This is a YouTube video titled "Tapping Into The Strength of Others" containing a multi-speaker discussion from November 17, 2019, about the power of group support in managing and reversing chronic diseases like diabetes. The speakers include two unnamed participants and Ask AI Mark, who shares a detailed patient success story illustrating the effectiveness of group-based health interventions.
Oftentimes that patient can't dial into their own strength. They have to tap into the strength of someone else. And the way to do that is to put them in a group setting where others who are experiencing the same thing can help them address those issues.
And some are further along, right? Some people are halfway down reversing their diabetes and some people are newbies. And that person who's halfway done is so much more powerful than the physician.
Well, 100%. It's not the distance between you and your goal. It's the direction you take to get there, right? So we help chart that direction. And you, right, you may be hearing that other person may be well down the line, but when you're talking through the challenges and the experiences, that other person is learning something from you that that physician can't offer.
Yeah, so true. I mean, we had a patient come in who was severely obese. I mean, her BMI was 43, normal is less than 25 and over 30 is obese. She had type 2 diabetes on insulin. She had heart failure. She had high blood pressure. She had, you know, a whole host of things and medications. I was costing the healthcare system enormous amount of money. She was about 65 years old and she had been eating junk food her whole life because that's what her family taught her. She was very educated. She was doing great things in the world but just could not function anymore. And probably maybe only had a few months to maybe live. She was on her way to a kidney transplant. her kidneys were failing and her on a rate or heart transplant. And she joined one of our groups 'cause she couldn't get into the one-on-one visit 'cause we had a too big a waiting list. And people think, oh, it's less than, oh, I'm gonna go to the group 'cause I can't get in to see the real doctor and real one-on-one visit. And it was extraordinary. In three days, she got off her insulin. In three months, she got off almost all her medications, reversed almost all her diseases. By a year, she lost 116 pounds and had no more medications, no more diabetes, no more heart failure, no more kidney failure, no more liver failure. I mean, in traditional medicine, there is no way to reverse diabetes. There is no, unless you get a gastric bypass, there is no way to reverse heart failure. There is no way to reverse kidney failure. You manage those diseases. And so she was doing this in a group. She was so powerful in her willingness to make these changes with the group that she then began to send like 58 patients to us from everywhere because she saw how powerful this was.
