A Man on a Mission to End Chronic Disease | 001

Dr. Fab Mancini: Imagine chronic disease, whatever it is, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, low COVID, chronic pain. It doesn't matter any chronic disease is like a backpack in your shoulders, but your behaviors, your mindset, is like a rock that you add to that backpack every single day. And if you make a bad choice, you're adding more rocks into the backpack. If you're making good choices, you actually take the rocks away from the backpack. And this is actually the way I view chronic disease.

Hi everybody. This is Dr. Fab Mancini, and I'm so excited to be with you, because I wanted to make you aware that I'm on a mission and but I want you to understand the history behind that mission. So you know that this is many years in the making. When I was 16 years old, I had a dream that I was going to be a doctor, but I really didn't know what kind of doctor. And I remember that I went to my counselor at my high school, and she mentioned to me that that was great, that I wanted to be a doctor, but I needed to really be more disciplined with my studies, and only have a so that way I can get into a great pre med program. And because of that, I was able to get at one of the most prestigious pre medicine programs in the country at the University of Dallas in Dallas, Texas. So I came to Dallas, and then the head of that program was a double PhD named sister cladovia Lacher. She was very well known in the healthcare system and very famous, and she took a very special interest on me. She only accepted around 27 kids around the world to complete this program. And if you completed it, pretty much, you can go to any medical school that you wanted to.

So it was very rigorous. There was no time to do anything else but to study all the time and but it taught me the power of discipline, and I can tell you, I loved every minute of it, because I realized that the key to being a great student is to actually have a passion for what you're studying. You know, many times I see that sometimes young people go to college or universities, or even adults try to get a second or third degree, but they're lacking that passion. They're lacking that that desire of, what am I going to do with this, and how am I going to change the world, and what level of impact am I going to have? So for me, learning the human body, how it functions. Be able to become the best doctor that I could become was really something else, and I loved every minute of it. And then I went from there to the ability to learn more about the nervous system. Initially I thought I was going to be a pediatrician, but then I realized that I was fascinated with the nervous system. I read I learned that if I was just able to put myself in a position where I could impact the brain, that then all of a sudden, I was able to help more people.

So I asked my counselor, and I said, How can I have and what is the best specialty medicine that I can become in? She said, Well, just become a neurosurgeon. There's nothing longer than that and more intense than that in medicine. So that's what I've decided, pretty much to go and then I was involved in a car accident six months before I graduated, and the orthopedic surgeon in the hospital I had severe whiplash, and he said, You know, I can give you painkillers, I can even give you muscle relaxers, but you should go see my doctor of chiropractic. And that's where I was introduced to natural healthcare, holistic healthcare, and I'll never forget that doctor, because he reminded me of three things that really changed my life during that first visit. Number one, that our bodies have the ability to heal themselves. Number two, that we have 12 systems in the body, but that the nervous system was the most important system, because it controlled and regulated all the other systems. And then thirdly, that they were focusing not only on my symptoms, but they were going to get to the root cause of the problem. And that's when I felt I got the aha moment. Prevention is the key.

I interviewed about 62 chiropractors in six months, and I went back to my counselor, and I said, I'm not going to go to medical school. I'm going to go to chiropractor school. And I chose chiropractic because it's the most established holistic profession in the United States as part of pretty much every system, even though it's still very misunderstood. Good. I recognize that, but I also realized that once I got in it, I was maybe able going to be able to help it and educate the world as to the value that it has to offer. And as I was becoming a doctor of chiropractic, I discovered acupuncture. So I started studying more acupuncture, and then nutrition, energy, medicine, and pretty much everything that had to do with Holistic Health, natural health. I was a great student. I spent almost every weekend that I was studying to become a doctor of chiropractic in a seminar learning because I was really hungry. I was hungry to become the best that I could be. And then when I went to that first chiropractor, I realized that in the waiting area they had a few people, and one of the people was a lady that was dealing with infertility, and another one was a person that was struggling with asthma and allergies, and another one that was having digestive problems, another one that was trying to prevent this herniation, and they had back pain, another one that was having some eyesight problems.

Well, when I left that office, I was saying to myself, Who is this doctor of chiropractic? They must be the smartest people in the world, because they just mentioned about six or seven specialties. See almost 95% of all the graduates of medical school, they go into a specialty in medicine. And one of our biggest challenge in the healthcare system that we have is that it's so fragmented, because you have all these specialties, and they don't talk to one another, so the patient, every time they have a new symptom, they end up in a different specialty, and that's the maze, especially as we get older. It's really sad to see that our parents and our grandparents are going from one specialty to another to another, getting medicated for one thing and then getting another medication that may be conflicting with our first medication is not the right way to do it. It hasn't worked. It will never work. Let me say it again, it will never work. We've been at this for years, and it hasn't worked.

Our chronic diseases have escalated more and more every single year, and we need to change that. We need to understand why and how did we get there? So I want you to know that the reason that I want to put myself in this position to continue to guide you in how to end chronic disease is because the solution to chronic disease is you. If you can understand how your body got to be where it is, if you can understand the root causes of that problem. If you can understand and better understand the healthcare system and what drives it, if you can learn from the biggest experts and disruptors in the healthcare system, I know that you will make a better decision, because at the end of the day, your choices every day is what dictating whether you think of it like this. Imagine chronic disease, whatever it is, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, low COVID, chronic pain. It doesn't matter any chronic disease is like a backpack in your shoulders, but your behaviors, your mindset, is like a rock that you add to that backpack every single day, and if you make a bad choice, you add in more rocks into the backpack. If you're making good choices, you actually take the rocks away from the backpack. And this is actually the way I view chronic disease. Chronic Disease is not a life sentence. We already dealt with that in the early days in the 80s and 90s, where everybody thought that genetics was the root of all evil, that if all of a sudden your grandparents and your parents had a genetic predisposition, that you were going to get it to then we started learning about epigenetics, which is the environment around the cell, your lifestyle choices, and we realized that it was that that was activating your predisposition of a genetic disease.

So if you change your lifestyle, if you change your life's choices, your your environment, now you have a better chance to never activate it and be able to break the cycle, and that's really important. Break the Cycle. This is a responsibility that we all have, and if you're a parent like me, right, you have the opportunity to break that cycle with your mindset and behavior so your children don't have to live with the same conditions that have plagued your family for years. I want you to know that this podcast is really about empowering you. It's about letting you know my passion, my mission, and why I got into this role since the beginning. You know, they they pronounced me as one of the hall of famers in the wellness revolutionary movement, people that. Contributed greatly to that movement. And then, as a doctor of chiropractic, I've been very blessed to not only practice for 10 years, but to have been the president of Parker University, one of our leading chiropractor schools, for 13 years or more. And then now President Emeritus of the same university, and they continue to write books and lecture all over and then, of course, all my media appearances which have influenced millions of people around the world into how to make better choices.

So I want this podcast to be about you. I want this podcast to be relevant and to bring you the latest topics of things that can help you make better choices every single day. And one thing that I've learned over the years is that there is a different paradigm out there. You know, about 20% of the people that I've evaluated over the years have really understood this wellness paradigm and recognize that health is about me and what choices I make, and not about the choices of others, but we still have about 80% of the people that are in a healthcare system that is primarily managing symptoms through pharmaceuticals for the most part, instead of engaging you to understand the root causes of your chronic disease, that's the place where we're going to be.

My goal is to bring you the best experts in the world, to bring you some of the latest information in science, and, more importantly, practical action steps that you can take every single day. I know right now, seven out of 10 deaths that are happening right now in the United States are actually because of a chronic disease. I lost my father at an early age of 64 to lung cancer. He was pre diabetic, but he had smoking his early years. All of that damage the body to the point that it it expressed itself as a lung cancer in the in the future, and he took him away within a year. I don't want anybody else's parents to die early. It was sad for me to lose him at a young age, and, of course, even sadder to see that my children never had a chance to really enjoy them, and I know he would have enjoyed them too. So I want you to know that together, we can actually make a difference in this chronic disease. And we want to make sure that you understand that the the dream of waking up every single day full of energy and waking every day without any pain in your body, and being able to function and do the things you love to do without having to say, No, my body is not capable of doing that any longer. That's not a dream. That's a reality for the people that subscribe to this idea.

And once you hear some of the information that I'm going to be sharing with you, I want you to know that that my goal is for you to be, that my goal is for you to be one of those individuals that will allow yourself to leave your health potential, because there's no way that you can ever fulfill your life potential unless you have health potential. Health is the one area of your life that impacts everything. It impacts your relationships at home, it impacts how you feel about yourself, your self esteem. It impacts your wealth, right right now, the number one reason why people go personally bankrupt in the United States has been over the last few years, getting sick, a physical illness can wipe you off financially, and we know that, then we also have the problem that corporate America is having to pay so much money for health care costs for their employees that they can't afford it any longer. We know that the health care system in the United States is almost 20% of all of our monies. We cannot longer support that. And when I see that 90% of the cost of health care in the United States is Coronavirus disease, that's when I decided, let's bring you the podcast that will revolutionize all of that, where you get the experts, where you get the inside information, where you get the latest science, and you get to make the decisions to be healthy, nothing will give me more joy than for you to be so empowered about this that you wanted to share that with everybody that you come in contact with and encourage them to listen to the podcast and sharing those episodes with those that you know in your life are struggling.

You see, the one thing about chronic disease is that all of us know somebody right now that is really struggling. It may be us, it may be a family member, it may be a co worker, it may be a neighbor, it may be somebody within your community. But I want you to know that there are answers out there and there are solutions out there, and I'm hoping to bring that to you. I want you to be the most empowered. Informed individual out there when it comes to your own health, I want you to make great choices and and I gotta tell you on a on a practical basis. You know, many times people tell me, you know, fab, what is the one thing that people can do to be healthy? And for years, I have mentioned, like, for me personally, getting a chiropractic adjustment once a week, probably hands down the best decision I made in 38 years. It has regenerated my spine. If I don't have any arthritis in my spine, all of my discs are perfectly I'm going to turn 60 this year, and my body is actually better than it was 21 years old when I started. So I want you to know to me, that's one. The other one is, of course, the foods that we eat right now, over 60 to 80% of all the chronic illnesses are attributed to the foods that we put in our bodies. The foods that we put in our bodies are full of preservatives that have no nutritional value. They just keep the foods living longer in the shelves.

Number two, the toxicity in our foods have gotten to a point that now they're having to do governmental regulation, even more than ever, because of the amount of people that have actually been proven to be sick due to something in their foods, the way they make their foods, the sugar, factors, the dyes, the chemicals, the oils that they use to fry them, all of that has already been discovered, but we haven't acted on it as a healthcare system. So with this new administration, I'm hoping and praying that we're going to be able to make some radical changes that will help us all be healthy, especially for our family and our children coming along the way, there has never been this many children with chronic disease ever in the history of humanity. We are seeing all of these chronic illnesses in an earlier and earlier age more than ever, and we must stop that. And I'm included in that mental illness. You know, mental disease or mental health has become huge in the chronic world. We have conditions like anxiety, depression, suicidal tendencies, all of these things need to get control. We can no longer continue to have that become an issue in our lives.

So I want you to join me. But if I was to give you one tip when people ask me that question, I would say this. I have figured out in 38 years that being healthy, right, ending chronic disease boils down to one simple thing, you making a better choice about your health today than you did yesterday. It's that simple. Take a look at what you did yesterday and ask yourself the question, what is one thing that I can do today that will make better than what I did yesterday? It may be working out, or maybe working out a little bit longer, doing a different exercise. It may be eating more holistic food and and organic food and less preserved foods, less fried foods. It may be maybe having a meditation, a guided meditation, where it can actually calm your brain down and be able to allow your brain to recover. It could be maybe sleeping a few more hours a day, instead of not sleeping well or sleeping three or four hours, maybe you can sleep six, seven or eight hours. Maybe it's drinking a glass of water with lemon, which many people know is one of the best things you can do first thing in the morning. I just want you to make a better choice, one choice better today than you did yesterday, and then I want you to do it again tomorrow and the next day and the next day, and that is the only way that we can actually be able to ensure that we're going to live longer.

You know, we talk about longevity today, longevity is not about just living longer. It's about living with quality of life as you get older. That, to me, is what longevity is, and you can do that by making a better choice today, but also giving yourself permission to go see a holistic doctor, like a Doctor of Chiropractic and naturopath and acupuncturist and massage therapist. These are providers that have already proven the value that they can give your body, especially when it comes to chronic disease, give yourself permission, or maybe trying some technology, like getting a watch that can monitor your sleep patterns and your breathing, or perhaps technology that like red lab beds or hydrogen water or brain tap for your brain. I mean, there's so many amazing technologies out there that you can benefit from. So I want this show to hopefully be one that will bring you a lot of that awareness for you to implement. So I want to go on this journey with you, and thank you for being a part of that and allowing me to be a part of that. And my goal is to give you as much information as you can. To take at one time and give you the actionable steps that will help you.

So I want you to know that. I want you to subscribe to this podcast right now, and I want you to share this episode. If he inspire you, if it motivated you, please share it with somebody that you love, because the only way that we're going to help our loved ones is that, if they get involved in this movement, the only answer to ending chronic disease is that if we begin to take control of our own health collectively, we will end chronic disease so at least reverse it. Most of it right, because most of the chronic diseases are preventable, and many of them, just like the rocks, if you can just take the rocks off the backpack, you're going to be able to live a pretty decent life. Maybe it's not 100% perfect, but at least you're going to be able to function the way you were meant to function. So the power to end chronic disease, in my opinion, is in your hands, so let's make it happen one step at a time.