Money Matters Episode 297- Exploring the Intersection of Aging, Genetics, and Physical Fitness W/ Tripp Parks

Tripp Parks: Money Matters Podcast Interview

November 6, 2023 . 10:55 AM . ID: 159974045

Transcript

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Chris Hensley
Good, morning everybody, you're listening to Money Matters, I'm Chris Hensley, have a great show lined up for you today.

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Chris Hensley
You know, another episode of Money Matters, The podcast where financial wellness meets everyday life.

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Chris Hensley
Today we're exploring the intersection of aging, genetics and physical fitness with a very special guest: Tony trip, parks.

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Chris Hensley
Tony, is it OK to call you Trip.

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Tripp Parks
I prefer it.

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Tripp Parks
Yeah.

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Chris Hensley
Ok, great, well, welcome to the show today.

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Tripp Parks
Thank you so much for having me.

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Tripp Parks
It's, it's an honor to be here.

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Chris Hensley
Well, and I'm, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna share a little bit about you with, with, guest or with listeners so that they can get to know you just a little bit better here.

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Chris Hensley
Now you are the author of a book called Health Profiling: You co own a Sin Performance Training Center, and you also have your own podcast called Health or high-water.

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Tripp Parks
Yeah, Yeah, I would try to do a little bit of everything.

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Chris Hensley
Fantastic.

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Chris Hensley
We'll get into a little bit of each of those there.

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Chris Hensley
I just wanted to just say thanks for being on the show.

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Chris Hensley
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself outside of the things that I just mentioned, so that the listeners can get to know you just a little bit better?

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Tripp Parks
Yeah, sure.

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Tripp Parks
100, 100%, so I've been a fitness, not my whole life.

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Tripp Parks
Music, take care of family, platonist, small professional, football league for a little while.

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Tripp Parks
It gave me a ton of experience.

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Tripp Parks
I've had a few other businesses that weren't as successful as the one I'm with right now.

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Tripp Parks
So, a lot of entrepreneurship, they're working at family business as well, uh, just just try to, my whole extra bits based off kind of growth.

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Tripp Parks
Right, how can I be a better person and you know, spiritually, mentally, physically, of all those kind of things, so that's a little bit about who I am.

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Chris Hensley
I love it, I love it when you're on the right show.

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Chris Hensley
We are growth oriented here, so, so that is, that is perfect.

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Chris Hensley
Well, so let's start.

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Chris Hensley
Let's dive right into it.

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Chris Hensley
Can you share your journey into specializing in fitness for individuals and how it led to the podcast?

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Tripp Parks
100%, so I started this fitness journey, when I was 12 years old, my brothers, 18 years older than me, we had not a lot in common.

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Tripp Parks
So, he dragged my **** to the gym, and I fell in love with it.

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Tripp Parks
Yeah.

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Tripp Parks
About 15 years old, I started writing workout programs for my friends and family.

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Tripp Parks
Just got way more into it.

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Tripp Parks
Started getting of the supplement side of that.

02:26 - 02:31
Tripp Parks
And then, going to college at Radboud University, My brother started a supplement company, my sophomore year college.

02:31 - 02:35
Tripp Parks
And I started working for him once I graduated there with a degree in communications.

02:35 - 02:39
Tripp Parks
I started working for him physically in Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina.

02:39 - 02:51
Tripp Parks
We were doing supplementation, genetic testing, but kind of on the brink of doing genetic testing, and some other quantitative science there, and I decided to break off and do my own thing with a protein bar, and, you know, go all in with this genetic testing.

02:53 - 02:54
Tripp Parks
You know, personal training to supplements, whatnot.

02:54 - 03:02
Tripp Parks
And then that led me to start going to professional football tryouts, where the second one I went to I got drafted by the Rival Professional Football League.

03:02 - 03:05
Tripp Parks
And I played Food Safety or Play Gunner.

03:05 - 03:14
Tripp Parks
And I played slot receiver also Special Packages that, that really got me an understanding of what whole Whole Wellness was like, making sure you take care of body, make sure you're mentally strong.

03:14 - 03:18
Tripp Parks
It was observed amazing learning experience, so then I went back to work for my brother.

03:18 - 03:24
Tripp Parks
We kinda, but it has a little bit being family and moved out to Denver Cove it hit, I didn't know what I was going to do.

03:24 - 03:29
Tripp Parks
So, I decided doubled back down on fitness, which was my true passion, and my true love.

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Tripp Parks
I got certified personal training, started building up my clientele book out here, and then in 2022, my mom had a stroke.

03:37 - 03:43
Tripp Parks
Um, I ended up leaving Denver and going back to North Carolina where my parents live in currently right now.

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Tripp Parks
And it was taking care of her with incontinence through, you know, speech therapy.

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Tripp Parks
A whole bunch of, you know, taking her doctor's appointments.

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Tripp Parks
All of that, and I didn't have a lot of time to do anything, and I knew my dad's concrete job wasn't gonna cut the bills once.

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Tripp Parks
No.

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Tripp Parks
She does start to get worse, and she did turn into dementia so it's going to get worse.

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Tripp Parks
So I started writing.

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Tripp Parks
I was like, listen.

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Tripp Parks
I got some time when she's taken naps.

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Tripp Parks
Right, you know, I can get some things done, so I got certified in genetic based program design.

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Tripp Parks
I started writing my book.

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Tripp Parks
That's now health profiling, and I just fully immerse myself into what can I do to provide for my family and make an impact on community.

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Tripp Parks
So I applied everywhere from the Czech Republic to California, and then the one place that tells me back was Denver, so I already had a, already had some friends out here already had some connections and not my now business partner, Brett.

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Tripp Parks
We were in the same corporate wellness for, for awhile and realized that there wasn't, there wasn't an answer to an all, all around 360 fitness approach, and we started diving into like, what, how can we do this?

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Tripp Parks
And we realized that nucleus.

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Tripp Parks
And the idea was genetics.

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Tripp Parks
It's like Hey, I can, we can talk about your, your optimal optimization for your diet, supplements, you have what kind of workouts you need to do.

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Tripp Parks
What does your sleep look like?

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Tripp Parks
Cancer prevention, immune system, cardiovascular risk, and that's when health profound the book was finally done.

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Tripp Parks
It's like, all right, this is my nucleus for the book, We're gonna start talking about health profiling, are a true 360 degree approach to health, and we're not, We're not going to just take things out like you go to a personal trainer.

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Tripp Parks
They're going to get your workout program.

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Tripp Parks
You go to nutritionist, yada, yada, but no one's actually putting it together.

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Tripp Parks
So that was how the comprehensive bonus product profile was born.

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Tripp Parks
Or our thing here are our claim to fame here is our conference or bonus profile, which is a 30 page document that's genetically optimizes your entire life, so that's good.

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Tripp Parks
That's, I know it's a little long winded, I'm sorry.

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Tripp Parks
No.

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Chris Hensley
No, no, that's good.

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Chris Hensley
That's good.

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Chris Hensley
Now, so, that's a great answer.

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Chris Hensley
In fact, you know, every time I so, we are finding out show.

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Chris Hensley
But every time I do a health and wellness show, I always feel like after like preempt it and like, you know, make this correlation between health and financial wellness but I'm not having to do it as much now.

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Chris Hensley
I think.

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Tripp Parks
People can.

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Chris Hensley
Overlap, they are right.

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Chris Hensley
I know for my retiree clients, as we age, these problems just get more complex.

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Chris Hensley
Right.

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Chris Hensley
And so one of the things you mentioned when you know, earlier was, Shouldn't the genetic part of it tell us for people who are just kind of their hearing, the health and fitness part of it?

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Chris Hensley
But they're not really sure about what the genetics stuff even, is.

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Chris Hensley
Can you kind of give us a layperson's definition, or kind of explain that to us?

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Tripp Parks
Sure.

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Tripp Parks
So genetic testing can be using several different factors and variations whether that's prescribing the right medication for you, finding out how you need to work out, how you need to rest, recover, injury prevention, cancer risks There.

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Tripp Parks
It's, it's the saliva tests that we do and it gives us all this information about pre depositions.

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Tripp Parks
Now that's not telling us exactly what's going on immediately but this is the likelihood that things are going to happen down the road.

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Tripp Parks
Then when you add things like an epigenetics, or your environmental factors to these tests, we're able to see exactly what's going on.

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Tripp Parks
Right.

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Tripp Parks
So, this is a, this is a blueprint or a roadmap.

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Tripp Parks
A by you for you.

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Chris Hensley
I love it, I love it.

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Chris Hensley
I'm oversharing here, but tomorrow I'm going to get a colonoscopy such.

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Tripp Parks
Good.

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Chris Hensley
News, right?

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Chris Hensley
But I'm, I'm 49, so I'm right there at the cost, but what I read was that these are one, this is one of the tests that, when you have these diagnostics done, you can actually do something with it if you find out early on, so that was like, well.

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Chris Hensley
I think I'll go ahead and do that.

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Chris Hensley
Some of the things you just mentioned right now, Cancer, you know, injury prevention, genetics, things that are kind of a blueprint there as we age from your experience.

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Chris Hensley
What are some of the common misconceptions about physical fitness as we age?

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Tripp Parks
Well, the one thing is that it's, it's, it's too late to start now, Right?

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Tripp Parks
That's the one thing I hear all the time is like, well, I'm 65.

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Tripp Parks
I'm, I'm 70.

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Tripp Parks
This, it's just too late for me, and that's just not the case.

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Tripp Parks
Right?

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Tripp Parks
You can, you can make specific impacts immediately on your overall health and wellness.

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Tripp Parks
Like, let's say you're on a statin, for your heart, right?

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Tripp Parks
If we get you working out moderately, you know, 20, 30 minutes a day We start eating the right things, We start recovering, we start sleeping better than those things are gonna, things are gonna change, right.

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Tripp Parks
Our bodies are gonna start working better.

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Tripp Parks
And that's the same thing would happen with my Mom, is, they had her on 12 different kinda medications for what's going on.

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Tripp Parks
And I was like, she's not gonna be on us, we're not gonna do this.

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Tripp Parks
So, you start implementing things like a better diet, better workout regime, and state staying consistent.

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Tripp Parks
Can, Can I you can't reverse aging, but you can definitely slow it down and increase your quality of life?

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Chris Hensley
So that's it, that's a good answer As well, I'm hearing it's never too late To get started.

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Chris Hensley
Something is better than nothing, right.

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Chris Hensley
You know, you mentioning, you know, your, your mom being on 12 different things and then coming in and, and managing that and saying, OK, wait a second, like backing up and look at it.

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Chris Hensley
Let's talk about, you had mentioned, you know, Jim, the genetic process of aging, can you explain how genetics play a significant role in how we age and how our understanding of it has evolved over time?

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Tripp Parks
Of course, of course.

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Tripp Parks
So.

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Tripp Parks
So with that, what will we have to?

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Tripp Parks
We have to also talk about our epigenetics, or environmental factors Like are we in a place that's full of smoke all the time.

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Tripp Parks
Are we drinking a lot.

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Tripp Parks
We have all these other factors.

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Tripp Parks
We got to taking, considering how we treat our bodies throughout our whole life.

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Tripp Parks
The harder we treat our bodies, their whole life, the more pre depositions or negative.

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Tripp Parks
Negative indicators are gonna pop up.

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Tripp Parks
Crazy.

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Tripp Parks
Creating more problems down the road.

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Tripp Parks
Right, so talking about finance here, talking about you know, how health can affect that is I'm gonna tell you it's a lot cheaper to have a gym membership and eating right than having a $50,000 medical bill down the road for a stroke or cancer or what have you Right, so this directly correlates.

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Tripp Parks
Hey my health is wealth So for treating her body right now.

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Tripp Parks
It doesn't matter if you're 65 or 14 years old.

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Tripp Parks
If we start treanor body right now.

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Tripp Parks
We're going to have less problems down the road are less likely to have these problems down the road if we're taking care of ourselves.

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Chris Hensley
I love that.

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Chris Hensley
I mean, that is, you know, that, you started with, how have we treated our body?

10:00 - 10:07
Chris Hensley
And I think generally, you know, people become, people become conscious of it as they start reaching middle age, and these things.

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Tripp Parks
Are coming.

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Chris Hensley
Online, right?

10:08 - 10:10
Chris Hensley
So it's usually some life triggering event.

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Chris Hensley
That will appoint them, OK.

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Chris Hensley
I better start doing better.

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Chris Hensley
But, but you know, that, that all comes into play, when you guys sit down and you do a blueprint, and you work with people, as far as, you know, where to point them.

10:24 - 10:32
Chris Hensley
What are some actionable steps individuals can take to use their genetics to their advantage for living longer and healthier lives?

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Tripp Parks
The first things first is, is, take your genetic tests and being able to apply it And that's what we do here at sweat.

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Tripp Parks
It's, you know, we get your genetic tests back.

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Tripp Parks
We don't stop there.

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Tripp Parks
We do blood work as well as a biomechanical assessments of SEO is going inside like, Hey, if you've got a low likelihood to metabolize vitamin D, then we're gonna look, we're gonna look at your genetic or you're gonna look at your blood work as well.

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Tripp Parks
Like, all right, well, if you're already taken a vitamin D supplement and it's not optimal, your blood work than we know that pre deposition is live, right?

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Tripp Parks
So now we can ask the questions, alright, so how should this person be getting their vitamin D?

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Tripp Parks
Let's say this person has got a high propensity for melanoma and sunspots.

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Tripp Parks
It's like, well, that person should not be getting it from the sun, Right?

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Tripp Parks
So we're going to up your vitamin D rich foods and, you know, possibly up your supplement regimen based off of you.

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Tripp Parks
So it's, again, it's it's super individualized per person of how we use these.

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Tripp Parks
And that could even go as depth as how I need to work out.

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Tripp Parks
You know, there's people that have a certain fat burning variant, RS, 1, 2 6, 7, 8, 9 that's missing.

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Tripp Parks
And what this fat burning variant saying is that a person without this fat burning variant could do cardio for seven hours versus someone who does have a versus now and still not burn the same fat.

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Tripp Parks
So, if cardio is not a good option for this person, for burning fat, you know for goal oriented, let's say they want to burn fat and get lean muscle, then we need to kinda trick the body and how we need to work out.

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Tripp Parks
Examples, like, all right, so this person has cardio about this person's missing this fat burning variant.

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Tripp Parks
So what I would do as a, as a genetic based program it was, I was like, all right.

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Tripp Parks
I'm going to up, your rep ranges, we're going to do more plyometric and circuit based training to make sure that we're mimicking the idea of cardio.

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Tripp Parks
So, you're getting the cardiovascular aspect while burning fat, the way your body burns.

12:07 - 12:12
Tripp Parks
Right, so it's, it's, it's really just honing in on what, what are works best for our bodies and ourselves.

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Chris Hensley
I love this approach because you know, a lot of things are done on an average, right.

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Chris Hensley
You know, when people do.

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Tripp Parks
A fitness.

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Chris Hensley
Program, they're looking at the average person, but in reality, there's really not.

12:25 - 12:28
Chris Hensley
You know, there's not an average person, right.

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Chris Hensley
If you look at everybody individually, we all have these differences and, you know, what you're talking about is something that is best based on genetic testing.

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Chris Hensley
You do blood work, you talk about these, biomechanics and it really comes down to some of these things that might be exceptions to the rule, right?

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Chris Hensley
You talked about the fat burning variant, where you can dial in and really customize and make an individual per person, right?

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Chris Hensley
That sounds very strong, because everybody is going to be a little bit different, and people might beat up on themselves if they're trying to.

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Tripp Parks
Do this other.

13:02 - 13:05
Chris Hensley
Standard, and just not getting it right.

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Tripp Parks
Well, yes, I was like, well, there's this workouts working for me, why isn't this work, I was working for my partner here, it's not working out for me.

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Tripp Parks
Why.

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Tripp Parks
It's a great, really great example is back in World War two, all the fighter planes were made for the average American, right?

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Tripp Parks
But no one fit in the planes, right?

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Tripp Parks
Because there was no average American.

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Tripp Parks
If you take the averages from everybody.

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Tripp Parks
It turns out to be a really funky looking person, right?

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Tripp Parks
Long arm, short torso this, and that.

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Tripp Parks
So, that's the kind of approach you're looking for.

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Tripp Parks
It's like, we're not trying to make this for, you know, make one side, or make a plan that's going to fit everybody.

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Tripp Parks
We wanna make sure that we're customizing this this, you know, cockpit, making sure that it fits for them, they can be optimally, they can fly optimally, right?

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Tripp Parks
So that's that kind of that mentality.

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Tripp Parks
It's like, you know, everyone's beautifully unique, and our programs should be as such.

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Chris Hensley
I love that, I love that.

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Chris Hensley
Now I'm going to pivot a little bit and I'm gonna talk about an even older range of adults.

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Chris Hensley
People who were in, you know, like assisted living, care facilities and that sort of thing.

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Chris Hensley
How do fitness programs, how do you adjust those for those unique needs and challenges faced for, for that age group?

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Tripp Parks
Well, it's a lot of it's going to be to take into account their medical history, right?

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Tripp Parks
And especially there needs to, is it or do they have high cholesterol?

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Tripp Parks
Do they have low vitamin deficiency?

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Tripp Parks
So, again, it's gone by that, what's, what's going on individually, and what's their goals.

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Tripp Parks
Right?

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Tripp Parks
So, when we're talking about that, we're going to be a lot more careful with range of emotions for movements, for workouts, are going to be especially careful with nutrition and supplements because as you get older, your body's knockabout handle stuff as well.

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Tripp Parks
Right?

14:38 - 14:50
Tripp Parks
So, taking all those things to consideration and creating a custom platform for this person to succeed, because, you know, just just like us, like, you know, just like anyone from 0 to 65, they shouldn't be having the same workout programs.

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Tripp Parks
And people that are older as well, you know, need to be individualized as well.

14:54 - 15:03
Tripp Parks
And I think that's a huge problem going on with the, especially the senior senior sector silver sneakers is that they're just throwing something that expect everybody to stick.

15:03 - 15:17
Tripp Parks
And it's not, I mean, this is probably the, the, the most that statins have ever been used, that we're having the most cardiovascular risk and diseases and are elderly and we have to take an individualized approach to, to accomplish those goals about getting them healthy.

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Chris Hensley
Love that.

15:20 - 15:32
Chris Hensley
I love that, and that is, you know, so, I work with retirees, so people 55 and up, but then, when they're on the other side and they're retired, you know, these things come online and you mentioned earlier that they're caught.

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Chris Hensley
You know, the cost of these health care issues as they arise can be very, very expensive.

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Chris Hensley
And so, you know, anything that they can do to, for prevention is huge.

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Chris Hensley
You talked about silver sneakers.

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Chris Hensley
You talked about, you know, more statins than we've ever used through before, right.

15:50 - 16:01
Chris Hensley
And then, this cardiovascular, and then, you know, even with your mother's issues with dementia, this is something we're seeing a lot with that Baby Boomer.

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Chris Hensley
Age group, the augmented disability.

16:03 - 16:07
Chris Hensley
And so this, the stuff that you're doing is really, really important.

16:08 - 16:16
Chris Hensley
Can you share some of the success stories of or significant transformations that you've witnessed through your fitness programs?

16:16 - 16:24
Tripp Parks
Yeah, 100%, Actually, one of my first clients moving back here, when I left corporate wellness, Lesli, she's one of my, what a great friends.

16:25 - 16:27
Tripp Parks
We had our, we had our genetic consult with her.

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Tripp Parks
We went through genetic tests and she had a genetic predisposition to be obese and she had been struggling with wait her entire life, Right?

16:35 - 16:41
Tripp Parks
So, you know, again, I don't blame blame or going in, like, hey, like, is this going to work because it's gonna, you know, do this and that.

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Tripp Parks
And then our first month, she lost about.

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Tripp Parks
£11, gain £3.5 in muscle and I mean, total body composition change within the first month of applying what we're doing.

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Tripp Parks
And she was telling me, she's like, you know, everyone, my entire life told me that I just need to do this, and that to get healthy, and no one told me that I was different, Not in a bad way.

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Tripp Parks
You know, I'm just, I'm just, I'm definitely everybody else I got, I've got to work out different.

17:04 - 17:07
Tripp Parks
I've got, I've got to be more attentive at what I'm doing because I do have a predisposition to be overweight.

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Tripp Parks
Right?

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Tripp Parks
So I think a lot of people do use excuses like that like, oh, I'm just pre-disposed to be overweight.

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Tripp Parks
But once you have the information, you know how to deal with it.

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Tripp Parks
Right?

17:16 - 17:18
Tripp Parks
So that she's taken an amazing transformation.

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Tripp Parks
She's still work at me right now, she's now wearing clothes that actually hasn't been wearing a 2 or 3 years, and it's, it's, it's not, it's just not the thank you.

17:27 - 17:29
Tripp Parks
It's not the fact that we're just working out ...

17:29 - 17:32
Tripp Parks
Or just eating better is the fact that we're taking a full wellness approach.

17:32 - 17:34
Tripp Parks
Like, I asked, how's your sleep going?

17:34 - 17:36
Tripp Parks
Let's get your blood work done for your hormone levels.

17:36 - 17:38
Tripp Parks
You know, what's, what's your stress like going on, right?

17:38 - 17:42
Tripp Parks
You know, if you have a high stress, your cortisol's through the roof and then you can't focus, you can't sleep.

17:42 - 17:45
Tripp Parks
So we look at this, again, as this 360 approach.

17:45 - 17:46
Tripp Parks
And she's really just taken it.

17:47 - 17:48
Tripp Parks
No, I can't work out for, she's taken.

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Tripp Parks
It Just got to the moon with this.

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Tripp Parks
I'm just so proud of her and her continued success.

17:54 - 17:55
Chris Hensley
I love it.

17:55 - 17:55
Chris Hensley
I love it.

17:55 - 18:04
Chris Hensley
Some of the things you mentioned there, of course, everybody focuses on the weight loss, but you also mentioned the gain for muscle mass, which is huge.

18:04 - 18:07
Chris Hensley
Strength training is huge as we age, being able to.

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Chris Hensley
The more strength training you do, the more forgiving it is on your body later on down the road, right?

18:12 - 18:15
Chris Hensley
So so this is a great thing.

18:15 - 18:16
Chris Hensley
You talked about excuses.

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Chris Hensley
You know, some people will just use excuses, and they, it's hard to do that when you guys dial in and you tell them, like, you know, this is individual about you versus this other standard.

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Chris Hensley
Right?

18:27 - 18:45
Chris Hensley
And even as much as focusing in on their sleep and making sure that all of these other things are getting checked along the way, Know, with, with the financial constraints that some older adults face, especially post retirement, how do you suggest that they prioritize their health and fitness?

18:45 - 18:49
Tripp Parks
Well, it depends on how much money they want to have if they get sick, Right?

18:49 - 18:53
Tripp Parks
And I'm just going to be very, very blunt about that, too, is because of my mom.

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Tripp Parks
Right?

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Tripp Parks
I don't want people to go through what I had to go through by any means.

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Tripp Parks
You know, when, when your parents are retired, they should be joining retirement.

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Tripp Parks
They should be out doing what they want to do, and they should not be having to do with, you know, my, my Dodge and how do we take care of my mom right now.

19:06 - 19:16
Tripp Parks
So, if you, if, if you're questioning about prioritizing your, your, your health, and the expenses of it, trust me, It's way more expensive if you don't, and they'll end the long run, right?

19:16 - 19:18
Tripp Parks
Because it's not, if something's going to happen to you, It's when?

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Tripp Parks
Because we all die.

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Tripp Parks
No, from something from something, And I'd rather die of natural causes, and leave my family with, you know, whatever nut I made.

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Tripp Parks
Instead of having to use that nut on keeping me alive or or whatnot.

19:30 - 19:33
Tripp Parks
So, it's really about a choice of responsibility for ourselves.

19:34 - 19:42
Tripp Parks
Is, listen, I know, I've got to, by, first responsibilities take care of myself, because if I can't take care of myself, I can't be there for my family, right?

19:42 - 19:44
Tripp Parks
And no matter what age you want, you want to see your grandkids, Great grandkids?

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Tripp Parks
What have you, and you're not gonna be able to do that if you're not prioritizing your health and wellness first.

19:50 - 19:52
Tripp Parks
Which I understand is a little bit of money upfront.

19:52 - 19:54
Tripp Parks
But, what's the alternative, right?

19:56 - 19:57
Chris Hensley
I love that.

19:57 - 20:07
Chris Hensley
And, and, you know, the big thing of taking care of yourself first, It's, how do you you're not gonna be able to provide for everybody that you love or that you want to take care of if you are sick, right?

20:07 - 20:09
Chris Hensley
So, so, taking care of yourself.

20:09 - 20:09
Tripp Parks
First.

20:09 - 20:10
Chris Hensley
Is huge.

20:10 - 20:15
Chris Hensley
One of the things you mentioned was even your your father having to take care of your mother.

20:15 - 20:23
Chris Hensley
I find that even, you know, even the people that, they tell me, I'm a successful CEO, I don't ever want to retire, right.

20:23 - 20:27
Chris Hensley
You may have that mindset, or you may be like, you know, I'm gonna work till the day that I die.

20:28 - 20:35
Chris Hensley
But often, you'll find that people spouses will become sick, and then they'll take off time from work to help take care of them.

20:35 - 20:37
Chris Hensley
And guess what, they never go back to work.

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Chris Hensley
And that's where their retirement starts.

20:39 - 20:41
Chris Hensley
So this is, this is huge.

20:41 - 20:43
Chris Hensley
What you're talking about, this is very important.

20:46 - 20:49
Chris Hensley
How does financial wellness, we've kind of touched on this already.

20:49 - 20:53
Chris Hensley
But how does financial wellness intersect with physical wellness?

20:53 - 20:54
Chris Hensley
Especially as we age?

20:55 - 20:55
Chris Hensley
Well.

20:55 - 20:57
Tripp Parks
Let's, let's, let's go ahead and break down.

20:57 - 20:59
Tripp Parks
Let's say we're in a financial hardship time.

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Tripp Parks
Right.

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Tripp Parks
And I was talking about before it, you're stressed out.

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Tripp Parks
You're not saving cortisol levels Go up, and this is a really great example for this, is, like, it's going to affect the rest of your life.

21:07 - 21:14
Tripp Parks
If you're stressed out about whether getting to the gym or stressed out about your finances is going to directly affect your physical health, right?

21:14 - 21:18
Tripp Parks
I mean, this mental application is going to affect us physically, right.

21:18 - 21:25
Tripp Parks
So if I'm stressing of stressing about money from the time and go to sleep, the time I wake up, it's going to have an effect on us too, right?

21:25 - 21:27
Tripp Parks
So, prioritizing that is huge.

21:28 - 21:37
Tripp Parks
So, there's a direct correlation with with, with monetary and physical, well being and I think that there should be a balance between the two, right?

21:37 - 21:39
Tripp Parks
Like hey, like I can have a cheeseburger right now.

21:39 - 21:42
Tripp Parks
This for a cheat meal here and I can spend a little bit of money on this.

21:42 - 21:46
Tripp Parks
But you have to have it ultimately a balance of both to make to make life work.

21:46 - 21:46
Tripp Parks
It's all about moderation.

21:49 - 21:51
Chris Hensley
I love that moderation.

21:51 - 21:54
Chris Hensley
Balance balance is a good thing anywhere, right?

21:55 - 21:55
Tripp Parks
Yes, That's.

21:55 - 21:57
Chris Hensley
Definitely, definitely a good thing.

21:58 - 22:11
Chris Hensley
Well, let's so let's pivot a little bit, because you also have a podcast, and, I love talking about my podcast, Don't get me started talking about my pocket, and it's like talking, right, so, so let's talk about your podcast.

22:12 - 22:23
Chris Hensley
You, you host this podcast, can you share some of the topics, are episodes, that's resonated well with your audience and the impact that you hope to create through your podcast.

22:24 - 22:27
Tripp Parks
So, we do a lot of, uh, introductory stuff to write.

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Tripp Parks
Like, we're not trying to confuse our audience.

22:29 - 22:36
Tripp Parks
We really mimic this podcast off of fireside chats by FDR and talking to the listener, right?

22:36 - 22:37
Tripp Parks
Not at the listener, We talk.

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Tripp Parks
We're, we want them to be a part of the conversation and want them to get something out of it.

22:41 - 22:45
Tripp Parks
So what one of the ones that was really amazing for us was actually intro to posture.

22:45 - 22:51
Tripp Parks
Know what, and I did not think that that was going to turn out great because it's an audio podcast but it's been one of our successful podcast yet.

22:52 - 22:53
Chris Hensley
Nice.

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Tripp Parks
But you know, it's something that people don't talk about.

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Tripp Parks
Like, how do I fix my posture?

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Tripp Parks
What are the things I can do to improve that?

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Tripp Parks
How can I, how can I?

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Tripp Parks
How can I help with this?

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Tripp Parks
You know, me sitting on the compute the whole time?

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Tripp Parks
What is my next post to feel like?

23:03 - 23:07
Tripp Parks
That was one of our best ones, especially with the older demographic of people?

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Tripp Parks
Is the, you know, they don't want to be hunched over the whole time, they you know, getting osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis, and all this other kind of things, like, well, how, what can we do structurally to benefit that?

23:18 - 23:22
Tripp Parks
And then, we also have, like, doctors come on, like doctor Dorit ..., who was a natural path.

23:22 - 23:27
Tripp Parks
He was an amazing, amazing guest intro to nutrition.

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Tripp Parks
Like, what does, what does, What does that?

23:28 - 23:29
Tripp Parks
Well, you know, what is nutrition?

23:29 - 23:35
Tripp Parks
So we try to take it at a very base level, but provide information on like, Hey, this is exactly like, for nutrition.

23:35 - 23:40
Tripp Parks
For example, we talked about how, we grew up with the food pyramid and House upside down by the time I graduated, Right?

23:40 - 23:49
Tripp Parks
So we're trying to, No, help with the information out there as well as, you know, try to help us with getting rid of that disk information.

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Tripp Parks
That what really wasn't working for us.

23:51 - 23:52
Tripp Parks
It's almost like a re-education process, right?

23:55 - 23:57
Chris Hensley
I love it, I love it, these are great topics.

23:57 - 24:00
Chris Hensley
I'm gonna go back and listen to this show.

24:00 - 24:06
Chris Hensley
A lot of the things you just mentioned, kinda check the box for me, their introduction to posture.

24:07 - 24:16
Chris Hensley
This weekend we were at an event for my son's school and my wife came up to me, put her arms on my shoulders and she said, stand up your slopping.

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Chris Hensley
And I felt, I feel like I've been working on my posture, but you for you get into these these patterns.

24:23 - 24:37
Chris Hensley
Right, so It is very frustrating when people say, hey, you know work on your posture And you just don't know what to do, but I'm sure on your episode of that show you guys got into some practical tips of things that people can do for posture.

24:37 - 24:39
Chris Hensley
So I'm gonna have to revisit them.

24:39 - 24:40
Tripp Parks
100%.

24:40 - 24:44
Tripp Parks
I mean, some easy for you, listeners to do, too, is, like, let's say, you set your car.

24:44 - 24:46
Tripp Parks
A lot of us spend a ton of time in the car.

24:46 - 24:49
Tripp Parks
So what, so what I do is I set my my rearview mirror.

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Tripp Parks
To a place I have to be what I am.

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Tripp Parks
I'm partially correct.

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Tripp Parks
Right.

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Tripp Parks
So that way you can't mess up, right?

24:56 - 24:56
Tripp Parks
So it's like, all right.

24:56 - 24:57
Tripp Parks
Well, I can't see.

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Tripp Parks
I'm not going to sit up and go see, right?

24:59 - 25:00
Tripp Parks
So doing.

25:00 - 25:01
Chris Hensley
That.

25:01 - 25:07
Tripp Parks
And another thing, too, is like every time you see a mirror, or like you're in an elevator, you can see yourself, check your posture.

25:07 - 25:15
Tripp Parks
Do a self check, Right, and my standing up straight, and I was doing this this morning to, at the gas station, is, you know, they have those little things on the side of the door that show your height.

25:17 - 25:26
Tripp Parks
Every time you ask, do you want to try to try to get tall, you know, so, there's, like, little things we can do to checkout through our day to work on our posture, and that doesn't take any time out of our day at all.

25:28 - 25:31
Chris Hensley
I love it, OK, So when I go out to the car later, I'm going to adjust my mirror.

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Chris Hensley
They're.

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Tripp Parks
Forced me to sit.

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Chris Hensley
Up straight.

25:34 - 25:35
Chris Hensley
That's good.

25:35 - 25:35
Chris Hensley
I love the.

25:35 - 25:36
Chris Hensley
I love that.

25:37 - 25:42
Chris Hensley
We're getting close to the end of the show here kind of bumping towards the end of the half-hour here looking ahead.

25:43 - 25:52
Chris Hensley
What are some of the emerging trends or research in the field of aging and fitness that you're excited about and how do you plan to incorporate these into your work?

25:53 - 25:55
Tripp Parks
I mean, there's, there's so much going on right now.

25:55 - 26:08
Tripp Parks
But one of the most one of the things I'm really excited about, and we just started offering here about 2 or 3 weeks ago, is pharmacogenomics, which is the study and the application of figuring out what genetics work best for your medication for medications.

26:08 - 26:16
Tripp Parks
So imagine all the times that people have gotten medications that they have terrible side effects from it or it doesn't sit right with them and the dosage isn't right well.

26:16 - 26:23
Tripp Parks
We can do is, we can get a genetic test done and figure out exactly what medications you need to be on and and and whatnot.

26:23 - 26:34
Tripp Parks
So that's gonna really affect, especially this older demographic that is on a ton of medications, that, you know, they have some side effects here there that's not working out for them, and give them in a practical approach to that, as well as make them feel better too.

26:34 - 26:37
Tripp Parks
A, if you're on the right medication, you're not gonna, I'm not gonna feel bad.

26:38 - 26:46
Tripp Parks
So we're really trying to change the game with with that And uh, and then secondly, what, what we'd like to do with this company is turn into something called the Preventive Health Center.

26:46 - 26:54
Tripp Parks
Right, A place that is a full wellness, almost maul you go there, you get, you get your biomechanical assessment for a personal trainer, you get a genetic tests done by your geneticists.

26:54 - 26:56
Tripp Parks
You get your blood work done by phlebotomist.

26:56 - 26:57
Tripp Parks
Who is going to be seen by us?

26:57 - 27:08
Tripp Parks
But by our blood specialist, we're gonna get your family history in and do a really a one stop shop for health and wellness, You know, we'd love to repurpose an old school or hospital and and make use of that.

27:08 - 27:11
Tripp Parks
They already got Kitchen's gymnasiums and that kinda stuff in it.

27:11 - 27:19
Tripp Parks
So we really want to take that to the next level, as well as start working with insurance companies, to help reduce the cost upfront to the our clients.

27:19 - 27:25
Tripp Parks
Our customer base, as well as help reduce cost for insurance companies on, Hey, is this person healthy?

27:25 - 27:26
Tripp Parks
Is a person not what?

27:26 - 27:29
Tripp Parks
What should these premiums B, and try to make a fair market for people?

27:31 - 27:31
Chris Hensley
Love it.

27:31 - 27:34
Chris Hensley
That's, you know, that's an arm wrestle for that.

27:34 - 27:37
Chris Hensley
We're continually then having right with the insurance.

27:37 - 27:37
Tripp Parks
Company.

27:38 - 27:44
Chris Hensley
The argument that preventatives stuff ultimately on the backend will cost them much less, a little bit.

27:44 - 27:50
Chris Hensley
Here goes a long way, compound interest, if you will, for the body, right down the.

27:50 - 27:51
Tripp Parks
Road.

27:52 - 27:54
Chris Hensley
You talked about the prevention health center.

27:54 - 27:55
Chris Hensley
That is a great idea.

27:55 - 28:07
Chris Hensley
Kind of a one stop shop to be able to, you know, knock out all of these different things that we need to do towards our health, and then I made a note, but I just stopped at the beginning.

28:07 - 28:14
Chris Hensley
It was pharma Com and then I just kinda trailed off there because I'm gonna ask you to repeat it so that I can understand, first.

28:14 - 28:16
Tripp Parks
Of all, it's a pharma co.

28:16 - 28:16
Tripp Parks
Genomics.

28:18 - 28:19
Chris Hensley
Nice.

28:19 - 28:19
Chris Hensley
Nice.

28:20 - 28:25
Chris Hensley
Did what I understood is it that help people with all of the different medications that they're taking?

28:26 - 28:35
Chris Hensley
On an individual scale, you could look at their genetic markers and see if maybe they're pre-disposed for some of these interactions that they shouldn't be having with, with the prescriptions.

28:35 - 28:39
Chris Hensley
And this is a huge, you know, worry when people take prescription drugs.

28:39 - 28:45
Chris Hensley
And as we age, it becomes 1, 2, 3, and then you've got a handful of 10 or 12 that you're taken, right.

28:45 - 28:50
Chris Hensley
So this is a, this is a great idea, great, great thing for us that I had never even heard of that before.

28:50 - 28:53
Chris Hensley
You mentioned it, so now it's on the radar, So that's good.

28:53 - 28:54
Chris Hensley
Well, trip.

28:54 - 28:56
Chris Hensley
We're right here at the end of the show.

28:56 - 28:58
Chris Hensley
Let me ask you.

28:58 - 29:02
Chris Hensley
What have I forgot to ask you that you'd like to share with our listeners today?

29:03 - 29:11
Tripp Parks
Uh, one big thing for me, like leading off here is personal accountability and responsibility, right?

29:11 - 29:22
Tripp Parks
That's one thing that, unfortunately, throughout our, you know, the past 20, 30 years, we've lost a lot of community and ethical standpoints of taking care of ourselves and take care of our family units.

29:22 - 29:26
Tripp Parks
It's up to us for the next generation to do a better job at that, right?

29:26 - 29:34
Tripp Parks
And that's, that starts with personal accountability, unacceptability at ourselves, take, like we said before, taking care of ourselves to make sure we can take care of everybody else later is so big.

29:34 - 29:42
Tripp Parks
I think a lot of us just ignore our health and wellness issues, or our future health and wellness issues, by, you know, treating our bodies bad right now.

29:42 - 29:48
Tripp Parks
So, I know, challenge everybody listening, to start taking, you know, even at a small accountability, hey, I'm gonna start drinking more water instead of soda.

29:48 - 29:56
Tripp Parks
I'm gonna go to the gym for 20 minutes this week, yeah, challenge, challenge them to go out and start this wellness journey Because again, it's not if something is going to happen to you, is when.

29:57 - 29:58
Tripp Parks
So you might as well be prepared.

29:58 - 29:59
Tripp Parks
Now, I.

29:59 - 30:00
Chris Hensley
Love it.

30:00 - 30:04
Chris Hensley
What a great thought to leave with today, the finger pointing right back at us, right?

30:04 - 30:12
Chris Hensley
Look in the mirror, personal accountability, personal responsibility, we have to own these positive things that we need to do for our health trip.

30:12 - 30:14
Chris Hensley
Thank you so much for being on the show today.

30:14 - 30:18
Chris Hensley
For listeners who would like to find out more about you, where would they go?

30:18 - 30:26
Tripp Parks
So, my my book, My Book Health Profiling, is on Kindle, digitally, and Amazon for hardcopy.

30:27 - 30:33
Tripp Parks
You can find us at a send performance training dot com for some blogs and a little bit more about what we do with some videos on there.

30:33 - 30:45
Tripp Parks
We have a physical location here in Denver at 472, Jersey Street, Denver, Colorado, if you guys want to come, come by and visit us, And then you can also find health or high-water podcast on Anywhere Anywhere Podcast are shown.

30:45 - 30:51
Tripp Parks
We got about 50 episodes out right now, so there's quite a bit of content that we want to get out there and yeah, I think that's, I think that's about it.

30:52 - 30:53
Chris Hensley
I love it, trip.

30:53 - 30:55
Chris Hensley
Thank you so much for being on the show today.

30:55 - 30:56
Chris Hensley
Have a good rest of the day there.

30:57 - 30:58
Tripp Parks
Thank you so much.