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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.