Dr. Maggie Yu, MD, IFMCP, is a holistic and functional family practice physician, the CEO at MY.MD Biotherapeutics, and the Founder of Transform Autoimmune Disease Naturally. For over 16 years, she has provided education and training on topics like longevity and reversing chronic diseases through various media platforms. With over 25 years of education and practice, Dr. Maggie has helped thousands of patients overcome chronic symptoms through a healing-centric education system that meets patients’ unique needs. She is also the author of 8 Out of The Box Ways to Transform Your Health.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
- [06:16] Dr. Maggie Yu discusses how Transform personalizes healthcare through education and expert guidance
- [09:22] Dr. Maggie’s personal health journey and the mistakes that led her to functional medicine
- [10:30] How hormone imbalances can be the root cause of various chronic symptoms
- [18:30] Dr. Maggie shares why she started Transform
- [23:08] Reasons for moving away from traditional clinical practice to online education and group mentorship
- [24:55] The importance of proper hormone testing and why conventional blood tests may fail
- [30:07] The evolution of Transform health programs and how they address different facets of chronic illness
- [36:23] Food mapping program and the variety of trauma it addresses
- [39:50] Transform’s customer success stories
- [51:15] Dr. Maggie discusses leadership and mentorship
In this episode…
Have you ever felt dismissed by the medical system? Imagine suffering from severe pain, hair loss, and brain fog so intense that conventional medicine offers no solutions other than antidepressants and dismissive explanations. What if there was a different approach that could finally make a difference?
Dr. Maggie Yu delves into her transformative journey from debilitating health challenges to becoming a beacon of hope for those struggling with similar issues. She unravels the limitations of traditional medical practices and unveils the comprehensive strategies she uses in her functional medical program, Transform, which combines personalized data, detailed education, and live expert guidance to target root causes of chronic diseases. By embracing a broader perspective on health, specifically examining the intertwined roles of hormones, digestion, and autoimmune responses, Dr. Maggie has developed a winning formula for treating conditions traditional doctors deemed untreatable.
In this episode of Inspired Insider Podcast, Dr. Jeremy Weisz interviews Dr. Maggie Yu, MD, IFMCP, about her revolutionary approach to handling chronic health issues. Dr. Maggie discusses how Transform personalizes healthcare through education and expert guidance, the mistakes that led her to functional medicine, how hormone imbalances can be the root cause of various chronic symptoms, and the evolution of Transform health programs.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Dr. Maggie Yu: LinkedIn | Website | YouTube
- 8 Out of the Box Ways to Transform Your Health: From Confusion to Confidence: The Playbook for Whole Body Wellness by Dr. Maggie Yu
- MY.MD Biotherapeutics
- Transform podcast
Special Mention(s):
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- “[Top Giver Series] How to Triple Your Profits and Impact with Dan Kuschell of Breakthrough3x” on the Inspired Insider Podcast
- “Happiness, Health, and Love to All The World with the Ice Man Wim Hof of wimhofmethod.com and innerfire.nl” on the Inspired Insider Podcast
- “How Different Drinks Can Impact Your Health with Kara Goldin Founder of Hint” on the Inspired Insider Podcast
- “Learn to Memorize Anything & Speed Read with Jim Kwik [Accelerated Learning – Brain Health]” on the Inspired Insider Podcast
- “Utilizing Micro-Movements with Lee Richter Co-Founder of MyPetThrives.com & GoAskLee.com” on the Inspired Insider Podcast
Quotable Moments:
- “I took those problems, I eat them for breakfast, please give me some lunch and dinner to feast on.”
- “When you know better, you do better.”
- “Food can become medicine, healing, nourishing, and loving.”
- “What other people’s stories have about you is about them.”
- “90% of what we learn is from listening to the questions and answers we didn’t ask.”
Action Steps:
- Be proactive with healthcare by seeking comprehensive and personalized testing beyond what insurance covers: It allows for a deeper understanding of root causes that standard tests may not reveal.
- Prioritize digestion as the first step toward overall health improvement: Effective digestion is foundational to nutrient absorption and identifying food sensitivities that contribute to chronic symptoms.
- Approach health with curiosity and open-mindedness about treatment options: Curiosity drives exploration of alternative methods and education that can lead to more effective and personalized health solutions.
- Invest in education about health conditions and their interconnectedness: Learning about the body’s complex systems facilitates informed decisions and can uncover overlooked relationships between symptoms and diseases.
- Consider the benefits of group learning and mentorship for health education: Experiencing shared knowledge and case studies provides valuable insights and reinforces learning for lifelong health skills.
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Episode Transcript
Intro 0:01
You are listening to Inspired Insider with your host, Dr Jeremy Weisz.
Jeremy Weisz 0:22
Dr. Jeremy Weisz here, founder of inspiredinsider.com, where I talk with inspirational entrepreneurs and leaders, today is no different. I have Dr. Maggie Yu. You can check her out at drmaggieyu.com, she also has a book Out Of The Box. You can check it out, outofthebox.com and we’ll talk, Dr. Maggie, I’m gonna formally introduce you in a second. I always like to mention other podcasts that people should check out episodes Dan Kuschell. Big shout out to Dan Kuschell. We met because of Dan Kuschell, we did an episode. I think I’ve done two episodes with him. How to triple your profits and impact with Dan Breakthrough 3x you can check that episode out. Since this is part of kind of the health and longevity series, Dr. Maggie, I had Wim Hof on the podcast. He talked about happiness, health and love, and talked it was crazy, like the breathing techniques. Have you ever done experiments with Wim Hof stuff?
Dr. Maggie Yu 1:22
Yes, yes and yes. So I have great friends who also worked with him and trained with him as well. He actually wrote the preface of Shane Sanders book and their breath coaches too. So I am a huge fan of Roth work and people who work with amazing people like Hoff.
Jeremy Weisz 1:42
It’s a really amazing episode. I think it was close to two hours, and it was just true Wim Hof style, you could see his right eye because he think he was on an iPhone, and the video is great, but I like practiced his methods for like, 60 days before the interview, just to be familiar with it. It’s, yeah, it’s amazing stuff. Also, Kara Goldin. Kara Goldin is the founder of Hint Water, and she talks about how different drinks can impact your health. And she was impacted with health, and that’s why she actually one of the impetus of her starting Hint Water. So that was a great one.
Dr. Maggie Yu 2:24
My nephew loves Hint Water. And we all we’re always like, kind of like, it’s an inside joke in our family. And we’re like, did you want to Hint to this, or did you want to Hint of that? And, like, just a hint, just a hint.
Jeremy Weisz 2:36
Poking fun. Yeah. I mean, it’s not too sweet, and so makes it healthy. It’s just hint. Jim Kwik was another one. He talked about learning to memorize anything and speed reading. And so that was a really good one, kind of like a brain health-accelerating learning episode. So that, and many more on inspiredinsider.com. This episode is brought to you by Rise25. And at Rise25 we help businesses give to and connect their dream relationships and partnerships. How do we do that? We do that by helping you run your podcast. We’re an easy button for a company to launch and run a podcast. And Dr. Maggie Yu, you know this.
We do the accountability, the strategy and the full execution. So we’re kind of like the magic elves that run in the background and make it look easy for the host. So they create amazing content, create amazing relationships, and, most importantly, run their business. For me, the number one thing in my life is relationships, and I’m always looking at ways to give to my best relationships, and I’ve really found no better way, over the past decade, to profile the people and companies I most admire and share with the world what they’re working on. So if you thought about podcasting, you should, if you have questions, go to rise25.com you want to say something…
Dr. Maggie Yu 3:52
I want to give you a shout-out. Thanks to you. You’ve introduced me to some amazing people and podcasts, and I just got off of the veterinary life, and that’s with Julie Kapil. And I had so much fun going into, I’m a functional medicine doctor, and so it was so much fun going into holistic pet health, which is a huge binge love of mine. So thank you to you for introducing me to amazing people like Julie Kapil.
Jeremy Weisz 4:18
Awesome. And then Lee Richter, people can check out that episode as well. And she talked about how they built up a huge pet space Hospital, a veterinary hospital, and then ended up selling it. And that was a cool story. And her and her husband are really big in the holistic vet space. But I want to formally introduce Dr. Maggie Yu. She is a 28 year functional medicine MD, best-selling author, the best-selling book I mentioned before, titled 8 Out Of The Box Ways To Transform Your Health. She loves to tackle the unsolvable, complex health conditions.
The glutton for punishment, in my opinion, because these are some of the hardest ones. We’re talking autoimmune diseases, post-dysautonomia, mast cell activation, histamine issues, long Covid, hormone issues. I can go on and on, and you tackle these. And I actually just referred someone to you a couple weeks ago, because when I hear these things, I’m like just go talk to Dr. Maggie on this. And she’s really an incredible speaker and educator, and it comes from her own personal journey with this. So she has experienced this stuff actually herself, and that’s how they took her down this path. She’s very active on social media too. I think when I went to your YouTube, you have a podcast as well. There’s like over 100,000 people, subscribers who watch and listen to your stuff. So thanks for joining me.
Dr. Maggie Yu 6:00
I’m excited to be here. I can’t wait to dig in.
Jeremy Weisz 6:03
So just start off a little bit. And this is the video. I’m going to share my screen with your site, but just talk a little bit about what you do. We’ll go back to your journey a little bit, but talk about what you do as a company.
Dr. Maggie Yu 6:16
What I do as a company is I educate. I love education. Do you know the root for the word doctors? It’s Latin root is actually teacher. And I feel like I know how far have we come away from doctors as teachers, and part of it is our own training. And so for me, what we do transform is my company with Maggie Yu MD, and what we do is I look at impossible to deal with chronic health symptoms that we just went over. But I love to take the model where we take your personalized data, the right data, number two, education and the number three, live expert guidance and to really tackle impossible-to-solve problems for my root cause level. And I think that out there there’s a lot of Whack a Mole going on. Well, in the conventional world, there’s a lot of this pill or the surgery for your problem.
And then in the holistic medicine world, there’s a lot of Whack-a-Mole going on with people not really looking at the order of operations, or even everything single thing that needs to happen. So all those pieces are missing. And so I love to bring order to the madness and expertise and mastery to every single level, every level of the problem. That’s what we do. So I work with people with different programs, different types of journeys, working through thyroid disorders, hormonal imbalances, food sensitivity and food trauma issues. And I have programs that combine all these layers to deal with impossible-to-solve problems like chronic autoimmune disease, pots, dysautonomia, mast cell, you name it. Autism spectrum. We got you.
Jeremy Weisz 7:56
Which is the most popular I’m looking here. Dr. Maggie, you’re saying you have different types of programs in the transform program, the hormone program, food mapping, thyroid masterclass, yeah, is the transform kind of the most people, yeah. Talk about Transform.
Dr. Maggie Yu 8:11
This Transform program is our flagship program, and it is my five pillars approach, and it really takes a look at what are some of the major root causes of all autoimmune disease and chronic disease, and they involve things like, for example, blood sugar, blood sugar, digestion, nutrient density, hormone balancing, thyroid balancing, and gut health and all the mindset work and limiting beliefs that we got to blow through to get all these results. So I mean, the success stories here. This is just a couple of them. If you do go to my YouTube channel, it’s under my name, Dr. Maggie Yu with hundreds of case studies. So I love to say I want to look at these impossible-to-solve problems, no matter what they are. Yes, I’ve dealt with them. In fact, I take those problems, I eat it for breakfast. Please give me some lunch and dinner to feast on. That’s how I roll. That’s how we roll. That’s what we do in this program.
Jeremy Weisz 9:08
You went through this in trial and error with yourself, what were some of the big mistakes you made on your health journey early on, when you were going through some of these things. What were you experiencing?
Dr. Maggie Yu 9:22
As a physician, as a woman, as a mother, as someone who started to develop chronic disease, I think one of the biggest mistakes that I made was the limiting belief that I knew, or I did everything that I had to know on the subject. I think that’s a big problem. Number one, even as a physician, I didn’t know it all at all. In fact, I look at the knowledge that I have now and the experience that I have now and the results I have now, I probably knew 1% of what I needed to know, but I was under the illusion or disillusion, the illusion that as a practicing family medicine physician of 10 years that yeah, I knew how to deal with all these problems and problems that I couldn’t deal with. It must be someone’s head, and they must need some therapy and some antidepressants or birth control pills. So I think, to me, the biggest mistake was making that assumption as a physician and then as someone who later came down with these symptoms that had normal labs and receiving that kind of treatment, I think, Jeremy, that was probably my greatest shame.
Jeremy Weisz 10:27
What were you experiencing? What were the symptoms that you had?
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