Power Health Talk with Dr. Martin Rutherford

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If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com 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 model the model that was uh produced was based on the fact that we have a new patient population i go back that you’re looking at google you’re look to me 80 of stuff i looked at last night online is not relevant to the present patient population and why is that because auto immunity has changed the rules of the game big time the the the doctors don’t know what to do with it yet the medical doctors don’t know what to do with that because their model which was appropriate at a time before autoimmunity when the person would come in with a flu or a cold or a stomachache or or an earache or you know they were chickenpox or something like that that was their world that’s how it developed but that world’s past them now this is now i’m not saying i’m not saying medicine’s not relevant i’m just saying for the chronic condition patient that is not that is not the the the best model and substituting a supplement for a pill for a symptom okay is not the right model it can give you temporary lease yes am i okay with that of course who doesn’t want temporary relief but when you come to me i’m into more than temporary relief look it’s genetics it’s it’s it’s the person living an unhealthy lifestyle whether they knew it or not do i drink coffee do i not drink coffee do i take salt away not take salt sugar batter sugar not that and i i is is out oh i drink one alcohol a day it’s good too alcohol bad no three alcohol i mean like it’s confusing so you could be uh following an unhealthy lifestyle not even knowing it and and either way it’s an unhealthy lifestyle the next thing you know your systems start breaking down and now the way it’s happening is once that gut breaks down the next thing you know you start getting you can start getting chemical sensitivities the next thing you know you are now open to getting autoimmunity the next thing you know you have a stress has anybody here been stressed in the last year i get a little stress you get a little like maybe get an argument and your stress is already up because your presidential guy lost their one or whatever or you’re or we got coveted you’ve been sitting in your house for six months which is not natural for us as human beings to have to do that type of stuff i don’t think that’s like like a controversial thing and so the next thing you know you have a trigger um you have an overwhelming infection you get copied i think a lot of these coveted people are getting it and they have these mystery symptoms later i think you’re going to find out those mystery symptoms are they had a genetic propensity develop autoimmunity and now here it is this is a new development in our society and frankly i treat people from all over the country and all over the world it’s everywhere it’s not just here okay so now this person comes to us and we have spent years years and years just trying to figure out how do we get that under control and i think we’ve got a pretty good model going and the model is not based on on symptoms the understanding of the case is based on symptoms i give out a close to 300 question questionnaire to my patients to fill out by the time that question is filled out a pretty good idea what’s going wrong with them and it’s it’s it’s it’s it’s it’s and it’s all symptoms however those symptoms lead us to understand what systems have collapsed because these systems these these autoimmune problems they are not going away they’re getting more i’m seeing them in three and four and five-year-olds now you can’t cure at least not right now nobody’s come up with a cure now and um and and so basically you have to dampen it you have to get you have to do your best to get that person out of a uh out of a flare um some people have been on a flare for like 10 years okay and you have to get them out of that you have to get them in you have to try to get them in remission and show them how to stay that way we have we have done that we do that pretty well not everybody’s a candidate i’d say 80 people who call here are candidates and i’d say 20 for a variety of about 20 reasons just are not going to respond to this model of care now i said all that to say this so we get into the model we start treating people and and the person starts getting better and then maybe we switch into so basically the way it works is you’ve heard me say this if you watch this for a long time there’s a hierarchy to treatment we figure out what systems there are how do we get the immune system under control dampen the most it’s going to be lifestyle changes it’s going to be nutraceuticals it’s going to be it’s going to be a chemical toxicities it’s going to be triggers that we have to get rid of dietary changes with the uh that are going to help to get rid of strains and we have a very organized way of going about it and we do it in stages and you maybe maybe you know maybe you could do first stage one and also versus doing a lot better and then and then maybe in stage two i’m talking about not standard stages i’m talking about in that person’s particular case and now maybe you find that there’s a liver that’s not you know playing ball with us so maybe we have to go in there a little harder next thing you know you give a person an extra set of vitamins i’m not going to talk to them again for two or three weeks the next thing you know they’re not feeling good for three or four or five or six or seven days so what do they do they go back to dr google they go back to the model that’s failed they go back to the model of i’m going to go home and i’m going to go and i’m going to take this because this has helped me in the past in the context of what i do that’s not a good thing because what we’re doing is is changing physiology and physiology is very very uh communicative to the person who is doing classic functional medicine and if that’s and and it might be that that physiology is good because finally that organ is starting to like be demanded upon to get better and and and and so in the end that that person just kind of has to let me know send me an email do something say you know what i’ve had i’ve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ-SpO4rE_Q Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com 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, low blood sugar I mean you have you be practically dead. I mean, you’re supposed to be like it’s supposed to be the numbers less than 60 or 50 depending on who you’re looking at. By that time, your blood sugars are so low. Your brain is not getting any oxygen from your blood sugar. I’m sorry, your brain’s not getting your blood sugar your muscles aren’t getting any blood sugar and your cells aren’t getting any blood sugar and you’re passing out and you’re getting lightheaded and you don’t feel good and all that Kind of like a diabetic, who hasn’t taken her insulin. And so that’s hypoglycemia They’ll diagnose you with low blood sugar if you come in like that. But the vast majority of you, it’s not like that. The vast majority of you it’s again, if I eat, I feel better. Cause my lecturer comes out. If I don’t eat for long periods of time, I get irritable I get shaky, I get nasty, I get tremors Maybe I get blurred vision (laughs) There’s a number of things that happen when you’ve got low blood sugar that you’d never connect to your blood sugar. And so and the doctors, maybe they run a blood sugar Maybe they don’t. If they run a blood sugar, they go it’s normal. Well, here’s the problem. You may not have as much damage to the receptor sites in your cells to be able to register as low blood sugar on your test. And that’s not a theory. I mean, that’s a fact. Some of the things that I’ve read have said that it may take as much as seven years for you to show up for low blood sugar and or the next sugar problem up the line which is insulin resistance. And here, just to drive you crazy If you have insulin resistance, which you might call pre-diabetes, insulin resistance If you have some other things you might call it metabolic syndrome. It’ll take even longer for the damage to be done for that to show up. So now you have metabolic syndrome You’re overweight your blood pressure’s high, you eat and you fall asleep afterwards. You just crave sugar all the time. You can’t lose weight. You’re urinating all the time and when they do your blood sugar, you’re fine. Or even better they might say, well your diabetes you’re not diabetic type 2 yet. So we’ll just wait until you get to be diabetic. And then we’ll take care of it. In the meantime, you’re having all this damage from being either pre-diabetic or low blood sugar which we call functional hypoglycemia. You’re not dying because you’re below 60 but you have low blood sugar. And every time you don’t eat for hours or you don’t feel like eating first thing in the morning ’cause your blood sugar is in the toilet and it’s setting off as stress response and it makes you nauseous This is damaging tissues. For those of you who watch my Hashimoto’s stuff this is creating inflammatory responses against your thyroid. So the blood sugar is huge. And to make it even better (laughs) if you have low blood sugar and if you have high blood sugar not metabolic syndrome, not diabetes type 2, pre-diabetes, low blood sugar, pre-diabetes they bang back and forth. So then you get symptoms of both. You get symptoms of, I eat, I don’t eat and I get irritable and shaky I eat and then I fall asleep right afterwards. You get a lot of symptoms of… That are very confusing. And so you can have all of those blood sugar symptoms take the test and not have it show up. Now, there is a test that you can run. It’s a three hour test and you take a person’s blood sugar levels and insulin levels over a period of three hours. And usually at the end of two or three hours that person whose lab tests were normal but has all the symptoms will show up. Whether it’s higher or it’s low is that helpful? Yeah, It’s very helpful to me because it helps me to lean my supplementation or my recommendations or my dietary lifestyle recommendations to one or the other. And so, but I cannot emphasize blood sugar enough like you have to follow the fuel. If the person doesn’t have oxygen getting to their cells if a person doesn’t have blood sugar getting in their cells, getting to their cells, you’re gonna have a hard time for that person to get well of anything because they’re not getting enough energy in their cells to really create enough of a response to a healing response so that they can respond to whatever dietary changes or supplementation or lifestyle changes or any of those types of things. So I could go on for blood sugar for a long time. It is so huge. And yet most people have no idea that some of these profound symptoms that they’re experiencing, inability to lose weight. Yeah, it could be thyroid but let me tell you a lot of times it’s that pre-diabetic who’s been told you’re okay. Or you don’t have pre-diabetes or you got pre-diabetes let’s wait until you’re diabetic. We’ll wait for that. That will stop you. That will stop you from losing weight. And there’s so many of those instances so managing your blood sugar is huge. There’s a lot of good stuff online as far as general general things to do for it. But really at some point you need to figure out either symptom-wise or by testing Do I have low blood sugar? Do I have functional hypoglycemia? Do I have insulin resistance? Pre-diabetes, metabolic syndrome, diabetes type 2 or diabetes type 1. That’s blood sugar. It’s a blood sugar. It’s not just like, no I don’t have diabetes. My blood sugar is okay (laughs) It’s way more than that. And believe me in dealing with autoimmunity Hashimoto’s, all the things weight loss all these types of things You better know your blood sugar and you better be addressing if it’s not right. Or a lot of things you’re trying are going to fail. Source : Youtube

https://youtu.be/GEeKFlK0-24 In the final segment of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses the female hormones. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com 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, very, very important, salient point, so it gets so when it gets when it gets cleared. It gets cleared like anything else that gets there’s, a certain pathway in your liver that clears your estrogen. Then it has to be cleared through your gall bladder, because gall bladder takes all of the toxins there’s, bio form, the gall bladder spits it out into your intestines. It has to be cleared through your intestines. There is a there is a enzyme in your intestines called beta glucuronidase that actually further clears your estrogens. If that enzyme is too high, it’ll, actually reconstitute estrogens and make inactive estrogen into active estrogen that was supposed to go into the toilet. The enact that was supposed to go into the toilet or talk about that in a few minutes, so you and then it can go in and then it also can be. Estrogen can also be stored in your fat cells, so women are estrogenic and and and it’s natural for women to have estrogen in their fat cells. There was this kind of cool little mechanism there that if a woman starts getting too much testosterone first before they develop polycystic ovarian syndrome, which is caused, which is it has too much testosterone as a feature it’ll, get stored in your fat. In your fat cells in your adipose tissue, and so this is the cycle of estrogen, and you have to kind of remember that, as as I’m walking through this, so so things that affect any of those. Any of those processes are going to alter your estrogen function, so I think today I guess the next, because the next step to go to is today most people come in here with female hormonal problems. Aren’t coming in here, expecting that I’m, going to talk to them about their liver or talking to them about their their intestinal dysfunction. We’re talking to them about blood, sugar or essential fatty acids or all of the things or their stress, or all of the things that ultimately go into making your hormones. They’re, not usually expecting me to talk to them about their cholesterol, and this is a point that I don’t see made enough today we are, we are subject to a whoever makes these decisions that are making this decision, that Our cholesterol should be down below 150 or 100, and that’s. Incorrect based on the understanding of physiology, because when your cholesterol starts getting down that low – and this happens in a lot of thin patients when it gets down that low and your doctors telling you how great it is, it’s, pretty well understood that That bulow, 150 and cholesterol – it’s, difficult to make hormones. Almost all of our hormones are made out of cholesterol. They’re. Almost all of our hormones made out of something called cholesterol. I’m pregnant alone, and, and so so these are all things that in the functional world we look at if a person is coming in here with scanty blood flow, excessive blood flow they’re coming in here with periods that are All over the place they’re coming in here with facial, hair and and acne, and we might be looking at and we’re gonna talk about polycystic ovarian syndrome in a separate in a separate video. So it’s, not technically going to be part of this series, but we’re going to talk about that, and actually we have videos online already on polycystic ovarian syndrome. If you want to look those up, but you so we could be talking about polycystic ovarian syndrome there, which also has a lot to do with all of these imbalances and all these organs that I talked about. But we’re, going to be looking. First, at all of those things, because, because all of them have our play a role in particularly in the menstruating female, all of those play a role in making your in making your estrogen balanced. So if you are, if let’s, so let’s. Say you’re, not any! Let’s say you’re, not eating of cholesterol. Maybe you went on one of these, like low-fat diets. Low flat diets and and and maybe you’re, really got a lot of low fat and all sudden you start getting all these symptoms like what is going on here and you go and they take your estrogen and your estrogen is low. They give you Harmon replacement therapy, let ‘ S say that your intestines has too much of this enzyme that I briefly mentioned called called beta glucuronidase beta glucuronidase will cause the estrogen that is supposed to have been detoxified and then going into the toilet. Because remember your brain knows how much estrogen you need, but this if this beta glucuronidase is too high because of a number of things that could be going wrong with your intestines, irritable, bowel syndrome, SIBO any of the autoimmune diseases like celiac or cross, or anything like That you’re, going to reconstitute your estrogen before it goes into the toilet, and it’s, going to be reabsorbed, and you’re, going to be estrogenic. You’re gonna have too much estrogen too much estrogen by the way, creates the same symptoms, frequently as too little estrogen, and the reason is because if you take a Carmo replacement therapy and and and you have again in the cycle of what The hormones supposed to do is supposed to be made and that’s supposed to be used by being used, and the hormone actually gets on this little protein. It gets over here to the cell and then there’s, an enzyme that cleaves that off and then the cell goes opens up and it goes in. But if you, if you give yourself too much estrogen like from creams and stuff, then that estrogen will cause this to become resistant, this receptor site, you know, like I got enough – I’ve got enough, and eventually this receptor site just won’t open if it doesn ‘ T open and estrogen is not getting in. You’re going from you and and they take and they take it and they take a lab of your estrogen or going like. Well, you’re, a she’s like 900. You have like too much of it. You’re and and and you’re, getting like low estrogen symptoms. This is why, and it’s and it’s fairly common. If somebody comes in – and I’ll put this in line with what we’re talking about. If we’re looking at their intestines for the beta glucuronidase, if someone comes in here on what we call you know, post birth control syndrome, someone comes in here. They want to have a baby there. They’ve, been taking birth control pills for ten years. We have to like take like three months to clear all of the estrogen out of their system, so that so that we can get a proper feedback loop going between their brain and their ovaries. So that we can now give them the proper su

https://youtu.be/UrtgFRPeURk In this segment of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses the male hormones. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com 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. The picture of somebody who is creating too much estrogen increased body fat. You’re, you’re, you’re, getting you’re. Getting the increased body fat around your waist and, and you can’t, lose the weight you you know it could be. It could be from fluid retention, but increased body fat can be manopause if men start getting. What is euphemistically caused his man boobs, so you’re. Looking at somebody’s got like a gut who & # 39? S probably got you know who’s, probably got a gut. You’re. Looking at somebody who’s getting breasts as a man, they’re, actually starting to get the man boobs. You’re. Looking at somebody who’s, starting to get more emotional, you’ll notice. I’m starting to get into breasts more emotional. I’m. Assuming there’s, not a lot of women tuning. You know this thing, but just in case there are, women do tend to be a little bit more emotional than men. It’s because of their hormones. Okay, it’s, not because they’re weaker. It’s because of their hormones, and so so in andropause, the guys kind of turning into a little bit of turning into a female, because these are symptoms of more estrogen fat around here that won’t, go away. Man boobs starting to maybe cry at those movies on on television, on the on the Women’s Channel when you’re sitting there with your wife watching them low libido. Obviously, now, if you have high estrogen, you’re. Normally going to have low testosterone or it’s, a very least you’re gonna have a balance where your estrogen is equal to or higher than your testosterone. That’s. That’s, not a good thing. The balance has to be for men, testosterone, more for women testosterone more towards mood depression. If you have depression, one of the many things that can cause that is low testosterone. Your frontal lobe has receptor sites for testosterone. Testosterone massively helps a male to have good frontal lobe and a good for a little function. Good frontal, lobe function is that’s. Your executive function that your motivational function. Testosterone, testosterone, you’re, not very motivated. Testosterone is kind of a gas pedal, so that’s. That’s motivation, but it’s mood and then, if men have low testosterone, they’re. Going to not be very, they’re, not gonna be very happy. They’re gonna be more or less depressed and had Daniel. It’s, a fancy name that says you know I’m, just not having fun in life anymore. It’s. That’s, so those are types of things you’ll, see you’ll, see low energy levels. You know testosterone, I just got done saying is the is the is the is the gas pedal if your brain is not getting stimulated enough by testosterone, that will that will cause you to have low energy? We’re gonna talk about how some of the most common causes, one of the most common causes of low testosterone, is diet. Okay, so and the same diet that will cause you to have low testosterone will also cause you to have usually blood sugar problems, usually pre-diabetes or insulin resistance or diabetes type 2. We’ll talk about how this creates the high estrogen and the low testosterone, and that causes fatigue. Those types that those types of dietary regimens cause fatigue insomnia, because I’m. What kind of I’m kind of crossing over now into the high estrogen in some in high estrogen, as we’re going to talk about again? It is a lot of times heavily caused by pre-diabetes in your fats and causing your fat cells to turn estrogen into testosterone. I gave you a little little, you know foreshadowing there and and that pre-diabetes can make you get up in the middle of the night and tap to pee. So it ‘ Ll interrupt your sleep quite a bit. It can cause prostate problems because high estrogen levels will lead to enlarged prostate, which will which will cause urinary issues, and so that’s. Maybe a first for some of you to hear that that it may be more about your high estrogen levels. Then then, then, the testosterone that is accumulating in there because you’re, making too much. What’s called dihydrotestosterone, or you’re, not clearing it out, and you’re, not clearing it out a lot of times relative to this estrogen problem and then and then cardiovascular disease is kind of extreme. But by that time you usually figure out your your testosterone imbalances or their, but but but these can also stroke it stroke there’s. A I’m. Sorry, I let me let me go back on that. The the low testosterone and high estrogen is highly inflammatory, and that tends to create inflammation that makes you susceptible to stroke and susceptible to cardiac problems, but the inflammatory response that causes the cardiac problems in turn causes something called high cortisol. So we ‘ Ve talked about cortisol a great length, I think, two times ago, when we talked about adrenal glands, we’re gonna mention those a little bit here before we’re done, and adrenal glands. When you get inflammation, the adrenal glands are like they control your blood sugar. They control your blood pressure, they control your energy, they control a lot of things when they put out too much cortisol. What cortisols main job is, after it creates information, is to move blood. Sugar out of your liver, to try to control your blood sugar, you get too much blood sugar and the next thing you know, and next thing you know. If you’re, an older man, you’re, not getting a lot of exercise. Things like that, you start developing blood sugar problems that starts to that starts to cause you to put on the weight at the man. Boobs get the press start crying it at female-oriented movies, the emotional tug at your art type movies, so that that’s kind of like the that’s kind of like what you. If you’re feeling those things. If you’re having those problems, if you’re, if the normal thing is, is to be taking a medication for all of those right, so it’s like okay, yeah, low libido, they test you. They look at your testosterone slow, so they give you a a low libido shot of testosterone and that’s, not the functional medicine world. Obviously, well, you might say well the functional medicine world’s. To go. Take one of the many products that are online now that will bring your testosterone up and it will okay, but here’s, a problem. It’s, something called a Roma Thais ation there’s, a couple of problems with that and I’m gonna go over them all. It’s, something called a Roma today. Ssin. Remember that word, because if you’re feeling all the things that I’m talking about right now

https://youtu.be/dKFgEdazq4M In this segment of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses the thyroid and its roll in chronic conditions. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com 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. Maybe your hair starts falling out and you maybe get constipation. Maybe your gallbladder stops functioning as well, because because, when the thyroid goes down, all the receptor sites from thyroid hormone and all of those areas go down that’s. What thyroid does that’s, that’s? The extent that I’m going to get into the physiology of thyroid what I’m going to talk about, I was thought I was thinking about this earlier. I’m gonna talk about how I process a thyroid. In my mind, again, when you look at a book about thyroid – or maybe even some stuff, you see on ly about functional nonsense here’s, the thyroid here’s. How you do this, you give them that supplement, and it is it’s not like that for the patients who come in here anyway, because the vast majority of people come in here have already been everywhere and they’ve been their Doctor or they’ve, driven them crazy. There’s already. Symptoms are are normal or okay, but their numbers are off. So the doctor gives the medication to screw them up or vice versa. The numbers are okay, but they have 25 out of 25 symptoms of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and the doctor, doesn’t know what to do for him and because and then gives them a medication, and that’s, gruesome or It doesn’t, do anything to them or any variety of things. So this is. We’re going to talk about thyroid. I’m gonna. Maybe do a separate one on autoimmunity because to me thyroid and autoimmunity or wan na in in the in the in the practical clinical world it’s almost always about automating. So let’s. Talk about that! Let’s! Talk about thyroid by the way when we first started doing videos on thyroid it had to be. I don’t, know seven eight nine years ago, and so we have a lot of videos on all the other things. I just told you, I’m, not going to talk about, and you can look at them up on power. He’ll talk calm in the early ones, you’ll notice. You’ll, actually have to look up hypothyroidism. The reason that they’re under that under the heading is because nobody was looking for Hashimoto’s back then, because nobody knew they had it. So we would talk about hypothyroidism and then people would check out our hypothyroid tape, arte for presentation or whatever, and and they’d, go like you’re talking, you’re. Talking about Hashimoto’s, it’s. Like I looked at, I have hypothyroid it’s like no. You’re like washing my toes so and then the later ones are about Hashimoto sweet. I I don’t, think I’m, exaggerating if I say we probably 20 hours or more on on on thyroid online. So you can look those up for more details, but here’s, kind of how it goes with me. Okay person comes in and it’s classic they’re. They’re, holding their thyroid. They’re, holding their thyroid labs for me to show me what they are and they’re, obviously not very happy where they are most of them have classic symptoms, and the vast majority of people who come in here have Hashimoto’s, it is a rare rare day when I see an actual hypothyroid case and and and and and those are the the first challenge is to figure out that right there, okay, but really now again, I’m, just giving you clinical experience Here, because you can look at all the other stuff elsewhere, okay, but really when a person comes in here and they have hypothyroid that’s, usually going to be, they have hypothyroid. They’re, taking the medication it’s, not working that & # 39; s, usually be going to be there’s there, several pathways there’s like 21 different pathways between your thyroid making thyroid hormone, and I’ll, go into a little of the science when your thyroid makes thyroid hormone. It is makes mostly like 93 to 97 percent of what it makes is in active hormone. Doesn’t. Do anything it’s. It’s inactive, so it can be flying around your system attached these little proteins and fly around your system all day long and it never attaches to anything to create a physiological response, meaning it’s, not gonna make you it’s, not gonna give you any energy until it becomes an active form of thyroid so and that active form is called t3, so the inactive form is t4, the active form is t3, and most of your thyroid medications by the way are t4. We’ll talk about that, so so you’re. So how does that happen? Okay, there’s. There’s 21 different things that can screw. That I mean I’m, not exaggerating. I’m, saying specifically 21 different pathways that we know of that can screw that up half of the drugs that people are taking that come in here people come in here. Half of the drugs are taking for these six other things that they have, that they’re. Taking drugs for can be screwing up that conversion factor that’s called conversion; okay, the big things that screw it up are. However, most of the conversion takes place in the liver, and so so, if you have a fatty liver, if you’re, not clearing your liver, if you have a golf lap and bad gallbladder that’s, backing up into your liver, you’ve have cirrhosis you drink too much. All of those things are gonna cause you to not convert your thyroid hormones, so you! So, even if you take the thyroid hormone, which is t4, it still has to be converted. Okay, so so in my world I’m. Looking at those things right off the bat I’m. Looking first of all, do I have I try to not just say everybody’s got Hashimoto’s. I try to make sure okay is this person actually have a hypothyroid? They wouldn’t like the five to ten to fifteen percent of people who does not have Hashimoto’s, who has a thyroid problem, and, and so, if that’s the case, I’m. Looking for these pathways, second pathway is the intestines if the person that has bad intestines, if they have poor hydrochloric acid in your stomach, if their gallbladders are decreased, if their pancreas is off, if their digestive enzymes are off, if they got information on the inside of Their intestines, all of that is going to contribute to an environment where the t3 cannot be converted. You cannot get the t4 to t3, so those are Biggie’s, so person comes in. They’re here. They’re interested. They’re hypothyroid. They’re, taking their their their medication. It’s, not working. They’re. Looking for supplements and a lot of you’re gonna say there are supplements for that now and there are, but we’re gonna talk about that, because that’s, not the classic way to start falling in Love with giving people supplements right away. Okay, for those two people, the issues fix the gut fix the gallbladder fix the fixed,

https://youtu.be/3fCoWF-rRnQ In this segment of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses the adrenals and their roll in chronic conditions. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com 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. We need energy because I’m, going into kind of a little fight flight response here or a big fight flight response, and then that amygdala tells the party a part of your midbrain. Your brain stem. Where your fight/flight response neurons are, your sympathetic nervous system is what it’s called to tell your adrenals be to start putting out stress hormones, and then they puts out the stress hormones of it puts out aldosterone, which raises your blood pressure, puts out Glucocorticoids cortisol cortisol has a tremendous effect on your blood sugar. When you’re, a fight flight, you want blood sugar going to your certain parts of your brain, your big muscles in your legs. You want you want going to the big muscles in your and your butt and your thighs and your hand strings everywhere, that you need to fight or flee. Okay, yeah it puts out it puts out up a nephron. It puts out hormones that will that will cause your lungs to cause you to start breathing dilate. Your bronchioles so puts out a number of things. It’s at that point. It literally shuts down your sex hormones and a lot of people. Aren’t aware that their adrenal glands during their productive years or their secondary second sex glands, and for those of you who are female once you have stopped your your productive years and you’ve morphed over into menopause. The baton has now been handed over to the adrenal glands as your primary sex glands, and you cannot make stress, hormones and sex hormones at the same time, and you can maybe see where that’s going okay, so the adrenal glands are highly underappreciated. Okay, if you get stressed and and and and then – and they put out all these all these hormones and and and and so one of the hormones being cortisol when that goes up, that stress hormone will also mobilize sugar from your liver. Okay, you have your store sugar and your liver, mainly for when you’re asleep, so that you can drip it out and keep your brain functioning, because your brain needs blood sugar and when that cortisol spikes up your blood sugar spikes up and eventually It’ll sensitize, your your your receptor sites, to where you end up developing high blood sugar from stress okay. Now most people know that most people know that the adrenal glands or stress glands, and they wear you out, but almost almost everything forget the other hormones for now. Almost everything in your in your physiology, almost anything that happens to your system that creates an inflammatory response. Is going to stress your adrenal glands, so stressing just stresses and just emotional stress it’s like if you’re. If you’re talking in the science world, you know, if you’re talking in the world of engineering there’s. You know they talk about the world of stresses on on beams as they’re building. Buildings here think of stress as like, like that it’s like if you have a bad intestinal problem. If you have leaky gut our air and and and and you start to develop inflammation in your intestines, that’s, going to raise cortisol that is going to and that’s, going to raise your blood, sugar and and that’s going to put a lot of stress on your system. If you have a viral or a bacterial infection, and your immune system excuse me, and your immune system is trying desperately to get that. Maybe so we’re working. Usually there’s, a little inflammatory response with it. First gonna have stress on your dream: glands, because that’s. Gon na raise cortisol inflammation raises cortisol. Cortisol then does its thing: okay, which in which which creates more inflammation and it and and it messes up your blood sugar. If you have food sensitivities and – and we already talked about blood sugar, bio – you’re gonna hear me mention blood sugar – a number of times here, because blood sugar tracks with your adrenal glands. So if your adrenal glands are initially activated and and you’re excited and your stress – you’re, putting out blood sugar. If you do that for long enough, we’re going to talk about that, then what happens? Is your adrenal glands are going to go to in what people like to call adrenal fatigue. Adrenal exhaustion I’ve, heard all kinds of names for it, but that takes a while to happen. It could take 20 years for that to happen, and when that happens, then your blood sugar drops, because you can’t put out cortisol and it’s. Gon na be hard for you to get your blood sugar up. If you have low blood sugar and low blood sugar is a big big problem, you can look at ours. You can look at our presentation on low blood sugar so back to the things that can cause that everything you can. You can have food. You can have food since activities, you’re gonna have food sensitivities, and these food sensitives will create an inflammatory response, and next thing you know your blood. Sugar is all over the place, because your adrenal glands have been stressed. They’re, putting out cortisol, your cortisol is flying up and down and and and I could go on – you cut your left – toe cut your left toe it’s. Stress on your adrenal. Glands pain is stress on your adrenal glands. Those of you are in chronic pain. Those are your fibromyalgia patients, peripheral neuropathy patients, people who are worried because they have a problem. This is now back to the mental stress, so so the adrenal glands they take a lot of hits. Is why the reason your blood pressure goes up is because the adrenal glands put out aldosterone that works with with with some chemicals, in your kidneys and, and that throws your blood pressure off. They should call the adrenal gland glands the homeostasis glands, and they and and and sometimes they should be, the first target and many times they shouldn’t be the first target, depending on how you’re. Going about this. I have a lot of people that come in here and they’ve, been to alternative government medical doctors. I have nothing against alternative medical doctors just for they’re just so you know. So you know I refer to alternative medical doctors for things that are not within my parameter. Okay, we have several of them here in Reno Nevada, where I live, and but I I’m gonna say one of the first things they do is. Is they they give people these adrenal shots? If they’re, you know, drean all fatigue, okay and we’ll talk about adrenal fatigue in a second here’s, a problem with that. I just have one of these. Like last week, so here’s, the problem with that, what they’re saying, is your

https://youtu.be/EGzwdXd2_y4 In this segment of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses the liver and its roll in chronic conditions. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com 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. Been working around toxins, or maybe we’ll talk about some of the some viruses. What a herpes virus might mean to somebody who has a chronic condition, but mostly for us and another big thing that the liver does is it clears out all your hormones, and I mentioned that one because that another big thing it does and one that we see Mostly here is the liver, not clearing out people’s hormones correctly, particularly estrogen for the female. So the types of things we see is that we see females. They come in relative to liver that maybe have polycystic ovarian syndrome. Maybe there maybe they’re in menopause and they’re having hot flashes. Maybe they’re, not maybe there are not happening. Maybe women aren’t having their periods and and a lot of more surprised, and I said well, the first thing we’re gonna do is we’re gonna go and we’re gonna Clear out your liver, we’re gonna clean out your your gallbladder and your intestines, because you’re, probably not clearing, rest regions right when you’re, not clearing your estrogens right, it sticks in the liver. It sticks in the gall bladder and, and then you have, and then you have a deficiency of estrogen it’s. Not it’s not getting cleared and, and it’s interesting and deficiency of estrogen, as well as a as well as too much estrogen expresses itself the same way, because if you don’t have enough estrogen you out Here you have all the symptoms of not having enough estrogen and you got depression and you’re fatigued. Then you’re, putting on weight and all those wonderful things. But if you have too much estrogen in your system, because you’re, not clearing it out and it’s. Staying in your system in your liver in your gallbladder in your fat cells, okay, how to post tissue cells! Then then it shuts down what’s called the receptor sites for your for your estrogen molecules and then the estrogen can’t get in so it’s. Just like you, don’t, have enough estrogen kind of an interesting thing for a lot of you. So so the liver is kind of unique and and and that’s. One of the things that we in the functional medicine world see in the as far as liver, goes coming in a lot of female problems that are poor clearance. We have a staff member here who hadn’t had a ventral cycle and I think was two or two-and-a-half years and are we. There was put her on a six weeks class and two weeks into the cleanse she had her menstrual cycle back. So so that’s, how that works? It is about clearing in that particular case. It’s, not clearing out your estrogen okay. Maybe it’s and and and a detoxification is something gets ingested that shouldn’t, be there. It goes to your liver in your liver. There are the multiple pathways for clearing out toxins. We might just mentioned two of them: cellphone ization, glucose asian. There’s, methyl ization there’s, there’s, the glutathione pathways or seven pathways, and they all do different things and they all do different things, and so they take these substances and there’s. Two major major major pathways and one pathway, breaks everything down and makes it water soluble so that it can run through your system and then the second time the second pass through. What will happen is. Is there’s, a molecule attached to the broken-down protein, the broken-down substance, and that molecule attaches to that substance and allows it to go through the second part of detoxification and being attached to that molecule actually allows it to go through the proper detoxification Process and end up in the toilet, either through urine or feces, or maybe through and clear out through sweat, if that pathway, doesn’t, if that, if that second pathway is broken down – and you just have that first pathway working and the second pathway Isn’t able to attach that molecule to it. You become very sick. You are the person who cannot who cannot take medications. You’re. The person who cannot eat supplements, so you, because these, when these toxins only go through the first phase, you want to become water-soluble until something’s attached to it. They are toxic and if you’re, and so if certain aspects of your liver, aren’t working properly, then then that is the person who comes in here. It says I’m, not gonna be able to take. You to your supplements, okay, like why are you here? I’m, not gonna, because I can’t, take any medications, and so but but I I say why are you here, because we know what to do with that? So so that’s kind of like a general basics of the liver, I must say we had a conversation right before he came in here about the liver, backing up and gunking up in and and all the problems that can cause. But again I don’t, yet, basically the cirrhosis patient. In general occasion I’ll, get somebody who’s had cirrhosis for a long time. I don’t, get to hepatitis patient who’s in you, know acute hepatitis or anything like that, but so so so the liver does back up, but the most for the people coming here, but most of the time, the people – I Am seeing will go back to the to the back-to-basics gallbladder sections that I did last week? The vast majority of time here it’ll, be their gallbladder. That is not that is heavily connected to your liver or to me they’re. One in the same, although or at least close brothers, sisters or twins because they heavily work together, the gallbladder dumps out all of the bile and all the toxins from the liver into the into the intestines. To me what I’m, seeing a lot is it’s that it’s more the gallbladder, that is the problem, backing up the liver in my practice in the tighten the people who show up here into a functional Medicine practice and then that you start to get the symptoms of the poor clearance. So what are the symptoms, acne, acne and healthy and unhealthy skin? Well, that’s kind of a given when people come in here and they have and they have skin problems they’ve been to the doctor or they’ve, had the appointments and and they’ve. They’ve done shots and they think it’s an allergy, and they rub all this type of stuff. On most, the skin is an extension of the inside of your intestines, and so you might first look through your intestines for that. But they with, but when they win the gallbladder and the liver, and you’re gonna hear me kind of talk about both of them together are not clearing. Then those toxins are going to be not getting into the intestines and into the toilet. The way that they should they have to go somewhere and one o

https://youtu.be/8YC0DxtIWT0 In this segment of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses the gallbladder and its roll in chronic conditions. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com 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, so important that I really want to. I’m, not good at statistics and stuff, like that. I’m, not great at numbers so, but I really wanted you to get the whole idea of what’s going on now. Most of you know, and so I’m gonna – be looking down and reading off my notes. So if that looks unprofessional, then too bad that’s, where we’re gonna, do it so so is it gallbladder? Do okay, what most of you know that gall bladders break down fats? Most of you know, people have had their gallbladders out and it’s like oh. You know that pain. It took the gallbladder out, the pain went away, and then it came back or sometimes the pain went away and stayed away. But you know I don’t see those patients. I see the pain where they took it out. It came back, they took my gallbladder out. The pain never went away and and and and goblet or shouldn’t come out anywhere near as frequently as they’re coming out, like like 90 % less frequently than they’re coming out, and I’M not exaggerating when I say that they do a lot more than fat digestion. It does change your cholesterol, so cholesterol is kind of kind of accumulates in your in your liver has to be it has to be, it has to be broken down so that it can get into your system and then and it, and that’s. Done by bile salts and that’s done in your gallbladder, those of you who can’t eat fish oils, okay, those of you who can’t it. It helps to break down and it helps with the absorption of fatty acids. So it helps with the absorption of your fat soluble vitamins, not just the fish oils, not just a but it but also vitamin A vitamin D. Vitamin E vitamin K. So if you’re, taking all those things and are they’re coming out the other end or if you’re, taking these these things and you still have flaky skin and then you’re either. Not taking enough or you’re, not breaking it down and absorbing it. The gallbladder is one of the biggest reasons that you may not be able to take that the symptoms of gallbladder are symptoms of gallbladder or your patients will come in here and and and i’ll. You know i have a assessment format. People put out there’s old section on gallbladder. First question is, like you know: how did it what happens when you eat fried foods, fatty foods and a lot of people just leave it blank or they go nothing, and I have to ask them and say, because it’s, a zero to four Scale, zero, meaning nothing ever happens, so they mark zero. I’ll, always ask that person. Is that because you don’t eat fried foods and fatty foods, and things like that and the most the time they’ll, say yes? Why? Because it makes them not feel good. It makes it not feel good because their gallbladder is not working. Okay, some of the bigger ones for gallbladder are some of the bigger ones or I can’t. Do fish oils can’t eat fatty foods, gas and bloating a distension? A couple of hours after or after I eat fatty foods, but then a lot of times they don’t realize it’s. The fatty food, a big one, is, can’t. Take supplements, can’t. Take the fish oil supplements a burp up fish oil. I perp up fish oil. I burp up a fatty fish oil after I do it. I kind of woke up. One is really interesting. Two that are really interesting. Are it genus and the palms of your hands and just general itchiness it’s all over? I don’t know why? Because your gallbladder, or when it’s, not clearing things, those bile salts and the toxins from from not getting cleared and getting into the intestines, they got to go somewhere some of them and make it because because not having a gallbladder, also cause constipation. One of the things that can cause constipation, so if it’s not getting in if you’re, not clearing those those toxins, if you’re, not clearing those bile salts into the into the toilet, and you can only Clear so much through your kidney, it’s going to the skin. It’s going to each that’s like that’s like to me like one of the biggest things, and I see like get unis all over and it’s kind of generally, the the other one Is like dry flaky skin which can be thyroid? It can be, it can be. You know, a lack of essential fatty acids. I don’t need enough. Nuts. I don’t need enough fish. I don’t need enough. Olive oil – I don’t need yes, though, but then if the person is going well, I eat all that. Then it’s, not getting broken down it’s, not getting through the intestines. It’s, not getting even years into your into your system. You have dry flaky, skin, and so all of these are potential signs of gallbladder. The gallbladder helps with the secretion and detoxification of a lot of different things. One of the biggest things it helps detoxify is in women. Is your estrogen a lot of people, a lot of women who are who are like estrogen dominant? They may just have bad liver and bad gallbladder Ida. I have a actually an employee here and we were doing kind of a little bit of a beta trial here on the program. I, those of you who saw my my new year’s high. My new year’s, talk or my new year’s presentation my new year’s. My years cards to you, I’m verbal cartoon. We talked about how we’re. We’re working on different level programs that maybe we can offer that are more meaningful to people who can’t get here. You know people who you know are wondering whether this actually works or not, and so on and so forth. So anyway, we we tried it on all of our staff members here, not one staff member here who got our period within like two weeks, just detoxing, just in the initial detox face of one of the programs were considering because it detox their liver. It detox her gut and a detox, their gallbladder and all the sudden. She started clearing excess estrogen from her system because it was stuck in her gallbladder and was stuck in her liver and she got a period back after two and a half years. I’m, not having a period, and she was kind of happy about that, but but but so so the gallbladder is a big part of detoxing. Your estrogens now is that a big deal yeah a lot of you like a lot of your women, know too much. Estrogen is not a good thing. It gets in your cells, ultimately, can lead the cancers, but long before that it can lead to you getting it. Can it can imbalance you and you can get you into depression and you can get all kinds of things from the gallbladder from the gallbladder, not working and and if the gallbladder doesn’t work, the gallbladder and we ‘ Ve talked about this, the gaaah bladder has to work to actually activate the pancreas and to and then to activate the now expandin

https://youtu.be/84wbMv-I7do Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com 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 other one kind of stops working a frequent loss of appetite. These are the most common symptoms of gallbladder function. A lot of them are similar to symptoms of not having enough hydrochloric acid, and I tell you that not to confuse you, not enough. Hydrochloric acid talked about in the last segment is usually usually due to stomach, not having enough hydrochloric acid in your stomach, not breaking down your protein and in the last segment we talked about how, when you don’t break down your proteins, because you Don’t have enough of hydrochloric acid. It sends a signal to the pancreas and it tells the pancreas to it says I’m, going to send you a bolus of food that’s, not well digested. Thus it’s too acidic, and there’s, a duct now that these that thing that the gallbladder dumps into and that the pancreas dumps into there and and and so this common duct okay, if you it also is dumps into where The food comes right out of the stomach, so if you have an acidic bolus coming out of there, Nature has already kind of figured out. You could screw up your gallbladder and your pancreas. This is mostly what we see I don’t normally see the person who is drinking themselves to death. They’re, not usually somebody who is like attracted to alternative functional medicine. Just at least I’ve only seen a few and and we don’t, usually see people who have severe acute pancreatitis. Usually the pain is so much that they’re in the hospital. So we see the chronic pancreas issue, but nobody ever comes in here for that it and – and we don’t, have people come in here with. Oh, I’ve got all these problems and then we find out that they have diabetes type 1. Usually they have found that out long before they get to my office and and if you’re, a physician watching this usually to your office. If you’re doing functional medicine, so we get the person whose pancreas isn ‘ T functioning properly why isn’t it functionally? Probably the number one cause is usually a lack of hydrochloric acid in the stomach, and then a signal is sent to that pancreas and the pancreas just stops putting out pancreatic enzymes. Part of the reason that you get undigested foul-smelling mucous, like greasy stools, is because the pancreas has a lot of different enzymes. So most people who come in here and have some a clue of what the pancreas does usually connected the blood sugar, and indeed you can get blood sugar symptoms. Also that will alert you to a pancreas problem. You could feel like you have insulin resistance. You can be, you can be fatigued after meals and you can crave sweets and you can urinate a lot and things of that nature. You can have that that can alert you to a pancreatic problem, but that, but the key Technic pancreas is is: is this the key to the pancreas? Is that the hydrochloric acid, in the stomach in the functional world? Usually it’s? The hydrochloric acid? In the stomach that’s, causing the bolus not to not be digested properly, the bolus is not has an abnormal chemistry by the time it hits that duodenum, where the, where the food dumps out of your stomach into this part of your upper intestine, Is called the duodenum that’s where all of these things dump and it’s healthy and it kind of tells the pancreas to not work. And then the pancreas puts out enzymes to digest your starches. Okay, not particularly fibers, but it can it can. It can do a little bit of that, but pancreas also puts out enzymes that has to do with immune responses, but but the big thing is it puts out enzymes that dampens inflammation there. It puts out anti-inflammatory enzymes that dampen inflammation in the intestines. So if so, if you put, if you put a lack of hydrochloric acid together and you put a decreased gallbladder function, the other which we will talk about here in the next segment actually and you put pancreatic dysfunction together, you’re gonna get A leaky gut, if you put that together, you’re gonna have you could have irritable bowel syndrome? Yeah you could have. You could develop irritable, bowel disease. If you have that trio, I put these together kind of as a trio. Frankly, I look at them when I look at a person’s case. I look at a hydrochloric acid in the stomach pancreatic symptoms. Are they there? Okay and gallbladder symptoms and the two things that I find to be more important and that was verified to me by some some of my seminars. I kind of went to about a month ago on autoimmunity by my mentor dr. cross and that I, it always seemed to me like it was the it was the decrease hydrochloric acid in the gallbladder, and indeed it turns out that hydrochloric acid in the gall bladder Are two links in the chain that if either one of them go there about it’s important to address as pretty much anything else? You’re going to do to your to your gut, so the pancreas is usually secondary to that. I don’t use a lot of pancreatic enzymes simply because if you followed this series and and and you’ve heard the mantra move there’s, a hierarchy there’s, an order to treat this. If I see a acid indigestion in the stomach, if I see person burping right after a meal full, they have all these low, hydrochloric acid symptoms, which we talked about in the last segment. I’m, treating that and and in treating that, and if they have a lot of gall bladder symptoms. I might be treating that at the same time or I might be waiting because it’s, a tad bit down a little chain to chain of command. I might wait on that, or am i doing both the same time and the vast majority of time in my practice, those symptoms go away now. This is separate from the approach of okay. You have all these digestive problems. Let me give you digestive enzymes and hydrochloric acid, and the person is going to feel better okay, if you do that, maybe if they get their diet properly under control but-but-but-but. This is more of what functional medicine was meant to be, which was to be getting your system to start functioning. Normally, the vast majority died in my practice. We get the hydrochloric acid, we get the stomach under control if they don’t have an autoimmune problem in their stomach. As we talked about in the last segment, you get that under control and the and the function of the pancreas is going to usually follow. If you get that and the gallbladder under control, then the pancreas is going to is going to follow. If I get those two under control and I stop pancreatic symptoms, then I’m going to be looking say. Okay, do we h

https://youtu.be/_JFzbgUtK0M In this segment of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford will discuss the stomach and its roll in chronic conditions. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com 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 not connect with the stomach one is excessive, excessive belching, burping or bloating, and I think that’s. What seem like it could be number of things, but that would be excessive, belching, burping and bloating after you’ve eaten the protein. I just had a lady yesterday patient and we’re close to the end and she started the range to do some food. Oh she that’s, one of what she switched over to keto diet. Typically, she’s, starting to eat more meat than she probably should, and she’s having a hard time and she’s having a hard time digesting and she’s getting gas play. Well, it’s because she she doesn’t have enough hydrochloric acid in her stomach and she’s now, trying to digest more pro team. So so, usually the guests and the bloating from the stomach versus a pancreas or gallbladder or SIBO would be. If you are not able to digest protein, I eat a protein meal again gas and bloating that’s, usually lack of hydrochloric acid. In your stomach way, more about hydrochloric acid in a minute, so guess immediately following a meal same thing offensive breath. So so many of the people come in here our health minded. They are brushing their teeth. They are flossing their teeth. They have going to the dentist. They’re, doing the right things, and yet someone come in here and they and their breath is really horrible and they’re embarrassed by it. Of course, we smell their breath to see what it smells like, because breath coming from a lack of hydrochloric acid in the stomach has a very distinct smell, and it can alert us to the fact that that person, doesn’t have on the hydrochloric Acid understand difficult bowel movements, one of the number one causes of constipation, possibly the number one cause of constipation is stress and stress – creates a situation where it puts you into something called fight flight and when you’re in fight flight, your nature kind Of knows that you don’t need to be eating peeing pooping, so it shuts all of that down. So if you’re in chronic stress, it shuts down your stomach, your intestines, your your goblet, your not your gallbladder, your urinary, bladder and so stomach. If it shuts that down what happens, is you stop making hydrochloric acid for that period of time? But if you’re chronically stressed, and you shut down that hydrochloric acid there’s, a chain reaction from hydrogen from not having enough hydrochloric acid, and that chain reaction is. Is you’re, not making enough hydrochloric acid? That sends a signal to your gall bladder not to work, because doesn’t want you, you’re here. You’re in fight flight. We don’t want your gall bladder to work either you don’t need your gall bladder doing anything while you’re, trying to run from the barre right and then that will help to shut down your pancreas. For all you, pancreatic enzyme fans, and so and and and that is a stressors and then those if you’re in stress long enough, can create inflammation in the intestines and for their. I’m just trying to point out at this point in time how important not having an of hydrochloric acid in your stomach is and where it comes from. So we’re, so so difficult bowel movements will happen when you have all that happening. You’re not to just in your protein. You’re, not digesting your fats, you’re, not digesting your and your your your starches, because all those organs – aren’t working, that’s number one cause of constipation sense of fullness during the other thing. By the way, second, most common cause of hypochloride Rhea low hydrochloric acid is thyroid. Hypothyroid Hashimoto’s thyroid slows down the ability to make hydrochloric acid sense of fullness during and after meals. Of course, you’re, not digesting your meal, because you have enough hydrochloric acid difficulty, digesting proteins with meals, undigested food found in the stools. These are symptoms of low hydrochloric, acid they can and and and that can be caused by that can be caused by stress that can be caused by high power. Just said late, just a few minutes ago, it can be caused by low thyroid. Those are the two most common causes that come into this office that can be caused by h, pylori, h, pylori is a bacteria that you get in your stomach. That will actually cover the inside of your stomach and cause you to not make well. You’ll still make hydrochloric acid, but the hydrochloric acid can’t be expressed because the parietal cells that are making it are being covered by a bacterial infection. So not having in my world not having enough hydrochloric acid is probably more important to look for immediately than whether the person has too much hydrochloric acid, because, as I’m, going to tell you here second to little. Hydrochloric acid leads to you having symptoms up too much hydrochloric acid, just they are with me on this okay. So so what are the symptoms of too much hydrochloric acid, more people know these then know the symptoms of not enough. Chloric acid stomach pain, burning aching when just right after eating use of antacids. This is like the number-one thing feeling hungry an hour to after eating heartburn when lying down or bending forward. I’m gonna stop on that one heartburn when bending down or lying for it can also be a hiatal hernia, and I don’t have any to my knowledge. We should do something on high auto hernia, because I don’t think I have any presentations online on hiatal hernia, but hiatal hernia is when your stomach pushes up through your esophagus. It can because you were vomiting it because it could be because you’re bent over too much. It could be because we sit too much and because you can live to much and it pushes up your stomach into your esophagus. And then your acids become available to your esophagus and then it starts burning your esophagus long-term hypochloride, Riya, low low acid, long-term hyper chlorhydris too much acid or long-term hiatal hernia all can caught lead to something called Barrett’s, esophagus esophageal esophagitis. Some of the things that some of you watching this may have it’s, something I see semi commonly heartburn. When you’re laying down or bending forward, then can be too little. Hydrochloric acid. It’s, usually too much hydrochloric acid and it can be a hiatal hernia. Temporary relief by using hand acids that’s too much acid in your stomach digests. Their problems subside with rest and relaxation that’s too much acid heartburn due to spicy foods, chocolates citrus peppers, alcohol and caffeine. By that time, the in

https://youtu.be/ivwLmHH1SpM 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. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com 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. If you’re, if you’re, if you have enough glutathione, so we’re. So let’s, talk about multiple chemical sensitivities, so chemical sense, since they reside patients that come in here and and some of them I’ve. Had the patients coming here ago. I can’t be in here. Well, I’d, say why? Well we’re. I don’t know there’s, just something in here that you know I can smell your your front desk person who is like a hundred feet away as cologne on or something along those lines, and that and and so essentially when, When, when you have that amount of sense of activity it’s, called it’s called chemical intolerance and and and frankly it’s. It’s, intolerance of your of many things. So so it’s, so it’s, a it’s in its autumn. It’s. You there’s, usually autumn unity involved, but it’s. Self intolerance, though you’re. You’re. Ultimately, you’re. You’re chemically your system is intolerant to chemicals. Now, how do you get chemical sensitivities? Okay, there’s, a couple of different ways that you get them live or walk through. How do you get them you? Can you get them one of two ways you get them? Let me let me rephrase that as you as you you there’s, two types of chemical sensitivities. Maybe that’s, a better way of going about there’s like a chemical sensitivity where you’re, just like blasted by it, you’re blasted by it. You you you, you, you work in a gas station. You work in a laundromat. I guess I don’t know if people still work in laundromats, but you work in a lingerie. You’re somewhere, where you ‘ Re continually exposed to County working out a hairdresser or where you would get your nails done, or something that we’re, continually exposed to chemicals and and a lot of times. These chemicals will go in, they just overwhelm your liver, or you have detoxification mechanisms to get rid of this stuff. You have in your liver. You have several pathways that are designed to detox your body. One is specifically designed to detox these chemicals and it’s, a glutathione pathway, so a lot of you’ve heard of glutathione and and glutathione is kind of cool when it comes to this. For the person who just has like an overload: okay, basically the glutathione Xin, the chemical comes in okay and it comes in, and here it is, and in that this is the chemical right there and it comes in and the glutathione does this and the glues. I grabs it and then it like I don’t know. If you can see me do this, but it does this, it goes, it beats it up and it chops it up and it kills it and it crushes it, and that’s. What glutathione does and it makes it so that it can. It can be managed by your liver and that it can be docks fied by your liver by your by your gallbladder, by your by your your intestines and then go out through the toilet, the urine your sweat and get out of you, okay, so that’s one so that’s, an easy one, because it’s easy and it’s. Not because if you have that type of chemical sensitivity that and then your your your your liver frequently and your detoxification mechanisms frequently can take care of it. But the number one thing to do is to get away from it. Okay, and if it happens to be your job, then that makes it maybe not so easy to get away from it, but that is one type of chemical sensitivity just to clear things. Up now there’s now type of chemical sensitivity that normally walks in here into probably the most functional medicine practices is different. It’s, a chemical sensitivity where you develop what I already talked about when I said chemical and tolerance, and what happens is the chemical comes in to your system and it attaches to a protein? So proteins are a lot. Most people know proteins, muscle, proteins, muscle proteins like do everything in your body like everything they there they become enzymes. They just do a zillion things. Okay, so proteins carry things around in your body. All of your hormones have to attach to a protein to fly around your body before they get attached into a cell and then go into your cell okay, so it’s, the same thing with chemicals there. There are chemicals that come into your system and then they attach to a protein, and then they become a new. What’s called antigen? They become a new irritant to your immune system, okay and so your immune system. So it’s. So now it’s, not even that it’s, the chemical it’s that it’s, the chemical attached to the protein. Why is this? Why is this important? Because this is the person I was just talking about that walks in the front door. I goes I got ta get out of here. I can’t. I can’t. Take your clone. I don’t know. Well, I haven’t put on Cologne in three days. I can still smell it: okay, that’s, that person they have developed a chemical intolerance. This is now become an immune and problem because your immune system has developed a sensitivity to this new antigen. There’s, no longer a chemical problem. This is a problem to the chemical being attached to this. This protein called albumin, particularly okay, and it attaches to that and now it becomes an issue and it because it’s, not something I can just be cleared by your liver, that it’s, and and what do we do for all Chemicals and or metals we detox deliver or we detox detox detox, but it’s about more than that, and so, if you have the second one which MO which, if you have multiple chemical sensitivities, if you have intolerance to smells jewelry, if you have Intolerance, shampoos, lotions, detergents, multiple cat smell and constant skin outbreaks. If you have like a combination of those, then this is probably what’s happening, not the overload the Ola Bert comes in it goes it’s gone. Maybe you can detox adavi by doing a little bit of detox or taking a bunch of glutathione and you’re fine. But for those of you who have these real chemical sensitivities, you know you’ve done that and it’s, either not work or it’s works for a little time and it’s. Come back. So, okay, so that’s chemical sensitivity, so who gets chemical sensitivity? The second one, the one that shows up in in offices all over the country? The one that can’t be taken care of the one where people come in with masks over their face and and these types of things, okay, it’s; a combination, it’s, a combination of a number of compromises That have already become present in your system before you before you got there. We already talked about glutathione and its ability to take the chemical and indication. Now that’s, the ability to take the chemical and crush it, but it doesn’t

https://youtu.be/vplapBskG-M Today Dr. Rutherford will be going over the next segment in our Functional Medicine series discussing Leaky Gut. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com 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 was and nobody was showing up the classes. And so I’ve, gotten a chance, an opportunity to to observe how how this has evolved and it hasn’t completely evolved the way it was intended that’s. Why? I’m. Presenting this series. Functional medicine is not a term. That is something that is, is regulated, so anybody can call themselves a functional medicine practitioner and but it really has a specific meaning and, and this is part of it, but what’s happening? Is this different pieces have been taken and and commercialized online, and we we do that? We’re entrepreneurs here in this, in this country and and and more and more in the world. So there are lots of leaky, got programs out there. Okay and I read every entrepreneur online and I’m, not going to mention names that’s, their leaky gut protocol and there’s, leaky gut set of of supplements and and and and the reason why you should you Will do there’s and it’s, going to fix all these things and all of you do it and maybe ten percent of the time it gets better and stays better. I’m, going to tell you why that is here in a couple minutes and the rest of time it either doesn’t get better, it gets worse or it gets better and it comes back that happens probably eighty to ninety percent. At a time, we’re going to talk why that is so that’s kind of where functional medicine is breaking down a little bit. As I walk through these, you’re gonna see there’s. Numerous areas – a blood, sugar or leaky gut and and and people have gone in there go. I’m, not gonna learn. All this. I’m, just gonna go out and do diabetes and leaky gut or I’m gonna do diabetes in thigh or something like that. But that’s, not the way the body works and that’s. How functional medicine came to be so leaky got, is a big big deal? Most people come in here. Have it? What is it it’s when the inside of your intestines gets damaged and when it gets damaged? The inside of your intestines, I’ll, take a step back, you eat. Food goes in, it should get digested in the stomach and that mainly in the small intestines and the nutrients should be absorbed. Excuse me on the inside of your intestines. Are these little hair like fingers called villi dish? The nutrients should be absorbed there and the toxins should go into the toilet. You’re constipated and they’re, not going into the toilet. You’re, not detoxifying, so that’s. The whole that’s kind of the whole simplicity of that flow. These toxins should not go in through your gut and into your bloodstream. Okay, because they don’t belong there. They are toxins, they belong in the toilet when they get into the bloodstream. Your immune sees these toxins and other things that will get through. We’re, going to talk about in a few minutes as foreign bodies and they will attack. This is one of the ways you get inflammatory responses immune inflammation. We’re gonna talk about something called lipopolysaccharides that when it gets that, when it’s in your gut, they’re fine. When it gets out of your glut, it can create massive autoimmune, inflammation or inflammation in general. So, okay, so we have this leaky gut and basically what happens is that the gut can be compromised and then things that should be going into the toilet are going through the inside through the side of your intestines and into the and into the bloodstream, where it Doesn’t belong. This is a big big problem. Okay yeah and I’m, going to tell you right now. If you’ve ever had a surgery on your intestines. You know people say well what’s? What what causes leaky gut and and celiac causes leaky got Crohn’s. Disease can cause leaky gut because it can go through all throughout your system, from your from your large intestine to your small intestines to even your stomach and throat and mouth and it’s done, we can throw an esophagus celiac gluten intolerance. If you have a gluten, intolerance is one of the more common causes of leaky gut. It breaks down the villi. Those little fingers, I talked about stress stress, increases cortisol responses, okay, cortisol, that little that little or not so little a chemical that your adrenals make when you get stressed hormone and it gets up and and it and cortisol is actually a good part of your immune System, but when it goes up because of stress responses, they can screw up your blood sugar and create inflammation one of the things it does is. It has an affinity for the inside of your intestines, because cortisol is part of your immune system response to inflammation, and so cortisol is part of that 70 % of the immune system. That’s on the inside of intestines. It has an affinity for the inside of your dozens, but when it’s too much when it goes up to hundred three hundred four and five hundred percent as a very stressful situations, it’ll attack and damage. The inside of your intestines and the next thing you know you will have leaky, got antibiotics. Okay, who of us I’m. Who of us has not had antibiotics, at least in my age group. I just realized the other day. Now I am a Boomer I just I just came to that understanding. So for those of you who who are in the Boomer age group and you’ve, you’ve had antibiotics for sure, but antibiotics are still being fairly cavalierly used. They’re finding out now that one exposure to antibiotics changes your microbiome forever. That’s a subject for another day, just telling you that that’s, a big cause of leaky gut. There are a lot of other things. I mean you: can you cannot have enough hydrochloric acid in your stomach from stress to maybe your gallbladder is not working right. Most people don’t realize that your gallbladder, your pancreas don’t just put out digestive stuff. As far as breaking down fats and breaking down your starches and carbohydrates, but they also put out anti inflammatory enzymes, so there’s, a lot of things that cause the leaky gut, say one of the biggest. What and and and I want to say, one of the biggest, but one of the more profound causes is surgery, so a lot of people will have surgeries on their intestines. You have a permanent leak. You got okay, I had a surgery on my intestines at like five weeks old and I and I’m sure that I have permanent leaky gut. I’ve been tested for leaky gut. I have it, I take care of it, but I think if I took the test today, I would probably test for leaky gut. So so these are just kind of the general parameters of leak you got leaky gut is why is leaky got important? Okay, leaky gut is impor

https://youtu.be/zPjGmuhN4oc 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. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com 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 awful lot of data from the patient and then be able to having studied functional medicine know the hierarchy in which you should in which you should proceed. But I’m, going to kind of go. I’m gonna spend the next several weeks, probably more than several weeks going over the the specifics of this metabolic assessment form, because the this metabolic assessment form directs you to treatment, and if you, if we go back to diagnosis, it also directs Us to what what tests we should be doing and and within framework of each of these categories, category one in general is large, intestines and dysbiosis, but within each of these categories there are also specific questions that lead you to start to understand. What’s going on with the patient, so the first category is a category relative to the gut bacteria, so you’ve heard about the microbiome, the infamous microbiome. Sometimes we start out with the gut. Sometimes we started out with the liver. Sometimes we start out so pay. Let’s. Let’s. Just use fibromyalgia! Okay, because that we’ve, seen a zillion fibromyalgia cases and then, for some reason, everything that seems to be a big interest. In my in my audience, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue and and thyroid seemed to be very popular, very popular among my patient population, and so let’s just say you have Hashimoto’s. Let’s, say I’m. Sorry, let’s. Just say you have fibromyalgia, so we wouldn’t. We would gather all of the data relative to what we’ve said and then we would and then we would. We would look and see what you have here on your metabolic sessemann form if you are in chronic stress response, that is a hierarchy for us and we will talk about the brain after we talk about the rest of the system, but but we will usually find Out what we think is wrong in the in the in the in the general immune digestive, endocrine system, okay, and and treat that at the same time, we would treat the chronic stress responses which are all over our website. So if you want to know about that, you can go to power, he’ll talk, comm and look about stress and chronic disease and fight flight syndrome and those types of things so the gut, so the gut frequently is, is the first place. We start not always, but the gut is frequently the first place. We start. I went to that seminar last weekend. Dr. Crosby made two statements that I thought were very very prescient. He says it’s. You can ‘ T supplement your way out of most of these cases. They’re, a part of it, but that’s, not how you do it, that’s. What people are trying to do online and – and he said – and he’s – getting really upset because functional medicine is becoming all about the gut in the diet. He says: function, medicine. Now you got a doctor, you got a function, medicine doctor. They put you on like the for our program to get get your gut under control and they give you and they put you on the automated Paleo diet and and they and they that’s. Functional medicine. It’s, not, but it’s a part. It’s, a big it can be a big part of it. We start out with the larger size. A lot of people don ‘ T realize that the dysbiosis that all these things that they’re hearing about a lot of them are are in the, and I made a mistake when I said microbiome that’s more your it’s more than the Small intestines, but but your large intestines, so we’re, so large intestines, so here’s, the symptoms. Okay, if you’re, let’s, say a fibromyalgia. Let let’s say we’ve, already discovered that with you have fibromyalgia, you have an autoimmune problem because you usually do, and so we’re gonna be looking to dampen your autoimmune. Prop your your autoimmune responses and one of the first places we’re gonna look, mister your large and small intestines large intestines. The symptoms would be feeling that bowels do not empty completely so and within the framework of this entire category, there are specific, so lower abdominal pain, relief by passing stool or gas passing store. Gas means we have a bacterial problem. Gas is a bacterial problem. Okay, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s, the breakdown of bad bacteria. You can get a couple of different types of gases, but if you get, if you get a methane gas, that’s, SIBO and small, that’s, a small intestinal bacterial overgrowth that can be gas. That can be bloating. That can be passing large amounts of foul-smelling air, so you’re, passing large amounts of foul-smelling gas and you get distension after you eat there’s, a good chance that you might have something called small intestinal back to your overgrowth, that Alternating constipation diarrhea now just now understand we’re, treating a case. We’re, looking at the gut and we’re, like ok, 75 % of the immune system is in the gut this person that’s. How she Moto’s whatever it is. If you have an autoimmune problem, which most of my patients do, 75 % of the immune system is in the gut. Most of you have mystery diseases. You’re struggling. You can’t figure out what’s, going on yeah and and everything’s normal and your doctor’s, telling you to say that mostly you do have an autoimmune component to your condition. Okay, so so another symptom, alternating constipation and diarrhea. This is called irritable, bowel syndrome. Okay, irritable bowel syndrome is art alerts us to the fact that person is probably in a chronic stress response. They’re now calling irritable, bowel syndrome, irritable brain syndrome. Again, you could look at our irritable, bowel syndrome, presentations on power, Aalto, calm, but but this area directs us to directs us to a number of things, because irritable bowel syndrome is gonna tell you you had work, you got to work, you have to work with The brain you, however, that particular practitioner works as a brain. They may actually I practice functional neurology, also, okay, so we do brain rehab exercises. We have a lot of tools here that we use to calm down the stress responses in the brain and give that person the tools we have herbs. We have botanicals, we have brain, we have exercises, we have different types of techniques here that we can help to have the patient, take home and and and so so so from looking at the we’re. Looking at the bowel aspect of this metabolic assessment form and it’s telling us it’s, brain okay and other symptoms of your large bowel Riya alone. If you just have diarrhea alone, I hate diarrhea, because it can be so many different things. It can be segmented, filamentous bacteria that’s. Some of

https://youtu.be/I886tphw7CE In this episode of Functional Medicine – Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses stress and how it can be a major contributor to chronic conditions. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com 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. That I just got done talking about. Motor nerve is something that allows you to move your hands and move your feet, and then it’s separate from and that’s separate when that’s separate from the thinking part of your brain. Okay, the thinking part of your brain is all of these ripples. All these Ruge i in in in the in that what’s called a cerebrum okay. So this is thinking, but we’re, not talking about those parts of the brain. We’re talking about the part of the brain. That is, and is the automatic part of the brain, the autonomic part of the brain, which controls your entire physiology. Without you, even thinking about it, the stress response is is is so important that I don ‘ T think that you can get somebody well long term, unless you’re. Addressing this response, I don’t, think you can get a person’s, irritable, bowel syndrome on long term. Unless you address the response, I’m about to talk about. I don’t believe you can get like persons. Leaky got better. If you don’t address this response and I could go on and on you’re, not gonna happen. This goes kind of back to for those of you who might be familiar with the alternative care. This goes back to the days I mean. If you can’t fix the adrenals, you can’t fix anything, but you can ‘ T fix the adrenals. If he can’t fix the stress response. You I’ve done talks online that were titled. I believe the adrenals are the wrong target, so so that so so in our world we talked about doing a complete neurological exam on every chronic pain, patient that comes in here, and certainly that’s warranted. If you have fibromyalgia, preferably those are nerves, but we do it on somebody comes in here and if they have chronic fatigue or if they have irritable bowel syndrome and they don’t have fibromyalgia or some neurological problem like MS or something like that, We still do it for this reason, so so let’s say I’m. Looking for a looking for a tool here here’s, my tool, okay. So so there’s. A part of the brain called the brain stem for those of you who are students, you might have heard it called the old brain and the lizard brain. It has a number of different names, but but technically it has nothing. To do with. Thinking has nothing to do with any of that type of stuff; it does a million things, but that, but we’re, particularly interested in in this presentation. Is that fact that it houses something called the autonomic nervous system? You can almost think of it. As the automatic nervous system and what it does is it keeps us balanced. It speeds us up, it slows us down, it controls your saliva, it controls your eyes tearing it controls your eyes, dilating and contracting. It controls everything dilating, attracting it controls your arteries, dilating and contracting. It controls your breathing. It controls your bowel movements. In fact, it controls your sleep. There’s, a part of it that actually works with a place in your brain, called the hippocampus to control your circadian rhythm. I go you’re, going to sleep and waking up are my patients, but my I can’t go to sleep and I wake up and I can’t go back to sleep and they’re. Now calling this the rest and digest system, because if this system is working properly, you’re sleeping well, your bowels are moving well, and so this is this and, and this system is, is, I believe, the key to long-term success in the functional world. In it in any world I mean, if you’re, trying to get yourself better and you’re. Having this type of a stress response, there’s, a you, you may be someone who goes to a chiropractor and and and you can’t get better because and the adjustments hurt you because your muscles are stiff and they never get. Soft or you may go to the physical therapist and they can or the massage therapist and they say: oh, your muscles are like knots and and and it hurts when you get taken care of or just a number of things where this stress response is going to Prevent you from even getting well with with with treatment. So what is this stress response? This is the this. Is the brainstem and, and there’s, three parts to it. The bottom two-thirds for those of you who are more academic out there is the pons and the medulla, but the bottom two-thirds, basically houses the parasympathetic nervous system. We’ll, call it the rest and digest relaxation mechanism. Okay – and the important thing to understand about this mechanism is that this is kind of where we’re supposed to be the way your brain is set up is, is it works by stimulation and we get a lot of sensory input from a lot Of things from walking from feeling things from smell like this, and they all feed back to the brain and they stimulate certain parts of the brain and the brain needs to be stimulated to work right. Ninety-Five percent of stimulation that comes into your brain goes up through your thalamus, and it goes into your brain and all this type of stuff feeds back to stimulate this part of your brain. Why do I tell you that? Because when I’m, trying to to show there is that nature knows that we need to be calm all the time, because if this area of the brain is dominating, if it’s strong, if it’s working, we’re, going to become we’re, going to be sleeping well, our bowels are going to be working well in absence of some sort of a pathology. This is going to keep this working. Well, this so calm, believe it or not. Is your natural state of being all right? Now there are neurons there’s a there’s, a small pool of neurons here in the upper third of your brain. Okay and those neurons are the neurons that run your sympathetic nervous system and I don’t know why they call it sympathetic. I do know why they call it some of that, but it sounds like it would be sympathetic to you, but it’s, not very sympathetic, because it makes you go crazy because when this goes on, it makes it jittery now. This is actually a a core survival mechanism for us, so what happens is when, when this is the for those of you who are familiar with the fight flight mechanism? Ok, this is the fight flight mechanism. This is our innate primitive survival mechanism, the ok, the Bears chasing me, the Lions. Over there I got a like. I like I like anything, got to throw the spear at it or I get to get out of here, one or the other. Ok, so here’s, how this works a little bit more of an updated example. Let’s, say you let’s, say you you, you think, like you’re gonna be walking down a street. You’re gonna get attacked or let’s say you simply h

https://youtu.be/QzfwauL9Z6Y 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, not a pro drug guy per se, but there is a consistency with with medications. You know what you get you take it you feel better. You have terrible side effects, you’re, sloppy, you take another one. We don’t seem to have that agreement in the supplement world. Okay, I cannot tell you the scores and scores and hundreds and hundreds of coming here with bags and bags of supplements, and we’ll. Talk about that and – and I’ll say: are they helping you and astonishingly, they’ll, say no. I don’t know if they’re. Helping me, I know, or I don’t know. If they’re helping, but they’re afraid not to be taking them because they’ve, read that they need them, because this one is for oxidation, and this one brings down inflammation and those types of things just like Drugs, you should know whether your supplements are helping you or not like when you’re using a pharmaceutical nutraceutical grade supplement you’re gonna know you’re, not gonna come in to me and go. Oh. You gave me this and I don’t know if it helps with me or not. If a person comes in and they’re. Taking a high grade supplement that I’ve, given them and it’s. Not creating an effect it’s because it hasn’t been dosed up enough and then you would know to dose it up if a person comes in and I give them a supplement most of the time. But the next time or two I see them, they’re gonna say I feel better. I feel worse either. I’m good, either way because it tells me something about their physiology. Okay, that’s. What you should be experiencing, if you’re taking like handfuls of summons you don’t know if they’re helping you they’re, not helping you there’s, not this magical, mystical thing And, and and or the other way that you should determine whether they’re helping, you is by testing, and there are a lot of testing facilities out there. Now that online, that’ll. Tell you whether your supplement loads are high or low, and and from that supplemental perspective you would you would your money would be much better spent? Looking these testing facilities up online, one at once called an organics assets s. I think it’s, Genova that puts it out. I get no money from Genova. Okay, I’m, just used to test and, and it will tell you and it’s, not a cheap test, but it will tell you where your, where your nutrient deficits are, what supplements you should be taken, and I will tell you You will come away from there with a lot of supplements, but that’s. The person who is just looking to take supplements they’re, not changing their diet to change the fact that they probably don’t need some of those supplements. They’re, not finding out that day. We talked about these. In previous, what I’m about to talk about for some of you, viewers who haven’t seen the previous ones. I’m, referring to things we ‘ Ve already talked about. You know they don’t know if they don’t if they have a lack of hydrochloric acid and and so they’re taking probiotics and they’re, taking things for their SIBO and they’re taking things for intestines and all they need is one. Maybe one supplement with hydrochloric acid dates: Beth pain, hydrochloric, acid and a wipeout. The need for those other three you won’t know any of that, but you will know where your deficits are. If you, if you use some of the tools that are out there to tell you where they are one of the one of the things that so so okay, so this all comes from, I’m. Putting these things together to if you will go back all the way to my original functional medicine presentation, I you know I’m concerned there’s, a lot of stuff going on out there. People are coming in to me. I’ve, been this. They’re telling me. I’ve, been the six functional medicine doctors and it’s, not helping there’s. Just so many reasons, and we’re covering them in this series. This is one of them, and this is a big one. A lot of people come in to me and they bring all their supplements. And again I mentioned the three bags, sometimes that three bags comes from another functional medicine practitioner, that’s, not functional medicine. Okay, functional medicine is designed to help your physiology to work as much as possible, so that you can, you know, do it with. As few interventions as possible, I think everybody agrees that the the least amount of drugs that you take, the better, if you know if you can find another way to get things done, because drugs alter physiology drastically to do what they do, they increase physiology. They dampen physiology, they destroy physiology, they kill neurons, they do all kinds of things, but the trade-off might be. Ok. If you don’t know any better supplements. We don’t seem to supplements so so those types of interventions into your system, if you can avoid them long-term. Obviously it’s better, even even the nurses that I treat Sara, I mean it’s like yeah. Of course, it’s better. If, if, if you’re, not taking any drugs, we don’t seem to have that same thing with supplements, because the promotion has been. You got to take the supplements because we’re deficient in everything and and and that argument is it necessarily true, but it could be true in you and various patients and and that’s for another day to decide who that is, Who that is correct for it, who it’s, not correct for but my goal when I have a patient who’s going through our protocols is by the end, to actually have them on as few supplements as possible. Usually the last phase of care is the patient’s, feeling pretty good. They’re on a number of supplements that have been targeted based on testing based on histories based on lab tests. They’ve created their effect, and now we’re, going to start withdrawing those supplements to determine. Has that part of that person’s? Physiology started functioning on its own and, if so, do they even need to take that supplementing or the whole goal? Functional medicine is to get your physiology functioning again because we have no regulation. It has been bastardized to me. I’m gonna get you functioning again by giving you this for that function, and this for that function, that’s, not what it was meant to me. Okay, so this so the supplement thing is a big part of it because we use we use, supplements and diet. Along with in our in our office. We also do functional neurology, so we use brain rehab exercises and we use things to calm down, stress responses and and but the supplement thing is huge: it’s, it’s, a significant part of what we do

https://youtu.be/Ksg7vzb-pfg 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. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com 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, so I’m, going to talk for just a few minutes about gluten in a functional medicine practice. I’m gonna talk about gluten in chronic conditions and chronic diseases, which is which is it’s just my practice. My practice is the great mystery disease practice of like I got pain everywhere. It moves here moves there, but all I’ve been the 26 doctors, but all of my all of my all my tests are normal. You know so some of my colleagues call it the mystery disease practice. So gluten is a big part of that. Lewton is potentially a big part of that. I want to clear up a few things on gluten: okay, so gluten without getting into it too heavily glutens and pro team that’s, found in wheats naturally-occurring. There’s. A lot of different theories as to why it’s becoming a big problem and, and you can find them online – I’ll – just hit a few of them. One of the theories is that we’re modifying we’re, genetically modifying it, so that we can make more wheat and feed the world okay, and that’s. A nice thing to do, and it’s. Very odd twisting the way that we can feed the world is because now we can use more of the toxins that we put on there to kill the bugs. And then we’re, able to make more more crops, larger crops and and thus make more week. Okay problem is, is the genetically modified wheat gluten is what’s called a very sticky protein? Okay, we’re gonna talk about that a little bit more in a few minutes, but the sticky protein is why it’s used in everything it’s. Why it’s used in soy sauces. It’s. Why it’s using cake mixes. It’s. Why it’s used in pizzas, and every day it sticks things together, okay, and also because of that stickiness. It also has a significant propensity to damage the inside of our intestines and, as the many of you understand that the inside of our intestines is where 70 % of our immune system, it has a significant profound effect on our immune system. A lot of the time gluten also is so it’s a so. It’s, a sticky protein, and I know it’s so and also the chemicals. So it’s also theorized and I think properly. So that the chemicals I’m hearing on, I’m hearing on the radio now, so this is April. 19Th. 1920. 19. I’m hearing on the radio right now. Some of these lawyers who do these national. These lawsuits, where everybody is involved and everybody kind of jumps on board, but it’s now being advertised that Monsanto is known, that that roundup was a problem since 1981 and and so, if you’ve had cancer. If you’ve had these types of things, then them no and you can get in lawsuit and they can win it and you can get four bucks out of it and they ‘ Ll probably get a lot more, but it’s. Just now that that’s starting to come out and it’s been known for quite a while that the toxins very probably are contributing to the gluten issue. So and there’s other things, but those are those are kind of the two main things so gluten is found in so glutens found in in wheat. It’s found in barley, rye, and it is also found in oats. It is not naturally occurring in oats, but still to this day, it seems like oats are being processed in the same in the same facilities and on the same equipment that is processing the wheat and the barley and the Rye. And so it seems like oats are pretty consistently across the board a problem don’t eat. If you’re, if you’re gonna listen to me and not eat gluten. Okay, then don’t eat oats. Unless it absolutely says these are gluten-free oats on them, and I understand that now some people are coming out with those products so gluten gluten in the in the in the clinical perspective. Okay, so it’s, a sticky protein and it has chemicals on it. We eat it. Okay, we’re talking about our mouth and if you’re like most people, you chew your food three times and then it goes so it doesn’t really get. You know broken down it’s, a it’s, it’s. A lot of the testing on gluten is based on the protein in the gluten being broken down, so that there’s, less mass. For things to cling to and for them to have less effect, it’s. So, if you, you know so chewing would be a nice thing, but most of us don’t and then it gets down to our stomach and that makes it harder on our on our stomachs to digest it. So if we, if, if we didn’t haven’t chewed it enough or if we don’t have enough hydrochloric acid, because we’re because we’re stressed or because we have a Thyroid problem, or or we have back to your bad bacteria in there, these proteins, don’t get broken down, and this is a third ass effect of gluten that a lot of people aren’t, very aware of which is when the Gluten protein doesn’t break down. It becomes much more available for even more toxins to cling to it and create significant cross sensitivities, other food sensitivities that can really really be confusing to the person so gluten in this sauce. Oh, so those are the those kind of mechanisms of the gluten messing you up the when I first gotten started doing functional medicine, which – and I was I & – # 39 ve said it many times. I was definitely in the very first first first group of functional medicine practitioners years ago, and we thought it were really hot when we would like people come into us at fibromyalgia, and we’d, go okay! You’re gonna get off a gluten, and people would argue with us and they’d. Go it’s in everything and it’s gluten, and this is stupid and it ‘ S like it looks like why it’s stupid it’s like how could that be, causing my fibromyalgia and and on and on and on I don’t. I rarely rarely really get that anywhere, but but I got a lot back then, and then you know certain people would not do it. I thought I’m. Not gonna do your program because I’m, not get off good. Okay. Well then, don’t, do it you know, but but the ones who did we had a number who you know a percentage, maybe 10 15 percent, maybe 20. That actually saw a huge difference, just getting off a gluten. That was our diet. It was like get off a gluten and then people get off of gluten. They’d, feel so much better. We do forget us, we really know we’re. Doing we’re, like you know, we’re, like the smart guys in the world, and that was it. But then we had a lot of people got off of gluten and they didn’t get any better and they didn’t have any changes, and in the beginning it was confusing. But now that we’re starting to understand the mechanisms that occur, we now understand that some people, even though they might have a sensitivity to gluten or they might have a condition in which they should not be e

https://youtu.be/wWL7RiA2Gao 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 for today we’re, going to go on with we’re gonna go with diet and we’re, not gonna go with diet in the Way that you might be used to looking up diet online, as my producer said before we started doing this, people are always asking ok, he gets all of the data from you. He gets all of the other requests and questions and the questions are ok. What’s, the right diet? For me, I have fibromyalgia. What’s there? I for me, I’m for up the I’m. What’s, the right diet? For me, I have chronic fatigue. What’s, the right diet? For me, I’ve, irritable, bowel syndrome. Right then, what’s the right time for me? Well, I did the Paleo diet or I did the caveman diet or I’m. A vegetarian, so we’re gonna we’re, not going to go into all of those. What we are going to go into is what we have distilled down from that vast warehouse of information that is online and and and kind of help you to understand what we have come up with and how we use diet. Okay, diet is a huge, huge part of people getting better and it is complex. There is not one diet for fibromyalgia there’s, not one diet, for chronic fatigue and on and on irritable, bowel syndrome. There’s. No, there is not one diet. Frankly, for anyone, we, we have a different patient population today than we had 40 years ago, and I’m. I’m right around my 40th year in practice here and, and people used to respond better to what we did. I wrote a book power, health back to basics and in there I talked about diet and then people say I want to get your book. I say: well, you can get my book because the basics are still there, but I would write an addendum, and that would say if you did all of the things that are in my book and you didn’t get better here’S why and here’s? Why would be autoimmunity and here’s? Why might be that? Were the most chronically stressed out group of human beings on the face of the earth? Maybe in the history of the world I don’t know, and I’m, not saying that cavalierly we observe this every day, so diet is is, is very important. Yet it’s it. Yet it’s. Difficult to assess, I have tried, and, and some of my more revered colleagues are using certain types of food sensitivity – testing to fine tune their diets. I have found that that, for my patient population is a disaster. We’re going to talk about that. A few minutes I mean the last five times. I got lazy and try to use this very expensive food sensitivity, testing approach and I won’t, say the company because there, because the company is a very good company, I don’t want to disparage them but know food sensitivity. Testing is proper. No, I want to say proper. No foods Nativity testing is 100 %. Accurate. Some of them are mind-numbing ly. Not accurate person gets the test, it tells you you’re sensitive to all these foods. You go eat all the ones that says you’re, not sensitive to, and the next thing you’re getting sick. What just happened to me about five times blew up the whole program, and food sensitivities are as big a part of what is the diet for me, what diiiie for fibromyalgia? What do I show you for our irritable bowel syndrome as anything, but they’re? Not the only thing. Let me walk you through what we’ve come up with okay. Now I understand we’ve treated. We’ve, had over 40,000 patients come through this clinic over over the period of time. I’ve been around and although we haven’t treated all of them, we’ve treated, most of them or a lot of them well, probably well over half of them, but we ‘ Ve interviewed all of them and we’ve evaluated all of them, so we have a pretty good idea kind of coming ongoing clinical trial of like what works and what doesn’t work, the everybody who comes in to us. Well, not everybody. Today, today my patient population knows about diet. More than ever before, I’m, usually shocked when I have a patient like the other day who came in it was kind of surprised that diet could possibly be a part of their of their way to health. If you will so most people today are coming in, they’re already on the Paleo diet or or they’re already on the vegan diet, or they’re already eating better than ninety percent of the human race and Are wondering why whatever diet they’re on? They’re on the ketogenic diet, I know, and and it and it made him feel better for a while. But then it didn’t or it didn’t work and, and they’re wondering why are they still sick? So we’ll start out with that. Okay, we’ll, start out with the clinical pearls. Now this is real hardcore brasstacks get down till you got a sick person sitting in front of you and you got to start understanding what’s going on and and and that person is already telling me. Basically they’re telling me look dude. I know more about diet than you do. I’m already eating better than you. You know, then you’re gonna make me someone talk to me about diet. I’m, not gonna do any more diet. I’m. Just show me what the pills look like. That person has a number of things going on. They either have intestinal permeability, which you probably know better, is leaky gut. So they’re, probably developing new food sensitivities to the diet that ‘ S are already on the diet that’s better than anything on planet earth. But when you have intestinal permeability – and I’m – not gonna get into the mechanisms you can start, you can be continue to develop new food sensitivities to the foods you’re eating, even if it’s, broccoli. Okay, even if it’s, asparagus or things of that nature, that person may also have be stressed. There may be a massive stress component going on in their life. They might be in post-traumatic stress syndrome and a chronic emotional trauma, and they just may be going through. A massive stress stress hormones, flood the inside of your intestines. Yes, this has a lot to do with diet. Okay, you want to know why your diets, not working if you’re really stressed, stressed, stressed out of your mind if you were in chronic fight/flight. If you have anxiety, depression, panic attacks, those types of things are helping to flood your system with cortisol that damages the inside of your gut. That can lead to imbalance in bacteria that can lead the league. You got food sensitivity, my diets, not working okay, you could have poor hydrochloric acid in your stomach. If you don’t have enough hydrochloric acid in your stomach, then you’re, not digesting your proteins. That leaves you open to food sensitiv

https://youtu.be/OAruI2Wyj1k 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. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com 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. Important to have people who are able to go through the type of a program that needs to be gone through to get better, and so then we started off. And then we started into the foundational aspects of treatment last week and we talked a lot about oxygen and and how oxygen is very foundational. So in functional medicine online it seems like mostly it’s, the magic right. Now it’s. To take this pill for that and do your SIBO and take your take your berberine for your C bows. Take this for your leaky gut and take this powder and take glutamate and all that’s out there. But people are still getting sick and not getting better. This series is addressing why so, ok, so back to the foundation, so so foundation of treatment is what we’re going through now, and the first foundation of treatment is follow. The fuel the fuel to our body is largely largely oxygen and sugar, and it is seems to be across the board, almost universally ignored when patients come here from other doctors and and it looks and they’re. Taking all the supplements that I probably would use, I probably would use as many, but but but you know they’re using tumeric and they’re using berberine and they’re using adapted friends and they’Re using all this stuff, but they’re sitting here and they’re still sick, because things have been missed. Okay, and so we’re, going through what those things are and sugar is like, like among the top top top physiological abnormalities that are missed so so blood sugar is. I will talk just briefly about the ketogenic aspects of fuel. Okay and we’ll, we’ll. Do it relative to relative to the sugar that we’re talking about today, so we’re going to talk about sugar and we’re gonna talk about how it is so important to those of you who have Chronic problems, so people come in here and if they have diabetes, okay, if they have diabetes, type 1 or diabetes type 2, they’re, being attended to and and and that’s because that’s, where the mindset is Right now let’s, wait until for like the 25 years that it takes to develop but diabetes, type 2 or diabetes type 1. And then, with the exception of juvenile diabetes and let’s and then let’s. Take care of it then, after there’s been 25 years of damage done to that person’s, brain and arteries, and heart and all that type of stuff. But that’s where at because that’s. The medical model not anti medicine, it’s, just that the medical model is is designed for heroic care. It’s, designed for what it’s designed for emergency care, keeping people alive, and then, when things start to not work, then we can give a drug and and of course, if a person has diabetes type 1, they’Re not making any insulin or pancreas they take insulin, diabetes, type 2 is a different animal and we’re gonna talk about that in a little bit, but even that at least you’re going to the doctor and they have A lot of different names for it now metabolic syndromes syndrome, X, insulin, resistance, and we’re going to talk about that. But but the diabetes type 2 is getting a little bit more attention. They ‘ Ll. Basically, tell you exercise tell time the doctors will you to tell you to change your diet, eat better exercise, go! Take a walk! 40 minutes three times a week, 20 minutes five times a week, 30 minute four times a week. Whatever a doctor you go to, and then maybe if that doesn’t work, maybe they give you a Matt Foreman which there are actually better natural alternatives for that and we’ll talk about that in a minute, but that’s the blood sugar world right now the problem is most of the people who come in here. Their problem is low blood sugar and most of them actually have something called reactive hypoglycemia, which invariably is almost never addressed, and invariably the patient, doesn’t even know that they have it. So these are those are those of you out there who want to know you know what are the reasons I’m, not getting better, taking my supplements and and eating better than anybody on planet earth. This is a big one all right! This is a big one, so basically low blood sugar is huge. If you get low blood sugar, low blood sugar symptoms are I’m irritable, I get shaky. If I don’t eat, I get fatigued. No. That would be high pleasure. I get irritable, I get shaky, I want to kill people when I don’t eat. I get. I know I get I get nasty. Maybe I get some anxiety it’ll, be you could have cravings for sugar. A big one. Is I eat and I feel much better after I eat, I feel much better. It’s not like I’m hungry I eat, and then I just go on with it. It’s. Like I’m fatigued, I’m. Getting brain fog. I can’t. Think I’m in a dumps and then I eat and I’m. Like I’m fine again, okay, those are symptoms of low blood sugar and there’s more. I think I said crave sweets and if I didn’t and crave, sweets is one of them. So so that’s, something that isn’t really normally addressed. But here’s here’s. What blood sugar is supposed to look like here’s, how your blood sugar works; okay, yeah! Basically, everything that we eat breaks down into sugar. Your way in, and unfortunately most of us still in this country run mainly off of carbohydrates. Okay, we have. We have a hark hike, hydrate tight for the most part, with the exception of those. Have you been, you know, fine-tuning your your diets a little bit more, but basically it goes like this. You eat, you eat something and it, and if it’s and if it’s protein, it breaks down into amino acids and that breaks down as a shirt. If you, if, if it’s good, if it’s, carbohydrates without getting into the whole premise a so like acid cycle and and all of the breakdowns, those break down at the inter sugar, they break down into glucose. Okay, go ahead, and these things either the sugar either goes into your cell. It breaks down and goes into your liver and becomes triglycerides, and, and so we’ll, get into that. We’ll get into the the fatty part of this. Here in a little bit, but but basically it it’s going to be stored, it’s, going to be it’s, gonna be broken down or it’s. Gon na be mobilized out of out of the liver where it’s stored that’s, that’s, your shirt and in the muscles the site it’s, like your muscles store, like 400 grams of blood Sugar per 100 grams, that’s stored in your liver, but basically you read it: it breaks down to sugar. It gets stored until you need it. Okay, if you eat the sugar okay, if you eat the food and it breaks down into sugar, then here’s. How it should go here’s, how the cycle of sugar should go. You eat it! You break d

https://youtu.be/y7aRrzXZ81k In this episode of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses the importance of oxygen to our body and its ability to heal. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com 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, you should cover all of those bases for the patient. You should know what diet they need eventually and there’s, not a lot of diets that you really need to consider. You should know what supplements that person these and I lady, come in here the other day and literally she was literally taking like 30 over 30 supplements multiple times a day. We’re gonna talk about that’s, probably not the way to go, but today we’re gonna get to back to we’re gonna get to oxygen. Okay, we’re gonna talk about following the fuel, so the first thing of the basics of getting better is to follow the fuel. Now, what is the fuel that makes our physiology work? The two main fuels that make our physiology work are oxygen and glucose, okay and don’t again. Don’t underestimate these suppose it’s, simplicity of where I’m going with this, because we’re going to talk about glucose in our next presentation. Okay, today is going to be strictly about oxygen, and you know people say well, you know I get oxygen. If the person’s like can’t, breathe and, and they’ve had a stroke or they’ve had COPD or they something like that. They they need oxygen, but the reality is is most of the people running around on planet Earth or at least in this country and well, and we’re finding out several other countries from people who come here. They don’t have enough oxygen going to their extremities. They don’t, have enough oxygen going to their brain, and a lot of us would argue. That means they. Don’t have a lot of oxygen or enough oxygen. Going to their enteric nervous system, meaning the nervous system that controls your intestines so oxygen. Is it’s kind of I don’t? I think most of you realize that if you stop breathing for a short period of time, that probably would be a good representation of how important oxygen is okay, but on a subtle level, we need oxygen to make energy. Okay, if functional medicine is about anything, it’s, probably about looking at all of the organ systems in the body. All of the feedback mechanisms in the body, all the biochemical systems in the body that contribute to chronic conditions that are not working and balancing them. That person who came in yesterday and yesterday in day before and she said – and I’m, taking all of these things to boost my immune system. Frankly, most people come in here. Don’t need to boost their immune system. They need to balance their amuses. In fact, we need to balance everything it’s really about homeostasis. It’s about getting your body back in balance to the degree that is possible based on your present condition and and the amount of tissue damage that you might have incurred or not incurred and oxygen is kind of oxygen and glucose are kind of The beginning, where you begin with getting your physiology better, so so so what about oxygen? You need oxygen to create something to create ATP ATP. You might better in the term as the term of energy, okay, energies made in your mitochondria and I’m. Not going to get into the whole Krebs ass, excite all acid cycle, but there are these little things these little organelles in your cells. They’re called mitochondria, most of you probably heard of them and mitochondria when they’re, not working, not only create fatigue, but they create an imbalance in your system. You cannot create homeostasis to the degree that you can or cannot create. Homeostasis you can or cannot help that patient’s physiology to help them to overcome many of the symptoms and many of the conditions that they have so it all starts with oxygen. Sleep apnea is something that is on the top of our list of evaluating when patients come into our office with chronic problems. I don’t care. If you’re coming with dizziness vertigo balance, migraines irritable, bowel syndrome, I don’t care. If you’re coming in here with fibromyalgia for apathy, chronic fatigue, you don’t have enough oxygen. Going to those extremities. You don’t have enough oxygen to go into the brain. You don’t. Have enough oxygen in the cells it’s not happening. One of the biggest biggest violators of oxygen is sleep apnea, and I I was actually turned on to this by one of my mentors and I remember sitting in the class, and I was kind of like taken back by it. It was like sleep apnea like wow, and he went on to say well it’s, sleep apnea causes diabetes, it causes heart disease, it causes liver problems, sleep apnea, causes weight, gain, it causes heart disease, it causes stroke and it causes neurological diseases. It even causes spinal or brain stem problems, and it’s listed as that one of the number-one and one of the top two causes of erectile dysfunction all of these conditions or conditions to walk in here. So he kind of got my attention on that and, as I delved more and more into sleep apnea, I started to realize that it creates a massive oxygen death said. I walk. I came back to the office after that presentation and I started asking a lot of my patients. Have you been diagnosed with sleep apnea here’s? What I’ve got here’s. What I got well yeah somebody told me that I had sleep apnea a while ago my husband says I snore all the time when I was like norm at the time my husband says I have to like he has to wake me up, because you know you Know he doesn’t know if I’m like breathing or not, but but you know I I don’t. I don’t know I didn’t, really go, get checked where I went or I went and got checked and they told me I had sleep apnea, but I didn’t. Really. I didn’t. Really. You know follow through on it and you know I didn’t. He didn’t. Tell me like whether was that important or not or yeah. I got diagnosed with sleep apnea, so my next question for that person would be. Are you using your CPAP man? I hate that thing. It’s on my face. It doesn’t work right. It’s, it bothers my sleep and and the statistics that that were presented in a class where that only 30 % of the people who are diagnosed with sleep apnea use their CPAP. That was about the statistics I saw in answering my in questioning my patient population, but what was more stunning was almost 80 % of 70 to 80 % of people. I asked that yeah I’ve either been diagnosed and sleep apnea. I’ve, been checked for it. I’ve, been told. I have it or I have it for sure, and I’m and I’m using my CPAP or I’m. Not that was pretty stunning. The next thing that I did was tell people. Okay. If you don’t start using your CPAP, we’re, probably not going to g

https://youtu.be/3NqHRYgeT-Q In this episode of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses proper testing and how more testing is not always better. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com 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. All of the symptoms of these conditions, but they’re, but they’re live ranges were normal. So what do we do with that back then? What do we do with that? Well, there’s. A gentleman named Harry Einar. He is a biochemist at a –, biotics and Harry is a pretty bright guy and Harry spent. I believe, ten years taking all of the pathological lab ranges and shrinking them down until they started to look like the patient sitting in front of us. If the patient sitting in front of us has had a polycystic ovarian syndrome, maybe they’re losing their hair, or maybe they got? Maybe they’re overweight? Maybe they’re. Maybe they’re having bad period. It’s, hot flashes, to lengthy periods to short periods. Anything you know too heavy bleeding too little bleeding they can’t get pregnant, they can’t carry the term, yet all their lab tests are normal. Okay, so Harry spent a long time looking at an awful lot of lab tests and bringing them down until we. This this lab range is the lab range that says there’s, a problem here so, for example, in the in the example I just used glucose in this lab here in Reno Nevada. This labs range is 65 to 99, for your glucose Harry found that once you get to 65, your brain is practically dead, because glucose is the main nutrients of your brain and if you lose too much glucose, you’re there, but that’s, the normal range interesting so Harry, says from all of the data that he and numerous doctors collected over a period of I think was about 10 to 12 years that it should be 85 to 99. Now that’s now called a functional range okay, so in other words we’ve. The vast majority of ranges were tightened there’s, a few that were widened and and and they were and and each one was done. So to reflect the patients that were sitting in front of us now, the range that comes from the medical community is usually designed to pick up pathology and, and frankly, it fits today’s. Medical model and I’m, not anti medicine. I’ll, get that out of the way. Okay, as you’ll, find out as I go through this series, but but but but those ranges are for pathology, the medical model, the insurance model, the diagnostic code model. All of these models are based around pathology. I gave you two perfect examples. You know dementia people who have dementia there’s like seven ranges of dementia and Alzheimer’s. There’s like seven ranges of Parkinson’s; disease there’s and it’s. Seven, seven, seven different stages, not ranges, seven different stages or something like a kidney disease. There’s there’s, depending on which which diagram in which rating system you’re. Looking at there’s, either four or five stages to kidney disease function in all of those, there is a there. The the in the medical community, there is mamada Liz to wait until you start to see all of the symptoms in the in that that they ‘ Re allowed to look for in that person and you must have the damage, in other words like in Alzheimers, Parkinson’s. You must see the Lewy body damage in the brain. You must see on this MRI. You must see these white spots, okay or or the alpha synuclein, that for the Alzheimer’s there or or if you’re talking about the kidney, I mean the kidney you just they just keep. Looking at the bun, the create creatine rate, they just look at it at the kidney markers, but those of you have kidney problems know what I’m about to say it’s, correct where the kidney it’s. Pretty much wait until there’s, so much pathology and and and it stops working and then what what you want dialysis. So the point is, the medical model is built around kind of oddly different things. One is like acute come in. You know you. I have acute bacterial infection or cubano infection, kill it kill the bacteria, get it and get it under control as quickly as possible. On the other end for chronic problems like walk in here, all the time it’s, wait until it’s so far gone because not because they want to, but because that’s, the model. The model is to wait until we can see something on the MRI see something on a cat scan and then we’ll treat it. These ranges reflect that you can have pre-diabetes for ten years before it actually shows up in your medical model. Ranges. Okay, I should use the term pathological ranges, but in the meantime, you’re having irritable on shakiness, you get tired after meals, you get irritable and shaky. If you don’t need anything, you know you’re. Putting on weight you can’t get rid of it. You have all of the symptoms of free of high and low blood sugar symptoms craving foods. You eat, you eat food, you feel better. You eat food. You fall asleep afterwards. That’s, a combination of high and low blood sugar symptoms, and that’s. What people usually have insulin resistance? They’ll experience that for 10 years before it gets into a pathological range and what is that pathological range? It used to be diabetes type 2. Now, if you look on these tests they actually have a pre-diabetic range, but still it takes 10 years to get into the pre-diabetic sorry. So I have a patient sitting in front of me. They have small fiber neuropathy, one of the most common causes of small fiber neuropathy is pre-diabetes, but their numbers are normal because they’re using the pathological range which more or less is for diabetes, okay, but they’re, not getting treated Because it’s going to take ten years before it gets to diabetes, and at that point you got numbness. You know your feet are starting to turn blue and now the doctor will say: okay, let’s, do a nerve, conduction velocity and hopefully that shows something and if it shows something they ‘ Ll give you a gabapentin, but that’s, that’s. Pathological ranges and functional ranges. You’re picking things up, hopefully before it’s, creating the damage that becomes permanent or the damage that becomes irreversible. It’s, you’re, picking up abnormal function and and and you’re doing that by looking at it earlier and and this this glucose range number is perfect. Example, I mean 65 by the time you get down in the range in the medical model and the physiological model 65 to 99. The range in the functional model is 85 to 99. So if you dip below 85 and you’re 80, your doctors telling you normal, we’re. Looking at your symptoms and you’re, getting irritable and shaky! You’re nodding off, you. Have you got sugar cravings? We look at that and go you know in the functional range you are. You have low blood sugar and we need to treat you for t