Sachin Patel left his chiropractic practice with elite athletes to pursue functional medicine after seeing patients with fibromyalgia and autoimmune disease get no relief from musculoskeletal treatment. Mentored by Dr. Ron Grisanti and driven by his own health improvements through diet and supplements, he now trains clinicians and coaches on root-cause care.
Hello, my beautiful friends. It's Satchin. I trust that you're having an awesome day. In this short video, I wanted to actually share with you how I got into functional medicine and why I've never looked back ever since that day. So two years into practice, being a chiropractor, I was actually working at what I thought was my dream job, working with Olympic athletes, gold medalists, silver medalists, and people who are at the highest level of function in our community. Marathon runners, people like that. People would come to me complaining that they couldn't run a sub three hour marathon. So I was dealing with some of the healthiest people on the planet, really, let's face it. And so as a result of that, I was on the news and a lady named Connie, we were able to resolve her chronic tennis elbow, that failed surgery and failed physiotherapy. So she came to us and I was practicing something called active release at the time. And through active release, we were able to resolve her elbow pain. And that landed me on the news because my boss at the time had frozen on live television prior to that and decided she didn't want to put herself in that position and said, hey, Patel, you take this and run with it. So I'm like, okay, two years into practice, I mean, who doesn't want to be on the news? And so that's what I did. The news story aired a few months after they recorded, and guess what? The phone would not stop ringing. However, this is where my story starts, and here's the beautiful sun coming out to validate this. So I started seeing these patients in my chiropractic office. However, they didn't have chiropractic problems. They didn't have soft tissue challenges that I actually had a solution for. They had fibromyalgia, they had chronic fatigue. One guy had headaches for 10 years, was taking 16 Tylenol per day. One lady who actually had elbow pain, her elbow pain was being caused by a rheumatic condition and an autoimmune condition. So again, not something I could stretch away, adjust away, massage away, or active release away. And so I actually felt quite gutted because after I interviewed these clients and patients at the time, I had no idea where to send them. They had taken every drug, tried every surgery that was appropriate, if appropriate, been scanned, been probed, you know, and really went to town from a medical perspective. But none of them got better. My wife, who was a pharmacist, still is. I messaged her and I said, what do I do with these people? I don't know how to help them. And she said, they're doing all the right things, so there's not much else we could do. So I started at the same time getting emails from who would later become my mentor, Dr. Ron Grisanti. And he was sharing case studies of people with psoriasis and arthritis and thyroid disease, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and as a chiropractor, he was helping these people. And I was like, wait a minute, how is he doing this? So he started teaching a program. I took that program, not wanting to change careers necessarily, but just wanting to know, how could have these people been helped. And I learned about functional medicine through his coaching and it completely changed my life. Started with myself as patient number one. Thought I was pretty healthy until I realized that I had skin issues, I had GI issues, that I had fatigue issues, joint aches that I had just normalized for myself. And after going gluten free and dairy free and taking targeted nutraceuticals and really optimizing my gut health, I realized, wow, my life didn't have to be this way. And so then I started applying it to my chiropractic patients and I gave them a specific form to fill out and they started bringing this form back into me. And I realized that, wow, these people had all these issues that I had no idea that they had and were struggling with because I was never asking those questions. So I started implementing functional medicine at a grassroots level in my practice and later left that office because I wanted to pursue this further. Fast forward a few years, opened up my own business, and have never looked back because of the results that we're able to get for people in resolving seemingly incurable conditions and helping them feel their absolute best. So I'm never going to look back. I'm always going to celebrate the beauty of the body. I'm always going to make sure that people find the root cause of what's going on with them. And I'm always going to make sure that they feel empowered to take action and do something, no matter where they are in their journey. And so it's become my mission now to not only help you, help your family, help your community and my community, but also to train other healthcare practitioners and health coaches on how they can do the same thing for their community. So I'm totally in love with what I do. I'm so passionate about what I do. I've been so blessed over the years to help some people, many thousands of people, and now I want to do whatever it takes to help you. And I've put together an amazing team of people to do just that. So I wanted to share a bit about my story. How I got into this. Why I'll never look back. And why I will always, always, always fight for you to find the root cause and make sure you're empowered to be as healthy as you want to be. And as one of my friends, Naveen Jain, would say, let's make illness optional. We're almost there. Where most of the conditions that people have that they present with are truly, truly optional. So, I gotta run. I got a meeting. I love you. I am you. And I hope that you find it in yourself to love yourself enough to love yourself back to life. Bye for now. Talk to you soon.
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