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Dr. Ng is a Natural Health Care Practitioner who treats the body as a whole. He believes that all health dysfunctions have an underlying imbalance physically, biochemically, and emotionally and by treating the root cause, the body will heal itself. His comprehensive approach helps restore normal physiology, strengthens the body, and allows the systems of the body to function in harmony. His mission is to educate others about the endless possibilities of holistic healing and to inspire people to live life to their fullest potential. TRANSCRIPT JAMES CHESTER (HOST): You made it to Chiro Hustle! Sit back and learn from the greatest influencers in the profession on the world’s number one chiropractic podcast. Before we dive into this powerful episode, please remember to subscribe to our channels and give us a 5-star rating on iTunes to continue hustling. This episode is sponsored by the Transact Card, Align Life, Brain-based Health Solutions, Chiro HD, Imaging Services, Chiro Health USA, Chiro Moguls, Pure Chiro Notes, Titronics, Sherman College of Chiropractic, New Patients in a Box, Life Chiropractic College West, Pro Hockey Chiros, Pro Baseball Chiros, the IFCO, and 100% Chiropractic. LET’S HUSTLE !!! LUKE MILLETT (PRODUCER): Hey guys, welcome to episode 541 of the Chiro Hustle Podcast. I’m your producer, Luke Millett, and here’s your host, James Chester. JAMES CHESTER (HOST): So today we have the opportunity of interviewing Dr. Calvin Ng. If you want to hear us discuss how your health is an inside job, stay tuned. Welcome back! This is another episode of the Chiro Hustle Podcast. It’s Calvin Ng. I just got the clarification on that before we start this episode. If you look at his last name, it’s Ng, I-N-G, but it’s N-G. But I’m really excited. I’ve been tracking this dude down for about two years to get on the show. He finally solidified a schedule with me. So here we are. He’s episode 541. So this is a good chance for your friends and family and colleagues and patients or practice members, whatever we call them. Everybody has their own little terminology, what they call people, who shows up to their clinic and gets adjusted. So this is a good chance for people to get reintroduced to you and to hear all about your story of how you got into Chiro practice. But before we get there, I have a couple introduction pieces of our big Y. Why do we do what we do? Well, we protect freedom of speech. It’s the First Amendment. If you’re out there and listening to this, share the show. We’ve never censored anybody on this platform. And that’s really important. We’re about to have our birthday on July 4th, born on the 4th of July, Chiro Hustle. But we do protect freedom of speech. And I think that’s really important in today’s information economy. We should definitely share the show, share the show, share the show, share the show. And then we do support medical freedom and family health freedom. They’re not the same thing. One is for the individual, one is for the family unit. And as we go down the line, we do protect BJ Palmer’s Sacred Trust. It’s BJ Palmer’s last words. If you want to know more about Chiro practice, go right now to your favorite search engine and look for BJ Palmer’s last words or put in the field, Sacred Trust of Chiro practice. You’re going to learn so much more about Chiro practice, things you never knew before. Even if you’re a chiropractor. And then we do support, subluxation based chiropractic. I know I shouldn’t have to say that, but it’s become a part of our mantra. They’re taking it out of the schools. Let’s not let that happen. Let’s support subluxation based chiropractic. And then last, we do believe in an intelligence, a universal intelligence. We believe that when man or woman, the physical gets adjusted, it connects them to man or woman, the spiritual. And with that being said, Dr. Calvin, welcome to Chiro Hustle. DR CALVIN NG DC (GUEST): Thanks buddy. Appreciate it. Yeah, long time coming. Absolutely. It’s been a long time. JAMES CHESTER (HOST): But in the relativity of all this, it’s all about relationships and it’s all about staying consistent and building the brand. Now you’re part of the Chiro Hustle family. So thank you. DR CALVIN NG DC (GUEST): Thank you. JAMES CHESTER (HOST): Thank you. Yeah. So we were out there in Burbank and got a chance to meet you and was like, dang, this guy, I need to get him on a show. Now you’re here. So your backstory pun intended. Tell us how you tell us how you got into this profession of chiropractic and maybe share with us your story. DR CALVIN NG DC (GUEST): Yeah. Man, it’s it’s been a long time. My first time getting adjusted was I think I was in college and I was I wasn’t really competing that hard, but I was getting serious. I was doing Olympic weightlifting. So that’s like the snatch and clean and jerk, just two movements, but a hell of a lot of work. So I was doing that and I was I was at this gym and in San Jose, California and at that time I was going to San Jose State. And so I’m over there lifting, right? And these guys over there are all talking about their chiropractic adjustment, how great they feel, like all this stuff. My hips are all off. My squats all crooked. Like I need to get my get get my chiropractor to adjust me and fix this and do that and do some soft tissue work on me. I was like, what are you guys talking about? Like what what is all this? And so they’re like, you got to go get yourself a chiropractic adjustment. I’m like, okay. So I went and I looked at a spot near my place. And I went in and I got adjusted for the first time and I was phenomenal. And and he adjusted me like one area. I forgot where I think it was my low back and like my lumbars. He adjusted me one area. I was like, okay, cool. I feel great. I feel loose. I felt lighter. Man, this is what it’s all about. I went back that day into my training and everything felt different. I mean, everything. Everything felt so different from my warmup to my lifts, my squat, my squat. My hips were straight. I mean, I felt like everything was activated. So I was blown away. Okay. Now, it’s not like I just automatically lifted like a thousand pounds more, but I felt the connection that I never felt before to my body. So you know, I was curious. I was like, Oh, what’s more? Like, what are the other things that this, you know, this treatment, this therapy, like offers, right? And I got to learn about that. That doctor actually did a RT active release technique. And so I was like, Hey, you know what? This is what I do. You know, I do this Olympic weightlifting thing. Can you help me out? Sure. You know, he did some ART on me. I had some areas that were just crazy tender and painful and tight. He helped me out with that. So that was great. You know, and I didn’t think about becoming chiropractor at all. I was in school and I was a personal trainer. That was my part time gig, wake up early, go to school and then like train people late at night. That was, that was like my hustle. I would just train people. I get them doing like burpees and get people thrown up and yelling at them. And like, you know, it was, it was, you know, being a personal trip. If you got some anger issues, like being a personal trainer, it’s really good. Now, I mean, you just get the yellow people and tell them to do hard stuff. And they pay you for it. That’s crazy. So I loved it for some reason. And, and then they, the company told me, Hey, like, you know, you’re, you’re studying this. You’re doing kinesiology, like at the school, you’re studying nutrition. Can you, can you do like some nutrition coaching for people? I’m like, sure, I guess let me go get a certification, got my, and I was super into nutrition. So started like doing some coaching for nutrition. And I really loved that. And then I worked at the school for a physical therapist, the school’s physical therapist. And she trained me on all the things like injuries and, you know, movement and rehabilitation and sort of the therapeutic side of movement. And so I love that too, you know, but I always felt like something was missing. I didn’t know whether I wanted to do physical therapy, personal training, strength and conditioning, train athletes. I didn’t know what I was going to do. I just know I wasn’t going to sit at a desk, you know, for most of my day. I wanted to, I wanted to be hands on. I wanted to be active. I wanted to live an active lifestyle. So you know, one of my professors was telling me, hey, you know, you should consider chiropractic. And I was like, oh, I mean, I never thought about that, but I guess I could, you know, I already, I already cracked my friends back. So yeah, how hard can this be? I can go do it for money, for sure. So I went to the local school. This was Palmer College of chiropractic West in San Jose, California. I went, that was the closest one. Literally same city. So I went there and I, and I went in for a, I don’t know if you call it an interview, but I went to check it out. And I asked the president, I was like, so, you know, this is my situation. All right, PT, all this other stuff. And why should I choose chiropractic? What’s so amazing about this profession? And he was like, well, you are essentially a primary care physician. You can run labs if you want. You can do nutrition if you want. And there’s just a whole host of techniques and therapies that are open to you that, you know, that’s not quite available to other types of professions, like, for instance, a physical therapist. And then also he talked to me about like how from the business perspective, right, most chiropractors are sort of on their own or they have, they’re small business owners, right? There’s an entrepreneurship component to it. So, you know, there’s no cap on it’s not like you just graduate and, you know, get hired at a hospital and then that’s about it for the rest of your life. So I was like, oh, great. That sounds like a great culture, you know, like I can totally get behind that. You know, as long as I can combine like, you know, therapy and like treatments with like nutrition and lifestyle, like, and helping people live a better life, I’m all in. All right. And so I thought I was just going to go in, right, crack people’s backs. And I know I say that right. I don’t say that now, but I used to say this, I go in, crack people’s backs and, you know, and just like rub under tissues. And I’m like, that’s, that’s the rest of my life. And I opened up a can of worms because on my first week there, I just, I came across there was it was club week, one of the clubs. Every there was, there’s all these other clubs, right? There’s all these clubs that are like in the hallway. There’s your, you know, I remember it was like motion palpation club. There’s rehab club. There’s this adjusting ninjas club. There’s all these different clubs, right? Pediatric clubs and whatnot. And then so this one club around the corner, right? You can’t even see it. It’s around the corner, right? At the very end, and it was applied kinesiology. And I go, kinesiology, hey, that’s my major. Like I’m just, I’m naturally born for this. Super good, you know, and I do Olympic weightlifting. What’s up? So I go over there and the, and the guy, and he’s my friend now, but he, he goes. So I ask him, I’m like, Hey, you know, like, you know, I graduated. I have a degree in this. So, you know, I think I’ll be pretty good at it. And he’s like, he put his hand on my shoulder. He’s like, you have no idea what you’re about to get into. I was like, what are you talking about? He was like, just show up next week during the club meeting show up. This guy did a, a plank and easy ologies all about muscle testing. He tested one of my hip flexors, the so as muscle, right? And it was, it was weak as hell. I mean, I could not hold it up. And I’m this guy who squats like for breakfast, right? Like twice my body weight type of thing, right? And more. And I’m just like, what the hell is going on? Like what, what the hell is going on? And he did this thing. And then like he adjusted me, adjusted my, adjusted my atlas and my ox put and turned the thing back on. And then, and then, and it went back to that feeling of my first adjustment, right? Where I just felt so connected, right? But it wasn’t that it wasn’t only that. And I’ve been adjusted before, but it was the, it was the connection. It was the, it was the realization of like, wow, there was something wrong on my body that you were able to show me. And I felt it. And it was something that was lacking, like in my, in what I typically do. And there was a change, right? We did something and then there was a change right away. And I felt it. And I, and I’ve always felt it after, after that. So it was that that got me so hooked into what I do now, which is applied kinesiology. Anyways, so, you know, long story short, that’s, that’s my chiropractic story. It was really just pure out of purely out of curiosity, really, I think. JAMES CHESTER (HOST): So form follows function. And when you got adjusted, you realize that something changed. And I think that that’s a part where most people when they’re, they’ll listen to this show, I end up like here, this conversation that we’re having about chiropractic and how you got into chiropractic is so many times people come in because they’re in pain, right? And they come in, they look at the chiropractor as their last ditch effort, their savior, like, what are you going to do? I’ve tried everything else. And you came into because you’re a curiosity and it actually made your functionality better. And that’s the thing I love about chiropractic is it doesn’t add anything extra to the body. It simply removes the interference and the body adapts. And then what you experienced was a high level of adaptation through muscle testing. And then you’re like, wow, that was pretty cool. How can I help more people with this, which I think is where we’re going next? So then you finish up at school, you get this applied kinesiology background on top of your kinesiology sports training. And then you said, okay, what am I going to do with my career? So you’ve been out of school. How long now? DR CALVIN NG DC (GUEST): I graduated in 2019. So for four years, four years. JAMES CHESTER (HOST): Yeah, I met you two years out. And four years later, tell me about your practice. DR CALVIN NG DC (GUEST): So my practice is pretty much 100% a muscle testing practice or kinesiology based practice. We treat the entire body. And I always like to say that because this was what we’re really resonant. And I didn’t learn this in school, by the way, my school Palmer West, right, at Palmer. And you said it earlier, which is like, subluxation based, right? We were not like the principal, the philosophy there, there was lack of philosophy, number one. And so we did not get to learn much about that. In fact, it was the culture there, the temperature there was sort of like you just, you bastardize it, that you made fun of it a little bit. You kind of like, you laughed at it and then you’re like, ah, that’s just some like old outdated stuff that people didn’t know what they were talking about. You know, we have MRI machines and next rays and all this other stuff. And then we referred to medical doctors. You know, that was like the climate there. I always kind of go, you know, I came from a family of my family. There’s medical doctors in my family. There’s my sisters, a PhD, psychologist, smart as hell. So you know, there’s some really smart people in my family. And but allopathic smart, you know, like mainstream medicine smart, like mainstream narrative and everything. So, you know, when I saw that, I was just like, yeah, that’s something doesn’t feel right. And so I talked to other students from other other places. I met some people from my life west, which is like the closest Chiro College to us, some people from life university in Atla…
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