454: Proactive Personal Health Care with Dr. Doug Pucci

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Lucas Rockwood

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🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Proactive Personal Health Care
with Dr. Doug Pucci
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I went to the doctor to get routine blood work and was sent home with a prescription for benzodiazepines. I specifically said I didn’t want to take anything, but the doctor insisted that if I wasn’t sleeping well, and the smart thing to do was to medicate.

How does this happen? Why does this happen? And how can you be sure it doesn’t happen to you? The only person who can be in charge of your health is you, so you have to be proactive, but figuring out how to start can be difficult. My guest on this week’s show will help you reclaiming agency of your health

Listen & Learn:

Why most standard blood test are useless
How diet and lifestyle changes are often the best place to start
How to think and plan long term for your health
How to take charge of your own health

Links & Resources

Doug’s website

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Doug Pucci is a chiropractor and functional medicine practitioner, He won The Best Of 2020 Awards for Functional Medicine in Oradell, NJ, and entry into Trademark Publications’ Top Doctors of America, Who’s Who Directory – Honors Edition.

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0:00.0	Most of us want to be proactive with our health.
0:05.5	We want to do everything we can to expand our health span to be as healthy as we can for
0:10.9	as long as we can.
0:12.4	In that vein, I went to the doctor recently to get some blood work done, just some routine
0:16.0	blood work.
0:17.0	I wanted to check my hormone levels and my A1C levels and C-reactive protein, things like
0:21.0	this.
0:22.0	The doctor was really happy to see me.
0:23.0	He said, hey, wow, we don't have anything going on.
0:25.0	Great that you're being proactive with your health.
0:26.8	And so I was feeling good about myself.
0:28.9	He asked me if I had any problems with sleep or my stomach or anything like that.
0:33.4	I said, no, no, problems at all.
0:34.4	I'm not really sleeping very well, but that's nothing new for me.
0:36.4	I have struggled with sleep for a long time.
0:38.4	He said, oh, we've got to get that fixed.
0:40.0	I said, no, no, no.
0:41.0	I do a few things.
0:43.0	I try breathing practices and yoga and I do a lot of things, but it seems like it's something
0:47.1	I'm struggling with.
0:48.1	He's like, no, no, we can fix it.
0:49.1	Let me give you a prescription.
	...

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