Kevin: So how can you use it? If a patient comes in, precisely how do you figure out between those 7 things what it could be or possibly exactly what the combination is?
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Mark: That’s a terrific issue. We discover for medical school what we’ll call, the differential diagnosing and means that we Try it now to narrow down the information to a specific diagnosis and something that does not match that, we ignore. Quite simply, in case you visit me and you say, “You know, Dr. Hyman I have joint pain.” I’m going to look at the joints of yours. You say, “I have irritable bowel.” “Well, go look at gastroenterologist.” “I have this particular rash.” I say, “Well, go see the dermatologist.” “And I get these headaches.” “Well, go enjoy neurologist.” However in my world, the rash, the headaches, irritable bowel as well as arthritis are all part of the very same problem. It is not that this human being happened to get all of these problems simultaneously.
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It is that they have some underlying roots to all these things. So I do is an inclusive heritage, a 22 page questionnaire which allows me to fully understand everything about them, from whether they have root canals, to how many fillings they’ve, to if they have itchy scalp, to whether they’ve international traveling. As a result of this, a picture emerges and I can tell whether there’s a predominance of inflammatory issues, or hormonal issues, or even whether it’s surely digestive, or if there is big detoxification issues, or even whether you can get huge energy problems.
So I use of those 7 frameworks to take into consideration problems. Today, they are all related. They’re not separate, but I take that information at the end of the day and I say, okay, well it seems like this is where we need to start.
Therefore for any of these devices, I’ve to ask two questions and it’s rather simple actually. Functional medicine is actually only about two questions. One is, remember what food you have to get rid of that’s making you sick. Is it a toxin, an allergen, an infection? Do you find it poor diet, or worry? There’s only five things. Sometimes it’s tricky, because folks have numerous things. So you’ve to handle all of them.
The next thing we ask is, just what does the body need to thrive? What exactly are you missing for the body of yours to work optimally? We want the right quality food. We need the right nutrients in the right amounts, depending on our genetic needs. We want the proper amount of light, air and water. We need exercise. We need sleep and rest. We require rhythm; daily, normal rhythms as we’re circadian beings that function based on biological rhythms and in addition, we require connection, purpose, meaning, love, community, all these things which make us thrive. We’d like all those items. So we have to ascertain what exactly are they losing out on, what is bugging them and then we need to take care of those two things everywhere around the full system of the body and we need to get it done all at exactly the same time, about. So you take away the bad stuff and also you put in the great stuff as well as the body does the remaining.
Kevin: What exactly are some most prevalent aspects of those seven? What does one see the most of?
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Mark: Well, I think you understand there’s a lot of methods to get entry into the complete system and the truth of the matter is the fact that when you work on any one process it truly does work all the various other systems. Thus in a way you get to the place that the most important touch points are for people and what I have experienced is you will find two major touch points. One is its inflammation, since we are all on fire and 2, detoxification, because we are all poisonous.
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