 Hey everyone, this is Dr. Ruscio. I'm here with Julie, who, man, your case, you would almost think I'm paying you. Everything that I kind of harp about, your case so perfectly encapsulates it. Essentially, when you first came in, you had a number of symptoms that we were able to help. Sleep, brain fog, bloating, loose stools, and all that's fine, good. There's a couple other layers to this, which are you went to another functional medicine doctor who quoted you, I think it was like a six-month package, $18,000, and it was couched in this very kind of fear-mongering mentality. I'm so glad that you decided to get a second opinion and come in to see me, because we're now about five visits in. I don't know what the financial telly is, but I'm very confident. It's way down the last $2,000 without any fear. Everything we've done, I think, has been pretty reasonable. All your symptoms are gone in just a handful of visits. It's such a perfect case. I almost could have written this out myself. Please tell people about all of that, whatever you want to share, because it's such a fantastic story. Yeah, I'm blown away by the whole thing, because I think that when I wasn't feeling good and I had just symptom upon symptom upon symptom, my GP wasn't really able to do anything for me. I started digging into functional medicine. After I had that initial consultation, I just felt like, oh my God, A, I don't have that kind of money. If that's the kind of money, and it was actually, I think that it was going to be a minimum 18-month commitment to try to figure out what was wrong. Yeah. Not only did I not have that kind of money or that kind of time, I'm a small business owner. It just was so unachievable for me in so many ways. I felt like I just needed to, I don't know, get on the dark net and look for supplements or something like that in order to solve this thing in a way that made sense. I felt super defeated. We're about total working time together, about four to five months, and you're pretty much 18 months is outlandish. Yeah. Just to the lay person, I didn't, it's just a great example. How are we supposed to know? To have it just to be so freed up, not only financially, but just in the simplicity of what you do and feeling like I have actually been in the driver's seat this whole time. It's never been a situation where you've given information or you've done something and expected something. Right, exactly. It's been such a partnership and I can't believe how good I feel now. I can't believe how used to feeling bad that I was and that I accepted that that was how my life was just going to be with the low energy and mounting symptoms that I had. I'm just so grateful. I said just a couple of minutes ago, thank you so much for raising the bar for how I can live my life and how good I can feel. It's amazing. You said it really well. It's funny how quickly one can become accustomed to feeling like SHIT as they're normal. Like you said, you have a new bar now for what you expect your normal to be. This is just such a huge concept because I think everyone has things they want to do in their life, whether it is be a better mother, be a better boss, be a better employee, learn new language, learn instruments, just be a happier person when you're in your day-to-day. That is possible when you feel well. It's so much harder when you don't feel well. Exactly. There's just so much that one brings to their life in a better way when they're feeling well. I'm obviously thrilled that you're feeling that way. Are there any specific symptoms or tidbits from the care plan that we've gone through that you want to share with people that you think are insightful or interesting? I do. I think that when you're not feeling well and there's so much information, before we started working together, I was in a position where I really was just trying everything. Everything seemed like it was what was wrong with me. I would try all of the different diet protocols and trying all of the different things at the same time. I think that if you're listening to this and you are not waking up every single morning feeling like a million bucks, number one, you deserve to feel better about that. Number two, it does not have to be complicated. Number three, there's not a magic bullet. It's comprehensive and empathetic care just like you're offering. That's what it is across the board. If you're feeling discouraged, just remember that there's this thing where we don't know that we don't know it. For you to have that kind of information that you're not even thinking is out there, that's the solution. Your approach actually is just so comprehensive that you can't help but succeed with that. This is really in my mind, first of all, thank you. The difference between wisdom and knowledge is people get all sorts of knowledge on the internet, this diet, that treatment, and then they go out and they kind of do this shotgun haphazard. I'll try this, I'll try the other thing. They say, gosh, this seems so hard. Well, sure. Of course, it's going to be hard if you haven't spent in my case now almost 10 years studying all these things, figuring out what works, what doesn't work, how to sequence them, what's the proper way to integrate all of these things. For people listening, if you're not able to come into the office, healthy gut, healthy you, my book offers pretty much the same kind of process that we use, which is just taking someone through a reasonable narrative, non-fear-based, non-excessive, and we go one step at a time and every inch forward we traverse, we figure out what works for you, we carry that forward, and we determine out of the validated available therapies what will work for you. If you just take it one step at a time and you have a good process, it's actually not that hard. It's just getting off of the, I'm going to jump from protocol to protocol of stuff I see on the internet to a guided progression of steps that are built to your needs. And yeah, in your case, it could have been 18 months, 18,000 dollars instead of a lot less and just a few months. So, I mean, Grace, fantastic. Anything that you want to leave people with as we close? I, the thing that I want to say, I think out of everything is that it doesn't have to be hard. Feeling awesome and living your best life does not have to be a hard process at all and it's completely worth it. Yep. It's well said. I think for people who are struggling, that will be very welcome news because I get it. I mean, when I go to look up things that I don't know much about on the internet, it's debilitating because there's just things out there. Totally. So that's why I put together how to get the people a lifeline. So, yeah, if you're out there and you're struggling and you're suffering, there are some simple solutions. You're just a beautiful example of that. I'm so happy that you're feeling better and now we'll let you loose upon the world to build your business more quickly. So again, thank you so much for sharing your story today and time to speak with us. Thank you.