success gap. To live a life of options and not obligations on this platform, we are stoked to bring you high performers. We’re not just chasing and attaining success, but redefining it through, providing above and beyond service. And so really quick knowledge nugget [00:01:00] coaching Knowledge nugget this week.

Squad is, a lot of people talk about faith like it’s a feeling, but faith is not a vibe. It’s a verb. Faith is what you do when the outcome’s unclear. It’s getting up when your body says stay down. It’s showing up for yourself when no one is watching, and that’s where function comes in. The systems, the habits, the daily reps that turn faith into movement.

Faith gives the vision function, builds the road. Too many people sit back waiting for the miracle when the miracles already moving. They just haven’t started walking yet. Faith without function is. Hope with no horsepower. Function without faith is motion with no meaning. You’ve gotta lock them together.

Belief and behavior, trust and training, mindset and muscle. When faith meets function, you stop begging for change and start becoming it. That’s where the healing happens. That’s where life levels up. And talk about leveling up life. Today’s guest is someone who doesn’t just talk about healing.

He embodies it. My good friend Dr. Brad Montagne, is a passionate, functional medicine practitioner who [00:02:00] spent decades digging deeper than symptoms, un uncovering root causes, and restoring hope to people who thought their health story was over. What makes Dr. Brad different isn’t just his depth of knowledge or years of clinical research, is the fact that he’s lived it.

He’s walked through the valley of chronic illness himself, and instead of letting it break him, he let it build him through faith, compassion, and relentless pursuit of truth. He discovered the keys to help others break free from the prison of sickness and reclaim their vitality. Dr. Brad doesn’t just treat patients.

He walks with them. He helps them. He helps people who’ve been told, there’s nothing more we can do. Find freedom, energy, and purpose again. Get ready Varsity Squad, because today we are diving into the intersection of faith. Science and healing with a man who truly gives people their lives back and somebody that I myself immensely respect.

So Doc, thank you so much for coming on. Please introduce yourself the time to Shine Today, podcast Varsity Squad. But first, what’s your favorite color and why?

Dr. Brad Montagne: My favorite color is whatever my wife’s wiring at the present

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): [00:03:00] moment. What’s she wearing? Because I build my marketing around it. What is she wearing?

Dr. Brad Montagne: Today she’s in a denim colored skirt. Love it. With a yellow string top.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Awesome. Very cool. And that was very put together with the vision of that. Is she there?

Dr. Brad Montagne: She’s outside in the chicken pan, working with the chickens right now. Her favorite, she’s she loves gardening, she loves critters and that’s, that’s just.

I love that bay.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): I love it

Dr. Brad Montagne: I’ve been building for over 50 years.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Okay.

Dr. Brad Montagne: And yesterday we just picked up the wood to make our new kitchen. Wow.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Okay.

Dr. Brad Montagne: I’ve been, I’ve got a lot of hats. Love it. Custom woodworker is one of them. My kitchen’s gonna be five different woods.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Oh wow. You help people level up their lives, the people that might feel like they have no hope as well.

Yeah. Which is, that’s fantastic. Thank you so much for coming on, man. But give us a little bit of your backstory, doc on how, you kinda started what the valley that you [00:04:00] walked through, and again, you walked through it, you didn’t sit there and wallow in it, you walked through it. But tell us a little bit about your backstory.

Dr. Brad Montagne: Okay. Real simple. Five years old, I’m in the hospital late at night. Gut wrenching pain. That doesn’t really matter. I’ve got the same story everybody else does. Sitting there taken to a doctor doesn’t tell me what’s going on, what’s caused it. Just do this. It’ll make you better first who knows how many trips, right?

I’m five years old thinking this is crazy, right? This is happening for a reason.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Sure.

Dr. Brad Montagne: I never had this before. I don’t want to have it again. What’s going on with all this? Couple years later, family took a vacation. I came down with something, didn’t know what it was. The whole world spun around me for years.

365 days a year, 24 7. The world just spun around. I walked around like a drunken sailor wide stance. Every time I turned the world spin around, I was extremely. Coordinated [00:05:00] and athletic. And really active in all those things. But the world was just spinning around me and I learned. Early in life I started cooking on US five because when I ate different, I felt different.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Wow. Okay.

Dr. Brad Montagne: And I started walking things out that way. If I ate the way my family ate, I, my world was just rocked. Wow. So I had to eat different. And that’s what started things and that got worse. By the time I was an adult, I was full of fungal infections. I got Lyme disease, same issues. I had a friend threatened to drag me down to the medical doctor then to go to one with a Lyme disease.

That was a joke. The guy never touched me. Did a few tests, told me to go take ibuprofen. I hadn’t had an aspirin in 30 years.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Sure. To

Dr. Brad Montagne: go buy ibuprofen was like a sacrilegious event

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): right in my

Dr. Brad Montagne: life. It was so hard to go in the store and get it. I went in, I got the smallest dose, it could have took one pill.

I got hallucinations and I said, I’m not doing that again.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Not doing that. Wow. So you started the, at [00:06:00] five years old. And then is it, how long did it kinda carry on through your life before you really, were able to grab a hold and start healing? Start healing?

Dr. Brad Montagne: Boy, I was past marriage age.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Oh wow. Okay.

Dr. Brad Montagne: My world just spun around. Sure. All through grade school. Wow. All through grade school. That eased up some. But as far as like getting out in the boat on the ocean for, my motion sickness over the top because of what went on all the time. So I gotta stay away from a lot of things a lot of people don’t even think about.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Wow. Even to this day

Dr. Brad Montagne: I’m. Pilot of small airplane. Okay. I’ve been in some crazy things. I’ve lost three motors in about four 50 hours. One of ’em was in the clouds.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Wow.

Dr. Brad Montagne: I’ve been in some insane situations way up there where you. You’ve got stars streaking through your vision, your tunnel vision out and right.

We’re going in and outta convective tails and the plane’s going up over [00:07:00] 1500 feet a minute. You can’t push the yoke far enough down to keep yourself level or pull back hard enough what’s going the other way, right in and out rain and all that. It is got your head just sideways. Yeah. But you have less than three seconds to figure out what instruments lying to you.

To make things right. And to stay alive. So you, you don’t have the liberty to just relax and puke your guts out. You can’t do it.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): So you were, you, were you relying a lot of instruments while you’re up there spinning around?

Dr. Brad Montagne: Yeah. When I took my IFR check ride the examiner looked at my records and goes, is this right? I go, what do you mean? He says, how do you get all this cross country tongue, got 200 hours of cross country tongue, an hour and a half of instruction? How do you do that? I said, how much time does it take to instruct to learn how to navigate, right?

I didn’t get a pilot’s license to play around, right? I go places, I do things and go Exactly. And then when he took me up, my nav, primary navigation failed automatically, right [00:08:00] away. And he kept too much. Kept me too busy to ever fix it on purpose. Every time I reached to go fix it, he’d make me do something else.

Then we get off of the tower with all the direction. I just got an NDB that doesn’t work at all. And that’s all I get to navigate with. Then he takes a pillow and he sticks it over my head all over my face. So I can’t even see the instruments. Then who’s got me doing 45 degree banks? What

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): under the hood, this is all training.

Like what? Let’s go. It’s so

Dr. Brad Montagne: far out of the box. Oh my gosh. But he realized. I was one of the few guys who was in Fly in the classs.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): And he needed

Dr. Brad Montagne: to prove to me and to himself I could do it.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Yeah.

Dr. Brad Montagne: So he put the screws to me. Yeah. I’ve never heard anybody with an exam like that.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Never.

Never. And it’s like the baptism by fire in a sense, but you saw something in you, which I’m sure a lot of people also do, but kinda get back to the health stuff here, doc. You said that the chronic illness can feel like a prison, and what was your [00:09:00] moment behind your own prison bars that flipped the switch that made you decide you were never gonna go back to it?

What, do you remember that one moment that just sticks out where you’re like, dude I can’t do this anymore. I’ve gotta get better.

Dr. Brad Montagne: That was way back like. Five years old. Okay. Seven. Seven years old. Your whole world’s spinning around. Yeah. Yeah. It takes so much concentration to stay on your feet.

Just to be able to inter interact with the world around you. Way more concentration than most people ever think about doing

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): anything.

Dr. Brad Montagne: It shapes your character. It really shapes your character, and mine started five to seven years of age.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Sure. And so many people like when things start happening to them, they start searching for answers after their systems, are starting to fail themselves.

So why do you think so many traditional medical approaches. Miss what? Like functional medicine like you do, right? Evidence-based, fines. And what’s the biggest blind spot? Do you see that it’s not being, [00:10:00] treating people today. You know what I’m saying? It’s like what is, obviously you have big pharma, like you said, take a pill, go get better.

But what are you seeing is the big miss?

Dr. Brad Montagne: The answer’s really simple and I could really go down the rabbit trail. Pretty deep, but I’ll make it this simple. Carnegie and Rockefeller invested a lot of money in big pharma, Merck and Pfizer way back in the early 19 hundreds.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Yep.

Dr. Brad Montagne: And Rockefeller wanted to change medicine, so he’d increase his profits.

So he changed the education of medicine. He set up two colleges university of Chicago and Rockefeller University. He set up a. Curriculum on which he could change medicine. Then he sent two guys to Faulkner Brothers to go visit every medical college in North America, American Canada. Okay.

They came back five years later, the scathing rebuke, they should all be half of ’em be shut down. They needed to change their curriculum to what Rockefeller set up. Rocka one. Rockefeller’s proteges one of his. Key people went and set up, [00:11:00] I think his last name was Welsh, set up John Hopkins University.

With the agenda that Rockefeller was setting up was all based on lab functions, lab work. And the lab work is contrary to what Louis pastor, the father of the germ theory really realized. Louis, he passed. He’s wasted his life studying the Germans and he realized the end of his life, that was the wrong study.

His. Contemporary, Claude Bernard was studying physical vitalism. What allows those microbes to grow in us? To make us get sick, and that’s the real key. Medicine has studied the thing that’s easy. They use lab tests to manipulate people so they can take a pharmaceutical to reduce the symptoms.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Sure.

Dr. Brad Montagne: They have no function to find the root cause. The functional medicine was started by a bunch of clinical nutritional chiropractors, but the medical institution came in ’cause they were so effective that they seduced everybody into using the medical diagnostic issues, which is the lab [00:12:00] tests and all that, which, the accuracy, those is non-existent.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): It’s ridiculous. The accuracy of food and tolerance testing, two to 3%. Percent accurate. The lab testing for Lyme disease, one of the big things we deal with chronic Lyme. Zero to 20% accurate. If you get a lab test within one to two weeks of infection after that, no accuracy whatsoever.

Dr. Brad Montagne: That used to be on the premier Lyme lab website. Hygienics now they just have on there. Or tests are not a diagnosis. Most people don’t realize how. Inaccurate. These are, and they cannot direct care because they’re so inaccurate. They’re only looking at how to. Palliatively reduce symptoms, not address root cause.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Wow. Yeah. That makes sense. ’cause a lot of ’em, they don’t, they’re like they’ll to do an MRI and be like, okay, this is wrong, and they’ll give you medication but they don’t say, Hey, you know what, there could be some evidence-based that you could do mobility exercises or, cleanse your body a certain way with stuff.

They don’t [00:13:00] get down and dig into what is functionally wrong with the body.

Dr. Brad Montagne: It’s, there, there’s so many things along that line. But since the medical institution invaded the functional medicine side, most of the people don’t have the tools to find what they talk about root cause.

They throw the words around, but they don’t have it. I’ll give you an example. Mark Hyman’s, arguably the most famous, well-known functional medicine. Doctor in the world.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Yes.

Dr. Brad Montagne: He happens to be a medical doctor. Yep. When he takes a new patient in he does an average of a hundred tests when he takes somebody in and he can add on top of that.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Sure.

Dr. Brad Montagne: We’re four and a half times that with everybody that comes in.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Wow.

Dr. Brad Montagne: And we see, so Wow. We’re over four 50 tests on everybody. First day.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Oh, wow.

Dr. Brad Montagne: You cannot miss the key issues right by day one. We know what all the metabolic dysfunctions are, all the hormonal dysfunctions are, what the root causes are, [00:14:00] what foods destroy their health, what foods build their health, what they can drink, what infectives they have, what kind of environmental toxicity they have, and we know how to address all that on day one.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Gotcha. And how long, when they come in, they come to you with their symptoms that they’re feeling, how long? Is that all in one day, if they’re scheduled with you, that you can take ’em through all of those tests in a day or, yeah.

Dr. Brad Montagne: It’s part of a day. Yeah. Okay.

It’s just a part of a day. Okay. And I actually start off with questionnaires or 95% as accurate as lab tests, as questionnaires give a background of history. Then we have a consult and I talk to people, I ask them questions, we dialogue. History gives you all of the clinical clues on what you expect the problems are to be, and you know where to look.

If you don’t do the [00:15:00] history, you don’t know and you’re flying blind. What? What do you think doctors don’t? Take the time to do that history with the people, because insurance does allow ’em to do it. Wow.

We had a top administrator in a research hospital come to a conference one year, and he talked about.

The typical medical visits that the insurance company allows five to six minutes. They show up at the door, they start flipping through the chart as they’re flipping through the chart. They haven’t walked through the door. They’re outside the door. The door’s not open. They’re flipping through the chart.

Yeah, looking at things, formulating a diagnosis in their mind. Within a few seconds they got some ideas. Onsight of 30 seconds, they got what their. Diagnosis is within 45 seconds, they got what their treatment is going to be. Then they walk through the door and all the time they spend in there is fluff.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Yeah. The insurance has destroyed the ability for doctors to get paid for their time. They only get paid. A [00:16:00] diagnosis is only an insurance code for talker to bill something. It has nothing to do with causation. Nothing.

So I’m hearing that okay. Like you believe in medicine, right? They that you fully believe in medicine.

Yet we want to, before we start prescribing it, to know exactly what we’re working with.

Dr. Brad Montagne: Yeah. Medicine is set up to. Reduce symptoms not to address root cause.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): But to, if you get the root cause, then you can start putting them on a protocol that still might involve some medicine.

Dr. Brad Montagne: There’s no me every medicine out there is, they take natural things that when they are whole, they work as in harmony. Sure. And they heal everything and they address the negative things that are in there. Sure. Whereas when you take a fraction of that out, you patented it, you lost the harmonic balance.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Got

Dr. Brad Montagne: it. Okay. And [00:17:00] whatever you gave just creates side effects somewhere else. Sure. And then you gotta medicate that side effect. Got it. Which that thing creates another side effect. You gotta medicate that. Anytime somebody research shows, anytime somebody’s on six or more medications, the likelihood of toxic interaction of those is a hundred percent.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Absolutely. Yeah. So then answer me then, like how with you treating somebody you take ’em through, you do the history and you said that they leave the clinical clues for you and whatnot by doing a deep history and other testing, like how do you treat them then?

Dr. Brad Montagne: We do that with absolutely every way there is.

We deal with lifestyle issues. Eating lifestyle is huge. The, a lot of people don’t understand food intolerance. It’s half the problem. Huge. Yeah. It’s literally half the game. Yeah. So dealing with people’s diets it’s half the game and not many people don’t understand diet very well.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): There, there’s people that have fad attitudes towards [00:18:00] it. Keto kills people, paleo kills people. We know that. With carnivore has given people cancer. I’ve talked to other people. It just screws up. The people can’t detox. They don’t get their nutrients properly, they don’t eliminate properly.

Dr. Brad Montagne: It screws up their hormones. And the people that are working out on the carnivore diet, all the males are on in test testosterone their mid forties.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Yeah. That’s insane. That’s crazy. There’s

Dr. Brad Montagne: no reason to be on hormones, male or female ever.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Okay. You

Dr. Brad Montagne: screw your body up seriously.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Okay. Okay. So what?

What good is medicine?

Dr. Brad Montagne: Good question.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): I’m not an answer mean you’re a doctor. Like I’d like an answer. But I’m not

Dr. Brad Montagne: a medical doctor. Okay. And I can’t deal with medicines at all. Sure. I don’t prescribe them. I don’t tell people what to do with them. But if people say people are on thyroid medication right now I’m working with three people that had their thyroids [00:19:00] partially to mostly removed.

Removed. Okay. Surgically. Okay. They’re on thyroid medications. They all got off thyroid medications. Their thyroid are functioning a hundred percent and they have no need for any supplementation, for anything in the thyroid. Wow. They’re all working.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Wow. Okay. So they shouldn’t have been removed. No. Okay, gotcha.

Dr. Brad Montagne: No, we don’t have a rebellious organ in us. There’s no such thing as autoimmune disease. All the autoimmune problem is a problem because of impaired elimination, impaired detoxification. There’s too much tox. See in the body that’s not getting rid of, and it’s the immune system only responds to two things, two things only.

Inflammation, antigens and antigens are just the calling card of, that are on cells and toxins and all that saying, I’m Pete, I’m George, I’m Sue. I belong here. I don’t belong here. Right. And the ones that don’t belong there, the immune system goes tot it, but the immune system has no detox [00:20:00] function.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Gotcha.

Dr. Brad Montagne: So if you get toxins outside of the detox systems and everybody thinks, oh, I’m gonna do a liver detox, the liver’s only the catchall for the toxins. Okay? We’ve got four detox organs, the small intestinal wall, the colon wall, the microbes that grow inside of there, that’s three quarters of your detox all inside of the gut and liver only catches what spills over out of that.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Wow. So it goes through a lot of that before it even gets filtered by the liver.

Dr. Brad Montagne: Right.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Okay.

Dr. Brad Montagne: And nobody’s talking about this, and almost nobody knows how to heal the gut. You can’t detox without healing the gut. As soon as you heal the gut, the hormones normalize and everything else, but it’s the most critical, difficult organ in the body to heal.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Wow. Yeah. It’s almost like you, like our whole being from conception was. Started around the gut because the gut, I look at it, it’s like my second, or maybe even my first sprain, how I feel my gut is [00:21:00] gonna dictate my day period. And I had major issues when I was younger with it, but then I really got on a fasted fa like doing 72 hour fast four times a year, which really clean things up for me.

Blood work’s never been more perfect. Cholesterol, everything is good. I still enjoy, some foods here and there that, I’m blessed to be able to afford and eat and whatnot. But I live a lot more of a raw lifestyle with I get all my milk from a cow, like directly from it, I get all my chickens, all the eggs and all that stuff.

I eat very whole. Proteins and stuff. No, I believe in that a lot as well. So if you have somebody that’s coming to you with an issue, you work to find out what it is, like, how do you put them on a plan with the lifestyle and to really get them changed and working in the right direction.

Dr. Brad Montagne: We test everybody for everything going on. We test them for what root causes are, and then we test them for therapeutic invention intervention.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Okay.

Dr. Brad Montagne: So we don’t guess about anything. We don’t do protocols. Protocols are a [00:22:00] guess. It’s a generic program. We only work custom individual. Thing so everybody gets something different.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Right.

Dr. Brad Montagne: So say you got a family of four or five that come in with Lyme disease. I’ve never seen a case of Lyme disease not caused by gut dysfunction like we were just talked

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): about. Sure.

Dr. Brad Montagne: Yeah. So you gotta deal with that to even get rid of it. But say you got four or five people in a family. Every one’s gonna have a different way to address that.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Wow. Wow. And so you, again you’re very personal with your patients and that’s why, like when I read that you basically, walking with your patients instead of treating them like you’re actually there with them in a sense, from start to finish until they’re better, right?

Dr. Brad Montagne: Yeah. You started, this podcast off talking about faith and that’s it. Huge part about huge who I am Lord got ahold of me. And it’s a really huge thing. The way we work with people is like a deliverance biblically. Sure. Where you go through all of the things, you walk them through all the steps [00:23:00] in life to help them build a healthy life to restore their health.

Yes. And you’re working yourself out of a job, you, but the goal is to give them their life back. And you look at our record in, I’ve been doing this for four decades, almost 40 years,

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): right?

Dr. Brad Montagne: Tail end of four decades. In those four decades, we’ve shared patients with some of the most prestigious clinics and world renowned specialists in the world.

Wow. In every case, we beat them in diagnostics, care, and resolution of every single case. Wow. For decades, for Natural Doc to honestly say that, that’s huge. There are some things that are fairly difficult with that. But you look at somebody that’s had Lyme disease their entire life, decades or, wow I got somebody right now who’s.

Their 23rd to 25th year of Lyme disease. Geez, seen a ton of people, spent a ridiculous amount of money and [00:24:00] no better at all.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Right?

Dr. Brad Montagne: Inside of a month. They’re doing a whole bunch better. I think at three months. I think she’s clear of Lyme and the co-infection. She’s out the BC and she still got fungal parasites and some of the candida issues, but.

Like 80% of the infective issues we start with are gone.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Wow. And so do you, are there like natural. Supplements that if it fits for what they’re their, the underlying causes that you’ll recommend to them.

Dr. Brad Montagne: Yeah. And my approach to that’s different than most people.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Okay.

Dr. Brad Montagne: Most people think the body heals compartmentally.

It does not. Okay. And you can’t say, okay, we’re gonna address the stomach first and the liver second. And the, I actually agree with this long test. Most people do that. But the body doesn’t work that way. That’s not how physiology was set up. That’s not how God made us.

That’s not how God made us. You gotta work with it. Yes. Everything together.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Yes.

Dr. Brad Montagne: So instead of pill A for symptom, [00:25:00] A pill B for symptom, A, B and all that, we start on foundations.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Yep. We build off of Love that

Dr. Brad Montagne: foundation. That’s right. High grade multi. We only know two in North America that are even worthwhile buying.

All the rest are junk. Okay. What used to be the best supplements before COVID hit? The supply chain disruption and the lack of integrity and leadership has made ’em unusable products. Wow.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Yeah, I can see that.

Dr. Brad Montagne: So 80, 90% of what we used before COVID has changed. Wow. Multiple times because of all this disruption that’s gone on with supply chain and Right.

And everything else. So a good foundation, good high grade, multi high grade fish oil. There’s two fish oils in North America that. Maybe worthwhile buying. Sure. The rest are 75% of fish oil and the markets rancid before you buy it. If not refrigerators, rancid. Okay. High grade [00:26:00] calcium, magnesium, two sources of that.

That’s it. And you start building like that. You build it, you start a foundation and you only add things to do specific things.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Gotcha.

Dr. Brad Montagne: And when you do that, you have the least amount doing the most amount of work. Wow. We’ve had people come in with cases and backpacks full of supplements that are worthless.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): I believe that. Throw it all away. That’s And they’re shocked. Yeah. With what I do with foods that they can eat more than they ever thought they could. Right. And they take way less than they ever have and they heal faster than any one they’ve ever heard of. Experience, right? Yeah. I like I, in the past, I’m 53 now, and in the past probably 14, 15 years, I really dug into my own body and listening to it and got attuned with it.

And I don’t put too much in my body that shouldn’t go there. I’ll take a methylated vitamin, just to help out. We’ll [00:27:00] get all the folic acid that’s being sprayed all over our food and stuff like that. If in case I get ahold of it, but like everything for me is. It is very whole food, and again I go to co-ops, I go to farms out here.

Believe it or not, Florida has excellent farms. I live on the ocean, but I can drive inland 10 miles. And there’s farms there, and

Dr. Brad Montagne: what you’re talking about there they did a congressional report a long time ago, and that came out in a book called the Kellogg Report.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Okay. And

Dr. Brad Montagne: what that report says is that. Every different farm, every different field on every different farm has different nutrient density, and the nutrient density of every crop on every different field varies dramatically.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Exactly. Sure.

Dr. Brad Montagne: It can be 50%, and when you talk about transit and storage, one week of storage, you have a 50% drop in nutrient.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Oh, easy. Yeah, I fully believe that, so if you could leave this, leave the people that are listening out [00:28:00] there, like with one knowledge nugget, something that they can really lean into, right? That will help them make the right decisions about their body, that. You know that they want to, they wanna live, pain free.

They wanna live like life was meant to be lived. Like God law wanted us to live. What advice do you really just say to those people?

Dr. Brad Montagne: I’ve got that real simple. Write this down. Get me well.net. I’ve got a book on there. Most people think genetics controls their destiny. That’s absolutely not the case.

Right? There’s a study on genetics that. Proves that every gene has 30,000 different ways that it can express itself. And it completely, it, how it is gets expressed is determined by how you live. So that website

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Yep. It we’ll take

Dr. Brad Montagne: you to book. Okay. Okay. That gives you all. So some really [00:29:00] key issues you can do with your lifestyle.

Okay. To completely change your destiny. And there should be a picture of the book. That’s weird. It’s not showing up. It’s there we go. There you go. Gotcha.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Lifestyle. Okay. And that’s,

Dr. Brad Montagne: that is the absolute best tool you can get.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Wow. Okay.

Dr. Brad Montagne: It’s really simple. It’s easy to read. I write the way that I talk I don’t use high flute and language ’cause.

People don’t need that. Yeah. I

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): don’t need that stuff. I get you.

Dr. Brad Montagne: Yeah, you’ve gotta talk to people on their level

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Sure.

Dr. Brad Montagne: With their language. And that’s how that book’s written. There’s seven or eight different key things you can do, simple things with your lifestyle. Okay. That’ll just completely change your destiny.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Love that. I’m gonna actually get it today, squad, and if you’re out there, I’ll put this in the show notes or else get me, well.net if you’re listening somewhere, just plugging it into your phone or your tablet or your laptop or whatnot. But pick up is, I’m gonna pick it up today. I have a flight that I’m speaking out of town and I’m gonna read it on the plane tonight.

All right, doc, this is awesome. And [00:30:00] also. For people to get ahold of you if they wanted to, like your services, or they read through your book, you’re like, man, I really need to meet with this doctor to help me get well. How do they get ahold of you

Dr. Brad Montagne: Two ways. That site that I just gave you?

It’s got a clickable link to my website. Love it. Clickable link to my podcast, clickable link to my book. Okay. That’s the easiest way. Okay. The other one is you can go to my website that’s healthfully you, the letter U, not YOU. So H-E-A-L-T, HF Here, Scott, LY. The letter u.com. Okay. And everything’s there.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Contact us right here. We could probably reach out through there and get connected with you. Okay? I like this. This is a pleasure, doc. ’cause I love it that you are not afraid to shoot straight, right? Listen man, what society’s done and there’s other countries on this earth. That I’ve been to that like I’ll even just say this, Italy, I was there many times and like [00:31:00] they, they eat pasta and bread.

Okay? They just do this, they eat it almost every day, but they’re all, none of ’em are fat. And it’s a lot of, it’s what’s put in the soil and put in our food. That will like really inflame the box.

Dr. Brad Montagne: They don’t use Yeah. They don’t use herbicides and pesticides in societies.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): So that’s where, like with our country, which again, with me defending it and doing tours of duty is still the greatest country on earth.

But I really feel that we’re not being looked at. After, if you will, by what our food chain is. And we can go deep into that with population control and all that crap. But you know what I’m saying is that this is great. This

Dr. Brad Montagne: is a simple fact. 95% of the hard wheat crop in America sprayed with a roundup anywhere from two, three days to three weeks before harvest.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Yep. Yep. A hundred percent.

Dr. Brad Montagne: It makes it completely. Toxic

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): to people, and you put that in your body and inflames your whole body, and,

Dr. Brad Montagne: and they’ve done studies to prove that doesn’t increase the [00:32:00] yield. It does decrease their drying time, so they don’t have to spend the money to dry the different stuff so they can harvest it more when they want to.

But it makes your food toxic.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): And

Dr. Brad Montagne: that’s just one of many things.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Sure.

Dr. Brad Montagne: Porn is actually the, it is worse than that. It’s worse. There’s, yeah. It is critical to understand what’s going on. Sure.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Yeah.

Dr. Brad Montagne: We have corruption in every, oh my gosh. Area of the bureaucracy. Yes. And its agenda is to put a narrative that’s not true.

To make people believe things that are not true a hundred percent. And to destroy their life so they can reap the harvest through big pharma.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Yeah. Power and money. Like it all comes back to, that’s why like when it comes to what I put in my body, I. I dumb it down. I say that funnily but I do it like as if I may be back in pioneer days and having to live off the land.

I understand I’m buying it, but where I buy it from, it’s [00:33:00] sourced, and I go to a place here in South Florida called One World Zero Waste. And they make sure everything is that, they’re very health conscious. They’re very, like nothing sprayed with folic acid roundup or any of that crap.

Everything is. It’s sourced the right way. And I don’t have the inflammation, 53 years old. I run ultra marathons. It’s like I, I go out and I’m out there doing stuff that other 53 year olds that eat, society’s food, can’t do, nothing against them.

I just made the choice. When I needed to, because I was having chronic pain. You said, you say

Dr. Brad Montagne: two things about your food source that people need to get ahold of. You buy locally grown at a farmer’s market.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Yes, sir.

Dr. Brad Montagne: Most of the people in a farmer’s market are non-certified organic. It’s the cheapest, cleanest, healthiest food you can find.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Non-certified organic. Okay.

Dr. Brad Montagne: You can ask them how they take care of their soil. How they feed their plants. If they’re feeding their plants, they don’t know what you’re doing, walk by. If they’re feeding the soil, they know what they’re talking about. Ask ’em how they do that.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): How they [00:34:00] feed the soil.

Dr. Brad Montagne: Right.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Okay.

Dr. Brad Montagne: Yeah. Ask ’em how they feed their plants.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Okay.

Dr. Brad Montagne: It is one of them trick leading questions.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Okay.

Dr. Brad Montagne: And if they lean into it, say they, they do this, that, and they thing for their plants, they don’t know what they’re talking about.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Is some of that covered in your book, your free book?

Dr. Brad Montagne: I’ve got a lot covered in that. Yeah. Okay, gotcha. Because I’m, I cannot read to, I’m on a plane all the way out to Seattle ’cause I have to speak there tomorrow. It’s like I’m gonna read it. I’m digging into it tonight, man. Yeah. You it. So I really appreciate you offering that to us. Yeah.

L. Scott Ferguson (Coach Fergie): Because it’s, it’s in simple language and simple steps. Yeah. It’s really actionable. Gotcha. Totally. I know you gotta scoot. We have a couple other things to do here, doc, but like one, I wanna thank you for coming on. This is such a treat. And too, if I just end up showing up at your place there in the Carolinas, don’t be afraid.

Yeah, that’d be good. Thanks for coming on, doc. I really appreciate you brother. Yeah, thank, thanks for the invite. This was good. You’re very welcome. Talk soon. Okay. Thanks.