-I'm guessing you've never been to a chiropractor before?
-Never before.
-These are painless adjustments, okay?
I don't treat anything.
Pull. Pull.
Okay. Who's nuts?
[ Grunts ]
Who's nuts? [ Grunts ]
Nuts!
-Wow.
-I just made you gluten intolerant.
-So you're not evil?
♪♪
[ Sighs ]
So, my back has been killing me.
Many people in the YouTube comments
seem to have some kind of concern about my back.
I don't know what it is, but either way,
today, the chiropractor.
♪♪
Chiro...practor. [ Keyboard clacking ]
Okay.
So I just came across Dr. Abel Rodriguez.
Apparently he's a chiropractor
and he has a lot of one-star reviews.
-Abel Rodriguez is a glorified card-reader.
This approach he uses is no more
than a very overpriced, $140, magic trick.
-I was looking to be adjusted,
and instead he told me I needed to forgive myself.
The day after he did his energy healing and pretend adjustment,
I had a terrible migraine
and almost passed out reading a book to my son.
-He told us he didn't believe that chiropractic worked
and that he now used energetic healing and kinesiology.
-Kines-- Kins-ology. Kines-ology?
-Kinesiology.
-Kinesiology? -Kinesiology.
-Kinesiology. -I will repeat it more slower.
-He totally cheated me. What he is doing with this scam
is nothing short of evil and malpractice.
-If you are looking for card reading nonsense,
then this is your guy.
If not, don't even bother.
-If you don't crack anything,
can you even call yourself a chiropractor?
-Well, if I've heard anything about going to the chiropractor,
it's that it usually results
in some sort of wonderful crack and release.
No crack.
-After him just laying two fingers on me all over,
he said he was done.
-Caused a vertebrae in my neck to go out
from the muscle testing,
which caused severe headaches
and had to be put back in by another chiropractor.
-I'm willing to, you know, do anything for the cause.
So if that involves, you know, letting this person,
you know, try out some kin-- kinesiology on my back,
then I'm going to fuckin' do that and hope for the best
when it comes to my back.
Because I sure could use a fixing.
As they say, you are as young as your spine is flexible.
But in my profession, one-star reviews
are not something I could be flexible with.
I need to experience the service for myself.
I was on a mission, and I have no problem
putting my physical well-being on the line
in pursuit of the truth.
♪♪
-Hi. -I'm Taji.
-Taji? -Yes.
-Hi, Taji. Dr. Rodriguez.
-So nice to meet you. -Did I pronounce it right? Taji?
-Yes. Thank you so much for having me today.
Dr. Rodriguez took me back to his treatment room
for a consultation
so he could get an understanding of my physical issues.
♪♪
-So, what do we need to fix on you?
-So, I've had a lot of back pain.
I dislocated a shoulder skateboarding a long time ago,
so back here it kind of hurts.
My back, like, even kind of back here now hurts.
Definitely some, like -- I don't know what you call that,
if it's like early arthritis or what,
but kind of like tension here. -Mm-hmm.
-This knee is actually pretty tight,
this back knee right here.
-Right. Right. Okay.
-For some time down here, it was, like, really messed up,
but now it's kind of gotten better.
So once in a while, like, I do get a little thing from that.
I don't know if it's a migraine or what it is,
but sometimes towards the end of the day it'll just start aching.
But nothing too pressing.
-Okay.
Everything that I do is designed to get you well
as quickly as possible with as few visits as possible.
So, what we want to do is we want to fix you,
but the best way to fix you
is to find out what's causing your problem.
-Dr. Rodriguez had me do a series of stretches
to get a clearer picture of what was going on with me.
♪♪
-So, you have body inflammation.
-Just with a few touches, Dr. Rodriguez already had
the beginnings of a diagnosis.
Was he a master chiropractor, or were the reviews true?
-After him just laying two fingers on me all over,
he said he was done.
-If you don't crack anything,
can you even call yourself a chiropractor?
-He totally cheated me.
-It was still much too early for my own diagnosis on him,
so I continued with my treatment.
-And resist.
-[ Grunts ]
-That should've broke my index finger.
My pinky. Push out, go. -[ Grunts ]
Yeah, that one's, like, going to cramp if I push any harder.
-Even the muscles of your back are weak.
So what we need to do is find out
what's turning all of this on.
We're going to retest these muscles
while you touch certain areas of your body.
Okay. What I what you to do is find your belly button for me.
Okay. This is the reflex for hormones.
I'm going to re-push on this muscle again.
It didn't change it.
-Not the hormones.
-Right.
This is the digestive reflex.
-Dr. Rodriguez continued his scan of my body,
testing my immune reflex, cardiovascular reflex,
my muscular reflex.
And no matter where I touched, my muscles were still weak.
-Didn't change anything. Didn't change anything.
Didn't change anything.
-Was I just incredibly frail,
or was there a deeper cause to my pain?
But before we were to give up,
he had one last reflex he wanted to test.
-This is the emotion reflex. Touch there.
Resist. Go. Pull.
[ Grunts ]
Push out. Go. Push, push, push, push out.
[ Grunts ]
♪♪
Massive difference, isn't it?
-Certainly.
-Why are you having the neck pain,
the back pain, all of this?
-I don't know. I guess maybe it could be,
like, stress-related or something, like, in my head.
-Emotional stress. -Wow.
It was quite the revelation to discover
that all of my physical issues came from a single source.
-Everything has a beginning, and stress is your beginning.
-While just knowing this wouldn't instantly cure me,
it still was a relief to finally have some clarity.
Dr. Rodriguez then had to reset my energy switches.
-So all I have to do is reset the switches.
-This would help alleviate my poisonous stressful energy
and hopefully in turn cure my bodily pain.
-So, the reset switches are here.
-You already found them?
-Yes. -Wow.
-Pull. Pull. Pull.
Okay. Great. Okay. You can put this down.
Alright. So I've reset everything.
-The man's methods were really out of the ordinary,
and I actually did feel better after this process.
But just when I thought he was a miracle worker,
he hit me with some unthinkable news.
-This doesn't do anything.
When I was doing it, that doesn't do anything.
Nothing!
-Now I didn't know what to believe.
-But why do I do that?
Because for some people, if I just did energy healing
just the way I did, they would think I'm nuts.
So I had to do this. I had to have them touch here.
Touching had nothing to do with anything.
-It was starting to feel like maybe the reviews were true.
-This doctor claims to heal you in a day from all illness
just by reading your energy.
-What he is doing with this scam
is nothing short of evil and malpractice.
-We're nothing but energy, pure energy.
This is not a solid. This is energy.
If you'd have shown this iPhone to somebody 20 years ago
and told them, "Oh, yeah, we can download a movie
in a matter of a few seconds,"
they probably would've thought you were nuts.
-Wow.
With my belief in Dr. Rodriguez at an all-time low...
-Nuts!
Who's nuts? Who's nuts?
-...he made one final pitch to sell me on his vision.
-I'm fixing causes, okay? I don't actually heal you,
because that's not the power that I've got.
All I do is remove the roadblocks,
and the roadblocks were emotions.
Emotions are the cause
of absolutely everything on this planet,
from cancer to a common cold.
Since everything is emotional,
want we want to do is we need to change our perspective.
If I think it, then I am what I think I am.
You want to get well? You want to get better?
You need to think positive and be positive.
[ Echoing ] You need to forgive yourself.
-I was looking to be adjusted,
and instead he told me I needed to forgive myself.
The day after he did his energy healing
and pretend adjustment, I had a terrible migraine
and almost passed out reading a book to my son.
-Wow. -Anyway, so...
-Well, thank you for sharing this all with us.
This has been incredible.
-You're welcome. I wrote a book on this.
♪♪
I was about one to two months away from a wheelchair.
I could barely walk.
I have absolutely no pain. None, zero.
-Awesome, for sure.
I wasn't sure that my bodily pain would be totally cured
by just thinking positively, but I was open to it.
However, before I could get too focused on positive thinking,
I had to get to the bottom of his one-star reviews.
-What we're going to do now
is we're going to check for misalignments.
♪♪
Okay. Any pain there?
-Not in particular. -Okay.
-Before I came in, you know,
I was checking out some of your reviews,
and I saw people were mentioning,
you know, a lot of kind of, you know, negative thoughts.
Have you seen some of those?
-No. I don't normally go on
and take a look at those reviews.
-Yeah. Totally. -Okay.
You're going to feel a quick tap here. Okay.
-And is any of this going to result in a crack,
or I shouldn't expect that necessarily?
-You shouldn't expect it necessarily.
A lot of chiropractors twist necks and backs,
and they want to hear a crack.
There's not nothing wrong with that necessarily.
-Because one person, I guess, was trying to say, like,
if a chiropractor isn't going to crack your back,
are they a chiropractor at all?
-The reality is bones only misalign a millimeter,
and if you're wanting a bone to pop,
you potentially could be creating a problem
for this patient.
-The one person was even, I guess, trying to compare it
to like card reading, tarot card --
they said a glorified card reader?
-[ Chuckles ] Okay. Yeah, some people say that
because they don't understand what's going on.
But most people who have this done
are just amazed at how much better they're feeling.
-Do you remember the one person in particular --
I guess they said something about, the next day,
they had a migraine after coming here?
They were reading to their kid, I guess he said,
and that you told them
they needed to forgive themself or something?
-I don't know what that is.
-I mean, one even said something about, like,
a malpractice compared to like the act of evil.
-I-I-I don't know anything about that review.
I don't read those reviews.
-So you're not evil?
-[ Laughing ] I don't think I'm evil, no.
No, I don't think so. Yeah.
What I try to do is get my patients well,
and that's what I'm concerned with and that's what I focus on.
-Well, you can't fault a doctor who cares more
about his patients' well-being than his one-star reviews.
And what he was going to do next would put his skills
to the test like never before.
-Is there anybody that you know who has a particular
back or neck problem or food intolerance or...?
-Yeah. I have a friend named CoolR The Don, and he --
Yeah, he has -- I mean, he...
Sorry.
I'm like freaking out just thinking about his diet.
But basically he's like, you know, celiac.
He can't eat gluten, you know? He can't, like, eat shellfish.
Dr. Rodriguez told me to call CoolR The Don
to get his approval for us to cure him of his allergies.
I'm here with Dr. Rodriguez.
Is it cool if we can try to fix you real quick?
-Okay, that's all we need.
-Now that we got CoolR's approval,
Dr. Rodriguez would work on my producer's body,
which would act as the proxy for CoolR The Don.
-I'm thinking digestive issues on you.
Resist.
It didn't go, because you don't have digestive issues.
Now, what's your friend's name again?
-CoolR The Don.
-CoolR The Don?
-Yes. -I like that.
Okay. I'm thinking digestive issues on CoolR The Don.
Now, I expect this to weaken if he has them.
And resist.
Look at this! Look at this!
I can do it with my index.
And resist. Resist!
Look at this. Go on. Lookit. -[ Laughs ]
-Now, this is not a trick. He's twice my size!
I just fixed it.
Now, I expect this to weaken
if CoolR The Don has digestive issues.
Resist. Pull. [ Grunts ]
It won't go anyplace.
So I just fixed the digestive issue.
Your friend's digestive issue.
I just made you gluten intolerant.
Yes.
I'm sorry, what was your name again?
Ben, okay. Now, watch this.
We're going to see if you have allergies.
Resist. Fight me. Bingo. Yes, you do.
And resist. Pull. Bingo. A fair amount, actually.
Oh, no problem. Okay. I just did it.
♪♪
-On my way to meeting Dr. Rodriguez,
I could not get the reviews out of my mind.
To my delight, I was met with a kind and passionate man
who simply wants to heal people.
I understand this is an unconventional
and controversial way to practice,
so this may not be the place for you.
But I believe Dr. Rodriguez has valuable insight
into a healthy and happy lifestyle,
and I left with a clear head and a soothed body.
He really helped me put my happiness first.
Thank you, Dr. Rodriguez.
♪♪
I eat pretty much anything.
I don't like goat cheese, though.
-Oh, I don't, either. [ Laughs ]
-Yeah, it's a weird kind of flavor. It's like...
It makes me go like -- kind of like almost like a reaction.
It's weird. If it's on -- Yeah. -Really? Okay. Oh, alright.
-Whenever I eat it, it's just like,
yeah, very intense, but not in a good way.
-Right. -But I like all other --
You know, cheeses are good with me.
-Right. Okay.