Why your pain keeps coming back (and what your labs aren't telling you)


Hey friend,

This week's episodes are for anyone who has been told they're fine when they absolutely do not feel fine. The person whose pain keeps coming back after physical therapy. The woman whose labs are "normal" but whose body is screaming otherwise. Both of our guests this week walked away from the conventional model because it wasn't working, and built something that actually does.

Why Your Pain Keeps Coming Back: Dry Needling, Performance PT, and the Truth About Cash Pay Therapy with Nathan LeMaster, PT, DPT, SCS, CSCS

Most people finish a round of physical therapy, feel better for a week, and then watch the same pain crawl right back. Nathan LeMaster, founder of EmpowerU in Sioux Falls (with clinics in Omaha and Austin too), says the side of your pain is rarely the source of your problem. Knee pain is often a hip problem. Back pain is often a thoracic problem. That's why it keeps coming back. This episode covers what dry needling actually is and how it differs from acupuncture, why a twitch response means your muscle is finally resetting, when pain free is only the baseline (and what performance therapy looks like after that), and why a cash pay hour with a doctorate level clinician can cost less than your deductible. If someone in your life has been chasing relief that never quite sticks, send them this one.

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The Midlife Health Crisis No One Warned You About: GLP-1s, Genomics, and What Your Labs Are Actually Telling You with Jen Oknin, Integrative Health Practitioner

Most women walk out of their annual physical hearing "everything looks fine" while feeling anything but. Jen Oknin spent years in corporate operations at GE, watched her own body fall apart, and got the same dismissal until she became the practitioner she wished she'd had. She sat down with us to talk about why "normal" lab ranges and "optimal" lab ranges are very different things, how genomics testing reveals what a standard hormone panel never will, why GLP-1s stop working (spoiler, it isn't the medication), and what your liver, your peptides, and your detox pathways have to do with whether or not you feel like yourself again. If you've ever been told you're fine when you absolutely do not feel fine, this episode is for you.

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