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Treat Root Cause Symptoms?

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Tired, foggy, low hormones, and nothing helps? It’s probably not magic—it’s nutrient deficiency. Dr. Purser uses CMA with Redox testing to go deeper than your average doctor ever will. He sees severe lipoic acid, biotin, PQQ, and lithium deficiencies causing symptoms that mimic dementia, thyroid issues, or low testosterone. It’s not “manopause”—it’s vitaminopause. Find the root cause, don’t just chase prescriptions.

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You're not the only person out there that feels like crap. Wakes up every morning exhausted, which is weird. I know. I've been there. I've done that. And you can't make it through the day without falling asleep or passing out or or having a seizure or throwing up or something crazy. Let us help. You pay me

0:16

to deal root causes. You want me to figure out why you feel so awful, why you're so fatigued, why you hurt all over, why you're not making any hormones, why all this stuff is going on to your body. It's not magic. I know most doctors think it is and want to

0:31

give you a prescription. They need to look for the root cause that that's what you pay me to do. So, I'll look at intraator vitamins first. Usually, it's really helpful. You ought to see the things I see. It's crazy. But we said, wouldn't you agree, Jackson?

0:47

I see severe lipoic acid deficiencies. Severe biotin deficiencies will cause hair loss in men. What it really does though is affect your memory. You get bad memory, loss of biotin. I see. so much pseudo dementia. That's not dementia. It's caused by caused by a PQQ

1:04

deficiency or a lithium deficiency. Lithium, sorry, the vitamin, not the supplement, not lithium the drug. You need it for your brain. It's crazy what all I see. And low testosterone is so common among men. But it's almost always vitamin Oops, not manopause.

1:22

I love that. Just a bad excuse for we don't know what's causing it. It's not Matt. Again, I I keep going back to this. Doctors think magically. They don't think it through. Drug companies have got them so controlled that they will prescribe medications when they should go. Have you tried some vitamins?

1:39

Here's a really good multi. Take this amino acid complex. Let's see how those do and then see what happens to your testosterone level. Testosterone levels tend to lag behind vitamin therapy. So, if you're doing vitamins hoping to increase your testosterone, give it

1:54

three or four months, sometimes six months to make the change. It's got to get into your body, get into your your blood, get into your cells, get into the right cells, getting into your hypothalammus, getting into your pituitary, getting into your testicles, getting into your ovaries, all that before things change. It takes a few

2:12

months and it tends to lag behind. You've got to be patient with it. I see a lot of pseudo hypothyroid cases. When your doctor sit says you're hypothyroid, the first question that should come out of your mouth is why? Why am I hypothyroid? You better try and figure

2:28

that out because you may not need to be on medicine for the next 30 years or 50 years of your life when in reality it could be a selenium deficiency or iodine deficiency or B12 deficiency or some other deficiency affecting your thyroid production. Get someone who does

2:44

recauses. I don't care if it's me or who. Uh I think I'm the only one out there really doing it. That's an MD. But and let me look for these things for you and I'll find them. I'll tell you what I think. So, in Justice here helps me see patients, too. He's my son-in-law. He's

2:59

a 6'4 top ICU paramedic for ORM city. He's with their fire department. He also helps in the stuff like that. He knows his craft and he's really good at at helping. He's been here for 5 years. Listen to me. I trained him. My stepson

3:16

Jared is uh halfway through his residency now. He'll join us in another couple years. And we'll just keep going because we have more patients we know what to do with cuz apparently you're not the only person out there that feels like crap. Wakes up every morning

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exhausted, which is weird. I know. I've been there. I've done that. And you can't make it through the day without falling asleep, passing out or or having a seizure or throwing up or something crazy. Let us help. Most of it's either vitamin deficiencies or genetics and

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that's what we look at. We go as basic as you can. This is Dr. Dan Purser. I love you guys. Hope this helps. Thanks.

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