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1:02

for another episode of your

1:05

podcast to get you from where you are to where

1:07

you wanna be, man. And I gotta tell you, it

1:10

doesn't matter where you're going financially. It

1:13

doesn't matter, because the cemetery is full of

1:15

rich people. What you need to be worried

1:17

about is your health. And

1:19

it's something that I have been uniquely,

1:21

uniquely kind of married to for the last

1:24

20 years. And it's a story I'm gonna

1:26

talk about that happened with my wife. And

1:28

today, we got somebody that is,

1:30

I mean, I call him biohacking

1:33

expert, call him one

1:35

of the top people in his field

1:37

as far as getting you right at

1:39

a cellular level. We're not gonna talk

1:41

about lifted weights. I don't know, maybe

1:43

we will. But we're gonna talk

1:45

about how your body functions at a cellular level

1:47

and how to get the most out of your

1:49

health, therefore getting the most out

1:52

of your life. This is the

1:54

author of this awesome-looking

1:56

book called How to Win at Modern

1:58

Wellness. program. This is

2:01

Samble Tejada. Samble, how are

2:03

you buddy? I'm doing well, man. Thanks for

2:05

having me here. Glad to have you, man.

2:08

I love talking about biohacking. I love talking.

2:10

We actually, it's funny the podcast

2:12

I was just on, which is about real estate

2:14

and something else. We actually talked a little about

2:16

biohacking, which I thought was very interesting. Um,

2:18

but you are a guy that is, I'm going to call

2:20

you, you wrote an Amazon bestseller.

2:22

Um, you

2:24

are on, there's a council of

2:27

people across the country including Gary Brekke and

2:29

including these people and you sit on that

2:31

council. So I mean,

2:33

I think we can call you an expert.

2:35

I think that's fair. That's what people call me. You

2:38

know, I, I didn't give myself that name, but yeah,

2:41

I guess I'm a health and wellness expert. There's a

2:43

couple of names out there. People call me that I

2:45

definitely didn't give myself either. So I can appreciate that,

2:48

which is good. Um, talking about

2:50

your journey to this. So how did you

2:52

get into this? Uh, how

2:54

did this start for you? Yes. So I'm

2:56

a retired firefighter paramedic. So

2:58

I did 12 years out on the road, South

3:00

Florida, Fort Lauderdale, to be exact. And,

3:03

um, like most firemen, we worked 24 hours on

3:05

them. We're off for 48 hours. So

3:07

most of us, we supplement our income,

3:10

but on our days, days off, you

3:12

know, doing something else. Guys have landscaping

3:14

businesses and working at the hospital, whatever it is.

3:17

Um, I got into the health

3:19

and wellness field early on. I started at the fire

3:21

department when I was 20 and retired at age 32. I'm 30, 37

3:25

now. And, um, I started

3:27

working with the company, actually headquartered based out

3:29

of here out of Las Vegas called Cenogenics.

3:32

No, I know the company. Yeah. So

3:35

I was working, um, directly with their

3:37

chief medical officer, Dr. Robert Willecs. Is

3:40

he the ripped old guys that used to be in

3:42

the, in the, in the magazine ads and the planes?

3:44

Okay. Yeah. But Dr. Willecs was pretty ripped too. Okay.

3:46

Got him. He was old. He passed away about five

3:48

years ago, unfortunately, at the age of 80. And,

3:51

um, so yet, so Dr. Willecs was based

3:53

out of South Florida, Boca Raton, and he

3:56

was the main doctor. He would train all

3:58

the other doctors. So I was. I

4:00

was basically positioned with him and I

4:02

started just learning tons of stuff. You're

4:04

talking about a guy who was a

4:06

former heart surgeon who got so

4:09

fed up with today's medical

4:11

system, where he says, you know

4:13

what? I don't wanna perform heart surgery anymore. I

4:15

wanna prevent people from having to be on the

4:17

operating table getting heart surgery. So

4:19

he was world-renowned, would teach doctors from all over

4:21

the world. And some of the

4:23

stuff that he was talking about, man, if he didn't

4:26

have that heart surgery background as MD, would

4:29

definitely, a lot of people would be thinking he's selling

4:31

snake oil. A little out there. Yeah, yeah. But,

4:35

you know, just started learning tons of stuff. Now,

4:37

Cenogenics back then was, you know, catered

4:39

to some of the most affluent people on the globe.

4:41

Yeah, wasn't cheap. Yeah, we

4:43

had about 350 of those patients in South

4:45

Florida. And what I did, I'd actually drive

4:47

around every three months to the person's home,

4:49

these big mansions, and draw their blood. Yeah,

4:52

so I did that for about eight years. And

4:55

for eight years, I built some strong

4:57

relationships with these very affluent individuals in

4:59

South Florida. And, you

5:01

know, a lot of these people, they had

5:03

homes everywhere, right? California, Colorado,

5:05

and also in Florida. And

5:09

they would start telling me, it's like, okay, Sam,

5:11

you know, I get these

5:13

vitamin drips back in Cali in my house in

5:15

Cali, and the guy who comes is a firefighter

5:17

paramedic. So when I had

5:19

like the fifth patient tell me this, I was like,

5:21

man, you know what? I should probably look into this.

5:24

I gotta figure out this IV drip thing. IV drip

5:26

thing, right? So I started going online, researching what was

5:29

potentially gonna be my competitors, which now most

5:31

of them are my customers. And

5:33

I saw what they were doing. I said, you know what? I can do that

5:35

and I can do it better. And then that's

5:37

where it just started. What did you see that they were

5:39

doing that you thought you could do better? You

5:42

know, the environment, the experience,

5:44

a lot of the doctors were

5:46

doing it out

5:48

of the typical clinical setting. So

5:50

what I said, I says, you know, this has to be something a

5:53

little bit more attractive. It has to have like a spa feel to

5:55

it. It has to be like, I'm

5:57

gonna, this is gonna be my spa day to take care of my

5:59

health. And that's what I did. I

6:01

created it into a very relaxed setting in

6:04

a good environment very zen You

6:06

go in there and you just feel you don't feel like

6:08

you're going to the actor's office Even though we're

6:10

all clinically based. Yeah everything we're doing, but

6:13

it's just a whole different feel So

6:15

that was the name of that business. That's

6:17

the The drip place liquid

6:19

liquid Vida liquid Vida liquid Vida. Those are wellness centers

6:21

that we started with how many wellness centers Do you

6:23

have it liquid Vida? No, so we've sold 37 total

6:26

now more than half are open

6:29

We're actively franchising throughout the nation. So

6:31

yeah, we're rocking love that. So What

6:34

services are you offering a liquid Vida and no

6:36

before you if you're this right now, you're like

6:38

this a damn infomercial I swear to god, it's

6:41

not I promise it's not I'm just this is

6:43

interesting to me. So stop it stop it

6:45

We're not doing it for Marshall. I'm just curious.

6:47

So anyway, what services do you provide at liquid

6:49

Vida? Cuz I want to know so we have

6:52

five pillars that we focus on for

6:54

you to optimize your health So we

6:56

have our wellness side which we're doing

6:58

the comprehensive blood analysis. We're doing all

7:01

of the different Diagnostic testing

7:04

that we do as well hormone optimization

7:06

goes under that wellness section the

7:08

ID trips as well, too We

7:10

have our weight loss division where you know,

7:13

we focus with different that's gotten a little

7:15

busier in the last year and a half

7:18

Very busy, especially with all the

7:20

GOP Yeah, which

7:22

we've seen tremendous results with that. Yeah

7:25

So we got our weight loss division We

7:27

have our beauty division where we do

7:29

a lot of medical aesthetics the Botox

7:32

the fillers contouring And

7:34

then we have our regenerative medicine division where

7:36

we work with a lot of professional athletes.

7:38

We work with people with injuries to

7:41

Regenerate tissue and fix injuries and stuff and

7:43

then last but not least we have our

7:46

sexual health division Okay, it's pretty important. So

7:48

can you get a lot of these services

7:50

done at the same time? Yeah,

7:52

you can actually the reason I say this and actually I have

7:54

a dream would like to hear my dream Let's

7:57

go. Let's not really my dream, right? And

7:59

somebody please Look, you can steal this because I'm never going

8:01

to do it. It's just a random thing that I came up

8:03

with one day to Sarah. So my wife is

8:06

like, is like, like a lot of women. It's dude. It's

8:08

I got to go get my nails done. I got to

8:10

go get my hair done. I got to go get my

8:12

lashes done. I got to go get this done. I got

8:14

to get in all of this shit takes so much time.

8:16

Right. It's crazy. So I have a concept I want to

8:19

come up with where it's you do beauty

8:21

like a NASCAR pit stop or like literally

8:23

it's called wham glam. Thank you, ma'am. They

8:25

throw them up in a chair and you got

8:27

to see you brought somebody, she's laughing because she knows you

8:29

would go to this if it was good, where you can

8:32

get up in the chair and they hit the eyelashes. They

8:34

hit the hair extensions. They hit the nails, they hit the

8:36

feet, they hit it all at one time. And like, you

8:38

got like a team working on you. And then you're out

8:40

of there in like an hour, you would get how much,

8:42

okay. She's not on the podcast right now, but I'm just

8:44

going to get some fingers held up. How

8:46

much more would you pay for those services? If you could get

8:48

them all done at the same time and say, get your life

8:50

back twice. Twice. Yeah, you pay twice as much.

8:54

Steal this. I already, I literally own that URL.

8:56

Wait, I'm glad I'm thinking ma'am. I'll sell you the

8:58

URL. Just get the business over. So

9:00

I get my wife back on my days off

9:02

where she's not running around seeing 85 people

9:05

beautifying herself. So can

9:07

you do a lot of these services at the same time at your place? Yeah. And

9:09

then we do. Right. Because here's the thing.

9:12

A lot of these people that can do this or afford to

9:14

do this are also probably very concerned about time. Right.

9:17

Which is my thing. Right. I, that's one of the things

9:19

you said already that I loved was you would come to,

9:22

you know, you go to their house and

9:24

take the blood. Yeah. Which I thought was,

9:26

which we still do that. Right. And even

9:28

like the Ivy drips and some of our

9:30

other services, we have our concierge services where

9:32

we'll actually go to your office, to your

9:34

home, you know, wherever you're at, we'll send

9:36

somebody out. Well, I find it really interesting

9:38

that you do, we've gone from Cenogenics, which

9:40

was incredibly expensive and really, I think

9:44

now is that are they still in business now or

9:46

now? They are. That was a

9:48

lot of just HGH and TRT. Correct. It

9:50

was. Okay. You know, unfortunately they didn't really

9:52

adapt to the times with a lot of

9:54

the new, you know, peptides. Yeah. Biohacking stuff.

9:57

They wanted it. It's kind of like just

9:59

staying that. lane, which now they're

10:01

trying to get in the lane that little late, little

10:03

late, little late, but I, but things have gotten so

10:05

much more affordable. I mean, obviously, you know,

10:08

not that much more affordable, but it's a,

10:11

it's crazy how much some of this stuff still

10:13

costs. Yeah. But I think that I

10:15

think you've seen this rush and I don't know, you

10:18

tell me what came first, the chicken or the egg. Do you

10:20

think it was now that

10:22

Gary Brekke has become so famous

10:24

on social media? You've got, I

10:26

think Dana White did more for

10:29

his company than one

10:31

solo person did for anybody's company in the history

10:33

of companies. But do

10:35

you think this business and wellness

10:38

and peptides and ongoing hormone replacement management,

10:40

do you think that has gotten bigger

10:42

since Gary Brekke got bigger? Or do

10:44

you think that it was already getting

10:46

big and Gary kind of fit onto

10:49

the niche? I think it definitely fed

10:51

into bringing more awareness for the industry,

10:54

but there are a lot of other biohackers out

10:56

there that are doing a great job, that

10:58

are bringing a lot of science behind it as well

11:00

too. So to answer your

11:03

question, yes, it definitely did feed

11:05

into it because Gary Brekke is

11:07

big on the social media side.

11:09

So it brought a heck of a lot

11:12

more awareness. Traditionally, when

11:14

you look at the biohacking space and looking

11:16

at medical doctors, they're great medical doctors, but

11:18

when it comes to the business side or

11:20

marketing side, they just didn't have

11:23

it. Now with Gary Brekke, he

11:26

was around way before 10X. Grant

11:29

Cardone came in as a patient and

11:32

then loved his experience where he

11:34

says, you know what, we got to bring this to the

11:36

world. Now Grant Cardone, you know, Oh, he's going to make

11:38

money. Oh yeah, Grant's going to make money. Everything he does.

11:40

He's going to put you out there. He's

11:42

going to make you famous. So going

11:45

into that platform, into that system,

11:48

he blew Gary Brekke up. Yeah. You know, so

11:50

a little, a little too, a little too fast.

11:52

If he asked me, we've talked about in the

11:54

podcast, I'm not going to hate on what 10X

11:56

health does. I personally, the experience that I had,

11:59

if you want to. want to go back and

12:01

find that episode, you can. It's called the Truth

12:03

About 10X Health, where I talk about, I don't

12:05

really think that bad to say that about them

12:07

as people or humans, I just think that their

12:09

growth outpaced their ability to

12:11

fulfill, is what

12:13

my ending was. Well, the

12:15

one thing I'll say about that is they

12:18

know it, you know, yeah, they might not

12:20

speak about it publicly, but they know

12:22

it in being in the industry

12:24

and connecting with a lot of people, including them.

12:27

They've made a lot of adjustments.

12:29

They've recently have done

12:31

some strategic partnerships with Revive,

12:34

which Revive is in 47 different countries.

12:36

Sarah Lomas is the CEO. They

12:38

have a wonderful lab out

12:40

of Austria, where now they're actually able

12:43

to move at a quicker pace. So,

12:45

and these are recent things that have

12:47

occurred. Well, good. But they're making certain

12:49

adjustments. But I think the reason I

12:51

love to have you on, and I

12:53

want to have anybody on, I mean

12:55

here locally, my guy, Dr. John Beadle, and

12:57

then you, the reason I

12:59

like having other people on is to let

13:01

people know that this is not, the science

13:04

in this, these techniques and is not exclusive

13:06

to that product, right? There's a lot of

13:08

great people, including yourself, that are experts in

13:10

this, that you can get this type of

13:12

treatment. There's a lot of options

13:14

out there. So, you need

13:16

to become more interested in the treatment than you

13:18

do in the company. I agree. I agree. So,

13:21

my book, How to Win a Modern Wellness, as

13:23

you can see, there's several different faces.

13:26

Yeah, there's lots. So, what I did

13:28

when I first got into the industry,

13:30

it was a very cutthroat mentality industry,

13:32

where the competition just like bashed, whoever

13:35

your competitors were. I took

13:37

a different approach. I said, you know what? If

13:39

we're all here chanting that we want to change

13:41

the course of medicine, we got to

13:43

create one strong voice. We can't be against each

13:45

other. If not, Big Pharma is going to win.

13:47

Yeah. That's already a difficult battle.

13:50

You know? So, what I

13:52

did, I built relationships with all my

13:54

competitors. So, on that cover, you have

13:57

owners of some of the top companies around the globe

13:59

that I get. I gave

14:01

each of them a chapter in the book, and

14:03

we're all talking about how we're winning together in

14:05

the world of modern wellness. I

14:07

think that one of

14:10

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14:12

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14:14

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14:16

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14:19

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14:21

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And I don't think political, I think

15:25

you should get Big Pharma out of politics. I

15:28

think there's way too many decisions being

15:30

made about things that are based on

15:32

finances. Yeah, absolutely. I

15:34

agree with you, one hundred. I mean, it's

15:37

funny, I've never seen a peptide that

15:39

can possibly change your health

15:41

dramatically advertised on Fox

15:44

News. You know what I mean?

15:46

I've never seen that, it just

15:48

doesn't. Until they

15:50

get their hands on it. Well, yeah. Until

15:53

they can lock that out because there's a

15:55

lot more money in maintaining

15:57

the problem than there is in fixing it. What

16:00

do you see as you meet with people or you

16:02

start to see these tests? What are some of the

16:04

things I know you can't generalize every buns health But

16:07

where you see are the places where people seem to

16:09

have the biggest gaps? Well, there's

16:11

a lot of deficiencies Oh, the first deficiency

16:13

that I would say is vitamin D, right

16:16

vitamin D Everyone's sufficient in it,

16:18

you know, we don't live in the caveman days We're

16:21

not running outside butt naked

16:23

where we can get our vitamin D from

16:25

the Sun in vitamin D is crucial It's

16:28

it's good for immune system more

16:30

tough six different type of tumors. Yeah,

16:32

there's a lot of benefits It right up regulates

16:34

all of your hormones You

16:36

know, we're fully clothed and more inside. Yeah,

16:39

so we don't get vitamin So

16:41

that's something that I would say out of the

16:43

tens of thousands that we do on a monthly

16:46

basis of blood work About 95%

16:48

of people are deficient in vitamin D 3 always down

16:50

in the D 3 I take I take a D

16:52

3 K 3 K 2

16:54

K 3 K 2 so very important that

16:56

you brought that up because you could take

16:59

D 3 But the

17:01

K 2 helps Transport the

17:03

D 3 Ward needs to go It

17:06

helps, you know, also your calcium you don't want

17:08

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17:10

places You don't want to have calcification in your

17:12

arteries, you know in your heart and stuff So

17:14

taking D 3 you want to make sure you're

17:17

taking the K 2 also. Well, I

17:19

think Something else that I

17:21

think another reason I think people should get these tests

17:23

done and have blood work done and have tests done

17:25

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17:27

just I'll talk about my own personal experience You

17:31

know, I have two parents that are both who

17:33

were both type 2 diabetic there. My mom is

17:35

still around my dad It's not but they're both

17:37

diabetics diabetes runs my family So, you know, I'm

17:40

not a person that that is diabetic but my

17:42

sugar was maybe a little high on some of

17:44

my blood tests So rather than go on metformin

17:46

or some of the other, you know Pharmaceutical

17:48

grade stuff started taking berberine. Oh

17:51

nice and it's sort of completely out. Yeah,

17:53

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17:55

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58:00

Well, that's the five things. Well, Sam, dude, if they want

58:02

to get in touch with you, how do they find you?

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