Peter Attia· MD
So that's when I just started doing this deep dive as much as I could, learning from as many people as I could about the foot and balance and and neuromuscular training and all these other things to where, you know, it's a compliment at my private clinic when people are like, what are you? Like we actually have people come in our office now. We're like, I need to go see my chiropractor later. And one of my other docs will be like, well, I'm a chiropractor. Like, what? I had no idea. And they've seen us for years. So we're probably supposed to identify ourselves better, but regardless, we're solving problems. Uh, what is the role for what most people think of when they hear chiropractic, right? The adjustments. Yeah. like um what does it do? Well, I mean I I guess like I I don't want to ask you to sort of be critical, if that's the word, of of a profession that you're a member of it. But the the fact that you aren't out there doing it 24/7 suggests either you think it's really really valuable, but it's just not something you want to do, or you don't think that it by that it's valuable enough. And and so how would you how would you advise somebody that came to you and said, "Hey, Kyler, um I have injury X, my neck, my back, whatever. Um I got this awesome package of 40 visits for x number of dollars with my local chiropractor. I see him for eight minutes a week, twice a week, actually. It's really special. Um uh would you think that's a great plan?" Uh no. And and the way I would describe it is I mean I've benefited from getting adjusted myself. Like things get out of whack, right? Like things get stiff, you sleep on a plane weird. Like that's a real thing, but it's a tool in the tool belt. And the really good practitioners have a bunch of tools. And so I could say the same thing about Cairo adjustments as I could dry needling or active release or uh McConnell taping, like a million tools out there. The really good practitioners have a huge tool belt and they know when to use which one at what time. So just throwing cupping at somebody and hoping their muscles get better, it's insufficient. In the same way I would say just adjusting someone over and over, it's not enough. There's more that could be done. And so what I get asked a lot, especially now that I'm older, like all my friends I've accumulated over the years, like I didn't account for as I got older, there'd be more questions exponentially because they're all getting sore and hurting. But what I always tell them is I need someone who's got a bunch of tools in their tool belt. I need someone who's going to literally treat your case um as something unique every time. It's not just like this. Oh, we everybody here signs up for twice a month. Like that's a big red flag for