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0 (40s): Hello and welcome to the Essential Oil Revolution. I'm your host, Samantha Lee. Right. Thanks for tuning in. Today on the show we talk to Dr. Joseph Reddic, who is a functional medicine practitioner. We dive into all of the fascinating ways that he incorporates essential oils into his practice, and we also take a look at the bigger picture of healthcare in America. Dr. Raich shares with us some of his best tips from his published book, autonomy Taking Charge of Your Health in a Broken System. That's today on our show. But first, let's pull a recipe out of our D I Y dugout.

0 (1m 20s): Here's a simple but powerful recipe coming from Crystal gammer in Avon Lake. Crystal's recipe is called Crystal's. Calming and clarifying Blend. All you need are equal parts, lemongrass, lavender, and peppermint essential oil. Diffuse and enjoy. She says it's her favorite blend in the diffuser. It makes my house smell amazing, fresh and clean. It also helps to relieve my stress and improve my focus. Thank you for your recipe, crystal. We appreciate you. If you have your own recipe you'd like to submit to our dugout, simply email us at diy revolution oils podcast.com. HelloFresh

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0 (3m 33s): While I'm here with Dr. Joseph Ratage, who is the owner of R three Health and Met House where he helps educate patients and practitioners on what most call holistic, integrative alternative or anti-aging medicine, he's also author of the book, autonomy Taking Charge of Your Health in a Broken System. Welcome to the show, Joe, how are you?

3 (3m 55s): Oh, thank you so much for having me. All is well in this early part of our year, so thanks for so much for having me on.

0 (4m 2s): Yeah, absolutely. So just give us a little bit of a background on what you're speaking with us about today.

3 (4m 11s): Yeah, so I'd love to talk to you about a lot of different things, but you know, most recently I came out and I've published a book that I've been working on for the last several years of really kind of raising awareness into our healthcare system and you know, why our system is not great, why it's kind of failing people and what we can really do to take charge of our own health and, you know, just continue to raise awareness in our, my industry, which is functional and integrative medicine. And you know, the book is just a small part of it. Autonomy, you know, taking control of your healthcare in a broken system is the book. And that's just a small piece, but it's really about people, you know, educating themselves, taking, you know, their healing abilities in their own hands because if you don't, you will fall victim to this system.

3 (4m 58s): So that's really kind of one of the founding principles of the book is just helping people, you know, really be the best versions of themselves and understand that they have to take charge instead of relying on our system as the title suggests. That's

0 (5m 13s): Exactly what we say all the time here. Absolutely. Yeah. Joe, was there an instance or a story experience that you went through that led you to decide to write this book?

3 (5m 25s): There certainly was. There was actually a pretty significant catalyst in my life that made me get out of traditional medicine and, and get into more functional and integrative medicine. So I always knew that healthcare was something that I wanted to do cuz I really wanted to help people be their best and feel their best and perform their best and just live their best lives. So my ironically my training out of medical school was actually in orthopedics. And so I did orthopedics for really the first two to three years of my career and, you know, joint replacement orthopedics, so, you know, later stage arthritic disease and one of, after doing that, you know, monotonous, just, you know, very kind of unfulfilling type of practice.

3 (6m 11s): I had one interaction with one of my colleagues who was a hip surgeon and we have this patient who was a di type two diabetic, so adult onset diabetes, you know, and obviously you know, us as the orthopedics, we didn't really dive into the lifestyle piece. We didn't really dive into managing the diabetes. Right. That's the, that's the family practitioner, that's the primary care practitioner's job. And I really connected with this patient for, for whatever reason. And I, you know, I started talking to 'em, I said, well, you know, part of the reason you're coming in with this hip pain and this hip arthritis is your diabetes is really out of control. Have you really, have you been working on that?

3 (6m 53s): Have you, you know, addressed that? And the patient of course says no. Right? And something that, you know, my doctor tells me that I needed to continue to take my metformin, I need to continue to take my insulin shots and you know, I just go to see them every three months and they do tell me my blood sugars are not getting better. And, and I said, well, have you talked about your diet? Have you ever worked with a dietician? Have you ever worked with, you know, a functional medicine or, or a lifestyle coach or educator? And the patient says, no, what is that? And I said, oh my gosh, what are we doing? Okay, let's, let's time out. Right? And so what I did is I went back to my colleague who was gonna be doing the hip surgery and I said, you know, this person has really uncontrolled diabetes.

3 (7m 36s): I don't think we should be doing surgery on this person. I think they're gonna fail. I think they're gonna have a complication. I don't think they're gonna do well long-term. And you know what that surgeon said to me, and this is verbatim and this was like the eye-opener for me. And that surgeon said, yeah, and I don't want to use foul language, so I'll, I'll, you know, I'll abbreviate. But that surgeon told me that I don't give two s's about that patient's diabetes, I don't care that that patient has an A1C over 10. My job is to fix their hip and that's all I care about verbatim. That's what the orthopedic surgeon said to me.

3 (8m 16s): And I said, I can't practice healthcare. I took a hippocratic oath, right? I said, I'm gonna do right for our patients. I'm not gonna put them in harm. I'm not gonna do a surgery if I know they're gonna fail. I know that patient's gonna have a complication. I know that patient's gonna probably have an infection or need a hip revision 10 years down the road because their diabetes is eating away at their new metal hip. Right? So I went back and I said, if you're not gonna pause or postpone this surgery, I have to tell the patient to go seek care elsewhere. And that surgeon to this day does not talk to me. Wow. Because I challenged him and I told him that, you know, I'm gonna go back and say to this patient, listen, you really need to think about taking this diabetes and getting this diabetes under control before you do this hip.

3 (9m 7s): And it was ever since I had that conversation with that colleague and you know, the administrators in the practice n just never looked at me the same way. And I had to get outta traditional healthcare and I could not continue to, you know, jeopardize people's health just because of, you know, funding a practice or, you know, having that surgeon, you know, do that surgery. And that's just one example. I would have conversations like that with other practitioners all the time. What do I care about their diabetes? I'm here to fix their bones and their joints. Right? So there's just this lack of like continuity of care, you know, and one of the things that we talk about in autonomy, the book is none of these subspecialties communicate between each other.

3 (9m 51s): Right? So how do we expect people to be healthy when the orthopedic doesn't talk to the primary, the primary doesn't talk to the endocrine, the endocrine doesn't talk to the digestive doctor. The digestive doctor doesn't talk to the, there's no communication. So how do we expect people to be better when none of that is happening? And so that's always one of the stories I tell because that really like opened my eyes to, okay, this is a really bad system, it's never gonna change. I gotta do what I can to try to change the system. And from that day that I had that conversation with that colleague, I started taking functional medicine modules.

3 (10m 32s): And I've never been, never changed my practice. I've been in functional medicine 12 years since leaving orthopedics. 0 (10m 39s): Wow. And I'm curious from a, like a credential education standpoint, do most functional medicine doctors go through that similar path where they go to traditional medi medical school first and then they become functional medic medicine practitioner? Or is there different roots into that?

3 (11m 2s): So that's unfortunately also part of the problem. This is the only way to really get into functional medicine. Most practitioners who are currently in functional medicine have background training and traditional medicine, but similar to me. They get so frustrated and so depressed and so burnt out and so unfulfilled that they really decide to re-educate themselves. Literally, I had to re-educate my thought process and my knowledge base because functional medicine is completely op, not completely, but it's very oppositional to traditional methodologies. So we literally have to retrain our brains to think and execute differently in functional medicine.

3 (11m 47s): And there really is no functional medicine pathway in healthcare. And that's also, ironically, one of the things that we talk about in the book is, I found this to be astonishing, but do you know how much, you know, think about a traditional four year medical school curriculum. Do you know how much nutritional training we get in a four year medical school curriculum? It's mind blowing. Yeah.

0 (12m 11s): I I'm sure it's less than four hours or something.

3 (12m 16s): It's literally less than 10 hours. Wow. In a four year medical school curriculum. Wow. That's mind blowing.

0 (12m 26s): Yeah.

3 (12m 27s): Yeah. Mind blowing, right? Nutrition such a basic foundational concept. Less than 10 hours.

0 (12m 36s): Gosh, that says so much right there. One thing I wanna balance this with is, you know, how do you reconcile that the system is broken in many ways? How do people navigate that decision of, you know, do I go to the hospital, do I see my doctor, or do I just take care of this by myself? You know, obviously we wanna be responsible and in advice, we don't want people to completely ignore the healthcare system if they need that medical attention. But there's such a, there's such a distrust now and a breaking down of that system that there's a true fear, I think, from people when making that decision.

0 (13m 21s): Whether that's a financial fear or a fear that they just won't receive care the way that they should. How do you reconcile that?

3 (13m 30s): Yeah, it's a great question. And you know, we always just tell people to really kind of do some deep reflection. You know, think about how many times you've gone to a physician or an office and you just feel like you're not being heard, right? Or, you know, you've had five minutes of face-to-face time with a practitioner, you know, or you know, just think about yourself and just any, you know, encounters that you've had with healthcare professionals. And you know, what, how can we really be doing good healthcare when, you know, stuff like that transpires, you know, what can you really realistically accomplish in a five minute conversation? Right? There's no talk of preventative health measures. There's no talk about how are you feeling?

3 (14m 10s): There's no talk about how is it different than three months ago or six months ago. So really the prophylactic or preventative healthcare is non-existent, which only allows people to unfortunately fall victim to the system because then you're talking about disease management rather than disease prevention. And unfortunately our system is one in, in such that, you know, we don't really have great long-term solutions. And part of what I talk about in autonomy, the book is really why that really happens. You know, it's about subspecialties and too many specialists and not enough looking at the big picture, you know, which is what we really do in, in functional medicine.

3 (14m 52s): So to your point, there is this fine line between, okay, we do need traditional healthcare and we do need emergency medicine in certain cr you know, critical situations. But if we're doing healthcare well, it should really prevent the need for that critical management situation.

0 (15m 11s): And I imagine that at its root, the work that you do with your patients as a functional medicine practitioner is a lot of education, right? Teaching about the food, you know, really discovering what kind of foods they're eating, what is, what's their lifestyle habits. And that is and should be really the root of health it, but it's, it's not what we think of as healthcare, right? If you go to the doctor and you sit down, maybe you do have one of those doctors that does spend more than five minutes with you, how much do they really poke into those sort of baseline health choices that you're making every day?

0 (15m 51s): I mean, they don't have time, right? That's right. So, you know, what, what is your approach to that and what kind of tools are you teaching your patients at your clinic?

3 (16m 2s): Yeah. And, and so you're exactly right. And, and the way that, you know, we approach healthcare here at our practices and functional medicine is just education, education, education, right? The more that you can understand about how your body's doing something, why your body's doing something, you can then implement the tools and the strategies to help combat that. Educating yourself, doing reading on alternative therapies or why a practitioner might be recommending something. You know, those are easy strategies that people can really start to implement. And, you know, you can't also be afraid to challenge our healthcare practitioners because again, if you know you don't say anything, the practitioner's not gonna know any different.

3 (16m 44s): And so it becomes really important to be confident in your ability to address your concerns and really challenge your healthcare practitioners. Don't accept no as an answer, really be your own best health advocate.

0 (16m 57s): Hmm. And that's what that word autonomy is really all about. So I love that that's the title of your book. And again, that's what we teach here all the time, is you, you are the only one who's gonna care about you and your health more than anybody else in this world. And so you need to have that level of autonomy when you're going into any sort of healthcare position, whether that's a doctor, a integrative health practitioner, an acupuncturist, you know, wherever. Don't be a, don't be a passenger on your own healthcare journey cuz chances are you're not gonna take the wheel and you're gonna end up ending up somewhere that you didn't wanna go in the first place.

3 (17m 40s): That's exactly right.

0 (17m 42s): Joe, I'm sure you use lots of different tools within your practice. Do you ever use essential oils with your patients?

3 (17m 49s): We absolutely do. I utilize essential oils for a lot of different things. I'm a very big advocate.

0 (17m 56s): Yeah, tell me more.

3 (17m 58s): Yeah, so, you know, in functional medicine, obviously we deal a lot with chronic and inflammatory types of conditions, you know, whether it's diabetes, lung disease, neurodegenerative conditions, autoimmune issues, and you know, as a, as a functional medicine practice, we're looking for obviously great alternative natural modalities to help address some of these key mechanisms. And you know, essential oils, as you guys talk about all the time, are really, is a really great tool to really help put the body in a better balance, you know? And so I utilize essential oils for everything from autoimmune disease to lung disease, to respiratory illnesses and autoimmune diseases to skin and sensitivity problems.

3 (18m 47s): You know, with managing histamine, I mean, you name it, we do use essential oils quite a bit and we're very big advocates of it here.

0 (18m 57s): That's great. Do you ever get pushback from your patients that are, that sort of look at you sideways and go, is this really gonna work?

3 (19m 5s): You know, to be honest with you, I, I don't, you know, I think people really do understand the importance of, you know, essential oils and what a great tool it can be, especially when applied appropriately. I think, I think maybe sometimes they get a, you know, kind of this fluffy, you know, like non-medical, you know, type of outcomes with some of these things, right? Cuz they get used in the wrong context or you know, there's bad literature out there. But you know, you think about how far back essential oils go and you know, you've got Egyptian Hilo, high hieroglyphics on walls talking about, you know, the, the art of healing herbs and, and spices and those types of things.

3 (19m 46s): So if you think about just it's longevity and medical use, you really can't argue it's success. And you know, I know myself personally, we have, you know, diffusers through our offices. I have them personally at home. We use them topically for skin issues. I love tea tree oil, you know, we use great spearman and peppermint oils for a lot of upper respiratory things. You know, we have actually a halo cave, so we have a essential es essential oils infused halo salt suite here in my clinic at Med house. So we use it for respiratory illness, viral illnesses. I'm just a big advocate for it all the way around.

0 (20m 29s): Can you think of any specific stories, whether that's you or a client who essential oils really made that difference to that road to recovery?

3 (20m 39s): So I've had, I had a patient here just recently who was dealing with chronic uticaria. So uticaria or just hives, right? So there's that, a major systemic histamine reaction, histamine release that induces not only topical hives but internal symptomology, right? So you can have itchiness, you can have this like a, you know, just kind of agitation because your body's eliciting this stress response. And so I had this patient who came in to see me after no success with their dermatologist, no success with their primary care because the, they were approaching it from a topical perspective. They weren't understanding that her hives and her symptomology was from an internal issue.

3 (21m 21s): So they were putting every topical steroid, every topical antifungal, every topical antibiotic including oral antibiotics. They threw everything at this poor woman and her hives just remained, there was no solution, there was no getting better. And she came to me frustrated and said, Joe, no one can figure it out. And so, you know, we did a little bit of homework, we did some deep dives and we, you know, identified some sensitivities that were in her diet and you know, we incorporated essential oils right away. So, you know, we did topical tea tree oil for a lot of the hives and the urticaria and the itchiness. You know, we did aloe both orally and topically to help soothe, you know, she was having some major digestive issues.

3 (22m 8s): So we did aloe ingested, you know, for, for calming down her digestive irritability. And then we just did a lot of calming essential oils. You know, we did a lot of lavender, a lot of eucalyptus. And it was actually, you know, one of the things that very quickly not only started to make her feel better internally, but the hives started to go down within hours today. And she just was so grateful and so thankful that we, you know, took the time, listened to her story, talked about what was working, what was not working, did some testing, and we're able to present her a good long-term and short-term solution.

0 (22m 47s): I love that. That's an incredible story. I'm so she was, I'm sure she was so grateful for your practice and that moment where you just sit and can listen to someone in their story and you can give them that time. I mean, what a gift in, in itself, but also to really take the time to break down what is actually causing this is just a huge differentiator between I think what you do and not all, but most of what the allopathic or more traditional western medicine I is able to provide. What's it gonna take to get that shift in a larger scale, do you think?

3 (23m 30s): Yeah, so you know, like we've kind of been alluding to, I think really just people understanding that they have to be their own health advocates and really challenge their practitioners and challenge their insurance companies and challenge, you know, the, the, the lobbyists and the government entities that want to continue to allow this disease management healthcare system to continue to operate. You know, unfortunately, you know, sickness is a very big business and you know, if we can transform ourselves from being, you know, retrospectively managed into preventative health, you know, it will eliminate the need for urgent care and it will eliminate the need for chronic disease and you know, people will just live a better quality of life.

3 (24m 18s): And that's what we really want to emphasize also is just helping people optimize the quality of life that they live for the longest period of time. So again, it just kind of really goes back to education awareness, understanding there's a different way to practice and manage your health if you so choose that path. Understanding that you don't just have to continue to fall victim to our broken system. There is a better way, there are long-term solutions to optimizing your health and just really a raising, raising the awareness. You know, understanding that things like functional medicine and integrative medicine exists. Understanding that, you know, you can take your health in your own hands by incorporating easy to follow strategies like essential oils and stress management and helping to optimize sleep and making healthier food choices and being proactive with gut health.

3 (25m 8s): Those are easy, tangible things that people can easily do on their own to really set themselves up on a good trajectory. So just continuing to raise the awareness and the appreciation for some of these alternative based therapies.

0 (25m 22s): Hmm. Very well said. When it comes to functional medicine, how is it fitting within the insurance world? Because that is a huge factor as well.

3 (25m 33s): It is, yeah. It is a huge factor and honestly it's one of the probably biggest obstacles that, you know, we'll have to overcome. And that's what we, that's what I talk about in the book autonomy is just, you know, part of the reason the system is not changed is because of the insurance world and the insurance realm. You know, you've got insurance companies charging crazy premiums, right, for not great coverage. So it doesn't even really get utilized. And again, it's completely reactive. So yes, they'll cover your diabetes drugs, but they won't cover nutritional counseling, right? Or they won't cover dietician sessions.

3 (26m 14s): And that's because, you know, without getting into the conspiracy tangent, right? Like without going there, they don't want you to be better, right? Sickness is big business. So until we really start to challenge these health insurances and you know, people who are making health decisions, I, this is a, it strikes a nerve with me because I deal with insurance companies on a limited basis and it drives me nuts because I sit there and I'll try to speak with an adjuster about why I wanna do, you know, high, high I vitamin C infusions, right?

3 (26m 54s): And they'll sit there and they'll, they'll question me, well what are you talking about? And I said, well I'm gonna try to help this person be better. And they said, well have you done, you know, x, Y, and Z? No I haven't done X, Y, and Z. Cuz those are not solutions, right? And so you've got non-medical personnel in these insurance companies making medical decisions, right? I'll sit and I'll do a review, a case review with an adjuster who's a non-medical professional, right? And I have to sit there and justify my thought process and reasoning to this person, are you kidding me? And again, the insurance part of this is a big part of this huge. And so until enough of us can challenge our insurances and challenge our providers to challenge our insurances, it'll never change.

3 (27m 42s): Yeah.

0 (27m 42s): It's kind of mind boggling to think when you go to the doctor, you know, you are paying to get advice and guidance from that professional who has gone through all of that training, all of that education, but then all of the time I experienced this all the time, the doctor then reverts to, like you said, what those non-medical insurance people are saying they should do because that's what they'll pay for. It is mind boggling.

3 (28m 9s): It is, it's very frustrating. And you know, we're starting to see a shift. So to answer your initial question, we are starting to see a shift a little bit in, you know, some insurances or some benefits or some plans starting to be more open-minded to alternative based therapies. So it, you know, I don't wanna say it's a complete, you know, waste cuz it's not. There are some plans that do have some preventative measures or you know, flexible spending accounts or HSAs. We're starting to see a lot of corporate wellness plans and programs as well. So those are like, those are things that give me hope and things that, you know, make me feel more, you know, optimistic about the situation.

3 (28m 50s): But you know, the insurance thing is a big thing, a really big thing. And it's something we talk a lot about in the book autonomy that we just wrote.

0 (29m 1s): Well, thank you so much for sharing all of this. This has been such an en enlightening conversation and while parts of it can be infuriating, it can be easy to go on that pessimistic side of this discussion. You know, the work that you are doing to educate people, there is a path forward and just like the title of your book, it takes the individual person taking that autonomy, taking charge of their path. And more and more people doing that day after day after day, we will start to see movement, I hope and I believe in the right direction. So thank you for the work that you do, Joe, we really appreciate it.

0 (29m 44s): Before you go, we always love to ask our guests a couple closing questions. And the first is, what's one or two self-care practices you try to do every day to stay healthy?

3 (29m 54s): Yeah, so two really easy things is keep yourself moving. You know, exercise. And I'm not talking about going to the gym, I'm just talking about moving. Even for people who have very sedentary jobs, set alarms on your phone every hour, get up and move for 90 seconds, do some stretching, do some twists, do some, you know, jumping jacks, do some pushups. So keep your body moving, there's nothing more important than that. And the second point would really be do what you can to minimize stress. Unfortunately, you know, this is a crazy world. We're living in crazy times. We're all very quick and reactive to stressors in our life. But you know, stress really induces this cortisol surge, which really plays a major impact on our health and our physiology.

3 (30m 42s): So doing what you can to mitigate stress, whether that's through meditation or finding a good outlet, whether it's writing or reading or exercising. So manage stress to the best of your ability. Those are two easy things that anyone can do to give themselves more optimal health.

0 (31m 2s): Get that peace and calming in the diffuser people. It makes a big difference. 3 (31m 6s): That's great. Yeah. Nice. Eucalyptus or lavender.

0 (31m 10s): And finally, Joe, what's one thing we should all ditch completely and replace with something healthier today?

3 (31m 16s): Yeah, so that's a great question. So I really try to educate people on the negatives of stimulating substances, right? And so there's always a pro and a con to anything in, in healthcare, but if you can avoid stimulants, whether it's caffeine or, you know, so many people get put on these A D H D medications, adderalls, you know, that type of stuff. Trying to live yourself in a more calm, stabilized environment, you know, is really the one of the best things that people can do. So looking at, you know, instead of traditional stimulants or if you wanna start tapering yourself off of a Adderall or a Vivance or caffeine, you know, look at, look at mushrooms, you know, look at essential oils, you know, things like rahi, things like lions main, you know, things like, you know, eucalyptus and lavender and peppermint oil and you know, those are great tools that will give you that up without having the long-term detriments of a traditional stimulant.

0 (32m 23s): Hmm, I love that answer. Thanks for that, Joe. Well, for people that wanna reach out to you, do you see patients remotely or is it only in, in in person

3 (32m 34s): Practice? Yeah, we do. No, we do. So we have a full tele and video medicine platform. So although our clinics are in the South Florida area, we're in West Palm Beach, we actually service patients in 40 different states and 10 different countries. Wow,

0 (32m 48s): Okay. Well what's the best way for people to contact you, get your book or be a part of your world?

3 (32m 55s): Yeah, so you know, for me in general, just professionally, so my website is joseph raich.com, that's R A D I C h.com. And there you can really kind of get an overview as to me and what we do here at our clinics, which are R three Health and Med House. There's also direct links to the book autonomy as well as you can purchase the book through Amazon. But really just educating yourself on what we do in functional medicine by going to our clinic websites would be a great first step. So R three health.co and med house.co. Those are our two primary functional and integrative medicine practices. And you know, we've got a lot of great education on those websites, so it's also a great resource for people as well.

0 (33m 42s): Perfect. Well, we'll put a link to all of that below in the show notes. Make it easy for everyone to find you. Thank you again. This has been really a wonderful conversation. I appreciate the work you're doing and thank you for sharing your time and wisdom with us here on the Essential Oil Revolution.

3 (34m 0s): And thank you so much to you guys as well for continuing to spread functional medicine in the words. So I appreciate you and your efforts and thanks so much for having me on.

0 (34m 10s): The Essential Oil Revolution is created by me Samantha Lee Wright. Thanks so much for tuning in. You can catch us here each week on the Essential Oil Revolution. In the meantime, keep on learning, keep on discovering, and most importantly, keep on treating yourself well. You are worth it.

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