I'm starting to spend some time each week with Cliede and the call center
folks basically returning calls for people that have questions about what's
the best level of service for them. Now, obviously, if your concern is, I just
don't want to spend money, then the free YouTube videos are clearly the way to
go. There's 800 of them, lots of content. But then, when you start thinking, well, I
want to know my own status, someone to know mine, what do I have, insulin
resistance, my labs, do I have inflammation,
do I have plaque. Then you start talking about paying for those and coordinating
those activities. So that's one of the reasons why I say, look, if you're getting
into that kind of evaluation, the best thing is the evaluation with the event
because you get all of that together at once but you get a couple of other
things too. Instead of between half an hour to two hours with me one on one, you
get that plus you get that eight-hour intensive boot camp type of experience
with a small group of people, all of whom are focusing on this as well. We're going
to show you some videos what some other folks that have attended these events
have said. We'll do that in just a minute. I basically give you some of their
thoughts. Bob in this video, you'll hear, says you
get the CIMT, the labs, and the info. consider that you don't have to pay
extra for the CIMTs. The labs are included in the cost but CIMT is included in
the cost in less than what you would pay. If you did, you pay for this all.
Part of the reason is physicians are able to get better pricing in labs than
the patients and themselves. Tom and Kevin, you'll hear them say, well, look, it
filled in the gaps. I thought I'd seen all the videos but seeing the videos and
then coming to an affidavit with the doc with a small group, it just connected so
many dots. Lois made a great point. Her point is that, look, there's a community
of people that think the way I do, that think that they can
prolong their life, prolong the health of their life. And you don't have to be a
doctor to understand all this stuff. Bruce makes the point that you know what
that's true but it's also great that there are a lot of doctors in the
audience. Doctors that are coming to this for their own health and it's very nice
if you're not a doc, you hear Brewer up there talking about some of this and you
just turn to your new doc friend and say, "Is that real?" And they say, yeah, it is. You
know they give you some perspective on what we're learning in these courses and
I learn in these courses too because people bring a lot of information. These
are not folks that know nothing that come to this. Quite a few do come
to this that come from zero but we've also got folks that are very senior in
this, other physicians at the last one we had PhD from MIT. We had three dentists,
three docs. You just get a lot of people that understand this stuff but you also
get people that don't know an artery from a vein. And so it's a very, very
interesting community. Speaking of different people, Nial will mention
Molokai. Molokai is a place in Hawaii. It used to be where they had a leper colony
but that's not what's interesting about Molokai. Nial, he's swimming that it's
a thirty-eight... forty-mile swim something like that in the ocean with great whites
and all of that other stuff near Hawaii. He's a world-class athlete, and he's
there to understand more about his body's metabolism and how he can
generate the energy he needs. Gail and Doug, dentists, said, you know what, I'm
learning this for my family. And by the way, it's the best event of its kind for
patients and docs. Jeff brings up the point that you know what, I thought I
knew a lot of this stuff, and I thought it was good then I start learning some
of this, and it's like a sucker punch I found out a lot of things that I'm glad
I learned. So I'm talking too much. Let's see the videos, what they have to say.
I have learned so so much that I can't begin to explain it at the moment. I
thought, what else can I learn because I've been studying this stuff for the
last couple of years. But this was very eye-opening, and I think I will benefit a
lot from it. Everything here was excellent, and I would recommend it to
anyone because there's a combination of laypeople and medical professionals in
the audience - dentist and some PhD folks, and some other, maybe even a doctor too.
And what I think what it's beneficial for the layperson is we've watched all
these videos maybe like I did over the last year, and you have these dots of
information. And when you come here, it helps you connect all those dots
together, and it gives you a better depth of knowledge. I was first introduced to
Dr. Brewer through his YouTube channel, and I was just intrigued with all of
the information that was been presented there. So I decided to come to the
conference because I thought that there would be people that were... had shared
similar things you know with me and that we could collaborate together here as a
group. And that's why I came, and I have been just very fortunate and grateful
that the people here that they're just... we now see my friends and family because
we not only teachers while we were here. We were also students because we
learned and shared information with each other about
our experiences. And I think that's been great just having the open dialog. And
I've really enjoyed it. I decided to come here because I had some vague concerns
about my health. And what I thought was really attractive about coming here was
the combination of getting the lab results as well as the CIMT and
being able to overlay that with two days of information. So for me, the labs was
the starting point and information is what's gonna allow me to kind of think
about an action plan, about how I want to react to the information I've got. Well,
it's great to be here. One of the reasons why I came is I'm a dentist so I
work with patients every day. And also, I have come from a history of my heart
disease in my family, and I have had a couple of uncles recently who had
strokes. And I just feel like in the profession that I'm in, that I'm in a
position where I can help other family members and the patients I've worked in
public health. So I am around a lot of patients who deal with diabetes, heart
disease, periodontal disease. And I feel like prevention is so important in
quality of life. I just want to really commend you and Ford for what you're
doing. If there's anybody out there that is thinking about taking a heart attack
and stroke prevention course, you know there's only very few people that have
done such a nice job with the YouTube channel, with the information. And
I just highly recommend it. I highly recommend that people would come. And I
think what you've done with this is amazing. I know there's others out there
that are teaching and talking about heart attack and stroke prevention. But
very few people are really trying to get people in a room, consumers in a room,
and do it. So I want to commend you for that. It's a great course. Thanks for
allowing me to be part of it and talk a little bit about how dentistry fits in. I
really appreciate it, and I really hope people would come and
search this out and take this course. And then I always looked on PrevMed from
back in my Israel, when I was back in Israel all the way through, for about
seven months. And the conference came up and I'm like, I would love to learn my
labs and talk about this stuff and am I in. I'm just a really aggressive listener
and I'm just taking it in and trying to develop intuition and on what
buttons are pushed and what choices to make in my personal life to make Molokai
happen and make that fuel source happen and be regularly ketonic. And it was
an absolutely awesome weekend. And it's not a second day. So I'm excited. I don't
have some real, obvious issues. But after I connected some of those dots, I do you
know that are less obvious but definitely need correcting as it relates
to things that are kind of under the radar, like insulin resistance, that you
know don't get picked up during your annual physical. And you know you think
you're just doing great. You get your report card and it's just like, oh, I'm
great, you know. You feeling all happy
and boastful or whatever. And you know and it just kind of comes like a sucker
punch. This is when you get a calcium score or something else. It's just like
what you know. So that's what it's doing for me is just to educating me on all my
blind spots. Well, it's lived up to my expectations. I
wanted to get specific questions answered. I watched a lot of videos
online and so I came in feeling well educated. But
you learn a lot from the other people here, learning their stories and their
results and their experience. And so is a filling in of a lot of holes and
answering a lot of questions. Plus are you able to interchange in a real
dynamic way with Dr. Brewer. So that that's a big plus as well. So I thought
it was very worthwhile and definitely in terms of trying to make sure that you
take care of any issues you have in with cardiovascular disease or whatever it is
you're attending for. It sort of closed a lot of circles for me. So if
you're still with us, as you can see, there's a lot of advantages to just
taking a day coming to an event, getting an immersive experience, meeting a
community of other people that understand the value of adding a decade
to their life, a healthy decade by the way, and getting it all done. Thank you
for your interest.