906. Biohacking Your Physical & Mental Wellness To Enhance Your Performance With Sage Workinger, Co-Founder Of 10X Health

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Say like when you eat something, if you get a stomach ache from it, you're like, oh well I'm just sensitive to gluten or I'm lactose intolerant or I can't eat, you know, eggs or dairy or whatever it is. Sometimes it's not a food allergy, it's actually a methylation issue. It's a genetic issue.

Hey everyone, welcome to the show. My guest today is somebody who's helped.

Me personally on my health journey.

That is Sage Werkinger.

She gradu from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication.

And a minor in Business Administration.

She then co founded Streamlined Medical Group.

In 2017 with Gary Breca and focused.

Mainly on managing the financials, operations, staffing, marketing, training and growing the business. But then Streamline joined 10X Health Ventures with Grant Cardone and Brendan Dawson in September 2021 with the shared vision of reaching more people and changing the face of health by educating and empowering people.

To take charge of their well.

And that's exactly what I did. She was introduced to me by a.

Friend of ours and what she had.

To say literally blew my mind. So I'm going to tell you everything.

That I learned all about the health journey that got me to start really.

Thinking about wanting to just take it to the next level.

And that is what Sage is a part of.

So let's get started. Hey Sage, I'm so excited to have you on the show. Thank you so much for coming on.

Oh thank you for having me. I'm really excited about this.

Oh, I'm beyond excited for this because I think this is going to be info that is going to blow people's minds all about their health and the possibilities and that's why I was really excited to meet you. And I'm just going to share a little bit about how you came into my world. I feel like when you are obviously seeking something, I feel like your ears perk up and you're, you know, what is it? Your reticular activating center part of your brain is just like, wearing. Is it? Where is it? And it's so funny how it always appears. That is what I love about having these conversations on this podcast, because I know that people are seeking how to improve their health right now. And for me, I was just meditating all the time and journaling, and I was getting these messages like, if you really want to go to the next level with your businesses, you're going to have to upgrade the operating system. That's literally like, I don't talk that way. That's how I knew it wasn't me. It was like a meditation. And it was like, you need to upgrade the operating system.

But it's a great analogy to real life.

And that's. I was like, okay, what does this mean? Like, I. This means next level, right? Like, this means I'm gonna have to do things that I'm not doing right now. And I was invited to a dinner by Pete Vargas and love Pete. So amazing. And it was this room of, what.

Was it, like, 30 or 40 people?

And it was couples, a lot of couples, which was a cool concept.

Lots of couples. And you guys stood up. So it was you and your fiance, Gary, and you guys. Just when you started talking, I was like, wait, what did they just say? What's going on? What are they doing with health? This is insane. So I'm not even going to try to say what you said. So. And you guys, today we're going to talk about so many different things that we can do for anti aging, beauty, energy, better sleep, anxiety, ADD gut issues. So many incredible things. But I want to start here because this is what opened me up for Sage. So can you tell everybody a little bit about what you do and then what exactly you were talking about that night?

So Gary Brecke and I, we co founded Streamline Medical Group, and then we ended up joining the Cardone Ventures team and formed 10x health ventures. So the goal is actually to franchise the wellness clinic that we operate and take it across the country and hopefully one day global in helping people, like you said, restart their operating systems, get people better. Let's get them out of the care system and really find different alternative solutions to the things that you mentioned, like anxiety, depression, add, adhd, gut issues, and more mental health things, as well as hormone balance and vitamin deficiencies. So all of these different ways we're trying to help people without giving them a pill that has 18 other side effects to it that you got to take another Pill to solve those side effects. Let's just. Right, exactly. Everybody's been through it. We all go to our doctor. I'm a rule follower. If my doctor tells me to take something, I'm like, okay, I'm going to take that. And then you find like, well, wait a second. I just came in for this one simple problem. Now I got a whole slew of other problems that I got to deal with. Right, exactly. So this is all about helping you figure out the right balance, because our bodies can heal themselves. We just have to put the right raw materials into it to fix those symptoms. And I'm telling you, it just makes a world of difference whether you're having issues with sleep or maybe you got a little too much OCD going on, like myself sometimes. And there's just all these different ways of calming the mind, calming the gut, balancing hormones, and doing it in a more natural way, Whether it's with vitamins and supplements, with breathing techniques. We have all kinds of cool IV therapies. So there's a lot of neat things that we do that. I just love that when you start throwing out these different words inevitably, like, what happened with you is, I threw out some of the things, issues I was dealing with and how I solved them, and that starts to just go off in your mind, like, ding, ding, check, check. Those are issues I'm dealing with. And then you connect with people from admitting your own things that you've dealt with over the years.

Oh, my gosh. It was really powerful for me. And I think for entrepreneurs or wannabe entrepreneurs or for people who are just wanting to get better in their lives, which covers pretty much everyone on the podcast, a lot of times we can start to feel like, well, if we eat clean or we eat healthy, then what's wrong with me? Or maybe I just need more strategy in my business or, God, why am I not motiv? I have no energy. And, you know, we forget, you know, there's so many things in our life that maybe we are deficient in, or maybe the food that we're eating is not necessarily agreeing with us. And I think that that was really what I started to look at was, man, I am such a routine person that I'll get in a routine, and even if it's semi working for me, I don't want to sway from it. And underlying, I feel like I was getting these messages, like, maybe you're not. This thing that you're having every day isn't the best for you. Like, maybe you need to switch it up or Maybe you're lacking in something, but we all get so busy that we can tend to not look at it. So this is why I was really excited. And when you stood up that night, you were talking about something in particular, which is a path that I went down. So would you share a little bit about the method or the therapy or whatever it is it's called? I'm gonna have you explain it.

So the test, we call it a 10x health system. We call it the core gene test. And it's a test that. It's a cheek swab. Super easy. You can do it at home, send it back into the lab. We get results within, like, three to four weeks. And then we review your results. But what it does is helps us understand we're testing for five actionable genes. So your genes, like your eye color, your hair color, you obviously can't change those unless you're wearing colored contacts and dyeing your hair. But these five actionable genes are actually genes that we can adjust and fix by adding in the right raw materials. So one example that I give people is I'm like, listen, if I asked you to make me a chocolate chip cookie, but I don't give you brown sugar, and I don't give you chocolate chips, there's nothing wrong with you. I just didn't give you the right raw materials to make the recipe. So it's the same with our bodies. The process of methylation and taking a raw material in its raw form and then converting it and being able to process it into the usable form is the process of methylation. So it's this genetic test. You see, if you've got different breaks at these five levels. And then if you do have these breaks, whether you got it from one parent or both parents, then we can take action on those genes and correct and fix them. And so when they're not working and functioning properly, then you get issues. I always say, like when you eat something, if you get a stomach ache from it, you're like, oh, well, I'm just sensitive to gluten, or I'm lactose intolerant, or I can't eat eggs or dairy or whatever it is. Sometimes it's not a food allergy. It's actually a methylation issue. It's a genetic issue. And we can solve and correct that by adding the right raw materials in. And it will calm the gut down. It also, people don't think about this, but when you're eating things, how it can affect your. So if I eat something called folic acid, it's the cheap form of B9. The right form, the natural form of B9, is folate. So as long as I'm eating folate, I'm a okay, I'm fine. But if I don't, if I eat anything with folic acid, whether it's in a supplement or in my food source. And I always think of carbs like breads, pastas, flour, cookies, cake, rice. If I eat that and it has folic acid in it, I spin out. I get massive anxiety. I get severe depression. And for a while, when I was taking the wrong supplement, and I think that was maybe the story I shared at the dinner was I was taking the wrong supplement that had high doses of folic acid and a cheap B12 called cyanocobalamin. I can't process those two items because I have genetic breaks that don't allow me to convert those forms of those vitamins into a usable form. So what happened to me is I end up having, again, severe anxiety, depression, panic attacks, suicidal thoughts. I had major heartburn, like the worst heartburn I'd ever had in my life. And my mind just races, races, races. I couldn't sleep at night. I'd wake up in the middle of the night and be wide awake, like, worrying about stuff I couldn't control. Worrying about stuff that didn't make sense. I. Even when it got really bad from this vitamin, I had show tunes, like Broadway show tunes replaying in my mind.

Oh, my gosh, between 4 and 6.

In the morning every morning. And I'd just be exhausted every day. But when I figured that out, I took this test. I figured out that I'm basically allergic to cheap forms of vitamins. And when I stopped taking that Ultra women's multivitamin that I got at the grocery store or CVS or whatever, and second, I stopped taking it and then started taking the right type of vitamin, the one that was meant for me that I can process, all of those symptoms went away. And it's really incredible how I am so sensitive to stuff. So I know if I forget to take my vitamins or if I go and I grab the bread basket at the restaurant and it's got folic acid in the bread and power down a slice of pizza that really isn't good for me. It's not organic, and it's sprayed with grain with folic acid, I spin out again. And then I know, okay, I gotta retake my vitamins or I gotta stop eating the crappy food and tomorrow I'm gonna be better. Cause it's gonna process through. It's quite incredible that once you lock in on it and you understand it and you understand what forms your body can process, it all works. My hormones went out of balance when I was during. There was a four month period that I took that gummy vitamin and it spun me out of control. And that's where Gary and I found this core gene test because he was like, I don't know what's going on with you, but you turned into a crazy person. And I share that story because it had such an impact on me to be in this weird place for four months but be blaming it on things like, well, I'm just stressed in my business and I'm just stressed with my fiance and you know, I'm stressed with family or kids. You can blame it on a slew of different things, but now I take all the right forms and I'm very calm. I don't have all these issues all my things have. I say I've calmed the crazy and I think that people can relate to that in some form or fashion. So I think that was the story that we shared.

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Yes, because I think I was open about it. Like, okay, I was a little off there for a minute.

I think what it. And that's so powerful because I think that we look around, we can even think we know people's story. And until someone stands up who is successful or is doing what you want to be doing or whatever that looks like, we can think that they have something that we don't or that we're different and there's something wrong with us. And I know for a really long time, you know, I stopped myself from doing all the things that I wanted. I remember wanting to host like a large women's event and be a speaker and write a book and do all the things and have a podcast, except I was like, I have anxiety. I'm fundamentally flawed and it's not going away, right? And it's like, ah, totally healed and gone. But at the same time, number one, there are things that you can do about it and you can live a 1 million percent normal life, if not almost get rid of it or have all of the things that can really help you with anxiety or all of the different things that we named earlier. And if you really look at, have I looked at all of the possibilities of what this could actually be from and what I love about this is it's one more thing outside of, you know, personal development and doing things that scare you that truly can heal a huge part of something that you can, is not wrong with you.

Right.

Could just be something missing.

And that was, you know, it was always hard for me because being in this environment where you're meeting with entrepreneurs all the time and you know, all these people that have made it and they're like doing great big things. And I did feel like you felt like where you're going, okay, something is wrong with me. Like I'm waking up and immediately panicking about God knows what. I haven't even started my day and I'm already in a panic. And there is no reason for that. Now I would understand like if you're claustrophobic and you get into a crowded elevator, totally makes sense that you might have anxiety or a panic attack. If you go to the edge of a 30 floor building and you're scared of heights, that makes sense that you would get very nervous and worry about what could happen. But. But it doesn't make any sense to just wake up and have issues. There should be no reason for that. So I always say I have to take a 5 methylfolate because I have an MTHFR break. And MTHFR is one of the genetic mutations that I got it from both of my parents. So I'm severely broken. I'm operating at best 10%. It's usually between 0 and 10%. Is that functioning for me? So I have to take a 5 methylfolate capsule in the morning and I take one again before I go to bed at night. And then inevitably I wake up every morning at 4am because I got to go to the bathroom after having a baby. I take another one then because. Not because it's a sleeping pill, but I call it. It's a quiet the squirrels pill. It just helps quiet my mind. It helps me go back to sleep. No more show tune. Broadway show tunes, you know, playing in my mind on repeat. I don't even watch Broadway shows.

I have. Your subconscious just remembered them?

Yeah. So crazy. So it does. It just quiets the squirrels. And that has been such a game changer for Me with my sleep habits. I'm not exhausted in the middle of the day. My mind isn't racing. I'm not stressing. When people have an MTHFR break, they can have one of two. They call them sub allele breaks. So you can have one of two or both breaks underneath that. So some people have one that leads to anxiety, which is a fear of the future. I always explain, like, I have anxiety. I worry about things that haven't happened, may never happen. But I could go down a rabbit hole and be like, but everything could go wrong and we could all die. Like, that was me, right? And I know I laugh about it because I'm like, okay, I used to be that way. And I drive Gary crazy because he's like, why can't you be more positive? And he's Mr. Glass half full and I'm the empty. I'm like, no, it could all go wrong. I mean, the business is going to fail. Whereas he has anxiousness.

So that's.

I don't have that. Anxiousness is almost a fear of the present. Like everything's an emergency. People tend to be like, they get angry if people aren't on time or even 10 minutes early. It irritates them. All this stuff has to happen right now. A lot of very successful entrepreneurs tend to have anxiousness because they just want to get stuff done right now. And then there's people that have both breaks and that means they're just worried all the time. Like, they just are a constant ball of stress. And it's sad when it leads to then when you can't manage that anxiety or anxiousness, then it leads to depression and then it can lead to just spinning out, having a panic attack. And again, like I said, I admit to that. There was a point in life in those four months that I had suicidal thoughts and, you know, had I not had a family that I care about, that I was like, okay, I can't go anywhere. I got to figure this out. But why was that running through my head out of nowhere after 30 plus years of being on this earth and not having anything like that, to then all of a sudden it was nonstop for four months and to find out it was because of a stupid vitamin that I picked up. It was sad. It's sad that that's what's promoted out there, that that's what lines the shelves of CVS and Walgreens and Costco pharmacies. I'm always looking at vitamins now and checking the ingredient label because I'm like, ah, stuff is all trash Flintstone Vitamins. We're giving this crap to our kids and then we wonder why they go to school and they're bouncing off the walls and they can't focus and they're at the principal's office because they got in trouble again and it's because we're feeding them these crappy vitamins and if we just put them on the right forms of it, the right methylated forms, they would be fine. It would calm them down. Every kid in the world doesn't have adhd. They just have been given a whole bunch of folic acid, pop tarts and cereal and toast before they go to school. And then everybody wonders why they're getting in trouble and they can't focus. So it's really Once you see it and you clue in on it and you read your ingredient labels, I'm telling you, it makes a world of difference.

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Wow.

It's really in a lot of stuff too.

It's in everything.

Oh, my gosh. And looking back over my life, so I've had a couple moments where I have had and it has not happened often. I think it's two that I can remember where I had massive panic attacks where I was like, chris, you need to call the ambulance because, like, I don't know what's happening. I think I'm having like a heart attack or a heart thing. And one of them was like, I went to a GNC and bought one of those like, whatever energy drinks. And I think it had like a bunch of. Of some sort of B vitamin in it that I just.

That's the cyanocobalamin.

I mean, I thought I was gonna die for three hours. I literally thought I was going to die. And he was like, do we call the ambulance? What do we do?

Probably had green tea in it. Green tea extract became a huge thing in supplements. And not everybody can process green tea.

So this was the other thing you told me is you're like, you can't process green tea. This was from my test?

Yes.

So then the other one, you wanna know what the other one was? When I had a meltdown, just like that.

This.

I had made a big bottle, like a water bottle just like this. So what is this? 42 ounces, probably. I was going to train at my gym and I made a water bottle with two green tea bags in it. And I'd never done that before. And I was training this girl and I just started to shake and I couldn't breathe. And I'm like, I don't even know what to tell you is going on because this was like 10 years ago. It was not cool to lose your shit in front of people at that time. It was like very uncool. You were like, what's wr? And I was like, I don't know what's wrong with me, but I can't finish this. And I was like, I gotta go. Like, literally that was my peace out moment. And I went upstairs And I literally locked the bathroom door and I was in a ball, like freaking out. That has never happened to me. And then what happens, Sage? And I know that, you know, this is that moment, that moment in New York when that happened when I got that energy drink. And then that moment then gets in your brain, it's in your cells, because it's such a freak out moment that you're like, is this going to be the new me? Am I going to start not being able to do these everyday things? And what it did was it kind of started this waterfall of like fear from those moments that you didn't know.

Anxiety is just channeling now you're hyper focusing on that panic attack. And then you think it's just going to continue to happen. When in reality it was caused by the green tea that you took or the cyanocobalamin, the bad B12. And it wasn't just because that's your new state of mind. Yeah, I wish I.

Because it would have saved me 10 years of going, this is going to happen again. Oh my God. This is my brain, like spiraling out. Like, this is why I wanted to have this conversation is I know that this is a real thing for people is they have these moments that are caused by something that they didn't even think about.

Right.

It's good for you. Right? Green tea was good for me. This energy drink was all supposed to be like a natural thing. And it's.

I used to live on emergency pack. I put them in my cocktails before I go out for the night. I loved them. And then I realized it's like so high, high, high percentage cyanocobalamin. And I'm like, oh my gosh. Like, how did I not realize how crazy I was?

Oh my God.

So what are some things? Number one, we're gonna go down the list in just a little bit of some other things that they can look at.

Yeah.

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But if this test is sounding interesting to people, if they want to know you know about their core gene test, they can go to, let's see 10x health system.com and they can just order the test. Which you guys I thought this was going to be like a super, super crazy expensive thing. It was not. It's a pretty, I think it's a really good price for what it is. You guys can go and check that out. So it's the number 101 0x health system.com and they can go and do this test and then what happens is they get your. You get your test results, you get to chat with someone about it. So you kind of know just exactly what I learned. I can't process certain things. And by the way, it wasn't overwhelming. I thought I was going to get a list of, like 50 things I couldn't do. It was really only like three. And that felt really good to me. So it wasn't like, oh, my God, now I have to, like, eat dirt and that's it.

Well, and I get a lot of people, too. They're like, well, I don't want to take all these capsules. And like, that's fine. The cool thing is on the report, it's also going to tell you different ways food sources that you can get these nutrients. So if you're not going to be good about taking capsules, okay, well, then look at the folate and it's going to tell you all the different food sources you get folate. But guess what? It's easier to pop a capsule, I think.

But I love popping my capsules. It was very easy. And there's not a lot.

So every morning I depend on it. I take my vitamins before I open my email because I know that's just a better way for me.

That's a good idea. You're like, let me take these coping vitamins here.

Exactly.

All right.

So handle the stress coming at you. It's still coming at you. It's not like it's going to go away, but at least you can manage it better. Yeah.

I think it's so exciting just to know it's number one. There's not something wrong with you. There's things that we can do to help fill that in and fix it. And, you know, when I was talking to you, it was just the anxiety like that. I know that it's not me. I've, you know, I used to identify with it and then I learned just through different things that I've done, that there were ways to cope with it. Now this is just a next thing to help. And it truly did. And I feel so much better about it.

So that's good.

Yeah, so much better. And, you know, when we were in the room with all of those people, I know a few other people had taken the test at that point and. And they had different things. You know, whether that was some people were coping with more depression or coping with more. I'm trying to think of some of the other ones that were adhd.

Adhd. OCD is a big thing. Perfectionism. People don't think about how that can actually be. If you're a perfectionist, you can't let things go and you can't delegate out tasks, and you just feel like, well, I have to do it because it has to be perfect. Just creating so much stress for yourself. And I know from personal experience, because that's how I am. I'm type A personality. I'm like, if it doesn't get done by me, it doesn't get done right. I had to let that go. I can't build a business and not trust my staff to be able to teach them and then go get it done. But it took a lot for me to calm that down. I'm also a list maker. It makes me feel better to check things off. I can always tell when somebody's closet is, like, perfectly, like, serial killer organized. I'm like, oh, you hang your shirts all short sleeve, then long sleeve, all color coordinated. Everything's labeled. Your files are like alphabetical and chronological. And people go, oh, my God, how did you know that about me? And I can read someone. I see these five gene colors and I can read them like I've known them my whole life. I'm like, I don't know anything about you, but I can tell if you've got lower gut issues versus upper gut issues. I can tell if you fear the future or fear of right now. I can tell if you have all of these other racing thoughts and that you're not sleeping at night. And people are like, oh, my God, how do you know this about me? I have been told. I'm a great marriage counselor, too.

Yeah. Just from reading these charts for real. Be like, here's what you're probably doing and here's what you should do.

Yeah. And it's. I want to normalize talking about all this stuff. And my stepson says, you know, we're just laying our crazy out on the table. And I love that analogy because I'm like, why not just admit to it and then talk about it like it's not something millions of other people are dealing with. Everybody's dealing with something. Oh, my gosh, talk about it. Don't be shy. Let's, you know, voice it and fix it and solve it. But everything that goes in your mouth is doing something up here, and it's doing something in your gut, and you just have to figure it out.

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Health hacks, what are so a couple of different. I'll give you some that you would, you know, obviously come in and have a procedure done and then some natural stuff too that you could do at home. So I love IV therapy. It's interesting. A Myers cocktail was developed by Dr. Myers and it's basically the most vitamins that you can put into a saline bag at one Time. So. So it's got a full suite of B vitamins. The best form of B12, which is hydroxycobalamin, it has vitamin C, it has calcium gluconate and magnesium chloride. And then I always recommend a push of glutathione, which is like the mother of all antioxidants. So you do this great iv. You can do it once a week if you can handle needles that much. But it also, interestingly, when somebody has the IV and they go, my God, I feel so much better. That's when we know they have those methylation breaks. And that's when I'm like, okay, you need to take the genetic test. Because what we did is we added the right raw materials back in and it gave them their energy back, it helped them sleep at night. They just felt better, their brain quieted, their gut issues calmed down. And so anytime somebody feels great on a Myers cocktail, for sure, that gene test is going to help. And we can put you on the right supplements. Another we do ozone IV therapies with. So basically, you put a certain amount of fluid in and then you take out your blood. You take a certain amount of blood out of your body. So you take the bag, you hang the bag, put some fluid in, and then you take that bag and you drop it on the ground. You pull out a certain amount of blood, and then they push ozone oxygen, basically into the bag with your blood. And it's so cool to watch, like, sciency. And it turns from like a dark, dark blood red to bright red, because what it's doing is it's oxygenating those red blood cells. And then they hang the bag again and they put that oxygenated blood back in you. Holy cow. It gives you great energy. You feel amazing. It's definitely something. You could do it more than once a week, honestly, if you can again handle the needle sticks. But that's a great therapy that we do. We have a lot of different cool IVs that can help with beauty, with inflammation. With COVID of course, everybody's looking to boost their immune, so we've got IVs to do that. So there's a lot of cool, different IVs that we've got that we do, whether it's in the clinic or we have a really cool concierge service that we're doing now, mobile IVs, so you can do it right in your home. Another modality that I love are the stem cell facials. So we'll do prp, where we draw your blood, we spin it down in a centrifuge and we pull out the platelet rich plasma and then do a microneedling procedure where you just kind of do the needles in the face. It's not really painful. You would put a numbing cream on your face and then wipe that off. And then you do this microneedling procedure with your own PRP and then stem cells or amniofluid or exosomes and oh, my gosh, within a couple of weeks. It's so incredible, the change that you'll see in your skin. It just. It helps grow back collagen, it corrects imperfections, heals acne scars, and lightens the skin. So those are incredible. Even some of our younger patients are like, they're just doing it to, like, preserve. Be proactive. Yeah, exactly. But it helps with fine lines and wrinkles. So that's a really neat one. And then some of the tips and tricks, like, on a natural version, a lot of people come to us because they are dehydrated, severely dehydrated. So if you can't do an IV on a regular basis, a cool trick is to take either Celtic sea salt or like a pink Himalayan sea salt and sprinkle it into your water once a day. Not where it's super salty, but just manageable. Just sprinkle a little bit. And once a day. Day. What that does is it helps get the water into your tissues so it rehydrates you. So people that are suffering from either clinical dehydration. Migraines is a big one. I used to get a lot of migraines, and I realized it's because I'm sucking back coffee all day forgetting to drink water. We all do it. Everybody's guilty. But if you sprinkle that salt in there, just think like a saline bag that's rehydrating you. Well, that's basically what you're doing. You're putting. You're making your water, you know, have some saline in it. And the vitamins and mineral or the minerals that are in the salt help get the fluid into your tissue. And then that will help rehydrate you faster. Because we do have people that will come in, they'll get their blood done. We're like, well, you're clinically dehydrated. And they're like, no, I drink water all the time. And I'm like, well, it's not getting to the right areas.

Oh, my gosh, that's so interesting. I drink so much water. And people used to tell me that all the time. I'VE been starting to, like, do the salt thing or do different Himalayan salt or I doing element. I wonder what you think of that. Have you done that element? That is okay. It's supposed to be really good. It's LMNT is, I believe, how it's spelled, but element is how they say it anyway. But I was always told that I was dehydrated, and you know how annoying that is to an overachiever drinking. I can't drink any more water like myself. Do you want me to do? So that is really interesting. So, okay, so. So that's something we can do, is sprinkle a little pink Himalayan salt into our water.

You can make. We have a formula that I could send you to. It's called sea salt soleil. S O L E. And you basically take like a mason jar, put this much of the salt at the bottom, fill the rest of the jar with water, shake it up really, really good. And then as the salt settles back to the bottom, then you take it's 2 tablespoons of that water, that fluid, and put that into a gallon of water. You gotta be very careful about that combo or you could end up po yourself. But. So 2 tablespoons of that sea salt soleil water, put it into a gallon of water, and like I said, you barely taste the salt. But not everybody's good about making the thing. You make a big jar of it and keep it in your kitchen. It's gonna stay. It's not gonna go bad or anything. But if you're lazy like I am, you sprinkle, sprinkle the pink sea salt in there. You cannot use iodized, like, white table salt. That's gonna do you no good. But it's. Cause the Celtic sea salt, the pink salt has. Have minerals in them that you need.

Okay. So if you're ever mad at your husband, just give him extra tablespoons of that water.

Yeah. He'll be in the bathroom all night.

Okay, great.

He'll be skinny the next day.

Yeah. Just make sure you're out of town or something like you're going out of town. I don't know.

Yeah, that's not 10x health recommended.

Not recommended. This is not from her.

This was.

That was jokes from me. Oh, man. Okay, how about better sleep? Let's hit on that just a little bit more. So I think the last two I want to end with are energy and better sleep.

Sleep. Yes, absolutely. So a lot of that ends up having to do with both the genetics and with your hormone balance. So when you get those two pieces in balance, it's incredible how quickly it can get fixed. So with the methylation piece, the genetic piece, it's usually poor sleep and energy is going to have to do with the top and the bottom break. So I say the MTHFR and the compt, those are two of the genetic markers that if you have that, you 10 to have like racing thoughts, busy mind, basically too much kind of going on inside that doesn't allow you to quiet yourself and go to sleep. So we always say there's usually it's one of two profiles. Either the person's exhausted, their head hits the pillow, they're out, but then they're up, you know, before the sun comes up and you know, and then they can't get back to sleep or they're exhausted, their head hits the pillow and their mind wakes them up and then they can't get to sleep.

So.

So sometimes it's both for people. I was always both. I just was, it was hard for me to ever sleep. So I have a little routine that I do. I take my five methylfolate, I take a great sleep formula pill that has magnesium melatonin and theanine and I have this great little dropper called Copacom. And I just, it quiets me and I take it about an hour before I go to sleep and try to stay off my phone. Just not always easy to do but, but it just quiets my mind and allows me to go sleep naturally, whereas I felt like I was overthinking things. And then I'm stressed about not sleeping and I'm watching the clock and oh my God, I got to get up in six hours. Now it's five hours and I just don't have those issues anymore. As far as the energy piece again, when you get your hormones and your methylation imbalance, I don't have. What is it? It's 4 o' clock our time now, but usually I'd have that 3 o', clock, 2 o', clock, 3 o', clock, crack crash where I'd be just like a zombie hunting for coffee. And now I just am not like I didn't even realize it was 4 o' clock and I feel fine. I'm in the water. I had my coffee this morning because I like it, but I don't need it anymore because I'm sleeping correctly and everything's balanced. But if I miss, then I'm out. And you think about stuff too, like food coma, you know, you go to lunch and God forbid you have pasta or pizza like, that literally is the worst thing you could put in your body at lunchtime because you get. Just guarantee you're gonna have a food coma. And we all know this, but we just still make mistakes. And we still.

We pretend to not know it.

We pretend. We like to pretend, but that's all. It's not even just the carbs. It's in, you know, and then it's the sugar and all the terrible parts of that, but it's that folic acid that we were talking about. And the folic acid, if you can't process it, which 44% of the population can't process for folic acid, and it's in all of our grain sources. Sources. Unless you're going organic or imported. And even then you still have to check, because what you'll want to do is look at the back of any kind of carb, flour, rice, pasta, cereal, crackers, look at the back. And if it's in the ingredient label, if it says enriched or fortified, you can. That is a key word. Those are keywords for folic acid. So just throw it away. Go organic. It should not say enriched or fortified. That means it's good. It doesn't have folic acid acid. Everybody can process that. And then you won't have the crashes after you eat.

Okay, so there's been so much good information. If I am listening to this and I'm like, I want to do something, what are the first, like, one to three things you would tell somebody if they're just feeling a little low energy, a little bit anxious, maybe not sleeping very good? What are just maybe like the one to three things that you would even start with to wrap your arms around?

Honestly, because I had such a personal experience and it helped me so much with this genetic test, I would say if you can only afford one piece, I would do the core gene test. You're only going to take it once in your life. Obviously it's your genetics, so it's not going to change. Now, again, because they're actionable genes, we can correct the breaks and make them function at 100% if they're broken. But it's one gene test you take in your whole life. I recommend having having everybody in the family take it. I am telling you, it calms everybody down. It calms the crazy, it calms the gut issues. It calms kids down. I mean, even my nieces don't throw the temper tantrums like they used to. There's not the meltdowns that they used to be. And, you know, my daughter, she's 14 years old. She's my best friend as long as she's taking her vitamins and not eating folic acid. And then if she forgets, then I'm dealing with a teenager, your typical teenager, quite frankly, kind of a jerk. She's my best friend otherwise. So that's the one. I just. So I encourage everybody, if they can, to take that test. And that's the one you can get@10xhealthsystem.com the next thing would be, if you can, to do the blood lab test. It checks 68 biomarkers, vitamin deficiencies, It's a full hormone panel. We're gonna check. Lipid panel, cholesterol, hormones. I already said hormones. Thyroid, your sugar levels. So we're going to help you get that back in balance. So if libido's off in the bedroom, if you don't have any energy, if you've got that poor sleep, brain fog, you know where you have a thought in the kitchen, you walk to your bedroom and you can't remember why you came to your bedroom. It happens. I mean, we're all at a certain age at some point that it happens. So that's another great one because when you get that back and back balance, it really is. It's incredible. And for women, gosh, if we're going, you know, if we're hitting menopause, don't suffer. Like, we have our medical director's OB GYN. She's incredible. She's been practicing for 25 years. She's delivered like 8,000 babies. But she's been a wellness physician as well. And she's practiced functional medicine for 15 years. And she's incredible at understanding so much of this stuff and really helping getting women back in back balance.

So much good stuff. I want to do the blood lab test. Where do we go for that? Is that same place or so?

Yes, if you contact us through the 10x Health System website, what we can do is we would put together a lab order for you and send you to any LabCorp in the country. We just put together a requisition form that has all the labs on there. You pay us 399, go to LabCorp, get your blood drawn, and within a week or two, we get the results back. And then we put together, we do a lab review and do a full protocol to help you. And then we ship everything right to your front doorstep from our compound pharmacy. Okay.

That's amazing. Make it so easy. So grateful for this podcast. Thank you so much for Coming on.

Thank you for having me. I'm so excited that you've been doing all the steps and feeling better and I just love being able to hear these stories and really be able to help change people's lives. I mean it's little things and they're natural and you've had such a great experience at making. Makes me so happy that you do so well.

I'm so glad that you're talking about it and just, I think even just the conversation alone is bringing relief to people long before they even do this. So thank you for your own meltdown and sharing it and because you know, I always, I love it because we always turn our messes and those breakdowns into like how we help people.

Yeah, exactly. They're not going to believe me if I didn't experience it myself.

Exactly, exactly. So thanks for sharing all of it because that's the good stuff and that's really where we get to help people. So really grateful for you. You guys definitely go and check out the website 10xhealthsystem.com. We'll put it in the show notes, all the things. And Sage, just again, thanks for coming on and sharing your genius with us and your time.

Thank you so much, Lori. It was great to talk to you.

Yes. And everyone, you know one of the biggest things that we can do is can we tag you Sage?

Yes.

What is your Instagram?

So it's Sage S A G E Workinger. W O R K I N G E R Sage Workinger.

Amazing. So tag Sage, tag myself and let us know what your biggest takeaway was. Let us know if you're going to do the test. Let us know. Just maybe something that was really eye opening for you and that's always such a nice thing that we can give our guests to let them know all of the value that they gave to you guys. So until, feel free to send me.

A message if you have questions. I'm always happy to talk and, and you know, help.

So that is so generous. Seriously. And you guys get her while you can cuz I have a feeling you're.

Not going to be able to talk.

To her next year at all.

So.

So you guys, thank you so much for being on and until next time, earn your happy. Bye everyone.

Bye. Sam.