In this episode we interview a colleague and local entrepreneur that I hold tremendous respect for. A new business opening during the chaos of COVID and all the hurdles that comes with a new business, our guess walks us through what helped him get through this to where he is today...a thriving and expanding business.

I have known of Scott for almost 8-10 years if I had to guess but it was not until the past few years where I was fortunate to get to know him on a personal level. We have mutual patients and the patients that see and work with him rave about him and the care his business, Greater Than Performance, delivers. His gym providers an amazing approach to athletic performance and training as well as all the providers that you would want supporting you.

The more I got speaking with Scott, I couldn't help but appreciate that one of his biggest strengths was his mindset and mental approach to personal and business growth.

In our episode together we touch on various topics. Exploring forming a business through COVID, to morning routines, functional care and health optimization to the role of religion and spirituality in serving in one's pursuit of growth and optimization of one self.

I hope you enjoy our conversation and discussion.

For more information on Scott Pollock and his mission, please visit his website at

https://greaterthanperformanceandrehab.com/staff/scott-pollock/

In this episode we dive into the world of functional health and discuss Functional Neurology with our special guest Freddy Garcia, director of operations at the Carrick Institute for Neuroscience and a clinical neuroscientist with more than a decade of experience.

Dr. Garcia is a leader in education and travels the world teaching other doctors, in various specialties, the latest in functional neurology.

We discuss his journey that led him to where he is today as a leader in functional neurology with the most prestigious in the field, The Carrick Institute for Neuroscience. We discuss his experience learning from Dr. Ted Carrick himself and explore what it means to practice functional neurology as a paradigm in healthcare.

The paradigm of Functional Neurology allows providers across all specialties to adapt their backgrounds and tools and apply a functional approach to healthcare in neurology. Understanding and utilizing the concept of neuroplasticity, functional neurology utilizes sensory therapies to target very specific neurological pathways identified by a specific detailed neurological examination with the goal of driving neuroplasticity to identified regions of the nervous system needing improved function.

We discuss how this paradigm of Functional Neurology can be applied across various continuums to adapt to where the individual patient is at in their health journey. From post stroke rehabilitation and traumatic brain injury to sports performance optimization, functional neurology can be utilized.

We hope you enjoy our discussion on Functional Neurology!.

Your Health, Wealth and UltimateSelf Team!

In this week's episode we tackle headlines from the month in research and have a candid analysis and discussion around each article.

This is a common in office discussion that our team naturally has and we figured we would do an episode reflecting our common discussion and insight of the various headlines.

There is so much research being published each day, week, and month. What influences which ones reach the media outlets and the public eye? Is it their significance? Is it their financial ties? Each day there are hundreds to thousands of articles published across the globe on various health subjects. Weekly, there are several thousand published and monthly this number easily hits tens of thousands.

What is even more astonishing is that last year over 10,000 articles were retracted, setting a new annual record. This number of retractions reflects issues with an increase in fraudulent papers and compromised peer-reviewed processes. An article is retracted because there are findings that question the merits of the article and its findings and/or its legitimacy. Now how often do we hear about the hype of a new article but fail to hear if that article has later been retracted? This happened in the case of COVID 19 and early treatment using a pre-existing medication. Major media outlets pushed the retracted article and offered no apology when the article was later retracted. This is despite numerous articles demonstrating benefit and yet one article that was soaked up to push away from the majority of these other articles. This is why it is critical to always question and allow discussion. The moment the ability to question and have open discussion is taken away around a subject is the moment one should have suspicion on the article in reference. Scientific prinicples welcomes debate and discussion and acknowledges that what we know today may change with new research findings of tomorrow and that is ok.

We hope you enjoy this discussion by our team!