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Hey Dr. Rutherford here today and I'm going to be a little jacked up because this is going to be a little bit of a venting for me so the title today is stop chasing symptoms now a lot of you have probably figured that out at least you think um a while ago i mean that's that's that's been the whole medical world for as long as i could remember and and and frankly i've been thinking about this a lot in the medical world was correct for a long period of time when i look at things now and i look i i sat there last night and i was looking through google i was looking through functional medicine i was looking through thyroid i was looking through leaky gut and i'm looking at stuff and i'm going this is not for today's present population of chronic condition patients what do you mean dr rutherford i mean i mean you know i mean you know you've been talking about leaky gut since the day you were functional medicine practitioner i mean what do you mean about that what do you mean sibo you've talked about sibo i do but i talk about it in a certain context of an entire frame of reference that's called functional medicine and functional medicine is no longer about chasing symptoms and that's what the medical profession has been about and then you know to their defense they were about fixing broken legs and then having heroic surgeries and heart transplants and then making drugs that got rid of symptoms because nobody knew any different but when you really look at it the healthcare system the alternative healthcare system has as a lot of it has followed that model when i look online and i look at certain well-known websites which i was looking at last night it's like magnesium here's the 12 things you can do for me that magnesium does and the next thing you do is you can take that magnesium it's going to work and it does for most people for just a short period of time and when i say most people i'm talking about the patients who walk in here and i'm talking about the patients who are looking online today because those patients are like they're they're the chronic mystery patients there i i looked at three histories this morning i uh something happened and i put on i put on what was 80 pounds in three months how do you put on 80 pounds in three months i know okay and it ain't gonna and and just like and the doctors told me it's my thyroid not to worry about it they told me not to worry about it because it's easy to take care of so they're taking the medication it's not working they're taking the pills it's not working it's not gonna work so a new model was made it's called functional medicine which is another whole thing because not everybody out there is pregnant a classic functional medicine model everybody's got their own take on it because it's not a regulated discipline and so you know you can go down the street somebody can rub your knees somebody can rub your back and give you a couple of pills and go i'm a functional medicine practitioner literally you can do that in in like most of the states so this is what i have to deal with so people coming in and they have like fibromyalgia peripherally chronic fatigue they got a bad gut they they can't they either can't get away from the bathroom you know for more than an hour or they can't go for a week and and all this type of stuff and and they come in with bags of supplements okay and and and they push those bags at me and i look at them and i go don't you shop to me don't even come to me because that's not the mod...

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So today, we're gonna talk about something that isn't gonna sound very sexy but you need to manage your blood sugar, period. I'm morphing more into doing a little bit more education on blood sugar because over this past year so many of the cases that came in here were their success just hung on the ability of us to get their blood sugar correct.
And people would commonly say, "Well, I don't have a blood sugar problem" (laughs) I'll say, Well you filled out my assessment form and there's 16 symptoms on there that would indicate that you have a blood sugar problem if you mark them down and you have all of them.
So then the next retort from the patient is usually, but my blood tests are normal kinda like the Hashimoto's thing. And I'm telling you that is so common. I found that when I get patients from other practitioners, alternative practitioners and functional medicine practitioners, the first thing I look at now is the blood sugar because it's just not really emphasized the way that it should be.
Why is it important? First of all, blood sugar is used by every single every single cell in your body. We did a back to basics of functional medicine I did do a segment on blood sugar. I think this one's gonna sound a little different than that one, but in the end in that segment we talked about how blood sugar is foundational to everything.
Every cell in your body needs proper balance of blood sugar every single cell in your body has insulin receptors so that sugar can get in there. And sugar works with your, the mitochondria these little energy mechanisms in your cells to create energy.
Okay, too much blood sugar is not good too little blood sugar is not good. Hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia. Well I don't have hypoglycemia. The vast majority of patients who come in here have hypoglycemia.
But their numbers are normal. If you look at that... And so this goes back to the functional medicine model has different ranges but even within the functional medicine ranges A lot of times the lab tests are normal while this person is sitting there if I don't eat, I get irritable, shaky, I wanna choke my wife or my husband, I get agitated, I get anxiety, I crave sweets, and you cannot even begin to go into all of the things that physiologically are affected by that.
For example, your thyroid hormones can't convert properly into active thyroid hormones in other words you've got a perfectly normal thyroid and yet if your blood sugar's off, your thyroid hormones may not be converting into the proper form to actually activate your energy in your cells.
If your blood sugar's fluctuating all over the place, you may not be able to make the proper neurons in your brain to be happy, to be motivated. If you don't have them, you may be you may have anxiety, you may have a.
.. even as much as panic attacks So the blood sugar is incredibly important. I think the thing that I'm wanting to say today is most of you have normal blood sugar tests. People come in here I mean like 70% of people come in here that blood sugar abnormality is a big part of their symptom picture that they're coming in here for.
Whether it's Hashimoto's or another autoimmune disease or gut problem and no one's even talked to them about it. Because the blood tests were normal. And so the thing is there's like seven different levels of blood sugar abnormalities, for a medical doctor to tell you that you have hypoglycemia,

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In the final segment of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses the female hormones.



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Hi, this is Dr. Rutherford and we are now down to what I believe is the last in the series of functional medicine back to basics that we started several months ago, and thank you for all of your kind words and thank you and I'M glad for those of you say that you're getting help from this and that it's, really pretty cool.



I really really makes me get up in the morning and do this so female hormones yo-yo. Why? I am. Why is this the last in this series? This is the last in the series because, as my mentors would say, everything flows downstream to the female hormones if female hormones are affected by everything, particularly if you're, still, menstruating and and to a degree, even if you're in Menopause and I'm gonna talk about both of those.



So let's. First talk about let's, just first talk about and female hormones and and like the natural cycle of what a female hormone should look like. So the natural cycle of a female hormone is, I'm gonna start with the brain and, and there's a there is a structure in your brain called the hypothalamus.



What you need to know about the hypothalamus is it &? # 39 s, this, it's, this little organ in the brain. It's, not an organ, but it's. This little this little yeah it's, an organ in the brain that senses all of the balances of chemicals, particularly hormones in in your system, in your in your bloodstream, and so it senses how much estrogen that a woman has okay and then, if It's.



If, if there's, not enough estrogen, there then being produced by the ovaries, then your hypothalamus talks to another organ, that's called your pituitary gland. Many of you may be familiar with it, and that is called the master gland, because it sends signals to all it pretty much controls all the hormones it sends signals to the thyroid.



It sends signals out for you to make growth hormone. It sense they goes out for you to make estrogen testosterone. It's, the master gland. So when it is told that you do not have enough estrogen, it then tells your ovaries to make estrogen okay, but that's, not the end of it.



The over the estrogen then has to be made, and it has to go out to the cells that needed and and and in women, that's, certainly that it goes. It goes into your brain. It gives you it gives you better mood.



Estrogen certainly controls how your ovaries work and, and so because there's, a lot of feedback in there relative to medical periods and and having them and along with progesterone having proper cycles and and so and then estrogen in women.



Well, the next step would be once it hits all of the cells, the frontal lobe cells, and it gives you good mood and and and and and it just ultimately has to be cleared after it goes to all the cells. So it goes through these cells and then it - and so the estrogen goes to the cell.



This is a cell, it hits the cell, the cell opens it goes in there. The cell uses it when it when it uses it. It has mechanisms to detox itself to send the the and the unused estrogen and they use it and and the they kind of used estrogen now has to be cleared from your body.



This is a very,

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In this segment of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses the male hormones.



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Hi, Dr. Martin Rutherford here again in our continuing series on back to basics, functional medicine back to basics, and we're gonna be talking about male hormone imbalances this week and again those of you who have been maybe not watching this is close To the end of a three or four month, series on classic functional medicine and how you address certain conditions, certain imbalances, certain inconsistent, consistencies relative to a variety of different problems that consistently come into functional medicine practices.



So so for the again for those of you have been watching, I'm there's. An order to this. There's, a hierarchy, a pretty general hierarchy as to how you attack things and we've. Already gone over a lot of stuff, we've, gone over basics of care relative to blood sugar and essential fatty acids and oxygen.



We've gone over everything from the exam to the history, to the large intestines intestinal permeability, chemical sensitivities and in a relative order. I'm making that point that, again to those who may just be bringing this up.



For the first time, because we're close to the end of this series - and we're now, just getting to the male hormone imbalances and a subsequent presentation will be on female hormone imbalances. We're.



Doing we're doing the else first, not because we're sexist, but because, frankly, it's. A lot easier to me, health males, don't have as much going on, thank God as the females have. I say that as a male and I'm, treating females and and and and the women having to deal with a lot more complexity.



So so we're going to be talking about mainly we're gonna be talking about loti. We're gonna be talking about low tea, low testosterone. I mean I listen to a radio program every morning to get the news and the weather and the traffic and all that type of stuff, and there's, no shortage of ways to get up your testosterone to raise that old testosterone.



There's medications there's. There's herbs there's. Botanicals. I'm, going to present you with a little different look on that there's, a reason that that your testosterone is low. We're, going to talk about those things there's, a reason that it's being presented last and and actually the way we look at problems is not that their testosterone is low, but the vast majority of time We're, looking at it that their estrogens are high, that the male estrogens are high.



This is usually the problem, basically male problems, with the exception of prostate problems, which is too much testosterone because it's, not getting cleared out of your system. Our are low, testosterone problems secondary to estrogen being high, and that's.



Has a term it's called andropause, and when I mentioned that to my male patients, they kind of look at me like, like they've, never heard the term before so it's, the equivalent of menopause when women Go into menopause and they lose their.



They lose their ability to make estrogen from their ovaries. It's different with men. It's, not that men are losing their ability to make testosterone it's that they're, creating too much estrogen. So here's this so here's.

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In this segment of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses the thyroid and its roll in chronic conditions.



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Hi Dr. Martin Rutherford here in the continuing series of functional medicine back to basics, and for those of you who have not tuned in to functional medicine back to basics. Before we are probably three or four months into a series of how to attack the chronic conditions that walk into most functional medicine, practitioners today - and I am presenting the ideal - seen the classic scene, the scene that was originally put together as how to attack a case From functional medicine, we have what we '



Ve talked about the basics we've talked about blood sugar, oxygen godwe, you can go back and you can look at all of those things just to let you know, because some I'm, going to refer back to some of that, Especially today and and we're, going to continue on now with thyroid okay, I guess the point I'll.



Make here to those of you who have not been watching - or those of you have been watching - is that we're finally getting the thyroid, and I think, one of the most common conditions that walks into our office is thyroid and my mentor dr.



Crossan was the doctor who dust it off mr. Hashimoto findings from 1902 and said: Hashimoto's is causing the vast majority of thyroid problems, and indeed he was correct, and that was years ago when nobody thought he was correct and those of us who Knew him had a strong suspicion, he was correct and we were using his his knowledge in his findings and the challenge back then was people would come in.



I was probably 15 years ago or something like that and people would come in and say. Well, I got tired problem. I went to the doctor, it's, not working. All my numbers are normal and I got all the symptoms and what do I do and and and I would start to walk them through what it meant to have a thyroid problem in today, Society, which is enormous, ly more elaborate than what's.



The newest supplement before that, because I don't want to take the medication, and the answer was was there is no supplement for that, particularly you have to go through all the steps that we've gone through in the back-to-basics emotional Messaging protocol see which one the patient's, have relative to different gut functions and bacterial infections and blood sugar or fluctuations, and these things and and all of those great inflammatory responses, and you have to go through all those first that didn't go over very well by the way.



Look those patients they're, like I just came in here for my thyroid, and I was like this is rough now. The Mayo Clinic says that 85 to 95 percent of all thyroid problems or Hashimoto's, which is the reason that we have done everything else first and it's.



The reason that a functional medicine practitioner should attack a thyroid problem in a certain fashion, so I'm. Not going to go through this is thyroid is what it does thyroid thyroid controls your metabolism, and it helps with calcium metabolism through through calcitonin through through working with the parathyroids, that's, what it does if your thyroids working you have energy.



If your attire is not working, everything slows down everything you put on weight.

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In this segment of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses the adrenals and their roll in chronic conditions.



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Hi, Dr. Martin Rutherford, we're here today, continuing the series on functional medicine back to basics, and today we're, going to go on to speak about the notorious adrenal glands, and I kind of I'm kind of Looking forward this, you could talk about the adrenals forever, but there's there's, several things that I did.



I several points that I really want to hit, because when I first got into this, I got into it in a different way than a lot of people get into alternative medicine. And I wasn't brought up on the. If you can't fix the adrenals, you can't fix anything much from, and in fact I had a I had a doctor one day.



I was sitting here in my doctors quarters and he he was just going into functional medicine and he he was coming over here to see. If we had some extra equipment, we could help him with and, and he looked in the door, it said doc I'm.



Going into functional metastasis can't fix anything. If you don't fix the adrenals, and I went like oh yeah that's. True, it's kind of not true. We already have a presentation online from several years ago on, I think it's called the adrenals or the wrong target.



I mean if I would, if I would edit that I would probably say they aren't, always the initial target and meaning that my experience with the adrenal glands prior to the then, where have been any functional medicine doctor that you went to well, There was no functional medicine, then any alternative doctor or alternative medical doctor that you went into two things they always did.



They always gave you something for your thyroid and they always gave you something for your adrenals. Either they gave you a cortisol boost for your adrenals. They give you a shot for your adrenals. They gave you a supplement support.



They gave you something for your adrenals because duh everybody ' S stressed out right. So it's. The adrenals you can't fix anything because the adrenals do a lot of things. The adrenals are the they really are given their dubai, being called stress, glands, because then it makes everybody think that it's, all about emotional stress, and certainly it's about emotional stress that can be about.



Eventually, it can be about mental stress, it can be about unhealthy relationships. All of those things can create stress hormones that will or situations where your pituitary glands time your adrenal to put out stress hormones, but it's, but there's.



So many things that affect the adrenals and so, for example, you you can have food sensitivities. If you have food sensitivities, let me let me step back on this. So what happens when they? How do how the adrenals get activated? Basically, something happens where you either hit the fear center of your brain.



We'll, go with the mental stress first, that hits the fear center of your brain, so that is called the amygdala. So your frontal lobe here goes there's. Danger I don't like this. I don't like that person.



I'm, not happy with this situation, and and - and it tells this part of your brain called the amygdala to that and that's. The fear center, your brain, that we need energy.

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In this segment of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses the liver and its roll in chronic conditions.



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Hi, Dr. Martin Rutherford here again talking about today, the liver, so for those of you who are just turning in because you looked online and saw than worse, researching liver. For some reason, this is a series that's, being done relative to the title of its back to basics.



As far as functional medicine back to basics and back the basics means this is kind of a classic functional medicine overall protocols that that I think one should expect to experience if they go into a functional medicine practitioners office.



Unless the practitioner lets. You know that you know I'm, not doing that type of functional medicine, so to speak and and so so back to basics, liver and for those of you again who are just tuning in, I walked through this it from the eyes of a Daily practitioner and what they actually see in practice so, for example, on liver, I'm, not going to be going through cirrhosis and all the herpes viruses and all that we might touch on the virus a little bit because that's.



Not what we see we don ' T generally see people coming in here. You know a ten phase, you know liver cirrhosis in an alcoholic, you know cirrhosis or hepatitis or I just I rarely see those things that person is already gone and to the medical field and and and gotten all the tests and and and then they come here Or they or they get fixed that way, so so the livers kind of interesting in our world, the liver, does well, okay, just a little brief.



We had livers pretty wild the liver. When I was in school, they said it did 250 things ten years ago. They said 350 things and now it's delivered us 500 things. It truly is an amazing organ. It is massively regenerative.



So for all of you, we ' Ll talk a little bit about fatty, liver for all those of you out there. They have fatty liver, which I see a lot. If you, if you do the right things, you have to worry about it, I mean it's got to be really really gone for you to not get rid of that fatty liver.



So the liver is, is just it's, four different lobes. They all do different things. It's, a detoxification center. Everything that you dump into your body that doesn't belong there, that liver tries to neutralize or get rid of there's.



Several there there's like seven different pathways in the liver that detoxify there sulfone ization glue. Colorization big one to me is the glutathione pathway, because I see a lot of autoimmune patients kind of hard to get autoimmunity.



If you have enough glutathione, which is probably a separate topic for another day, it stores a lot of our nutrients particularly, is important in blood sugar management. It and, and so it makes vitamin K, it stores a lot of other fat soluble vitamins and has a has a it, has a process as fat, its cholesterol triglycerides.



It has to do with making proteins. Oh, my god, it's, just like that's 500 things, so you could go on up for a long time. Processing the vitamins and but the big thing by the time person gets here, is usually it's, not working right because of the lifestyle that the patient has had before they've gotten here, or maybe the patient's.

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In this segment of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses the gallbladder and its roll in chronic conditions.



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Hi, Dr. Martin Rutherford here certified functional medicine practitioner and other things. We're gonna talk about one of my favorite subjects today, so and and and then something you're gonna, like your really weird or whatever it is, but we're gonna talk about the gallbladder today.



This is like there's like the continuation of the functional medicine back to basics. Again, for those of you who may just have seen gallbladder and I don't know. Yet what we're titling this or for those of the you who are just looking at gallbladder? Maybe this is the first time this is one in a series of presentations on what classic functional medicine should look like and and and and the emphasis on the is on the fact that there's, a hierarchy to functional medicine and the way it Should be approached, and we've, been through that hierarchy from the very beginning of how to even evaluate a patient as to whether they should be a patient to what the basics are to to.



We're, called the the priorities of blood sugar and oxygen, and those have you been watching know what I'm talking about. So we've gone through the we've gone through the intestines. We've gone through leaky gut.



We've gone through chemical sensitivities, pancreas stomach. We've gone through ulcers. We've gone through all that in an organized fashion. There is a hierarchy as to the way you should address a person's overall case, and there's and there's, a specific hierarchy within the framework of that as to how you should address a gut function.



There's like 35 different things that can cause gut issues and a lot of people today know Co, functional medicine, as I do the former program or the flybar program for the gut, and I got on the autoimmune, Paleo diet and I took a Bunch of supplements that I got on dr.



so-and-so this thing for leaky gut or SIBO or whatever it is, and didn't work. So what's? Going on what's, going on as a person, didn't, follow the hierarchy and in hierarchy of trying to get an intestines under control.



Any other things I just got mentioning there's, a couple of major major players that if you miss them, you could do all the all the intestinal permeability you want. You can do all the liver flushes you want.



You can do all of the all of the SIBO diets and supplements and all the time and you're, not getting better ever and one of the two biggest things and those have you been watching know what the other one is.



Hydrochloric acid. In the stomach, I wanted two biggest things: if you don't fix, if you have it, you don't fix it, you don't know you have it to fix it. You it's missing and you don't fix that.



How can you fix that? We'll talk about it? Okay, then you're. Not getting better is the gallbladder. The gallbladder is like ginormously important to us. You wouldn't think so with a gajillion gallbladder is coming out.



I think it's. I think it's, God. How much is it seventy five thousand? I forget. I actually have notes in front of me today. I don't, usually use notes, okay, but the gallbladder to me is so huge. It's,

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Hi, Dr. Martin Rutherford, we're next segment of functional medicine back to basics. Last time we were talking about stomach and it's and its place in the great hierarchy of taking care of patients with functional medicine.



The the concept that I keep hoping to get to you is that there are a lot of moving pieces to this there's, an organization to it. You really need to in the beginning, when you attack a case kind of get a feel for what all the moving parts are for.



That particular patient is what we've been talking. We've talked about that there's. What we've, been talking about up until now, and and now we are at the pancreas and pancreas is kind of interesting.



Most people know pancreas relative to somebody who drinks too much acute pancreatitis. Most people know that that's, not a good thing, and that if you hear that you start making plans and not always, but it's, you know when their pancreas gets that bad.



It's. It's. You, it couldn't, frequently be a life in death situation. Most people know pancreas with diabetes, particularly diabetes type 1. People are getting real familiar with their pancreas, but it's.



Interesting. We don't normally see the pancreas being a huge huge player in our world as far as the necessity to start throwing pancreatic enzymes on it are our bovine pancreatic tissue at it or anything like that, because of the way that we dressed cases, The way that classic functional medicine should address cases symptoms of the pancreas.



I have a cheat sheet here. Okay, so difficulty digesting roughage our fiber okay and it's, not so not after protein. It's, a lot of it's very similar symptoms to lack of hydrochloric acid, which we talked about last week, and you get these symptoms after you.



But you get these symptoms after you digest a starch, not after its starch fibers. Not after you digest protein, okay, so difficulty digesting roughage and fiber indigestion and fullness lasting two to four hours after eating, because you're, not digesting those the roughage or the fiber pain, tenderness, soreness on the left side of the rib cage.



Okay, so pancreas actually goes from about here over. Can you see the kidneys I'm, not sure. If you can see this, it actually goes from here over all the way to here kind of behind the stomach, and so you can get it.



Excessive passage of gas can be a number of things, and but certainly if your pancreatic enzymes aren't doing their job, then you can get excessive passage of gas, nausea vomiting you get nausea and vomiting from the stomach.



You can get it from the liver. You can get it from anything that stimulates your vagus nerve, but you can get nausea vomiting from the pancreas, so it's, not like. Oh. I got nausea vomiting it's, the pancreas okay.



It's like you got to start looking around, go okay, it's. Can I do. I have no stomach problems. Pancreas problems, stool, undigested, foul-smelling mucous like and greasy and poorly formed, and and I'll, maybe kind of a little bit like the gallbladder.



Okay, it could kind of float. You're gonna find out why, in a second, because the gallbladder and the pancreas kind of work together and when one stops working the o...

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In this segment of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford will discuss the stomach and its roll in chronic conditions.







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Hi this Dr. Martin, Rutherford and word: this is a segment on functional medicine back to basics. Last segment was on chemical sensitivities. We went into that pretty extensively. Chemical sensitivities can be there.



They can be at that spot right after the gut right after small and large intestines, they can be, they couldn't, be later it's, something that it depends on the person's history, but right now. This is a good relative order.



In the way you would attack a chronic condition case, which is mostly why we see chronic conditions. Neuro inflammation, we see autoimmunity a lot, but but even just a strict gut case. This is why you would you would attack so this week's on stomach stomach is, I think it's highly underestimated, as as a part of chronic conditions.



Most people are really aware of the intestines. Now it's on the four-hour program, the heal, your gut, all these different programs. For that, do it do that audio, mute, alio, diet and and and take some supplements - and you know, kind of keep your fingers crossed and sometimes it's going to help.



But the stomach is frequently missed and if you've done it automating, paleo diet or if you've, been diagnosed with small intestine bacterial growth and you've done that or you've done any number Of things for your diarrhea or constipation, and they work for a short period of time and and then they stopped working, you're gonna find out.



Why? Right now, because the stomach has a huge player in not only helping to get those under control, but they are a huge player in keeping them under control. Once you've done one of those programs, so there's, so the stomach it digest your food and - and one of the main things it does is one of main features of it is hydrochloric acid hydrochloric acid is, is designed to Primarily digest your protein, it's.



Your stomach's, a very acidic area for those of you who are alkaline people, you tend to dampen this response, which is not a good thing. The and, and so it is the beginning of the chain, it's, it's. Actually not the beginning of the chain of digestion.



The beginning of the chain of digestion is actually smelling your food, seeing your food that actually creates a beginning of the digestive process in your stomach in your pancreas and your gallbladder and, of course, chewing your food.



But then, after that, the next thing is hydrochloric acid. So cyntha so first there's low there's, low hydrochloric acid symptoms and their high hydrochloric acid symptoms. If people think about their stomach and they think about symptoms, what I my experience is mostly they say.



Well, I don't have an ulcer or they say I'm, taking yeah I have or or they say I do have my do taking in acids, because I have acid indigestion and, and one of those is one of those - is Too much acid one of those is too little acid.



The problem with the stomach environment is usually too little acid and I think it's, important to walk through that. Let's. First, walk through other symptoms that our stomach symptoms that you may ...

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Chemical Sensitivities can be a major issue for many of our patient population. Today Dr. Rutherford will discuss them and how they fit into his treatment flow.



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Hi Dr. Martin Rutherford today we're, going to be going over and continue our series on functional medicine back to basics. We, for those of you have been following. You know it's, a whole series. I'm. Taking you from beginning to end the what functional medicine should look like if you walk into a functional medicine practitioners office and it doesn't.



Look like this trust me. They're, not practicing classic functional medicine. There's. A lot of moving pieces to it, we're, trying to give you all of those pieces, the piece and last week we talked about leaky gut.



We talked about intestinal permeability and how it relates to chronic conditions, chronic pain, how you address it? How you prevent it from being sabotaged once you've, gotten done with your leaky gut.



Everybody comes in here today knows about leaky gut, they've done it, but it's back by the time they get here. We do a test on them and they got like it Willie. He got that's blown wide open and they wonder why.



So we just so we and and and then we talked about how that could be stressed. It could be that they didn't, have a hydrogen of hydrochloric acid on and on and on so that's. That's last week again, and I mentioned that because again this layers on top of each other.



Today, we're talking about multiple chemical sensitivities. Okay, when you're, when you're, when you're, go to functional medicine, most people come to my office or coming in for chronic conditions.



Okay, they're not coming in, because their diabetes is off. Some come in for weight loss, but the vast majority come in here with dizziness vertigo balance: migraines fibromyalgia, peripherally chronic fatigue, irritable, bowel syndrome, Crohn's; disease rheumatoid arthritis.



Most people come in here with with chronic conditions that usually have an autoimmune component to it and or or and frequently also have a stress component to it. You put those two things together and your entire system starts to collapse varies from person to person, so there's, a number of different, pretty well defined and known categories as to how to address those problems.



But the problem is on the internet. They're, not well-defined. You're, a million different people talking about a different things. You know must be that one, this one it's. Not that way, so we so so we '



Ve talked about the bowels, we talked about large and small intestines. We've talked about leaky gut, even though it's very difficult. To clearly say this is the next thing. Next thing we're going to talk about? Is going to be chemical sensitivities because you can't get chemical sensitivities without having a leaky gut okay, so we've already dealt with the leaky gut.



You almost can't have chemical sensitivities. If you have a strong frontal lobe now, we have not talked about that, because that's, separate that's, that's like that's like functional neurology, but but but we will talk about it as Time goes on, you almost can't hat.



You almost can't have chemical sensitivities.

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Today Dr. Rutherford will be going over the next segment in our Functional Medicine series discussing Leaky Gut.



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Hi, this is Dr. Martin Rutherford, clinic director here at Power Health, and we're, continuing our series on functional medicine back to basics; the effort to continue to present to you the public, some data on.



Maybe what your visit to a functional medicine practitioner may be, should look like and or and or maybe how you should be getting treated. We are kind of into the area now, where we're talking about you're in the office and you're getting taken care of, and as this is being confirmed that this very moment by my mentors that there Is a hierarchy to care and that's? What I'm trying to present here it's.



This is not about throwing spitballs at the wall are looking at some sort of an assessment form and saying you have a hundred different symptoms. Let's drove thirty two different supplements out it that's, not functional medicine.



Ok! So last week we did our last at least the last episode we did intestines we did the intestines and the intestines in general, or, as most people know, a significant factor in our health. A growing understanding of the microbiome is is is, is really fueling our ability to to take care of more and more symptoms in a better quicker or more efficient fashion.



And so we started off with the intestines in and of themselves and and and how they can affect just so many things we're kind of kind of going to go on to the next aspect of that a classic functional medicine doctor should be.



Should be following some sort of an order, this is an assessment form that, probably you can argue, was one of the starts of functional medicine. It has different categories: it's relatively organized in the categories of a relative order of the way you should think of attacking that person's physiology.



The person fills it out and it tells you what symptoms they have they have patterns. Should jump off and then you should look at those patterns relative to some sort of an organized thought and then attack in that direction.



Last week we did intestines. Then we're, going to kind of continue with intestines. We're gonna do leaky gut okay and we're used to yeah. I don't know I'm, a stickler for language in terms and the matura intestinal permeability, because it's.



Not a colloquial term because when you're talking to a medical doctor, some medical doctors, you're talking to serious people. They got like you got that's, a stupid thing. It doesn't exist and that term kind of lends it to that, but it exists and there's.



I know there's at least a hundred and twenty-five different research projects on this that have been done. As of a couple of years ago, I don't even know how many there must be now so in so leaky gut is actually starting to find its way into the literature as a term leaky gut, and this is - and this is a kind Of a really significant one, because here's, one of the problems that I've observed - and I and I think I was one of the first functional medicine practitioners in the poll.



I think it's. I think it's, legitimate to say that we were doing we're, doing functional medicine when nobody knew what it ...

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In this episode of Functional Medicine - Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford begins to delve into the nuances of how he goes about treating patients who are suffering with chronic conditions. Today he will be discussing the large intestines and why they are one of the first things that may be tackled.



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Hi Dr. Martin Rutherford this is the next in a series of our functional medicine back to basics. I've. Had many people clamoring to me when you're gonna start doing the asset with the treatment part.



So I'm, doing the treatment part, and so so we've talked about basics, we've talked about about exams, we've talked about histories, we've talked about priorities. We've talked about really the foundational stuff that needs to be set up for your treatments, even to really be effective in in the functional medicine world.



A lot of times we've talked about how, when you do those back to basics, then when you do those basics that that a lot of times a lot of times, a lot of the problems will clear up, doing blood sugar, doing stress hormones.



Doing doing low blood pressure and getting those things under control, you can look back at the at the segment on priorities to see what I'm talking about. If that's, something that sounded like that was interesting to you.



So once you start getting the physiology and under control there's, there's, a there's. I think the important thing in functional medicine is there's, a hierarchy of care, and fact I was just at a seminar this past weekend with my mentor dr.



KRAS Ian, and he was talking about gut function and he was. He was talking about a north, the South approach, meaning you should look at the gut from north, meaning your mouth to south, meaning the other end of the other end, and and you should - and you should look at it in a specific order.



Well, that expands across the board to to every case that comes in here. If you have a person where people come here with neurological cases, dizziness vertigo balance migraine people come here with gut cases, people come here, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, thought Hashimoto's, autoimmune.



Those types of things that expands a gut as part of that, but but but you have to evaluate that case and then you have to figure out for that particular case. What should a specific hierarchy be for that case now that doctor I just mentioned doctor Razi and actually developed something called a metabolic assessment for him.



I live and die by this form. You can't get it unless you go to his classes. Okay and he's got a copyrighted, and so I can't. Send it to you, because he - because I'm talking about it on here, and he would sue me so he probably wouldn't.



He's, a really nice guy, but I can't, send it to you so anyway, so so it's kind of in an order. It's, kind of in an order of the way that you would treat so the first parts like what's called dysbiosis, which largely happens in your that you went in your large intestines and then the next part is leaky gut And the next part is chemical sensitivities now, technically, this is an order in which, in theory, the physiology breaks down, but everybody doesn't break down the same way.



So this gives you the opportunity to gather an a...

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In this episode of Functional Medicine - Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses stress and how it can be a major contributor to chronic conditions.



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Hi I'm Dr. Martin Rutherford, again back with our back to basics of functional medicine and what functional medicine should look like and how you go about treating a lot of the chronic cases that we particularly see in this office.



We've gone over just a number of things. Now I can't put them all in order and review them that we've gone through the history. We've gone through the exam we've gone through, so many of the basics of what needs to be done.



The foundational one easily done, and now we're, going to start moving into a little bit more into treatment and and and this this topic today, which is stress and how chronic stress, creates and/or, perpetuates chronic conditions.



It's, kind of a it's kind of a borderline foundational issue and it's kind of a it's kind of also a huge functional issue. As far as relative to the future, talks are going to be, for example, about the large intestines of small intestines, the stomach, how they all play into each other, the order in which to attack them, and so, when purse comes into our office, we once we decided That they're, probably a good candidate.



We haven't, fill out an 18-page history and it has questions on all of those areas and we have one section of about maybe twelve questions on the intestines and then we have another test area on maybe five questions on intestinal permeability.



We have five pages of questions on the brain and and and brain chemistry and brain chemistry when it goes abnormal results in anxiety, it results in panic, attacks or results of the pression. It results in inflammation.



It results in breaking down what's called the blood-brain barrier. The bottom line is all of these different physiological neurological abnormalities create a lot of problems. I would make the argument that it's, at least a ginormous contributor to this expand.



The group of patients who are the chronic pain patients, the autoimmune patients and and I'm gonna we're gonna understand why I think that by the time we're done with this. So so basically yeah. You have you know, the brain can pretty much controls everything and I'm, not gonna get into you, know the neurons and all that type of stuff, but the brain pretty much controls everything it controls your arms and controls moving and controls.



It controls whether you move your finger, controls your thinking and controls all that we're. Pretty we're, pretty much aware of all that, and and and we know that if our arm starts not working and we start getting tremors, we start thinking.



Oh there's, some nerves, that's going on and sometimes those nerves are are coming from the brain. Sometimes they're, not news, but we kind of a relative grasp of that. But what we see in this office, this, I can say with full accuracy, virtually every day in in probably 95 % of the new patients that come in here, people who come in here for consultations, people who start care is that the vast majority of them have A chronic stress response going on that's, separate from the motor nerves.

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In this episode of Functional Medicine - Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses the good and bad of supplements and what to look for and what to avoid.



Hi I'm Dr. Martin Rutherford. I am the clinic director here at Power Health, in Reno, author of power health back to basics and a certified functional medicine practitioner. This is another segment there's, another segment in our functional medicine, back to basics series, and we got a lot of for those of you.



Aren't familiar with it. We've, been going through. We've, been going through what classic functional medicine was intended to look like, and we've already been through taking histories and doing exams, and they're, pertinence and so on and so forth.



We got a lot of good feedback last week on the gluten and the last two segments have been on diet and specifically on gluten, and so we have gotten a lot of good feedback on it. And so we will continue to do these as though, because they seem to be getting through and and and kind of fulfilling the purpose that that I wanted it to fulfill.



So now we're gonna talk about vitamins and supplements. So I'm gonna try to keep this the less than four hours. Okay, because that's about how long I could go on with this. But it's. It'll, be a lot less than four hours.



Hopefully it'll, be a lot less than 40 minutes, because I get a patient in about 40 minutes. So, okay, so so supplements again and and many of these supplements you'll, hear me draw from experience and say when I started this and I think in December first I'm, going to be starting my 40th year in practice.



So so we've had a little experience who had over 40,000 people come through these clinics. You know in that period of time and just to watch the difference in trends and and it went from Oh supplements and you're.



A quack and and that type of stuff too, now supplements every where they're. Actually in this town and I'm sure in your town, there are now doctors more frequently nurse practitioners, physician's. Assistants that are now seem to be agreeing with, and even suggesting supplementation for things like high blood pressure and and high cholesterol and so on and so forth.



So that's, quite a switch. That acceptance has been a two-edged sword because supplements are not regulated for the most part and and so creates kind of. Like you know, I mean here in Reno Nevada, which is like used to be the wild wild west.



Some degree it still is the wild wild west, but but but but not having the rules not having. The regulation allows for a lot of a lot of things to take place, a lot of creativity and and and a lot of profitability unsub limits that maybe aren't.



The best supplements, so we'll, probably be talking about that. In a number of other things, right now, my attention is on supplements. People using the right supplements. People using supplements are going to be effective.



I'm. I do a lot of work with people who are not in my city and and who travel to get here and, and sometimes they travel a long distance. Sometimes I mean I have patients from. I had to currently have a patient from Hong Kong.



Sometimes it's hard to get our supplements to them, so they start saying, can I get mine? Can I get mine at the local Costco, or can I get mine at the local, Walmart or local tax? They have all these in China, apparently and and that - and that makes it that makes me a little bit.



I'm trying to help people to get well and the one thing about drugs. Is there's, a fair consistency in drugs? I'm, not a I'm, not an anti-drug guy person. I'm,

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In this episode of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses gluten and why in his opinion anyone suffering from an autoimmune issue should cut it out of their diet completely.



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Alright gluten is kind of a subset of what we're, doing relative to talking about functional medicine, basics of functional medicine and kind of a subset to diet, and yet it's kind of its own, unique subset.



It's, kind of a subset or in the same, in the same environment as as supplements which we're gonna be talking about in the near future. Maybe the next thing, maybe the next segment and so gluten. When I first got into practice functional medicine practice well, actually I had I had.



I had a really really interesting case years and years and years ago and like in the early 1980s, were where I had a person who had a car accident was treating her from musculoskeletal problems. As I was treating her for this car accident, which was neck pain migraines, it was low back pain.



She kept getting worse and worse and worse, she kept coming back. I'm, not quite sure. Why, and, and and - and you know at some point, it was like we're, not helping you and I'm, not sure why you're getting worse, because I do this with other people and and and the manipulation And the therapies, the types of things that you would treat a person for for a car accident rehab those types of things, and they said that so I mean we're missing something I have no idea what it is.



She disappeared as she should have and and then showed up five months later and and first of all, looked marvelous lost. Like 50 pounds, the tenderness was gone from her neck. The tenderness was gone from her back.



She was showing up for an adjustment I and as though, as you watch me know, that that I'm a chiropractor also, I'm practice, chiropractic for quite some time, but at that time that was my full practice and she came In for an adjustment and said wow, you know I just need to adjust me a tweak in my neck and I'm.



I'm standing there like who are you like? I didn't even recognize her. She's, like 50 pounds less and she's. Asking me for adjustment, same adjustments that used to make her worse. She went to a local alternative doctor here in Reno and this was 1983 and he he told her to get off of wheat.



Okay was wheat back then she said I got off a wheat and this is what happened. I did not believe her and I know the doctor actually knew him very well and and subsequently had a communication with them, and he explained to me, wheat and it's in its sensitivities and and the dramatic effects it could have on physiology.



And I just kind of liked that he was like I thought. Okay, I don't know what it was, but it wasn't weak, okay. Well, it was it was. It turned out that that young lady in retrospect had a severe gluten sensitivity in a lot of various aspects to gluten, and I'm not going to like.



Do the whole look online and get every single aspect of the gluten protein and discuss and make it a whole book, but the bottom line is is gluten, is a is a huge it's, not just it's, not just a Protein that creates abnormal physiology in our immune system.



It also happens to be an excruciatingly ly, trashy carb,

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In this episode of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses why diet and why it is so important for people suffering from autoimmune issues to find the proper diet for them. He also discusses why it is so confusing to many and why there is no simple answer to the question: "What diet should I be on?".



So I'm dr. Margaret furred. I am the author of power, health back to basics. I'm, the clinic director of power health here in Reno and and we are doing the next in a series that we put together called functional medicine back to basics, and we put this series together because we, I was probably in the beginning wave Of functional medicine, practitioners learned classical functional medicine, from who, today, how many of the people who were were considered the luminaries in in the functional medicine world and, and I've, just had a lot of people coming in to me now who've been to a lot of functional medicine, doctors and it didn't work and and what they're.



Describing to me doesn't sound like functional medicine, but the other thing is for those who you don't know us. We have about 600, maybe 700 hours online, talking about different chronic conditions. Our practice is a chronic condition patient.



When my colleague says we have the mystery disease practice and that probably is a good description, but we do dizziness vertigo, but we also do fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, the type of diseases and conditions that nobody can put their hands on there's.



No specific tests for, and so we've developed that type of a practice and and in functional medicine, and we've. We've, combined that with something called functional, neurology and and in doing so we get a lot of the folks who who are searching, and it used to be that when people came in here, they didn't.



They didn't know a functional medicine is now they know a functional medicine is and it hasn't worked for them, and and and so again that's. One of the reasons we do this. The other reason we do this is in in having all of those 700 hours online.



We have a lot of people who give us really nice reviews and thumbs up, and but they say you're, not telling us how to get better. You're, telling us what our peripheral neuropathy you're telling you're.



Making us feel like we're, not crazy. You're, telling us what our IBS is your time, but you're, not telling us what that is going to be like getting better. What what do I do with what supplements do I take? What do I eat yeah? All those types of things, so this series is for that.



So for those of you who might just be coming in on this now, we've, already started on what is classic functional medicine supposed to look like it's, a very comprehensive approach and it's. Not it's, not an easy approach.



It's, not a it's, an inner it's. It's. It's. A very, very you have to be able to critically think you have to be able to gather a lot of data. You have to know as much as you can humanly know about that person to be able to make the decisions that you need to be able to make as to, for example, what their diet should be this week is about diet.



Okay, this week is it's, going to be about diet, and we've gone through. We've gone through what the exam should look like. We've gone through what a history should look like. We've gone through obstacles to cure.



We've gone through the basics of foundational basics of what needs to happen before you even get to a diet or before you get the supplements. Some of those foundational basics are blood sugar control.



Getting oxygen into your system and and those are our previous presentations so ...

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In this episode of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses blood sugar and why that is an important metric to monitor for people suffering from chronic health problems especially autoimmune issues.



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Hi I'm dr. Martin Rutherford, author of power, health back the basics clinic director here at power, health in Reno Nevada, and today we're, going to be talking about sugar. We're, going to be talking about blood sugar and I've.



Give me a minute or two here: I'll. Tell you why we're talking about blood sugar and we're gonna be talking about every type of blood sugar, probably except for diabetes type one, because everybody's, pretty familiar with that, and that'S a this is a part of a series that were that we are doing and this series generated from, I am also a certified functional medicine practitioner and I've, been, I would say, I was one of the first group of certified functional medicine Practitioner so I've been doing it for a long time and I'm, seeing the change in in functional medicine and I'm, getting a lot of people who come in now, who have already been the functional medicine.



Practitioners, except what they're telling me, has been done to them. Doesn't sound, like what functional medicine practitioners are were originally at least taught to do, and I think what are being taught in several of the courses out there and the other reason we're doing.



This is because we have, I don't, know five or six hundred hours online. Talking about all of the things that we treat. We have a sort of more or less a chronic condition, chronic pain practice, and so we treat five imagine four frothy and chronic fatigue.



Vertigo dizziness balance irritable bowel syndrome, but we treat the things concussion syndrome. We treat the things that come and just won &, # 39 t go, and there are certain elements to that and we have.



We saw. We have like 500 hours online with addressing each one of those polycystic ovarian syndrome and blood, sugar and obesity, and all that and that's, a power health talk.com, and in doing that, the thanks that we've got is actually a Lot of a lot, we get a lot of positive feedback, but we get a lot of well.



You're, not telling me how to get better. You're telling me what fibromyalgia is you're, not telling me how to get better and in the end I could have a finer fibromyalgia patients in here or 100 migraine patients in here and they'd.



All be, you know a little different, so I can't. Do that so, based on all of that, we came up with the idea this year, maybe just going through a series of what is functional medicine. So this is, I don't know.



This is fifth or sixth. In the series we've already talked about the foundation of functional medicine and what it should be. We've talked about how you do exams where you know phone and what they mean in functional medicine.



We talked about testing and what that means. In functional medicine, we've talked about the initial consultation and how to how? To kind of how to kind of screen out what I call well, I don't call them, like my colleagues and mentors called them obstacles to cure, and so I certainly do that because it's.

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In this episode of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses the importance of oxygen to our body and its ability to heal.



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Hi, so we're doing this week's segment of functional medicine back to basics. I'm dr. Martin Rutherford certified functional medicine practitioner chiropractor. I am the clinic director here at power, health in Reno, Nevada and the author of power, health back to basics, and this a lot of what we're.



Doing in this series is back to basics. For those of you who just looked at this one, because you were scratching your head wondering what oxygen had to do with anything as far as getting better and you clicked onto this, this is part of a series on functional medicine.



I'm, presenting classic functional medicine principles because I've, been in practice a long time I've been. I was one of the early functional medicine practitioners and now I'm, seeing a shift where I'm, getting a lot of people who are coming in who've already been the functional medicine practitioners, it hasn't worked, and I have another group of patients who know not patients with what we have another group of viewers for those of you haven't seen us.



We have about 600 hours discussing chronic pain on power, health talk comm. We have a lot of viewers who have asked over a period of time. Okay, you've, told us what it is and we feel good about that.



It's great and I know I'm, not crazy, and but but now tell me how to fix myself. You're, holding back on me and, and we're, not holding back on you and that's. What this whole series is about, we've, talked about what functional medicine is obstacles the cure we've, talked about how a functional history should be taken and how its pertinent we've talked about functional.



How functional exam should be done and how nobody does exams anymore and and that there's, so much data that you can get to them, particularly in the functional world, and then we talked about testing last week.



I think we did testing last time. So so the series goes on, and now we're, going to start to get into a little bit of what you might call treatment. But if you've seen any of the other presentations you'll, you'll, know that I have said that one of the reasons that what you're doing online or what a functional medicine practitioner who May not be taking the time to practice functional medicine, why those things will fail is because you are missing the basics and over the next couple of weeks, we're, going to be going over.



What foundational things need to happen for your physiology to work properly and the basics you take supplements. You change your diet. Everybody wants to know about diet. We're, probably going to talk about diet, a couple of segments from now extensively and - and I think that'll - be very interesting because everybody wants to know about that.



So everything on line is diet and supplements, but I took them and they didn't work. This whole series is about why you took them and they didn't work or why it took them and they worked for a little while and then they didn't work or why the diet worked for you, but it didn't work for your neighbor and and and and on and on and on and and and if you really are practicing functional medicine,

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In this episode of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses proper testing and how more testing is not always better.



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Hi I'm Dr. Martin Rutherford back again with our functional medicine back to basics series I'm Dr. Martin Rutherford, chiropractor, functional medicine, practitioner or clinic director here at power, health in Reno Nevada, and today



We've done history. We've done. It is a series for both some of you who, just for some reason, poked. You know, decided to watch a video on testing. We've already done a general overview of what functional medicine should look like.



We've done something called obstacle secure. We have done the history and the application to a functional medicine practice versus a medical practice. Same thing, with with the testing we've done testing, functional medicine practice versus a medical practice.



As far as the exam exam testing, and today we're, doing lab testing. We're. Probably there's. A lot of lab testing that you can do there's, a lot of specialty testing that depends on who you're, treating what you're treating, but I'm going to go over the core of Testing today and I'm gonna make, I'm gonna try to make it clear what the confusion is out there relative to lab ranges, and also I'm gonna walk through kind of a just, a General overall basic testing test list of tests that I choose from to run across the board on so many of our patients, because it's relevant to our patient population and our patient population is, is chronic pain, autoimmunity pretty much anything short of cancer.



That comes and won't, go away yeah, essentially so so that's. We're gonna do today, and I'm gonna start off with lab testing. One of the things that propelled functional medicine into the into the into the lexicon into the conversation was was the the changing of lab mangez.



Now, when you go to your doctor, you go to your doctor and you get a lab test and the lab test has has the wit they're testing, so it'll, say glucose, and then it has the result. In this particular case, it's 94, and then it '



Ll have something where it's a flag and that flag will say high or low or normal, okay and and and then that flag is usually relevant to the range that they say you should have for glucose. So in here the range would be 65 to 99, all right, and so, if you're in that range, they would say they would say nothing if they were above it below it, the flag would say high or low okay, so that's pretty basic, I'm feeling.



Most of you are pretty familiar with that. If the problem is is when we started doing this, and - and we was a group of doctors that I was involved with a long time ago - and and we were on a boards together - and we shared information and and and the problem was that, as you've already heard everybody comes in here, and everybody probably comes into most functional medicine.



Practice comes in with lab ranges that are normal. There's, nothing wrong with yesterday. Yesterday, one's, got polycystic ovarian syndrome and the other one probably has Graves disease, which is a fairly serious thyroid problem.



But yet both of them had normal ranges, they all had. They all had the labs. I mean they all had that.