Matt Regained His Energy with Bioidentical Testosterone and Thyroid

June 16, 2023

Dr. Hotze and his guest, Matt Schomburg, discuss Matt’s journey from dragging to thriving! After treatment at the Hotze Health & Wellness Center, Matt is sleeping better, he wakes up energized, and maintains his energy level all day long without any “midday slump.” Learn more about Matt’s testimony and how natural solutions changed his life for the better.

Podcast Highlights:

2:28: And then about two o’clock every day I was crashed. I mean, if anything, I’d want to lay on the couch and take a nap. I just had no energy, no stamina, and pretty much from two o’clock till bedtime I was just zombied out.

3:15: I said, “You know what? I want to try something holistic. So who’s the best in the industry? I’m going to go and see Dr. Hotze,”

4:33: …from being met at the door by concierge or whoever it was that walked me upstairs, the handholding, the meal, the drink, just the entire experience, right? Not being rushed by Dr. Ellsworth. Just being able to sit there and visit and kind of share who I was and what I had going on in my life. Just first class, red carpet, I don’t know another word that would sum that up.

6:27: The way that we treat our guests is as important, if not more important, than the treatment we prescribe, because everybody wants to feel important. They want to feel affirmed, they want to feel cared for, they want to feel understood.

8:51: …when you saw Dr. Ellsworth, he recommended the healthy eating plan, do a yeast-free eating program, cleanse yourself out. He also started you on some thyroid hormone to boost your metabolism and some testosterone.

9:28: …primarily testosterone affects your initiative, your self-confidence, your mood, your goal orientation, your drive, your directiveness, your decisiveness, your analytical ability.

10:01: Well, as we age, male hormone levels inevitably gradually decline. So your testosterone level was about a third of what it was when you were in your twenties, and that affected your drive and initiative. Now let me ask you, you were telling me before you came in, by two o’clock in the afternoon you felt beat down and you just couldn’t go. So how are you doing now?

10:28: So, I don’t ever get tired and I’m taking magnesium too, so I don’t know if that’s helping me sleep. But I lay my head down at 10 o’clock, I go to sleep at 10:01, at about five, I’m ready to wake up. I’m excited to wake up. I’m like, “Let’s go.” My alarm hadn’t been going off. I’m like, “What is happening?”  And then I have energy all day long. It has been such a gift.

11:00: We want to make sure that we have a healthy lifespan and not just an existing lifespan. So as you get older, we want you to have energy, vitality, and enthusiasm for life.

11:14: I’m 72 going on 73 and I’m going and blowing. But I’ve been on my program since I was 39. Serious on it.

11:58: So anyway, your energy level’s up. On a scale of 0 to 10, how would you rate your energy level? 10 being brimming with energy, 0, no energy.

Matt Schomburg: Yes. I would say 9, most days 10.

Podcast Transcription:

Dr. Steven Hotze: Hello, I’m Dr. Steve Hotze and welcome to today’s program. I’m pleased to introduce to you a new guest of ours here at the Hotze Health & Wellness Center over about the last four or five months, Matt Schomburg. Matt lives here in the Houston area and he’s in the insurance business. S

So Matt, tell us a little about yourself. Where do you come from? Where do you hail from and how did you get involved with insurance? And then how did you get involved here at the Hotze Health & Wellness Center?  

Matt Schomburg: Absolutely, absolutely. Well, I appreciate you having me. It’s an honor to be here and to visit with you. I’ve known your reputation for 20 plus years. So, I grew up in the Sugar Land area. Opened up a State Farm Agency here in 2002. So in Katy, actually on Fry Road, so directly across the street from you.

Dr. Steven Hotze: What is the name of the agency?

Matt Schomburg: So, just Matt Schomburg State Farm. My mom’s a State Farm Agent. She’s one of five. Four of her siblings were in the insurance field, a couple of those State Farm.

Dr. Steven Hotze: It’s in the family, in the genes.

Matt Schomburg: Well, it gets better. So my grandfather was a State Farm agent, so I’m a third generation State Farm agent. So there, there’s a bunch of us. So Katy’s been terrific. Our business has continued to grow…was alongside the school district and the population of our area. I guess it was probably sometime in 2020, I started working with Coach Micheal Burt. We know he’s a business coach. He’s helped your team. He came in…

Dr. Steven Hotze: Great guy.

Matt Schomburg: Fantastic guy. So he came in last year and did a full session, full deal for us. And I had torn out your ad in the magazine over Christmas break, and then Coach Burt started working with us and praised you for allowing him to have a second and third kid, I believe now. Just changed his life. Funny story. My wife is an old patient. We found her book from 2013.

Dr. Steven Hotze: Really?

Matt Schomburg: So like I said, we’ve known your reputation, known about you, and I said, “You know what? It’s time for me to go. I’m dragging. I want to get in.”

Dr. Steven Hotze: How old are you now?

Matt Schomburg: So, I’m 45.

Dr. Steven Hotze: Okay. And you felt like you were dragging. So what does that mean? Tell me what that means.

Matt Schomburg: So I get up early, I’m an early riser up at 6:00 AM. I’ve got four boys that keep us running. So logistically we’re all over the place. Just every day I get to work, I do what I do. And then about two o’clock every day I was crashed. I mean, if anything, I’d want to lay on the couch and take a nap. I just had no energy, no stamina, and pretty much from two o’clock till bedtime I was just zombied out.

Dr. Steven Hotze: And you’re only 45?

Matt Schomburg: Only 45.

Dr. Steven Hotze: Okay. So what made you decide you wanted to come in? Was that it?

Matt Schomburg: Yes, I think that was it. And I had been working with a cardiologist, and so I was trying to stay off of statins.

Dr. Steven Hotze: Right.

Matt Schomburg: My dad’s been on statins for 30 years. He’s got real bad rheumatoid arthritis. I just think something with all the prescription pills he’s taken have definitely affected his ability to move at his age today. I didn’t want to go down that path, so I said, “You know what? I want to try something holistic. So who’s the best in the industry? I’m going to go and see Dr. Hotze,” and so that’s what brought me here in late October.

Dr. Steven Hotze: So you came in and who did you meet with? Dr. Ellsworth?

Matt Schomburg: Dr. Ellsworth was my main doc and went through the initial procedure and whatnot. And so he got me on vitamins and…

Dr. Steven Hotze: Well, let me just ask you this, as you’re probably well aware of coming in, we have a different model of the way we handle our guests. We call our patient’s “guests,” by the way. So had you been in here with your wife originally?

Matt Schomburg: I had not. So that was all her and mainly for allergies back then.

Dr. Steven Hotze: Right. So this was your first time into the building and to come into the center and all that. So, tell me about that experience. What did you expect when you walked in? What’d you think it was going to be like and what was it like?

Matt Schomburg: Yes, so I probably knew a little bit more than a first time guest. So I knew it was going to be extremely impressive. I knew it was going to be first class. I knew the red carpet would be rolled out, and from being met at the door by concierge or whoever it was that walked me upstairs, the handholding, the meal, the drink, just the entire experience, right? Not being rushed by Dr. Ellsworth. Just being able to sit there and visit and kind of share who I was and what I had going on in my life. Just first class, red carpet, I don’t know another word that would sum that up.

Dr. Steven Hotze: Well, that’s what we want to roll out. As a matter of fact, I don’t know if I shared this with you. Back in 1996, we read a book called The E-Myth, the Entrepreneurial Myth by Michael Gerber. I don’t know if you’ve read that or not.

Matt Schomburg: Absolutely. Yes sir.

Dr. Steven Hotze: Well, you know how great that book is.

Matt Schomburg: Yes sir.

Dr. Steven Hotze: The Entrepreneurial Myth is that somebody goes into business for themselves. They think they’re an entrepreneur, when really in fact they’re the technician, they’re the bookkeeper, they’re the sales manager, and they’re in charge of sales. They’re in charge of hiring and recruiting. They’re basically an employee of themselves. An entrepreneur really works on their business and not in their business. And he talked about the importance of creating an environment that creates an experience for your customers, your clients or your guests, if you’re in the hotel business.

And so we made a decision back then in 1996 that we were going to get out of medical practice and go into the hospitality industry and benchmark with the Ritz-Carlton and benchmark with The Broadmoor. And we were no longer going to call our patients “patients,” we’re going to call them guests, and we were going to roll out the red carpet.

We changed all the interiors. We put in hardwood floors, we piped in music. We have a concierge at the front desk. We provide an experience, because I told our staff, and I tell them this all the time, “The way that we treat our guests is as important, if not more important, than the treatment we prescribe,” because everybody wants to feel important. They want to feel affirmed, they want to feel cared for, they want to feel understood.

Matt Schomburg: Absolutely.

Dr. Steven Hotze: And it takes time to do that. And that’s the kind of environment that we have created with our team here at the Health & Wellness Center, both not only in the Health & Wellness Center, but in our vitamin store, Physicians Preference Vitamins and Physicians Preference Pharmacy International. So I want to make sure everybody that comes in feels that experience that this is not being at a doctor’s office. Is that the way you felt?

Matt Schomburg: Yes. And it gets better. So I did the 90-day yeast cleanse. And so they told me about it and I remember my wife doing it the first time, a decade earlier, and I said, “This is stupid. There’s no way I’m going to be able to do this.” And it was funny because about two weeks in and my nurse Jennifer, is that right? Phenomenal.

Dr. Steven Hotze: Jill.

Matt Schomburg: Jill, sorry. Sorry, Jill.

Dr. Steven Hotze: Jill is great, isn’t she?

Matt Schomburg: Yes, I’ve been working with Jennifer for this. So, Jill would check on me almost every day, “Matt, how are you doing?” And I remember my wife and I had snuck away to Florida and I was having major sugar withdrawals. I was struggling. I said, “Jill, something’s wrong with my body.” I didn’t feel right. I felt I was craving, I was missing something, but without her holding my hand through that whole process, I wouldn’t have made it, right? We developed a special relationship and I’m sure that’s not abnormal. I’m sure that’s more the norm.

Dr. Steven Hotze: Let me tell you what, Jill is wonderful. I’ve known her since she was 11 and she’s 48 now and she’s a wonderful nurse. She’s our quality assurance nurse. So, we always put Jill with our new guests to make sure you get onboarded and get on the program and it takes a month, couple of months, to get yourself up and rolling. Then you get in the habit and you have it down. And she doesn’t need to hold your hand as much. She’s off holding somebody else’s hand. Now, have you had a chance to meet with her personally?

Matt Schomburg: I have.

Dr. Steven Hotze: Good.

Matt Schomburg: I have.

Dr. Steven Hotze: Well she’s a bundle of energy and she’s a tremendous asset to our team and to our guests, and I’m glad to hear that from you. I wouldn’t have expected any less of Jill.

So anyway, when you saw Dr. Ellsworth, he recommended the healthy eating plan, do a yeast-free eating program, cleanse yourself out. He also started you on some thyroid hormone to boost your metabolism and some testosterone. I looked at your age. I started testosterone about the same age you did. I was 46. You’re 45 and your testosterone was down. For a guy between 40 and 50, it was on the very low end.

Matt Schomburg: For sure.

Dr. Steven Hotze: And testosterone, as you come to realize, most people think, “Oh, it’s about your sex life and all that.” Well, it does have an effect on that, but primarily testosterone affects your initiative, your self-confidence, your mood, your goal orientation, your drive, your directiveness, your decisiveness, your analytical ability.

All these are brain functions, and testosterone gives a man male pattern behavior where he wants to go out and get something done. The caveman had to go out and kill the meat and kill food. He had to go out and get active and be a producer. Well, as we age, male hormone levels inevitably gradually decline.

So your testosterone level was about a third of what it was when you were in your twenties, and that affected your drive and initiative. Now let me ask you, you were telling me before you came in, by two o’clock in the afternoon you felt beat down and you just couldn’t go. So how are you doing now?

Matt Schomburg: I don’t ever get tired.

Dr. Steven Hotze: But you could tell a big difference?

Matt Schomburg: Oh yes. So, I don’t ever get tired and I’m taking magnesium too, so I don’t know if that’s helping me sleep. But I lay my head down at 10 o’clock, I go to sleep at 10:01, at about five, I’m ready to wake up. I’m excited to wake up. I’m like, “Let’s go.” My alarm hadn’t been going off. I’m like, “What is happening?” And then I have energy all day long. It has been such a gift.

Dr. Steven Hotze: Well, and this is what we believe, is that as an individual ages, and we’re all going to age as long as we’re alive, we’re going to have this aging process, maturing process. We want to make sure that we have a healthy lifespan and not just an existing lifespan. So as you get older, we want you to have energy, vitality, and enthusiasm for life. Now you’re 45.

I’m 72 going on 73 and I’m going and blowing. But I’ve been on my program since I was 39. Serious on it. I was in good shape then and I’m staying on it. Don’t have any plans of ever retiring. I’m going to do like my daddy. He said, “I’m going to retire never because there’s nothing in the Bible that says retire. I’m going to work until I die and I’m going to die right here on the job.” And he did.

Matt Schomburg: I love it.

Dr. Steven Hotze: The night before he died, I called him up and I said, “How you feeling?” He said, “Son, I hadn’t felt this good since I was 18 years old.” He died at 80, probably had a heart attack. But anyway, and I didn’t know what I know now, or he might still be alive. That was years ago back in ’95. So anyway, your energy level’s up. On a scale of zero to 10, how would you rate your energy level? 10 being brimming with energy, zero, no energy.

Matt Schomburg: Yes. I would say nine, most days 10.

Dr. Steven Hotze: That’s great.

Matt Schomburg: Yes.

Dr. Steven Hotze: So, has your wife noticed a difference?

Matt Schomburg: She has.

Dr. Steven Hotze: That’s great.

Matt Schomburg: She has. So I mentioned I came late October to see you. We were planning to come at the same time. Something happened. She came back in January and so now with both of us on this thing, our marriage is better.

Dr. Steven Hotze: That’s great.

Matt Schomburg: She’s come such a long way just with her mood, really. I mean, she’s incredible.

Dr. Steven Hotze: Well, of course when women get into the forties, hormone levels begin to decline and become imbalanced and the hormones affect your brain function, my friends. And the long and the short of it, you just don’t feel as well when your hormone levels go down, energy levels go down, you get mood swings, depressed, you get panic attacks, anxiety. Women get that problem and they get the premenstrual symptoms and all those sort of things which can be easily corrected with proper hormone replacement, with natural bioidentical hormones.

And that’s what we did with you. It happens with men too. Men, we go through andropause, hormone levels decline, testosterone declines. I’m going to predict and I think I told you when you came in, don’t blame me if within two years you’ve doubled your income. Did I tell you that?

Matt Schomburg: Yes.

Dr. Steven Hotze: Well, and I say that because you’re in business for yourself.

Matt Schomburg: I am.

Dr. Steven Hotze: And all of a sudden you, you’ve got years of experience. You’ve been in the business how long now?

Matt Schomburg: So, over 20 years.

Dr. Steven Hotze: 20 years. So you have a lot of experience. You know what to do, but your energy and your drive and your goal setting and everything was beginning to flatten because your energy level was down.

Matt Schomburg: Right. Right.

Dr. Steven Hotze: Pick that thing up. Guess what? Don’t blame me if you’ve doubled your income in two years and make sure you get somebody good to help you invest that money. I’ve seen it happen over and over. Testosterone is powerful, men. So, you have all this experience. We don’t have the energy. Now you’ve got the experience with the energy. It makes a huge difference. You’re most productive years are ahead of you, sir.

Matt Schomburg: Yes.

Dr. Steven Hotze: You’re going to do extremely well.

Matt Schomburg: Absolutely. It’s exciting.

Dr. Steven Hotze: Well, I appreciate you sharing with us this great story and your success. I’m proud of you for taking charge of your health, and that’s one thing that I want to point out. One thing that Matt Schomburg did is he made a decision he was going to take charge of his health and he wasn’t just going to say, well, “This is just getting older and I’m going to feel that way.”

He decided he was going to get on a path of health and wellness naturally, and he contacted us and made a decision to come in and invest his hard-earned money to do that. And because we don’t do insurance, if you want to see an insurance doctor, plenty of them around. You get what you pay for with an insurance doctor. The insurance company governs what you take when you go to an insurance doctor. I want to work for our guests and make sure they get what they need without having an insurance company looking over my shoulder and trying to second guess what I’m doing.

So if you want to get on a path of health and wellness nationally and you want to take charge of your health, don’t hesitate to give us a call here at the Hotze Health & Wellness Center, and we’ll be glad to partner with you and get you feeling healthy, full of energy, and full of enthusiasm again. Thanks so much for joining us today. Thank you, Matt for coming in. That’s Matt Schomburg Insurance here in Katy, Texas.

Matt Schomburg: Yes, sir.

Dr. Steven Hotze: If you need some insurance, you give Matt a call. Thanks so much again for joining us.

Click here to subscribe to Dr. Hotze’s Wellness Revolution Podcast today!

Categories: Blog, Fatigue, Men's Health, Testosterone, Uncategorized

Tags: testosterone for energy in men

Contact Us

Categories