The B Team Podcast
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The B Team Podcast
Ep. 66 - Feel Better, Live Better: A Smarter Path to Wellness
Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to recapture the energy and vitality of your younger self? In this eye-opening conversation with Todd and Madison from Vibrant Med Spa, we discover how science-backed wellness treatments are transforming lives in Northwest Arkansas.
The episode takes a fascinating turn when Rob shares his remarkable health journey. Once skeptical, he's now Vibrant's most enthusiastic client after experiencing dramatic improvements in his sleep quality, energy levels, and overall vitality. "I don't think I've ever felt better in my life," Rob reveals, detailing how he's dropped an impressive 10 pant sizes while developing a completely different relationship with food. His transformation wasn't about willpower – his body simply started craving healthier options.
Madison takes us deep into the science of peptides, explaining how these naturally occurring amino acid chains work as signaling messengers in the body. Unlike pharmaceutical approaches that often create cascading side effects, peptides help restore your body's natural functions that diminish after age 30. We learn about specific peptides like BPC-157, which dramatically accelerate healing for injuries, and how proper sourcing through reputable providers is crucial for safety and effectiveness.
The conversation explores how medical spas bridge the gap between traditional medicine and wellness, offering services from IV therapy and neurotoxins to microneedling and hormone optimization. Todd explains their membership program is designed to make these treatments accessible while emphasizing their philosophy: "I don't want you to sell anything, I just want you to teach people how to take better care of themselves."
Ready to discover treatments that might change your health trajectory? Mention the B-Team Podcast at Vibrant Med Spa to receive your first B12 shot free or a complimentary add-on with any IV treatment. Your journey to feeling better could start with this episode.
Welcome to the B-Team Podcast. I am your host, josh Saffron, with my co-host, matt Morris and our permanent guest Rob Nelson. We're here every week to talk to you about all things Bentonville, bourbon and business the B-Team Podcast Be here. Welcome to the B-Team Podcast. I'm your host, josh Zafra, with my co-host, matt Morris and my permanent guest Bobby, who braved the raindrops today. I did Look at that. My shirt's so wet.
Speaker 2:Squeezed the shirt out. A couple drops came out on the table.
Speaker 1:He's here and and he's smiling and ready to go. I mean he looks all tanned up, he looks like he's been on vacation or something. I mean it must be the stuff I'm doing at the med spa. My skin glows. I've been getting a lot of compliments on my skin lately From Haley, your mom and the friend in Hawaii. Yep, same people. Three viewers, same three viewers.
Speaker 1:Well, we're here every Thursday for all things business, bentonville and Bourbon, and I think this is our first repeat guest that we've had back for like, where are they now? Yeah, it must have been okay and we got rid of Jeff and we upgraded quite a bit. No offense, jeff, I like to hear. So we brought in Madison. He's on call. I think he's on delivery number 10 today. Whoa, yeah, he's done. That's a lot of babies in one day. That's a lot of babies in one day. This is Todd and Madison from Vibrant Med Spa and we had you in season one early on back in the early days and at that point we had not opened the Rob Nelson wing inside the Med Spa, because Rob is probably your most vip guest.
Speaker 2:He's there the most vip probably definitely I mean it's a healthy hobby it is, yeah, certainly worse things to be addicted.
Speaker 1:That's right so it is fair to say he is top two or three in the. I would say I think he's number one. We could challenge him to step up a little bit. He's not spending enough money. There's one person I'll tell him about that he could work on catching, okay. Is that michael brewer? No, no, okay, because we got. We got hip agreements we did.
Speaker 2:oh yeah, it's right to see act trade Trade secrets In effect.
Speaker 1:MB, which is called by. We can say MB right, right, right. We can say that because that could be anybody. That could be anybody. Yeah, I'm not striving to be the top, I'm just striving to be the best. That's great. You are. Yeah, that's a good way to look at it. We love when you they're coming by yourself. You're always asking a lot of questions about new stuff. Yep, bringing friends. Yep, I brought Angie a few times. Angie, she comes on a regular basis. Hates needles yeah.
Speaker 2:I know yeah, and we've got her in.
Speaker 1:We'll talk about that here in a little bit. Still returning oh boy, I have her permission to talk about it a little bit. Okay, breaking balls, even though we do that all the time. But since you've been going to them, your health has improved significantly weight loss, sleep blood pressure, tell us. I hit a PR the other day so we were in there and I was 120 over like 77 or something like that. Nope, nope, I need to get in there yeah you gotta pay. I can't come as a guest.
Speaker 1:No, they have great memberships though yeah, you've been there right yeah, well, I haven't ever gone and got the IV, the IV. Well, it's good Rob tries to get me to go get the IV. I need to try that. Well, we went the other day when you were moonlighting in Baltimore or wherever, whatever part of the world you were in, because it was Angie and me and Jim and Corey Corbett's right Shout out to the Corbett's yeah, it was great, like I hadn't done the full IV before and I had the compression boots on my leg. You were loving it Cause my knee, I have a bad knee surgery and so, like I'm sure you, I'm sure you told everyone oh, everybody knew. You don't have to wonder if anything. No, yeah, I had a bad knee and they all knew about it. They all knew which knee it was. So the compression boots do you feel like helped you. It was fantastic. I mean, you guys, it's like a nice throw in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, For me it was.
Speaker 1:I mean, I like the IV. It was almost as good for me as the IV because I got up and my legs just felt great. I brought him in on Sunday. He came in on Sunday, or no, it was Sunday. We all had gotten together Saturday night. It wasn't the Josh that we all know and love, it was like Downy Down, debra Josh. It was who you mean. Debbie Downer. Debbie Downer, I'm trying to help him. The smartest pencil.
Speaker 2:The smartest pencil.
Speaker 1:Well, it was actually scary because, debbie, yeah, I've never seen josh like so down and like out of energy and kind of limping around a little bit and we're like let's put some ivs and we all went in. In fact, it was a long week, yeah, and normally I I have a high energy, yeah, I'm high energy, and I felt so much better after coming and seeing you guys like I don't know if it was the group that was, there was a service I had, it was the environment, it's all. It was all above.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the vibes are always high, so I would call it vibrant. But but, yeah, truly everything that we do there is aimed at targeting your inflammation, aimed at targeting, like, your chronic and acute problems. So it probably was combo of everything. I'm that text you sent me the other day where you're like I don't know what it was, but I woke up feeling dynamite this amazing and I still, even this morning.
Speaker 1:Good, it was like what? What text did you send her bobby?
Speaker 2:just, yeah, just making sure you kept the pg-13.
Speaker 1:I'm just making sure you kept the PG-13. I'm just making sure We'll edit that.
Speaker 2:I didn't know if you were like hey, madison, how you doing.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's how I am every morning, that's what.
Speaker 2:I'm saying You're pretty good about including me on the group text. All right, that's smart, very smart. It wasn't a one-on-one text. It wasn't a one-on-one text. It wasn't a one-on-one text.
Speaker 1:I feel much better now, even this morning. We'll get into it here, I'm sure in a little bit I'm on my third peptide that I'm kind of stacking. I told Ang the other night I'm like I don't think I've ever felt better in my life. We didn't talk peptides last time, we talked about a whole lot of other stuff and Rob's. I feel like Rob's a new man in all seriousness, like I'd love to understand what peptides are, how they work, because he's like your number one champion spokesperson.
Speaker 2:And let's do a cheers first. Yeah, cheers.
Speaker 1:What are we drinking? We're drinking 1792 Full Proof. Nice, it's really. Oh, that's good. I don't think it needs a drop, no, that's nice. Yeah, double delay. Maybe some stale fruit? Maybe some vanilla bean Vanilla Cracked Cracked vanilla bean. Cracked vanilla bean Love a good cracked bean. We got to get some Russ.
Speaker 2:Some good flavors.
Speaker 1:I don't know. So Russ comes on I drink bourbon. She knows, no, I don't, that's it. So Russ is always here, and Matt Rob and I are very novice. So he's like what are you catching, what are you? And he's giving us these. Oh, these are stone fruit. What the hell is a stone fruit? Oh, you know, it's the one with the pits. This is. I know it tastes good. Me and Josh are like three-year-olds laughing. He said stewed bananas Tastes brown. To me it tastes good, it's good. Before we get into peptides, though, I mean, they've been here, right? How long have you been open now? Just a year and three or four months. So tell us about the journey. Yeah, it's been crazy. So, from you know, two years ago, my brother not wanting to be a full-time dog anymore, he okay, sorry.
Speaker 1:You know, sharing kind of his vision for what he wanted to create. And me and him two guys that you know knew what we wanted but didn't know how to do it and getting together and putting a staff together that actually, you know, knew what we wanted but didn't know how to do it and, uh, get together, putting a staff together that actually you know people could come in and get high level treatments, yeah, which is super impressive. Things are that. Things are actually. The team we assembled has been unbelievable and since we opened including madison, of course madison, I'm sure that we have a shout out here. Well, I'll tell'll tell you about Madison in a minute.
Speaker 1:But you know we've added a lot of services because the clientele and the patients that we see have asked for, you know, what do you think about this or what do you think about that? They may not know the word peptide or whatever, but they like man, I like how this makes me look or I like how this makes me feel, and so we just do a lot of research. There's a lot of noise in the med spa business, things that hokey, so we don't just jump into things, but we've added a lot of services. One of the things we added was Madison. So we had a need about almost a year ago now right June last year maybe we had a need for a part-time nurse. We went through some changes after she joined us as a part-time nurse.
Speaker 1:She's still an ER nurse and gravit and works at the hospital, occasionally too much, but she you know, showed a super high capacity to really take care of patients and listen to them and find different alternatives, and so we promoted her to spa manager.
Speaker 2:So she rose to that Cheers Really, yeah, cheers. That means you have to spend more time with Bobby, though Not complaining as long as he brings Angie to spend more time with Bobby, though Not complaining as long as he brings Angie. I really like her.
Speaker 1:We all, like Angie, we tolerate. Bobby, that's how it usually goes. It's me to make you backwash it, not complaining as long as Angie's there, anyways, anyway. So I think we just kind of started doing facials anyways, anyway. So you know, I think we just kind of started doing facials when we started a year ago. We have two estheticians now we've got a microdermabrasion machine. Don't know what that does, but evidently it works. Did you get it done? No I haven't, but I'm very familiar with it. Yeah, because you're paying the bill but, it exfoli very familiar with it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you're paying the bill and she wants it.
Speaker 1:And it exfoliates your face and then injects medical grade serum into there to help with you know, whether it's acne or acne scarring or five months wrinkles, that kind of thing. And the most fun part and all the clients love this part it sucks out gunk.
Speaker 2:Blackheads, whiteheads that's the medical term it sucks out gunk.
Speaker 1:Whiteheads, whiteheads, that's the medical term. It sucks out gunk, and so you start with a clean jar of water and then all the clients get to see all the gunk that we pull out of their face.
Speaker 1:Done, they're rebooking, but it really is a great service. Microneedling, which is another one that's like thymines and wrinkles, which is another one that's like three timelines and wrinkles. Agnes, scarring, it's a little. It's called a skin pen. It's a little pen. It's got a bunch of little needles on the end of it. We put a numbing cream on your face and for about 30 minutes we poke holes in your face with a tiny needle and it creates micro, several tiny needles, like a million. Um, it creates micro injuries, which tells your body that, oh, I've been hurt. I need to send collagen to help heal, and collagen is a medical person plumping firming maybe that's what I'm hearing.
Speaker 1:A lot of collagen yeah, your collagen falls, I gotta get mine back up, get your collagen lift.
Speaker 2:It's a furniture disease where your chest falls into your drawers.
Speaker 1:I like that. That's a good one.
Speaker 2:I'm going to use that. That should be a new t-shirt. Yeah, it could be Furniture disease, yeah.
Speaker 1:We added a laser hair removal machine, so we're doing laser hair. We added hair restoration, so if you have hair where you don't want it, we can take care of that. If you don't have hair where you do want it, we can open it up. So for the guy that has not, like the 30, 40, 50 year old guy that knows I don't know what to do, like do you just come in and you get a full consultation, like how do you know where to start? Because I could use every single thing that you just told me about a consultation is the best. Okay, honestly, the way rob did it is the best way. So it's overwhelming one more time the way rob did it is what is the best way. That now is that he had this amex. I like points. Yeah, give me back. Actually it was the introduction from the gents place, right? Josh actually held, uh, yeah, we did a member.
Speaker 2:We we did a member event which ended up being great.
Speaker 1:We talked about it because most likely I would never. I've never walked in there. Seriously, it's not your thing. It's the same as the gents place, once you actually go. And so Rob started and he was intrigued. I think it was the right way to say it. I don't know what the first thing you ever had done.
Speaker 1:Yeah no, we test my testosterone the very first thing that we started there. Yeah, that's where we start. You guys saw Big Spender. You went right there immediately. I was always curious, right? Not that I felt I had any issues or any needs, but you said you don't have any issues there. No, no, not at all.
Speaker 2:It went to the other side of the scale killing for me body.
Speaker 1:It was fine, and now it's like jeez, can you?
Speaker 1:tell them to stay at that but uh, you know, uh, anyways, but yeah, no, I was always curious and they said in your 40s, it's one of the things you should seriously test. So I think you were offering free testing. Oh, that's right, we did free testing. Yeah, it was free testing or something of that nature or a discount on it. And that's where it all started. And slowly, you know, he got tested for that. He came in tell me about the IV, yeah, tell me about the shots, and tell me about this, that, the other. And then he brought his wife and then brought brewing, yeah, yeah, and those MB, mb, mb.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and so you know, I think it was uh, um, we didn't overwhelm you, yeah, but we educated you, sure. That's why I've really talked to the staff. They do a phenomenal job, because when we first started it like you want me to sell all this stuff, I'm like, no, I don't want you to sell anything, I just want you to teach people how to take better care of themselves, and so that's how that comes about. So the best thing to do you can find. If you want to talk about man, my hair is a problem, we can get a consult set up for that. If you want to go see all the things we do, start small. Well, what was cool?
Speaker 1:When I went in the other day for the IV, I knew about what it was going to cost, but I walked in and she knew my name right away. She was super sweet and she said well, what do you want? I said, well, this is what I'm feeling right now. I'm a little. I'm a little run down. I got some muscle pain, I had a bad knee and I was going through that stuff. She goes well, this is the content. Well, what's your budget? So she also didn't, but it wasn't like upcharge, right. So I said I'd like to stay below $200. And she was like, okay, this is exactly what you need. And I was like, perfect, and I felt comfortable in just letting her go to work at that point, knowing what my problems were and what my budget was, and she was great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that it. I think it's a stigma. You know, I didn't know what a med spa was two years ago either, and now I helped run one, and so that education level and a med spa is really a spa that's medically supervised. So we're doing cool, relaxing, comfortable, practical things to help you look and feel better under the care of a physician. So everything's medically backed, it's science backed, it's science backed, it's FDA cleared and approved. I mean, there's a lot of things like that. Everything that we do goes through all those channels.
Speaker 1:So how many times a week do you go there? Let's let the three viewers know what's the real story. I would say minimum once a week. So I mean, unless I'm traveling or something like that, I won't. That's a week. And when you go, you're doing what you share. You know it could be a b12 lipo shot. Uh, that brings me there weekly, and then sometimes do you even know what a b12 shot was before this place? No, no, I mean, I've heard of it but I didn't know, like how great it would make me feel. But then, you know, sometimes I'll add on an iv, sometimes I won't, but if I have time, most like, I'm adding on an iv as well too. And uh, you know, just just general hydration. That's just amazing. Um, yeah, so then we started to go full start, like the peptides. So now you're a peptide sworn user. Yep, absolutely. So we all want to know what peptides are. Do you know what I mean? I have no idea. I hear they're amazing, but I don't know. So I'll give you my non-medical version.
Speaker 1:And then I'll let you talk, or do you want to just talk about it? No, no, I want to hear it. I want to hear it down, or, debbie? So from my understanding through education, through you guys and some of my own personal research, basically it's that is basically going into you and it basically activates certain parts of your organs to produce more. So it's not like you're injecting something that's not real right. It's just an amino acid that acts on your body to make more of whatever you're targeting. All right, madison, 20% accurate, 50% accurate, 100% accurate.
Speaker 2:I'm going to say A+.
Speaker 1:A+.
Speaker 2:Yeah, pretty good, wow yeah.
Speaker 1:Now let's hear what you say and then we'll compare it. We'll have like chat GPT, comparing side by side. Let's do a little Venn diagram.
Speaker 2:All right, hopefully we meet in the middle here. But yeah, exactly what you said. So peptides are short to long chains of amino acids which are mostly naturally occurring either in your body or in everyday life. Things like supplements and foods and things so kind of like what you were saying, like there's not a whole lot of risk of side effects, risk of, you know, rejection, because it's not a terribly foreign substance to your body. They pretty much are acting like little signaling messengers to your brain, to your endocrine system, your brain to your endocrine system. Most of the ones that we offer now are in the GHRP class, which is the couple of the ones that you're on or in that. So that's growth hormone releasing peptide.
Speaker 1:So what does that mean?
Speaker 2:So it basically stimulates your brain to put out more growth hormone. So naturally, we secrete growth hormone when we're sleeping. But after you turn 30, which that's all of us Well, I'm 28. Sure, sure. That significantly goes down. So I don't know if any of you have noticed that your sleep has decreased since college. Not me.
Speaker 1:Not now.
Speaker 2:Not now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you know the way that we kind of schedule out our dosing protocols and like we'll we do the full consultation with you to see, like, what your goal is and what you're struggling with and things, um, but for the most part you're doing them to reset your body's natural cycles rather than try to change something completely or add something completely new.
Speaker 2:So the whole point of them is to restore how you felt when you were younger and amplify that now to meet your goals now. So exactly what you were saying your sleep is probably going to improve a whole lot because your brain is just releasing that natural brim hormone that it's normally supposed to do anyways. So then you're going to see a whole host of like compounded side effects but these are good side effects that you're going to see a whole host of like compounded side effects but these are good side effects that we're wanting to see like increased like lean muscle mass, decreased fat, increased metabolism, increased energy, increased focus. We have a couple others that are outside of that GHRP class, so they're more like site specific or more organ specific. So we've got a couple that work specifically on your brain that help clarify like brain fog and improve your cognition and it's been shown to kind of reverse some of the onsets of dementia and things like that, like some of those more degenerative things in your brain. So I mean, who doesn't need that?
Speaker 1:and peptides like this isn't new to them nothing new.
Speaker 2:No, they've been around for a century. Yeah, yeah, but the first. They're becoming more and more more popular here in the us yes, so the first one that was, you know, discovered and medically used. I don't know if anyone's heard of insulin, right, got it okay, so that is actually a peptide. And it was, yes, good, gold star. Cheers to you, yeah, um, you win, you win.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, back in the 1920s they started with insulin and just kind of took off from there. Yes, good Gold star Cheers to you, yeah cheers you win, you win.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, back in the 1920s they started with insulin and just kind of took off from there, and so a lot of this research has been done in other countries. So their research is now becoming available to us, and so you know, people like Huberman and Brecken and Rogan and all these guys are talking about peptides and how it's radically changing their performance and their day-to-day lives. Um, without having to run the risk of anabolic steroids or like, okay, well, we've added you on this pill, but that causes this side effect, so now we have to add you on this pill. And then now you have to see this specialist knowledge, whereas peptides are more of a natural approach, just kick-starting your body to do what it was made to do anyways.
Speaker 1:So here's a question with all these things that always is the only naysayer on somebody. This is like if you start it you have to continue, because if you stop, or can you stop? Or like what does it do to the body if you stop, if you start peptides, then six months down the road you say I'm not doing it anymore. What impact will have?
Speaker 2:so so far, no impact. Almost all of them are done in cycles. So, like I said earlier, they're signaling messengers, so they're tipping off different electrical points, or mostly the pituitary gland in your brain, to do its job. And I mean, if I'm sitting here telling you, hey, do this, hey do this, hey do this, hey, do this, you're going to get burned. It sounds like my wife.
Speaker 1:Right. Shout out to Emilyily, I know so it's actually. It's actually designed for you to come off of it and then maybe six months or so you don't work out receptor, so you don't have to be on any.
Speaker 1:You really shouldn't be on any of these so that's more of a, more of a jump start, yeah, as a jump roll to either something different right or so something different or you hit your goal, so I'm on three peptides, right, so I'm on a tricepotide, which is weight loss, and then we're compounded with two others, or stacked, or however you want to say which also help with the weight loss, but the one I just got on that helps with the underlying fat around the organs, which I forget the name of the fat beds um the visceral fat, visceral so that one which is the most dangerous fat for any of us yes, likes to hang out in the midsection and it causes all kinds of problems around your organs, liver, all that kind of stuff
Speaker 2:yeah, so that tesamoralin is the name of that one, um, and it's been studied in people, I mean with like really devastating chronic illnesses, that that those illnesses specifically cause abdominal fat and visceral fat, and so now they're seeing a benefit from those patients and they're like, well, you know, people without those diseases also have visceral fat and they're a huge risk, so why don't we start that on them? So, yeah, how have you been feeling since you started?
Speaker 1:so so I mean, even with the samorlan and now with the stack of the new one, if this makes sense. I don't remember sleeping. Okay, I fall asleep and I wake up and I'm like man, I feel great time to go have coffee, like I don't, I, I don't, I don't remember, and says I really don't snore anymore, I don't toss and turn, I really don't like wake up in the middle of the night oh, it's rock solid so you wake up in the morning.
Speaker 2:A million bucks, million bucks.
Speaker 1:Like this morning I felt up. I woke up and I was like that's still kind of good right now, like heck, yeah, like I don't want to say tingly all over, but tingly all night, and it was like amazing, I'm like god, yeah, like wow, they're open, jim what a core memory. Wow, no, but I'm just being honest, right, yeah, you know. Granted to on down 10 pant sizes. How many 10? Yeah?
Speaker 1:double digits yeah, that's amazing, just in waist size, which is also super dangerous, right, when you have really large waist. No, I feel good now. Have you changed eating habit? Like, oh yeah, I mean like I'm heavy, heavy berries, heavy fruit during the day and then, just, you know, a moderate dinner, and you know, believe it or not, like I've talked to other people, even outside of y'all um, that believe in peptides, and even here locally, and you know even this, like this, like the one of oh, I want to go to a happy hour, even though I still always want to go to a happy hour. But it's weird, like none of us in this room have a drinking problem whatsoever, but we enjoy drinking. But I could not finish my wine and pour it out and go to bed. If Angie and I are drinking a lot, be like, yeah, I'm good. I don't even know who he is anymore.
Speaker 1:This is a different guy. But they say my wife got one of those aura rings and they say sleep is people don't realize, but that's one of the biggest things that you can't deviate from. You need this much sleep and quality sleep good. Because, yeah, like she'll look at hers and it'll say, yeah, you know so much. Whatever deep sleep or whatever that's, that's the end. Yeah, but she gets a bad night's sleep. It's probably because you're nudging her all night long. Yeah, probably, but that's that's good to hear that you're sleeping good. And yeah, yeah, like rock solid well.
Speaker 2:Honestly, like most of the problems that we have, we notice them when we're awake, duh, but it comes from not being rested, and so you can be doing all the right things you know working with the trainer, working with a nutritionist, you know cutting out your blue light, all that stuff but if you're not sleeping well, you're not recharging for the next day, and so a lot of these um, peptides and the other treatments that we offer are helping you get that deep, restful, regenerative sleep, so that all this other stuff that you're doing for yourself during the day is actually effective. So it's pretty pretty neat.
Speaker 1:You're like the brand ambassador there like look, look, I'm, I'm all about. If I really enjoy something, I'm going to promote it. Yeah right, because I want other people to enjoy, whether it's a great restaurant or a great, you know, med spa or haircut place or whatnot you know, I I love sharing good business, because it's not always easy to find a good business or a good product or good service or, but not only that, in the year that I, or a couple years I've, I just see your health in such a better place and I don't think you're obsessive, compulsive with your health.
Speaker 1:You're just following some guidance from people here and I mean, you can just see it. He's, I would. He and I are not dissimilar. I've been on most of the stuff he has and I've lost about 40 pounds since I started. Oh yeah, so but um, I'm just, it's just a different person. It's like the brain noise kind of goes away. Oh, like you know you're, you're watching a movie at night. Go, you know, I make a bag of popcorn.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm not really. I just don't think about it yeah, popcorn yeah, I'm not really. I just don't think about it. Yeah, and even if you think about, you're like, yeah, I'm good, it's so hard to explain yeah but, but it's real, like you know.
Speaker 1:Uh, it's 100. I've talked to multiple people and they all agree. Yeah, my wife came home from a art retreat on sunday. She was I'm starving. We got to go. So we went, we, to eat. We got some wings and fries because it was fast. She was hungry and crying. You can't have food in her and you know I ate four or five wings and some french fries. You know, at one o'clock in the afternoon I felt horrible. The whole rest of the day I didn't want to eat Because of the amount of food you ate or the type of food you ate Type of food you ate or the type of food you ate the type of food I ate it just sits there. It makes you feel gross. I still love a cheeseburger and I'm going to eat it. That was just a recent example of how that. A year ago I'd eaten all 12 of the chicken weeks and the old basket of fries.
Speaker 1:It probably felt like crap, but not realize it, because I wasn't used to feeling good.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right. And so your body says, you know, todd, you can have wings and fries occasionally, but yeah, don't. Because we went to dinner recently and I looked over at you and you said you want to split a dish, yep. And I'm like what? Oh, yeah, we will net, we never, I don't know, full entrees on yeah, but that was not the case. No, no, yeah, mine, she'd have hers, I mean angie's also. You know is really you know as I came on, as she's kind of followed on certain things as well, and you know she, she's super healthy now as well too well, I think you hit it on the head like, yeah, it's the same thing that you would have done before, but you weren't used to feeling good right so, yeah, you, you know, go out, have a nice time, whatever, and then you feel crappy afterwards, but you didn't know how good you could feel, right or so yeah, I think that's like in the morning, like on a sunday, I I would love waking up and making a pound of bacon.
Speaker 1:And now I'm like for yourself. Well, just you know, for whoever right I mean.
Speaker 1:I'd probably eat half of it. And just you know, because you're cooking it, you take all this and now I'm like, nah, I want my blueberries, raspberries and all that. I don't want that. I don't even know who he is anymore. I'm not saying that I wouldn't take him to the bakery here and there. That would explain why he hasn't invited me over for biscuits and gravy. Yeah Well, I mean right, but how often would we get together a month and make biscuits and gravy? At least twice a month. Yeah, easy, like we're going to have to put change Bar Nelson to like a yogurt bar. Yeah, yeah, we're bars.
Speaker 2:Yeah, crossing lines 80, 20, 80, 20. I've got three.
Speaker 1:Pelotons Matt, you want to come over? We can eat berries. We'll walk in and him and his. You're laying doing hot yoga in bar towels. I mean you're laying doing hot yoga in Bart Nelson, Like what the hell's going on in here? I mean you have the lockers turned into your towel. Yeah, your gym shoes. Look what you created, guys. I know I was thinking about. We got to have you all over to Bart Nelson one night For sure, Just waiting on the invite. Yeah, yeah, no invite needed. What else? Back to, I'm just waiting on the invite.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, no invite needed. What else do I have to do? No, we got it in recording, ben invited.
Speaker 1:Ben invited.
Speaker 1:Well, as a late person in the spa, what's been crazy for me is all of the medical science that's out there, that traditional medicine doesn't talk about, right, and that's what's been so crazy for me, and that could be a whole other podcast, right, it could be a whole nother podcast, but we're not talking. I mean, there's a place for pharma, there's a place for your PCP, but there's a lot of other things that we're just not exposed to. One of the things I want to make sure you talk about with the peptide thing is there's a lot of noise on the internet about sourcing of peptides. Yeah, and you can literally go online today and you can buy yourself a peptide and they'll ship it to you. But why do we not like to do that and how do we make sure that our peptides are, which is important, because Matt will have six cases of peptides at his house tomorrow and I'm not what you're doing.
Speaker 1:I'll be selling them on the black market Right.
Speaker 2:Well, so I mean, the Internet is a wonderful and dangerous place, so we put a lot of thought into where these substances are being sourced from. Most of the places that you want to gravitate towards are chemical research, chemical research facilities, so they're usually backed by an MD as well as a few other chemists who are purifying the actual diluent. I should have brought that vial with me, so when it shows up to the spa for you to come pick it up, it's powdered and then we'll reconstitute it with sterile, bacteriostatic water. Um, so that way there's nothing that is going to cause any kind of like reaction, inflammation. Um, with any kind of injection you run the risk of having like a little sore spot of where you're cause you're stabbing your body.
Speaker 1:I've never had one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, good Um means you're, it means you're cleaning your vials appropriately. Um, so yeah, there definitely is that risk of just because they're so out there now everybody's talking about them, everybody wants them, everybody wants the benefit of them. Um, so they're. They are pretty easily accessible, um, if you're not careful. But so, yeah, definitely do your own research if you're not getting it from somewhere like vibrant or your um, you know your practitioner um, just but you don't, but you don't want to be ordering stuff to your house that and not know where it's coming from.
Speaker 1:That's the problem, you could just be getting right yeah because then you're just like how do I dose?
Speaker 2:yes you see one, five, seven and you can get anything. Definitely definitely be careful where you're getting this stuff. We put a lot of thought into where reputable pharmacies that we're sourcing out.
Speaker 1:I'll be honest. I've looked at your pricing versus what you could buy on the internet and typically beat it. Your pricing is amazing as well too. You have to go.
Speaker 2:I was going to say I'm just saying the jar is gone.
Speaker 1:Oh nice, your pricing is amazing as well too. You have to go. I was going to say what kind of injury. I'm just saying the jar is down. You're going to hit all the pop. I'm saying the jar.
Speaker 2:Right right right.
Speaker 1:Do you all want to touch briefly on what we're doing for injury the daily? Yeah, Do you want to touch on that real quick? What kind of injury?
Speaker 2:Well, three of us are on that right now. Well, you're about to start, yeah, so that one. I mean, if that could be in our drinking water, that would just be amazing. It's good for a whole bunch of stuff. It's outside of that GHRP class. It's called BPC-157. And now that I've said it, it's going to come up on your phones all over the place. So it is one of those more site-specific injections. So for me, I tore my meniscus several years ago.
Speaker 1:Went through. Hey me guy, I knew it here. It's not a bad thing, I knew it. It's hard to hold it in all the time. This is amazing. You want to see my strong?
Speaker 2:I'm waiting for this opportunity.
Speaker 1:Boom, we just got it in. Do you have anything for tick bites?
Speaker 2:I do something for tick bite, yeah, yeah. So several years ago went through physical therapy, all the scans, all the stuff, and they were like, I mean, surgery is pretty much your only option or it's just always going to buckle. Um, did a little over a week of bpc 157. I got a huge improvement in my mobility less swelling, less pain is a shot, so right into the meniscus.
Speaker 2:So it's all sub-Q. So we all, no matter how much weight you lose, you always got a little layer of fat beneath your skin, and that's just good. That's good. We don't want to lose that. So that's where your injection's going. It's just right beneath the skin, near your point of injury. So I just popped it right in above my Twice a day.
Speaker 1:Twice a day, oh God, morning and night. So you're getting shot.
Speaker 2:That almost knocked Angie out. She was like twice a day for two weeks.
Speaker 1:Her shoulder, oh yeah, and I talked to her. She said, yes, I could share that Bam, because you know, I mean thank God, it's a little hip-hop. Look, here's the thing, like, why would you not want want to share something that could I mean like, so she started it. Uh, no, not yet, it's on order yeah it's on order should be in it now you're gonna have to give her the shot, yeah, or she could come into the spot yeah, yeah, we're more than so will it be for her the one she got surgery or the other one?
Speaker 1:yeah, when she got surgery yeah, I didn't know if that one was already. No, no, no, that's fine, um, but it'll just help with good, I mean yeah, so it it helps.
Speaker 2:The medical word is angiogenesis, so it helps you form new blood vessels to that injured area. There's a couple of orthopedic surgeons who are prescribing it's a you know, not FDA approved, whatever, but they're recommending it to their pre-op patients and some of them are coming forward and they're like I don't really think I need the surgery anymore, like I'm'm fine. Obviously, if you have the through and through tear of your rotator cuff or whatever, don't skip your surgery. But um, your recovery time is cut down by at least 40 percent um pre or post op with this stuff. Um, like I said, I'm this is a years old injury that's been, you know, doctored up and done whatever, and I'm I'm seeing huge improvement.
Speaker 1:So yeah, did you have surgery or did you not have surgery? So, because it acted so well, you opted not to do the surgery I mean, I just have been putting off the surgery for several years.
Speaker 2:But yeah, like I live on the third floor and there's no elevator and like, I'm telling you, within a week of starting these, I was carrying stuff up and down the department. I was like, oh, my knee's not clicking.
Speaker 1:I mean a world-class athlete like myself should have it. You should try it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, they're just waiting for you to come in again. Well, I didn't know that this thing existed. I know Education is most important. You thought the boots felt good on the knee. Yes, let me put a needle in there, friend. You didn't even turn the cameras on. This is just a sales pitch. This is just all for me. Yeah.
Speaker 2:No, no, no Education. Like Todd said, it's education.
Speaker 1:Can I clarify something for the viewers? We've used the word needle multiple times. It's not an. I mean it. You don't even know if it went in.
Speaker 2:Five, sixteenths of an inch. Yeah, I, I mean it's you just sit down, yeah just listening yeah, I'm telling you like, like it.
Speaker 1:I mean, if you have bad eyesight you're not gonna see it right, I have to watch it, go in to make sure, because I can't feel it yeah yeah anything you want to say, well, it must be like a, a, uh, just a little prick it is, it must be like a super.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's definitely a little bit must be like a glucosamine, but like on steroids or something oh yeah so when are we getting you in there, matthew? Let's look at it, go, yeah, what you need, what? Do we do that thing around your organs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh yeah, the tesla moreland that's good, and that's a good one, because you only have to do it like once. Good, and that's a good one, because you only have to do it like once or twice a year. That's a shot, very short cycle.
Speaker 1:Is it possible? No, just I know this is a medical spa with training like could Rob or I give the shot, because I would actually pay to be able to just like jab in with it. Went into the bone Right into the heart. When you come in, they teach you, order it, we teach you how to draw up the medicine, inject it into yourself. What you do at home is Up to you.
Speaker 1:But we've covered ourselves. I'm really good at it so I can help teach you. This is going to be amazing. It'll be worth it. Maybe it can do that. Yeah, right near my eyeballs. This is going to be amazing, it'll be worth the price. Right near my eyeballs, that's how we're supposed to go, yeah, so anyways, anything more on peptides Number one, I think you should get that for your knee.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can't say enough, it's just decided Can.
Speaker 1:I put it on Rob's account, or do I have to set up my own? Dude? It's so inexpensive. It's less than a night out at ruth, so there's one other thing we need to talk about shout out to ruth. So what's the membership that you're in, are you?
Speaker 2:oh yeah, you guys don't talk about it.
Speaker 1:It's amazing because there's a lot of people like me. You know you like the deal, so you want to deal with them and we just revamped them.
Speaker 2:And there's so many deals.
Speaker 1:We have three different layers Levels, tiers. Rob's at the top. I already know he's in his own tier. Yeah, we call the Rob and Bobby tier. Bobby tier Started a $100 a month membership so if I stop there, it's the best deal in town. But I don't the $100 you're just giving to me at the first of the month. You can spend it on whatever you want to. It's your money. You're just giving it to me up front. I know, but I sweeten the pot your $100, I give you $25 more and you can spend it however much you want. So it's 25%.
Speaker 1:So I get $125 of credit in the store that month to do whatever I want with it.
Speaker 2:That.
Speaker 1:We have a $100 level, a $200 level, which you get $50 sports. We have a $400 level that you get a $100 sport, and then there's the Bobby level.
Speaker 2:And we have one. I'm at the second diamond.
Speaker 1:We have one. It's named after the guy that's our member. It's not me. It's not me, it's not him. It's a $1,000 a month. He gets $250 credit and he came in on the third of the month and he used this whole bank already. So he'll be there back and you can roll it from month to month. That's it for us. Yeah, that's the best part, I think, about this one. They don't expire now. It's your dollars.
Speaker 1:can people use their? I don't have this, but can people use, like, their flex spending? We have a free, say, an FSA. See, that's huge. Yeah, because a lot of times we used to, when I I had a normal job, we would do that Right At the end of the year. You'd be scrambling to try to find something, whereas this you're like, oh, this is something I want and I use, so I can just use it right there. We have a lot of our clients who use their HSA and FSA accounts. Yeah, but the benefits, if I stop there, it's a great deal. Oh, there's more.
Speaker 2:But I don't stop there. But there's more, there's more.
Speaker 1:At the basic level. For those of us that get Botox, like neurotoxins, we offer discounts on the everyday price on neurotoxins. I've been getting neurotoxins in my forehead for a year now, and phenylsat and renal. You look good. Yeah, looking good and it looks natural too. Yeah, and it looks natural too. I'm not all poopy lip, no, you look good. Skin all like this, you look good. So there's a discount on that at the $100 level.
Speaker 2:At all levels.
Speaker 1:Any IV that's over $150 is $25 off. So if you have your basic level, you're getting $125 in your account plus 25 off your. You've already paid for your taryn, for iron and becks. Really, yeah, that's huge. Um, I mean, that's uh what 300 bucks a year that you'd save just at the hundred dollar level. Look at you with the saving. I didn't even take any calculators because, plus because it rules over.
Speaker 2:if you are one who, let's say, does hormone pellets for men, that's a twice a year type of thing, if you just let your membership pellets bank up, bank up your pellets are paid for 25% of it's paid for by us.
Speaker 1:Let me ask you one question for everybody who wants to know the answer is if Rob happened to be out of town for a couple weeks and Matt came in and said I'm Rob Nelson, could he use some of his credits? No Negative, that's a good question. Yeah, although, if the boss is there and Rob's out of credits and Angie has approved Rob to use some of her credits, okay, if I'm the one working the desk Across family, you could use that, but Matt could use Rob's. It's a case by case.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, we are kind of family though, yeah, kind of Kind of.
Speaker 2:I did keep snapping my neck every time he would talk. I was just like, oh, I'm here. Very similar His. I did keep snapping my neck every time he would talk. I was just like, oh, I'm here, it's funny.
Speaker 1:His out-of-town travel schedule and he wouldn't know the difference if he came in and said I'm Rob Nelson. He'd get back and he'd be like man, you have this glow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and where's all my credits? Where'd they all go?
Speaker 1:I was just hanging out waiting on you to get back. We missed you. To soften the blow, when you first join the month you join because I bill them all on the first of the month. So if you join on the second day of the month, I'm not going to bill you until the first of the next month, but I'm going to give you your bonus credit today. Wow, that's nice. So I'll put a $25 credit on your account. It almost sounds like it's too good to be true. And that doesn't include all the other stuff you did, stuff you did like during christmas. Yeah, you had a christmas tree in there with gift cards. Yeah, and some of the gift cards. What was? 50 bucks? 50, 50 bucks, I think I pulled one of those.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so like they're always giving you know member specials a few times and never mind all the treats when you go in there you could get oh yeah, we got a snack you get green tea with honey and the girls will make it for you. You got all the good the poppies Yep. All the good stuff Yep. All the good soda drinks you know, like low calorie. They're amazing. You're out there watching TV.
Speaker 1:They had the good Hershey's, little mini Hershey's. The other day I put a couple in my pocket. I'm not going to lie, it was good. Kryptonite Most of the stuff actually is kind of like 40 shorty.
Speaker 2:No, it is.
Speaker 1:I like to throw them at people after dinner. You know, we know that if you just come in once you'll see a. You'll see a benefit for sure. But we also know that if you come in for a regular type of therapy you're going to feel a lot better. So that kind of encourages. Obviously we want the repeat business, just like you do in your fellowship. We want those people to come to see you every month. So we'd see the lovely Madison, because she's there full time, but you and Jeff there sometimes all the time. I'm there a lot. Jeff is working at the hospital about half his life, okay, so he's not there as much as I am, but he's there a lot he's there for the consults and stuff.
Speaker 1:yes, well, I mean, and pellets, you all found my thyroid problem again because when I was in my teens I was diagnosed diagnosed with a thyroid issue. Yeah, and all the testing I've done throughout my entire you know not that I used to go on a regular basis, but they were like, oh no, your thyroid's fine. And when you all did my blood work, you're like you need thyroid medicine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1:This explains why you haven't fallen out of the chair at the restaurant.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:Well, and have you noticed he's a lot more calm now. You guys haven't fought. Well, he was all amped up on the way over here because he was running late and I was breaking his stones. Yeah, and I came at him very stressful through our meeting. And I knew I was late and it was raining and of course we were just Josh Dad. Can you guys give us the website? Can you guys tell us how to find?
Speaker 2:you guys.
Speaker 1:But a little recap on the last year, like how's business we're? You know, we've been open a year, we're still open.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And they can ask more than weeks, and that's all you need. That's where we are.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And you're going to get the Rob Nelson wig.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I didn't realize there was a tier of people above you, though I'm disappointed.
Speaker 2:oh yeah, I mean so far just one yeah, how did you take that one year?
Speaker 1:I'm good. No, I'm good rob's like what happens is they spend their bank in the first five days and then they have. Then, when they come back, they actually have to pay real money and they're like, wait a minute, why don't I open up another tier? You need to add my membership. No, I did add mine. I took mine from the basic to the next level. I feel you need to get to like the $750 a month tier. Nah, I'm not spending that much. Well, okay, you might spend that much.
Speaker 2:I probably do. He spends that much he should have that Right.
Speaker 1:But look, you can't put a price on health and feeling.
Speaker 2:No, you look great. You, just you really can it looks great and I know I'm a little bit outnumbered, but I mean, Girl Math says that that's free if you pay for it beforehand.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's right, it's free, it doesn't count. It doesn't count, it's free. I love the Girl. She just finished two half marathons. She was in Spain last weekend running a marathon oh that was awesome. Madrid, madrid. And she had the bit and mill half two weeks before that. I knew I liked her when it was raining outside and she had this little plastic bag over her head.
Speaker 2:You want to get her hair wet for the podcast.
Speaker 1:I'm like this is not video. This is only audio. Nobody's going to see you today, well, dang it. I have to bring quality guests, high quality, but you actually don't get new guests, you just recycle. Really good, it's great, they were fantastic, we'll see you next year.
Speaker 1:We'll see you. You'll be back for season three, god willing. We make you happy. We have to bring you back a little sooner, I don't know. Six months. Yeah, we'll just talk. Next time we get a new service. We? What's the website? How do we find you guys and where are you located? We are at 28th and Walton in the Metro Market where Gasano's is. If you know where the Snack Lab is in Bentonville, we're literally right next door. A healthy partner, right, absolutely. We've got a massage, a sky massage, a sports therapy massage place next to us. You know where Tractor Supply is. We're a one-stop shop. Have you been at club? No, our um website is vibrant nwacom. You can find us on instagram. You can find us on facebook. You can find me on tiktok, not affiliated with the spa is he doing some fun dances, madison?
Speaker 1:is Now I'm going to have to go find him so many dandos, so many. Povs. Oh, I love it, I love it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all of our office headshots have been animated to say something stupid Happy's found.
Speaker 1:We need to go find that. Yeah, we need to go find that. If I could crack a 100-year walk, I'd be a little more, just like the podcast I got 301 now, or at least 303 yeah he doesn't have to take all right.
Speaker 1:So I'm gonna throw it out there, because this is such a amazing episode, I'm sure everyone can we drum roll, yeah. So for one of our viewers who come in and say, hey, we learned about you here on the B-Team podcast, what can you do for us? I'm going to answer for you. They get to use Bobby's account. That wouldn't have been the problem. Oh, that credit card might not. I'm not joking. I'll tell you what. Here's what we'll do. If you say you saw it on the podcast, your choice, how's this? We'll give you your first B12 shot free. Whoa, now, is that regular B12 or regular B12? What's it do?
Speaker 2:It is good for energy production. Helps you if you're iron deficient. Helps you with regulating your sleep.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's number one. Number two if you get an IV, you get an add-on for free. Wow, that's a good deal too. And I got a lot of add-on for free Wow, that's a good deal too. A lot of add-ons. There's a lot of choices. When I come in for an IV, I'm like just make my cocktail.
Speaker 2:Aminos we got, antioxidants, we got vitamins, minerals.
Speaker 1:Matt will be there in two hours. What's the high team special? I'm leaving right after this. I know you guys wanted to go out for dinner, but I'm going to the spa Just turns his hat around.
Speaker 2:Hi, my name's George. I heard you on a podcast.
Speaker 1:Hey, we did that with the chicken boys. We did do that. We went to Shout out, to Shout out to Hotch's, hotch's. Yeah, ooh, yeah, yeah, we married them and ate breakfast and get their free chicken leg, I'm sure. Yeah, yeah, people came in and I went in from lunch later. Oh, you're the guy from the podcast. Oh, nice, I'll also share this with our marketing support. Please, if we can't get a little, yeah, some traction. We need some Bobby fan club. Yeah, yeah, I could use a few more. Got it. Thank you, guys. We Excited that you're back. You're so nice. Cheers, good hire.
Speaker 2:Great hire. Thanks guys, cheers, cheers, cheers.
Speaker 1:Cheers, cheers.