Fix Hormones First, The Inside Path to Health with Eric Huerta

This week on the Team Lally Real Estate Radio Show, we interview Eric Huerta of HuertaGenics. Eric dives into hormonal health, metabolism, and mindset, explaining why many people feel stuck despite eating right and exercising, and how addressing root causes inside the body leads to lasting results. He also shares how his Inside Fix approach uses in depth lab work to identify hormonal imbalances before focusing on exercise or nutrition, and why true transformation requires commitment, accountability, and Trusting the Plan.

The Experts We Trust segment features Renee Ube of Your VA Match, who explains why hiring for mindset matters more than skill alone, and what it takes to build a proactive, coachable support team.

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Interview Transcription

ADRIENNE: 
Welcome back, and thanks for listening to the Team Lally real estate show, home of the guaranteed sold program. Oh, we’ll buy it. I’m Adrienne and I’m Attilio. And if you have any questions, you can reach us at 7999596, or check us out online at Teamlally.com

ATTILIO: 
Well, hey everybody. Our guest today grew up at Lakewood, California, and is originally from Costa Mesa, a graduate of Chapman University. He’s deeply passionate about health and performance, spending his time studying hormones, coaching football, lifting weights and raising his two boys to become a strong, strong student athletes.

ADRIENNE:
After losing 55 pounds during his sophomore year of high school, his personal transformation sparked a lifelong commitment to health and fitness. That journey ultimately led him to develop a results driven system now known as orthogenics. Please welcome our guest Eric  Huerta.

ATTILIO: 
Yes. Welcome back. Welcome back. So we already here. I was talking with coach, talking with your coach, and I was like, what’s like, how can we give you shouts out on social media? Did I hear you correctly? Like, you’re just that’s not your thing on that social right?

ERIC: 
Yeah, I don’t do a whole bunch of social media. And you know what’s funny is, like, it’s just one me, right? And like, if I did that, I don’t even know that I can handle it right now, but I use the social media probably more for my kids than anything else. And everything that I do is kind of referral, you know, just when I change somebody’s lifestyle or, you know, their look, everybody’s asking them, Hey, what are you doing? How’d you get to do that? And then that’s when they say my name. And next thing, you know, I’m talking to them and their friends. And if it’s an office, if it’s a location where there’s five or six other employees, and then they all kind of want to talk to me. So it’s been really good that way in regards to a referral based program. And you know, I always tell everybody like, you know, the best compliment I can ever receive from anybody’s referral,

ADRIENNE: 
yeah, and I know otilio And I have sent you many of our friends and family. And don’t worry, I’m on social media, and I’m making recommendations and tagging you all over the place, yeah. And I think

ATTILIO:
when we did that acro routine, what how many views did you get on the Instagram?

ADRIENNE: 
Probably like four or 5000 views, and people ask, like, okay, what are you doing? Who’s helping you? What’s your regiment? And, of course, we you send them all to Coach Eric.

ATTILIO: 
Coach Eric, because I think I mean, and so that you are on social media, it’s just through all your clients, is how I look at it, and like you said there, I forgot where it saw but we always, you know, if I especially in the fitness world, or just in, I think in general too, no matter what you’re doing, your body is your walking resume. I’ll say that one more time, your body is your walking resume. It’s hard for me to see an expert up on stage and they’re it’s obvious from not like a judgey standpoint, but it’s just obvious, from what I’m seeing there, that they’re not there’s one area of their life they’re not balanced, that is out of balance, and they are not taking care of themselves. So let’s talk about your law. Give us like, the basics of like people come to you, what do you see? And you know, we’ll go with the bell curve of the people, not the like Guy outliers, not not the outliers, like the Olympic athlete or the bodybuilders, but the happy middle. See, the challenge with the happy middle is we got big middles. That’s a happy middle. We got big middles. Talk about the average Joe and Joe and Mary. What are they coming what are their goals when they come to you with, what are they trying to do?

ERIC: 
Well, let’s just say, when somebody comes to me, I’ve gotten to the point in my career where I don’t get the genetically free like genetic freaks or genetically gifted people, where you change your a little bit, help them out. You know, they do some cardio in their body changes, right? I am literally putting pieces of the puzzle together. Where I am getting Type Two diabetics, females that are in, you know, post menopause, menopausal perimenopause, I’m getting females with PCOS, females with Hashimotos, males and females Hashimotos with both. Both metabolic syndrome, you name it, and, you know, underactive thyroids. So what I do is, when they come to me, they explain to me everything that they’ve tried, everything they’ve done under the sun, in regards I’ve tried this side. I’ve done this. I’ve gone to this conventional doctor. He said, I’m perfectly fine, that I don’t need anything, but I know that’s something wrong. And when I look at everything, I you know, majority of my clients are between 35 and 70 right now, so I asked them, and when’s the last time you had some labs done? And sometimes we got to go more in depth and look at what’s going on in the inside in order for everything that they’re about to do on the outside to actually take effect, right? Because I’m not that type of coach that says, Hey, man, if you work out hard and you eat good, this is going to happen, not necessarily not get older. You know, hormonal imbalance is a huge thing right now, and it has a lot to do with the preservatives that we eat on a daily basis, and we’ve been eating since we were kids, right? And as we get older, that’s just compounded more and more. And you know, all these preservatives that our body was never meant to filter out, they start to do the damage, and things start to wear. Our bodies are not machines or organs, and things will start to fall apart. And some people have, you know, a lesser, so to speak, effective organ than others, and then you damage it even more. And then next, there’s all kinds of malfunctions. So I’m the one that looks at the labs, tells them, hey, you know what, if we don’t fix this, this and this, this is really not going to work, and I’m of no use to you, because before the end of me, they might have been eating really good, they might have been exercising, and absolutely nothing is happening, right? But they think it’s just really difficult for them, because they might have gotten labs from a conventional doctor, and the conventional doctor said, hey, you know what? You’re within range. You’re fine. No, the physicians that I practice with are volunteer positions, hormone optimization positions, and we know that where there’s certain markers we want to look at and we need our client to be at so they can perform at their very best.

ADRIENNE: 
So, um, so, Eric, so what you’re saying is that, like the doctors are not necessarily all up to speed with the kind of blood work and even how to interpret the blood work. Tell us a little bit more about blood work, because yes, you

ATTILIO:
said something that that there’s three things I heard you say, and I want to expand on this third one, number one, everybody tells you what to exercise and what to eat. But nobody, nobody does the internal journey the bloods are going on on the inside with the blood. Talk about the level, because, and this is from personal experience, Adrienne. Have never had any coaching where the coach told you to go get to draw blood, unless we were working with Dracula, we have and we’re not working with Jack, working with Coach Eric. So talk about the blood work. Why is that important?

ERIC: 
It’s extremely important. And I’ll quote Dana White, you know, the guy from the USC, one of the main things he’s always talked about, and it’s true, what he said, is, you break your leg, you get in a car accident, go to the conventional doctor. He’s going to take care of you. He’s going to be the best at what you need to do for that repair. Do not talk to conventional doctors about hormones or talk to them about nutrition. It’s just not their feature. It’s not what they do. It’s not what they’re best at. And unfortunately, they’re really busy, and because they’re really busy, they’re not going to take the time to set aside to do the research they need for that one patient. So they’re, you know what they’re they don’t know of or not educate on. They’re just going to say, hey, within your range, you’re not going to look any further. But when they’re there actually are things that are wrong and things that are in balance. So if you are someone who has all the will, all the heart, and you’re at the gym, and you see them all the time, and you’re at the gym all the time, they’re at the gym all the time, working out, doing cardio, and you see them there week by week, but nothing is absolutely changing on them. Maybe not gaining, not losing any weight. It’s not necessarily that they’re eating bad. Maybe they have an underactive thyroid, maybe they have low testosterone levels, right? Maybe their cortisol levels are too high. Maybe they’re insulin resistant, but because they went to a conventional doctor and they’re just not educated enough in regards to looking at the labs the way me and my physicians do, then they can’t, they just can’t possibly give you the recommendations that are needed so that you can get balanced out and that everything you’re doing in the gym, everything you’re doing regards to how you’re eating, starts to get traction, right? And at that point, you’re just spinning your wheels. And we’re only human, so if you’re gung ho and you see this all the time, you see people yo yo all the time. They’re really gung ho, and I’m gonna get going, you know, here comes new year’s resolution, right? So this is when the gym is board pack. From January to March, people are really gung ho, and they get going, and they’re there, they’re working out. Let’s say they are eating good, but there’s a hormonal imbalance, and by the middle of February, they’re like, Man, I really thought I’m not seeing the result way more ahead of the game than right now. Why is this not happening? Right? We’re human. You get frustrated, it’s disheartening, and then you cool until you get motivated again, maybe right before summer starts, because you’re going to have to take your shirt off poolside or beachside someplace, right? And. And it just turns into this huge yo yo. So like, when people come to me, doesn’t matter the age, I’m trying to fix everything from the gig or it’s not necessarily an overnight fix. There’s no overnight fixes whatsoever. It’s gonna take you know, if somebody’s been a certain way or overweight for a long time, or maybe their cholesterol is really high, all their lipid panels bad. If it took them 10 years of doing that, it’s not going to happen overnight, but you got to start at some point, right? And one of the main things that male and females don’t understand as we’re getting older is that testosterone replacement therapy is huge in America right now, because everything that we come in contact with, and I always tell everybody, the largest organ in our body is our skin, but everything we come in contact with, the things we eat, eating the shower, water, it they decrease your testosterone levels. Increase the estrogen, and it creates this huge hormonal imbalance where that is why a lot of America is on anxiety men’s, you know, antidepressants. They go to the conventional doctors saying all these symptoms of how they feel. But the conventional doctor is just not educated enough to say, hey, you know what? Why don’t we just check your testosterone levels and see what that’s at? But if they have a range like this, here’s the top and here’s the bottom, as long as you’re someplace here within range, they’re gonna say, Nope, you’re perfectly fine. It must be something else, and that person doesn’t know any better. So they leave the office scratching the head, going, Man, I guess it’s just really difficult for me. I’m just out of luck, right? And then they never get help. They never get that balance where if I look at it, or positions that I have look at it, we’re like, no, of course. This is exactly why you feel this way. This is why you’re in this antidepressant and why you’re on this anxiety once we fix that. Man, completely different story. I can’t tell you how many people I get off of antidepressants or anxiety meds, because I deal with older people that, you know, they didn’t have the testosterone levels checked. And so I said, Hey, let’s look at this, because that’s the root cause. And obviously, if they’ve been on Prozac or they’ve been a beater albuterol for, like, for five years, you can’t just completely go cold turkey. It’s going to take some time to wean them off of it, but we get them off of it, and then they realize, oh, that’s what I needed. That’s the hormone that I needed.

ADRIENNE: 
You were just hormonally imbalanced. You weren’t necessarily depressed, yeah. And then, just like looking at from a different, a different perspective.

ATTILIO: 
It’s, it’s an anecdotal story I’ll share with you. But we, we go to a physician here to do the testosterone, and he had mentioned that generic, generically, not mentioning a name, that there was a patient that had been on antidepressants 30 years, years, and once they got their hormones in alignment, they got off all of that, and that’s negative. They were happy living her best life wasn’t necessary. Well, then go to go do some bodybuilding competition. She just wanted to have a better mood. So that’s why, because, Austin, yeah, go ahead.

ERIC: 
That’s why testosterone theory is pretty so important, right? People need to understand, because it’s so don’t understand. They think, Well, I’m not trying to be like you just said. I’m not trying to be a bodybuilder. I’m not going to the gym like I’m not trying to get big. It’s not about that. You have to think about it exactly what it says. It’s hormone replacement therapy. You’re replacing the hormone that your body is no longer producing the way it did, and we need it so that we’re leveled off. Right? 99.9% of the people that do hormone replacement therapy, they don’t even go to the gym. They do it so that they can sleep better. Have no brain fog, less anxiety. Have a good life, a good feel good. Libido, like weight loss, like non joint pain. People that are having their anemia, they need a higher red blood cell count for osteoporosis, just for your your your thinking to be better and being mentally alert, like it’s a huge hormone for male and females. And once you understand how important that is, you’ll get your labs checks. Because I run into so many 45 and 50 year olds. When’s the last time you had your lab check? Oh, it’s got, like, five years, six years. I’m like, Hi. How do you even know what’s going on? Man like you don’t want any surprises, and so when you do start something like hormone replacement therapy, whether it be testosterone or estrogen or just thyroid medication, doesn’t matter what it is. Now you’re in the know. Now nothing can creep up on you. You’re getting labs three times. You know, cancer can’t creep up on you, because you know your estrogen levels, you know. So you start to really take advantage and take control of your own health, instead of just being at the mercy of the physician. And like, you’re fine. Well then,

ADRIENNE: 
like, with those labs, with those labs, Eric, like, you have to advocate, right? Because a lot of times that’s for things they’ll order, just like a General panel, and then they’re missing some crucial thing that you know you need to be looking at. So being a client and you it’s like, okay, like, I’m just being very about what, what’s needed in these panels,

ATTILIO: 
you have to advocate for what to test for it, yeah, has to be persistent about it, because they’re dug

ADRIENNE: 
in for some reason, I don’t

ATTILIO: 
know, I well. If we don’t know, we don’t know, and we coach Eric’s help, we’re like, Nope, this is what we need. And so we were very specific about it, and that’s what we got, yes.

ADRIENNE: 
So So Eric, so you are, you’re located in California, and obviously, like, you coach people all over, probably the world, so you know someone were to want to work with you or how are you on? What does that look like? As far as you know, you being in California, and then you know, well, maybe being here

ATTILIO: 
in Hawaii, go give Coach Eric the testimonial. We’ve actually never met in person.

ADRIENNE: 
I know you keep trying, but the phone the zoo,

ATTILIO: 
and I will tell you, for me personally, like I I’m not working out more, I will tell you I’m working out differently. If anything, coach called me for working out too much, but yeah, I just working out differently, and then including all those things. And I would say, like we were the type of people like and that that needed to go from couch potato to this and but it’s like you said earlier, we were doing all of that, but not getting it was just static. And then once we started working with Coach Eric, we started seeing the results. Because we didn’t feeling the results, feeling the results that I would say that thing that you talked about getting people’s hormones imbalanced, that would be everybody, yeah, they would want to feel better regardless of look better. You do want to feel better, don’t you? So talk about how they can book an appointment with Dr. Feelgood. That’s you.

ERIC: 
Well, they can directly go to my website that you’re putting up on the screen. They can email me from there with, you know, just a regular email, Hey, listen, I heard your I heard you on the podcast. I’m kind of not feeling myself. I’m kind of getting the same resistance or the same information I’m getting from my general primary OBGYN doctor and and they’re just, I don’t feel like they keep telling me I’m fine, but I know I’m not fine. Maybe there’s other things to look at. I’ll take it from there. I’ll contact that individual, and it’s just first and foremost me having to make in a quick five to 10 minute conversation with them, because I want to ask them a few questions before they join anything or do anything with me, see if I can help them. Right? So I asked them some questions. It’s a female, you know, like, just kind of tell me a little bit. What’s going on? How many, how many children do we have? You know, how old are you? You know, have you had a hysterectomy for for males? Like, hey, what type, what do we type of work do we do? Like, how long have you felt this way at that point? I’ll say, hey, that’s when I ask, Hey, when’s the last time we got some labs right? And I might set them and might tell them, Hey, give them direction. In regards to first and foremost, our consultation together, because I usually have a one hour zoom consultation with an individual, our consultation is going to be more beneficial to you if maybe we have recent labs in front of us. So I might tell exactly what labs to get drawn if they have a good relationship with their OBGYN or their primary this is exactly what I want drawn. This is the way you ask for it. Let them say no first. If they say no, then I have, you know, non insurance clients where I could take them to a website. We can get labs done there at your right quest or whatnot. But let’s get that done first, once you get those back, then I got a full photo of exactly what’s going on inside and out, plus covers you’re gonna have with that,

ATTILIO: 
I think too what people need to understand. Why do we have this resistance in western healthcare? Because you’ve, you’ve it actually, and I’ve heard this before. It should be renamed sick care, because they’re used to treating you with the broken leg and the acute symptoms of some kind of disease. What we’re coming to Coach Eric for is that we are healthy. We just want to have a heart healthy to remain healthy. We want to look better, feel better, and so doctors, Western doctors, are not used to people coming in saying, I feel terrific. I just want to feel awesome. Yeah, there’s like, I have all these issues, and they have the pharmaceuticals and and all of that, but it’s a very narrow approach to to feeling, you know, like feeling optimal. And I think that’s the key, and what we solution that we got from Coach Eric, what other what are the anything else for the questions you have?

ADRIENNE: 
Well, we have a mutual friend, and I know that you’re like, we’ve been working on her for a while, yeah, and earlier in the show, you didn’t hear that, you know the first part, but we were talking about mindset, right? And like, making sure that you hire someone that has the right mindset to be on your team. Now, how does mindset tie in to, you know, working the program, working with you, and getting the kind of results that you typically get?

ERIC: 
Well, in regards to mindset, usually when people come to me and, you know, they pay what they’re going to pay with me, they’re committed and they’re ready to go, right? And the thing is that I always the best analogy I can give you is this, if you have an alcoholic, you’re never gonna get him sober, or her sober, she or he has to be ready to be sober. Otherwise it’ll never happen with balance. Loss in health. It’s the exact same thing. You can wish it upon someone as much as you want. It’s not until they’re absolutely ready. So when I do have a client, and we know who we’re talking about, I can only push so much right? Because if I push to the point where I have them start something when they’re not ready, it’s not going to be a good outcome. But if they get started with me, at least they, I promise you, 99.9% of the time, they’re gonna go, this is a lot easier than I thought it was gonna be. That’s because I’m gonna make it easy, right? It’s the experience that I’ve had. You gotta understand that I’m somebody who was very overweight growing up, so I understand all the tendencies of somebody who has an emotional eater, right? That that, you know, I was that guy, and that when I look at a cupcake, I’m going to gain weight. I don’t. I have to really watch my diet. So I understand the relationship between genitus food, but not feeling the way you you know, when you see other people. I mean, I want to look that way. I wish I would look that way. I get all that, right? I know what it’s like and what it should feel like to feel comfortable in your own skin. So you really, usually, when you get into somebody’s mindset, there’s a bunch of other stuff going on that we got to kind of, you know, bear down on. It’s usually not just because I just like to eat. There’s a lot I’ve always said, like, what I do, I’m like a cheap therapist, right? I’m like a real cheap therapist. I gotta get in the person’s mind, because every individual is different, and they all have different hot buttons, man, and you have to know which how to push every one of them. And that’s why I only carry certain amount of clients, because I can only do so many different personalities in any one given day before I just want to yeek my hair out, right? But I get to them. I know how to motivate them. I coach football too. So from kids, from kindergarten to seniors, now, you have to know how to deal with the people. It’s not just about, oh, here’s this black and white diet, and this is planned as well. And you do know one size get in their head and maneuver so that they get motivated enough and let them see enough results and see it, you know, feel good enough that, oh, man, you know what? This is working. I want to continue, right? If you don’t, if you don’t have that motivation, they don’t see that progress, it’s not going to happen. So that’s, that’s one of the main things. And everybody’s dipping. You have people that need to lose 200 pounds, and you have people that need lose five pounds because they’re getting ready for some cobble crews, right? So, like it, you have to know how to do that and be be up and down.

ATTILIO: 
Yeah, I think too, the the key to what you’re doing, too, and it says a lot, is that your clients are your number one source of your business, and you cannot. You do not have an unlimited bandwidth, so it’s not like you just take everybody all the time. So that says a lot. And then number two, and we know it Adrienne, what is TTP? Trust the plan. Trust the plan. And I want to speak to that, because people what I find, because I’ve had friends go to you, and they got this, they let their egos get in the way, and they’re like, hey, if you’ve been the way, you’ve been your entire life, and he’s giving you information that this is what you got to do, do it. Just do it. Let’s TPA, trust the pen. And I think when you gave us, like, the document, like, like, all the stuff to eat in the supplements and how to take it, it’s like, I don’t know it was like 10 pages, and I read it, and I read it like five times because I was like, and I highlighted stuff and I put notes. That’s the mindset you’re looking for. You’re Hello folks. You paying for this instruction, take it. And so I think you put in there too. You’re going to have friends, or tick tock or Instagram saying, Boy, instead of that, do this, instead of that, questioning everything that Coach Eric is putting before you, I will tell you our number one key to success for Adrienne and I’s results we didn’t question.

ADRIENNE: 
Stop. Trust the plan. TTP, trust the plan.

ATTILIO: 
So thank you for explaining that right up the front, because you were addressing the mindset without just mindlessly giving a formula for us to follow you. You addressed it right in the beginning of that paperwork you gave us.

ADRIENNE: 
So So, Eric, we’ve got a couple minutes left. Yeah. So if there’s anything more you want to touch on with our listeners, or a success story, I want to wrap it up. It’s not

ATTILIO: 
like a lifelong thing with coach, Eric is he teaches you to habits. We come back every once a while. We’ll do a 3060, 90 with you. It’s a high level of accountability. We talk about it in our sales group. Raise your hand if you love accountability. Nobody raises their hand. Raise your hand if you love the results of accountability. Everybody raises their hand. And I think I will tell you right now, like, even for us as disciplined as we are, we need to go back for a 3060, 90 of a Coach Eric, because it’s I’m gonna tell

ADRIENNE: 
you, wait a reset. You on the reset. When you look at that cupcake

ATTILIO: 
and you go, Oh, I gotta have to report this to Coach Eric. I don’t want to do it. You literally just walk away because we don’t want to have to report it on. Our check ins with Coach Eric. So that’s that that level of accountability is what people need. You may not want it, but you do need it. But any last things that you wanted to share with our viewers, or any questions you your things you wanted to share we didn’t ask you about.

ERIC: 
Well, one of the things I want to say is with you two, right? You guys are like poster, Billboard childs for me, right? You do everything, and again, I give you the plan and you read it five times. That doesn’t mean you’re gonna necessarily follow it. That’s up to you, right? So it’s up to you. It’s up to the individual to want it bad enough to follow the plan and let it play itself out, right? Even if you have and you’ve been doing something for the longest time, if you’re paying someone to tell you what to do, give them a shot, right? You got to give them a shot first and foremost. And I say that all the time, like when somebody joins my option too, and I take full control, I say this is the best option, because I’m going to take full control of what you’re doing. All you need to do is do it, and at the end of the month, if it doesn’t work out, you can tell me you’re lying, right? But at least you do what I asked you to do, but if, when you don’t, and you start to and there’s resistance, and I don’t get a lot of that, but sometimes, you know people, why do this? Why do this? Well, that means you’re doing your plan, and that’s what got you here in the first year lease. You got to have an open mind, right? I’m going to go away from whatever your physician told you, and I’m going to go with my experience that I’ve been doing for 30 years and working with optimization positions, and we got a different way of doing things, and that’s why we have such a high DSS rate.

ATTILIO: 
And I like the fact that you are just like that guy with the high not only I’m a member of the men’s hair club, but I’m the president like you are. How old are you? Coach, Eric,

ERIC: 
I’m gonna be 52 in March,

ATTILIO: 
52 and I will tell you, you look better than most 20 year olds. So if that doesn’t, if that are, if you are not a walking resume of the product of your plan.

ADRIENNE: 
Eric trusts his own plan. Trust

ATTILIO: 
his own plan. Yeah, all of that good stuff, because I will tell you you don’t go to the homeless guy in the park to get financial advice. You don’t go to somebody at 31 flavors eating all the ice cream to get diet advice. And you don’t go to your fluffy cousin sitting on the couch binge watching Netflix to get fitness advice. You go to culture. You go to culture. Yeah. So, all right,

ADRIENNE:
well, Eric, thank you so much for coming back on the shows. A great way to start the year. Our listeners, you got to go and book a time with coach, Eric. We’ll have all the information on how to contact him in the comments. Thank you, Eric. I appreciate you him on.

ERIC: 
So let me on again. I appreciate you bringing me back. All right, aloha.

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