Hemp for Healthy Bodies and a Healthy Planet with Dr. Emeka Aludogbu

Today's guest is Dr. Emeka Aludogbu, a sports medicine doctor and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience working with elite athletes in the NFL, NBA, Olympics, and MLB. Dr. Emeka discusses his holistic approach to health, emphasizing the importance of addressing the root cause of physical, emotional, and spiritual ailments for all individuals, not just professional athletes. He also highlights how chronic ailments are often mismanaged in Western medicine and shares his personal journey of overcoming misdiagnosis. Additionally, Dr. Emeka provides valuable insights on creating wealth through a positive mental state and strong networks, and addresses the challenges of weight management, advocating for individualized dietary and stress management strategies.


We'll also touch on Dr. Emeka's work with Terramer, Inc. and their mission to help solve the crisis of plastic pollution using hemp as a biopolymer. To find out more, visit https://www.terramerinc.com/

Connect with Dr. Emeka at https://www.instagram.com/dr.emeka_sports/

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Welcome back to A Magical Life. I'm your host, Magic Barclay. And today, Dr. Emeka Aladobu joins us. He's a sports medicine doctor and entrepreneur. He's been in the sports space for over 10 years, taking care of some of the most elite athletes in the NFL, NBA, Olympics, and MLB. He's now in the environmental space with a mission to help clean and save this planet. Welcome Dr. Emeka. Thank you so much for having me. How are you this afternoon? Great. And thanks for joining us. And I'm really excited about this interview. Just off air, we were chatting about your entrepreneur experience and we'll get into that in a minute, but first let me ask you my standard three questions. Everyone gives different answers and I know yours are going to be amazing. So here's your first one. What can your expertise do to accelerate health, not just physical, but also emotional and spiritual health? Oh, wow. well, my expertise, um, started out in musculoskeletal, approach to helping professional athletes. And when I say professional athletes, it's not just geared towards professional athletes, but That's the primary field that I'm in now, the arena that I'm in because of my own background, but I think everyone is an athlete within their own space, um, construction workers, real estate agents, librarians, all across the board are individual athletes within their own specialty. I think with the approach and the musculoskeletal and the nervous system and understanding how someone may come to you with a certain ailment, I don't care if it's an elite athlete or it's a day to day normal working person, or if it's a recreational athlete, the evaluation, the assessment, the approach is all the same. We find the root cause of the problem and, and each, and then just tailor it to that specific person's day to day lifestyle and what their, essential goal is. And it could be just somebody that wants to walk 30 minutes a day. it could be somebody that wants to run, a nine nine flat in a hundred. Um, whatever that is, whatever that goal is, whatever that person is, my best approach and my approach has always been finding the way, to best address that person's needs and their ailments. and not create a, cookie cutter approach per se. I love that. And in my practice, we treat root cause as well. So when you said that I was doing this little party in my seat, I really love that. Awesome. I mean, you know, there's so for so long, Western medicine has, even failed me, as a, as a professional and as a, as a healthcare professional, I was once a victim of failed intervention because of misdiagnosis or mismanagement. And I think that what the. Western medicine has really done a really good job of is catering to us when there is trauma or emergency medicine. I think that the U. S. has the, by far, the best availability and the best practices on that arena. But when it comes to chronic ailments or management of, you know, pathologies, I think that's where we've really dropped the ball. And lost the real approach to medicine and with the way that I was mismanaged, I told myself, you know, and I'm pretty in tune with my body and that was where I learned that, the importance of diagnosis is important, but taking the time to really understand what the root cause, because to me, diagnosis is just a blanket name that We've been given to identify a certain ailment, but there could be something else that could have caused that specific ailment or that specific diagnosis. So I think with, with my experience in that, in that area, I, I vowed to never allow anyone to go through that. Wonderful. Okay. Our next question is around wealth. People see wealth as your bank account, your finances, but it's also personal and emotional wealth and they can all be tied in together. So what are your top three tips to creating wealth? Oh, that's a very interesting question. wealth to me is how you feel and what your mental state is. And I think the, abundance of wealth comes from the state of how the mind and where the mind is. For instance, I think that we, you know, one can say manifestation and, you know, speak things into existence, but the true state of wealth is that having that state of mind on a day to day basis, to creating that. bringing that, what you are wanting to fruition, right? and I think that having abundance in wealth is having the day to day practice and keeping that mental clarity, allowing no negativity and understanding that anything that happens to you is happening for you. That to me is a, is wealth in abundance, but wealth is also understanding that, your network is your net worth. creating curating relationships and maintaining relationships, I think to me, in my experience and in my, in my profession has been one of the wealthiest attributes that I have acquired is. Having a solid, solid network of individuals that I lean up on because from educational standpoint, I have different scholars and different academic individuals that I can go to for information. From a technology standpoint, I have a school of individuals that I can go for, for IT issues or understanding the network of, algorithms and artificial intelligence and things going on from a content standpoint. And. from a real estate standpoint, I have a group of individuals. So I think for me, wealth is your community. And when you have a community of individuals that have different facets that there are in different, areas and have different facets of, material tools or anything like that, I think it gives you as an individual more. to, attain whatever it is that you're looking for. And to me, that's wealthy, right? That's you have, you have a wealthy network, you have a wealthy mindset. Therefore you are a wealthy individual. Okay. Our final standard question is around weight. Now, many people struggle with their weight and they might kind of look at. Someone to go, well, you've never had an issue. What would you know? Alternatively, they may just be very stressed and, you know, just really struggling with that cortisol belly. Have you ever struggled with your weight? If so, how did you win the war? And what can you offer the listeners who might be entrenched in this at the moment? Oh, absolutely. I think we've all suffered from some, some, somewhat of what we want our ideal body to be. And I've suffered from it. And even the, the, the time when the world was at disarray, that was one of the most challenging times, because me, I am a person that works out every day. I believe in motion. I believe in movement. I believe in making sure that the With body needs to be, but even then, acquiring certain unwanted weight in certain areas of your body makes it a little bit more challenging. So I think that, Understanding like first understanding what it is that your body is able to actually, digest and absorb. And that's through testing, right? Because a lot of the things that we're having and putting on bodies today is not like it was 10, 20, 30 years ago. our diet and our, food system is not geared toward helping us as it used to be. It's actually geared towards The lather and I wouldn't, I don't want to say poisoning us or killing us, but for the most part in different areas of the world, I think that what we're eating is actually killing us. so when it comes to stress and stress weight, I think understanding exactly what your body can't and cannot absorb from a nutritional dietary standpoint, I don't think that everybody has to adhere to some sort of diet because that diet that you're adhering to can be very, very, uh, not for you. and if you don't understand what your body's absorbing and how your body's metabolizing certain things that you're eating, you could be eating something that's naturally, I guess, healthy, but your body isn't able to absorb it, nor is it able to metabolize it. Therefore, you're kind of running up an uphill battle because you're thinking, Oh, I'm eating the right things. I'm eating healthy. You never knew that your body's ability to actually utilize those nutrients. It's not actually doing a service. So I think it's, I think for me, when I, when I had that issue, I think I was more so focused on what I needed, what my body liked and what my body tolerated. My stress levels was also a big, big, big I focused on as well too, because I knew that cortisol was a big contributing factor to my, unwanted weight belly weight, if you will. So when I finally got a hold of that and understood that. And, you know, staying diligent and staying disciplined in my workouts and everything else. And I started to see the weight fall off. And I think another thing is just being patient, right? Diligency, being diligent, being consistent and being patient with yourself also is a big contribution to losing weight. And most of us have an issue doing it because we want it. We want that quick fix. But I'm here to tell you it's not, especially the journey to losing weight at that is a journey in itself. Wonderful. Now we've covered a fair bit here, And I know that you're a marvel in the sports medicine arena, but we were talking offline about. What you're doing in the world of bioplastics and saving the environment. And as a self professed hippie, I'm really quite excited about this. So tell us about Terramar Tech. So Inc. is, a bioplastic technology company that, uh, We focus on, uh, we are a resin company. Our resin is primarily derived from, hemp as the plant of choice that we've chosen and that we use. And so our, resin has, we have the technology that we've programmed, uh, all of the plastics that we make to be able to, Decompose and biodegrade in a certain lifetime, 180 days when it's thrown in a landfill, or in an industry, compost facility, you can, uh, guarantee that. In 180 days, our plastics turns into compost, and those compost is actually very nutrient dense that can actually repopulate the soil to allowing the soil to become more enriched And have more nutrients in it to allow the soil to be used to plant anything. Right. so the big battle that we have today, if you, if you've seen what global warming is happening and a lot of the plastic industry is happening, petroleum plastic has been one of the biggest cause of our oceans to be in a position to, Essentially be destroyed. I think it was two years ago. There was the statistics that came out mentioning about the microplastics in the ocean that by 2050 that there will be more microplastics in the ocean than fish. as of a year ago, the statistics came back out and recalibrated that it would be by 2045, there will be more microplastics in the ocean. And fish and what that's doing, you can see, from a hormonal position is displacing the hormones, displacing the hormones in fish, which we eat the fish, we eat the krill, we eat the sushis, we eat the shrimps and so on and so forth, and that's contaminating us, right? And if you, now they're also finding microplastics in seaweed, in kelp, in certain plant matter that. It's being fished out that that's also growing a certain plant matter that's grown in the ocean. So there's a big problem with petroleum based plastics because the amount of time that it takes a one single petroleum based plastic water bottle, it takes about 350 to 400 years for actually, for it to disintegrate and leave the earth. That's a long time. And, what we're dealing with right now is oceans That have, plastics that are just floating in oceans in certain areas, the size of Texas, and they call that a dead zone because fish cannot go there any longer. So we're, there's, there's a big problem with our world right now. There's a big problem with our planet and, taramar inks. Goal here is to minimize that, or at least contribute to the way that we can actually control some of the plastics that are being made on into that. And, you know, also the kind of touch more on that. There's a carbon credit. a lot of these companies are also utilizing the advantages of carbon because of what. hemp is a carbon negative, plant, which is, and provides more of a carbon neutral footprint on the planet. So, um, there's a big war here and, uh, I'm in it for the long run. And I think that we are doing something that's going to be groundbreaking. our straws, our cutleries, our grocery bags, our produce bags, our doggy bags, will be rolling out within the next, within this year. And next year, we already have our straws in different stores. We already have our grocery bags are coming out in stores now. We'll have doggy bags and produce bags before the year is over and our cutleries as well too. So we're, we're making some strides here and the goal is to do our part so we can lead the planet, you know, in a better way than we found it when we got here, you know. Now the listeners might be wondering why we're talking about this. Listeners, Dr. Emeka just mentioned. About the effect of microplastics on fish and their hormones. But what you may not be aware of is every time you drink from a plastic water bottle. You are actually taking in your own version of endocrine disruptors. And so this is why we're seeing a lot of young males with moobs, man boobs forming because their endocrine system has been disrupted. We're seeing a lot more disruption in. Females menstrual cycles in women having really horrible menopause with terrible hot flashes and night sweats. And this is because plastics are having such an effect on our lives. And I was mentioning off air earlier in Australia, we've done, you know, Great leaps forward in abolishing the good old plastic straw, but we've replaced it with paper. And if you let that sit in your iced coffee for more than a couple of minutes, you've got paper sludge in your coffee. So hemp is one of the strongest building materials. It's. As Dr. Emeka said, it's carbon negative, so it's not even carbon neutral, it's carbon negative. It has a very low footprint on the earth, but it also releases nutrients as it's growing back into the soil and as it's breaking down. So it's used in building products, it's used in clothing. You know, long ago, it was just seen as something that the fringe were using, but it's certainly something that we all need to turn to and make the most of. Dr. Emeka, what are some other ways that using hemp can help people? So you work in the mainstream forum with athletes. Are you seeing that hemp can be, you know, a healthy step forward for them to use as well? Yeah. It's a, variety of, usage from a medicinal standpoint, as you know, the CBD era was one of the most impactful, I would say ways that, it was shown to help with insomnia. It was shown to help with certain tonic clonic seizures. It was used to help with muscle soreness, recovery, just mood. So, from a medicinal standpoint, we've seen hemp in, in the CBD era that, was really effective, for assisting with certain issues and conditions that most people were battling. And, you know, back in 70s, hemp was also the primary plant before the cotton family and also, um, the oil family came and boycotted it. hemp and they bond together to create hemp or to rather than label hemp as dope, right? Because they wanted to control the industry. They wanted to control the market. They wanted to control, uh, what they wanted to control. And by, by proxy hemp became named as a dope, product not to be used. And it was criminalized, but hemp was used to make clothes. Hemp was used to sew wool. Hemp was used as rope. Hemp was also stronger, is, is, not was, is, is also stronger than steel. So from, from, you know, with the question you're asking, there are a multitude of different facets that hemp had been used in the industry to, you know, push along the industry, to make the industry much more sustainable, but because of different ballplayers in the industry and what their assignment and goal was, was to, to kill the, the plant. And I call it hemp, the mother plant. So with that being said, you know, everything always comes back full circle. If you want to suppress truth, there's only a little bit of time before truth will surface. And I think that's what we're starting to see now, is that truth is resurfacing again, and people are asking, well, why hasn't hemp been used all this time? And it's just a matter of time before those questions are answered. Wonderful. Now, we've covered a lot here. What is something we haven't discussed that you feel the listeners need to hear? well, there's a, there's a multitude of things. we can go in depth on, on any category. my passion has always been in technology. My passion has always been in medicine. And my, passion has always been, helping people. And I think that, in those areas and, and health, and technology you know, giving people the best, ability to, to be their best versions. I think that was that those are the areas that I've really tried to focus on. technology, if you got, if, the listeners are not a keen to technology, I think that is also an area that, we might need to start paying attention. I think, you know, with the way and the speed of how technology is ramping up. what we're seeing is there are certain jobs and certain things that are in jeopardy of that social interaction that, most of these companies are going to want technology to replace. And I think that's an area that most people are not truly aware the significance and the power of what technology, especially artificial intelligence, can do. Has the ability to do and how it can change is going to the trajection of it and how it's going to change a lot of different such scenarios. Wonderful. Okay, so Dr. cca, people can find you on LinkedIn. You're also on Instagram at Dr. Emeka underscore sports. Where else can people find you? innovate sports med. Obviously, that's all everything. sports related. in terms of injuries and assistance. My clinic is still in Dallas. and, uh, and then it termer, uh, for our termer. Um, day to day news and blogs. Our IG is, teramer, underscore tech. And, uh, that's our IG handle, all day to day information. thank all things bioplastics can be found on there as well. And listeners, normally we offer you a freebie, but I'm just going to urge you to jump on and have a look at what these hemp products can do and really educate yourself on something that we should have been using this whole time. Thank you so much, Dr. Emeka for your time today. Thank you so much, Magik, I appreciate your time. Pleasure. And listeners, thank you for your time. Go forth and create your magical life.