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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,