Kevin: So how would you approach it? In case an individual comes in, how do you figure out in between those seven things what it could be or even what the combination is?
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Mark: That’s a terrific question. We learn in medical school what we will call, the differential diagnosing and means that we try and pin down the information to a specific diagnosis and something that does not match that, we ignore. Quite simply, if you arrive at me and you say, “You know, Dr. Hyman I’ve joint pain.” I’m going to look at your bones. You say, “I also have irritable bowel.” “Well, go look at gastroenterologist.” “I have this particular rash.” I say, “Well, go see the dermatologist.” “And I receive these headaches.” “Well, go see the neurologist.” But in my world, the headaches, the rash, irritable bowel as well as arthritis are all part of the same problem. It is not this person happened to get every one of these problems simultaneously.
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It is that they’ve a few underlying roots to all these things. So I do is an inclusive heritage, a twenty two page questionnaire that allows me to understand everything about them, from whether they’ve root canals, to how many fillings they’ve, to if they’ve itchy scalp, to whether they’ve foreign travel. By means of this, an image emerges and I am able to tell whether there is a predominance of inflammatory problems, or maybe hormonal problems, or even whether it’s possibly digestive, or whether there’s big detoxification issues, or whether there will be major power issues.
So I use of the 7 frameworks to consider problems. Now, they’re 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.
Thus for any of these systems, I’ve to ask 2 questions and it’s rather simple really. Functional medicine is actually just about two questions. One is, what do you have to do away with that is making you sick. Can it be a toxin, an allergen, an illness? Do you find it poor diet, or stress? There is only five things. Sometimes it’s tricky, because individuals have multiple things. So you have to deal with all of them.
The next thing we ask is, what does the body need to flourish? What are you missing for your body to function optimally? We want the correct quality food. We need the best nutrients in the correct amounts, depending on the genetic needs of ours. We want the correct amount of light, water and air. We require exercise. We need to have sleep and rest. We require rhythm; daily, regular rhythms since we are circadian beings that function in accordance with biological rhythms as well as, we need to have connection, community, love, meaning, purpose, each one of these things which make us thrive. We need all those items. So we have to ascertain what are they missing, what’s bothering them so we have to take care of those two things everywhere around the entire system of the body and we need to do it all at exactly the same period, pretty much. So you’re taking away the bad stuff and you put in the good stuff as well as the body does the remaining.
Kevin: What exactly are some most prevalent factors of those 7? What does one see the most of?
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Mark: Well, I believe you know there’s a large amount of ways to Get more information entry into the entire system and the reality is the fact that whenever you work on any one system it really works all of the various other systems. Thus in a way you arrive at the place that the most important touch points are for folks and what I’ve experienced is you can find two major touch points. One is the inflammation of its, since we’re all on fire and two, detoxification, since we’re all toxic.
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