The Troubleshooter 3-14-24

And y'all ripped. Ugh, you need advice, so you don't help, you'll come run anxious as fast as you can. Shooter's gonna help, come Man Dix. He is the Troubleshooter Show. No Tom Martine, Hey, welcome to the show. I'm here to help you solve your problems, answer your questions, take your complaints, make your life a little easier. On Tap today I got Grossman wellness doctor. Terry Grossman a friend and he is

also my doctor, and he will be on. So he does have permission to talk about, uh, the fact that I'm his doctor, because all that hippocrap, you know. Anyway, So we'll be talking to him about health and wellness in a way you may not have heard before. And then we'll talk to anybody who calls with problems, question complaints. I also want to talk about the TikTok band, because I really delved into that and I have some serious questions about it and Pie Pie. As soon as I said

that, people are reaching for the knife and fork. The history of Pie Pi. I have no idea why we have Pie Day and why it's important, but we do, and Pie just went out looking it up. What's pie real quick. What is it? What's the ratio? What is it? Three point well? Do you remember three point one? Four? Right? Today's and it goes on and it goes on infinitely and never repeats and times. What's amazing date? What's that? It is? Today's date? Oh, that's why it's oh day. What an idiot I am. I'm

wondering why they picked it as pie Day. I would never use those words. Oh my god, So you made it in, Shannon, and I hear Kaschina back there. She made it in? Mark is a big woopbag you. Oh you're there. I was going to talk about you. You didn't make it in though, did you? How many? You can't make it out of my driveway? Are you nuts? What snow? He's out in Franktown Era. What's how much snow? I'd say thirty inches so far? Without blinking? Okay, well, you know, well everyone knows what

the city has. And I'm in the city and I did have to drive this morning. Long story, but I did have to drive. I had to meet somebody. And I do want to mention, by the way, that Premiere Window Cleaning and Pressure Washing is doing snow removal today on a no obligation basis. In other words, a lot of people don't have contracts, or they expired or you know what I'm saying is and now it's March and they're saying, who do I get to remove this snow? And anyway?

They want you to know they're going to be doing it at Premiere Okay, and I'm going to give you that number so that now they don't have us plow for big parking lots, but they'll do residential driveway so they have snowblowers and shovels and people and they're ready, willing and able to get to you. Okay, seven to zero nine five three zero zero seven eight for immediate

snow removal on a case by case I need it now basis. In other words, they're not obligating you to a contract or anything, but if you want one, they'll get you on a seven two zero nine five three zero zero seven eight. Trust Premiere Window dot com. That's if you need snow. Let me go to the phones and then we'll talk to doctor Grossman and his deputy doc didn't make it in Diddy Dinny as well. He's remote as well because he's an old poker buddy of doctor Grossman here. That's a I

guess doctor's like to gamble and play golf. Anyway, Danny, what's going on? Danny? Oh? Yes, sir, Sorry, what's happening? Well? First off, I just wanted to say I have listened to your show for quite a long time. So how old are you, Danny? How old? Thirty five? So it would have preceded your your birth and and did you get introduced to it by your dad or your uncle or grandfather or something. Yeah, I remember my parents and my grandparents listening to you.

That's how it works. Welcome aboard. What's going on? I just had a question about I received a debt collection letter from a collection agency and I filed a dispute with them. I know what is the debt for? Is it something you recognize? Yes, it's it's a cell phone. It's a leftover amount for a previous cell phone company I was with that I was. I went in on the contract with my brother. How old was I debt? Six months? Okay, because six years or longer, they can't

file for a judgment, so it really doesn't have any legs. So anyway, do you want to settle this debt? Is that what you're calling about. Well, I wanted to dispute the debt because kind of things kind of went south between my brother and myself. Well, what do you want to dispute if you were on the If you're on the contract, then you had a problem with your brother not coming through. You can't dispute the debt with the collector. The creditor doesn't care. So was it you and your brother

on this bill? Correct? We were both on the bill, And what ended up happening was I had removed myself from the account, and then he went after, how did you remove yourself? We both got on the phone and talked to the cell phoned company and I had to give authorization to split from the account, that he would take over the control of the account. He didn't want to change carriers. Did you get any kind of confirmation in writing or anything? No, no, I did not. So right now

they're simply going to say it's a joint account. They're going to show the original contract. What would you have to prove you weren't on it. I don't think I have anything. How much are they trying to get from? It's only it's four hundred and seventy dollars. Where's your deadbeat brother? That's that's that's an entirely different question. I don't know. Oh wow, so you were once on the account. You claim you were taking off the account, but you have nothing to show it. I have bad news for you,

Danny, seriously. I mean, they don't have to take you off. I mean, anyone can say that any kind of collection in the world. I was taken off that okay. I mean that's the bottom line, unless unless you can tell me, you know, here's what I have a confirmation number, or I don't know. I mean, if they don't acknowledge it. How how long ago were you taking off the account? Probably about eight months before that, so it's been less than a year. Okay,

Well that's good. That's good. Will they at least go back and check phone records? Do you have a eight Oh yeah, I'm sure that that could be Uh, that could be done. My my question was more along the lines of I filed a dispute with the credit agency and they just instead of responding to it, they just sold my debt to somebody else. You

mean, the cell phone company sold your debt. Well, if the cell phone company sold to a collection agency, and then I disputed that, I sent them certified mail, disputed it, and instead of responding to me, that credit agency I'm assuming sold it to a different credit AKA because I can use that the same collection for a different company. They can do that. They don't have to. They don't have to respond if you dispute it. No, no, man, the credit reporting agency does not the creditor.

A creditor should respond, but they don't have to. They can just say you the money, or they can sell the debt. You don't have any special rights for them to respond. I wish you did, because it would keep people out of court, but I think you would lose it anyway. I don't know on what basis your what I would say if you're going to dispute it with the new people, since simply say it was your brother's account, not yours, make them prove it. I'll bet you they don't have

the original contract. I mean, you can try to play your bluff that way. That would be the best way to do it. Already, I'm getting a text. By the way, you can always text the show five seven seven three nine. Already I'm getting a text. When they heard doctor Grossman on Grossman wellness. I think it's called I call it concierge medicine. I mean, not me, but that's what everyone calls certain kinds of medicine. Is that what you call your medicine? Concierge medicine, doctor Grossman?

Is that basically it? Well, contenter's medicine. A lot of people are becoming disenchanted with having to, you know, wait long periods of time to see their doctors. Yeah, and they want a more personalized relation on doctors are under the on to see many patients, yeah, per day, et cetera. So they've turned to this concierge model where people pay a certain amount of money every month and then they have greater access to doctors. And it's

typically not an insurance based model. Now, but you've been doing it way longer than I heard about it. And the concierge has become popular the last five years. But you've been doing this way longer than that. Oh yeah, we've been doing it for twenty five years. So what made you go

into that model? I became I was, you know, I'm a regular medical doctor, right, but I became a little bit disenchanted with conventional therapies and more interested in more alternative, holistic, complimentary therapy and longevity stuff and longevity stuff. I was getting older myself, right, and so as I moved into this model, I found that it really didn't fit with an insurance based practice. So I became because it's a wellness practice. It's not come

to me when you're sick. It's come to me regularly and you won't get sick or we try it on me exactly. That's what our model is. And so people pay a small amount of money each month and then they have yea access it that most medicine should be that way. I think it really should, I think, and I think we're moving towards that model more and

more. I want to know one question you hear another text real quick, what's the most common mistake people make, just if you had to pick one when they come to see you, what's the most common thing you see? Stress? By far, meaning they don't deal with it, or they have it. They have it everybody there. It takes a toll on you.

It takes a toll on you. Yeah, it really does. I mean, I think we're all stressed out by one thing or another, and I think stress interferes with so many of our Hell, what can you do about stress? Take more vacations, get a massage. But there are there are actually there are actually supplements. Yeah, it takes stress fighting supplements. There are a couple great herbal supplements. There's one I like called Rodeola r h io d o l a Rodeola rosia and it seems to work as good as

like that, I know. Do you like Ashawandada Yeah, Asloganda's uh An ir Vedic herb. And it's also a great stress for Liever helps your body deal with stress. All right, we got more coming up three oh three seven one three talks seven one three eight two five five any and all calls on anything right after this. Go with a sure thing Denver's best roofer Excel Roofing dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're content. Time for

an insurance check up free, no obligation. In comparison, call Compass insurance paying too much your coverage at dozens of insurance companies find out now three oh three, seven to seven to one help. You'll think you're his only customer when you choose Frank durand the real estate Man dot com to list your home with Remax Alliance three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martinez, you're a troubleshooter. Three all three seven one three talk three oh

three seven one three eight two five five. Jeff has a problem with a dumpster. Jeff, what's happening? Hi Tom, thanks for taking my call. What's going on? Man? I last September I rented a twenty yard dumpster from a place called Big Bob's Dumpster. It charged me three hundred dollars. And what was it? What did you rent it for? Oh?

I put yards and stuff in it. I filled it up. Okay, So about five four days ago, I got a collection of the agency calling me saying I owe another place called trash Daddy Dumpster six hundred dollars for the rental. Now what, so you already paid for big what was the guy's name, Big Bob Bob's Dumpster. You so you already paid for that one? Right? But I so I got a hold of trash Daddy Dumpster and

this is what happened. They were scammed a lot. A person that I rented from rented from trash Daddy. I paid Big Bob's Dumpster, which got it I don't even think of a legit company. And they didn't. They put it on a credit card, just speed to the chargers, so they didn't charge. They didn't. How did they trace you? How did they trace you? Man? How do they know you had their dumpster for that time? Because there's my address? Oh, I'd say he's got an affirmative

defense. I don't know if he doesn't not. I mean, I mean, what I'm saying is is that he paid. He paid the subcontractor in full. If he has the receipts from Big Bob's I think he would win in court. Okay, I'm going to say one thing that could possibly step in the way of that could possibly what if, for example, Big Bob

stole some supplies and installed them at his house. I'm not saying this is the same thing, but I'm just giving a scenario, and he paid Big Bob in full for him, and he would have an affirmative defense if he had certain things his residence, his contract, proof of payment and full But there's also something else here with the dumpster. I know why they're going after him. Trash Daddy's thinking, we're going to get paid probably if we go

after the customer. But there's something else called quantum marrowit, which means you got value and didn't pay for it. I do agree that he's a victim. They're both victims, but I don't know how it would shake out. Jeff, how far is trash Daddy? How much was the bill? How much does trash Daddy want? Okay, well, they charged six hundred dollars. But this is what happened real quick. Well, how much do they want from you? About six hundred dollars? All right, keep going?

What were you going to say? Okay? Well, I contacted trash Daddy. They were very very cooperative and helpful. They have a five star rating good goodness. They said that you know what, we got ripped off? About eleven thousand dollars in a two month period. They worked with me and said, you know what you got ripped off, We got ripped off. We're going to squash this. Good. They were very helpful. But I want people to know that the collection agency said they could put a lead on

my house for this, even though I I paid big boxes. Oh whoa hold on? If trash Daddy doesn't want to pursue it, why would the collection agency pursue it? Well, First of all, I was contacted by the collection agency. Then I contacted. I get that, but what But but did trash Daddy sell that to them? Or are they because trash Daddy simply can tell the collectors stop collecting. No, you've seen these contracts time, We've looked at them. These contracts are straightforward. Once you agree to

it, they get to decide what they do. They basically own the debt. Yeah, if that was the case, that's what I was asking. Is trash Daddy still in charge here? And they just hired the collection agency or as a collection agency calling the shots? Well, I was contracted by the collection agency first, So then they said they could put a lien on my house. I didn't want that to happen, so I reached out to trash Daddy, but trash Daddy worked with me. Okay, so what's happening

now? Well, I at first I just want to know if they could put a lien on my house. I don't think so. But I mean they could, but they couldn't perfect it. Yeah, I mean it would go away. Well, at first I was nervous about that, but then when I reached out to trash Daddy, they worked with me. And were very helpful and cooperative. So I want people to know that just because you ran from one guy doesn't mean that he turned around and ridge it from another

company. And no, I get what you're saying, man, I get exactly what you're saying, And I'm really happy that you know that that the the other place trash Daddy was stand up people and they're saying, look, we're not going to make you pay for us skiing ripped off. I do want to cover this one more time for anybody listening out there. If it is your own residence, your home, not a rental, nothing like that, but your home, and you paid a contractor in full, he did

not pay his suppliers, he did not pay his contracted labor. He didn't doesn't even matter. But if you can prove that you paid in full, you have an affirmative. You have to have a written contract that has to be your primary residence and it has to be paid in full. Mark I agree. What I'm asking is I don't think a dumpster rental falls under that. It might, but I don't. I don't know why it wouldn't. I mean, I mean, because you're you're renting a dumpster. I don't

know. I mean, is that considered a home improvement or a contract on your house? I don't know. I have to look more into the landman. What I'm saying is it's an affirmative defense. If they attempt to lean the property, they'd be going after the property. They would be bringing it into the realm of the property. Yeah, that's a good point that they try. But Mark, what if someone else gets a judgment and puts a lean on the house. We should you know what we should not? And

it has nothing to do with the house. That's what I'm getting at. Affirmative defenses for leans are usually for improvements to the property. Now, we could probably make an argument, Okay, this is an improvement to the property. It helped improve the property. Who do you think we should check with, like Brad O'Brien. Yeah, and basically I'm reading it here, basically says under Colorado last supplier, subcontractors, other persons furnishing labors or providing labor

or material for work on your residential property. I mean that covers like any thing I can imagine. Yeah, it does. I would like to ask him. I'd like to ask him his opinion, though, Sure, I want to tell you that I had no idea who trash Eddie was when I did this, Big Bob. No, I get it. I get it. You were screwed. I get it. Yeah, I don't know anything about trash Eddy till five days ago. No, No, I totally get

it. Three oh three, Okay, seven to one to three. Talk hold on, and we're going to try to get Brad O'Brien on to talk about Leans in general, because there is an affirmative defense. And again, this is something that a lot of people don't fully understand. And it is only for your primary residence. It's not for commercial contracts. It's also you have to have a written contract with proof of payment and full blah blah blah blah blah. By the way, Dan McKenzie does a state planning work.

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oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino here. You know a few years ago there was a law passed that helped people deal with leans, and it basically gave them an affirmative defense if a subcontractor came by and said, hey, we weren't paid, but there were certain conditions. You had to have had it done, the work done at your primary residence. You had to have a written contract, and you had to have proof that you paid the general. Now, Brad, is that correct? First

of all, am I remembering that correctly? I'm not sure if you're describing something besides the mechanics than the statute for a mechanics slean there there. There was a few years ago or several years ago, the Affirmative Defense passed where which gave consumers a defense if they could prove they paid the general. Oh in the general didn't pay the subs right, Yeah, that's that's a trust fund statute type of a claim. Do you know. We were just curious

Jeff rented. This is a weird one. Jeff rent it a dumpster for a project he was doing at the house. He rented the dumpster. The guy who the guy he got the dumpster from, was subleasing it, and he never paid the guy who owns the dumpster. The guy who owns the dumpster sent to creditor after Jeff. Now Jeff has since gotten it taken care of. But we had a curious question would this fall under that If he could prove he paid for that dumpster once, could that preclude the owner of

that dumpster coming back to him. That's a pretty nuanced question, I know, but it is it is the same. I mean, if the collector said, hey, you didn't pay for this dumpster, well, just as a general think of this. Someone is building your garage attached to your house and they have to get a dumpster in order to tear down the old one. So the dumpster is there part part of the entire contract for the work done. I don't know what difference it would be if it was just a

dumpster. Neither do I, but go ahead. In generalities, a sub can go directly after the homeowner for a mechanics lean bypassing the general contractor if the homeowner knew about the sub's work, or if there was a contract that tie the all together. Where the sub can not go after the homeowner is where the homeowner was unaware of the subs work and there's no written contract. Okay, So now some mechanics naans can also be suppliers vendors leans. That

would be this case. This would be like a supplier. They supplied the dumpster, they were never paid for that dumpster, but the homeowner paid the guy. Okay, well, so it doesn't sound like the the the dumpster vendor can can go after the homeowner, but they wouldn't because they got paid. But it's basically a subsidiary dumpster vendor who had who might have might have had a claim. So yeah, potentially they could have had the Connects claim

climb against the house. Does that answer your question? Yeah, yeah, I'm thinking that Jeff is protected. Really the bottom line, Brad O'Brien is a real estate attorney and handles things like this of course, but again it's it's really a weird one. But Jeff, if I were you, you did take get it taken care of, and thank you for warning us. But I want to tell people and Brad by the way, if you need to get a hold of him, is ols law dot com seven to zero

three seven zero seventy three eighty eight. Now, one thing I do want to say, if ever you hire people to do work at your house, you hire a general. Make sure everything is in right with the general, and then don't sign separate contracts unless you're going to pay people directly. Sign You might even want to ask for lean waivers too, right, and you sign with the general and then you have proof of payment to the general. Again, in general terms, I would never pay in advance upfront, not

big money. You pay as you go. And then if you ever have a question on materials or subs, if ever you hear any rumblings investigated immediately. I mean, that's why I always say, when you deal with people on big projects, there's nothing wrong with asking for references, not only previous customers, but suppliers as references. So let's talk to Claire. Now, who has an issue with a contractor. Claire, go ahead, what's going on? Hi? Toon, Hi, what's happening. I hired a contractor,

Gates Enterprises, for a variety of hail damage repairs. One of them was roof replacement. Got a replacement, some deck railing painting, okay, and the roof went great, I believe, But I pay the majority of the insurance. They agreed to do this work for the Now, how did you enter into it? How did you find Gates? By the way, my neighbor. He Gates did my neighbor's roof and they were in and out

in two days. My neighbor was very happy with their work. And then I looked them up on the Better Business Bureau and they had an A plus rating. Yeah, which means nothing. We have people in prison with A plus ratings. I don't know how I can get this across the true The Better Business Bureau is a dinosaur. It's like it's amazing to me they're still

around. They're a useless organization. I would like to ask anyone anywhere if the Better Business Bureau ever, ever, ever, ever, ever put someone out of business, or sued somebody, or got money back for somebody directly. I'd like to know that the answer is no. They're just a dinosaur. And what bothers me is these A plus ratings? Mark and my Lion or dying on. We sent the guy to prison. We were instrumental in it. He's in prison for embezzlement and screwing clients, and he has an

he didn't he have an A plus rating. Yeah for about a year after he was in the pen for twelve. Well, he's in there for twelve and for the only reason they took him off the A plus rating is because we started making fun of them. We started making fun of the Better Business Bureau. Yep, people can look up Don Eiley, Don Eiley anyway. Is he still on the Better I wonder he might still be up there. They finally I don't know what they finally did, but they did so.

Claire, Here's what I want to ask, how much did you pay up front? I didn't pay anything upfront? Because they agreed to do this for insurance, and they waved my deductible which was one thousand dollars when they completed the root, which is by the way, fraudulent on your part for the insurance. But go ahead, keep going. Oh interesting, Yeah, if you read your policy and they wanted to reduce their cost by a thousand, it goes to the insurance company first. But keeping on, that's either here

nor there. They talked to you into doing that. Go ahead. They replaced my roof, and I paid them the big check of the insurance money that the job was thirty five thousand, I paid them twenty six thousand. So after the roots, and at that time they took down my gutters, I was without gutters for a month and for and without gutters, we had a couple of snowstorms and the drops were going straight down and I was fearful of water in my basement. I kept calling them, but I got no

one to respond to me for two weeks. At that point, I felt I'd been scammed. I was worried. But in December they did call me and they did put in gutters early December, but they don't work. So now I have paid them all but forty seven thousand dollars, I mean forty seven hundred dollars. And my question to you is am I obligated to give him this money when my gutters don't work? I mean the gutter drips about a foot on the right side of the gutter. Well, here's what you're

here's what you're uh, you're obligated to do. In my opinion, it hasn't been decided in court, but most courts would rule you give them a chance to mitigate and fix. If they don't, you can go out and assess how much it'll cost to fix that problem and apply that money for that. But then this guy can come and lean it. You're going to have to defend yourself. So here's what I want to know. How the bottom line is the gutter's leak? Is that right? Or do they leak in

one spot? Let's get right to it. They've one gutter leaks in one spot and I have had him out here twice. All right, Any good? Do you need someone else then to look at it and tell you what's wrong with it? And then if he won't make the appropriate repair, you tell him you're having it done. The owner, Andrew Gates called me up two days ago and was very aggressive with me, first to accuse me of

not accepting his call and sending it to voicemail. Well, if only one, you know, it might be a little overreaction, If only one gutter is leaking, Well, I guess there's other work, so they Okay, see now you're a moving target. So tell me exactly what is not done on your house. We have a gutter leaking. What else? Okay? They have not removed removed vent cap furnace and replaced vent caps. I don't even know what those are. But was that part? Was that part of

your contract? Yes, they have painted my deck rail, but they just painted over what was there. The work is terrible, really terrible. Okay, hold on, we'll come right back to you. I got some ideas three O three seven one three A two five five Go with a sure thing Denver's best roofer Excel roofing dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're

content. Wait time for an insurance checkup, free no obligation comparison call Compass insurance paying too much your coverage at dozens of insurance companies find out now three oh three seven to seven to one help. You'll think you're his only customer when you choose Frank durand the real estate man dot Com to list your home with Remax Alliance. Three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino, your troubleshooter three O three seven to one three talk three oh

three seven one three eight two five five. Welcome to the show. All right, Claire, here's the deal, Okay, bottom line, what you're saying is you're not pleased with the work. It really comes down that you're simply not pleased with the work. And what you would like to do is you would like to withhold payment. Okay, you can, but I'm going to tell you something. It has to be justified. You already got that thousand dollars off from your thing, and you owe four, so technically you

would owe another five. But I don't even want to get into the numbers. You better have somebody justify everything that needs to be corrected and how much it's going to cost. Okay, because you talked about at first just one gutter leaking, now you're telling me there's a bunch of stuff you don't like. So here's what's going to happen. When did they finish the job? When did they actually finish the last part of the job. The first week

of March. Okay, they have a certain amount of time. I think it's four months from the time they leave the job to put a lien on your house. Okay, Well he's according to his phone call two days ago, he is putting a lien on my house. Well, first he has to do it and intental ly, and he has to give you a warning. And he has every right to put a lien on your house. I'm not speaking to the quality of work right now. That Gates Enterprises has every

right to put a lien on your house. You have every right to dispute it. But it's going to be a mess. Okay. I would guess that contract you signed with Gates says that every penny you get from the insurance company goes to them. Correct, And I'm happy to give it to him. I have no problem paying them. Well, you just said you didn't want to because the work sucks. No, no, I want to withhold the money untill that gutter drains correctly, and I actually had. But what

about the other problems you brought? No, no, no, what about the other problems you brought up. Well, I also have unfinished work. Okay, what about that? So there's more than the gutter. I guess I need to know from you. Number one. Can he record our phone conversation because he did? Yes? Yes, yes, okay? And how would I know if my roof is completed? I have the inspection notice here and I got a mid roof sign off, but I don't know if I have. I don't blame you for wanting to know this, Claire. You

should. You should make sure it passes inspection. Yes, and if you have any doubts, you can hire an independent roof inspector, and there's nothing wrong with doing that. If you've lost your trust to this guy, you can have all of the work inspected and then you can demand that it be fixed. However, I'm going to tell you something. If there's a difference of opinion. One guy says, hey, this is fine, and you

say it's not. That they get to lean. That doesn't mean they're gonna it's going to go anywhere, but they can lean, and then you have to fight to show that you had every right to withhold that payment. Now, if you want, we can call him for you and say look, why don't you just fix the stuff and she'd be happy to pay you if you want us to do that, Tell Kashina and we'll do that. I'm Tom Martine way back with Grossmannwellness dot com. Coming up on the Troubleshooter Show.

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good stuff. And then blood work every three months. All of that you're not nickels and dimed. And then you get the consultation. So before we get into that, I wanted to ask you, I mean, by the way, I welcome your calls on anything three oh three seven one three talk seven one three eight two five five on health or anything. Give us an update on weather if you want. But doctor Grossman, water, do you think I've read different things that there's been too much emphasis put on hydration.

Now I'm not saying we shouldn't hydrate, but there's too much put on it. You don't really need ivs, you don't really need to hydrate like that, And there's a controversy as to exactly how much water you need. Where do you stand on water? Well, we'll get to the purity of the water after this, but water in general, hydration, well, I think are chronically dehydrated a lot busy, we forget to drink water. And at one time they said, well we all need to drink one ounce per pound

of body weight, so other people said half an ounce. So there's been a big debate about that. Bottom line is lately, what a lot of authority are saying is it's very simple. Just look at your urine and if your urine is a light yellow color, then you're getting enough hydration. And if your urine gets dark, well you need more water. It's that easy, just to say, what about pureness of water? What do you think about that? Well, that's one of the one of the most amazing advances

of the last century is the availability of clean water. I mean, all of these water borne illnesses that made so many people sick and even killed people in the past is no longer a problem. So it's mostly a matter of number one, making sure that you have good filtration systems. Generally, city waters are treated with different chemicals to make sure that that they're safe. We're not going to catch anything. But I think that for most people, tap

water is just fine. Okay, what about the nanoplastics. Have you heard about those? I have heard about that, and obviously that's a big concern and I don't know how we're going to deal with that now. Okay, So vibration, water purity. How do you feel about organic food? I'm just curious about all this stuff about healthy because I don't necessarily go out and shop organic, Okay, but just how far do you go? Like? What about organic? Do you buy organic food? I do as much as

possible. Number One, the price of organic food has gone down over the years. It used to be at a great premium, but now in a lot of cases, you can buy organic produce and other types of products for about the same as conventionally raised and they have the advantage of not having the

pesticides and chemicals in them. And I don't think that, you know, I think that some of the epidemics of health, like the increase in breast cancer and women process take cancer men is largely due to exposure to pesticides and plastics. So we can really avoid a lot of that by eating organic. So I think if people can afford it and it's easy to find, I would say, eat organic. Whenever you do, you eat organic, we out of your way to find organic stuff. Do you. Oh, he's

not he lost him. Oh could be the weather because he's on remote. But in any case, I'm not a answer, gan. I just I often wonder, you know, how much more does it do for you? There are studies tom in the medical literature showing that there's a reduced incident of certain diseases for people who eat more organic. And then, of course, like everything in medicine, there's studies. Oh, you find studies for everything. That's the thing like for example, and I hate to open up this

can of worm, but you know, vegetarian versus non vegetarian. Some of the sickest people I know were vegetarian, right, and that they're just not eating properly. And yet then there's other people they say red meat will kill you. Now, I'm not an absolutist on anything. I think the quality of what you eat has a lot to do with it. I mean, there's bad red meat, and then it would be better red meat. I

don't know, and maybe red meats should be avoided at all costs. I have no idea, but I do know that there's something to be said about balance, and there's something to be said about not being extreme. But how do you feel about this? I mean, then there's the raw diet, for example, totally raw everything raw, no meat zero. I mean, I think any monolithic diet or let's say, religious diet of any I don't mean that in a faith way, but a religious diet is an improvement over

the regular American diet. And that's why I see people see improvements not necessarily because of that. Well, I mean, do you see what I'm saying? I do. And you know, one of the things that I heard was red meat is not going to kill you. Now blue green meat that might kill you, so obviously, but seriously, moderation and everything. Just like you're saying, I think that you know people who are gonna eat red meat three times a day. I think there may be health risks with that.

No, I understand that. Yeah, but you know, eating red meat once in a while, eating a healthful diet, moderation in all things. I think the Mediterranean diet, Yeah, great, emphasis on fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, olive oil, red wine. You know, it's a moderate diet. It's the middle of the road, and many people do very well with that. But here's what I like, and I know you like it. No matter what anyone eats, is this true or false?

I think it's true, no matter what anyone eats. I know people that eat like crab. I know people that eat good and their freaking blood work might be the guy that eats like crab shows no price problems. Why is that? Why can some people get away with it? Well, it's all has to do with our genes. And so there are people that you maybe I don't know if their patient is yours or not, but there are people they eat like crap and their blood work reads like perfection and they live to

be one hundred. I mean, it's crazy. I do have patients, and every doctor has patients. Genes have a lot to do with it absolutely genetic tendencies. You know, they eat a high fat diet, they eat a lot of sugar, they eat a lot of red meat, they don't exercise, and yet they live you know, ripe bold ages in perfect health, and other people that are doing everything they can and they come down with serious desisses. So what percentage would you say are the genes were dealt half

ninety eighties? That's an interesting question that you ask. Yeah, and I would say, fifteen or twenty years ago, the feeling it was the rule of eighty twenty. It was eighty percent our genes and twenty percent our lifestyle twunches. Now, over the years, now that the human genome projects has been completed, we've completely flipped that around. So what do we say twenty percent genes and eighty percent of lifestyle truices? Really, so we're dealt about

twenty percent of our health. That's right. Your genetic code will predispose you, but you can over I mean, it's the overwhelming factor is really is what you put in, what you put into your body or what you take out of your body. Absolutely okay, So on that vein, then if if you had do blood work, I had a doctor tell me one time. Maybe you know me. I've known him for years and years. You're not here anywhere. I'm not around here doctor Rosedale, Ron Rosdale's he's just

a guru on the low carb and the moderate protein high fact. But anyway, bottom line is he said, the truth of the matter, Tom is I can have patience and keep them healthy, probably with very little physical touch and examinations. Sometimes you need that for acute conditions, but most everything can be seen in the blood. Do you agree that blood work is that important? Well, blood work tells a lot, but we have other things that we want to look at as well. And I think that doing a physical

exam is very very important. Yeah, And he wasn't saying it's not, but he's saying that really, most of the time, the blood work tells most of your health situation. Yeah, I think I think that's true. You can learn a lot from the blood, not everything. Okay, so let's talk about this. What can you not tell from the blood? Well, what's your muscle mass? Oh? Okay, what's your cat mass? All right, so that's an exam. Do you have to measure fat and

measure what's your what's your lung function. Oh, what's your cardiac I mean, how long does it take for you to run a mile? I mean, all of these things are questions that we want to know in order to be perfectly healthy, and that's our goal. The goal is good is not good enough? We really want optimal and be optimal health. We need to know what you can do in these other parameters other than blood work. Can you really really extend your life? Oh? Absolutely? Do you really believe

that? I really believe that the lifestyle choices we make, in other words, what we decided to have for breakfast this morning, yes, has a lot to say about what kind of day we're going to have and how healthy we're going to be tomorrow. And the lifestyle choices we make for lunch and for supper, and how we deal with stress and how we sleep and exercise and all of these things are going to have a lot to say with how

healthy we're going to be going forward. So because there are some people that say, you know what, you know, you're gonna live or you're going to die based on what it is, based on your life, based on your family eighty twenty, that's only twenty. I see that. I see that that's what you're saying. And that was from a genome study, that is from the Human Genome Project, so they were able to tell us what every single how long has that been going on that project it was first started.

I think the first genome was done by this guy, Craig ren Ventnor, and it cost over a billion dollars to complete his genome to find out all of his genes. Here's the first one. But nowadays the prices have fallen below one thousand dollars. Now, someone just texted me, I'm going to take a break and then we'll talk about it. By the way, any calls you want, I know, it's a snowy day, it's a

weird day. If you want to get through, it's three oh three seven to one three talk through a three seven one three eight two five five. You can also call three oh three Martino. That's three oh three six two seven eight four six six. Let me ask a question on blood work, right, And the good thing about that number, by the way, is that you can call it twenty four to seven Mark. I'm gonna have your

question first up. I got to take this break. Okay, right after this, go with a sure thing Denver's best roofer Excel Roofing dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're content wait time for an insurance checkup free, no obligation. In comparison, call Compass Insurance paying too much your coverage at dozens of insurance companies find out now three all three seven to seven to

one. Help. You'll think you're his only customer when you choose Frank durand the real estate Man dot com to list your home with Remax Alliance three all three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino, you're troubleshooter. I got a question here, Oh Mark, your question first, yes, and the very serious go ahead, Doctor Grossman. I'm being very serious. So once a year before I go in for my blood work in physical. This year, I did it about two weeks ago before we went on vacation.

So at the beginning of the year, in January, right around January fourth, up until basically the end of February, I did zero carbs. I mean I had less than one or two carbs per day, if even that much, and that would be a little eamon my coffee. On top of that, I gave up alcohol for that period of time, so no carbs, no alcohol. And then the other thing I did was I went and worked out almost every day. Instead of doing yoga three or four times

a day, I was doing it fourteen fifteen days in a row. So I go, I get my blood work. Everything comes back great, My A one sees great. Everything's great. But I guess what I'm asking is if the next ten months I don't live that same lifestyle and I only do that two months out of the year, I mean, what does that say, I You're not getting an accurate picture. Well, that's well I did.

I'm sorry, doctor Grossman or doctor Martinez. I was asking doctor Grossman, is that true though, if someone goes out and corrects their body for two months out of the year, I mean long term ramifications. I mean, help me talk to me, baby. Yeah, that's it. Well, let me ask you a question. Why did you do such an ultra low carb diet for a couple of months where you're trying to lose weight? Yeah? I did. I shedded twenty five pounds in about six weeks.

Okay, Well, I think that you know the idea of yo yo dieting, where you gain weight then you do something radical like no carves for a couple of months and you lose the weight. Then you go back to a diet that enables you to gain weight again. Then you yoyo like that, up and down with your weight. There's a lot of health risks associated with

that, and it becomes increasingly difficult to keep your weight down. So I think moderation, you know, finding a diet that works for you so that you can stay at But his question is if he does this for and he shows good blood work every year, wouldn't what I said? Would not what I said be accurate? You're not getting an accurate assessment of health if you just let's just take let's just take A one C. My understanding with an A one C is it's an average of roughly three months of the body sugar

levels at any given time. So if for the two months leading up to an A one C test you're doing that, I mean, are you getting a false reading for the rest of the year. You're not getting a false reading, but you're not getting with the rest of the year's reading. That's why he does it every three months. Explain your theory on every three months. I mean, nothing can trend you catch it. Yeah, exactly. The idea is, you know, the two pillars of staying healthy are number

one preventing disease and number two early detection. Right, so at least you can find it early. So by doing blood work every few months, we're not going to get any surprises. You know. We have a test now, it's called the Galley or Grail test, and this is what we're going to do. I got a text about it. We'll talk about that coming up, but mark here I'm going to give. I want to just say something. If you were low or high on d and you did one test

once a year, you wouldn't know that. You know I have sometimes now I'm pretty dialed in, but doctor Grossman will say, Tom, you know what, I don't know why this DHA. You know, cut it back a little. And if I did when a whole year high DH or ultra high iron or low this or high this, it could have different effects than

if I correct it in three months, right. I think the point I think, the question I really have though, is this, guys, if you correct the body in that two month period, I don't care if you work out ten times a day and do everything else, it's perfect eat perfectly

and you know a doctor can define perfectly. But if you correct everything in a two month period and then you're relaxed, and I'm not saying you go back to gorging or doing you know, one thousand grams of whatever per day, what I'm saying is, then I don't want to make it sound like it's a yo yo diet. I know how to draw. I know what

you're saying. But what I'm saying is if you bring yourself back to good fitness every single year and your blood work does come back good, what I guess I don't understand the harm in it well because mark your body is let's just say, I don't if that's the way you live. But if you are doing it for two months out of the year and the other let's say ten months you're eating like crap, then you would then then that's not That's not what I'm doing. What I'm doing is I go to the no carb

because I know how to drop weight really quick. But I don't think then I don't understand your question. But all I'm saying is this, you don't get an accurate assessment of your health if you're gauging it on two months of activity and one blood test. I mean, that's all I can say. That's what I'm asking the doctor, though. But when I do go out and he, let's say, I go into him after those two months and doctor Grossman does whatever he does over there and pulls all the blood work,

I mean he's gonna say I'm healthy. I mean, is that not correct? Yeah? No, no it is at that time, but I'd like to see what it is that's four months later, months later. Then Okay, let's say and let's go down the road with this. Let's say four months later, everything's a little higher, cholesterol is a little higher, A one sees higher, but they're still in the green. They're still there. And then right before the blood test after that, I do it again.

I mean, I guess I just don't understand what's wrong with that. I understand if there's nothing wrong with it. But if you truly want to know a picture of health, then you need a picture of how you live, not how you live in two months. If you're asking, if you're asking, what two months correct the previous ten months of bad doctor, maybe here's a better way. There's a lot of snowbirds out there that you know, when they're out in Florida for the winter. Here, they're running, they're

exercising, they're doing everything. When they're back in Colorado, maybe they're not on that same fitness model. So both depending on where they're living and at what time of year, they have different habits. But ultimately it doesn't matter because every year is the same and they are healthy. I guess, is what I'm saying. But maybe I'm wrong. No, No, I see what you're saying. It all comes down to what you. I guess it

comes down to you. Don't you a race, You don't well, you can't erase actually sins of the past, but it's you can't do it. You can't trick nature. You can't trick it by being healthy part of the year. Right. And there's it's not white and black like this, right, So I think it's a it's gray. You know, it's a mixture.

And I think that by doing a detoxification or a low carb diet for a couple of months to treat some issues, you know, know, that's fine and good, but then the other ten months be moderate as well and be healthy doesn't mean it's okay to go on a binge. Health is more of an average than it is a snapshot, it really is. What are your thoughts on sugar? Doc, I mean, Tom and I have discussed carbs in general for twenty years. What are your thoughts on it? Are

all carbs evil? No? All carbs not evil? But there are you know, there are good carbs and there are bad carbs. And but but even the good carbs should be limited, yeah, to a degree. I mean, but eating good carbs, you know, unrefined grains, things along those lines. Vegetables are great good carbs, good groups and moderation or good carbs. Whereas sugary you know, desserts and sugary sweets and things like that. They raise your blood sugar right away, and when you have a high

blood shair, bad things happen metabolically. For instance, cancer cells can only eat one food that's sugar. So every time you load your bloodstream with sugar, you enable. We all have cancer cells floating in our body all the time you enable, those cells have a little bit of extra fuel, which is not good. Sugar also raises your insulin, which raises your blood pressure,

which leads to heart disease. So I think sugar. I've written three books so far and in the first book, I started to refer to sugar as the white Satan because I really think that there are health risks associated with for most of us. You know, the average American eats in the namehood of one hundred and forty pounds of sugar. Here, it's crazy. We're not just talking about why sugar, pasta, potatoes, anything that's a simple

carb that is sugar is sugar. And then but there are there has been later research there there was and I was talking to Mark about this research that all carbs, you know, just eliminate them, you don't need them. And that's true. But what Doc was saying about vegetables and things like that have other advantages that overweigh the small carboy, Yeah, because they're packed, they're packed with different fund Then also how they release the sugar has a lot

to do with it too. Yeah, that's what they call the glycemic index. Yes, we got more coming up. I got to take this now, Brenda, Please hang on. Tell Brenda, we'll get right to her right after this. Go with a sure thing Denver's Best roofer Excel roofing dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're content. Time for an insurance checkup free, no obligation, Compare call compass insurance paying too much your coverage at dozens of insurance companies find out now three all three seven to seven to

one. Help. You'll think you're his only customer when you choose Frank durand the real estate man dot com to list your home with Remax Alliance three three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Tom Martino, your troubleshooter. I want to take that call about a contractor, and then we'll take some other calls because there's somebody asks about that special cancer screening and they want to know how good is it, how far out does it go? All of that.

I'm not sure did sus take that cancer screening? I thought she was doing that one time. Maybe not, I don't think so. Oh okay, hey, Brenda, what's going on with a contractor? What's going on the biggest problem right now is they are not returning my phone calls? Jay, Well, tell me what happened, Brenda. Then we hired Walter Lovely as a consultant in twenty twenty one. And who's Walter? Is his name Walter Lovely? Yes, he's okay, He's just a consultant who hired all these

contractors to start building. And how did the consultant charge you? He just charged this twenty five thousand dollars. And what were you having done every time the whole house built, the whole little ADU built. So we'll see your general contractor or what? I really don't know. I know, hey, listen, I can tell you what he does because I already looked him up as we're talking about him. You hire him to kind of go over the

entire project, tom, So you're hiring him to manage the project. He's like a general contractor, I guess would be one way to okay, But when he brought the contractors in to do the work, Brenda, for this ad you are you putting up an extra dwelling unit on your property? Yes, it's up now okay. Is it a tiny house? What is it? It's seven hundred and fifty square feet. Are you going to rent it

out? Yes to my daughter? Oh okay, because a lot of the city is encouraging people to do this, you know, for to help the homeless, not to give it away, but to help the housing crisis, I should say, for affordable housing. But Brenda, when he brought contractors in. Did you sign the contract with the contractors or did he sign it? I signed it, okay, So what is the problem now? Mister Lovely's people continuously did not pass inspection. So the regional building is on my

side totally for this. So my husband died October twenty third, twenty one. So then I hired one source said that they could finish everything. So this was back in twenty twenty that you hired Walter twenty two. I think the beginning of twenty twenty one we hired him, okay, and then at the end my husband. The end of the year, my husband died, and then so the beginning of the next year we hired I hired one source. So what do you so are you saying that? Are you saying somehow

you were screwed by Lovely and his gang? Lovely in his gang and one source in their people? Wait? Yes, so both the first company you hired one source to fix what Lovely people did? Right right? Oh, why were you screwed by both? Okay? First of all, let's go through Lovely. You were not screwed by Lovely because you signed contractors, which contractor screwed up? The ones that Lovely gave you which ones screwed up? Now? I don't mean to know, I mean what jobs were screwed up?

Okay, the windows, the framing pass inspection. But then it turned out, now that we've done the last inspection for the whole building, the windows were wrong, so they what they put in there, and you just found that out now a truth? Yes, yes, Brenda, Brenda listen, I feel Brenda. I really feel for you because you're a widow. You're trying to get this thing done for your daughter. I really don't mean to be a pain, but I need to parse this out. When you

hired Walter Lovely, you paid him twenty five grand. Yeah, then contractors came through and they were supposed to finish the job, right, Yes, are you saying they finished the job but you needed to hire another contractor to fix it? Yes? Okay? How much did it cost you? Not the twenty five grand, but how much did it cost you for those other contractors that Lovely sent to you? Oh boy, I have give me an idea of what you spend just roughly, I mean, do you know what

you spent on your project? What did you spend with Lovelase people? Not the hundred with lovelase people. I don't have it all added up by no, you don't have to. I just get so so hold on. And then then you hired and then they did poor work. So you hired who who was the second one one source? And you say they screwed you to

how did now? How did they screw you? Terribly? But wow, and okay, mister Lovely's company, I put in a brand new furnace and had a brand new air conditioning to put in, but hadn't put it in yet. One source came in and said there was something wrong with that furnace, and so they said they put in a brand new furnace instead of that brand new furnace. And the city had already approved the first furnace that they said was wrong, but then the city disapproved because they put in a huge

trace. So you didn't know what you were doing. You were taking people's advice here, there and everywhere, and basically just throwing money at this thing. What I want to know is this, at this point today, what is the total amount of dollars you spend You spent on about one hundred and twenty five with Lovely and his crew, about what did you spend with one

source? One source encouraged me or talked me into getting a loan from a good lead for thirty five thousand dollars and I have not paid it yet, but they say I owe them thirty three thousand of the dollars, so they want thirty three. So your total project would be one twenty five plus thirty three, so about one sixty roughly, yeah, or maybe more because when I had to get the windows six, that costs eight more thousand dollars. Okay, so what is your all in going to be on this? I'm

going to guess maybe one, yeah, maybe something. I said, yeah, well that's not a bad price for that house. So what I need to know is, here's what I need Tom Tom one source, just so you know, because I looked it up. All they do is HVAC. So was the only problem the original HVAC company? And if so, who was it? Because Walter didn't own the HVAC company? Who was the original as here's what I want to know before we asked that when you hired one

source it was only for the HVAC. Well no, they said they were going to do the in capsulation around the basement. It's not really a basis the cost. So they were going to do a number of things. Yeah, okay, okay, I don't need to get into every detail. Here's what I need to know, truly, What do you need now? What are you calling about? Now? I need one source to return my calls and tell me how much they're going to reimburse me for what they they put.

The furnace that they put in, they had to take out and put their original not the original one, but the original same time back in. So I don't want to pay for that. Well, okay, so you're saying that you haven't paid them yet, but they want thirty three grand and you believe you owe them less, a whole lot less. Well, I think it's even worse than that time she took a loan out with another company. I would guess one source is already paid. No, they're not.

They are already paid. Oh I thought you said, I thought you said you had the money. No, I meant I hadn't paid them personally, but especially if I called them when the mess was happening and told them they hadn't done their job, and Goodley told me, said only paid them half of the Look can I ask, can I ask one thing? And then I know Tom's going to want to break You just said something I don't understand.

So you said they put in a furnace, then they had to remove it, and I'm talking about one source and put the same type of furnace back in that was already there. Correct. Yes, then what did the original people ever do wrong? If all one source did was end up putting in the same kind the original people under Walter did, what the hell did they do wrong? Walter's people? Nothing with the hvact. Okay, Brenda, I don't want to get complicated here. Here's what I want to tell

you. You're telling me one source got paid, We got to take a break. One source got paid too much money. That's what you're saying, right, Is that the bottom line? Yes? All right? Hold on, we got more coming up. Hold on, go with a sure thing Denver's Best roofer Excel roofing dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're content. Time for an insurance check up, free no obligation comparison call Compass Insurance paying too much your coverage at dozens of insurance companies find out now three

oh three, seven to seven to one help. You'll think you're his only customer when you choose Frank durand the real estate man dot com to list your home with Remax Alliance three oh three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi Tom Martino, your troubleshooter three O three seven to one three talk three O three seven one three eight two five five So Brenda bottom line here, we'll call them, but we need an accounting Okay. I don't want to go

tip for tat like this on the phone and Brenda. So here's what we need. Basically, what need, why you feel Let's keep it very simple. We don't have to give a complete history of this project. But I really do want to help you, Okay, I mean you lost your husband in the middle of this. This thing sucks you basically said, one source got paid a certain amount of money. What you want to do is get a rebate and you feel there's certain items. Can you show that to us

in a very simple layout in an email. Can you do that? And then we'll have Deputy Doc call over there and he's handled these kinds of problems before, or we can even have Mark call if I really want to help you. But I want to see first the why you feel you need these rebates. Okay, Okay, so here's how I wand do it. Can I can I throw one more thing in? Go ahead? Go ahead? She gets herself or guide herself into a situation. A lot of people do.

Had work done to her house, and they hooked her up with a finance company. You have to separate these in your brain. You owe the finance company that money, no matter what I'm not saying. I don't agree that the other companies shouldn't refund you, but it's right. It's a different deal. They trend lean your house, they can come after you. I don't think she's suggesting she's not going to pay the loan, right, Brenda.

You just want to rebate from one source. Yeah. So I want to go down the items and I want you to explain why you need to rebate. Make it very simple for us. Okay, send an email, Kachina, give her our email address, and we'll take it from there and see what we can do to help. Deputy Doc, I'm going to let you take care of this because I really think she needs help. Three all three seven to one three talk. Yes, we have Grossmanwellness dot Com in

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seven to one help. You'll think you're his only customer when you choose Frank durand the real estate Man dot com to list your home with Remax Alliance three all three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Yeah, ripped up news. You needed that? Who you don't have? Come? Run anxious as fast as we can. Shooter's gonna help come Man. Six is the Troubleshooter Show. Now Tom Martino, Hi, Tom Martino here, Welcome to the show. Three O three seven one three talks seven three eight two five five.

So you know, I affectionately call the people who stream my show on YouTube. I call my YouTube warns and uh. But then I call my Facebook people Facebook flunkies. And I said Facebook's kind of a dinosaur. And one guy wrote said Facebook out numbers them all, and I guess they do. So Facebook has three a little over three billion active active users, it says, insane man. And TikTok has one point five billion. Why did you say one hundred and eighty million, Mark? You were way underestimating. No,

no, no, us. So there's two numbers. The three billion is global in the United States. The best information I can find is about two hundred and fifty. You're right. Globally. Globally they say one point nine billion, and I don't know how much of that's in the anyway, the US on TikTok is around one hundred and eighty five million. Doc has a comment before it comes on. Remind them what year it is. Okay,

go ahead, Doc, Hey Tom, talk about a misiagnosed. I don't know if Terry remembers this, but in ninety five I had a liver cancer and the people out here, my friends, all the doctors that I knew, told me I had only six weeks to live and to go and you know, get my affairs in order and everything. And I got a second opinion. I went to slunk Kettering and they cured my cancer. And here I am, you know, forty years later. But was it a

wrong diagnosis, Doc, or just the severity? Well, no, they didn't know how to treat it. They said, there's nothing we can do. So I got to you know, I flew out to Plone Kettering and they were able to take care of me. And after the surgery, I had absolutely no never had any more complications from the cancer. Wow, God, that is hey, doc, Doc, how did you feel like? Of course you felt horrible. How did that affect your life? Though?

When that when they told you you have X amount of time to live that he was pissed off. I was. I was so angry that I wouldn't get to see my son grow up. That that was the biggest thing. But I'll say after the service, when I found out that I was cured for about two weeks, during this Pollyanna stage, that everything is wonderful. Life is great, And then you realize you have a family, you have a practice to run. Life just comes at you. You can't be a

Pollyanna. You have responsibilities, and especially being a physician with a practice, you can't be a Lalla Land. All the realities of life just come back at you and you forget about the fact that you escape death. Wow. Wow, Tom, if you ever wondered, like I think like an example would be Michael J. Fox. Very successful, he had great movies, he had that TV show, then boom, you get this diagnosis. It's

life changing, and he seemed to keep fighting and fighting and fighting. I don't know, Dad, do you think you would or do you think you would give up with with anagnosis? Like? It's hard. It's hard to say. It really is hard to say. I would like to believe until it hits you what you know. I'd like to believe I'd be a hell of a fighter. But when I think about some paraplegic or quadriplegics they break their neck or something, I think to myself, what what what? I

don't know. If I would be courageous, I don't think I would be. And it depends on the condition I believe. Could you. I don't think I could be. I think I would be brooding and terrible and and and try to suck down some fentanyl. I really don't think I would be courageous if I was a quadriplegic. I'm just gonna be straight. I don't think I could be. I don't think I could be either. I don't. I mean, I'd like to believe under some circumstances I could fire through

and be strong. But you know, and then then from both of our doctors, we've got deputy doc. Okay, from both of our doctors, doctor Grossman and deputy Dock Well, probably not Doc, because you were a baby doctor and doctor Grossman. I mean, I don't know your career, but if you ever had to confront a patient that's blood work or something has come back, Doc, You've probably had You've probably had things come up during pregnancies that are horrible. How do you talk to about such as doctor Grossman

in your practice? What I mean, because you do it so often. You catch things very early, so you've had a lot of You told me one time, you've had a lot of success not having people in your practice die suddenly or or they if they do, it's nothing to do with cancer and heart disease and all of that. Weren't you able to catch a lot of that? Well, that's the goal. Yeah, I mean, but there's always people. The two biggest killers. Yeah, I'd say it's worldwide.

Number one's heart disease. Number two is cancer, and that's more than fifty five sixty percent of all this if we had the ability to diagnose these very early, at the earliest stages. So, in other words, cancer, if it's stage one, it hasn't spread, it's just localized. The survival rate for almost all cancers is over ninety five percent, whereas if it's spread it's stage four. Metastatic cancer survival rates are typically much much lower,

sometimes just a few percent. So the idea is early detection, and doc, is that all through blood tests? Yeah, he's gonna talk talk about that cancer screening. Yeah. The last few years they've they've developed what they referred to as a liquid biopsy where they take a sample of blood and they look for what are called ctc's circulating tumor cells. And whenever you have a cancer, even if it's the size of a dot, the period at the ends of it really yeah, yeah, it's smaller cancer, they can still

detect it. Yeah, it will give off some cells in your bloodstream. And this test, which is called the Galery test, also known as the Grail test as in the Holy Grail because it really is the holy Grail of cancer detection. They can test for fifty of the more common types of cancer cervical cancer, even when it's that minute that's small tiny, okay, okay, but wait wait mark the first obvious question. If they detect these tumor

cells, do they know where they're coming from. The lab will report the result was either negative or positive, and if it's positive, they will tell you the most likely type of cancer that it is. And in our experience of doing this what it is. Then we okay, so c for what here? It depends on the cancer. So say, for instance, and these are actual examples, someone turned out positive for colon cancer. They went into the gasterinerologists had a colonascopy. They were able to see where the tumor

was, symptom and resect it. It's gone. Another person had ended me cancers and if they're tiny, tiny, tiny, they can find them. Yeah. They we have pests, scans and things. They were able to detect various small cancers. And in the case that it's not detectable, we now have therapies that are not chemotherapy, the use of things like hid dose vitamin C that can kill cancer cells even when they're and then you do it, and then you do a follow up grill test. Then we do a

follow up grail test for testifying. Have you had this happen in your practice where you found cancers and eradicated it. We have, I'm glad to say, we have holy crap cancers that would have surfaced and possibly killed someone. Well, you know, I don't know what the future, none of the court, but we do know that the test was positive for this type of cancer. We implemented some treatments and then the follow up test was negative.

Now does it show just tumor markers or does it show tendencies? These are not tumor markers. Oh, oh, I'm sorry, these are tumor cells. What's the difference. Okay, So let's say, for instance, PSA. We've already heard of PSA for prostate cancer. That's a tumor marker. Okay, you could have a high PSA and not have prostateans just have a big probitat. So it's a marker. This test, the dealer is actually detecting, the cancer is actually detected. Now what do you say that insurance

company seriously would want everyone to get that? And how often would you get it? Well, ideally we would do it every six to twelve months, depending on our age. And ideally insurance would pay for it, because we're take some money in the long run, you think that that would be cost effective. But the bottom line is they were still not covered by it. What does it cost. It's in the neighborhood of nine hundred and fifty dollars, so it's not an inexpensive test, and insurance doesn't pay for it,

So that's remained a barrier to universal DARC. Would you ever want one of those? Yeah, I would have no problem. In fact, I'll probably have it done. Was that what was the that thing that they put up on your artery tom and then look for issues there on your neck. Okay, so this is the other yeah, right, So we had mentioned the two causes heart disease and cancer. Yes, we've talked about the cancer early detection, yes, with the glory test, and then for heart disease early

detection. It's just what you're speaking about, Mark, It's a roster sound of the carotid arteries, the arteries in the neck that go to the brain. And this is extremely accurate, letting you know if you've had the earliest build up of cholesterol in the arteries, if you have arteries and the arteries in your neck, the carotids overwhelmingly you have them in your heart as well in other parts of your body, so you can then do follow up tests.

So early detection really is key. But the time has come that we can look at the end of cancer and the end of heart disease. But Doc, that's what I asked Tom when he was talking. He had that done a couple of years ago. I don't know if you did it or else. Six months. Yes, when you have it, and let's say you do detect some kind of blockage or possible blockage or whatever you detect, what does that mean? I mean, what is the fix? You put

them on? A statin or the fix could be different depending on what you find. I mean, what is I would hate for someone to tell me, Hey, this test came back negative, but there's not a damn thing you can do about it. Okay, That's really never the case. So the goal of doing the detection, the early detection, is to find it early when it's easy to treat. The earlier it is, the earlier you

can treat it at any stage mark including up to surgery. And we had people come in and they had extensive and severe disease and we didn't call them and say, hey, listen, we need to make an apotment of talk about this. In two weeks, we sent them right to the hospital and they had emergency surgery. So and that would prevent not just heart disease, but stroke stroke heart disease. Yes, absolutely, So you see the key in medicine. In American medicine, it's always been a cute medicine. You

have a problem and you fix it. And the shift is now going toward you look for problems and prevent them with help insurance companies. It's no, and that's what but that's what it should be. If if there were ever investors who wanted to really, really really come out with a new insurance company, they would have preventive care as mandatory. And even though that would be spread out, the price would come down if they have more participants to begin

with. Then once that happens, they're total aggregate spending. They wouldn't have millions of dollars in cancer and heart. I mean, you know, a cancer patient can eat up a million dollars right, Oh, absolutely easily easily. A heart patient can eat up eight hundred, nine hundred thousand. You know, you guys talk about you both talked to about markers compared to the

actual sales you find in that blood test. I'm curious about something, Doc, When someone does one of these twenty three and me's or these genetic tests and they come back and you do the full health part of it as well as the ancestry, and they come back and say, well, you know, you have some genes that you might have Alzheimer's, or you have some genes that show up in people. That's right, they show tendencies. What does that mean because you carry a gene that can convert? Is there something

you could do at that point to me? So? Yeah. One of the most common genes that is a predictor is the gene for Alzheimer's. It's called the Apoe gene, and people who have an abnormal variety of the apoygene can be as much as three to six times more likely to develop Alzheimer's than if they don't have. What do you do about it? That's the question. Then why do the test and you can't do anything? Well, there's a physician colleague, el Bretison has written a wonderful book, How to Prevent

and Reverse Alzheimer's disease. And anybody that we do this test on we find out they have this apoe variant, will tell them. Listen, go to doctor ter Do. I've had a lot of xt You got diet, the low carb diet. He has some supplements, he recommends stress management, you know all the There's a lot of things you can do to prevent Alzheimer's now. And the good news is it looks like in twenty twenty five there'll be

an FDA approved drug to prevent Alzheimer's disease. And people who carry this predisposing gene. Oh that is won Craig. You got to take a break and Kevin will come right back to He wants to give props to Rocky Mountain Sewer and drain three O three seven one three eight two five five. Listen, stay tuned. We have a lot more to talk about, including eight eight eight heating. I can't believe they're doing it. If you call today,

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Hi tom Archino, you're troubleshooter three oh three seven one three talks seven one three eight two five five Kevin, you want to give props to Rocky Mountain Sewer and Drain. What happened? Yes, sir, Yeah, I called your your show one day here the in the beginning of February because I had a broken water Maine and my business. Yeah. And of course when you have a broken water Maine, you're looking as quickly as possible to get

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you know, he doesn't even compete with our other people. But I'm telling you it's a father and son. They own all their own equipment. They can go in and do any kind of sewer line repair and that's all they do. They're sewer lined people. If you're building a new house and want water lines and sewer lines, they'll come out. They do the excavation,

they do the lines, they do everything. They're great guys. Good to know, really is you know, man, we have someone else who does really good work too, and that's Anthony or Tony over at what's his ruter? What is the name again? A master ruter? Right? Oh, yeah, Tony. Tony does a good job. Plumb Line has their own excavation. I'm not I'm not discounting the big guys, and of course fix

it. They added their own trained division. They're fine too. But sometimes for quick, easy, low cost jobs, these smaller guys can maneuver better. They just can. That's just the way it is. It was it's yeah three oh three seven one three A two five five. So we were talking about screening as opposed to patching going after things. So the best screening. I love this grail test. I'm going to have that done. That that's a cool idea and I know you've suggested it before. The grail.

And then there is colonoscopies are great and blood work. What else? What other screening, would you recommend if people are really want to do it? Well, this Karta test that we've talked about that before is I think an absolute that anybody over there each age of thirty five. Now, yeah, that's good. Then what about like with the general screening, But what time

you said something, I don't want to glance over colonoscopy? They have these tests now that instead of going in and doing the what we all know is that colonoscopy if you're over fifty or over forty five, how about these ones where you basically go into a bag and send it off. Are they as accurate? They're almost as accurate. It's called the col of guard And yeah, yeah, well, I mean some people are reversed to doing the colonoscopy and it's better to do the col of guard than do nothing right, and

it's actually almost as accurate. But Mark, we do know somebody you know, I don't know, what do you mean? Well, I don't know if you know. Oh I did not know that that's right? Well she I know, I just put that all together in the last two seconds. I did not know that she did col of guard. It came back clean. I'm going to have a talk with Suzanne then, because it's in pain doing that. She was in pain and pressure. She went in and had

a massive problem and is now fighting for her life. And he told me I did not know about the coli guard aspect, but I believe it's better than nothing. But man, did that change his mind about that? God, it would change my mind. In fact it did. Okay three three seven, one three eight two five five. So it bummed me out with that part. Yeah, well, why do you do coli guard? No? I know you you know did the Oh no, you did? So doc would Doc, You'll love this one. My first colonoscopy, I'm with

Kaiser. I've been with Kaiser for probably longer than I should have been. But I go in, I have it done, and nothing against the doctor, but he finds a poll up. And what I didn't realize about colon cancer is how preventive it is. If you have something that hasn't turned cancerous yet, but they know what's going to and they get rid of it by clipping it. I mean, you're pretty much done. It's it's it's really a remarkable thing. But he clipped it too close, so I end up

having my second colon. I could be the very next day in the emergency room because I was bleeding. Yeah, they it was their fault. Yeah, that's unfortunate. But you know, there's a good thing about colon cancer is that's a slow growing cancer. And that's why if you do a colonnasby and it's negative, they don't find anything, no polyps, et cetera, you don't need to repeat the procedure for ten years. Is it true? Though? If you have polyps and they take them, they send them out

to the lab, they're non cancerous. That basically it's done and over. I mean, you're good, you go in for your next one. But if they get rid of it before it's cancer, you're for the most part safe, right, Yes, absolutely. And the idea is if they go in they find some benign polyps, you know, if they find one or two, they might say, well, instead of waiting ten years, come back in five years. But if they find multiple, three or four more

polyps, they may then come back in two or three years. That's what they did to do. Well you said for me three years yep, yeah, then you must have had a little bit more and more complicated Bob. But in any event, by following their advice and doing it on their schedule. The chances of developing a colon cancer that's gonna prove to be untreatable is almost zero. You know what, I'm sorry, Tom, I'm just I love this conversation. So it makes me think of who was the Apple guy,

Steve Jobs? What did what kind of cancer did he have? Either of all, he had a neuroendocntemer of the pancreas. Oh, I'm sorry, Oh okay. You know what's amazing to me that he taught me a lesson. I used to think, well, if you got money, you know, no matter what you get, you can probably get rid of it, which is total bs. Because the guy had a billion dollars back when a billion dollars was a billion dollars mark, and he couldn't get rid of

it. It was that it was not detected in time. Well, what I say is it happened in his case such as for instance, the whole reason that the companies called Apple was because he went for a year eating nothing but apples, and that's like a pure sugar diet. So you know, he just because they have a lot of money doesn't necessarily mean he knew everything he needed to know about Elf got that. Yeah, I didn't know that about Apple. I had no idea. We got to take a break three

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to one help. You'll think you're his only customer when you choose Frank durand the real estate Man dot com to list your home with Remax Alliance three all three nine two zero sixteen twenty two Hi Tom Martino your troubleshooter three all three seven one three talk three oh three seven one three eight two five five. Let's uh talk to Mark. He has a question for doctor Grossman. Mark,

welcome to the show. What's going on? All right? I just wondered if you guys could talk about cross state if what's coming up with the treatments with prostate cancer? And is there anything new coming along the lines for that? Now? Are you asking for yourself? My dad at it and I'm concerned i'h have it. And do you get regular PSA checks? I haven't in a long time, but I need to start again. Okay, Yeah, has it ever run high? With that history? Why wouldn't you

be doing it? I'm just curious. Are you just afraid of that? No, I'm just super busy and I don't make a whole lot of money. So well, the good news is the prostate cancer screening test, the PSA, it's like in the neighborhood, even if you're paying cash for twenty five dollars, so it's not an expensive test. Oh okay, And with the family history, you know, I think that you should definitely want to

do that every year, at least every year. Okay, yeah, all right, yeah, yeah, that's but there are you know, you'd ask if there are new treatments. There was a stream of new treatments that are coming on board, involving lasers, radiation, gamma knife, focused ultrasound, so that yeah, there's many many treatments that are not you know, in the old days they did these removal of the prostate, which often was a complicated procedure, but now they have some very very elegant, precise procedures that

they can do. So once again, early detection is key here. So get your PSA every year. Hey, doc, is there false negatives or false positives on PSA tests generally? Or they're pretty so like every test there is, you can have high PSA and not have a tumor. Yes. Yeah, And the good news is there's now a urine test. Let's say, for instance, you go in, you get your PSA. It's a bit on the high side. In the old days, which is five years ago, the urologists say, okay, well let's go in andto a biopsy,

which is not comfortable and has its own sets of risks. Well, now there's another test called an XO DX EXO d X and that's a urine test, and it will tell you if it's likely to be something that you need to be concerned to get a biopsy, or if it's likely to be benign. Hey, you mentioned that PSA tests twenty five bucks on your services, the concierge doctor services, so I know for two hundred and forty nine bucks people can go in and get their initial blood work done, have the

consultation and everything like that. But if you suggest different things like blood tests, what do they do? Do you do them in office or do you have to go somewhere else? That'd just wonderful more curious about your services. That's the wonderful thing. Mark everything is in house, go ahead, Doc Coumcer. Yeah, we do so. For instance, you know, people can come and get their their blood work drawn in house. The croateate IMT test we do in house. It the collection for all of these different tests

things not in house. Yeah, and then they give you a beautiful box of supplements that he's put together and then if you need extra or less or you know, they customize it. It's not one of these places where one size fits all. Everyone is on different kinds of supplements based on blood work. When people tell me they're on supplements, you know what I say to them, how do you know here on the right ones? You know? You don't know? It means you're taking a multi vitamin every day. Well,

there's nothing wrong I guess with that. But what I'm saying is, in general, there are things you shouldn't have too much of. Exactly, yeah, exactly. So Okay, Tom, Tom's been going to you forever, and I don't know if Tom's agreed to talk on the air. Yes I do, yes, Okay. So so basically you go in get your blood work every three months, and then Doc you look at it and I mean, give me an idea like, oh, your vitamin d's too high.

So the supplements we're going to tell you are going to be less vitamin D or more or what. Yeah, exactly. So we'll look at his cholesterol and say, Okay, your cholesterols too high. We need to lower it a little bit more. Vitamin T is too low, you need to take a little bit more. Your testosterone is off, we need to do so. Or you need zinc or you need this. But the great news with me is we've been level on what I mean, I've been really we've

dialed it in, which is really cool. And then he does preventable maintenance. You're basically doing preventable. But then he does a yearly. He does do a yearly though that is more intense physical and that's good. I mean, that's what you want, right, And then in that kind of thing, you know, they check other things. You checked, you checked muscle

density and where we stand on percentile? Yeah, we have a special scale and this scale very accurately will measure your fat mass, your muscle mass, your body water, whether or not do you have any fat inside your liver fat liver that can well, all of those things. I think that that's

very important. We do that every year. And you know, I don't mean to brag, but you know, I was like, seriously, he told me, I'm like in the ninety eight percentile for muscle mass, and I don't that's for age or is that for Yeah, it's compared to other menuations. Okay, what's what's a good reading for that? So you mentioned three things. You mentioned fat, muscle, and water. So what is a human? What should a human be made up with? Percentile? What

would be the ultimate? Yeah? Well, well I can give a percentage for fat and in general, ideally men should be less than twenty percent fat between twelve and twenty and that's hard to do. Right, Well, you're in a minority group because given that seventy five percent Americans overweight. Yeah, you know, if you're in that range, you're probably in a minority group. But there's a big difference between being twenty two and being thirty two. So we look to be in that range. For women, it's a little

higher. Women have more fat. Twenty to twenty six is considered optimal for a woman. Uh huh, So we measure that make sure that people are in the red group and if not, then we want to, you know, work on getting too optimal weight. Do I need to do this? Break? I'm sorry? Did I miss it? Okay, we got more coming up on the Troubleshooter Show. Go with a sure Thing Denver's Best roofer Excel roofing dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're content. Time

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one three eight two five five. So we've talked about detection, and we've also talked about monitoring, you know, us, we're not talking so much about fixing, although there are fixing things you can do, and but but detection. I think Grossman wellness concentrates on early detection of stuff and monitoring and measuring. I mean, because really, other than that, what do you have? I mean, most primarys you can go in I think once a

year under insurance to get a wellness check. Now, I guess they let you do that, but really you only see them when something is wrong, not when you never can tell when something is trending. But there is something else, Dock that I do outside of your clinic that I think a lot of people neglect, and that's a dermatology check once a year. I think that's critical. Oh yeah, Now if you see something, obviously you can

tell people get that checked or whatever when you're looking at your patients. But that's something they should do no matter who they are, where they are, no matter what clinic they go to, because most clinics don't do dermatology checks, right, most don't, that's true. Yeah, So with a dermatology check, that's another thing you can catch if you I was told by my dermatologists, if you go yearly, very seldom will there be anything untreatable.

Right, absolutely, But it's amazing how people just only go when a spot shows up or something happens. Mark do you do? Does Kaiser have that as part of their Well I missed that part? What what what dermatology checking? Uh? Well? Interesting? Yes, I mean I don't like I've never been to a dermatologist because I haven't had any strange moles or anything. But when I go in for our yearly physical, they do look for anything skin cancer wise, and if they find anything, they would refer you.

Okay, well you know what that is? Uh? That is really important? So we covered that. What have we not covered? Doc? Because really that detection and monitoring and measuring uh dermatology. Uh you're you know? And when I say measuring monitoring, that's that your clinic with the scans and with all of that. So with this cancer check, this Grail test, you don't really need those body scans anymore they used to do. Remember they used to do those full body Do you even need that anymore? Well,

we do a combination for cancer detection. One thing we do is what we've talked about, the Grail test for fifty kinds of cancer. But also we like to do these whole body MRIs. Oh really look at to see what we can see there as well, So we do both. Oh, I did not try to be We try to be very very proactive. Hey, we have more coming up. Get your calls in three all three seven one three talks seven one three eight two five five more with doctor Grossman and all

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lady skiers. Yeah. And and what happened was they got they got stuck and as a result, they haven't been able to leave. They can't even turn around and come back because all of the roads are closed. And what's the first yes you thought of? Yesterday, afternoon, all night thing you thought about? What did I think about? Yet? When I first saw the story, it was like five thirty this morning on Fox thirty one or nine or whatever it was, and they said they'd been there since yesterday.

What's the first thing you thought about? Oh my god, what, I don't know what I thought? How the hell are they going to the bathroom? Well, guess what, I'm gonna call one of them who gave me permission because she's on there. I hope. Wait, I'm not. It's not coming through, is it? It's not coming through here? I got to make I can hear it in the background. No, no, no, I'm going to make it go through the board. Hold on, it's

not Stephanie, is it? No? No, Stephanie's friend. No. If Stephanie was stuck up there, I'd be I'd be digging my way through that. So o wait, she's calling me back. Hold on technical issues. All right, let's go. Is this Brenda. This is Tom Martine. We're on the air right now, as you agreed to Brenda. We can't believe what is happening. Are are you true? How many people are

on that bus? Well, we started with sixty and half of the girls just got off the bus in Morrison because we finally got moving after a twenty two hour bus ride. No, wait a minute, so how did this happen? You're you're you're on the bus heading to the mountain or away from the mountain. Oh wait, we skied all day yesterday. Yeah, at three point thirty we got on the bus and started on our way home to Denver, and we had a lot of problems because of the weather. And

so did he pull over or was the road closed? The cops tell you how did that happen? We stopped multiple times because after about seven miles, as we had just gotten onto veil paths, there was a collision ahead of us, so we were backed up for miles and sat there for hours. When we finally got going again, we overheated our cars, I mean our

bus did anyway the transmission, and then we proceeded. Finally at eleven o'clock at night because of the roads and accidents everywhere along the way, we finally made it as far as Idaho Spring, where we switched drivers. A driver from Denver came up because our driver can only drive for so many hours. And in the process of turning into Idaho Spring so we could switch drivers, we got stuck again. So it's been it's been quite a y. Can

you guys have couldn't they have stopped? It? Isn't there any motels or hotels they could have stopped at in any in the Idaho Springs or whatever. They were not letting us get off at Georgetown because it was overcrowded, and when we did get to Idaho Springs, everything we were just determined to keep going, and because we had a new driver and we got the bus working, so we proceeded, and we finally twenty two hours later, are now just now pulling into Denver. Oh my goodness, I know. Did it

have a restroom on there? Yes? Uh. We were worried about running out of toilet paper, but we survived, and we did run out of water and food, and we did have We had one diabetic on the bus and one of my friends Wow, and somebody who got injured coming down the mountain yesterday because there was what they call thunder lightning snow something like that, thunder snow, and everybody had to evacuate the mountain all at once, so there was multiple people getting hit by other skiers. God, well, it

was just a fight and interesting ride. Oh my goodness. So we're exactly are you right now? You're pulling in? Yeah, we're pulling into the parking lot where we all park our cars off of Hampton and we will brush our cars off. Maybe called maybe they should call one of our attorneys. Yeah, yeah, I don't think. I don't think they're thinking lawsuit, right. I think with an act of nature like this, what can you

unless the bus wasn't equipped for some reason. I mean, oh no, the bus drivers were great, the bus you know, it wasn't their responsibility to have food and water for us because it's normally a two hour drive. You know, I wonder if people should have survival packs in their cars. I'm serious. I don't have one. I have. I have warm clothes and a hat and gloves, but I don't have snacks or anything like that. I figure intermittent fasting wouldn't hurt me for twenty four hours. But well,

I don't know. Miss you do, miss water, And I'll tell you what else we miss is those of us who maybe need to take medication. Yes, of course we didn't have our medication. So but we were warm because we were in sea clothes and they tried to keep the heat on as much as they could. And you know what, I prayed. And we have a very positive group of women. They're very vibrant and positive, and we were concerned not just about ourselves, but about everybody else on the

road as well. I wanted to ask you about that. I saw the story this morning on Fox thirty one, and I'm curious the woman's group. It said, you guys go ten times a year. Is what is it all about? How did you guys meet? What is the group? Well, it was word of mouth and we meet every Wednesday. Henry ski together. You know. It's fun to ski with other people and safer also, and that's what it is. We all love as a Yeah, as the group grew, we hired a bus, a professional bus driver. So part

of the joy is that we don't have to do the driving. That's very cool. So it's got to be a tradition. Now it is a tradition. Actually I've been doing it for twenty years. Wow. Is this the first time in all that time you've been stuck? Yes? First time ever? Wow? I think I think in twenty sixteen we had a flat tire and we were delayed a little bit, but you know we and then during during the COVID years, the pandemic year, what did you do then? Did you still go? We did? Okay, we did, we were

we wore mass you know, we did what we needed to do. Well, thank you Brenda for being on. We appreciate you taking the time. Oh Tom, here they're often the problem solver. We're going to have you said job out for we'll see it. They came anyway, Thanks, so thank you bye bye. Oh that's great. Okay, So that was a live interview from a woman, Brenda, And boy, you know that's got to be a long twenty four hours off. Oh god, I couldn't even imagine that. What a pain in the ass. But thank god they had.

I didn't know those buses had a restroom. I had no idea they had a restroom, you know, as little it's just like in an airplane, probably one of those little little restaurants of restrooms. Now, being diabetic in and of itself can't hurt if you were, unless you had insulin then didn't get to eat. Then your blood goes low. And of course being high would be if you ate and couldn't get to your insulin. So either one it would be high or low. But the low is the quicker.

Danger is the low. I didn't know that. So most diabetics, it's not having too much sugar, it's lack of well no, no, too much no. They usually if you're diabetic, you have and you're not treated, you have too much sugar all the time, and then that slowly kills you, I mean slowly, your bins and all of that. If you have low blood sugar, it instantly kills you if it's really low, right, don absolutely, yeah, So too much insulin that you and ject could

kill you? Or what happens to people since I know so many diabetics like that type one is they take insulin in anticipation sometimes of eating, or they take or they and then they don't get to eat, or they something happens like this, or they they took too much after they ate, they miscalculated, and then they need like juice or something just to balance it out because

they went too low. But most of the the most the biggest danger is that over time, high sugar will will ruin your legs and your arms, and your kidneys and your bones and your everything. So then what does so? What does these these weight loss drugs like a semi glue tage, let's talk about those well, hold on. Besides, so, what I here on the advertisements is a lot of them have nothing to do with weight loss. They use them if they're diabetic. Why would someone use semi glue tide

over insulin? Or you get to a certain point where semi glue tide simply doesn't work and you have to use insulin. No that's a good question, though it's not in place of insulin. Is it usually for a type tour or is it type one? Yeah, there's two main types of diabetes, type one and type two, and type one you do need insulin for type two. Actually, insulin is usually kind of the last spa. You don't want to use it. You don't want to use it all. Most type

twos have too much insulin. Beginning with so one of the things they found in this family of drug it's called GLP one agonis. They started with lyric

glue tide, which was an injection had to do every day. Then they found out people would lose four or five pounds, and then they came up with semi glue tide, and with semi glute type people were losing thirty forty fifty pounds in addition of the bloodsher control with that iabetics, and that's why it's become such a popular weight loss drugle Oh wait, wait, wait, so the reason semi glue tide lowers the diabetes or the A one C or

the blood sugar level whatever is simply because it makes you lose weight, or does it do it within itself? Does that make sense. Yeah. No, it helps the sugar to come from the bloodstream into the cells, so it lowers your blood share, which is the goal of diabetes therapy. But it simultaneously seems to have effect on your gastrointestinal tract, so you prop weight. Yeah, you don't eat as much, you get full more easily, and you lose your appetite. And then when you lose the weight, your

diabetes actually gets more under control. Yeah. Is so it really is a double edged sword. A semi gluetide series of drugs, including the new one, Maderno or truzepetide, has just revolutionized weight loss medicine, and they're now saying that these drugs are just as good as the stomach bypass surgery. Is Hey, when we come back from breakdown, can you talk a little more about the Alzheimer's drug you were talking about coming out in a year or two.

Sure, I'd be happy to That sounds amazing because over the years I have heard everything. My grandmother died at ninety four. Her last three years with all Teimer's was absolutely horrific. I mean, she was a vegetable basically, and I've heard everything from smoking cigarettes and drinking and anything else in the world helps not get Alheimer's. But it sounds like something might finally be there. It absolutely is, and it's not that far off. So let's talk

about hormones in general. We talked about blood work, we talked about screening, monitoring, measuring, and treating. But hormones, hormone where do they

play in and is it for everyone? And I contend everyone will eventually need hormone therapy of some kind because we run out well, I think that I'm since I've been testing hormone levels on people, I've been very surprised to find that it's not just a problem for sixty year olds and seven year olds, but in fact, we have men and women in their twenties and thirties and their hormone levels are low. And one of the ways that we stay feeling

youthful is having youthful levels of hormones. So if we do testing on a patient we find that they have low levels of hormones and we're able to balance

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And then we have doctor Grossman with us, Terry Grossman from Grossman Wellness. It's that's what it is. It's a wellness clinic. And so we talked about how we how when you go there for a flat monthly fee depending on the program, you get your supplements, a lot of your prescriptions, you get your blood work and your consultations and constant monitoring on a three month interval, and then of course you can to call or text them at any time.

And then you also get of course the measuring, monitoring and all of the quantitative stuff. Hormones is something we didn't talk about. We talked about blood, We talked about cancer screening and testing, which you know that's an extra test, but it's a wonderful test and it can find cancer at its very early stages and been responsible for saving a lot of lives, you know, doctor grossmand. On a side note with that, I'm surprised more and

more people don't do it. It's just because it's expensive, right, I think that's the reason. I mean, and that of course it is expensive. But wow, if you have cancer in your family, it was so this will detect even a breast cancer. Yes, there will. Yeah, that's one of the fiftieth tests for Okay. So on the hormone thing. Hormones we run out right or were they're depleted? Over time they diminished, yes, over to our ability to make them diminishes, or we have one

supply that diminishes well. Actually, those hormones like estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, they are made out of cholesterol. So you start with the cholesterol molecule and you make some modifications and then it turns in these hormones. And when we're young, we tend to do it very well. We make a lot of hormones, and as we get older, we make relatively less and yet less. Well, it's hard to stimulate the body to change that, so

we just use replacement. In other words, we take those hormones and is that what they call bioidentical. Yeah, bioidentical means we use the hormones that are biologically identical to what you have when you're younger. They're not drugs. And the main hormones you do you do main hormones are a testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, those sins, those are You know, when we think of hormones, we think of sex hormones, and those are the three main sex

hormones. But we also have thyroid hormones, we have slate hormones like melatonin. So there's all infuluins, a hormone of blood triger But when we talk about hormone replace therapy, generally people think about testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone. Now when they do that, what is the controversy. You don't know how many people I've heard say, Tom, you're doing testosterone. That's bad

for your heart. Where do they get that from. There was actually a study of VA study that was done a few years ago that came up with the conclusion that men who took testosterone had a hire and sences a heart disease. This has since been refuted by multiple other studies and you know, so much misinformation. In fact, the other study shows that it's a guard, it's a stake of guard exactly, that it prevents our disease. And it was the same thing with prostate cancer years ago, ten fifteen years ago.

Oh my goodness, you're taking testosterone. You're going to get prostate cancer. Now more urologists than not will urge men that have prostate cancer in many cases to take testosterone to help prevent it from recurring. So okay. The next one was about estrogen that is very controversial. I can't tell you how many women said it's going to cause cancer. Once again, there was a study and this study was sponsored by the drug company that made Premarin. Back in

what's premarin was a type of estrogen called conjugated equine estrogen. It came from course pregnant horse urine and they isolated this compound. They called it Primar, and it was a prescription drug and the drug company wanted to prove how healthy it was for women to take this. Well, the study blew up in

their faces and they found out that it didn't. It actually increased the risk of blood clots, breast cancer, and a number of other issues, and as a result, doctors all over the country quit prescribing what was then the main estrogen was was premarin. Well, they threw the baby out with the bath water. There was a subgroup of physicians nutritional functional medicine that continue to prescribed bioidentical estrogen. Bioidentical estrogen has not been shown to have those negative side

effects. I mean, is it one hundred percent perfectly safe. No. In certain women, like with a history of breast cancer, history of blood clots, they should stay away from estrogen. But for most women, estrogen replacement therapy progesterine replacement therapy, if monitored correctly with PAF smears and mammograms, et cetera, can be very very safe. So the ones that should stay

away are which ones specifically well with testosterone. No. No. With with estrogen itself, I would say history of endometrial cancer, history of breast cancer, feed cancer. It can't go with a sure thing. Denver's Best roofer Excel Roofing dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're content time for an insurance checkup free no obligation. In comparison, call compass insurance paying too much your coverage at dozens of insurance companies. Find out now three all three

seven seven to one. Help. You'll think you're his only customer when you choose Frank durand the real estate man dot Com to list your home with Remax Alliance three all three nine two zero sixteen twenty two. Hi, I'm Tom Martine, your troubleshooter Thraill three seven on three talks seven one three eighty five to five. Now, we got a lot of questions for the doctor, but Samantha First has a follow up twenty fourteen Cheep Wrangler an issue with the

warranty. Samantha, I'm trying to find your original call here about your about your cars, tell me about it. I'm here, I don't see you. I don't yeah, yeah, I don't see us. Let's say I'm trying to find your call. Yeah, just refresh me here and go ahead. Samithy, it was the twenty fourteen that you bought an and forty after forty days the transmission went out right. But here I think the issue was you had a warranty right yes, and it was one hundred and twenty nine

thousand miles on the car, right yes? Okay, So I forget I don't have notes here on we left this it said that I told you to do something here. I'm trying to find my notes. Your mom bought a used twenty fourteen g brang. Okay, so I did the warranty cover it or not? So that's that's why I'm calling. The warranty is only covering thirty eight hundred? Okay? Now why now the warranty is covering forty forty thirty eight hundred. Let's say, so it's thirty eight sixty two? Why

why how'd they come up with that figure? Okay? So it's three different charges. It's the transmission, the gasket, and the differential. I did speak with the body shop and they gave them this amount, and they said, okay, we're only going to cover the thirty eight sixty two. But how much was the total bill? Samantha? When does the total bill? Samma? How much is the total bill for four thousand, four hundred and fifty Okay? So why have they chosen not to pay that six hundred?

What? Why aren't they paying that? That's what we're I just spoke with them and they said, call the dealership or the body shop and asked them what's that extra. I called the body shop. They said it's not extra. We told them this amount and they decided to give us this different am Okay, so they're Samantha. They're saying the body shop. Why did it go to a body shop for a transmission because of the warranty. They told us we can take it to any body shop. So that's where we took

it to the Larry Miller cheap. Is this where the drive shaft broke or something? No, no, okay, I got the wrong one. I just wondered why a body shop is fixing a transmission. I'm sure they're not. They probably sent it out right, the warranty sending them the transmission. Okay. So here's the thing. Whatever the warranty covers, it covers. Whatever it doesn't, it doesn't. What we need to figure out is why

they're not paying the whole bill. The body or the shop says, they told the warranty company how much it was going to be right right, and the warranty company approved it, but they're not paying it. Okay. Do you have a deduct that you have to pay? Yes? Just through two fifty is so deductible? Is that? So? Is the thirty eight did. And if you put the two fifty, does that mean that the warranty is only shortening you four hundred and something or three hundred and something. It's

it's muss. Here's what I need. I need to know this. You're two fifty deductible. Okay, so you're you're paying thirty, your company's paying thirty eight hundred and sixty two dollars, and then you're covering two fifty. Is that right correct? Okay, so the balance to is going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of four hundred of three hundred and something dollars, right right? Okay, that's what is in question. We have to figure out what it is. So I'm going to have somebody call up. Can we

have da call over there? I heard you put them in time out. I don't know what that means, Mark, but yeah, of course he can call over there. Okay, I want I'm gonna have our deputy call over. We just have to figure out what the bill is and what is not covered. Apparently the warranty company is looking at it saying we're not covering this and I don't know why. Okay, Okay, did they tell you why? What did they say. So, They said, call them and us, what's this extra? And I said, hey, they gave me

the prices. I broke it down for him. He said, oh, well, we don't understand why. Okay, do you have the invoice? Do you have the invoice in an invoice? Some much? No, they haven't even started because they got to give you. They have to give you an Oh, they haven't started the work yet, not yet, because okay, good, then we're gonna call. Okay, that's why you don't have an invoice. Hold on, we need a breakdown of the charges. Give

this to Chopper and let's see what he can do with it. Samantha, Okay, hang on three oh three seven one three A two five five Go with a sure thing Denver's best roofer Excel Roofing dot com. You don't pay a cent until you're content. Time for an insurance check up, free no obligation comparison call Compass Insurance paying too much your coverage at dozens of insurance companies

find out now three all three, seven, seven to one help. You'll think you're his only customer when you choose Frank durand the real estate Man dot com to list your home with Remax Alliance three all three nine two zero sixteen twenty two time Tom Marchino three oh three seven one three talk seven one three eight two five five. Okay, let's finish up with doctor Well Grossman. So we were talking about other things, hormones we went into. Now I

have some text questions. I want to get to delivery of testosterone and all of that. So shots versus pellets, Yeah, those are the most common ways. Typically, oral testosterone doesn't work well. Okay, the creams can sometimes work, but really the best delivery method for testosterone is either an injection and people can do them at home. Typically women do them once a week,

men do them twice a week, or pellets. Women prefer the pellets a lot, because honestly, a pellet of testosterone for women is a glorified grain of rice. It's tiny, it takes two minutes to insert, no scar, no stitches or anything like that. Men it's a little bit more involved, but some men prefer, particularly if they travel a lot. You're climb pilots and things along those lines. But either of those are perfect and people feel good with either method. Okay, Now, as far as fruit,

they want to know what fruits are good? What fruits are better? I think the you want the higher fiber and lower sugar fruits, right, yeah, the higher fiber, lower glycemic fruits, and the best ones on that scale are typically melons and berries berries, So like blueberrimelon, watermelon doesn't he okay, but candle oaps and honeydew things like that. And okay, so strawberries, blueberries, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, Yeah, they're great.

Okay, Okay, what about let's see they they want to Okay, somebody wants to know about how do you how do you measure health over all? Though? I mean is it are you concentrating just on the cancer in the heart or can you improve total health? Well, you actually improve total health, you can. And what we say the phrase is you're only as healthy as your least healthy part. Okay. I have to go through and analyze everything. I mean, how how healthy are you if you've got an

ankle that you can't walk on everything else worked you great? Right? And how healthy are you if you can't breathe because you got untreated ASBA. So we have to evaluate everything and that involves one test that involves brain tests that involves blood tests, hormone tests, et cetera. Okay, we have a question here about a rectile dysfunction. Do you hand like when people are in your program, what do you not handle? I guess that's I guess I

could tell you what you don't handle. I don't think you handle. You refer like back pain and pain, right, you don't handle back pain? Right? Right? Okay, you know those things we can do and right right, I don't think I can what We send them out and you help me with exercise recommendations and supplements and that stuff I'm talking about. You know, if you need a chiropractor, I mean, you go to a chiropractor if you want. If you need surgery, you need surgery. But what

about like as far as at the clinic you don't handle? What would you say you don't handle? If somebody has the flu and they're part of your program, can they text you? Yes? Absolutely So as a concierge program, we're available to people for whatever they need. So if people have the flu, even though they're on a hormone program, we're happy to take care

of that issue for them. Okay, So it's it's a full service clinic, but not primary care technically not technically, we asked that people have their own primary care doctors that their insurance will pay for if they need it, right, but our goal and prevent a medicine is they don't need that. Okay, Well, anyway, we're out of time. Grossman Wellnes's two hundred

and forty nine bucks for the introduction. That's with blood work, consultation and everything you need to get a snapshot of where you stand and then they make recommendations. That's three oh three two three three forty two forty seven. What anyway, we're not