Hello and welcome to the first episode of Health Matters.

My name is Dr. Michael Chalemi, and it'll be my pleasure to be your guide on this journey

to better health and wellness.

On this podcast, what we're going to aim to try to do for you guys is to transform the way

you think about traditional health. We're going to give you inside and expert advice, real

stories, actionable tips that you can use in your life on a daily basis.

Whether you're looking to improve your diet, manage your stress, pain levels, your back, your neck,

arthritis, or just a deeper understanding of the latest advancements in the medical

community. You're in the right place, so let's get started. So I'm going to give you a little

bit of a back history on me. I'm a chiropractic practitioner for the last 27 plus years. I have been a traditional

chiropractor for most of those years. But part of that, I transformed myself into what I'll

call a functional type doctor.

So a functional type doctor means I took a deep understanding of the functionality of the body and how it works, what causes problems, where you have deficiencies. And with that, I've been in the

functional world where we do typically impairment ratings and different things for many

different people over the last 20, well, the last 24 years ish.

So I've been doing it a long, long time.

Right behind me, you're going to see I have two computerized patents,

computerized function testing.

I'm very, very proud of that.

I had a lot of help along the way for multiple family members and staff,

but we had two patents on computerized function testing, and those patents are very difficult

to come by in today's standards. It took us about eight years to get those

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