The Root Cause Approach to Burnout, Weight Gain, and Fatigue

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recording so the tracks will be fine, you know, on the editing side, but yeah, that's what keeps happening. And then I have to like it makes me press a button, it takes me out of the studio and then brings me back in. I have no idea why. Like I'm I'm just

Bobby Davis (00:37.133)
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wow.

Bobby Davis (00:49.026)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 'Cause it it seemed like when you did this, when you did something with your hands, it kinda just went out.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (00:57.093)
Yeah, I don't.

Bobby Davis (00:57.282)
Which is weird. Yeah, yeah. But no worries. We'll we'll we'll make it work. We'll we'll make it work. All right.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:01.379)
Okay. Okay.

Bobby Davis (01:09.41)
So good morning, Welter Lee family. How you guys doing today? Hey, this is your host Bobby Davis here, and I am privileged this morning to have in our studio audience, Mrs. Dr. Alicia Newsome. Alicia, how you doing this morning?

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:27.437)
I am good. Thank you for having me here.

Bobby Davis (01:30.516)
Absolutely. I have been looking forward, Dr. Alicia, to getting a chance to talk with you. And I cannot wait for us to learn more from you today about burnout and why you say health is our greatest asset. How does that sound?

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:50.383)
That sounds like one of my favorite topics.

Bobby Davis (01:53.294)
All right, fantastic. So listen, how about you tell us a little bit more about Doctor Alicia? I know you've been practicing medicine for a while, but we'd certainly like to learn more about your background and we'll get going from there.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (02:09.892)
Yeah, so I have a virtual concierge practice practicing functional medicine and it really started over a decade ago when my kids were very little, they were still in diapers, and I was exhausted all the time. I would see patients all day and then I would, you know.

Go home or sit in rush hour traffic first. Sit in rush hour traffic, pick up my babies, get them home, feed them, bathe them, get them in bed so that mama could get to bed. Cause I was exhausted all the time. Sunday afternoon, you could easily see me at a friend's house. I get there, plan to hang out, I sit down on the couch, and then I'm asleep. They're like, okay, we've got the kids, give her a blanket, give her a pillow. I was exhausted all the time. And I ended up meeting a functional medicine doctor.

Who ran some advanced lab work on me that's very different than just, you know, what we do conventionally, that really helped me understand what was going on inside my body. And it completely changed my life. My energy went sky high, energy all day long, no need for, you know, caffeine or stimulants, coffee, anything like that. I feel good in my body. I used to have like aches and pains and headaches and all different types of things. All of that is gone now. And it really changed the trajectory of how I practiced.

So I practiced, I continued to have that brick and mortar in Georgia at the time when I lived there. And then I had a big part of my career that shifted into consulting for pharmaceutical companies. And then also I launched this practice virtually. So we work with people all over the country, all over the world. everyone just meets us right in the comfort of their own home or their car or wherever they're at. We do the same advanced lab testing on them.

ship it right to their house, they can do it at home and then they ship it to the lab and we review the results. So I launched this practice over five years ago. And then it's morphed into working more with people that are in leadership. I think we attract who we are. So all the people that were coming to me were other entrepreneurs. They were other people in leadership. So now we have an integrated leadership framework that we take people through.

Bobby Davis (04:21.026)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (04:30.899)
I love it. I love it. And what a great ditch. and meaning what I mean by that is essentially, when we talk about f burnout, probably burnout is something that most entrepreneurs

folks running a business is going to probably have to contend with. And and so it's interesting that the framework of what you do and kinda kinda evolves around that, you know, high performers. But when it comes to functional medicine, Dr. Alicia, what what exactly is that in comparison to traditional medicine?

Dr. Alicia Newsome (05:06.86)
Ooh, good question.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (05:11.459)
Yes, so think about it. Let's say you get a headache and you go into your cabinet, you grab some Tylenol, some Advil, you take it, your headache goes away. But you did not have a headache because you had a Tylenol deficiency. Okay, your body wasn't like, I'm lacking Tylenol. There's something else going on inside of your body. So in functional medicine, we really look at the root causes. We look at the body holistically.

Bobby Davis (05:13.025)
Yeah, it might.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (05:37.541)
to really see and understand what's going on inside the body and address those issues without drugs or surgery.

Bobby Davis (05:44.288)
Okay, okay. Perfect. Now, is there any particular reason why traditional medicine is not you know, like when I go to the doctor, most of the time is is you know, it's you know, for an annual checkup. Well let's just say that, hey, you know, I got high cholesterol or something that there's normally a prescription given. Is there any particular reason why traditional medicine maybe don't spend more time dealing with root causes?

Dr. Alicia Newsome (06:13.852)
There's several reasons. in conventional medicine, doctors are trained in pathology, so recognizing disease, and then pharmacology, and then and which would be prescribing the right drug for that disease. And so that's what the training's in. So there's there's no classes on nutrition. Only 25% of medical schools even have one class on nutrition.

So there's absolutely no training in root cause, understanding the body, lifestyle, all of these different types of things. So most doctors would need to go back and be trained in functional medicine to learn this. Also, you know, a lot of times, so my practice is something. So first off, insurance doesn't cover f functional medicine. You know, people really have to want to invest in their health to move forward with this type of care. Insurance covers disease.

So it covers, you know, when you have diabetes, when you have high blood pressure, when you have cholesterol, when you get diagnosed with cancer, when you have a heart heart attack, all of those things and the medications and surgeries that go along with that. So a lot of doctors are kind of stuck in traditional practices where in they're counting on insurance reimbursement to pay for their visits and then also for insurance to cover, you know, whatever people are needing, right?

Insurance reimbursements have gone down over time. So doctors are having to see more and more patients in order to cover the overhead of running their practices and hospitals and all of those different types of things. So they're seeing more people in less time. So the average time that you spend with the doctor is normally about seven to twelve minutes. And it's just not enough time to really dig into these issues. And then also

Bobby Davis (08:00.226)
Right.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (08:06.511)
because of the lack of training and the lack of time, there's just not a system in place to have structured programs to be able to walk people through what's needed to really be able to restore their health.

Bobby Davis (08:17.837)
Okay, all right. Now that's a great that's great insight. And I'm glad that you were able to share that the differences there because oftentimes I know for me,

you know, the annual checkup again with with my primary care physician. And then I look for opportunities to work with medical profession professionals that that do what you do, to say, hey, let's let's deal with the root cause. Like for example, if I'm having issues with high high cholesterol for some reason, there's something going on that's causing that, right? So

you know, in addition to not wanting to take the med take the meds, to bring it down, sometime you may have to reach out to someone like yourself who maybe can spend more time with you to help with addressing that particular problem. are you finding d do you find that

Dr. Alicia Newsome (09:12.757)
Yeah, collect mm go ahead.

Bobby Davis (09:16.961)
Do you find that a lot of folks that come to you they work they have a primary care physician and you're kind of working in conjunction or tandem with their primary care physician to provide overall, you know, help and assistance in that area?

Dr. Alicia Newsome (09:34.863)
I do and it really depends on where that person is in their health journey. But absolutely I work in conjunction with PCPs. A lot of times there's you know, there's not a attention. Sometimes there is, you know, because there's you know, sometimes doctors have a God complex and, you know, feel like they, you know, are i the answer for everything, but

Bobby Davis (09:53.569)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (09:57.485)
Really, more conventional doctors are coming around where they know functional medicine is something that really works. They're not trained in it. And they're like, yes, you know, listen to what she's recommending with what you need. Cholesterol is a really interesting one because we've always been taught, you know, cholesterol is bad. However, our liver makes over 70% of the cholesterol in our body. A lot of it doesn't even come from our diet. And there's good cholesterol, and then there's quote unquote bad cholesterol. Okay. So HDL is.

Bobby Davis (10:15.98)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (10:27.394)
is the good cholesterol. LDLs are the quote unquote bad cholesterol, right? But when we're looking at root cause, think of it this way. So the bad cholesterol, LDL, think about like fire trucks leaving the fire station, going out and putting out fire fires in the body. LDL is actually very healing. It's going to put out inflammation. It's doing patchwork. It's helping your arteries, like you know, all of these different types of things.

And then HDLs are think of that as fire trucks coming back to the fire station. So when you're looking at your numbers, you want to look at that ratio and see, you know, how many fire trucks are coming back versus how many fire trucks are going out. And if there's high LDLs of the bad cholesterol, what we want to ask is why are there so many fire trucks leaving the fire station and not returning? But even more importantly, in functional medicine, we run additional markers. So we look at what's called lipoproteins.

Apo A and Apo B, and those actually let us know are those LDLs dangerous or not. And there's ones that are like small little BBs, like think like they're hard, they're dense, think like a BB gun. And when they move throughout your arteries, they're creating damage. They're they're the they're the dangerous ones. But then there's some that are like big, fluffy beach balls that kind of just bounce around in your arteries, and those don't cause.

damage and those aren't the dangerous ones. So it's also important to take a a further look first root cause. Why is there, you know, all of this, these LDLs out in the in the bloodstream. But then also are the ones that are out there are they dangerous or not? When we look at statin drugs, that's cholesterol lowering medication, they're really good at lowering LDLs. Like they get the job done, but the research doesn't show that it it extends your life any

it that it reduces the risk of death, all of those. Like the it actually doesn't change the number, but it gets the job done of what's there. But then now you're dealing with co q ten, you know, which is an important antioxidant being shut off. And then also all of these other things being linked to brain disease as well too.

Bobby Davis (12:39.083)
Wow. Now that is so interesting. I mean, just the way you gave that overview right there, it shows that you that you do a deeper dive into the issues, which is why what you do is so important. but I am interested in this, Alicia. Is since you kinda the way you transitioned into functional medicine was because you were being challenged yourself. in terms of dealing with fatigue and some other challenges, right?

Dr. Alicia Newsome (13:03.567)
Yes.

Bobby Davis (13:09.203)
Since you've you've kind of had the the exposure to both sides, what is what is so like, I mean what what is so like really motivating you in the functional medicine space? Obviously you you know you were able to get help yourself and you were able to address some of your challenges, but tell us the passion behind what you do.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (13:32.665)
A lot of us, and I know for myself, there's people in my family that were they're here one day and then they're gone the next. Just like that. Fifty percent of the time, the first sign of the heart attack is the heart attack. The other 50% of the time, people have what's called beginnings, like that's actually the medical term for it. Beginnings, early warning signs of it. And to me, that's a really, really big problem. I'm

Bobby Davis (13:40.631)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (14:00.791)
Right now and and finishing the last few edits of my book and I was revisiting the CDC statistics on pre-diabetes and the numbers have actually gone up. There are a hundred and fourteen million people in American adults who are pre-diabetic. So that is more than that's about 44% of American adults that are pre-diabetic.

And over 80% of them don't even know it. Those are CDC statistics. Like they're like, we know you have it, and we know all these people don't even know that they have it, have their they are pre-diabetic. But what I can do in functional medicine is I don't just look at glucose. I don't just look at A1C. I look at fasting insulin. So what happens is glucose goes up from eating carbs.

It goes up from, you know, chips, potatoes, stress can cause glucose to go up. It goes up. And then in order to lower it, insulin has to come out. Glucose goes up, insulin comes out. Glucose goes up, insulin comes out. Right? And when people become insulin resistant, it's when glucose is going up and now you're needing a whole lot of insulin to get that number to come back down. We can just look at fasting insulin and see how hard your your pancreas is having to work.

And that's a number that we can see in functional medicine. Oftentimes insurance doesn't cover it. But we're able to look and see, wow, you're you're you went in and your glucose numbers are perfect. You know, they look great, but you needed a whole lot of insulin in order to get that number down. So those are some of the preventative measures that we can do, especially when it comes to metabolism and cardiac health and all of those different types of things. It's just

Bobby Davis (15:35.789)
Right.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (15:52.793)
I'm just incredibly passionate about people being informed, having knowledge. You know, lack of knowledge is why our people perish. You know, it's just so important for us to be educated because we're not gonna get it. The system, the conventional system, is amazing when it comes to emergency care. So if you're in the middle of heart having a heart attack, if you just my daughter just broke her foot this week, right? We needed to take her to urgent care, get an x-ray, you know.

all of these things. If you get in a car accident and you're injured, we are amazing here in the United States when it comes to emergency care. But when it comes to chronic health conditions, we are dead last when being compared to other industrialized nations. It's just it is not our strong suit and we really have to stop pretending that, you know, drug to medication is I mean a

disease to well one waiting till people have diseases to do anything and then that the drug is the answer. Sometimes it is and some people may need to do that to get things under control. But one interesting thing about the United States is that we are only one of two countries in the entire world that allow pharmaceutical companies to advertise directly to their consumers. Other countries you're not turning on the TV and then you've got all these

Bobby Davis (17:10.229)
Right.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (17:12.537)
commercials where you're like, if you're dealing with dry eyes, or you know, if you've got this going on or that going on, then go ahead and, you know, get this medication and then they have to spend another 30 seconds paying for all the side effects of that drug while somebody's dancing through the lilies on the commercial. That doesn't happen in other countries, but it happens here. So there's there's just a lot that needs to shift in the way that we really help people be healthy.

Bobby Davis (17:22.178)
Okay.

Bobby Davis (17:33.888)
Wow.

Bobby Davis (17:42.636)
Yeah, that is incredible what you just shared. Now that's something I did not know. Because you're right. I mean the the pharmaceutical ads, they control evening time television. And the I mean, you you sit down to watch like a television show or something around six or seven o'clock, and man, they are just coming hard and heavy.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (17:59.301)
Yes.

Bobby Davis (18:10.437)
And and I was I was like, man, this is sort of like this really agitating about, you know, why why they just keep running these ads. But you just shared something with us, Alicia, that's so amazing that I would have never guessed that other countries don't allow this.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (18:24.815)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (18:30.042)
Yeah, they let doctors be doctors. And then in a lot of other countries, doctors aren't confined by all these insurance constraints and you know, all of these things. Also, when it comes to, you know, with the disease for the drug or even, you know, natural remedies. So think about it this way. Imagine if you were driving down the street, check engine light comes on in your car. You're like, okay, I've got to go ahead and take it into the mechanic.

Find out what's going on. Imagine that when you get to the mechanic, you're telling him, All right, my check engine light came on last week. I've been hearing this little rattling noise in my car, and he's sitting there, he's nodding his head, he's writing everything down. And then imagine that if he sticks his hand in his pocket and then he pulls out a sticker and he says, Well, that's all you have to do is take this sticker and put it right over that check engine light. That would be crazy, right? We'd expect that.

Bobby Davis (19:24.001)
Yeah. Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (19:27.223)
mechanic to open up the hood, run some diagnostic tests, find out why is my check engine light going off in my car, right? We would never allow him to do that. But when we simply have these symptoms, these beginnings, these early signs, you know, we're tired, we're having to go for coffee in the middle of the day, you know, we wake up, no matter how much sleep we have, we're still dra dragging

For some people, it may be weight loss resistance, the things that you were doing before, they don't work anymore, digestion, bloating, not pooping, having diarrhea, constipation. All of those are the check engine like going off in your body. They are signs. So if you go to the doctor, they're not gonna say, Well, I got a disease a diagnosis for you, right? Sometimes you may even say they may run lab work and they're like, no, everything's normal, everything looks good.

Bobby Davis (20:04.299)
Yeah. Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (20:17.68)
But we need to pay attention to what's going on. Though that is really a gift. That is that check engine light is there for a reason to let us know, okay, this is something that I need to investigate and find out what's going on. So whether it's, you know, just slapping a drug on it or even I'm very natural, you know, but sometimes people may have low energy and they're like, well, take some B vitamins, you know, or I'm not sleeping well. So they may say, take some melatonin. If we're not addressing the root cause of

of why these issues are showing up, then it's still like just taking that band aid or well, band-aid putting a band aid on it or putting a sticker over that che that check engine light.

Bobby Davis (20:55.691)
Yeah. No, I love the analogy about the check engine. Like you are so on point with that. because I I mean, because really that's what happens. I mean, you know, we we get these signs, there are things that are happening where we notice and our bodies were like, okay.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (21:01.567)
Ha ha ha.

Bobby Davis (21:14.785)
You know, for the last week or so, I mean, I've just been that awfully fatigued for some reason. I haven't been doing a lot, but why am I just so lethargic and and I don't feel like getting out of the bed? And it's just it's continual in a in a sense, right? So what happens is something's going on there, but it seems like that we have been conditioned to allow what's going on to truly manifest itself.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (21:19.941)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (21:44.172)
to a problem that leads us to the doctor's office. And we think, okay, once I get there, yeah yeah, they're gonna give me a drug. Right. Exactly. Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (21:48.931)
Yep, just keep driving that car. Imagine if you did. It's gonna start breaking down, right? It's like stickers over it, you're driving around happy, like I'm good. I took it in the mechanic, they gave me this for it. And you know, now your car's broke down on the side of the road.

Bobby Davis (22:07.349)
There there you go. That that's exact and that's exactly what happens because you're not you either you're either, you know, not paying attention or you're just avoiding the problem altogether and you're just saying, it'll just go away. And and I'll say this, men are really, really, really conditioned to walk like I mean to function that way. 'Cause we like, you know, I just shake it off. You know, it's

Dr. Alicia Newsome (22:27.899)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (22:32.23)
Yes.

If it's not broke, don't fix it. Yeah.

Bobby Davis (22:37.141)
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I don't want to go to the doctor's office 'cause I'm afraid of what they may tell me. So you shake it off with the hopes that the check engine light it's gonna go out. But it doesn't. You know, you just keep Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (22:49.753)
Yeah. Yeah. Most men that I work with come to me because their wife booked the appointment or I'm already working with the wife and then she says, Well, let's just order the labs on him. So then we order the labs. He's good with that. We do the labs. But then what I love about men is that once you guys see that data and you actually see what's going on inside your body, then you're like, Okay, tell me what I need to do to fix this.

Bobby Davis (23:04.139)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (23:12.172)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (23:17.913)
So I I do appreciate that.

Bobby Davis (23:18.209)
Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, but but it's it's hard to get us there sometimes. So yeah, you know. So the car the car is the car almost gotta be b broke down on the side of the road. I mean, then you're like, okay, I I gotta go now. I got no other choice. But but what a great analogy. And and it gives us a real clear picture as to why preventive care and listening to your body, paying attention to your body, but listen but but

Dr. Alicia Newsome (23:23.937)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (23:30.874)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (23:50.562)
But not waiting until you get to a critical stage, and not always depending so much on it, well, if something happens, I'll just go to the doctor's office and they'll give me one of those drugs that I saw on TV the other night, you know, which creates a whole nother set of problems. And and it's interesting what you just shared because it gives us a different framework in terms of how we see

Dr. Alicia Newsome (24:02.331)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Bobby Davis (24:20.577)
How we're supposed to manage our health. I mean, we are responsible. We are responsible for managing our health. And it's it's so you know incredibly important that we understand that. And I'm glad that you shared the differences and some of the things that we're probably not even, I wasn't aware of about like the pharmaceutical companies. That's that's new to me. You know, and it's interesting that we don't pay attention to a lot of those things.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (24:23.258)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (24:27.387)
Mm-hmm.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (24:43.513)
Yeah. Yeah.

Bobby Davis (24:49.643)
But I I wanted to ask you, your practice sounds like it's really it's it's an interesting setup that you have because you're able to provide the service virtually, so you're pretty much working, you can work globally if you need to. can you walk us through the process on how that would work? Say I say say I come to you, I'm a high performer, got I got million things going on.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (25:05.485)
Yeah. Yes.

Bobby Davis (25:18.209)
And I'm dealing with chronic fatigue. And I'm trying to figure out what to do about it. Energy drinks are not working, coffee's not working. What would be the process that you would walk me through to help me address what potentially could be going on with?

Dr. Alicia Newsome (25:36.737)
Okay, so a person comes, they want to work with us, dealing with chronic fatigue, type of person who drinks coffee and can go right to sleep, it sounds like. You know, tired all day. The first thing to do would be to book a consultation. So we've got to find out what's going on with you and your health history. So our consultations are 90 minutes, and then also there is lots of

Bobby Davis (25:45.741)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (26:02.938)
paperwork that you fill out beforehand. It's all electronic, it's easy. Lots of surveys and questions, right? I'm a big advocate of tests, don't guess. There are some things that we find subjectively and then there's some things that we find through actual laboratory testing. So I'm gonna ask all these questions that then computes and does a lot of data analysis that gives us a root cause analysis on the different areas of your body we need to look at. We're also gonna look at

Your health history, your medications that you're on, lifestyle, the question, there's over 300 questions. So we're this is a very in-depth analysis that we're asking about here. And then we we hop on a call and we talk about everything that's going on with you, how it's impacting your life. Think about someone who's, you know, really struggling with fatigue, especially an entrepreneur, you know, and you have new projects that you want to create and

Bobby Davis (26:42.421)
Right. Okay.

Bobby Davis (26:56.813)
Dr. Alicia Newsome (26:58.777)
you know, midday you're like, okay, I I can't even get through the day anymore. Maybe you've got a headache, you know, or the end of the day, we build all these businesses, but then do we have energy for our kids, you know, or our spouse or our family, or think about grandkids. I'm always like, I want to be the grandma that's able to go up and down the steps, you know, go on vacation, take myself to the bathroom, all of those different types of things, right? So we we talk about that and what your goals are because it's different for everyone.

Bobby Davis (27:09.613)
Right.

Bobby Davis (27:17.579)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (27:28.535)
And then usually after that, the next step is to do lab work. And that lab work could consist of blood work. If there's if we need blood work, then we send a phlebotomist right to your home. They draw your blood in the comfort of your home and they'll ship it off to the lab for you. We may look at urine, we may look at saliva, we may look at hair, we may look at stool samples to see what's going on with your gut. It depends on what's going on with you. And then after that, after all your results are in,

Then we do what's called a report of lab findings where we review all of your labs with you. And this is my favorite part to do with people because I'm a data girl. And, you know, it just gives us so much information and know exactly what's going on inside of your body. So now we're not guessing anymore. It's not like, well, should I take magnesium? Or, you know, I heard about Ashwagandha. I heard it's good. We know exactly what your body needs. And we're able to then put together a plan for you from there.

And then we also have the option if you want to continue working with us, then we have weekly coaching and all of that one on one to work with people to implement everything.

Bobby Davis (28:38.837)
Okay. Okay, got it, got it. Now, in your testing, do you check for like say if people might be dealing with allergies that could possibly be calling causing some of the issues and they're not aware that they are allergic to maybe a specific type of food or what have you. Is that included in the testing also?

Dr. Alicia Newsome (28:59.105)
Yes, so there's two different types of testing we can do that for that. We can do allergy testing, but then also we can do food sensitivity testing. And it's important to know the difference because food allergies are something that they don't usually go away. Sometimes some immunotherapies can help with those, but food intolerances, food sensitivities can go away. And what happens with food sensitivities

Bobby Davis (29:07.824)
Dr. Alicia Newsome (29:24.825)
Is think about your gut. It's supposed to be nice and sealed, okay? Nice and tight. Everything that you eat, you know, your body goes through its process to pull out the nutrients and then it moves through your digestive tract and then you poop out what's not needed, right? But what can happen is as it's moving through the gut, if you have something called leaky gut, it has all these little holes in your gut. And what can happen is whole food particles can seep from your gut into your bloodstream.

And then your body's like, whoa, this broccoli is not supposed to be here, or this fish is not supposed to be here. And it will create these antibodies towards those foods. And there's ones that can cause immediate reactions like headaches and issues with your joints and you know, bloating, all different types of things show up with food sensitivities. But then there's also ones that show up 48 to 72 hours later.

So something that you ate two or three days ago is bothering you today, but you're not able to put that information together if you don't, you know, have this testing here. So, and the other beautiful thing about this, sometimes I have people that have done testing and they've done food out food sensitivities and they come and they think they can never have pineapples again, right? They think it's an allergy. But with food sensitivities, once we heal that gut, once we seal it, once we get it nice.

Bobby Davis (30:21.246)
Dr. Alicia Newsome (30:50.434)
and back and tight again, then you're able to have those foods. You know, we just have to remove them for the time period so the body can calm down and then also heal the gut so that then when you have them again, it's not creating these sensitivities.

Bobby Davis (31:08.377)
wow. That's that's really in-depth, it sounds like you know, what you do. I mean, you doing you and I love that the data aspect. I mean, the process, that you take time, you know, the 300 questions that you go because it sounds like you, you know, you're really doing a deep dive to give insight to, you know, the person that comes to you for help.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (31:13.242)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (31:32.688)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (31:36.684)
Because this insight is data that they can use to make the necessary adjustments based on recommendations. Now, is most of the problems that you see that that that you're seeing right now, is there a specific area, a specific problem rather, that you're dealing with more than others, like chronic pain.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (31:43.814)
Yes.

Bobby Davis (32:03.566)
or chronic fatigue or something else. Are you getting more of one specific area that people are being challenged in?

Dr. Alicia Newsome (32:11.321)
I t I tend to deal with people that struggle with really low energy and then stress, of course. I'm people that are highly stressed. I tend to deal with people that have weight loss resistance. So they've tried a bunch of things and it's not working and they're not able to lose weight. I also deal on with women that are dealing with menstrual psycho issues. So

Bobby Davis (32:21.291)
Right, right, right.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (32:39.334)
Think about heavy periods, things like fibroids, endometriosis, ovarian cyst, PMOS, which used to be called PCOS, those different those are the main areas that I work with.

Bobby Davis (32:49.079)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (32:55.359)
wow, okay. When when when you get someone to come into you that may have challenges with losing weight, we'll just use that as an example. obviously there's a reason why something's not working right that they're not losing weight, but how much of what people are being challenged by can be fixed with diet?

Just diet and exercise.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (33:27.13)
Diet and exercise are a big part of what people need to adjust, specifically because the two main hormones that really impact people the most right now and are most out of balance are cortisol, which is your stress hormones. It's or it's a stress hormone. It's made by your adrenal glands. So that really impacts energy.

but also what you're eating and all of those different types of things. And then insulin is the other very important one as well. So think about first thing in the morning, a lot of t times people are having dessert for breakfast as I call it. Pancakes with syrup and French toast and muffins and a latte from Starbucks or, you know, different things like that. It's very high carb, high very highly refined, high sugar.

Bobby Davis (34:04.503)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (34:19.521)
And what it does is it causes your glucose levels to spike high and then crash. So then that causes the next craving, like the next sugary thing. Now I now I feel low, you know, I need something. And all day people are on this roller coaster. So one of the things that I recommend first thing in the morning for breakfast is a savory breakfast. So think think high protein, good fats, and some fiber for that.

Bobby Davis (34:26.06)
Uh-huh.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (34:47.888)
That really helps stabilize blood sugar first thing in the morning. So you're not just starting out on this roller coaster. And it doesn't look like our traditional American breakfast. Typically, you know, I'm I may have some eggs and some breakfast meat and some avocado, but then some mornings I may have some beans and some chicken. You know, just it depends on what I want to eat. You know, but I'm always looking to have this savory breakfast first thing in the morning.

Bobby Davis (34:57.921)
Right.

Bobby Davis (35:07.447)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (35:14.606)
And then when we take people through our weight loss programs, we have like structured things that, you know, are easy to do. One thing that's really big is sustainability, but it does, I mean, we have to we have to nourish our bodies. Like our bodies have a certain amount of protein it needs, good fats, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, antioxidants, very important. Exercise is important as well too. Mm-hmm. Yeah, go ahead. I know I'm saying a lot.

Bobby Davis (35:38.027)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (35:42.251)
No, no, no, go finish. Yeah, that you're talking about exercise. Go ahead. Go ahead.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (35:46.64)
yeah, exercise is an important aspect as all as well too. But I'm not really big into the high-intensity hit exercises and all of those different types of things. Walking is one of the best things that you can do. Getting 7,000 steps a day can really make a big impact. But even more than that, having what I call movement snacks throughout the day can do much more than, you know, hitting the gym for 30 to 60 minutes and then sitting all day.

So if you set a timer like right after this podcast, I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna walk and I'm gonna move. You know, I'm gonna spend five or so minutes moving, walking around, going to the kitchen, making sure that I'm getting up frequently throughout the day. Another thing that you can do is get up and do 10 squats. That is very helpful as well. That's even helpful after meals because what it does is your muscles have the greatest amount of insulin receptor.

Bobby Davis (36:34.668)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (36:43.738)
receptors in them, the muscles in your legs. So when you're doing those squats, what it does is it really helps get glucose into the cells when you do things like that. Or taking a short five minute walk after you eat can be really helpful too. So that's actually what resha research has shown is becoming more or is more impactful than even just hitting the gym, you know, for 30 minutes once a day or a few times a week. those movement snacks.

Bobby Davis (37:07.404)
Well

Dr. Alicia Newsome (37:12.988)
throughout the day are very, very impactful.

Bobby Davis (37:16.203)
No, that that's that's good stuff. and and I'm I'm listening at what you just shared there, 'cause oftentimes I think people and there may be some folks obviously that may be listening to the podcast and they may be thinking, Wow, you know, I

I feel like I gotta do all this this rigorous exercise like I see on Instagram and you know, and I gotta go to the gym seven days a week and all this other stuff. And that most of the time will discourage you from even trying because you you look at it as like this real mountain, this big mountain I gotta climb. You know, it's like, I can't to lose weight, I can't really do all of that. I mean, I'm probably never gonna be able to get to the gym six days a week or whatever. But you just

Dr. Alicia Newsome (37:46.256)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (37:58.682)
And it's not sustainable.

Bobby Davis (38:00.662)
Yeah, right. It's not realistic. And the people that you see, the people that you see on in on on the the digital media platforms that are showcasing the six packs and all this other stuff, lifting weights, all the they're there showcasing that for a reason. But when it comes to real world living, everyday living, as you just said, sustainability is one thing, right?

Dr. Alicia Newsome (38:03.312)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (38:29.569)
But then there's also practicality. Ca how can I incorporate this into my lifestyle on a daily basis and still get some exercise done, but not be trying to compete with the guy see on online, you know, who's got this the the six pack, who might be taking all types of drugs to get that. Who knows? We don't know.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (38:48.966)
You know, there's the that fitness industry is wild and the weight loss industry as well. I have clients who are weight loss coaches and they have amazing bodies and no energy, messed up digestive systems, stress levels like cortisol is not supporting them, fertility issues, like all types of issues. And the more that I started having

Bobby Davis (39:03.477)
Mm-hmm.

Yep.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (39:16.794)
these types of clients come to me that were dealing with this, it also made me check myself in a way. Cause you know, first of all, Instagram and Facebook and all of those things, social media is a place that just broadcast other people and it's very tempting to compare ourselves. And comparison is the thief of joy, right? So I, you know, even I'll look and I'm like, I don't look like these people, right? Like I'm pretty fit, but you know, it also like

Bobby Davis (39:27.041)
Yeah, yeah.

Bobby Davis (39:41.355)
Yeah. Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (39:44.624)
put things in perspective for me that the things that they're doing to get to get to this or even maintain this is stuff that's not gonna have me feel good. Like I have my energy all day long, right? Like I feel good. I, you know, my vitality, I'm thriving in my body, right? Like I don't need to lose this like 10, 15, you know, whatever it is to like get all chiseled and, you know, all of that. Like, no, I I don't think the trade-off is actually

Bobby Davis (40:10.955)
Right. Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (40:15.067)
that good. So I think it is mindful. It's it's very important to be mindful of that because we don't really know what's going on with that person behind the same scenes. Same thing with entrepreneurs, you know, that's why, you know, a big part of what I do in the integrated leadership framework is, you know, this is all about building success without sacrificing your marriage, your health, your values, like all of these things too. You know, some some people that are very successful online have

Bobby Davis (40:37.709)
That's right. That's right.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (40:45.018)
the most crummy personal lives, you know, and it's just, no, I don't want that.

Bobby Davis (40:47.229)
That's right. That's right. No, no, you're right. And and that's why I I I mean the more I hear you talk, the more I love the work that you're doing, 'cause it's it's it's wellness. It's a well rounded approach that you're taking to encourage wellness, period. And that's what that's that's what we've been talking a lot about since we started the conversation, is wellness.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (41:09.86)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (41:16.811)
having having mind, body, spirit, you know, connected in such a way that there's wholeness there. because when you have one or one of one or more out of whack, you're gonna have that check engine light starting to the cut to come on, right? Going back to that analogy. But interestingly enough, the other reason why what you're saying is so important, and I don't think I got a chance, Alicia, to tell you about this when we talked before,

Dr. Alicia Newsome (41:19.93)
Yes.

Bobby Davis (41:46.623)
And and I'ma put this in, I'm gonna share this because it backs up what you have just been talking about. And I didn't know we were gonna go in this direction, right? So so I I'll s I'll share a quick story. About th three and a half, four years ago, I was weighing three hundred, maybe around three hundred and twentyfive pounds. I was going to the d when I when I go get my annual checkups, like I mentioned earlier.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (41:55.152)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (42:16.939)
My doctor had a laundry list. I mean literally a laundry list. High cholesterol, prediabetic, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, and the list goes on and on.

And my doctor would see me every year and say, Hey man, are you taking the drugs for this stuff? What are you doing? Every time you come in here, it's the same thing, right? Like they didn't she didn't say it like that, but she's like She's I've been seeing you for like like ten years or more, you know. What what you know, where we go get on all on the ball with trying to get this get these issues resolved, right? You still got the same stuff. So for me,

Dr. Alicia Newsome (42:47.482)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (42:59.354)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (43:04.279)
There was a there was a crisis point that I came to where I said I have to take responsibility for my health and where I am. And there has to be some way that I can deal with these challenges and reduce my weight, because I know the weight was a big part of it.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (43:29.585)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (43:30.623)
And that's what the doctor had been saying the whole time, you know, if you could just lose some weight, maybe you could kinda you know, deal with some of these challenges, right? But but through prayer and through through God's help, I lost a hundred pounds in one year. In one year. All natural, no drugs.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (43:44.656)
Congratulations, yes.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (43:52.88)
Yes.

Bobby Davis (43:53.633)
But everything you just talked about is what I did. I I began to listen to my body. Why are you feeling like why after you eat bacon or ribs or something that you get this headache?

Dr. Alicia Newsome (44:14.106)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (44:14.829)
Why are you getting a headache? Okay, could could the ribs or could the pork be creating a problem for you, right? Is that something that's going that's dealing with the you know the high blush blood pressure thing? So what I started doing was for the first time, after like hundreds of failed attempts at losing weight, I finally start to pay attention to the markers, the check engine light.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (44:40.196)
Yes.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (44:44.355)
Yes.

Bobby Davis (44:44.577)
What's causing this? Like I notice I feel a certain way, you know, after after eating, you know, steak, hamburger or some type of beef, I just feel a certain way, I feel all lethargic. So by process of elimination, I start removing those things that I thought were culprits to how I was feeling. What I didn't know is that this would in turn

Dr. Alicia Newsome (45:08.966)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (45:14.751)
allow me the opportunity to correct a couple things. First of all, it was lowering my cholesterol and it was also addressing the weight, which is what I know I needed to do. So I eliminated pork, I eliminated beef, beef, and then I began to embrace eating more vegetables, loading loading up more on on on salmon, which is primarily what I eat and and grill chicken. So those shifts

Dr. Alicia Newsome (45:40.422)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (45:44.247)
Alicia made a drastic change and I fell in love with the shift. My take runs changed, right? And then I said, I can I just go get to the gym and start working out a little bit. And I tell you, I was in bad shape. When I got to the when I first started going to the gym, I couldn't really exercise. I was out of so overweight and so out of breath.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (45:50.404)
Yes. Yes.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (46:09.584)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (46:14.017)
But I was trying to formulate these habits that I knew would hopefully one day produce for me long term. I just said, well, your biggest problem, Bobby, is not the working out. You're just not disciplined to get to the gym. Can you just get to the gym, bro? Just can you just show up and do something moderate or like? Do this consistently for 30 days or more and increase your activity.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (46:28.612)
Mm.

Bobby Davis (46:44.959)
And before I knew it, I fell in love with working out. But it didn't start until I began to pay attention, which is what you have been talking about the whole time, and taking responsibility for my health. I had never done that before, to be honest with you.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (46:49.435)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (47:05.102)
I love that. I love that. I love that you paid attention to what was going on in your body. You were listening, and then you like fell in love with feeling good, is what it sounded like. Like, probably as you were you were eating the smooth, you're like, you know what? This is actually tasty. You know, like and I enjoy the way that it makes me feel. I don't have a headache now after I eat, where I'm not falling asleep on the couch after I ate this meal, right?

Bobby Davis (47:16.939)
Yeah, yeah.

Bobby Davis (47:21.427)
Right, right, right.

Bobby Davis (47:32.621)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (47:32.998)
feeling so much better. And then, you know, same thing with the gym of like, you know what? This my body feels good when I do this. Yeah.

Bobby Davis (47:39.896)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And and you get you get it becomes a lifestyle. And it sounds like a lot of what you're doing is helping to address people, helping people to address how they can make being healthy a lifestyle. And it's and it starts with those things that you shared earlier, and obviously you do a lot of work in providing the data to support

Dr. Alicia Newsome (47:59.395)
Yes.

Bobby Davis (48:07.935)
making these these adjustments. and and four years, almost four years later, I don't have a problem like I did maintaining the weight, because this is the other issue. We talked about sustainability, right? The sustainability is what everybody's chasing when they're trying to lose weight. Well, you know, I tried dieting before, of course I can lose the weight, but then I pick up the weight in six months, year.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (48:18.832)
Yes.

Mm.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (48:37.858)
And some more weight with it.

Bobby Davis (48:38.293)
And Yeah, and gain some more weight. But but I'm curious what what do you do when talking to folks when they come to you about long term? How can you sustain the things that you've been

Dr. Alicia Newsome (48:53.604)
It's it's really finding the things that you enjoy and you love. So some people are like, I don't want to go to the gym, you know, but then they might enjoy doing a Zumba class or Pilates class or something like that. So I really do the things that I enjoy and I love Pilates, I love swimming, and I also love to walk. But one thing that I do with walking, so I get up every morning and I walk

Bobby Davis (49:14.689)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (49:23.056)
two two and a half miles but I it is also my time to call somebody that doesn't live near me. So my mother, my dad, my niece, my nephew, one of my girlfriends, you know, it's it's like a I create a social activity around it too. So it's not like I'm just I gotta go walk, you know? Like I literally walk out my house, I I have my aura ring, so I like turn on my activity.

I walk this morning I called my niece and I talked to her for the whole 45 minutes that I was walking, catching up with her about what's going on in her life and her starting school and you know, starting a new job, all of those different types of things. And then in the evenings, I typically not every evening, but let's say that I want to go walk in the evenings. I have like a group of girlfriends that I rotate that I know will hold me accountable to.

Like, hey, let's go walk. And then, like, that's our time to catch up on life, get away from the kids, talk, do all those things as well. So I I try to incorporate fun into it, accountability, connection with other people, because that really lights me up to just be like connected with other human beings. And so I I think it's important to know what

Bobby Davis (50:19.052)
Right.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (50:43.14)
really you enjoy and then attaching the habits that you want to create to that.

Bobby Davis (50:45.569)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm. No, no, you're right. That's what really what it boils down to. And s and see you just you just again, you just shared another way for you to get the benefit of movement and community, connection, all of those things, right?

Dr. Alicia Newsome (51:05.244)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (51:08.353)
And and and it those things kind of package together and you're able to get all of those things done simultaneously. So it's not one size fit all when it comes to movement. It's just movement. Move. You need to move. And and how you choose to do it. Mm-hmm. No, no, no, you've no you're fine. Go ahead.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (51:21.092)
Yes. Yes. Yes. One thing I've started go ahead.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (51:31.574)
One thing that I've started in the evenings, 'cause I've I've always been like a a person that has a planner and like write everything out and all of those things. But over probably the last five years I've gotten away from having a planner. Like my calendar is what my like Google Calendar is how I just manage my life there and things I need to get done. I block it into my calendar and meetings, everything's there.

And I have a morning routine that I go through that includes gratitude and intention setting and prayer and all of those things. But I've recently I got a planner and it's one that starts with the school year. So it's just started. But what I've I'm doing with that planner instead of like planning things out, it has a section for like goals and everything, but I'm actually reflecting on my day in each of the planner blocks, which I'm really liking. So I notice that's where I put the connection, like, I'm calling.

you know, someone that I care about during my walk. How many steps did I get in today? How much water did I drink? what great things happened in life today, like things to be grateful for, even like my daughter broke her foot. So I wrote that in there. So I was like, I think I'm gonna use the planner now as more of like documenting and reflecting at the end of each day versus I've you know, nowadays if I pick up a planner I'll start it and then I don't continue it and now I've got this book that I

Bobby Davis (52:30.72)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (52:45.482)
Yeah, yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (52:53.424)
I don't wanna throw away 'cause I've you know, have stuff in there but it's only half used. But now I'm like, I can do this right here each night reflect on my day.

Bobby Davis (52:56.31)
Right.

Bobby Davis (53:03.402)
No, that's good stuff. That's good stuff. It it's it's it's like journaling. I mean, for me I journal, so it's sort of like writing down like your thoughts and kind of, you know, your wins, your losses and what you may have learned and recording those things. Because, you know, we've been talking and and again going back to wellness, it involves mind, body, and spirit.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (53:12.016)
Yes.

Bobby Davis (53:31.691)
You mentioned prayer. I d I love the d I tell you the thing that I look forward to, Leisha, most in the morning. After coming back from my workout, I I have I have quiet time before actually my I do all of this before my wife gets up. so I'm st I start at four AM. You don't have to start at four AM if people are listening at you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (53:31.952)
Yes.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (53:53.852)
I'm like a seven AM girl.

Bobby Davis (53:59.597)
I've had people to call me a fanatic old, you know, like what's going on with you, man? That's not gonna last. But I've I've started at 4 a.m. and I've been doing it for four almost four years. The reason why I start early is so that I can get, for me, I can I can harness the purest part of the day, in my opinion. And what I mean by that, the purest part of the day is before.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (54:09.508)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (54:22.894)
Yes.

Bobby Davis (54:29.312)
The phones start ringing before you the traffic is loading up on the highways, before you start getting bombarded with all of the exterior noise that starts to come that the day brings. And I try to get all of those things in that are most important to me from a well being standpoint before seven AM. So

Dr. Alicia Newsome (54:46.352)
Yes.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (54:57.253)
Yes.

Bobby Davis (54:58.25)
I come back from working out, prayer time, journaling time, time where I study the word and you know, and those times I have grown and I enjoy the most. So what kind of works with with the the working out part is I look forward to the part where I come back and I like, Okay, you got a hour where you're gonna come back and you're gonna do some some me time, some quiet time and prayer time and things like that, right? And

Dr. Alicia Newsome (55:17.818)
Yes.

Bobby Davis (55:26.314)
The house is still quiet. Still dark outside. You know? And and I love it. And my wife's like, Man, she's she's how much longer are you gonna do four o'clock? I said, Man, I'm a four o'clock dude forever. I'm just

Dr. Alicia Newsome (55:28.132)
Yes. Yes.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (55:40.366)
Yeah. If it works for you and you feel good, that's you paying attention to your body where you're like, you know what? I feel amazing when I wake up this early. I go to the gym and I come home and I have my time in the Word and with God. Like, yes. Yeah.

Bobby Davis (55:43.148)
You know what?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it again going back to what we've been talking about, the the wellness aspect. But I I wanted to I wanted to to ask you also about the new book that you got coming out. You said it's coming out in October, right? First of all, tell us why you wrote the book.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (56:09.558)
Mm, yes. Yes.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (56:17.159)
Well, you know, as authors, we write books for ourselves. And it is called Worthy of Rest for the Woman Who's Tired of Being the Strong One. We live in this culture that worships exhaustion. You know, we get the awards and we get the pat on the back. We get the celebration for pushing through and often abandoning ourselves in the process.

Bobby Davis (56:17.504)
What's the motivation?

There you go, you go.

Bobby Davis (56:31.702)
Mm.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (56:46.064)
So my book goes into a lot of things that we talked about today, about how it impacts our body and our physiology. But my favorite parts are it goes into the identity piece of the self-limiting thoughts that we have around I'm not enough or I'm all alone or I'm not safe or you know, I can't get this wrong, you know, or nobody ever helps me. I gotta do everything myself, like all of those thoughts that we have that allow us to keep.

going, going, going versus giving ourselves permission to rest. And then I talk about the different pillars of rest, really restoration. And there's different types of rest. There's sensory rest where we might be around kids all day and noise, or we might be sitting behind a computer and we've got this blue light going into our light eyes or bright lights everywhere where w our nervous system actually needs to rest.

We may need emotional rest where we have unprocessed grief or sadness or even anger that we need to be able to express. We may need spiritual rest where we need to reconnect with God. So I talk about the different types of rest because it's not just sleep. And I talk about the identity piece and really tools and strategies of what to do.

Bobby Davis (57:43.809)
Mm.

Bobby Davis (57:48.971)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (57:57.483)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (58:08.726)
Yeah. Wow, an incredible book. It sounds like it's a book that men might be able to read also. You covered this. I'm listening at you. I'm like, man, w that's a that's a men be dealing with the same stuff, right? Like to a certain extent, right? But I'm glad that I'm glad that you you're focusing on on on women because women carry so much.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (58:14.008)
Yes.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (58:21.988)
I know, I know.

Bobby Davis (58:33.28)
A lot of times that often t you know, sometimes you just don't take, you know, we take for granted. I mean, especially if you're raising a family and and you're working full time, you got careers, it's a lot that that they are you know, they're they're having to deal with. Now something very interesting that you just mentioned that's in your book that you talk about, Alicia, and I'm glad we got to this part, identity.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (58:35.163)
Yes.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (58:44.091)
Yes.

Bobby Davis (58:58.816)
Why did you put id why did you write about identity in the book? Why was that you know, like 'cause and and there's a reason why I'm asking the question, but I wanna get your your take on what was the what was the path that you were thinking about going down when you when you say, Hey, I wanna talk about identity.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (59:16.72)
Yeah. Who we are, like what we believe about ourselves, who we're being, how we're showing up in relationships and work and life, it really controls everything else. Just like when it came to your weight loss journey, which was incredible, you really became a new person, right? And it's it's a new way of being, right? So let's say someone that

Bobby Davis (59:38.443)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (59:45.284)
wants to stop smoking and they're instead of like calling themselves a smoker, you know, they they have a new way of being like, well, I'm a healthy person, right? They start identifying that way. And then they're like, well, healthy people don't smoke, right? Or h or even with exercise, right? Like I'm a healthy person or I'm a runner, right? If someone's wanting to pick up the habit of running, you you come it you come into that being, right? so I think that's really important.

Bobby Davis (59:55.018)
Right. Right.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:00:13.251)
in all of life, like how are we showing up? Who are we being? Who are we becoming? We need to identify those pieces. But also just even my own personal journey, I just had a lot of things that I had to unwind from my past, past trauma, relationships, different things that I I did I believe things about myself that simply weren't true. So in my book I really talk about how to center ourselves

in what is true because the enemy comes to kill, steal, destroy, lie, confuse, all of those things. So there's lies that we believe about ourselves. We believe it to be true and it's not. So we have to re-identify with what is true and what God really says about us.

Bobby Davis (01:00:45.29)
Yeah, that's true. That's right. That's right.

Bobby Davis (01:01:00.46)
Come on. That's that's so good right there. my gosh. I tell you what, folks, if you're listening at this podcast, October, put it on your calendar to to get the and I'm sure you might probably need to talk to Dr. Alicia before then. we'll get all of your your your contact information, Alicia here shortly. But it's I I'm the reason why I asked about identity is because

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:01:02.672)
Ha ha ha.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:01:10.067)
Ha

Bobby Davis (01:01:30.078)
It seems that most people reach a point in life where they suffer from an identity crisis or suffer from lack of identity. And I'll give you an example. You

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:01:38.988)
Mm.

Bobby Davis (01:01:47.117)
let's just say for example you've been you you know you've been working in a career let's say in banking and you've been known as this great banker you've been doing it all of your life you come out of college you've been doing this all of your life and now you're thirty five forty forty five years old and banking is all you knew everybody referred to you as the banker but all of a sudden

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:01:57.018)
Yeah. Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:02:09.54)
Mm.

Yes.

Bobby Davis (01:02:16.266)
Banking is gone. There's no more banking. And you're now trying to figure out well, I can't Yeah, right. Who am I? What what what am I gonna do now? I'm 45 years old. What what what you know what what's going on here? And the crises, if it's not managed, and first of all identified that it's a crisis or that you're coming to a reflection point, then

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:02:18.383)
Yes.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:02:24.166)
Who am I?

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:02:31.804)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:02:42.939)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (01:02:46.228)
You could do some crazy stuff, stuff that you know, you because you get you you're you get lost or you feel lost and it leads you in non-productive paths in some cases for people. But but but you just I'm glad that you have this in the book because we somehow began to believe the stories that we have created in our mind about who we are, and then when that thing is gone.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:03:00.71)
Yes.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:03:12.624)
Yes. Yes. Yes.

Bobby Davis (01:03:15.732)
Now now what? No, no, I mean you you're not a you you're not you know you're not a banker, you're not a you know, you're not a a doctor anymore, you're not a you know you y you know, so so there comes a time where you deal with these stresses in life and it hits most people a lot of times when they when they get older because now they feel like they're running out of time. And how do you how do you talk to people when they come to you?

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:03:25.947)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:03:41.243)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (01:03:45.175)
for help and they're saying and you out of the 300 questions somehow you find out you know part of what's causing this guy's stress or this woman's stress is related to a lack of identity. So I gotta now deal with the mental and maybe the spiritual aspect of what's happening. Not so much the physical piece, which you know, perhaps you may be dealing with that too, but how do you help somebody like that?

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:03:53.252)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:04:03.066)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:04:15.845)
One of the first things that we do, like once everybody's labs are done and all of that, we have them, we take them through a process where they're really identifying their why and also like who are they being, you know, because who are we once we for me, like once I strip away, you know, I'm a mother, I'm a doctor, I'm a wife, I'm a friend, I'm somebody's daughter, I'm a I'm a leader in this organization.

Bobby Davis (01:04:26.924)
okay.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:04:42.842)
You know, I'm a consultant. I do like once I strip away all of those titles, who I who am I? And who do I want to be? You know, what how do I want to show up in life? And it's you know, even with my kids, I'm I really instill in them like who they are versus like, you know, like you're the basketball player, you know, because God forg forbid something happens and now you're not the basketball player, you know, like who are you who are you being? So we

We really like dig deep into that.

Bobby Davis (01:05:13.93)
No, I I absolutely love what you're doing. I I mean, I talk to medical professionals, folks that

some folks that are in your space and they deal sometimes they just deal with the the physical aspects of how you can make changes to deal with stress and maybe even the mental aspect. But there's a lot that comes with this, I see, because sometimes what could be causing, yeah, what could be causing your your stress is showing up, you know, or could be causing the stresses could be something that you that you're dealing with from

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:05:37.998)
Gotta deal with it all.

Yeah.

Bobby Davis (01:05:52.287)
from a spiritual standpoint, because you feel lost and now you're trying to maybe recapture, you know, the things that you were doing for the last 30 years somehow, and that is putting additional stresses on your body. so I I I I mean what you're doing is is is incredible work. Tell us about a story or if you can give us without giving us names

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:06:07.761)
Yes.

Bobby Davis (01:06:20.96)
But of someone that you work with that you were able to help go through this great transformation. And they came to you, had a bunch of problems or what have you, and you were able to help

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:06:31.833)
Yeah. Yeah. So there's a client of mine, and she came to me low energy, dragging all day long, going through perimenopause. so her cycles were all wonky and crazy. Her mood, she was snapping on her kids when she didn't want to be snapping on them. You know, she was short with her husband, was not interested in intimacy, drive was completely gone.

And was really having trouble losing weight. So we ran lab testing on her, found out that her cortisol was completely off, her insulin was high, she had all these other inflammatory markers going on, and she also had dysbiosis in the gut. So the gut bacteria was off as well. And what we did was took her through our protocols with supplements, with lifestyle, all a lot of the things that we've talked about today, but very specific to her.

And it completely transformed her life. You know, it completely her energies back, you know, all day long. She's much better. She's an executive at the company that she works at. So, like meeting-wise, she's there, she's present, she's able to show up. We've also helped her how she manages her schedule. because in our integrated leadership framework, we talk about business.

Bobby Davis (01:07:33.686)
Well.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:07:54.512)
body and belief. So that identity piece, what's going on in your body, but then business. Some people are have their own business that they're running. And then some people have, you know, businesses that they're working in. But we're all kind of running a business, even if it's our household too. You know, so really aligning her her schedule and her time with what feels good to her, you know, really helped her to stop saying yes to things that she wanted to say no to. That's a big one.

Bobby Davis (01:07:57.052)
Yeah.

Bobby Davis (01:08:08.128)
Yep. Yep.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:08:20.893)
and then also because of her transformation, then her husband started working with us and he had had some major issues, especially since COVID. He was dealing with long COVID. So we were able to run lab work on him, get his health back, his vitality, all of those things. And because of that, you know, their children have two parents that are healthy. A lot of times we talk about passing down generational wealth.

Bobby Davis (01:08:45.611)
That's right.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:08:48.718)
And many of us may not have come from that. And we're, you know, we're the ones hoping to pass that down. But also generational health is now being passed down because of that. Yeah. Yes. Yes.

Bobby Davis (01:08:55.816)
I love it. I love it. Generational health. my gosh. This so good. wow. Generational health. That that's something that you can pass down.

to your kids into the next generation. my God. Healthy habits, healthy, healthy lifestyle that can can be absorbed and and carried on into the next generation. wow this this is incredible. So how can folks reach you, Alicia, if they want to reach out to you regarding assistance? That's the best way.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:09:11.642)
Yes, yes, yes, yes.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:09:36.186)
Yes, so you can reach out to me on my website. It is dralisia newsome.com. So it's just my name on there. You should be able to find a link to if you just want to hop on a quick 15-minute introduction call to talk, find out, you know, what's going on with your health and your goals, and we can move forward from there. you can also hopefully soon you'll be able to get the book as well, worthy of rest. You'll be able to find that on Amazon.

inside of Barnes and Nobles and then also on my website as well. And then also you can all my social media outlets are my name. So just Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, it's Dr Alicia Newsome dot com or Dr. Alicia Newsome.

Bobby Davis (01:10:23.008)
Got it, got it. Nice, nice. All wow. Listen, before we head out, give us some you've you've obviously you've benefited us greatly with the wisdom that you've shared with us and the and the medical and insight. But give us some words of wisdom. Last parting gifts for our audience before we head out that they can take away from this episode.

Bobby Davis (01:10:57.812)
I lost your audio, your audio, your audio.

Bobby Davis (01:11:09.681)
Mm-hmm.

Bobby Davis (01:11:37.128)
Okay.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:11:39.118)
And I was hoping it didn't. I was like, maybe if I don't move, then, but I saw the warning come up. Okay. So I just want to remind you that you are here for a reason. You're here for a purpose. And that there are other people that are connected to your purpose, to your destiny, to the mission that God has placed inside of you. And in order to fulfill that, you need to be healthy.

Bobby Davis (01:11:43.564)
Yeah.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:12:08.108)
You've got to have your health in order to fully show up for your purpose and for the people in your life. So I just want to remind you that you are worthy, that you are worthy of health, that you are worthy of success, that you are worthy of love. We came here to love and be loved, and that all things are possible. So Bobby gave an amazing story of his transformation. And I've worked with

so many men and women with similar journeys. So just connect with someone that can help encourage you and move you along this journey so that you can fulfill your purpose here online.

Bobby Davis (01:12:50.054)
love it. Love it. What a great way to cap off. man, an amazing, amazing discussion. Doc, I appreciate you. I appreciate your work. And just wanna commend you to continue and your efforts and I'm hoping that

the folks that will hear this this this episode and see this episode that they will certainly reach out because I think if nothing else that we have been able to c you know convey throughout this conversation that our health is an asset. And there are many things that you share today to kind of back that up. And doesn't have to be complicated to be healthy.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:13:26.776)
Yes.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:13:30.936)
Yes.

Bobby Davis (01:13:35.41)
And when we are operating, you know, in a level of optimum health, it it not only changes our life, but it impacts others. So thanks again for coming on the World to Lead podcast. I enjoyed you so much that I wanna extend an invitation when the book comes out for you to come back and we're gonna talk about the book. I'm gonna get a book and I'm gonna read the book myself.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:13:44.856)
Yes.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:13:56.618)
Yes. I would love that. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

Bobby Davis (01:14:02.518)
Yeah, I got a copy for my wife so she can check it out. But certainly I'd love to to get you to come back and and and talk to us more. So thanks again. And folks, that's all we have for you guys today. We appreciate you all tuning in. And until next week, you all take care and have a good rest of the day. All right. Bye-bye.

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:14:05.338)
He's

Dr. Alicia Newsome (01:14:11.798)
Okay.