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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 ...