Speaker 1: So I'm originally from Houston, Texas. That's where I grew up,
Speaker 1: and I grew up an athlete, played baseball, basketball, love sports.
Speaker 1: Went to Trinity University in San Antonio and I played
Speaker 1: baseball there, and I was also a business major. And
Speaker 1: I had this idea that when I went to school,
Speaker 1: I was going to work for a big finance company
Speaker 1: and you know, go to New York or something like that.
Speaker 1: Ended up after college, I worked for a finance company,
Speaker 1: and then nine to eleven happened, right, and then I
Speaker 1: got laid off. I was one of the first people
Speaker 1: to get hired. I got laid off, and to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, I hated that finance job. I remember
Speaker 1: being in that job behind a cupicle and asking myself, like,
Speaker 1: if I do really good at this job, I'm going
Speaker 1: to get my manager's job. And I don't like that
Speaker 1: job either, Like it doesn't look like a good path.
Speaker 1: So when nine to eleven happened, I had a nice,
Speaker 1: nice severance package, and that allowed me space and time
Speaker 1: to think about what I really wanted to do. I
Speaker 1: love movement, I love exercise, I love studying the human
Speaker 1: body nutrition, and a friend suggested to me physical therapy.
Speaker 1: So I applied to one school in Texas that had
Speaker 1: a doctor program and that was Hardened Simmons, and I
Speaker 1: luckily got in to Harden Simmons. I did my physical
Speaker 1: therapy program for three years there and met my wife,
Speaker 1: and really what got me started on what would become
Speaker 1: native path was my first internship as a physical therapist.
Speaker 1: It was back in Houston, Texas, at a hospital and
Speaker 1: this hospital was world renowned force treatment and heart disease right.
Speaker 1: And I walked into this hospital and on the first
Speaker 1: floor that first day, I saw a McDonald's right, and
Speaker 1: I was like what. I didn't know much about nutrition
Speaker 1: at the time, but it really got me asking like,
Speaker 1: what if this is a place for health, why is
Speaker 1: the McDonald's there. I didn't know much about nutrition, again,
Speaker 1: but I knew McDonald's wasn't healthy, and it was to
Speaker 1: the point where I would I would work with heart patients.
Speaker 1: They would get out of surgery and it would ask
Speaker 1: me to wheel them down to McDonald's and we would
Speaker 1: go down there, they would order a big mac, and
Speaker 1: I would see other doctors and nurses also eating McDonald's
Speaker 1: and it got me question. It got me questioning a
Speaker 1: whole lot of things like why is this happening? And
Speaker 1: I started to see a pattern in my experience as
Speaker 1: a physical therapist, you know. After working in the internships,
Speaker 1: I moved to Austin, Texas with my wife, who's also
Speaker 1: a physical therapist, and I started working with chiroprackers, and
Speaker 1: I got to see a whole other side of health
Speaker 1: outside of sort of the conventional realm. They're a little
Speaker 1: more alternative, right, and getting other solutions. And I started
Speaker 1: to see a trend here in the conventional medical world
Speaker 1: where we're going after symptoms but not really getting to
Speaker 1: the root of the problem, right. And we have in
Speaker 1: the past, We've had this food industry that knows very
Speaker 1: little about health, and a health industry that there was
Speaker 1: very little about food. And in the middle of all that,
Speaker 1: we have consumers who are just getting some bad advice
Speaker 1: or eating core foods. They are getting sick, and then
Speaker 1: they're being there taking a pill to deal with the issue.
Speaker 1: But that the issue they're dealing with wouldn't have been
Speaker 1: an issue if they would just stuck to like a
Speaker 1: natural diet, right. So I was when I was doing
Speaker 1: physical therapy as a chiropract I started learning a whole
Speaker 1: lot about ancestral health. I got really into CrossFit, you know,
Speaker 1: the palaeo diet research by guys like Western Price, who
Speaker 1: studied indigenous people and compared their health and what it
Speaker 1: was like when they were eating their native diets to
Speaker 1: people with the same genetics who had adopted a modern diet,
Speaker 1: and really clearly seeing that over the past one hundred
Speaker 1: years there have been drastic changes so the ways we eat,
Speaker 1: the ways we move, the ways we lived, and over
Speaker 1: that time, all the things that we're dealing with, especially
Speaker 1: metabolic health, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, these things have all
Speaker 1: gone up despite our advances in medicine. And it's because
Speaker 1: we've moved away from the things we were designed for.
Speaker 1: Right our food has been industrialized and commercialized at sugar,
Speaker 1: industrial seed oils. Anyway, I became obsessed with this and
Speaker 1: started doing research and going to conferences and learning as
Speaker 1: much as I could, and really practicing this on myself too.
Speaker 1: I was dealing with my own health issues, you know,
Speaker 1: I had skin issues for a long time. I took
Speaker 1: steroids and topical creams. I tried eating a different way,
Speaker 1: and within thirty days everything cleared up. I got off medications.
Speaker 1: This was an AHA for me because I was looking
Speaker 1: at my patients who were taking all kinds of medications.
Speaker 1: You know, a big part of what I did that
Speaker 1: really changed my view was doing home health physical therapy.
Speaker 1: And that's when we go into people's homes, you know,
Speaker 1: to see exactly what they're eating. And you know, these
Speaker 1: are people who aren't well enough or strong enough to
Speaker 1: leave their home to go to an outpatient clinic. So
Speaker 1: I got to see the situations that people are in
Speaker 1: just being fed pills, never addressed with nutrition, and if
Speaker 1: I tried to talk to them about nutrition, I would
Speaker 1: get in trouble from a nurse or a doctor who said,
Speaker 1: just just do physical therapy. So I got frustrated, and
Speaker 1: in the CrossFit world, I started giving nutrition lectures around Austin, Texas,
Speaker 1: to local gyms, to local businesses, and that was my
Speaker 1: avenue to share what I was learning. Right and you know,
Speaker 1: the Crossfed Gym, I was working at it and started
Speaker 1: doing really well. Everybody started getting really fit, and I
Speaker 1: got to see the power of nutrition from a fitness standpoint,
Speaker 1: like a perform a standpoint, but also a health standpoint.
Speaker 1: So I began yapping about this all the time right,
Speaker 1: and the origins of the partnership of Native Path really
Speaker 1: beginning two thousand and nine when I met my now
Speaker 1: partner Chris Clark. He's a co founder with me, and
Speaker 1: when I met him, I met him through a mutual friend.
Speaker 1: We went to a CrossFit workout and we went to
Speaker 1: a post workout lunch, and he got his butt handed
Speaker 1: to him in this workout, and we always joke. At
Speaker 1: that time Chris was overweight. He had, you know, that
Speaker 1: midsection tire around his belly, he had a double chin,
Speaker 1: and he was asking me about what I was what
Speaker 1: I was doing, and I was basically telling him what
Speaker 1: is now we call the principles of being on the
Speaker 1: path right, things about movement and nutrition and sunshine and
Speaker 1: sleep and hydration right. And I said, hey, just try
Speaker 1: this for thirty days and just see what happens to
Speaker 1: your health, you know, just just give yourself a good
Speaker 1: honest shot and see what happens. And I didn't talk
Speaker 1: to him for another two years. And two years later
Speaker 1: he came to Austin, Texas and he was living at
Speaker 1: Denver and he had lunch with myself and my wife,
Speaker 1: and when he showed up, he looked like a completely
Speaker 1: different person, right. You know this, he was very lean,
Speaker 1: very vibrant, his skin had cleared up. He was telling
Speaker 1: me he was super bought into what I told him
Speaker 1: that day at lunch, and now he was telling all
Speaker 1: his friends. And he knows a whole lot. He knew
Speaker 1: a whole lot about creating online businesses, and I knew
Speaker 1: a lot about content educating people. And he invited me
Speaker 1: to start something with him, to do online blogging and
Speaker 1: just put out articles telling people the same thing that
Speaker 1: I told him, and that's what we did. We agreed
Speaker 1: to do that because I knew I can only impact
Speaker 1: so many people as a physical therapist or as a coach,
Speaker 1: and I had a big desire to reach a lot
Speaker 1: of people to really that was my calling, and that's
Speaker 1: what we did. Within three years, we created an audience
Speaker 1: of over three million people, built up a lot of
Speaker 1: trust with people, kept growing and eventually these people were
Speaker 1: asking us what supplements we recommend, And in twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: we came out with rebranded as Native Path. Our very
Speaker 1: first product was collagen and the whole idea behind Native
Speaker 1: Path products is to really fill in the gaps. You know,
Speaker 1: what are the things that are missing in our modern
Speaker 1: diet and how can we supplement that and at the
Speaker 1: same time educate people to as we say, our mission
Speaker 1: to guide people on the paths of eating, moving, and
Speaker 1: living in harmony with our biology and in alignment with nature,
Speaker 1: you know, So that there's a way we there's an
Speaker 1: intension behind what we do, and it's it's amazing to
Speaker 1: see where we came from as a co founder, from
Speaker 1: nothing to where it is now. We have over one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty people that work for us. It's one
Speaker 1: hundred million dollar business. It is incredible where we've gotten
Speaker 1: to today, and it's through a lot of key things.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's the origin of how we got It's
Speaker 1: a long, long winded thing, but you know, it something
Speaker 1: I enjoy sharing, so no chat.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you, Sharon all And and I can appreciate also
Speaker 2: your passion for it because when it comes to health,
Speaker 2: I think you and I can agree. And I'm sure
Speaker 2: our listeners that are tuning into this interview you have
Speaker 2: to buy in. I caught that phrase, you really have
Speaker 2: to buy And I'm a former athlete too, and I've
Speaker 2: done my peaks and values of gaining weight and losing weight.
Speaker 2: And there are so many different things that you talked
Speaker 2: about that I do want to address, but I want
Speaker 2: to back up and give context everybody, because that conversation
Speaker 2: happened about sixteen years ago with your partner, and now
Speaker 2: the company has been around for fourteen and I imagine
Speaker 2: sure there have been a lot of ebbs and flows,
Speaker 2: and also the industry and people have changed too over
Speaker 2: that decade and a half. With that said, when it
Speaker 2: comes to Native Path, what's your mission statement?
Speaker 1: So is what I said earlier. Our mission statement is
Speaker 1: to guide people on the path to eating, moving, and
Speaker 1: living in harmony with nature and in alignment with our biology. Right.
Speaker 1: There is a way that we feel that we believe
Speaker 1: humans are designed for, right, and it's whole food nutrition.
Speaker 1: It is consistent movement throughout the day. It is good
Speaker 1: quality sunshine, is good hydration, it is good sleep, and
Speaker 1: we live in a modern world where all that's been
Speaker 1: pushed away. We call that, we call out being off
Speaker 1: the path. Right, So we're trying to get people on
Speaker 1: the path to really, like you said, buy into what
Speaker 1: we're saying. And Native Path is really helping supplement that
Speaker 1: lifestyle with supplements. But the key is the lifestyle, what
Speaker 1: the root of what we're going for.
Speaker 2: So, Chad, if you could do me a fever for
Speaker 2: our listeners, if you could just give kind of a
Speaker 2: thirty thousand foot view of what your team and the
Speaker 2: company does, what would you say that you actually do.
Speaker 1: Well in that sence? We're guys, we're getting people on
Speaker 1: the path. You know. Our mission is to guide people
Speaker 1: on the path to eating, moving, and living in harmony
Speaker 1: with nature and in alignment with their biology. Right, the
Speaker 1: body wants to be in homeostasis. It wants to be
Speaker 1: given good nutrition and good health principles. The problem is
Speaker 1: that in our modern world we're very much off the path.
Speaker 1: We're eating foods that are actually harmful and toxic to
Speaker 1: our bodies. We've developed stagnant lifestyles where we're living under
Speaker 1: artificial lights and staying up late. Right, So what we're
Speaker 1: doing is first educating our customers on what's going on
Speaker 1: with their health and then guiding them and supplementing them,
Speaker 1: supporting them with the most pure, high quality something that
Speaker 1: we can find to really with their body back in
Speaker 1: the state of homeostasis where it's healthy.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's talk about products because there's a lot,
Speaker 2: and I think that if you're new to this and
Speaker 2: everybody's heard about supplements and all sorts of different things,
Speaker 2: but you do offer a lot. And for me, being
Speaker 2: a former athlete and really digging into this and trying
Speaker 2: to take care of myself, I'm familiar with some of
Speaker 2: these things that you offer and some I'm not. So
Speaker 2: I want to talk about the education process but also
Speaker 2: what you offer. So if you can maybe highlight some
Speaker 2: of the different products that you offer, why you offer them,
Speaker 2: and then we can start to get in also to
Speaker 2: the education if you could first.
Speaker 1: Chat Yeah, absolutely, Well, when it comes to our products,
Speaker 1: you know, we have a philosophy of what we're trying
Speaker 1: to do with our products, which is to support these
Speaker 1: principles of health that we really believe in, right, So
Speaker 1: whole food, nutrition, movement, hydration, sleep, those are the basic
Speaker 1: things that we're trying to do, and we recognize within
Speaker 1: each of those areas there's gaps. Right, there's an ideal
Speaker 1: thing the body wants to have, but there's also reality
Speaker 1: in the modern world of what it's getting right, So
Speaker 1: with our as, we're trying to fill in those gaps.
Speaker 1: So let's take for example, collagen. Collagen is our number
Speaker 1: one cellar here at Native path It was our first
Speaker 1: product that we came out with. Collagen is something our
Speaker 1: native ancestors would get plenty of in their natural diet
Speaker 1: because they would need nose to tail right. They would
Speaker 1: take an animal, they would take the bones of that animal.
Speaker 1: They would put in a pot and make soup and
Speaker 1: they would go all the gelatin, all the collagen from
Speaker 1: the tendons and ligaments and the hides and break it
Speaker 1: down and they would consume that on a consistent basis
Speaker 1: and give their body collagen. Now, collagen is extremely important
Speaker 1: because it makes up like all your body, Like as
Speaker 1: we're looking at each other, we're literally looking at collage,
Speaker 1: and it makes up your hair, your scan, your nails,
Speaker 1: but also things like your brain, your nervous system, your
Speaker 1: gut lining, and even even your bones, which most people
Speaker 1: don't know. So people are lacking in collagen and they're
Speaker 1: experiencing all these health issues, joint pain, digestive distress, you know,
Speaker 1: energy trouble, losing weight. Collagen, in my opinion, is one
Speaker 1: of the least things we can do that makes the
Speaker 1: most different to our overall health because we're supplying the
Speaker 1: body with these very important amino acids that it needs
Speaker 1: to make up the structure. Right, it's the most important thing.
Speaker 1: So that's an example of the philosophy behind our products
Speaker 1: with collagen. But you'll find the same thing across the board. Right. So,
Speaker 1: for example, I mentioned hydration. You know, hydration is extremely important,
Speaker 1: but most people in our modern world are extremely dehydrated.
Speaker 1: Not only are they not drinking enough water. We tend
Speaker 1: to drink liquids that are diuretics where we give off
Speaker 1: a lot of water, you know, like coffee and energy drinks.
Speaker 1: And then also our food. A lot of the food
Speaker 1: we're eating is refined in processed, and it's made for
Speaker 1: a long shelf life where it doesn't have water in
Speaker 1: it like natural food would say, like a broccoli or
Speaker 1: tomato or even even grass at beef. Right, there's water
Speaker 1: in those real whole food nutrition. So in the modern world,
Speaker 1: as we've moved away, we're getting more and more dehydrated.
Speaker 1: And our second best product, our second most selling product,
Speaker 1: is something called hydrate. Right. It has these important minerals
Speaker 1: that you need, potassium, magnesium, and salt, as well as
Speaker 1: these very helpful assets that further help you absorb the electrolytes,
Speaker 1: but it helps solve one of the major problems that
Speaker 1: most people are having, which is hydration. Right, So you
Speaker 1: can see with our products we're trying to fill in
Speaker 1: the gaps with these areas of health that if humans
Speaker 1: can can get these things down, if we can fulfill
Speaker 1: the needs of what a human body really wants, we
Speaker 1: can drastically feel better. Right. And when we feel better,
Speaker 1: we move better, we engage with the world around us better,
Speaker 1: and hopefully there's a world where there's less need for pharmaceuticals,
Speaker 1: there's a world where you have more of appreciation for national.
Speaker 2: Yeah, agreed, and for somebody who has our race. Since
Speaker 2: I've been twenty one, I'm with you on that because
Speaker 2: while I've had to take care of my body with
Speaker 2: some medication over the years, because I do some of
Speaker 2: the things that you offer up and I put into
Speaker 2: my body and also take care of good myself when
Speaker 2: it comes to my eating habits and exercise and all
Speaker 2: the things. And I didn't want you to address that
Speaker 2: because you've kind of talked about it's not just supplements folks, right,
Speaker 2: and the collagen the supplements or even health focus, Uh,
Speaker 2: you you also address recipes on here about eating and
Speaker 2: then you also have a blog in community, so you're
Speaker 2: also educating people on all the facets of taking care
Speaker 2: of yourself. It's not just kind of a one I
Speaker 2: guess it is a one stop shop, but there are
Speaker 2: also different factors that you're talking about to get on
Speaker 2: the path of being healthy. So if you could address that,
Speaker 2: because your beautiful website really addresses and offers everything, I
Speaker 2: love you.
Speaker 1: To say that that really makes me happy. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: important to us that we don't just sell you a
Speaker 1: supplement and you walk away thinking that if you just
Speaker 1: do this one thing right, everything is going to be better.
Speaker 1: Like that, that is that is the mindset that people
Speaker 1: are given. We want to we want to first educate you,
Speaker 1: Like we always say, we lead with education. You know,
Speaker 1: when I was telling you the origins of our business,
Speaker 1: we were founded on education. The supplements came second, you know. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, one of the big problems that we solve
Speaker 1: with a lot of our customers is bone health, you know.
Speaker 1: And and what makes us different is is we want
Speaker 1: to educate a customer on one of the foods that
Speaker 1: are actually harmful to our bones. Right, And here's how
Speaker 1: collagen can help you, right, because we have to if
Speaker 1: we're going to take step forwards, we have to stop
Speaker 1: doing the things that are harmful and do the things
Speaker 1: that are good for us. We don't want to just
Speaker 1: try to supplement our way out of it, right. So
Speaker 1: it's a big part of kind of how we would
Speaker 1: view more of a holistic view of the human body
Speaker 1: and what it needs from lots of different areas with
Speaker 1: these lifestyle principles of eating, moving, and also living right. Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I couldn't agree more with you. So I want
Speaker 2: to talk about where you started and where you're at.
Speaker 2: I think because of the Internet and social media, a
Speaker 2: lot of information but also a lot of disinformation. I
Speaker 2: think you and I can agree about that, whether it's
Speaker 2: the health industry or politics or news or anything. So
Speaker 2: with that said, I love it that you do the education.
Speaker 2: But when you started this business with native path to
Speaker 2: where you are today and when it comes to educating
Speaker 2: people and just the industry as a whole, can you
Speaker 2: talk about some challenges but also things that you're combating,
Speaker 2: whether if there's a were closing in one area, it's
Speaker 2: opening another, Especially when you're working with your clients and
Speaker 2: all the people that are checking things out.
Speaker 1: When it comes to Nata path, that's great. There's so
Speaker 1: many areas when I think about challenges and going from
Speaker 1: where we've been to where we are now, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, a main thing comes to mind first is
Speaker 1: making sure that we communicate the value of our products
Speaker 1: right and using the words and the problems that our
Speaker 1: customers are actually wanting to solve in the words that
Speaker 1: they use right. So one of the things that makes
Speaker 1: us different is we have an outstanding customer experience team
Speaker 1: who's always getting that information for us and we're relaying
Speaker 1: that back. But there was a time when we didn't
Speaker 1: know who our customer was, and we we didn't speak
Speaker 1: to them with their problems, and we didn't add enough value,
Speaker 1: and we charged too little for our products, and our
Speaker 1: margins were too thin, and the quality wasn't there because
Speaker 1: we weren't getting enough scale. So like we were way
Speaker 1: off on our values right, which leads to another thing.
Speaker 1: I think some areas where we had challenges is early
Speaker 1: on in the culture, we did not have a clear
Speaker 1: set of values. We did not have a group or
Speaker 1: a team clearly all bought in on what we were
Speaker 1: believing and about needing, moving and thinking and that those
Speaker 1: are those are big things. I think that pulled a
Speaker 1: lever to to get us where we are now. We
Speaker 1: started understanding the customer better. We started speaking to them
Speaker 1: with their problems and their words and creating products that
Speaker 1: helped solve their problems. And then we started buying into
Speaker 1: a culture that was more rooted in values. We created
Speaker 1: a Monday culture call where we just educate our internal team.
Speaker 1: And what that did is it empowered the team to
Speaker 1: be to be like more of me right to where
Speaker 1: they can talk to the customers on the phone or
Speaker 1: through their content that they write or the emails that
Speaker 1: they put out did they help me put out? Right?
Speaker 1: It's more in line with the true roots of what
Speaker 1: we're doing, and those those things move the needle for
Speaker 1: our business. We started speaking to our customers a different way.
Speaker 1: We started empowering our team, and it was like a flywheel, right,
Speaker 1: It was a flywheel that like, this made that better,
Speaker 1: This made that better, this made that better, and now
Speaker 1: now we know what the process looks like. And that
Speaker 1: led to a lot of growth for us.
Speaker 2: Outstanding Chat. I know you've got probably hundreds, if not
Speaker 2: thousands of great stories with customers that have either reached
Speaker 2: out to you if you heard and of course you
Speaker 2: shared one with your co founder and now he was
Speaker 2: able to change his body and his lifestyle and everything.
Speaker 2: But if you had to maybe share just a story
Speaker 2: or too, something that's been very impactful over the last
Speaker 2: decade and a half as you've been with Native Path
Speaker 2: and co founding this company. Are maybe a special story
Speaker 2: that stands out to you that was just really impressive.
Speaker 2: And this is why we get up every day.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure. I mean when I think about stories,
Speaker 1: I love the stories from our customers for sure. And
Speaker 1: every day we get testimonials and pictures from our customers
Speaker 1: giving us things about medications that got off or now
Speaker 1: I can feel better and do things again. I love
Speaker 1: even more the testimonials that we get from our internal team. Right,
Speaker 1: So we have these conversations that we're having. I have
Speaker 1: them every Monday, and we educate, and we have these
Speaker 1: internal Slack channels where the team members are sharing their stories.
Speaker 1: You know, we just had someone today who who stated
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year she was one hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety pounds, so she's already down ten pounds and
Speaker 1: we're six weeks in and she was asking me what
Speaker 1: do I do next? Right, we have a customer experience
Speaker 1: director who came in not completely understanding what we were doing.
Speaker 1: He has since lost forty pounds, he's avoided knee surgery.
Speaker 1: You know. Those things are great. Honestly. One of the
Speaker 1: best ones though, is my mom. My mom. My mom
Speaker 1: had falls, she had hip fractures, you know, she took
Speaker 1: she had lots of surgeries. And one of the things
Speaker 1: I got my mom doing was was Collegen. I said, hey, Mom,
Speaker 1: just take take I wanted her to take a lot.
Speaker 1: I said, take forty grams a day and start doing
Speaker 1: these exercises, drink water, do these things, you know. And
Speaker 1: it was a great thing for me, like a mother
Speaker 1: and a son, like working together to feel better, to
Speaker 1: help my mom stay more mobile, you know, and in
Speaker 1: her late eighties, in her goldens, you know. So it's
Speaker 1: a beautiful story, and we've we've filmed my mom and
Speaker 1: got her story and it's really helped connect to a
Speaker 1: lot of older women and inspire them to take collegen.
Speaker 1: So as far as like what touches me and the most,
Speaker 1: that's probably the one that I appreciate the most.
Speaker 2: Well, that's good, and you know, once again you and
Speaker 2: I can relate because even though I'm older than you
Speaker 2: chat you being a former athlete. As I said, I've
Speaker 2: been at being and floying my whole life about being
Speaker 2: in shape, not in shape, taking care of my body,
Speaker 2: dealing with my ra But I've learned as I've gotten older,
Speaker 2: and I'm a generation exer. I'm one of the first excerpts,
Speaker 2: so i can tell you how old I am, which
Speaker 2: means I didn't get that education early on as a
Speaker 2: seventies kid. But now as I'm getting older and wanting
Speaker 2: to really take care of my body and having a
Speaker 2: twenty two year old in my family who takes wonderful
Speaker 2: care and is also a former athlete too, you know
Speaker 2: this speaks to people that are from my age bracket
Speaker 2: of really paying attention to what I eat, what I drink,
Speaker 2: the collagen, working out, because you know, one of the
Speaker 2: things you know as a physical therapist is that ligaments
Speaker 2: in your bones start to get brittle after you term sixty,
Speaker 2: and yeah, it starts to put you in harm's way.
Speaker 2: That's where I think. You know, while your project is
Speaker 2: for absolutely everybody, for the older generation, it's just imperative
Speaker 2: that you do stuff like this to take care of yourself.
Speaker 2: Would you agree?
Speaker 1: So important? And I'm glad you brought that up. And
Speaker 1: going back to our main customer. Our main customer is
Speaker 1: over sixty five, not surprised they are. They are They're
Speaker 1: looking to solve the exact issues that you're talking about.
Speaker 1: And I really appreciate that because you know, when I
Speaker 1: mentioned I was a home health physical therapist. This is
Speaker 1: the population that I was working with. And I got
Speaker 1: to see what you were saying. The body as it ages,
Speaker 1: how the ligaments get a little looser, we get a
Speaker 1: little more immobile, We maybe have some trouble with getting
Speaker 1: up and down, you know, things things that are happening,
Speaker 1: And it's a it's a thing I noticed with with
Speaker 1: functional mobility. Right, So as we get older, there's a
Speaker 1: potential to lose our balance and have a fall, right,
Speaker 1: And and what happens a lot, And I would see this.
Speaker 1: People would have a fall and they would fracture a
Speaker 1: hip or a femur and they would be stacked. They
Speaker 1: would have surgery to fix that and then they would
Speaker 1: be stagnant for a while. But the health outcomes, what
Speaker 1: life look like after that fall and after that surgery
Speaker 1: starts to really the quality of life starts to go down.
Speaker 1: And there's a stat I think it's like the early
Speaker 1: early mortality after fall, like goes up like one hundred
Speaker 1: percent or something once once you have that fall, and
Speaker 1: on paper it'll look like, oh, this person passed away
Speaker 1: from diabetes or a heart issue or something like that.
Speaker 1: What really happened is that fall set off another host
Speaker 1: of events with someone's health. They weren't eating as much,
Speaker 1: they weren't going out as much, they weren't getting as
Speaker 1: much sun. The body is stagnant, they start eating different fruits,
Speaker 1: and then disease sets in. Right, it's an environment where
Speaker 1: the disease sets in. So mobility, feeling good in your
Speaker 1: joints and your ligaments, being able to do these things
Speaker 1: is so important, right, And that's why I like collagen
Speaker 1: so much, because it is the number one thing that
Speaker 1: helps us with the structure of our body that impacts
Speaker 1: our mobility. It is what makes up the tendons and
Speaker 1: the ligaments and the otator cuff and the sheath and
Speaker 1: your and your bones. You know, the stronger your bones are,
Speaker 1: which is bones are made up of collegen, the less
Speaker 1: likely you're going to have a fracture. So it's part
Speaker 1: of our why we do what we do. I think.
Speaker 2: I think Chad has also mentioned every body part that's
Speaker 2: ever hurting.
Speaker 1: Of us over the age of fifty.
Speaker 2: By the way, I know you'll appreciate this as watching
Speaker 2: and TikTok, and this will show you the algorithm I'm
Speaker 2: in right now where a guy said, hey, when you're
Speaker 2: over fifty, you have to actually think about standing up.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Back when you were younger, you could just pop up.
Speaker 2: But while there's a little truth in every joke, you
Speaker 2: actually you can get over fifty. You actually had to
Speaker 2: physically think about standing up before you do when you
Speaker 2: get older.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you know. That reminds me of one of
Speaker 1: my coaches who coached me. One of the things he
Speaker 1: would always say is fitness evolves. Yeah, you know, the
Speaker 1: things that you're doing when you're twenty and why you're
Speaker 1: doing it is going to be different than your thirties. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: but it's all fitness and we got to keep moving.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we sure do.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: Listen, chat, I really appreciate this conversation. You and I
Speaker 2: could tell for hours on what you do with Native
Speaker 2: Path and all the great products that you offer up.
Speaker 2: And I do want to do this before we give
Speaker 2: the website and how people can just check out your
Speaker 2: beautiful website. I don't know what the products, but the
Speaker 2: recipes are on there, the community is on there that
Speaker 2: you can join, the blog is on there. It's really
Speaker 2: a gorgeous website. But Chad, if you could maybe just
Speaker 2: recap what we've talked about in some final thoughts from you,
Speaker 2: the floor is your, sir.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for saying I mean, as
Speaker 1: far as some final things, Yeah, I just want to
Speaker 1: reiterate there's always an opportunity, as we say, to get
Speaker 1: on the path right. No matter what's going on with
Speaker 1: your health and your life, there's always one step you
Speaker 1: can take to improve a little bit right. And for
Speaker 1: some people that can be a glass of water, that
Speaker 1: can be protein, that can be taking a scoop of collagen.
Speaker 1: But what we're here to do, what Native Path is
Speaker 1: here to do, what I'm personally encouraging you to do,
Speaker 1: is keep taking those steps right, keep doing those things,
Speaker 1: because that is the thing that makes life truly worth living.
Speaker 2: Chad, once again, let's give the website to everybody, so
Speaker 2: they can check everything out just one more time and
Speaker 2: then make sure that everybody checks it out. But if
Speaker 2: there's any other kind of social media or how to
Speaker 2: contact you and your team, let's make sure that they
Speaker 2: get that one more time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely so. I believe that the website we want
Speaker 1: everybody to check out here today is native path ceo
Speaker 1: dot com. Native Path ceo dot com. You can learn
Speaker 1: more about us there and see also learn more about Collegen.
Speaker 1: We also have a great Instagram page. We put out
Speaker 1: lots of great content. It's all education, you know, all education,
Speaker 1: littallisticals and things you think about. You can find us
Speaker 1: on Facebook. As you mentioned, we have a wonderful community
Speaker 1: of I think over seventy thousand people now wow, who
Speaker 1: are all doing what we're doing. And it's a great
Speaker 1: place for inspiration, engagement and supporting people. So those are
Speaker 1: really the main areas of that I would encourage people
Speaker 1: to look for.
Speaker 2: Standing Chad, I get to talk to so many cool
Speaker 2: people that have started their own companies and are having
Speaker 2: so many success stories, but that you're also changing lives.
Speaker 2: I imagine you know. I asked you about getting up
Speaker 2: every day and why you do that and having great stories.
Speaker 2: It just must be so cool for you and your
Speaker 2: team that you are changing lives out there for not
Speaker 2: only wellness when it comes to the physical part, but
Speaker 2: your mind as well too, because folks, if you feel
Speaker 2: good in your body, your mind's going to feel a
Speaker 2: lot better too. And we're all going through everything in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, so I imagine that's just such a big
Speaker 2: thing about why you get up every day.
Speaker 1: Chat.
Speaker 2: I just can't thank you enough for this. I want
Speaker 2: to wish you continued success and thank you so much
Speaker 2: for joining us on CEOs.
Speaker 1: You should know wonderful Dennis, Thank you so much. I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed our conversation. Thank you for having me