Dyslexia can feel like a locked door, but what if it’s actually a different route into mastery?
I sit down with Dr. Tommy Ree, chiropractor, sports medicine clinician, and author of The Future of Regenerative Medicine, to trace the real story behind his success: a childhood of learning challenges, a strict cultural backdrop, and a turning point that pushed him into the Navy, where discipline became a system of micro victories.
We get specific about what helped him learn and perform under pressure, from multi-sensory study methods to repetition, movement, and even a “one song on repeat” memory trick that brings answers back during exams.
Then we shift into regenerative medicine and recovery. Dr. Rhee breaks down prolotherapy, PRP, and stem cell therapy in plain language, plus the problem athletes face with injection-based approaches: downtime.
If you’re chasing purpose, rebuilding confidence, or curious about stem cells, sports recovery, and modern pain solutions, this conversation is for you. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs a reset, and leave a review so more people can find it.
To connect or purchase Dr. Rhee’s book, visit his website at: https://rheegen.com
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Transcript:
If you’ve ever struggled with fear, doubt, or worry and wondering what your true purpose was all about, then this podcast is for you. In this show, your host, Sylvia Warsham, will interview elite experts and ordinary people that have created extraordinary lives. So here’s your host, Sylvia Warsham.
Hey my bringers, it’s Sylvia Warsham. Welcome to Release Out with Real Purpose. And today is Dr. Tommy Ree. And he wrote a book, The Future of Regenerative Medicine. He’s also a chiropractor and works a lot in sports medicine. And as we were talking right now, I could really relate. His story of transformation is one very similar to mine in that he started off with dyslexia. And to get to higher education and having dyslexia, that’s a tough one. Because reading text and being in school, it’s really tough to get through that. And he didn’t give himself any excuses. He’s reached higher levels of consciousness through exercise and through working with people he does. And and so I can totally relate to that because I was, as I was explaining to him, I had several genes that were passed on to me, genetically speaking, that there’s no wonder I have a lack of focus too. I have ADHD and I have um OCD and anxiety, so the triple uh the trilogy of these things, and it could lead to just us making excuses and not moving forward in our life. So I’m really interested to know that amazing story of transformation. So welcome, Dr. Re on our show.
Thank you very much, Sylvia. I really appreciate this. I’m excited about this conversation.
I am too. I think it’s gonna be an incredible one. I do want you to dive deeply into it. How did you land in this space and and how did you manage the dyslexia as you were getting your education?
Well, that’s a that’s a good question here. So let’s start off with uh, of course, being young and and I I grew up, so I grew up my dad was a surgeon. Uh I have families of doctors in my family, and so it was kind of like taught to me at an early age about you know helping people, providing, and you know, just really like listening, listening to how they’re going through their issues and how you kind of like you know examine them and then treat them and work that pattern. So as I’m younger, you know, I’m running around, I’m a very active kid. Like, you know, I I’m the typical Asian guy that you live in an Asian family. So, what’s the first thing your mom puts you into? A musical instrument. And mine was violin. And with with being very active and trying to play instrument, my mom had a hands full. So, I mean, back then it was like you know, spoiled child, spare the rod, what is that? Spare the rod, spoiled child. So uh one thing about like uh what I was uh taught at an early age was practicing, practicing you know, musical instruments over and over. And with notes, you just you’re seeing notes, but you’re also using another sensory, right? So you have hearing, you’re touching. I’m using all the sensories to help me learn these notes as I go further into uh playing the violin. So I started you know at that time, but I always knew that I had challenges at an early age about reading or maybe just like remembering or long-term, short-term memory. I had some kind of I don’t know what it is, and looking back at it now, it was my best defense mechanism because when I have a sh I have no memory, then I don’t remember the bad things in life. So I’m I’m always thinking I had a great childhood, I had a great everything in the best, but if you look at it really carefully, go wait a minute, I forgot about that time or this time. So I had my defense mechanism built into me, uh, probably at an early age that allowed me to go further as I’m going into like goal settings. So so become I’m an active person, I played all the sports, I was very active, I was outside, and you know, learning was that difficulty, and the one thing that I I figured out was you know using more sensory neuron, not just hearing and seeing, but really like feeling, touching, writing down words, learning that words, trying to get that spelling down better. And so um as I go into you know uh high school level, I’m playing sports, and because of that frustration that I had about not expressing myself well, because I’m having that, you know, that that that that thing I’m gonna try to hide from, you know, is it the ADHD? Is it dyslexia? There’s something in there that’s inhibiting me from being expressive. So because of my frustrations, you know, and I’m also you know, you’re a teenage kid, you’re going through your hormones, you get kind of like you know, physical in the sense that you’re you’re being more violent. Thank God I played sports so I can have an outlet with that. So with sports, it allowed me to kind of like get that stuff out of me so I won’t like carry that on in the actual classroom setting. But I, you know, but because of that time in my life, uh, I got in trouble. Like probably every kid out there, and uh except for I got caught. So once I get caught, and you’re getting in trouble, and and then you realize that this is not the pattern, and thank God that I did come across this uh problem that allowed me to have uh the ability to be forced into the military. So I went in the Navy, and the thing about the military looking back, it was the best thing for me. It it took care of the physical side of me and also taught me how to work with my my I mean, dyslexia, learning, disability. I just know that we all have something, and that was my one something, right? I had that issue, and of course, my little overactivity self. So, but the military, what they do is they target everybody, not just like the brilliant mind, and there’s all they’re also looking at slow people like me that can’t really comprehend or they go too fast when they try to break things down. So they taught you in a slow methodical way of breaking things down with these micro victories, little winds, you know, do this project, get that wind, stop, and keep going and progress further, higher and higher. So, with that, the military taught me, you know, don’t quit, set your goals, don’t look at the long-term goal, look at the short-term goal, it’ll get you the long-term, and then be persistent. So, because of that, it allowed me to fly in the Navy. I I passed many hard, difficult tests, and you know, it really enhanced my uh ability to cope with what I had. So, because of that, I was confident that I said, okay, I think I’m ready for college. And when I went to college, it was an easy transition. It was like it was no, it was not difficult because you have the ability to learn based on what the military taught, and then here I am applying to college. So, but of course, you know, I had to work a little extra because you know, in college you can get away with a lot because it’s multiple choice scantrons. Remember those little things you bubble in the so yeah now you you can kind of go into it. When you read, you can kind of like see a sentence and you understand, hey, I think I know what it’s about, and you don’t have to go into real detail. So once I got out of college, it’s it’s it’s not difficult. You know, you can kind of wing it through college. Now, once I got into you know upper upper division stuff, like when I’m going to my you know chiropractic school and I’m going now, I’m going into something more difficult when you’re taking like 30, 35 units per semester. Now the difficulty’s showing up. Now I have to actually, there’s no more real scantrons, it’s filling the end, you know, filling the answers. And believe it or not, spelling count. So here I am being challenged, and then I’m thinking, how am I gonna do this? So then because of the military and just what they taught in the micro winds, you start slow. So I would go to the hospital in the cafeteria because that was the only place I was open 24 hours a day, and you’re allowed to go in there, I’ll do my studies there. And like for someone like you know, like a like a I wouldn’t say normal, but somebody that my classmates, they can say they can see the word like satorious and just kind of sound it out and spell it correctly. Well, not me. I I I I can say it, but to apply it onto a piece of paper, very difficult. So here I am in the cafeteria, just writing that word out like a spelling be, satorious, you know, doing that 10 to 20 times until I get that and onto the next word. So my my studies, you know, if someone took three, four hours for a study session, it’ll take me double or triple the time. But what that did for me was that it really ingrained those words into me by not just by seeing it, hearing, but touching, you know, using my senses. So that’s what really kind of maybe uh impacted my learning was just understanding that and moving forward from that type of challenges and working through it and then never quitting, never quitting. That’s that’s the one thing that I always tell anybody. It’s it’s easy to start something, but it’s to finish like the marathon. Anybody can start the race, it’s to finish that race. It doesn’t matter if you walk or crawl, just continue your movement. And so that’s what I started seeing. So as my I guess you know, as you’re doing this process of developing this new person that can, you know, overcome things, things start not looking at they’re not looking like a challenge, they’re looking like just it’s a fun game of how can I manipulate this so I can achieve my goal. And I take those bob bites and I go into it. So as I go further into it, then I start seeing now. My world’s starting to open up. Now I’m looking at these little voids in the world where there’s like, you know, like someone like me that can’t they can’t do the normal way of learning or processing. You gotta fill that void with a process. So then I start thinking, well, if I can do if I can learn this way, maybe I can apply it to other type of like you know, uh observation and then try to decipher what I’m doing and then apply it onto a paper or some type of format so I can express that way. So the next thing I learned is that that whole kind of like that that formula that I’m looking at starts being applied to like gaps in the industry if it’s like like therapy or modalities or uh a typical, like for instance, like a sprain strain, they have a classic, you know, like a therapy that you just basically you rest an ice or something, but then you start thinking about the actual the physiology of the tissue and understanding that and then what why why can’t we heal this faster? So then you look at the the sports medicine world, then you look at the gaps that they have in there. Everybody’s trying to figure out the fastest way to recover without you know compromising neighboring tissue. So then you start thinking about all right, so then you look at these machines out there and you see these things, and then you start like seeing these little voids in the world that if I can just speed up the healing, if I can do this, if I can do that, it’ll be better. Just like when I looked at when I was reading a book or trying to understand a question and a test, I would try to understand a different way of looking at this question instead of going the normal pattern just reading it, I would kind of go backwards and forwards and try to find my formula. But now that I’m going into my practice and I’m seeing the patients trying to understand about the injuries, how to heal faster, then I started going into regenerative medicine. Now, when you go to regenerative medicine, that that starts all the way from equipment. You’re all you’re trying to do is generate your existing stem cell, your adult stem cells. Or if they’ve gone in a thing called like a zombie state, then you have to go into something else that you have to introduce something else to signal your existing tissue to turn on. So that’s why when I started off with uh regenerative medicine, it started off with like prolotherapy, then PRP and stem cell therapy, but they’re all delivered through an injection, you have to inject the area. Then you start thinking about well, these athletes can’t do it during the season because when you do an injection, you can’t do nothing for a couple of weeks because you want the tissue to absorb back and heal. Could you meet a secondary injury? So now the next thing you want to think about is all right, so there is a void, there is something there that needs to be kind of filled in, and that’s how a topical stem cell application got developed. So I started looking into an easy type of delivery system for these stem cells, these little signalers to signal your existing tissue to turn on and say, All right, regenerate, turn on, multiply. So that’s where the topical side came in. The topical is that type of application that you can avoid the injection with no downtime, and the most important things are there’s no risk factors, and cost is so much cheaper. Now we can get it back in the patient’s hands. So now I start seeing that whole world that I was at and the actual like my my learning disability, and then now I apply that same kind of like that formulation that I did to formulate the how to answer questions, how to interpret what I’m reading, and then I’m applying to the real world practicals models that are out there, and it’s like it’s it’s now it’s starting to be easy to me. It’s like I see something, I can fix it based on my ideas. Now I gotta prove it and do a little bit more research. So it’s almost interesting what we talked about before is like, how do we get here? How did my that dyslexia that I had or I have, I still have it, how did it get me to here where I’m trying to solve puzzles, I’m trying to solve mysteries, I’m trying to speed up healing. So it’s almost like it was built into me to go through that process so I can sit here. But the one thing I do know that I can’t be here without that one that one thought is don’t quit. Don’t ever quit, no matter what. So I learned that in the military, if you don’t quit, you never lose. You would never fail. So just continue. It doesn’t matter what pace you’re at, just keep on going. Just do what you can and assess it. So I I hope it kind of uh I kind of gave you the little window of my life from the from the little Tommy all the way to where I’m at now.
You did, you did, and I had a couple of questions for you as you were talking, going back to the little Tommy years. I know you said you grew up Asian. I can’t imagine. I know that in my culture, in the Mexican culture, it was frowned upon to have these learning disabilities, if you will. How was it for you, like when your parents discovered that you had dyslexia? Because what what culture are you? You say Asian, but which one?
So um I was born in Malaysia, and my parents were born in Tokyo, and they’re Korean, and uh so it’s that mixture of I hear the language they speak, and it’s like a mixture of Japanese, Korean, and then of course English. So I was brought up in that world. So I imagine that’s difficult, right? In that culture. You know, the funny thing is I swear, that’s a surgeon, right? So he was a he I think he was in denial. He’s no, not my kid. Let me let me give you an example how strict they were. They, you know, you know, like I guess in our culture you have to be a certain way, sit a certain so I’m left-handed. That explains a lot too. So I’m left-handed, but my dad refused uh that I was left-handed, so he would take uh my left hand, put a glove and put it behind my back and tied me up like that. You’ll never use your left hand. But because of that, he taught me how to be like, you know, uh I wouldn’t say um stubborn or like uh defiant, but I refused to do anything. I refused to eat, right? I just stood there and I sat there. Uh it felt like weeks, but probably like maybe just a couple days. But I I was I was tied up like that. And that set I guess that set the actual like the motion of me like trying to fight and figure things out on my own, you know. And then but the neat thing about it is that it it’ll it it taught me how to believe in myself, you know. And I think at that early age, you gotta be careful how you raise your kids, you know. If you’re gonna teach us, if you’re gonna really break this kid like you’re gonna like a break a wild horse, you better be ready to go all the way through it. Don’t stop halfway because he says, I give up. So now I learned the lesson because home look, I can if I fight what I really believe and what I want, I get what I want. So I think I set the standard of my uh future here.
Yeah. I love that because it you’re right, parents have to be very careful, especially coming from these cultures of mental health doesn’t necessarily mean it’s it’s a bad thing. I know that my my son’s father, my first husband, was in denial almost that our son had any sort of anxiety, like it was beneath him, like that’s bad, that’s not supposed to happen to us. And it’s like, but why? This is just their genetics. Sometimes we are we find ourselves in these positions because our minds are designed very specifically for specific roles, and until we go through that process and that journey, we won’t we we won’t see that, right? But from the from the base value, like my dad was also a surgeon, and my dad, um, he was a urologist. Um, he passed away last year, but he um it’s okay. And I, you know, he’s he was someone that I believe very highly in in being the best version of you, and he came from a hugely abusive household. I don’t know how he wasn’t abusive himself, he really wasn’t. He um he was someone that promoted you know being the best version. But so then for us, it was like, okay, we we’ve got a task here, we’ve got to find our way through this somehow, right? I know that with with me, they didn’t really diagnose me. I had ADD, not ADHD, um, which is very easily um like girls don’t get diagnosed very easily. The boys do, because the boys are really hyperactive. And so they can see right away and they’re like, okay, he can’t sit still, he just, you know, he’s back and forth and can’t even sit in a chair and listen to instruction. And so they put my brother, who is a doctor, into therapy at the time, right? And then he started taking Ritalin because it was like to get them to like sit still. I they missed me entirely. I was the oldest. And um, but it’s interesting, I I love your journey because it it reminds me so much of my own, you know. Like I was that defined. I was the one that told my father, I was like, because he told me he’s like, you’re either gonna be a doctor or a lawyer, pick, and I said, neither. And he was just like, What? No, that’s not successful, and this is the way of the world, and blah, blah, blah. And I’m like, that’s not who I am. And I stood my ground, and I’m glad I did, because if I hadn’t, I wouldn’t have landed in this space ever, you know. Uh, but I do think your journey did build on itself. I I find it so interesting how that works out that you didn’t feel you knew that going directly to college would probably would have been difficult for you and decided to go to the military. Why the military? Why why do you think that was for you? Did you hear something inside of you that that little voice that said you need to go here first? Or how did you determine that?
I I was a bad kid. I was one of those kids that knew that they were gonna be in a lot of trouble. Yeah, I just knew deep down that this is not the lifestyle I wanted, and running around with a bad group of people, just doing dumb things, you know, and then you know, okay, I got arrested, and then being arrested kind of wakes you up a little bit, then you get arrested again, and he goes, Okay. Then you’re sort of like back then it was like almost forced into you, you know, you’re sitting in front of the judge and he’s having a conversation, and he started sort of talks to you like a like a father figure, and he goes, you know, you’re heading down a bad path, you need to straighten yourself out. And that’s why the military, I mean, it it was a blessing in disguise, believe it or not.
Yeah, sometimes our darkest chapters lead us to our greatest light.
Yeah.
Um, until we go through a dark, and why we have to go through the dark chapters beyond me, but but some of us don’t learn until we go like we get knocked into it. In my case, the mocking into it came with a medical crisis in 2012, because I just wasn’t listening to that voice inside my heart that was saying, You’re on the wrong path, you’re not supposed to be here and try to guide me. I’m very faith-based, and but there’s a reason for that. Um, not just because I grew up in it, but because I um nearly died. And when you nearly die and you face death straight on, it’s really hard to unsee certain things once you feel them and go through that journey. And I knew that God was reaching out to me. Like, baby girl, you’re on the wrong path here. I know you think you need to be a higher cheer like your dad, you know, perfections like your dad, but that’s not where your joy and love is gonna come from. So I have to redirect you. And it sounds like your bad years were the form of redirection for you that landed you in the military, and then from that space, then you could go into chiropractic school and apply these lessons. So so guide us a little bit more on what those processes were like for you. Uh processes from uh from military to uh chiropractic school and then on to regenerative.
I so the military, you know, uh so going back to the military, uh when I was Not so much force, but you know, I went in the military because I had no other options and I knew that. So the process from that point on was just just accept what they give you. Just just let’s go with this thing. So I didn’t go with a like an assigned job or anything, but I at least I have a high enough this this entry-level test they call it as bad score. You know, I scored really well. I’m good at math, but not the English component. And that wasn’t really like one of those heavy kind of uh tests to study or test you on English. So I did very well with the science side of it. So because of that, you know, they said, Hey, do you like to fly? Can you swim? Can you do this? I go, Oh yeah, I can do all that stuff. So then I went down that pipeline of aviation, you know, and then you go through all these tests and you, you know, mostly physical tests to see your anatomy if you can handle these things, and you just go through all these battery tests. So, but the process from that point on was is just testing, testing, and then moving on to the next school and moving on to the next kind of evolution. So, with that, it it subconsciously taught you all right, look at what’s in front of you right now and take just one step, one movement at a time. Don’t look at the whole entire thing to get your wings to start flying in the world. Start with this class, this test, work your way up that way. And it really like kind of honed you into not going too far in the future and just staying right in the present and moving a little bit forward. And then it really learned I really learned that with that, you take what you have and you just take steps. You take steps. So then once I got out of the military and I went to college, it was an easy transition. I mean, the transition for me just to apply that principle into learning, simple. Then you figure out, wow, I have a lot of free time, so I play football. So I you know I play football. And the neat thing with that is that it allowed me to get physical again because the military has its physical components. So now college are days when I’m playing. But now I’m into um you know, going to chiropractor school, and now learning is a big key ingredient, and then I’m applying it, but it’s more difficult, it’s it’s every step is a challenge, it’s a little bit more of a bigger step, you know. So, like a like a how would you think like a stair, stairway? It’s like you know, so many inches high, right? Each step. Well, I think life is a little more interesting that once you get used to that, you have to think now, what’s my next evolution or what’s my next, then increase that step a little higher. Get a little bit taller in your step. And then all it is is that where you’re at, you’re just adding yourself a little bit more stressor to get acclimated to that. Now you can handle that, so it’s a little bit a little stronger and a little tougher. So as I go through school in the chiropractic school, one thing I always kept in back in my mind is being physical. So I would go running, working out, I needed that component. And another thing that really helped me with someone like me, I guess some of you guys understand this is that um repetition. I’m all about repetition with music instruments, with learning repetition, studying, learning your you know how to spell word. And one thing I did when I came through like tests or anything that have to do with memorization, I would listen to one song. That one song I would play if I’m studying for three, four hours, you know, I’ll listen to that one song over and over again in that in that particular uh subject. Because when I’m taking my test and I get stuck, I start humming that song or I start thinking about that song, all of a sudden all the answers come back. It’s the weirdest thing. So these are the things that you learn, you know. I I I I’m grateful where where I’m at, but I also know that it was like you were saying you’re spiritual, I’m very spiritual too. So knowing that, you know, it’s not really me doing this thing, you know, there’s a reason why we were built this way. It’s it’s diversity we had to go through to put you in this position where now you can overcome anything. So I I really see that I’m not all my effort comes from me, but those voices inside my head are not my voices, they’re from up above. They’re telling you you can do this, and then I always ask, Why are you putting these things in my head? Why are you putting these things? You know, like for instance, I I have these patent pending formulations that I’m doing right now. And I have I have so many, you know, inventions that are they’re working in this process, and I I always myself, why me? Why am I all of a sudden want to do these things? It’s like it’s built into me to put it on paper, get it rolling, and get that finished. And then, you know, like anybody I look back at my friends that that have thought about like doing like a book or doing a patent, it’s in their heads, they don’t put it on to fruition, they don’t actually do the physical side of it. And that’s what that’s what person like me or us that have been through that kind of component of like had to fight through to get where we’re at. Well, now it’s like an easy segue into life right here. Because, okay, well, it’s no big deal, it’s just do it and it happens, just like how we had our problems with spelling.
Yeah, yeah. Well, in my case, I was pretty good at spelling. I sucked at math. That was it was my nemesis. So I ended up going the the different route from science and math, right? Which is where the doctors, the the my sister and brother both became doctors. So I told him I looked at my dad, I was like, You got two out of three, okay? You should be fine. He goes, but you should have been a lawyer. And I said, I understand where you’re coming from, but that’s fear-based. That’s a very fear-based look at it. You had to fight your way through here, dad. And I get why you’re saying it, but I’m just not that’s not my that’s who not who I was created to be, Dad. I was created to be an author. I was created to be use language. I I learned languages very quickly, I connect to people very quickly, you know. Uh, towards the end of his life, it was interesting. He actually said something of, of all my children, you’re the one I least worry about. That was a huge compliment. Finally, I’m like, I took forever. Because he said, You are the most like me. Because what he didn’t realize was in my first act, I became I stayed in the medical world. I worked for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, so I was earning like a six-figure salary. I worked really hard. I was a top performer for them. Um, I didn’t have an easy journey. Um, I ended up getting married very young, and then get he asked for a divorce. So we got divorced and I had a little boy. So I stayed in that act for a little bit longer, and then I had a medical crisis that really put that in perspective. And like, why did I survive when soy bull die? I had pulmonary embolisms and bud carry syndrome. Um, and for those that don’t know what Bud Carrie is, it’s like it it attacks the liver and it’s a blood clot that uh gets formed in the vena cava, and it’s very deadly. Um, and I faced an 80% chance of dying. So when you when you face that and you surrender to God’s will and to your plan for your life, everything shifts for you. It really does. It’s an but it’s a lot um easier said than done because in this world we’re so used to controlling our circumstances and wanting to control them and be a certain way, you know. I mean, we both grew up with with fathers like that. They were surgeons, they had to fight for everything they had, you know. And then when they have that immigrant mentality, it it kind of also affects you because it’s you got to prove yourself to be worthy, right, in this country. And this is like what the mentality they come with, and that’s how they teach us. And so then if you don’t, if you’re not successful, then you’re not worthy. It’s kind of like a really bad way to grow up sometimes. And to unlearn that, God had to take his, he was I call him the great surgeon, he had to take his scalpel and just like remove those elements that just didn’t align to the person he created me to be. And that took a couple of years. He he took everything from me. Like he took the job with the six-figure salary, and he said, You’re gonna be a stay-in-home parent now. And that was so hard for a type A like me. I was so used to achieving to feel worthy, and then my paycheck got taken away, and that’s how my worth was determined as a woman. You know, and it was just it was a lot of things. Now I look back after I wrote my book, and I had to sit and reflect on those years, all those major turning points, and I realized God had a whole hand in that. He took all my choices and he and he turned them towards his purpose. And he was with me the whole time. I’m the one that turned away from him, you know, because I thought he had abandoned me halfway through my journey. And for 10 years, while I was married to my first husband, I turned away. I I I thought that the hypocrisy I experienced in the Catholic Church was God being hypocritical. And that’s not God, that’s just people being human, making mistakes with you, right? Um, but I didn’t know that. And so then when he asked for the divorce, and I was faced with like a really dark chapter, I had just been promoted advisor, and they were like, you’ve got six months to turn this territory around. You’re gonna lose your promotion, you’re gonna lose your job. And I had a little boy, and I had all these things, you know. So I look back at my life, Dr. Re, and I see all those experiences and building on those experiences and why those were so necessary for me to land in this spot right now, just like you, you know. So there’s that the alignment piece. I know that you’ve shared a lot of wisdom that just getting physical and building, doing baby steps. It doesn’t matter where you start, it’s how you finish. I totally agree with that. What’s next for you beyond this book? What do you think? You think you’ve found your divine purpose, or do you think you’re moving on to the next level?
I I don’t know. God’s got a plan, and my goal is just to keep moving my feet forward. So from the book, uh The Future of Regenerative Medicine, uh, that was so that was a that was for a need, a necessity for my product region. So I developed a topical stem cell cream. Now the thing with that is that I had to basically repeat myself over and over again. What is stem cells? What do they do? What is it the live cells or is it the signaling molecules? Is it this, is it that? So that’s why I wrote the book. I had to like basically it was for my own like selfish reasons to write the book because I don’t keep on repeating myself, and I would say just here, read read chapter three, read chapter seven here, take a look at this. So um, but it opened up a lot of things with that book. So now my next adventure is you know, continue on the region, topical stem cell, and then work on redeveloping it, make it more readable to other people that they can get a hold of the stuff. So then the price point of right, the tissue that we get from the region it comes from the umbilical cord, and so it’s very costly. So we’re gonna go to another source that’s that’s gonna be very inexpensive, and you know, we’re gonna see how we’re gonna get that in the patient’s hands faster. So that’s what my goal is is to really help people, number one, feel faster, get on, get them out of pain. I really feel there’s a reason why I’m sitting here talking to you and to you, you know, having your listeners listen. You know, there there is a sense of where I was at, what I’ve dealt with to become where I’m at. But there’s also the other component of you know, what’s what keeps my momentum going? Where’s that, where’s that like that that potential moving to kinetic movement? Where is that from? How is that possible? How I’m just keep moving forward, and definitely, you know, God is a big ingredient in my life. If I didn’t have him here, I would be I would be lost right now. There are dark times, and the only person that always always had my back was God. I I’m at the lowest point in my life, and it’s that calling that you’re like, is it me? No, then you know you you you hear it’s us. It’s like then you start thinking, Oh, this is this is am I talking to myself? No, you’re not talking to yourself, you’re talking to someone else that’s way above you. So with that, I push forward. I just I just put the trust in him and I just push forward, and I just figure out there’s no time to rest. I don’t need sleep. I just keep going and let and let look he’ll tell you when to sleep, he’ll say, All right, here’s here’s a virus for you, get sick real quick, you’ll rest because no, thank you. So then I’ll get sick and then recover and then I’m back at it again. So my next steps you were saying are uh to continue on with my topical stem cell cream region and really push other products that I’m gonna start, you know, getting my patents done, and then hopefully you can get out there. And then people again, my objective is to get people out of pain, and I believe that’s what I’m here for.
I love your story. I can’t tell you why I love your story so much. There’s a lot of alignment here, and it wasn’t a coincidence that we landed um in this space today, um, because I know that when you launch that, this is when this podcast is going to be released, and it’s gonna be perfect for you and perfect for the people that are gonna benefit from that. See, God sees all that. We can’t possibly do that. That’s why relying on him is so vital to our success as human beings, uh, to our purpose, to his purpose, right? Is to listen to that voice and tune out like all the other lack of um like we had fathers that meant well, they just their tactics weren’t so great. You know, we just had a heavenly father that said, Don’t worry, I’ll take care of those two later, you know, and that he’ll reach them somehow. Um, he reached us enough to say, you’re on the right path, this is your path, and I’m I’m just gonna shift you from that. This is what’s gonna happen to you, Tommy, and this is how it’s gonna shift you. And Sylvia, you’re gonna have a nice little medical complication, and you’re gonna realize I know how you think, and I know that you’re gonna get to the root cause of why you survived, and you’re gonna be stubborn enough, like taught me here, and stick with it, like trying to understand what my purpose was, right? Because it it wasn’t just gonna happen and uh it was just gonna go out of sight, out of mind. No, he knew I was gonna think about it, and like he knew that you were gonna you did not want that life, and that’s why you put yourself in the military to get in line with your purpose, and I find that so amazing. Um last words of encouragement you want to leave us with Dr.
Re um. I tell you know, I’ve got three kids, you know, they’re in their late 20s, early 30s, and I always tell them don’t ever quit. If you just find your passion, don’t quit. Enjoy the ride, just go forward. And believe it or not, you know, don’t really think about money, think about why you’re here. Listen to the voice inside you, and then really like cherish that conversation you have with yourself, and then find a way to apply it in real world and move forward. So I guess the biggest thing is that that just listen well, you know. There’s always clues that that that they’re out there, and then if we’re blinded by negativity or something that’s kind of like you know leading you the wrong path, there’s clues out there, and if you’re not really acute or you don’t have your good, your heart open, you’ll never receive it.
That’s amazing. Thank you so much for those words of encouragement. I wish my kids were here to listen to that. I’m a 20-year-old and a seem to be an 11-year-old almost turning 21, the way she accents. I’m like, oh, this will be fun in the teenage years. But um you’re right, not quitting. I mean, just put one baby step in front of the other. Baby steps forward. As long as you’re moving forward, it doesn’t matter. Because you’re moving. If you’re staying there, that’s on you. You know, that darkness, and there’s so many opportunities he gives us. Uh but we if we don’t tune our hearts to him and our minds to hear that whisper, because it’s sometimes a whisper, it’s not a loud scream. You gotta tune it out. That means that the outside world can’t be influencing you too much. You gotta turn away from that, get physical. Like Dr. E. You know, when we’re out in nature and we’re running or we’re doing this board, our mind gets clear. When our mind gets clear, it gets decluttered. That means we can hear these thoughts as they come, and then you’ll know right away when it’s the discernment piece of knowing the Holy Spirit shows up for me. I get this tingling sensation that starts at the crown of my head and it centers in my heart. And as you were speaking, Dr. Reed, that was happening. So I was like, oh, there’s somebody on this side on the other side of this podcast that certain things he’s saying is gonna land exactly the way they need to land. And so the only way to get there is to declare the mind, do it however. Writing, journaling, getting in nature, exercising, whatever works for you, it’s really your game. Um, for the listeners of release that with real purpose, I just want you to remember, Matthew 5.14, to always be the light, be the light like Dr. Re. Don’t let your dark chapters define you. Step into your light with confidence and courage and faith. Have a wonderful week. Stay safe. Love y’all. Bye bye now.
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