Importance of Magnesium
Emily Parke: Hi everyone. I’m here with Patrick Sullivan, CEO of JigSaw Health. It sounds so important.
Patrick S.: I know. It’s not, it really isn’t.
Dr. Emily Parke: There’s a lot of fun happening over at JigSaw. There’s always the Funny Friday videos. If you guys don’t subscribe to JigSaw’s Facebook and/or their newsletter you totally should because you will not want to miss it. I actually did a video with them last Christmas. Not this Christmas, the Christmas before.
Patrick S.: That’s right.
Dr. Emily Parke: It was really entertaining.
Patrick S.: I ended up with needles in my face thanks to Dr. Emily Parke.
Dr. Emily Parke: Yes.
Patrick S.: It was actually my first time and quite gentle.
Dr. Emily Parke: Yes, yes, yes. You have to see the video to get the full effect.
Patrick S.: We’ll have to link to that in the show notes.
Dr. Emily Parke: We will. Okay. Awesome.
Patrick S.: Fantastic. I’ll get them.
Dr. Emily Parke: So I brought Patrick here to my office today so we could talk about the magnesium study that you guys did. It’s nicknamed the Scottsdale Magnesium Study.
Patrick S.: Correct.
Dr. Emily Parke: Of course JigSaw Health is huge on magnesium. That’s what the company was originated on and that’s what they really specialize in and are good at, but they have lots of other great, good-quality tested supplements that I use on a regular basis and recommend as well. We’ll get into that in just a second, but I want to focus on the Scottsdale Magnesium Study, because this is awesome. Kind of tell me how many people were in the study and what the study said.
Patrick S.: It was a 91 person study, which is a fairly good size study.
Dr. Emily Parke: Yeah.
Patrick S.: Especially done on a finished good. The Scottsdale Magnesium Study looked at three different things.
Dr. Emily Parke: Okay.
Patrick S.: I should say it was published in the Journal of American College of Nutrition.
Dr. Emily Parke: Awesome, awesome resource, yeah.
Patrick S.: So, a respected, peer reviewed, great … that journal actually has something called the Mildred Seelig Award. She was a magnesium researcher. Since deceased, but she wrote a fantastic book about magnesium, so it’s like, wow, the connection, the legacy of magnesium and being in that journal was especially an honor. As I was saying, it was human clinical trial.
Dr. Emily Parke: Got it.
Patrick S.: 91 patients.
Dr. Emily Parke: Okay.
Patrick S.: Comparing MagSRT versus placebo.
Dr. Emily Parke: Okay.
Patrick S.: Thankfully, we beat placebo.
Dr. Emily Parke: Awesome, that’s always a nice bonus to a study, yes.
Patrick S.: I know it was like, “Okay, well we got that going for us.”
Dr. Emily Parke: Perfect, perfect, okay.
Patrick S.: The first thing, the first marker that we looked at was magnesium in the serum.
Dr. Emily Parke: Okay.
Patrick S.: That’s basically hour zero, hour four, and hour eight. So you sort of check the baseline serum magnesium serum, and really what they were looking to see was, does the tablet break down and get through the intestinal wall into the bloodstream?
Dr. Emily Parke: And what kind of magnesium were you using for your study?
Patrick S.: Well, we used MagSRT, if I can grab the … oh, well it’s backwards. It’s reversed out. So, if I turn it upside down does that? No, that doesn’t fix it. Give me a mirror, stat.
Dr. Emily Parke: I know okay.
Patrick S.: I’ve always wanted to say stat.
Dr. Emily Parke: You reached your dream.
Patrick S.: So, the type of magnesium that we use in MagSRT is dimagnesium malate. It’s a patented form. It’s basically two molecules of magnesium bound to malic acid. It basically has great properties and has great absorbability. We knew it was going to absorb, because previous data shows that that’s the case. We are the first ones to do it in a time-release matrix, and the time release is made up of like plant fibers.
Dr. Emily Parke: Perfect.
Patrick S.: The idea was, okay at hour zero we have this much magnesium in the serum. Where are we at hour four, and where are we at hour eight because it’s an eight hour extended release.
Dr. Emily Parke: Okay.
Patrick S.: And it was a 22% increase in magnesium serum.
Dr. Emily Parke: Over how long of a period of time?
Patrick S.: Over four hours, 22% was the peak, and then I think it was like at 18% at eight hours.
Dr. Emily Parke: Perfect, okay. So what that’s saying is that’s proving that the magnesium is actually making it from the capsule inside the body into the bloodstream.
Patrick S.: Exactly. So now, the next thing that we looked up was RBC, red blood cell magnesium. And maybe you can explain sort of the difference?
Dr. Emily Parke: Yes. So, red blood cell magnesium, I actually use that when I check magnesium levels very frequently. So, any RBC stands for red blood cell. Red blood cells are around in the bloodstream for about 120 days or so, so it’s about a three month-ish or so marker. So instead of just serum, which is a snapshot of what’s in the blood right now, this is telling us now a little bit more about magnesium stores.
Patrick S.: Yes.
Dr. Emily Parke: And that’s why it’s important.
Patrick S.: Assimilation is sort of the word that was used. So, absorbability mag serum, assimilation is RBC. And over at 90 days there was a 30% increase in RBC magnesium.
Dr. Emily Parke: Awesome. That’s huge, by the way. That is huge. Magnesium deficiency is so common. I’ve seen some statistics saying up to 85% of the population is magnesium deficient in some way, shape, or form.
Patrick S.: Yeah. It’s just a mineral that is not that common in the food supply. So for instance, one of the things that we did last summer, almonds ounce for ounce are one of the most common sort of magnesium nutrient dense foods that you can get. So we took a bag of organic almonds, sent it to a lab to look at the mineral content.
Dr. Emily Parke: Ah, okay.
Patrick S.: And in one ounce of almonds, there were 71 milligrams of magnesium.
Dr. Emily Parke: Wow. That’s so little.
Patrick S.: I know. The RDI for magnesium is 400 milligrams per day. So you would need to basically be eating about six ounces of almonds per day.
Dr. Emily Parke: That’s a lot of calories, a lot of fat, and that’s not-
Patrick S.: That’s like 1,000 calories, yeah. I love almonds, and I eat them.
Dr. Emily Parke: I do too, but yeah.
Patrick S.: But if you’re only basically kind of one of the people that comes back, and I hear this a lot, “Well can’t I just get enough from food?” It’s like, “Well, almonds, once for ounce one of the highest amounts of magnesium and you have to eat six ounces of almonds to get just the RDI.”
Dr. Emily Parke: Right, right. Exactly. And then the RDI is really kind of based on the minimum amount.
Patrick S.: Yeah.
Dr. Emily Parke: To not create disease. It doesn’t mean the amount to create optimal health. Just so everyone’s clear on that.
Patrick S.: Right.
Dr. Emily Parke: And 400 milligrams, that’s pretty modest. I have some patients, and even including myself, I have a pretty high magnesium requirement. Some people have 1,000 or even 2,000 milligrams of magnesium. Now, there’s certain conditions that will create an increased need for magnesium, like if you’re exercising a lot. If you’re sweating it out, because you will sweat out minerals. Also, if you have blood sugar issues, like if you have Type 2 diabetes, things like that use a lot of magnesium there. Times of stress you also use a lot of magnesium. And then there’s also some times when we are therapeutically giving more magnesium on purpose, as well. And it’s really hard to get in food. Of course, I always talk to my patients about where can you get your supplements from food, because it’s great to say you’re on the least amount of pills possible. And that’s always the goal here at this practice.
Dr. Emily Parke: I do want you on the least amount of pills possible, prescriptions or otherwise, because more pills doesn’t signify health. But I’ll tell you what, one of the most common prescription supplements that we end up keeping is magnesium because of exactly what Patrick just said. It is very hard to get enough of it in food, and a lot of peoples requirements are just higher. And one of the reasons it’s hard to get in foods, now is also the soil quality. The percentage of minerals in the soil has decreased. So this has really changed over time, and this has thus created the kind of deficiency that we’re seeing. So the few supplements that people end up on for long term health, magnesium very commonly is one of them.
Patrick S.: Yeah. The same journal, Journal of the American College of Nutrition, I believe in either 2004 or 1994, the year is escaping me, but they published a study that showed essentially nutrient deficiency of maybe however many different lettuce and tomatoes and stuff like that, and they showed I think it was like a 38% decline of sort of historically what had been there. And it all really goes back to soil health.
Dr. Emily Parke: Yeah. Farming practices have changed so much.
Patrick S.: Incredibly important. Actually, what’s funny is, I think the word supplement is often overlooked. But it is in fact the right word. This is a dietary supplement. It is in addition to your diet. So you want to eat good food, good whole foods. Chances are, though, you need to supplement your diet with a dietary supplement.
Dr. Emily Parke: Yes, exactly. And that’s the importance of you know like details in the Scottsdale study of testing, and I do tests in my patients all the time because there’s so many symptoms of magnesium deficiency, but they can kind of masquerade as symptoms for other things, too, so you can’t really go down a list very accurately and say, “Oh, you definitely need more magnesium, or maybe you don’t, you’re sufficient.” But we have to test for it. And I do these tests in the office here all the time. And you know, magnesium deficiency is, like you said, very, very common. Some of the symptoms that I see very commonly in this practice if magnesium levels are low and are remedied by getting enough magnesium into the body via a supplement, and of course like Patrick said, food. We always talk about food, too, are really things like constipation is huge.
Patrick S.: Yeah.
Dr. Emily Parke: If you don’t have enough magnesium, bowel motility is going to slow down. It’s a big problem because the ways your body detoxify are poop, pee, sweat, and breath. If you’re not pooping on a regular basis, a daily bowel movement’s a minimum for adequate elimination. So there’s constipation is super common. Muscle aches is a huge one. This can be the athlete having a hard time recovering from your workout, and it can also be as significant as very sick patients. And what I see very commonly though, are people more in the fibromyalgia category. There’s actually some great research on malic, like magnesium malic, specifically the malic acid, and fibromyalgia.
Patrick S.: Yeah.
Dr. Emily Parke: You can’t beat it.
Patrick S.: Yeah. The nighttime leg cramps is actually sort of … we had a kind of light bulb moment about six months ago where we were working on the content for a marketing campaign, an advertisement, and my wife who is business partner at JigSaw, Ashley. Hi, Ash.
Dr. Emily Parke: Hi, Ash.
Patrick S.: She’s also the lead singer of the JigSaw band.
Dr. Emily Parke: Which you also need to check out.
Patrick S.: Any of the videos. Yeah, Sweet Magnesium and all that kind of stuff. No More Cramps with MagSRT, a parody song that we did that was sort of inspired by, she was reading through the online reviews, and she kind of yelled at me from the other room and was like, “We should just tell people that this helps with leg cramps.” And I was like, “Well, we can’t talk about leg cramps because it’s a disease.” She’s like, “That’s a disease?” And I was kind of like, “Oh.”
Dr. Emily Parke: It’s a symptom.
Patrick S.: Yeah.
Dr. Emily Parke: Right.
Patrick S.: Leg cramps is not a disease. Especially like those nighttime waking up like you’re sort of …
Dr. Emily Parke: Charlie horse.
Patrick S.: Charlie horse cringe. And they interesting thing is, there’s a lot of good data, and thankfully we have a lot of anecdotal data now, as well, from our online reviews, of that being such an easy to spot magnesium deficiency symptom that sort of often is involved with like constipation as well.
Dr. Emily Parke: Yep.
Patrick S.: Because really magnesium, as Mildred Seelig, who I mentioned earlier, she called magnesium the mineral of motion.
Dr. Emily Parke: Yep. I like to say it’s a master relaxer.
Patrick S.: That’s great. That’s awesome.
Dr. Emily Parke: You can use it.
Patrick S.: We’re going to take that.
Dr. Emily Parke: Okay. Totally take it. Well yeah, because it relaxes the bowel, it relaxes muscles, it’s good for insomnia, it’s good for anxiety. So many things. And like I was mentioning, other medical diseases. I very commonly see magnesium deficiency with blood sugar imbalances, as well. So it’s involved in over 300 different metabolic reactions in the body. And even more enzymatic reactions, isn’t that right? Thousands?
Patrick S.: Thousands. Morley Robins, AKA Magnesium Man, medical researcher savante. Amazing. And he has tied it to it’s like 3,157 enzymatic reactions, and the commonly cited source of, it’s involved in 300 chemical reactions, that traces back to a best guess by like a Harvard medical professor in the ’50s who was like, “This mineral seems important. It’s probably 300 or so.”
Dr. Emily Parke: Oh no, okay.
Patrick S.: So the number is actually like ten times that, of what is commonly cited. It’s an incredibly interesting know.
Dr. Emily Parke: Yeah, definitely. For sure. There’s a lot of different forms of magnesium, too.
Patrick S.: Yeah.
Dr. Emily Parke: Magnesium malate. I like to kind of break down the different types of magnesium, because that’s how my simple brain works.
Patrick S.: Yeah.
Dr. Emily Parke: If I think of magnesium citrate for C colon constipation, because it is … now, magnesium citrate, I pretty much will only give to people that have like constipation because it will make you go. If you have a magnesium deficiency, you’re probably going to reach your bowel tolerance before you can get enough magnesium, so I’ll use other forms to replace mag citrate. But citrate’s good for constipation.
Dr. Emily Parke: Magnesium glycinate is a great general form, and that’s what’s in there.
Patrick S.: Yeah, that’s correct. The MagNow … oh, this one’s backwards too. Sorry everybody. So, the MagNow tart raspberry lemonade has 200 milligrams of magnesium glycinate.
Dr. Emily Parke: Yeah, so like I was saying, it’s a great general absorbable form of magnesium. It kind of covers the bases of a lot of magnesium symptoms.
Patrick S.: Yeah, it does.
Dr. Emily Parke: Then of course, magnesium malate, like we’ve been talking about, is pretty good for muscles. So, M malate muscles.
Patrick S.: That’s awesome how you put that together. I like that.
Dr. Emily Parke: That’s how, again, my simple brain thinks about it.
Patrick S.: That’s really good. That’s actually really clever.
Dr. Emily Parke: Yeah, and then the last good absorbable form of magnesium to talk about is one called magnesium L-threonate. It’s just the last one. It’s the brain magnesium. I can’t think of an L or a T for the brain, but it’s just the you know. And then of course there’s other lesser-quality non-absorbable forms of magnesium that are not very well absorbed, anyway, like magnesium oxide for example. When you see that in a supplement, that’s a huge red flag, actually, because that’s one of the just cheapest and least-absorbable forms of magnesium. And give people a lot of bowel symptoms, too.
Patrick S.: I just thought of the mnemonic device for that one.
Dr. Emily Parke: Oh no. Okay.
Patrick S.: Magnesium oxide is a magnesium oh no.
Dr. Emily Parke: Love it. Okay, we’ll add that to the list.
Patrick S.: Alright. Alright. Making this up on the fly.
Dr. Emily Parke: Prefect, perfect.
Patrick S.: And there is a study. I want to say it’s maybe like 1999. I can get you the references, just so people know I’m not actually just making this up. But it looked, and magnesium oxide has basically like a 4% bioavailability, absorbability to it. So it’s the least absorbable.
Dr. Emily Parke: Least absorbable form. And the forms of the minerals in the JigSaw supplements, not even just the minerals, but the other nutrients they have in here. For example, the standard SRT, so SRT stands for sustained release technology, just in case you didn’t know.
Patrick S.: Correct.
Dr. Emily Parke: But the B vitamins that are in here, basically, they’re all in the good, activated forms of the B vitamins. And the magnesium and any other mineral product that JigSaw is using in their products, they’re the TRAACS minerals.
Patrick S.: Yes.
Dr. Emily Parke: So, yes, tell us a little bit about TRAACS, and why that’s important.
Patrick S.: Created by a company named Albion, which has since merged and become Balchem, based in Utah just a little bit north of Salt Lake City. A great company started by … It’s basically still in the family. Oh gosh, it’s got to be 75 years old, something like that. So it’s a lot of great history, but the TRAACS is this amino acid chelating system that essentially makes the mineral more absorbable and more tolerable to the GI. So, their magnesium glycinate has just reams and reams of data and hundreds of thousands of very happy customers taking it, and really the best thing, the hardest challenge with magnesium is that it’s hydrophilic, which is a fancy word that means it draws water like a magnet. So if you take a whole bunch into your GI track and it’s not the good form of magnesium, like magnesium oxide.
Dr. Emily Parke: Magnesium oxide, right.
Patrick S.: If you’re taking magnesium oh no, you’re going to have an oh no, have to sprint away.
Dr. Emily Parke: And that’s why it causes loose stools.
Patrick S.: Right. That’s the chemical technical reason for why it causes loose stools, because it just draws a whole bunch of water into the bowel. So really kind of the origin story behind MagSRT relates to my father, who he and I started JigSaw Health together, and he had a number of GI issues, and also a number of magnesium deficiency symptoms. So he’s reading a health book, and he’s like, “Well, I mean, it seems like I’m magnesium deficient. I have all these things.” So he goes to the drugstore, buys sort of the first thing off the shelf that he can get, and he probably bought a magnesium oh no. On top of his already sort of complicated GI issues, which he also then used probiotics and digestive enzymes to improve his GI track, but getting magnesium in and sort of staying was a really big challenge for him. So sort of the theory was, “Well, if I could get a much more absorbable form of magnesium using one of these materials from Albion, and if I could slow it down.”
Dr. Emily Parke: Sure.
Patrick S.: A lot of times we think I want it to work as fast as possible.
Dr. Emily Parke: Right.
Patrick S.: But magnesium, you want to spread it out, you want to slow it down. You want to give it a chance to get into the body without having to take one pill like every three hours.
Dr. Emily Parke: Right.
Patrick S.: You know, my dad is sort of lazy in that way, right?
Dr. Emily Parke: This is how the sustained release technology came about?
Patrick S.: Yes, exactly.
Dr. Emily Parke: Awesome. Alright, great.
Patrick S.: So that’s the backstory, the origin story of MagSRT.
Dr. Emily Parke: Okay, perfect. So we’ve been here talking about the many reasons why magnesium is amazing and how important it is to make sure that you have a good quality good source of magnesium. But I also want to mention, there’s a couple other things that I like to use on a regular basis that are JigSaw products that aren’t necessarily magnesium. One of them is this, and these are, again sorry for the backwardness.
Patrick S.: Electrolyte Supreme.
Dr. Emily Parke: Electrolyte Supreme, right. So, I have here in the office, I have an infrared sauna that we use for detoxification and it’s actually we’ll get into the huge laundry list of medical benefits for using infrared saunas, but all exercise, all heat, all sweating, you know you do lose minerals and electrolytes. So every patient that comes and gets a sauna session gets an opportunity to take one of your electrolyte powders afterward to replenish. And then of course these patients, I’m also monitoring their minerals in their bloodstream as we’re doing it, especially if we’re doing through a detox. Anything that’s doing any type of oral chelation, getting rid of heavy metals, because when you get rid of heavy metals, your body doesn’t know and be like, “Oh, I’m just going to get rid of the bad ones and keep the good ones.” You actually lose a good amount of minerals when you do that, so we have to then of course make sure we’re replenishing the body. And of course because we use so much magnesium on a daily basis, that’s a key one.
Patrick S.: Yeah.
Dr. Emily Parke: The other electrolyte that I like is that adrenal supplement that has basically … it’s kind of like salt-based, sodium based.
Patrick S.: Yes.
Dr. Emily Parke: And because if adrenal health isn’t great, especially if cortisol is low, particularly, or if you’re just losing salt again through sweating, exercise, sauna, things like that, replenishing it … I used to tell my patients do like some sea salt in water. And you know, compliance with that is eh, not that great, because it’s not that amazing to do.
Patrick S.: Right.
Dr. Emily Parke: But that powder works really well.
Patrick S.: Yeah, it’s called the JigSaw Adrenal Cocktail, and it’s based on a recipe sort of found online. A do-it-yourself recipe, and you Google search Adrenal Cocktail, and you see that people were mixing Cream of Tartar, which is basically a potassium bicarbonate, with sea salt, which is obviously pretty heavily sodium based but also has chloride, which is obviously an electrolyte. And then if you get a good sea salt, you’re sort of getting some trace minerals and stuff into that. And they were mixing that into orange juice for both the potassium content of OJ, and also the sort of whole food vitamin C aspect of orange juice. Well, see now we sort of have well what if we can make something sort of like this to make it a little easier.
Dr. Emily Parke: Yeah. Portable and without the extra sugar of drinking a glass of orange juice.
Patrick S.: Which is actually one of the biggest things that a lot of people are like, “I don’t want all the sugar of the OJ.” So the formula is really pretty elegant in that it’s simple. I will warn you, it does not taste the best. The bicarbonate gives it a very bitterness to it.
Dr. Emily Parke: Sure. There’s kind of no way to get around the bicarb, yeah.
Patrick S.: We thought about do we maybe add some flavoring agents in it, and we use flavoring in the electrolyte supreme. But for the adrenal cocktail we decided we didn’t want to, we wanted to leave the flavoring out. Just super clean, super like this is what it is. And we’ve had great, great responses from a number of the people, especially in the magnesium advocacy group online.
Dr. Emily Parke: You can actually mix one of these with the adrenal cocktail if you want to make it flavored.
Patrick S.: Oo. Flavored. I have actually never done that before. I’m surprised. But that’s a really good idea, because these taste great.
Dr. Emily Parke: Even the MagNow powder. If you’re taking extra magnesium anyway, you could just get a win-win out of the situation for a little bit of flavor. I do like the one for the replacement of sodium and bicarbonate.
Patrick S.: Absolutely. It’s great for the adrenals, and both potassium and bicarbonate, in particular, are very good sort of co-factors, friends of magnesium. As are the B vitamins that you mentioned in the MagSRT. So those things that are co-factor friends, if you will, of the magnesium is why we can get away with being the magnesium people, and then doing things that are not specifically just magnesium based.
Dr. Emily Parke: Got it. Awesome. Well Patrick, thank you so much for joining me today.
Patrick S.: Absolutely.
Dr. Emily Parke: So guys, this is Patrick Sullivan from JigSaw Health. Tell us where they can find out more about your products.
Patrick S.: Well, we’re based here in Scottsdale, Arizona, just up the road, thankfully, from Dr. Emily Parke. You can find us online at JigSawhealth.com. You can also find us on Facebook and the Instagram and the Twitter and basically just Google JigSaw Health and you will easily find us. Or Google MagSRT or Scottsdale Magnesium Study, and you can find some stuff about that. In fact, can I jump in on one thing?
Dr. Emily Parke: Please.
Patrick S.: So on the Scottsdale Magnesium Study really there were two other factors that we looked at.
Dr. Emily Parke: Oh, sure.
Patrick S.: One was related to magnesium deficiency symptoms. After 90 days there was a 63% reduction.
Dr. Emily Parke: Oo, that’s important. Okay awesome.
Patrick S.: Yeah. In deficiency symptoms as reported. And that was really the big need for comparing to placebo. Of course, you know placebo is not going to do much of anything to mag serum or mag RBC, but the deficiency symptoms, seeing that huge difference between basically people self-reporting things like muscle cramps, things like bowel movement times and stuff like that. That was a big move, and specifically relating to bowel movements, nine out of ten people tolerated magnesium SRT without any bowel issues or loose stools. And it’s 500 milligrams per day. So we have joked with our magnesium toilet paper ads, we sh@# you not. But now we actually have some real data that shows I think it was like 91 or 92%, but it was nine out of ten people had no issues taking 500 milligrams per dat. If you were to take 500 milligrams of magnesium malate in non-time release, non sustained release, it’s going to go right through you. And I know that because I’ve done it. I’ve done the experiment where like, “I wonder how important this time release is. Well, let’s see how we can do.
Dr. Emily Parke: Yeah, and if you notice, that’s why a lot of magnesium supplements, whether it’s citrate or malate, they come in like 125 milligram pills, like each pill. And that’s exactly why. That’s like on purpose. You either have to take multiple ones throughout the day, or you just take a product that has a time release in it and then it’s just … and it’s about eight hours or so, right?
Patrick S.: Yeah, it’s an eight hour curve where I think 40% of it is released within the first two hours, and then the remaining 60% sort of breaks down over the next what would that be? Six hours.
Dr. Emily Parke: Perfect. Okay, okay.
Patrick S.: Yeah, so it’s very cool.
Dr. Emily Parke: Awesome. Anything else you want to add about magnesium or JigSaw?
Patrick S.: Well, I do want to ask you about your class coming up, your Master Class.
Dr. Emily Parke: Oh, you saw that? It’s going to be great.
Patrick S.: Yeah, I saw that on your post. So anyway, tell us more about that.
Dr. Emily Parke: Cool. Okay. Awesome. So, I have, for the very first time, I’m doing an in-person class. I’m calling it a master class because it’s going to be two hours of in-person lecture by me.
Patrick S.: Wow.
Dr. Emily Parke: And it’s called 7 Weeks to Your Healthiest Self. I decided to kind of come up with that. There’s a need for this type of medicine, for functional medicine, in the community, however it might not be reachable for everyone. And this class is $99. It’s me, two hours in person, and I walk you through step by step each week, not just with nutrition. It’s nutrition, sleep, exercise, stress management. I’m going to go through the details on how to really make long-lasting changes in your health because honestly, lifestyle is about 80% of it. It’s stuff that gets blown off all the time, but it’s about 80% of health, truly.
Dr. Emily Parke: So the class is going to include an eBook that I’ve written, it’s going to include resources like my favorite paleo resource list, it’s going to include recipes.
Patrick S.: Yeah, you do a lot of recipes.
Dr. Emily Parke: Yeah, actually the list that I’m giving with this, the ten recipe eBook are all my original recipes, as in mine, like ones that I created myself and custom created in the kitchen.
Patrick S.: That’s cool.
Dr. Emily Parke: But it’s really for people who are looking to get healthier, getting more energy …
Patrick S.: That’ll be good.
Dr. Emily Parke: … figure out what your food sensitivities are, because there’s an entire process of food eliminations and with food introductions.
Patrick S.: Yes.
Dr. Emily Parke: For the scientificness of figuring out what the sensitiveness actually are. But you know gut health, hormone balance, energy boost … you know, so many benefits come from going through the seven-day process and so I’ll be able to walk you through exactly how. So if you want to sign up, you can do a couple things. You can call the office here at 602-892-4727, and of course you could also find out more information on my website, dremilyparke, P-A-R-K-E, .com.
Patrick S.: Awesome.
Dr. Emily Parke: Patrick, thanks so much for joining me.
Patrick S.: Thank you for having me, it was great. See you soon.
Dr. Emily Parke: Bye.