechanics. Well you don't think about it like that but oh my, I'm not able to do this or I can't do that. So start limiting yourself. And that's actually the thing that starts decreasing. So if you're optimizing your mechanics, guess what? You get to do all the amazing stuff that Amy teaches you now. Dr. Amy's magic of thyroid hormone fixing and all of your biology. Now you get to use that. Now you're gonna see like super, super results from doing both.
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Dr. Amy
Yes, 100%. I love it. So we are going to put the link for that event in the show notes so all my listeners can sign up for it. I will be there as well. Robbie, can you tell the listeners where else they can find you if they want to just follow you and get more of your information.
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Robby Stahl
One great place to go would just be to our site which is the Fitness doctor dot com. So the fitness doctor dot com all spelled out exactly T H E you know fitness doctor. I won't spell it for you. Yeah, fitness and doctor but the fitnessdoctor.com and you can find out. You can get in connection with us, you can schedule consultations. We have a quiz on our site so you can gain access to all those things. You can register for the different events and programs that we have all available there.
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Dr. Amy
Amazing, amazing. Thank you so much for today. You've just enlightened me, you've sparked my interest. I'm going to do this. I cannot wait to get better body mechanics. Robbie, thank you so much for your time and your knowledge today. I greatly appreciate you.
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Robby Stahl
Thank you for having me here. Dr. Amy Lots of love to you.
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Dr. Amy
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