 Welcome to Dear to Dream. This is Debbie Dashinger. Super glad you're here. And as promised, this is going to be one of those cutting-edge shows. I have a lot of questions we're going to get answered and hopefully we'll go places that we haven't gone before. Learn some new pieces because I've got Adam Lam here. Very interesting how I met him. And when I met him actually online and learned what he's doing out in the world, I'm certainly a candidate for this. I think we actually all are because my guess is that the earlier we deal with this stuff, the better. So with that, the conversation is going to be about cutting-edge anti-aging. So if that's something that's happening for you, if you're in any part of the decade spectrum where you are aging, this is definitely going to be the conversation for you. And I just want to thank, at the beginning, my sponsors, obviously, because thank you. Bless you. That's why I'm here. And because we've built relationship over the years. So thank you for being the influencers you are. Dr. Dane here and Access Consciousness. I highly recommend you go check them out because they're doing spectacular work out in the world. And Dr. Dane here teaches being you changing the world. Dr. Dane, D-A-I-N, here, H-E-E-R dot com, or Access Consciousness dot com. Well worth your time. And I'll tell you a little bit about who Adam is and what he's doing out in the world. He is the founder and a hormone specialist at Renew Life Rx. So if you're feeling like you've lost your edge, but you're unsure why, it's probably due to age-related hormone decline. And if that's the chance, there's 100% surety that Adam can help. Adam is also the bestselling author of the book, Better Than The Binge, overcoming the social obligation of alcohol. I want to go into that a little bit because I think that's an important conversation too. And he offers an extensive intervention style coaching for those who are looking to change or eliminate their relationship with alcohol. If you want to find out more about him and the company and what they offer, it is RenewLifeRx.com. Adam, welcome to Dare to Dream. You are finally here. Good to be here. Very excited to be here and see where I can offer value to the listeners and have another conversation with you. It's always pleasant, so I look forward to it and ready to dive right in. Cool. You have a really unique, specific career path right now. So take us through it. How'd you get there? Where did you start out and how did you end up in hormones and anti-age? So it started out. I've always been really involved and almost obsessed with health, fitness, wellness. And at one point in my 20s, I was doing like pretty high profile clientele coaching. So I worked with a lot of really successful business owners, entrepreneurs, guys UCN, CNBC, things like that, that I would help with their nutrition, things like that. These guys, they weren't always getting the results, it's my younger clients, right? Can I just ask, how did they find you? How did they know to come to UCN? I've always been one of those guys that's never been scared to reach out to people. And then if you take care of a couple big-name people and they introduce you and then it just keeps rolling. As long as you do good for people and things like that, it's always been important to me. My reputation is what is always the most important thing to me in doing that. So like doing the right thing, taking care of people, trying to help, going above and beyond. I'm doing a lot of things too for the young entrepreneurs I coach. I say, man, get out there and do some stuff for free, help people out. Don't have your hand out every single time you get an opportunity. It'll all come back if you're good. And so in doing that, I realized that a lot of these guys weren't getting the results. You know, they're in their late 40s, early 50s, you know, they're eating. I'm like, you cheat on your diet. What are the things and they weren't. And so then, you know, I knew about hormones and testosterone and those kind of things, but I always thought of it more as like that performance enhancing space, not therapeutic. And it wasn't very popular. This is 15 years ago. And so as time went on, I realized this is probably what these guys are missing just based on the research I was doing reading and studying. And then the next step was it was so hard for these guys. I mean, a couple of billionaires to find a good physician that could help with that, right? And at least local. And so I went on this kind of path to find really smart docs that were really forward thinking, looking into the future of where things go and connecting these docs with these clients. And so then I became like this pretty good, almost middleman to do it. And I learned, you know, I love to learn. I'm constantly reading at least 50 plus books a year. I'm constantly like, I'm just a sponge, right, especially for stuff that interests me. So I was learning about, you know, I hear the conversations from the doctors. The, you know, the clients would share their blood work. And so it helped me like really, really get passionate about it, really get excited about it and learn about it. And that, you know, that was probably 12 years ago when I started to really be good at connecting these individuals that needed help to people that could help. And then as it went on, there's certain docs, you know, you're like, I don't really, I don't feel comfortable with them or maybe they're doing other goofy stuff that, you know, so you kind of, you got to watch who you refer your client to and those kind of things. And then what it actually evolved to is creating a clinic where we have, you know, kind of our doctor panel, so to speak, we have our network nationwide of people that will refer, you know, our clients to, and then we coordinate, we manage the clients. Is it so the company's really a glorified client coordination person, but, you know, our job is we have the relationship so we get the white gloves, roll out the red carpet type thing for our clientele, whether you're, you know, the top a list celebrity right now, or you're my neighbor down the street who's just looking to feel better, right? Everybody gets the same service, because that's, I think, you know, medical industry. One thing is, sometimes it's just a bad experience, right, you're going to wait two hours, wait three weeks to make the appointment, just to hear like everything's okay. Oh, sorry. And you're like, what? You know what I mean? And so I wanted to, Oh, that's even if they return your call, by the way. And this has happened. I'm right by Cedars Sinai, which is one of the most popular well-known hospitals in the world, right? West Hollywood. And I literally left a message for dermatologist Monday. Here we are Thursday. Nothing. I heard something here local and we'll talk about that later, launching a stem cell clinic here local in Texas where I'm at. And I just was kind of sniffing around and I called the clinic stem cells, it's cash pay and it's, you know, five, six, seven, eight, 10 grand, you know, depending on the And I, same thing, I called, left a message. I'm interested in stem cells. I understand it's cash pay. Nothing. No one recalled. I'm like, it's crazy. So, so that's the part of it. Our service is at, yeah, no worries. This is from being sick. Oh my God. This happened last night at the theater. Oh, it's terrible. Kicks in out of nowhere. Yeah. Let me just choose some government will be attracted to help. That is crazy town. Wow. Yeah, we went to see an amazing play last night. And thank God it was before the play started same thing. And they don't go get me water. This flu was just like, not fun. I had a nasty. Actually, James, our friend James, why we met, he's, he is not good right now with the flu. He's, he's in, in bed today. Wow. It's like a super bug flu, I think. No, when I had it, like a couple weeks ago, my wife said in the 13 years she's known me, she's never seen me that down. I mean, surgery, crazy parties, you know, nothing, never seen me down as hard as that. Wow. All right, well thank you bless you and definitely have somebody edit this and take out that craziness. I want to keep the gum for now. Excuse me, I would typically never. Yeah, you got to do what you got to do. I just speak when I was sick and I had to have gum in my mouth, or I was nonstop putting cough drops in. I just spoke last night at church that not second it went very well. That's exactly what I need to do cough drops. Thank you for that reminder, but then in my purse, I would do so. Okay, so my darling. Getting back. Yeah, getting back to being a. So, you know what what we've done today is create a service that helps facilitate the client onboarding process right so we, we just take a lot of the stuff out of the doctor's hands as far as like, communicate like here that the paperwork done you know you know the process is very simple right you go through it and here you go we get this done. So we kind of help coordinate that stuff. So the docs can do what they're really good at which is looking at your file looking at your blood work looking at your physical reading kind of the stuff the symptoms the things that you want to change in your life. So I'm going, cool it's that you know her blood works here and here and here. This is her goals that makes sense. So we're going to go we'll suggest that we do these things. And then the doc makes a recommendation, you say thumbs up, we get the process going everything's out shipped out to you. And then what happens after the process, once you have become a client you are on a program is consistent follow up the first 30 days we touch base every week. And then the next 6090. It's, you know, twice a month every two weeks something like that unless there's something else, just to make sure everything's good because I imagine you're doing blood tests right you're making that's more just like how you feel. How are you sleeping. I see you know how or if there is or any issues because everybody's body is different and one of the problems in the hormone process is that there's a lot of cookie cutter stuff so everybody gets this this and this well doesn't really work for everybody and it might work for some people and most people, and maybe that's like a good way to start for them. But we have a very detailed custom approach to how we do it for folks and it works really well and part of what the process is that follow up. You know if you think in most situations, when you leave your visit with your they don't call you every two weeks or email you every two weeks just to say how are you doing how are you sleeping. How's that new medication we have you on how's it treating you know it's basically here's the side effects cost if you're called 911 if you feel like you're going to die or Right. Let me ask you because I know you your moniker is a concierge style clinic. Yes, but you're also called a telemedicine clinic what does that mean. We have a pretty unique process and actually we're talking about with our attorney today going through our stuff just annually we like to make sure like based on where things are in compliance bill and how we do business like that. It's everything look wonderful right and so a telemedicine it's a it's a new way of doing medicine. And so we have a, I won't go into too much detail because it's proprietary and we actually have people hire another arm of our clinic to help these other clinics to set up on how we do it. But in a nutshell, we can kind of almost see what like what we're doing. Our physician can meet with you this way. And also we have you work with a local physician to get medically cleared. So that's where that kind of partnership and work so it's it's cool so telemedicine it's because at the end of the day if your hormones are goofed up. We don't really have to see you in person to solve that right. So we work with a local physician to get you medically cleared, but the real stuff is in the blood work. And that's where we pay the most detail and and that's what allows us to go fast and help so many people and have this kind of care that we give this service that we give, because we're focused on the good stuff not sitting in a waiting room. Okay, go into the procedural office and wait here and then the docs got her brush because he's got 10 more people just like you It's great. I mean you can go to a place a lab by your own house which is what I did with you get your blood drawn and couple of days, you know start getting some information. So I want to talk about men. Because one in four men over 30 from your website suffer from the effects of low testosterone. Yeah. First, how does a man how does this one in four men figure out if he is one of those men if he has to address testosterone issues. There's a couple things and I'll take a probably a deeper dive for you to that most people don't go into so and you look into the symptoms are, you know, low libido, low energy brain fog body composition isn't really doing what it's supposed to you know some things we talk about that a lot of Confidence, decision making, you know, like, are you somebody who's like, I don't know, I don't know, are you like, yeah, let's do it. There's a difference. We hear it. And you know, we work with a lot of men and women in leadership. It doesn't in the stuff this testosterone stuff is not just men, it's women. The libido, all these things we're talking about, it's it across the board. It applies, but it's more important than men because we require a higher amount, but it's very just as important with it. And so but some of the other things that, you know, if, if you're active and you're eating healthy, you're kind of you're paying attention right you have this self awareness of health, you're going to notice if things are down. But if you're couch potato, eating fast food every day, not exercising, you, you may just be so far away from feeling good that you wouldn't you load testosterone high to start wouldn't matter because you're just like bump on a log. We don't, we're not, we don't coach those people out of those places as well. The folks we like to work with are the guys that, you know, they're 48 years old and they're like, man, I just, I'm running out of energy, my body, I'm eating clean, I'm eating better than I've ever eaten my life. I'm exercising all the time in that I don't see the changes. Right. And they're like, you know, my wife is gorgeous. And I just like, I wish I wanted to like take her down and throw her on the bed. He's like, but I don't, you know, and it, and maybe just like in your marriage, like those are the people that we like to work with. And, and those are the people we usually hit home runs with because what by the time they get to that point. A they're usually healthy because they're paying attention. They're like, I'm eating right and doing this. We don't have to worry about health risks as much, even though we monitor all that. But we, then we can just, we can look and see where the issues are, make the adjustments, put them on a program, follow up with them. And now they have this new found life again. Right. And for men, do they always have to do that shot that big ass needle shot in their heart? So that's a great question. So I would say 80% of our patients do testosterone cream. Oh, awesome. But here's the, you know, the, and the injections are fine. I used to do them. I do the cream now because I always thought the cream wasn't good. The reality is it's, it's, it's where you get the cream and the compound pharmacies that we work with have come a long way and they make really good testosterone cream that works really well. And he just, I put it on my forearms in the morning and I leave from that alcohol swab in my butt and doing this thing. You know, I don't have to do any of that. And that's stuff. And I don't want my six year old daughter walking in like, what's that doing? You know, there's a lot of our clients that the reason they don't look into testosterone therapy is or didn't before is, and maybe they'll hear stuff like this on this podcast, for example, is they think they have to do shots and they don't want to do shots. And they're like, well, I can do cream. Yeah. And it dries in 10 minutes and you don't have to worry about them. Oh, I would have done this 10 years ago if I knew that, right? So it's a great question. I just said that actually, because I use bio identical creams. And I always wondered after I put it on in the morning and I go to the gym and maybe after I work out, I'm going to take a shower. And I've always thought like, is this going to come off? Or is this in me already? Right. And it varies. Like, I will say all cream is not, are all topical, you know, is not created equally. There is not one, you know, if you get Heinz ketchup, you know what you're getting, right? But if you get, you might go to the aisle and see 10 different kinds of ketchup, they're probably not all going to taste the same, same consistency, same ingredients. And so some pharmacies do a really good job at it. Some are like, not that good. And the folks we work with are really, really good at it. Otherwise we won't work with, right? Okay. Let's talk a little bit, because this came up on my blood test. So I do want to talk about lipid panels. Yeah. Cholesterol, HDL ratios and all of that. So if healthy cholesterol levels should be good on a blood test. Most often we don't know why these levels get out of range. So can you address that? Yeah. So as you mentioned it, because it's, it's something that if you're exploring hormone therapy or something like that, you don't just check testosterone, you don't just check hormones. You know, that's one thing we always talk about with our patients is that it's important to make sure your health, we know what the hormones do. We got to make sure you're healthy. We want to make sure they're not affecting other things because there are certain medications and certain supplements you can take that can adversely affect, for example, cholesterol. And some, some supplements you can take that help cholesterol, right? So we look at total cholesterol, triglycerides, your HDL, which is your healthy cholesterol, which you want to see increase with healthier fats. And there's some things that's just, you know, it also gives us a snapshot and say, hey, you need to turn up your omega threes, avocados, more salmon, you know, more fish. Like I use MCT oil in my protein shakes. I do two teaspoons, two tablespoons twice a day. I'll do that. I use it when I scramble eggs, right? Stuff like that. So we get to give our. I just want to check. So you use that in your shakes. Very cool. Do you use it in your coffee at all? Do you make bullet coffee? I used to, but I don't. So I, I don't use that. Am I only drink coffee in the morning now? I used to when I'd have my like afternoon coffee, I would use it and do the bulletproof coffee. But I don't do that. I just do my two cups of coffee in the morning and I only do them black. I fast until noon. I'm usually, you know, I do intermittent fasting. So I don't have any calories before that 12 o'clock time. I do the fasting too. I share this with you yesterday and I, I start to waver around. I mean, I'm hungry before even with the oil or the butter and me, but what's your secret? How do you get to noon? Yeah, sometimes it's, it's, it's sometimes it's tough. Today I actually had a podcast earlier I did and it was, I could tell I was super hungry. And I like was like ready for it. And we kept going. Like we, it was like, we're into some conversation. It went longer than it was planned. And like my noon was like, it's ticking away. But the, I've been doing it for so long that it's like mind control. And sometimes, you know, I drink, I love the like carbonated water. Like I say, Lacroix is not the brand I use the brand I use from Texas. It's awesome. It's like organic or I don't know, it's like super clean. It's kind of expensive, but it's very, very good. And that really helps take it away the hunger. And sometimes I'll go to two, three, it depends if I'm busy and cranking. I don't eat. But today, I don't think I got a chance to eat until one, but one o'clock just about. And just the way it works from a schedule. But to that point, though, is I do eat a higher cholesterol. I eat a lot of red meat. I eat a lot of healthy fats. And when you do that, there's, there's going to be a carryover of the LDL, which is what we didn't talk about yet, which is your unhealthy cholesterol, right? And so you want to keep that typically at like under 100. And where your LDL, you want to keep that above, you know, 50, for example. And it could be challenging. It's easier for women, usually for the HDL than men. But some men, we see have issues too with it. And we have to address it because sometimes testosterone therapy can affect those levels in a more adverse way for men and women. And question. So when you say that, doesn't, if you're taking one, like I am, DHEA, I'm taking as well as testosterone and other things, but can't they work similarly on the other side to offset some of these things? So DHEA, can it turn into testosterone? It can help. So DHEA does it its job. And I use, I love to use a lot of the kind of analogies and things like that. DHEA's job is more of being like a director of traffic. If you picture like that police officer in the four way section, like telling people to come stop. That's what DHEA does. And what it does is it helps like when you're stressed out and your cortisol floods in the traffic and cortisol and it can say, stop cortisol, testosterone, get over here. We got the cortisol coming and estrogen come over here. And so it really does a good job at doing that, helping manage the hormone traffic, right? And if your DHEA is low, and you're one of those, we call them like fighter flight 24 seven, everything's 911, it's emergency. You're super stressed out individual, your adrenal glands are goofed up, your cortisol is goofed up. It just eats away your DHEA is like blowing the whistle and directing traffic and it exhausts it. And then you aren't managing your internal stress, which carries out into your external stress. Why you feel so exhausted and beat down. But some people that handle their stress real well, DHEA or too much DHEA can kind of make them a little lackadaisical, kind of like, whatev? Yeah, we've seen that with people too. That's why sometimes it's good DHEA before bed, depending on how fast it metabolizes in your body or in the evening, because it suppress cortisol levels. And when you go to sleep, you want cortisol down, melatonin levels come up. And then what you why you wake up in the morning is because your cortisol levels start to rise. You know, like, we've got to get going, right? And if your cortisol is jacked up, or you've conditioned yourself to like, fly out of bed, fly out of the house, race to work, look at crazy person, deadline, deadline, deadline, run to lunch, run back late, got to do this, got to pick the kids up. And if that's your day, you actually can become addicted to the release of cortisol in a drone. It sounds crazy, but it's very true. And then you, out of that is you almost want to be, you try to subconsciously create stress in your life to have. I know we're getting off, but it's just stuff that we see. And I want to share that because so for the listeners that this is all stuff that we know about. And we are thinking about this, as when we talk about your life and your goals and what you're trying to do, why we're doing this hormone stuff, so that it helps make sense in your blood work. And then it helps us fix those things in your life a bit more, right? I can't, I can tell you to do meditation and do, you know, a little whatever in the morning just take away stress or something like that. But not all things can be solved through hormones, but it's part of the picture. And I think when people understand what their behavior does to their body, whether it's eating, thinking, lack of exercise, doing exercise, sexual activity. I mean, regular sexual activity is really, really healthy for you, especially as you get older. But for men, prostate issues, things like that, like regular, say, orgasm, that is one of the healthiest things a man can do. Really? Would that even influence someone who might have prostate cancer if they're having regular sex? You know, I don't want to comment on cancer being good or what it do fix it or do anything, but it can, it sure can help put them in a better position to not get it by having regular, regular release is what the term we call. And those kind of things are important. It's just, you know, those are the, that's the stuff. Our oldest client is 98. He'll be 99 this year. Wow. He was almost death bed at 95. And now he's healthier. His physician, who's also a client referred him in and our docs were excited to work with him. And he's a super cool guy, uber successful guy. And he's healthier now than he was at 90 for his doctors. Like, man, he's, it's like he's going back the other way. He's not, we're not, you can't change the age. So I don't want people to hear me wrong. But that's how his docs is like, he's been a doctor for him for like 20 years. And he's like, he's back how he was when he was 90 or 95. They were looking at, this might be towards the end. And that's when they kind of came around to work with us. Well, that's exciting. I like that. I like that a lot. That's very promising. And just so we wrap this piece up. Was there anything else you wanted to say about cholesterol? And I love the fact that you share, you know, for those of us who do tend towards ketogenic way of eating that the cholesterol levels might be off because of the fats, the good fats were ingesting. I claim that as well. But is there anything else around cholesterol you want to talk about that we should be aware of? Yeah, I think that, you know, one of the beliefs we have is there's increased cholesterol like in your situation, we talked about it's a little bit high, but we talked about your diet, right? We talked about your glucose levels are low, they're good. Right. So if you have high cholesterol, you know, your high LDL low HDL in your sugars high, and you don't exercise in your blood pressure is high. Maybe you smoke like those once you start stacking up the things, then it's a problem. Right. But if for us, like if if your LDL is on the high side, but based in the conversation we have, it fits. Like, Oh, because you eat this, this and this. Great. But you exercise every day, your blood pressure is perfect. The rest of your blood works super clean. Kippy, you're okay. No, that's that's that's our belief. Cholesterol, there's a cholesterol is not as bad as it was originally thought for for many, many years. Sugar is much more of a focus. We like to see people with lower blood sugar. Sugar needs so many bad things. Yes, nation and it's, we know that it feeds cancer and things like that. So, sugar is a no no good cholesterol. Your HDL your healthy cholesterol was good. Right. So that's good. You know, your, your, your other, your LDL was could use a little improvement, but based on your lifestyle, it makes sense and it's okay. No, we weren't concerned about, you know, based on what I read. Good. That's huge. I'm glad to know that. And I love the glucose bar, by the way, that's just so people know that it hasn't always been like that. When I was younger, I was diagnosed to be hypoglycemic. And I really was. I mean, I have all the symptoms. And I remember thinking, I'm not going to go down like this because that feeling of crashing all the time and exhaustion and the not being able to think and the craving and all of it, it really ruled my life. So I just thought, you know, whatever it takes, I don't think I even ate sugar, honestly, for 17 years. I was so like, that's, that's not going to happen in my world. I'm very careful with that even today. And I've learned how to eat to keep the blood sugar at a really nice healthy level. And it's beautiful. I love the feedback from you. And having seen for many years now, the consistency of the health around the glucose, it's like, yes. Intermittent fasting will get your blood sugar levels lower, unless while you're fasting, if you're eating, if you're drinking like two liters of pop, then it's not getting up. You're drinking a ton of sugar. But if you, if you're eating reasonable, but you fast, it gives your body that opportunity to actually burn through that sugar you might be storing. That's great, great, great stuff that you do the intermittent fasting and your blood work is a good reflection of. And you guys do ways of healing cholesterol and getting it normalized without using medication. Supplements are out there that can work really well. And we're, we have as a, as a clinic, we have a less is more philosophy. Meaning we want to put you in the least amount of medications possible. And if it's a medication supplement blend and maybe it's a temporary supplement that helps get the correction. And then you stay there in that spot. Great. Right. And that's our approaches. It's not totally, it's not holistic because we are looking at bio identical hormone stuff, right, but it's, it's close as possible to, you know, if you're depressed or feel depressed, we may check hormones before we say take this pill, right. And just, and we don't, we don't work with folks in that, in that space, we're more hormone focused. And if something's wrong, you know, we can't clinically fix it that way, then we'll refer you to somebody and say hey, we tried this at least. And so, yeah, it varies. But we tried the supplements that help with blood pressure, we have supplements that we work with that help with cholesterol and other things too. Fantastic. So you do also glutathione injections. I am fascinated by that. What is it, what does it do in our bodies? And so glutathione is awesome. It's a super powerful antioxidant. You can probably go to some of those like IV drip spas and get it done. We also prescribe it with folks that do it at home. They just do a little, you know, jump in their shoulder. They might do it a couple times a week or week depending on, you know, it can help with liver enzyme levels that are high. That's one of the first places that we Oh, wow. And it helps just with getting kind of detoxing your body. It's like it's super healthy for you to do it under a controlled environment, right? Too much of anything's not good. And so that's, that's something that we do. We do things with, you know, obviously the 12 injections, different amino acid stuff, we go all the way into peptides, which is a whole different conversation space. It's super awesome, super interesting, amazing stuff that's going on in that world. Anything that's really going to help you from a health standpoint. And like I said, trying to be as holistic approach as possible with glutathione is something that can be natural occurring in the body to help flush out toxins antioxidant. It's a powerful, powerful antioxidant. So it works real well. Okay, so glutathione helps repair damaged cells caused by stress, radiation, pollution, infection, and a host of other ailments. And you're talking about a little shot. Yes. Is it okay to take it through a pill or is the injection the best way. Yeah, so we, we don't, it's not that there isn't, there's some liposomal with liposomal is kind of a new, a new technology for oral stuff like vitamin C glutathione to help break through the cell barrier, get the ingredient where it needs to be. And it's done, I've personally never done glutathione orally. We don't like prescribe it. I think that we would be open to it. If we, you know, if a pharmacy said, Hey, we have this, we would try it on the docs or myself before we would take it out, because we don't want something going on that doesn't maybe doesn't really work, or the bioavailability is limited and people, not everybody deals with medication the same. Some people won't, you know, they'd be wasting their money, where we know that small, little shoulder injection. It could be the difference, the difference maker for sure. I'm assuming that's like a subcutaneous shot. You can do it subcutaneous or small intramuscular. Okay. It's hard for anything subcutaneous. Anything bigger. It's like, Oh, I need a nerve. It's the same size. It's usually the same size shot. It's just, you know, you're throwing it here. And, you know, I come from a place where I've been like surrounded by it for so long. It's like simple to me. But yeah, it can be, well, we have a lot of clients are like, man, no needles. And we can do everything we do for the most part. We're, we're working on some stuff with habit signal here. I mean, gluteus thion topical, you know, transdermal gluteus thion. There's stuff out there, but, and we're looking into it. But until we as a clinic feel like thumbs up, this is working right into it. Right. But if we're not like really comfortable, we won't recommend it, even if it might be out there, maybe it works. Cool. When we come back, we're going to be speaking to Adam about his book. And I am going to delve a little bit into the peptide conversation. You're listening to Dare to Dream podcast. This is Debbie Daschinger. I'm a media visibility strategist who helps you create a unique presence through coaching to write your book and make it into a page turner. A guaranteed international bestseller done for you program. And also how to get scheduled on media interviews. Right now I'm opening up about to roll out next month a new beta program. Super excited about people are signing up for. And it's called the ultimate visibility formula, how to be interviewed on radio and podcasts and 60 days or less. Even if you don't have a list of podcast shows or any publicity knowledge, and I make good on that people are going to get an amazing program. So if you want to learn how you can attend the program yourself, go to Debbie D net slash visibility. And that's d e b b i d dot net slash visibility. And if you're tuning in. After we have started again Debbie Daschinger Dare to Dream and I'm interviewing Adam lamb. And the company that he founded is renew life rx.com. Adam, your book entitled better than the binge overcoming the social obligation of alcohol. Why, why do you write the book big subject big life change. Good. So, you know, drinking was always a part of my life. Good or bad. And even to the point as a child, my, my dad was an alcoholic, which ultimately led to their divorce, which actually led to an early death for him and things like that. Alcohol had like this, really a negative place. And I started drinking probably junior high school, the social thing party and doing that stuff. I started working in night clubs at 18. So I was just around it hanging out you're drinking you're doing shots all the way till I was like 20 years old 26 working at night club bartending that kind of so it was the environment right that I was in. You think of, you know, the whole tailgate college sorority all this stuff right like we just glorify alcohol. And so that's why it sometimes we don't realize it how bad it actually is because everyone else is doing it right it's like laying out in the sun tanning is not good for you, but everyone else is doing it feels good and I look good, you know, so like there's some things we do that are healthy forced because it's just something we do. And so, you know, I've been on this journey like self improvement journey I'm like obsessed with it. So I read so many books. I'm always looking into things and where I can better myself. And in doing this process, I kind of looked at alcohol, and I was just 2016, September fifth actually 2016 fire to that. I was like August and lived in Michigan at the time. We lived in the lakes, you're like out in the lake a lot tying up drinking, eating chips like just it was like, by the end of the summer you're like, you know, And we had, I think it was that Labor Day that's in September. I think. Yes. So it was that weekend we always have like a party at our house people over and I was like, and I told my wife I said, you know what, I'm going to take like 30 days off drinking. I'm like sick of it. I didn't even want to like drink the weekend that was there and I'll be honest with you, you know, I think in hindsight, my mind was like, I'm going to quit drinking. But I didn't like say I'm going to quit drinking. So I went 30 days that 30 days consists that a trip to Vegas is a business trip. Didn't touch a drop of alcohol. It's crazy. I've been to Vegas and not seen daylight. You really put yourself into some very testy situation. But it helped build my kind of confidence in the space of doing like, man, I just went to Vegas, cranking out meetings, doing a couple nightclub mixer type things, not drinking. I was like, well, it's pretty cool. I did a we did a trip with the Detroit Lions to Chicago, back home in Michigan is where I'm from. But a lot of just, you know, that's kind of a lot of the network people got to hang out with some of these dinners with tired pro football players ordering this great wine and I'm like, Diet Coke. And they're like, you know, and but I navigated through it. That's why I share some of those instances. And so I rolled into like 60 days. And the more I went, I was like more proud of myself. I kept overcoming these things. Like I said, I spent a lot of time reading self improvement mindset stuff. And so like, I'm able to execute those things, measure it. And I got to like 90 days. And I was like, you know what, I'm never drinking again. I'm going to stop drinking. And my wife's like, you know, cool, I support you. And I was like, it's going to be tough. But I realized I was able to look back at my life the last 90 days and I just saw the world differently. And I was crazy. And there's the 30 days like first of the year, like given up drinking for Lent doesn't do it. Like, you need 90 days and anyone's gone through that will tell you you need 90 days. Because you have this like self reflection of you, you're no longer who you were like alcohol even after you say you don't know why am I drinking the weekends. It's it's in you for a while. And it affects your body expects your mind your spirit. And, and so I removed it. I just saw everything. My confidence where I was I was like, man, I'm a bad ass. I'm like, you just feel like this unstoppable person. After you, if something that you did daily prior to this, I'd have a couple glasses of wine or a couple boxes every night. And when I think we're moving that eliminate so much fog, I had solutions faster. And I was like, I got to tell the world about this. And I didn't want to be the guy that's like, Hey, bro, are you doing good? Hey, hey, Susie, how you doing? Yeah, still drinking? You should probably put you know, I didn't want to do that because that's not how you make friends. That's how you lose them. But so I was like, I want to write a book. And, and I've always wanted to write a book. And I just, you know, this is my whole life if I want to write a book. But 90 days of stopping alcohol, I was like, I'm writing a book, come hell or high water. And I actually reached out to a guy who's a friend of mine, Tucker Max, he wrote a book. I hope they serve beer and hell. He also has a publishing company that he works with. And I told him my story is like, dude, that's awesome. You know, I already had like the stuff all my notes, because what I did for that process is I journaled everything, right? I journaled the emotional stuff I went through the reflection stuff I went through the situations that how I felt the nights I went out and didn't drink and came home and I was like, How awesome, right? Like it makes you feel good when you stick to your commitment, right? And so he helped me write this book, took us about nine months to do and then launched it. And I mean, I've just, since that's happened, I've been able to help hundreds of people quit drinking alcohol, change their lives, save their lives, save their marriages, save their careers. And it's awesome. So I do a coaching kind of thing in that space, like kind of some one-on-one. Like I said, I've been, I've had less with the opportunity to work a lot of pretty influential high-profile individuals. And through that, whether it's, you know, the hormone path or the alcohol path and some of that stuff I'm able to. But there's a connection there, isn't there that our hormones are connected to increased alcohol consumption? Yeah, absolutely. So I have a doc friend of mine who's done a ton of studies in the addiction space. And him and I will just, you know, we like to just have these kind of deep conversations on research and stuff like that. And some things that he's seen is that a lot of times men who over 38 that are likely to have kind of addiction issues. And remember addiction to alcohol isn't blackout drunk abusing your wife. It's consistent drinking, daily drinking, the occasional intoxication, that kind of stuff, especially if it's on the backside of high stress. And so what happens is as their testosterone can decrease, as men, we don't manage, and women can do, we don't manage stress as well. So the alcohol or substance helps to do that or more likely to become addicted to substance due to lower hormones. Amazing. Well, first of all, congratulations. That's almost three years ago. And that's enormous to have that kind of commitment to yourself and your passion. I love the idea that you are a voracious reader and you're so invested in this world of bettering yourself inside and outside. And you also do it, right? You don't just immerse yourself in the world. It's what you do for a living. It's what you do with your own body and mind and spirit. And that's a big commitment. I just know I'm a big believer that you have to lead by example. And, you know, I also, I was just telling you, before we started last night, I worked with our youth group at church too. And I had the opportunity and still blessed there to speak into their lives, right? And share the stuff of my past to be the person in their life, influential person to help guide them down a good path. Because I was a mess when I was young, right? Like my high school junior high, oh, jeez. But had I had somebody that knew what I know today invested in me then because I didn't, things could have been better. I'm happy all things turned out now, but it could have been easier for me to have somebody in my life. So I do that too. But in all those things, you know, the way I live my life every single day is people are watching, right? And I need to lead by example. And when you lead by example, it's a more proud life. You feel better about what you do. But if I'm telling you, Debbie, you should eat this, do this exercise this way, these kind of things. If I actually do that stuff, there's more validity in it than, you know, I need people to see that, you know, that who I am is who I talk about of like portray is really who I am every day. Beautiful, really. We do a whole show just on that. There's so much to say about the body and alcohol and more. So maybe that'll happen at another time. That's very appealing. So for people out there who really want to optimize their health, you mentioned peptides, which I find interesting peptides. I do understand that it can provide significant anti-aging benefits. And I also understand there's different kinds of peptides that do different things. So let me just start with this. I'll direct this a little bit so we get there. The peptides that are designed to heal tendons and ligaments. Yeah. BPC 157. You know what you're talking about. Yeah, that's good. I'm impressed. This is called researching Adam Lam and renewliferx.com. You did your homework. That's good. Diligence. So yeah, talk to me about that. How does powerful peptide heal like that? I'll play specifically. So a quick overview. A lot of peptides are when they originally kind of hit the buzz, like you talked and you first mentioned with the anti-aging type stuff is they're created is like growth hormone releasing peptides. Basically, you're taking something that stimulates your body to naturally release more growth hormone, which helps, you know, the body recover and repair to cellular level and it's good stuff. So what you mentioned, for example, another phase that's in the peptide space is regeneration. Right. And so that's the part that we really like is we'll talk a little bit where I'm going with regenerative medicine is from a clinic standpoint here very, very soon. But things like the BPC 157, it's a peptide that helps with healing. There's also another one called thymazine beta four. The kind of other name for it's called TB 500, which people might be more something you could Google more than you would thymazine beta four. And that's like a tissue repair, right. Wow. I recently, I had a cute Achilles tendon tear back in July. And for like six, seven, eight months, like it just doesn't get better. And I went, our doc put me on a BPC 157 within a week. I could get back in the treadmill and do like 30 minutes of cardio, not jogging, but like back. I couldn't even walk. I mean, I could literally couldn't take a walk with my dog around the block. That's amazing. So much pain. And within a week of being on it, my Achilles tendon just getting better, better. Now it's been four weeks. So I did my first kind of round of it. And I'm back on a treadmill. Like I can, I can get going. I could move around. I can hop around. I can do some stuff, which I haven't been doing a long time and people don't. It's one of those things that God brought me through it because I've always been in pretty good health from a physical standpoint. And I needed to understand it sucks sometimes just to walk. So much so grateful. Yeah. And the, so it worked phenomenally to from it to help prepare. So we have a lot of clients that do that stuff post surgery, maybe to avoid surgery, they're going to give, you know, six months of that for three months to see how that goes. I'm actually going to do stem cells here in the next week or so. We're opening a stem cell clinic here locally in Texas. And so that's super exciting. And that's a whole next level of regenerative medicine. But when you combine the stem cells, the hormone peptides and, you know, having knowledge of healthy living, you can really, really help people, right, especially if they're dedicated to follow that path. You know, I shared with you the first time we talked like, if human growth hormone was affordable, I'd be living on it. I'm just saying everybody tried it once and many years ago. It was crazy ridiculous. The change never anticipated that but without a doubt, my whole body changed literally the shape of my body and and my energy level and how I functioned was spectacular. But a month, you know, some Q injections were over and that was that. So you also work with something IGF, which is insulin growth factor. Insulin-like growth factor. IGF1, LR3, and that's considered a peptide in that it's in that same space. And that's the thing is that, you know, the growth hormone, like human growth hormone, you're taking a product that puts more growth hormone in your body. And some of the peptides that fall under that like growth hormone, increasing peptides, right, those actually get your body to increase your IGF1 levels naturally, right, or on their own, as opposed to dumping it all in, right. And so it can, if there's more, you know, from the studies, there's more of a longevity of use, because we've seen folks that have done growth hormone pretty consistently for like five years, and it doesn't work as well. You can also get insulin sensitivity with growth hormone, pretty bad, especially at higher doses. So there's, you know, there's, there isn't 100% on whether growth hormone can speed up tumor growth or increase the risk of if you have an underlying issue of cancer. But there isn't really anything saying that's for sure, and there's nothing that says it's not. Okay. You know, that the peptides are also way more affordable growth hormone is crazy expensive. And it's highly regulated to where the peptides are not as regulated, you always want to make sure you know we work with legitimate pharmacies that make it, you know, actually the best pharmacy in the country that makes it we work with. And it gets the results, you know, we, we rolled out peptides for a year with kind of inner circle folks, our docs, you know, myself, other people that to measure it, see how it works, see how we did stuff before we offer some, you know, like I said earlier with some of these other things, we always check it first before we roll it out. And it's just that it's been incredible from a health standpoint, especially the regenerative ones like the TV, the BPC 157, and that thymazine beta four are just phenomenal, but there's also just fat loss stuff I'm going to do here soon. It's a topical fat loss that just it gets rid of the fat right below the skin. Who doesn't want that. Well topical so cool because that was going to be one of my questions. Is all of this based on injections, or are there different forms that you can ingest a peptide. There's so there's peptides now that and I've tried all this stuff there's it's so vast that it's hard to like be we know we're we're we're with the experts that know it real well. We're not with all of it. There's so many of it. But the pharmacy that makes all this stuff. These are the guys they got the nerd docs that have done all the research trials all this stuff to understand it. But there's peptides for men with hair loss that it's it's a topical thing. It's a peptide that goes in here that's crazy making hair grow back for awesome. There's a lot of this oral you can take BPC 157 orally, and it can help with leaky gut it can help with Crohn's disease it can help with it can go through and help with that interior intestinal lining and all kinds of stuff. Oh my god I want a peptide drip right now. Yeah. Get out the IV. And so there's there's topical there's topical stuff there's a one that helps with tissue repair to it's like AOD. I actually have something sitting here. It's AOD 9604 and that's a cream that you can you put the application rub in between forearms. That's it. And what it does is it helps with repairing cartilage throughout the body. Right. And there's there's another one that that's that's popular especially with some women it's it's called GHKCU. And there's a there's a that's what's the scalp one so it's a scalp foam that helps with hair loss but it also helps the subcutaneous injection helps the skin elasticity significantly and it can help with that. Just underneath the dermal area tightening to so it can help help when you so if you have an injury and that the injuries starting to heal in this area is still kind of weak from maybe an impact of injury that can also help this area. So it's kind of helping from the inside out. Amazing. Wow. Love hearing this love being alive during this and all the options. This is spectacular. So folks, you're listening to Dare to Dream podcast. Subscribe so this comes right into your box whether you're in YouTube or speaker stitcher iTunes you can subscribe easy peasy leave us a five star review so other people who enjoy this kind of conversation can find the show. And again the show is sponsored by Dr. Dane here and access consciousness.com. We're coming to the end but I want to try to get in a couple quick questions here that one more peptide that I know you guys work with, which is chemically synthesized, and similar to growth hormone releasing hormone which is called Tessa. Moreland. Tessa Moreland. Tessa Moreland, even prettier. Okay. And so that's, that's a great when you brought up. I personally haven't tried it. We've had some kind of folks in the team that have tried it. We've had some folks have tried it that we're doing growth hormone. And then tried this to kind of compare contrast and the Tessa Moreland as far as like overall that loss recovery was better. I mean, you know, we just hey what do you think what do you like better and that and the folks are saying that they like that more than growth hormone. And it's it is it's it's probably the more expensive peptide, but I haven't used it like I said but the folks that we've had using it that we've been monitoring checking their blood work and stuff have had nothing but rave reviews about it and their blood work is showing good stuff. And that that that that products really incredible I think that that this year is going to be something we're going to do pretty big with that product because it is been so beneficial clinically and we want to see where it can go for me more mainstream. It's awesome though. Yeah, this is exciting stuff. And again folks this is Adam lamb if you would like to go to the website it's renew life, our x.com Adam this is dare to dream. What are you next dare to dream. What are your future dreams and goals. You know, right now what I'm focused on is we're launching a stem cell clinic. If you can see that here it's called renew life nation reset renew regenerate. We're launching the first one here in Texas know we're going to be kind of licensing our process throughout the country. That's that's the goal that's the dream right that we want to do to where we can bring what we do in regenerative medicine to major cities throughout the country, so that we can, you know, essentially help more people. Very exciting stuff. Thank you. And what is there anything here at the end you'd like to tell the listeners or viewers that we haven't yet addressed. If they have any questions on finding out information to go to renew life rx.com and fill out just a contact form we'll get in touch with them within 24 hours at the latest. If there's anyone, you know, one wants to reach out personally that maybe they're struggling with something in their life whether it's, you know, alcohol hormone something like that, you know that they can feel free to email me, they're the book emails Adam at better than the binge.com. And if you want to follow me on Instagram and see what I'm doing in my life it's Adam lamb 33. And they can see what's what's happening. Awesome. So just folks I want you to see real quick from the blunt heads blood test that I did through Adam and his company. You know you could see this is pretty detailed information. I was happy that I had a great blood test, and there were pieces for me to look at and pieces that we're going to do some work on that are important. A couple of hormones that I have that actually registered too high, which is very interesting and very important but it's a ton of information. And it's a really good blueprint, you know, it's a good reference point to start from to see where whatever changes and tweaks I make and how this might show up in three more months after those changes and tweaks but I'm also super dedicated to longevity and healthy so this is so important and I can testify as somebody who suddenly went into a spell of like I've always been full of energy and life and social and I had a day I woke up and total despair, exhausted, uninterested in anything in life definitely zero negative libido and more. And most important I think is I didn't feel like me I felt so completely outside of myself I couldn't even recognize me. Thank God for hormones. Thank God that somebody recognized and put you know what you're talking about your blood work and the how thorough we were in the process we did you know one thing or motto we have that we say, it's kind of catchy is if you're not testing you're guessing right and we say that because it's kind of silly and catchy but that's the reality is too often we talk to folks and they're like well I think it's this or I think I have this. Maybe I have a thyroid issue or maybe it's just I think I have this and I'm like how did you check you know I didn't get my blood work done because they like WebMD did or started getting on Google don't get on Google. We take the guesswork out of it. We figured out and this is what we look at we've worked with thousands of people. For the course of time we work with some major celebs we work a major high profile business folks we work with like I said my neighbor down the street who's just trying to get it back after that had popping out some kids you know like whatever the whatever the goal is we can help with that. Unless you're trying to be a bodybuilder we cannot help you with that we don't work with those folks we hope we're in a lifestyle optimization that performance enhancing. So that we'd love to help out anyone anyone of your listeners that want to come over and if they also if they mentioned they came from your show, we will offer a think we do a 20% discount on their initial consultation and blood work. And I can testify that Adam does get back to you really quickly so you know you won't be out there like me calling the doctors that I did and literally crazy email and a phone call nothing they. I don't even understand that but he gets back to you right away so it is a whole different energy methodology and way of doing business and creating great health for yourself and definitely don't guess test. Adam, thank you so much for your brilliance today and thank you for having me. It's awesome. It's been great. And I end today's show with this quote from Marilyn Ferguson of all the self fulfilling prophecies in our culture the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. Next week on Dare to Dream I'm featuring and bringing back Julie Lowenstein. She's a psychic a medium a channel she's on my and she does live readings for the dare to dream audience. Last time she read people on the show and they were blown away by her accuracy so we're bringing her back for big transformation conversations. 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