March 11, 2025 • 20 mins
Join us as we explore the core principles of health and wellness through the lens of inflammation and mindset. We discuss the importance of asking the right questions in health and the differences between managing disease and crafting wellness.
• The role of inflammation in chronic diseases
• Mindset shifts as a key to health improvement
• How conventional medicine overlooks wellness
• Time constraints in patient care and their implications
• Tailoring health solutions to individual needs
• Encouragement to reclaim wellness in 2025
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey everyone, welcome to the Inflammation Nation
podcast.
I'm your host, Dr SteveNoseworthy.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
One of the greatest obstacles to crafting health and
wellness is identifying andcontrolling inflammation.
It's at the core of all complexand chronic diseases and it's
the driving mechanism thatunderlies the most common
symptoms that people like youstruggle to overcome.
Join us as we explore cuttingedge science and research to
give you the information andtools you need to create the
(00:28):
quality of life you want anddeserve.
And now here is the host ofInflammation Nation, dr Stephen
Nosworthy.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Hey guys, welcome back to the Inflammation Nation
podcast.
Every year about this time Itend to do the same type of
content for the first podcast ofthe year and technically it's
not the first podcast of theyear, since I did post a
two-part interview that I did onmy doctor-only podcast called
the Funkbed Nation, where I hada great conversation with Dr Stu
(01:02):
McGill.
Dr McGill is a world-famousexpert in biomechanics and he's
got a lot to say, not just aboutelite athleticism but what it
means for regular people likeyou and me to get and to stay
healthy when modern life isreally not as conducive to that
as we might want it to be.
(01:23):
But nevertheless, this is myfirst let's call it solo episode
in 2025.
And I realize that I haven'tbeen putting out episodes for
quite a while and that's justsimply because Kathy and I have
been just very busy with travelthroughout the US and Canada and
just changes in workcircumstances and just lots of
(01:45):
projects and increasedproductivity.
But I am back and I hope youmissed me.
But, as I said before, my habitis to start the year by
touching base with you guys andasking how things are going
right.
How's that new diet?
How's the exercise plan thatyou said you were going to start
(02:06):
in January.
Are you still on point withyour diet?
Are you still making it to thegym?
And that's assuming, of course,that that was part of the set
of resolutions that you made foryourself coming into 2025.
And maybe that wasn't part ofit, but maybe you just had this
general sense of I need to do abetter job in 2025 than I did in
(02:28):
2024.
Statistically speaking, most ofthe people who have the best of
intentions on the morning ofJanuary 1st have, at this point
in the year, already succumbedto the magnetism of old habits,
those ingrained patterns ofthinking and doing that make it
hard to change.
(02:50):
I was recently a guest on DrRussell Jaffe's YouTube and
Instagram channels and we had ashort but a great conversation
about what amounts to mindsetwhen it comes to getting and
staying healthy, and I saidsomething to him that I want to
share with you guys because Ithink it's important.
I said that when you're seekingto get better and healthy, you
(03:14):
can't get the right answersabout your health unless you ask
the right questions, and youcan't ask the right questions
unless you have the rightmindset or perspective.
Here's what I mean by that Ifyou were to come see me as a
provider, as a functionalmedicine doctor, and if we go
(03:35):
through your health history andyour goals and maybe even review
existing relevant labs anddiagnostics, and then you were
to do the exact same thing witha conventionally trained medical
doctor, or perhaps even amedical doctor who does
integrative medicine and I'mdoing air quotes, I know you
can't see me, but I'm doing itnonetheless so if you were to
(03:57):
see me and then have the sameconversation with a medical
doctor, you're going to end upwith two very different sets of
recommendations.
And the reason for that isbecause what we do as clinicians
is driven by how we think, andI think a certain way about
(04:18):
health and wellness.
And the way that I think abouthealth and wellness is very much
opposed to what you might seeor what you do see in
conventional medicine.
And I think this is a greatplace to point out that
conventional healthcare again,air quotes is really not
healthcare at all, becausenobody goes to the doctor when
they're healthy and 99 pluspercent of all doctors medical
(04:39):
doctors that is they don't knowwhat to do with a healthy person
.
I might even say 99 percent ofall doctors have any persuasion.
They don't know what to do witha healthy person.
I might even say 99% of alldoctors have any persuasion.
They don't know what to do witha healthy person because
they're trained to find sicknessand treat disease and,
particularly in the medicalcommunity, they're trained to do
that with medications andprocedures.
(05:07):
The first person to say this,nor will I be the last, but what
we call healthcare is reallydisease management, and if
that's what you need or want,then by all means see your
medical doctor, your osteopath,your nurse practitioner,
whatever.
But if you want to be healthyand well, the question you
should be asking is not you know, what disease do I have and how
do I treat it, but rather thequestion you should ask is how
(05:27):
did I lose my wellness and howdo I get that back?
And hopefully you can see themindset behind each of those
questions and how they differ.
Remember, if you want answers,you need to ask the right
questions, and you can't ask theright questions if your
perspective is off.
Questions and you can't ask theright questions if your
perspective is off.
(05:48):
You need to be really lockeddown, solid about what it is
that you're looking for.
Are you looking only to managethe disease condition and
prevent it from getting worse,or are you trying to actually
craft wellness?
Because crafting wellness is notmanaging disease, nor is it
treating illness.
It is different.
It's holistic in the science-ysense of that word, not the kind
(06:08):
of like ethereal or foo-foosense of the word.
Holistic, I mean it in terms ofreferring to the whole being
more than the sum of its parts.
And even though there's a lotof talk in integrative and
functional medicine circlesabout treating the whole person
and finding root causes and allof that, very few clinicians
(06:32):
really pull that off and theyfail to do so for maybe three
reasons that I can see.
I'm sure there's more if I keptthinking about it.
I kept thinking about it.
But the first reason for that isthat we are all myself included
bound by the limits of ourtraining and our bias.
Now, I was initially trained asa chiropractor, which means
(06:56):
that I was taught to think likea chiropractor.
I was taught to think a certainway about problems.
The same is true of yourmedical doctor, your naturopath,
your acupuncturist and so on,and part of the path to becoming
a well-rounded clinician is torecognize the limits of our
training and bias and to takeintentional steps to break out
of that, meaning learning to seethings from new perspectives.
(07:20):
But most practicing doctors areso busy they don't have time to
do that, even if they areinterested in that.
All they have time to do that,even if they are interested in
that, all they have time to dois to see the next patient and
then see the next patient, andsee the next patient, and so on.
And I will tell you that, as apractitioner, it takes time and
dedication to keep learning onceyou start working in your
profession.
And for most doctors, at somepoint their busyness not their
(07:45):
business, but their busynessoutweighs their desire to learn
more and all they can manage todo is to stay on that hamster
wheel while it spins and spins,and spins, and spins.
And so the first problem is atbest, we all have a limited view
of the human body and how itoperates, and what we see and
(08:05):
what we do is governed by hownarrow or how wide our training
and our education has been.
That's the first problem.
The second problem is aconsequence of how busy
practitioners are, and thataffects root cause investigation
.
(08:26):
You see that there is a tensionbetween and I'm speaking about
practitioners, but I think, as ahealthcare consumer, this is
important for you to know.
There's a tension between notattention, that's not the right
word there's a trade-off betweenseeing lots of people in the
run of a day or a week and howmuch time that you can spend
(08:49):
with each one.
The more people you see in less.
The more people you see, theless time you can spend with
them.
And when a doctor states thathe or she treats the whole
person and works on root cause,but they only spend 10 or 15
minutes with you in a session,there's a massive disconnect
here, and all you have time foris managing parts of a problem,
(09:13):
not the entirety of them.
And so some doctors try to getaround this by hiring staff to
do other things so that they canjust keep seeing more and more
people.
If you, you, if you really wantto do root cause, whole person
type care, you have to manage somany different things, and it's
(09:33):
difficult for one person to doit all unless they're willing to
make a sacrifice.
And then sacrifice is seeingfewer people.
But most docs are trained todefine success as the number of
people that they see in a day ora week or a month or a year,
and so you might see the doctorthat you're engaging with for
(09:54):
your first visit, but then youget farmed out to the doc in
training, or you get farmed outto the health coach or the
nutritionist or some other staffmember who may not really have
the scope and knowledge that youwish that they really had, and
so your care gets fractured.
And the more people you have onthe team, the harder it is for
(10:15):
them all to be on the same page,and pretty soon communication
starts to break down andeveryone is doing their own
thing, but they're still callingit whole person root cause
medicine.
So, again, doctors have to makea choice in terms of how they
run their practices.
They either spend more timewith people and, as a result,
(10:35):
limit the number of people thatthey work with, or they see more
people and they spend time.
It's a trade-off that has tohappen, and so a clinical
practice can either be highvolume or high engagement, but
it can't be both.
And the final reason here isthat there is a tendency for
natural medicine doctors todevelop let's call it a shtick,
(10:59):
like a way of doing thingsthat's easily repeatable and
easily explained, and thisallows them to see more people
and give the illusion of wholeperson root cause medicine.
So here's an example A lot ofdocs that do functional medicine
are kind of stuck in the 1980swhen it comes to their clinical
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applications, which means theytend to blame everything on one
problem and they build theirentire clinical process around
that.
And so you have docs who saythat all of your health problems
are from heavy metals.
Usually mercury is the one thatgets blamed, so mercury is the
root of all health issues.
Another doc might say well,it's, you know, all health
(11:43):
problems come from parasites.
Or maybe a doc steps back alittle further and says well,
that's not true, but certainlyall health starts in the gut.
So we have to fix the gut forevery person who comes in.
And on some level they're notentirely wrong, because for any
individual person that mayindeed be true.
But to adopt a blanket approachwhere everyone does a mercury
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detox or everybody does aparasite cleanse or everybody
does a gut protocol, and theprotocols are all the same from
person to person to person,makes it very easy to administer
from a business standpoint, butit doesn't make much sense
clinically.
But that approach ignores thevery concept of whole person
root cause philosophy.
Again, it's much easier to doone thing really well and to
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trust that enough people withthat one specific problem are
going to knock on your door,knowing that you won't be able
to help the people who needsomething different.
And so the problem is thatthese docs don't necessarily
explain up front howone-dimensional they really are.
And so you go into your consultthinking you know great, this
person is going to look at me asa whole person, they're going
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to finally find my root cause,when in reality they're just
looking at you, like everyoneelse, hoping their shtick is
what you need.
And so they have a round holeand and you're a square peg and
they're trying to put a squarepeg into a round hole.
You know, when I stopped seeingpeople in person for hands on
chiropractic care and I starteddoing functional medicine full
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time, at that point I had wellover a decade of listening to
all of my chiropractic patientscomplain about what they didn't
like about modern medicine, andit wasn't long into my
functional medicine career thatI started to see natural docs
making the same mistake, and soalong the way I determined to do
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things differently and to solveas many of those problems as I
could for my own clients, andthat meant a few things.
I knew that to do my best, Ihad to see fewer people so I
could spend more time with them,because that is what is
required, particularly forcomplex health issues where it
seems like everything has hitthe fan.
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I also knew that I had to up mygame and learn more about more,
so I could see as much of thewhole picture or the whole
person as I could.
Now I kind of have a uniquesituation because I'm one of
only a handful of docs who dowhat I do, being that I both
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have my own practice and Itravel around the country
teaching high level functionalmedicine to other docs from all
around the world.
And because I teach, Igenerally have to taste, stay
two steps ahead of the doctorsthat I'm teaching.
And finally, you know, and increating my own, let's say,
(14:42):
treatment philosophy, I decidedto listen I mean really listen.
In fact, I just got off thephone with another practitioner
who wants to be a client of mineand she asked me what I
specialize in, and she wassurprised by my response.
(15:03):
I told her that I specialize innot specializing and I had to
explain that it's all well andgood for a clinician or a
practitioner, for advertising apromotion purposes, to say you
know, I I work with gut problemsor I treat Hashimoto's, or I
treat head injuries or I treatSIBO or whatever the case is,
(15:25):
because people like youhealthcare consumers need
clarity so that you can chooseto go someone who works with the
type of problem that youperceive that you have, but a
true, whole person.
Root cause approach looks beyondsomeone's presenting
symptomatology and their labelsor diagnoses to ask what
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mechanisms are promoting thosethings.
And no assumptions are made upfront.
And root cause medicine demandsthat there are no
preconceptions.
There's no place for a doctorto assume that all of your
complaints are from a heavymetal or a parasite, or to
assume that you just need to doa detox, or the detox is the
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first place everyone shouldstart, or your gut is the first
place to start.
None of those assumptionsshould be true.
Not that you don't do thosethings, but you make no
assumptions about when theyshould appear in someone's care
program.
So when I told that otherpractitioner that I specialize
in not specializing I didn'tmean that I'm not good at any
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one thing.
I meant that my mindset is thatI suspend any treatment
decisions until I can gatherenough effort, evidence, to make
an informed decision, and theamount of type of information
(16:50):
that takes is going to vary fromperson to person and it's
largely dependent on thecomplexity of the problems.
You have one problem, twoproblems or eight problems.
So what are you looking for asyou wind your way through 2025?
And if you get to the pointwhere you realize that your
problems are more than you canfix on your own, ideally you'd
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be looking for someone whooffers you better answers by
asking the right questions whichstem from the perspective of
crafting wellness and notmanaging disease.
You're probably looking forsomeone who does actually see
you as a whole person and notjust a collection of parts, who
does actually work on root causeby not jumping to conclusions,
(17:37):
either out of expediency fortheir own business plan seeing
more people and more people, andmore people or because what
they did for someone else likeyou worked out well, so why not
do it with you too?
And you probably want to seesomeone who has a low volume but
high engagement model, wherethey see fewer people, spend
(18:02):
more time and, as a result, tendto get better results.
And hey, maybe that's me, maybeit's not, but maybe it is.
And if you want to know if youand I are a good fit, you can
use the link in the descriptionto send me a web request.
You can email me, you can textme at my office number.
(18:24):
All of these will be in theepisode description and, because
I've chosen to work truly solo,I have no staff.
I will actually be the oneresponding to you directly and
it would be my honor andprivilege to help you walk
through 2025 and finally getanswers, results and hope to
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solve the problems that you'vebeen trying to solve on your own
and maybe just haven't beenable to understand or put it all
together.
All right, guys, that bringsthe first solo episode of the
Inflammation Nation in 2025 to aclose, and I will be back
pretty soon, right here on theInflammation Nation.
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The content of this podcast isnot intended to be a substitute
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diagnosis or treatment andlisteners should not disregard
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And finally, functionalmedicine is not intended or
designed to treat disease, butrather is a natural approach to
support restoring health andwellness.
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supplementation is supportivefor adjunctive care.
Hey everyone, welcome to the Inflammation Nation
podcast.
I'm your host, Dr SteveNoseworthy.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
One of the greatest obstacles to crafting health and
wellness is identifying andcontrolling inflammation.
It's at the core of all complexand chronic diseases and it's
the driving mechanism thatunderlies the most common
symptoms that people like youstruggle to overcome.
Join us as we explore cuttingedge science and research to
give you the information andtools you need to create the
(00:28):
quality of life you want anddeserve.
And now here is the host ofInflammation Nation, dr Stephen
Nosworthy.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Hey guys, welcome back to the Inflammation Nation
podcast.
Every year about this time Itend to do the same type of
content for the first podcast ofthe year and technically it's
not the first podcast of theyear, since I did post a
two-part interview that I did onmy doctor-only podcast called
the Funkbed Nation, where I hada great conversation with Dr Stu
(01:02):
McGill.
Dr McGill is a world-famousexpert in biomechanics and he's
got a lot to say, not just aboutelite athleticism but what it
means for regular people likeyou and me to get and to stay
healthy when modern life isreally not as conducive to that
as we might want it to be.
(01:23):
But nevertheless, this is myfirst let's call it solo episode
in 2025.
And I realize that I haven'tbeen putting out episodes for
quite a while and that's justsimply because Kathy and I have
been just very busy with travelthroughout the US and Canada and
just changes in workcircumstances and just lots of
(01:45):
projects and increasedproductivity.
But I am back and I hope youmissed me.
But, as I said before, my habitis to start the year by
touching base with you guys andasking how things are going
right.
How's that new diet?
How's the exercise plan thatyou said you were going to start
(02:06):
in January.
Are you still on point withyour diet?
Are you still making it to thegym?
And that's assuming, of course,that that was part of the set
of resolutions that you made foryourself coming into 2025.
And maybe that wasn't part ofit, but maybe you just had this
general sense of I need to do abetter job in 2025 than I did in
(02:28):
2024.
Statistically speaking, most ofthe people who have the best of
intentions on the morning ofJanuary 1st have, at this point
in the year, already succumbedto the magnetism of old habits,
those ingrained patterns ofthinking and doing that make it
hard to change.
(02:50):
I was recently a guest on DrRussell Jaffe's YouTube and
Instagram channels and we had ashort but a great conversation
about what amounts to mindsetwhen it comes to getting and
staying healthy, and I saidsomething to him that I want to
share with you guys because Ithink it's important.
I said that when you're seekingto get better and healthy, you
(03:14):
can't get the right answersabout your health unless you ask
the right questions, and youcan't ask the right questions
unless you have the rightmindset or perspective.
Here's what I mean by that Ifyou were to come see me as a
provider, as a functionalmedicine doctor, and if we go
(03:35):
through your health history andyour goals and maybe even review
existing relevant labs anddiagnostics, and then you were
to do the exact same thing witha conventionally trained medical
doctor, or perhaps even amedical doctor who does
integrative medicine and I'mdoing air quotes, I know you
can't see me, but I'm doing itnonetheless so if you were to
(03:57):
see me and then have the sameconversation with a medical
doctor, you're going to end upwith two very different sets of
recommendations.
And the reason for that isbecause what we do as clinicians
is driven by how we think, andI think a certain way about
(04:18):
health and wellness.
And the way that I think abouthealth and wellness is very much
opposed to what you might seeor what you do see in
conventional medicine.
And I think this is a greatplace to point out that
conventional healthcare again,air quotes is really not
healthcare at all, becausenobody goes to the doctor when
they're healthy and 99 pluspercent of all doctors medical
(04:39):
doctors that is they don't knowwhat to do with a healthy person
.
I might even say 99 percent ofall doctors have any persuasion.
They don't know what to do witha healthy person.
I might even say 99% of alldoctors have any persuasion.
They don't know what to do witha healthy person because
they're trained to find sicknessand treat disease and,
particularly in the medicalcommunity, they're trained to do
that with medications andprocedures.
(05:07):
The first person to say this,nor will I be the last, but what
we call healthcare is reallydisease management, and if
that's what you need or want,then by all means see your
medical doctor, your osteopath,your nurse practitioner,
whatever.
But if you want to be healthyand well, the question you
should be asking is not you know, what disease do I have and how
do I treat it, but rather thequestion you should ask is how
(05:27):
did I lose my wellness and howdo I get that back?
And hopefully you can see themindset behind each of those
questions and how they differ.
Remember, if you want answers,you need to ask the right
questions, and you can't ask theright questions if your
perspective is off.
Questions and you can't ask theright questions if your
perspective is off.
(05:48):
You need to be really lockeddown, solid about what it is
that you're looking for.
Are you looking only to managethe disease condition and
prevent it from getting worse,or are you trying to actually
craft wellness?
Because crafting wellness is notmanaging disease, nor is it
treating illness.
It is different.
It's holistic in the science-ysense of that word, not the kind
(06:08):
of like ethereal or foo-foosense of the word.
Holistic, I mean it in terms ofreferring to the whole being
more than the sum of its parts.
And even though there's a lotof talk in integrative and
functional medicine circlesabout treating the whole person
and finding root causes and allof that, very few clinicians
(06:32):
really pull that off and theyfail to do so for maybe three
reasons that I can see.
I'm sure there's more if I keptthinking about it.
I kept thinking about it.
But the first reason for that isthat we are all myself included
bound by the limits of ourtraining and our bias.
Now, I was initially trained asa chiropractor, which means
(06:56):
that I was taught to think likea chiropractor.
I was taught to think a certainway about problems.
The same is true of yourmedical doctor, your naturopath,
your acupuncturist and so on,and part of the path to becoming
a well-rounded clinician is torecognize the limits of our
training and bias and to takeintentional steps to break out
of that, meaning learning to seethings from new perspectives.
(07:20):
But most practicing doctors areso busy they don't have time to
do that, even if they areinterested in that.
All they have time to do that,even if they are interested in
that, all they have time to dois to see the next patient and
then see the next patient, andsee the next patient, and so on.
And I will tell you that, as apractitioner, it takes time and
dedication to keep learning onceyou start working in your
profession.
And for most doctors, at somepoint their busyness not their
(07:45):
business, but their busynessoutweighs their desire to learn
more and all they can manage todo is to stay on that hamster
wheel while it spins and spins,and spins, and spins.
And so the first problem is atbest, we all have a limited view
of the human body and how itoperates, and what we see and
(08:05):
what we do is governed by hownarrow or how wide our training
and our education has been.
That's the first problem.
The second problem is aconsequence of how busy
practitioners are, and thataffects root cause investigation
.
(08:26):
You see that there is a tensionbetween and I'm speaking about
practitioners, but I think, as ahealthcare consumer, this is
important for you to know.
There's a tension between notattention, that's not the right
word there's a trade-off betweenseeing lots of people in the
run of a day or a week and howmuch time that you can spend
(08:49):
with each one.
The more people you see in less.
The more people you see, theless time you can spend with
them.
And when a doctor states thathe or she treats the whole
person and works on root cause,but they only spend 10 or 15
minutes with you in a session,there's a massive disconnect
here, and all you have time foris managing parts of a problem,
(09:13):
not the entirety of them.
And so some doctors try to getaround this by hiring staff to
do other things so that they canjust keep seeing more and more
people.
If you, you, if you really wantto do root cause, whole person
type care, you have to manage somany different things, and it's
(09:33):
difficult for one person to doit all unless they're willing to
make a sacrifice.
And then sacrifice is seeingfewer people.
But most docs are trained todefine success as the number of
people that they see in a day ora week or a month or a year,
and so you might see the doctorthat you're engaging with for
(09:54):
your first visit, but then youget farmed out to the doc in
training, or you get farmed outto the health coach or the
nutritionist or some other staffmember who may not really have
the scope and knowledge that youwish that they really had, and
so your care gets fractured.
And the more people you have onthe team, the harder it is for
(10:15):
them all to be on the same page,and pretty soon communication
starts to break down andeveryone is doing their own
thing, but they're still callingit whole person root cause
medicine.
So, again, doctors have to makea choice in terms of how they
run their practices.
They either spend more timewith people and, as a result,
(10:35):
limit the number of people thatthey work with, or they see more
people and they spend time.
It's a trade-off that has tohappen, and so a clinical
practice can either be highvolume or high engagement, but
it can't be both.
And the final reason here isthat there is a tendency for
natural medicine doctors todevelop let's call it a shtick,
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like a way of doing thingsthat's easily repeatable and
easily explained, and thisallows them to see more people
and give the illusion of wholeperson root cause medicine.
So here's an example A lot ofdocs that do functional medicine
are kind of stuck in the 1980swhen it comes to their clinical
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applications, which means theytend to blame everything on one
problem and they build theirentire clinical process around
that.
And so you have docs who saythat all of your health problems
are from heavy metals.
Usually mercury is the one thatgets blamed, so mercury is the
root of all health issues.
Another doc might say well,it's, you know, all health
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problems come from parasites.
Or maybe a doc steps back alittle further and says well,
that's not true, but certainlyall health starts in the gut.
So we have to fix the gut forevery person who comes in.
And on some level they're notentirely wrong, because for any
individual person that mayindeed be true.
But to adopt a blanket approachwhere everyone does a mercury
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detox or everybody does aparasite cleanse or everybody
does a gut protocol, and theprotocols are all the same from
person to person to person,makes it very easy to administer
from a business standpoint, butit doesn't make much sense
clinically.
But that approach ignores thevery concept of whole person
root cause philosophy.
Again, it's much easier to doone thing really well and to
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trust that enough people withthat one specific problem are
going to knock on your door,knowing that you won't be able
to help the people who needsomething different.
And so the problem is thatthese docs don't necessarily
explain up front howone-dimensional they really are.
And so you go into your consultthinking you know great, this
person is going to look at me asa whole person, they're going
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to finally find my root cause,when in reality they're just
looking at you, like everyoneelse, hoping their shtick is
what you need.
And so they have a round holeand and you're a square peg and
they're trying to put a squarepeg into a round hole.
You know, when I stopped seeingpeople in person for hands on
chiropractic care and I starteddoing functional medicine full
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time, at that point I had wellover a decade of listening to
all of my chiropractic patientscomplain about what they didn't
like about modern medicine, andit wasn't long into my
functional medicine career thatI started to see natural docs
making the same mistake, and soalong the way I determined to do
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things differently and to solveas many of those problems as I
could for my own clients, andthat meant a few things.
I knew that to do my best, Ihad to see fewer people so I
could spend more time with them,because that is what is
required, particularly forcomplex health issues where it
seems like everything has hitthe fan.
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I also knew that I had to up mygame and learn more about more,
so I could see as much of thewhole picture or the whole
person as I could.
Now I kind of have a uniquesituation because I'm one of
only a handful of docs who dowhat I do, being that I both
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have my own practice and Itravel around the country
teaching high level functionalmedicine to other docs from all
around the world.
And because I teach, Igenerally have to taste, stay
two steps ahead of the doctorsthat I'm teaching.
And finally, you know, and increating my own, let's say,
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treatment philosophy, I decidedto listen I mean really listen.
In fact, I just got off thephone with another practitioner
who wants to be a client of mineand she asked me what I
specialize in, and she wassurprised by my response.
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I told her that I specialize innot specializing and I had to
explain that it's all well andgood for a clinician or a
practitioner, for advertising apromotion purposes, to say you
know, I I work with gut problemsor I treat Hashimoto's, or I
treat head injuries or I treatSIBO or whatever the case is,
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because people like youhealthcare consumers need
clarity so that you can chooseto go someone who works with the
type of problem that youperceive that you have, but a
true, whole person.
Root cause approach looks beyondsomeone's presenting
symptomatology and their labelsor diagnoses to ask what
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mechanisms are promoting thosethings.
And no assumptions are made upfront.
And root cause medicine demandsthat there are no
preconceptions.
There's no place for a doctorto assume that all of your
complaints are from a heavymetal or a parasite, or to
assume that you just need to doa detox, or the detox is the
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first place everyone shouldstart, or your gut is the first
place to start.
None of those assumptionsshould be true.
Not that you don't do thosethings, but you make no
assumptions about when theyshould appear in someone's care
program.
So when I told that otherpractitioner that I specialize
in not specializing I didn'tmean that I'm not good at any
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one thing.
I meant that my mindset is thatI suspend any treatment
decisions until I can gatherenough effort, evidence, to make
an informed decision, and theamount of type of information
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that takes is going to vary fromperson to person and it's
largely dependent on thecomplexity of the problems.
You have one problem, twoproblems or eight problems.
So what are you looking for asyou wind your way through 2025?
And if you get to the pointwhere you realize that your
problems are more than you canfix on your own, ideally you'd
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be looking for someone whooffers you better answers by
asking the right questions whichstem from the perspective of
crafting wellness and notmanaging disease.
You're probably looking forsomeone who does actually see
you as a whole person and notjust a collection of parts, who
does actually work on root causeby not jumping to conclusions,
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either out of expediency fortheir own business plan seeing
more people and more people, andmore people or because what
they did for someone else likeyou worked out well, so why not
do it with you too?
And you probably want to seesomeone who has a low volume but
high engagement model, wherethey see fewer people, spend
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more time and, as a result, tendto get better results.
And hey, maybe that's me, maybeit's not, but maybe it is.
And if you want to know if youand I are a good fit, you can
use the link in the descriptionto send me a web request.
You can email me, you can textme at my office number.
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All of these will be in theepisode description and, because
I've chosen to work truly solo,I have no staff.
I will actually be the oneresponding to you directly and
it would be my honor andprivilege to help you walk
through 2025 and finally getanswers, results and hope to
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solve the problems that you'vebeen trying to solve on your own
and maybe just haven't beenable to understand or put it all
together.
All right, guys, that bringsthe first solo episode of the
Inflammation Nation in 2025 to aclose, and I will be back
pretty soon, right here on theInflammation Nation.
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This podcast is for generalinformational and educational
purposes only and does notconstitute the practice of
medicine in any form or capacity.
No doctor-patient relationshipis formed.
The use of the information inthis podcast or any materials
associated with or linked to thepodcast is at the listener's
own risk.
The content of this podcast isnot intended to be a substitute
for professional andpersonalized medical advice,
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diagnosis or treatment andlisteners should not disregard
or delay obtaining propermedical advice when a health
condition exists and warrantsthat.
And finally, functionalmedicine is not intended or
designed to treat disease, butrather is a natural approach to
support restoring health andwellness.
The use of diet and lifestylemodifications and nutritional
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supplementation is supportivefor adjunctive care.
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