Leaky Gut – Functional Medicine Back to Basics

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 speci...