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Another marker we look at, ferritin.
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This is iron storage and so this is a high inflammation marker.
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It's not just about iron, it's an acute phase reactant.
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And so too low shows immune dysfunction or fatigue and too high oxidative stress and
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inflammation.
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The next test we
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look at, marker we look at is homocysteine.
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This is one of the most underrated inflammation markers.
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Optimal number, less than eight.
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Many labs are gonna say up to 15 and call it normal, But high homocysteine is indicative of
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endothelial damage, so the linings of your blood vessels, neuroinflammation, and
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cardiovascular risk.
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Homocysteine tells me how inflamed your blood vessels are, not just your heart.
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Welcome to Health Decoded, your number one source for real health information with your
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host, doctor Alessi and Matt Tack.
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Welcome back to another episode of Health Decoded.
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I'm your host, Doctor.
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Alessi.
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If I told you the most dangerous thing happening in your body right now might be
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something you can't feel, can't see, and probably wasn't flagged on your standard blood
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test, would you believe me?
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Today we're talking about inflammation, but not the kind you notice when you twist your ankle
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or when you come down with the flu.
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I'm talking about the silent chronic inflammation that builds under the scenes
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without you even knowing.
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This is the kind that slowly damages blood vessels, disrupts hormones, wrecks your gut,
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makes your brain foggy and then quietly rewires your metabolism.
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All the while you're being told by your doctors that everything looks normal, your labs are
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normal.
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This is the inflammation that it doesn't scream, it's not present, it whispers often for
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years and then one day shows up as heart disease, autoimmunity, diabetes, dementia,
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chronic pain or depression.
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And here's the truth, most people don't hear it until it's too late.
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So, it's important to know that inflammation is not the symptom, it's the environment.
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It's the soil that chronic disease grows in.
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And in this episode, here's what I'm gonna break down for you.
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How inflammation hides in plain sight, why standard medicine often misses it, the real
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blood markers that actually tell the truth with inflammation and then most importantly, what
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everyone cares about is how we reverse inflammation before it turns into disease.
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Because if you can lower inflammation, you're not just gonna feel better, you will actually
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change the trajectory of your health.
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So let's get into it.
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Let's get into this first segment, what inflammation really is and why it's not the
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enemy.
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So let me clear something up right away because inflammation gets thrown around as this blame
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for everything, right?
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Everyone says, oh it's inflammation, inflammation.
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Inflammation itself is not bad, however chronic inflammation is.
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Acute inflammation is essential for survival.
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This is how you heal a cut, you fight off bacteria, your immune system repairs damaged
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tissue.
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Without inflammation, you wouldn't make it through childhood, you would not survive.
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So the problem starts when the inflammation never shuts off.
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And that's exactly what our modern life has created.
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Your immune system evolved to handle short infection, physical injury, brief stress
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response.
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It did not evolve to handle 20 fourseven low grade assault.
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And today, in the world we live in, inflammation is constantly being triggered by
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chronic psychological stress, endless emails and deadlines, financial pressure is a big one,
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ultra processed foods that are hijacking your immune system, Poor sleep that prevents immune
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resolution.
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Environmental toxins that your liver can't keep up with.
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And constant blood sugar spikes that activate these immune inflammatory pathways.
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So instead of inflammation being a temporary repair response, it becomes a permanent state.
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There's a great quote from the journal, twenty twenty review in Nature Reviews Immunology.
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It showed that chronic low grade inflammation is a central driver of cardiovascular disease,
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Alzheimer's and cognitive decline, type two diabetes, autoimmune conditions, as well as
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depression and mood disorders.
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They all have chronic low grade inflammation as a central factor.
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And this is why inflammation is now being referred to as inflammaging, the biological
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process that accelerates aging and disease.
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We call this cellular rusting.
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Picture your body almost like rusting from the inside out.
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The truth is you don't wake up one day with heart disease, you marinate in inflammation for
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decades first.
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Another truth that really shocks people is that inflammation doesn't just stay in one lane.
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If it starts in the gut, it spreads to the brain with the blood brain barrier connected to
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the gut.
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If it starts in the fatty tissue, it impacts your hormones.
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If it starts in the immune system, it affects everything.
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That's why treating inflammation isn't about pain meds, it's not about steroids or
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suppressing symptoms, it's about actually changing the environment that your immune
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system is reacting to.
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Because inflammation isn't trying to hurt you, it's actually trying to protect you from a
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world that's become chronically hostile to human biology.
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That's a great way to rewire the way we look at that.
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So let's proceed, let's get into now how does inflammation hide and why is standard medicine
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actually missing this?
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So here's where things start to fall apart in conventional healthcare because most people
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assume that if inflammation is present, it will show up as pain or swelling or a fever.
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But chronic inflammation doesn't really play by those rules, it hides.
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It's simmering beneath the surface, it's quiet, low grade and systemic.
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So it's damaging tissues slowly enough that your body adapts until it actually can't
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anymore and that's when disease sets in.
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This is why I see this all the time.
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Patients come into our clinic saying, I'm exhausted, I feel horrible, but my labs are
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normal.
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My doctor told me everything was normal.
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Or, I can't lose weight no matter what I do.
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My brain feels foggy.
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I'm achy everywhere, but nothing's technically wrong.
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There don't have any injuries.
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And unfortunately, and again we hear this all the time and it's really frustrating, they're
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often told, oh, this is just aging.
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You're just getting older.
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Or that's normal.
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It's just stress.
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These are all gaslight phrases to basically tell someone we don't actually know and we have
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no answers for you.
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A big thing to remember is that normal labs or normal blood work doesn't mean healthy.
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It just means common.
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If we look at the world around us, the common and the normal is actually pretty unhealthy.
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Why standard medicine really misses inflammation is because most primary care
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doctors are trained to look for acute disease, not early dysfunction.
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They are taught to ask, are you sick enough for a diagnosis?
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Are you inflamed enough to prescribe a drug?
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Are you broken enough for us to intervene?
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But chronic inflammation doesn't trip those alarms.
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Here's why it slips through because they are missing the mark.
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They're only relying on outdated markers.
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They're using just a regular CRP, C reactive protein instead of a high sensitivity CRP,
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HSCRP.
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They look at just your cholesterol overall, the total, instead of looking for things like
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oxidized LDL markers.
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They look at glucose instead of fasting insulin or they run just a CBC instead of looking at
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immune patterns.
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And they're going to look at one marker at a time.
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They're going to isolate organs, one organ at a time.
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You go from specialist to specialist to specialist, nobody's on the same page.
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And so there's no pattern recognition.
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And then the biggest thing we see is that western medicine is trained to wait for
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pathology.
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So they're gonna wait for autoimmune disease to kick in before they start to balance your
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immune system.
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They're gonna wait for you to develop diabetes before they look into insulin resistance.
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They're gonna wait for you to have heart disease before they screen for endothelial
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inflammation.
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And by the time conventional labs flag disease, inflammation has already been active for years,
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sometimes decades.
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A study out of The Lancet in 2018, this is a major journal, it identified chronic
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inflammation as a shared underlying mechanism across cardiovascular cancer, diabetes,
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neurodegenerative disorders and autoimmune disease.
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Often preceding the diagnosis by, hear this, ten to twenty years.
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Meaning that those things were building up your entire life.
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And so what inflammation looks like before disease, okay, this is the stage that most
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people are stuck in, most people that we see.
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They're not quite sick enough for a diagnosis but not well enough to feel like everything's
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okay like themselves.
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Take note of this, here's early inflammatory warning signs.
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Persistent fatigue despite getting adequate sleep, brain fog or mood instability, joint
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stiffness without injury, Weight gain that does not respond to diet Gut symptoms that come and
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go Poor recovery from workouts Frequent colds or slow healing Inflammation doesn't ask for
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permission, it just keeps collecting interest.
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And the part that frustrates people the most, as well as myself, is that you can have
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inflammation destroying your health and then everyone telling you you're normal.
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And that drives me crazy because the ranges that they're basing this off of were not built
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for optimal health.
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They're basically built to catch disease and keep people in a box.
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And so, why this matters so much is because chronic inflammation over time is going to
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block signaling in the body.
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It will suppress your thyroid and disrupt your cortisol rhythms, damage blood vessels, trigger
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autoimmunity and all of that to accelerate the aging process.
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Suppressing inflammation without fixing the cause is like turning off the smoke alarm while
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the house is still on fire.
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Inflammation's not the enemy, it's the evidence.
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The question is what is your body reacting to?
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So, in the next segment, let's really get into, I want to show you the exact blood markers that
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we use to detect this hidden early inflammation.
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I also want to talk about what patterns matter more than individual numbers and how we catch
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inflammation before it becomes a diagnosis.
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Because once you can see inflammation clearly, you can finally do something about it and get
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ahead of the process.
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So now let's get into it.
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The blood markers that actually reveal hidden inflammation.
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Alright, this is where we stop guessing and we start seeing.
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Because inflammation isn't invisible, it's just being ignored or missed.
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And so, you can't detect chronic inflammation with a standard annual physical panel and
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that's not an opinion, that's just unfortunately the limitation of the system.
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So instead of asking, Are you sick enough yet?
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We ask, What story are your labs already telling?
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And why patterns matter more than single numbers?
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So one of the biggest mistakes in conventional medicine is looking at labs in isolation.
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Because inflammation doesn't show up as just one screaming marker, it shows up as a pattern
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drifting out of alignment.
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Disease doesn't start with one bad lab, it starts with 10 almost normal ones.
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And so here's some of the key blood markers that we use to uncover hidden chronic
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inflammation, often years before diagnosis.
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The number of patients we've helped to get ahead of diabetes and insulin resistance before
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they go full blown.
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Number one, HSCRP, this is high sensitivity C reactive protein.
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This is the bare minimum inflammation marker and even this gets overlooked.
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Standard medicine says that under three is normal, but in functional medicine I want to
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see under one.
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Ideally closer to point five.
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And there was a study out of the journal Circulation in 2019 said, HSCRP is a stronger
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predictor of cardiovascular events than LDL cholesterol.
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Meanwhile, conventional medicine is so focused on lowering cholesterol, they don't even look
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at inflammation.
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And so you can have normal cholesterol and still be inflamed enough to build plaque.
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That's definitely a fact.
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The next factor we look at or the marker we look at is fasting insulin, not just glucose.
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So most doctors are only gonna check glucose or your A1C, but insulin resistance is an
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inflammatory by nature.
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And so optimal fasting insulin, two to six per milliliter.
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Whereas most patients we see are often ten, fifteen, even 20 while being told they're fine
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by their doctor.
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A study out of the Journal of American College of Cardiology in 2021 said that
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hyperinsulinemia precedes diabetes and drives systemic inflammation.
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We use a specific marker as well alongside fasting insulin called the HOMAIR marker and
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this is a algorithmic score predictor of someone's trend towards insulin resistance and
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type two diabetes.
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And so we often see that this marker is elevated and other markers are normal.
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So on a standard blood test that would have been missed and the person could have been
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prevented from going full blown type two diabetic.
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Because you don't get diabetes from just sugar, you get it from years of inflammation
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disrupting your insulin signaling alongside that high sugar.
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Another marker we look at, ferritin.
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This is iron storage and so this is a high inflammation marker.
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It's not just about iron, it's an acute phase reactant.
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Too low shows immune dysfunction or fatigue and too high oxidative stress and inflammation.
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So the optimal ranges you want to see in men between around 50 to 100 and women between
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around 30 to 80.
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And so a great resource, the Free Radical Biology and Medicine Journal.
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In 2018, they said elevated ferritin is associated with oxidative damage and metabolic
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disease.
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And so this plays right in with the function of the liver, pancreas, the gut and obviously that
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insulin response in the body.
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The next test we look at, marker we look at is homocysteine.
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This is one of the most underrated inflammation markers.
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Optimal number, less than eight, many labs are gonna say up to 15 and call it normal, but high
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homocysteine is indicative of endothelial damage, so the linings of your blood vessels,
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neuroinflammation and cardiovascular risk.
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Homocysteine tells me how inflamed your blood vessels are, not just your heart.
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The next thing we look at is white blood cell patterns, not just the total.
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So most docs just glance at the total white blood cells and move on.
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We look at what is the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio, chronic immune activation patterns,
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stress driven immune suppression.
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These patterns indicate chronic infections or autoimmune priming and so if these things are
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becoming dysregulated, we're able to predict earlier than wait till someone gets sick.
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Because again, your immune system is whispering in patterns long before it's screaming a
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diagnosis.
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Next, we're gonna look at liver enzymes.
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ALT, AST, GGT.
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Your liver is your primary inflammation filter.
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Even high normal liver enzymes often indicate toxic burden, fatty liver, oxidative stress.
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In the journal Hepatology in 2020, they said that elevated GGT strongly correlates with
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systemic inflammation and cardiovascular risk.
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So now putting this whole pattern together, right, because one marker alone doesn't
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diagnose inflammation, But when we see HSCRP creeping up, insulin elevated, ferritin is
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drifting high, borderline homocysteine and immune ratios are off with high liver enzymes,
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it's not random, it's a global picture of inflammation building chronically under the
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scenes.
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And so, your labs don't lie, but they do whisper.
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Functional medicine teaches you how to listen.
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And so every patient we take through our total care program, we not only run your labs, show
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your labs, we teach you how to read your labs.
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So that way you can make educated decisions as to how your health should be.
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You can run your own labs in the future and say, Oh, these are starting to get high.
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I need to start to control this inflammation.
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And this is exactly why our program exists.
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Not to run more labs, but to catch the dysfunction early, identify the root drivers,
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is it gut, stress, toxins, track these trends over time and intervene before inflammation
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becomes disease.
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Because again, functional medicine, we don't wait for a diagnosis, we interrupt the process
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before it gets there.
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So now, I want to proceed into this final segment of the episode where I want to show you
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exactly how we reverse inflammation, what works and what's just suppressing it, and why
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lifestyle alone often isn't enough.
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Because seeing inflammation is step one, fixing it is where real medicine begins.
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Let's talk about now how we actually turn off inflammation.
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Right now, for the most important part of this entire conversation, because once you see
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inflammation coming, the real question is what are you going do about it?
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And here's where most people get stuck.
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They're told, just take some anti inflammatory medication or a pain killer, take a statin or
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an antidepressant.
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But let me be very clear here, suppressing inflammation is not the same as resolving it.
00:19:53
Remember the fire alarm analogy.
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Inflammation is not the enemy, it's a signal that something's wrong.
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If you don't remove what's causing the signal, your body will keep firing it.
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So, at Allessia Functional Health we don't ask what drug turns this marker down.
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We ask why is your immune system inflamed in the first place?
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And almost every time inflammation comes from one or more of five root drivers.
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Let's get into that.
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Blood sugar and insulin dysregulation, this is the biggest one.
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Chronic blood sugar spikes lead to chronic inflammation.
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Even healthy foods can be inflammatory if you eat too often, you under eat protein, you snack
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all day or you live on caffeine.
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And so what does the fix look like?
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What we call protein forward meals.
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Prioritizing 30 grams of protein per meal, more if you're a larger male.
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Blood sugar stabilizing nutrition, this is complex carbohydrates, not just these fast
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metabolizing sugars.
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So avoiding white breads, processed grains, processed sugars, things like that.
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Sticking more towards starchy foods like potatoes, yams, cooked white rice.
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And then strategic fasting when appropriate.
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So, intermittent fasting or alternate day fasting or every other day, those are fantastic
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ways to balance blood sugar.
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Journal Cell Metabolism in 2020 quoted that insulin resistance is a primary upstream driver
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of systemic inflammation.
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This is just known now.
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You can't anti inflammatory supplement your way out of bad blood sugar control.
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You have to get to the root cause which is often lifestyle and diet.
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The next part, number two, gut inflammation.
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Leaky gut or dysbiosis.
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If your gut is inflamed, your whole body will be inflamed.
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Why?
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Because 70 to 80% of your immune system lives there.
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Endotoxins can leak into the bloodstream through a leaky gut and then your immune system
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remains on high alert which can trigger autoimmunity.
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And so what does the fix look like for this?
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Removing inflammatory foods, what we call the Big Five Dairy, Gluten, Processed Sugar, Soy
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and Seed Oils.
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Repairing the gut lining using specific things like zinc carnosine, glutamine, aloe,
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marshmallow, these herbs that are able to restore health and mucin layer to the gut.
00:22:21
Rebalancing the microbiome with correct probiotic use, not just some broad spectrum
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probiotic, you have to know which specific markers you need to elevate and some that you
00:22:31
need to clear out.
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Clearing out hidden infections or overgrowth as well.
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And so, in the journal Frontiers Immunology 2021, it showed that intestinal permeability or
00:22:43
leaky gut is a major driver of systemic inflammation and autoimmunity.
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This was my story.
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I had leaky gut syndrome that led to an autoimmune thyroid condition.
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I had to backtrack and go all the way to the root cause of healing my gut before I could
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even try to fix my thyroid.
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And to this day, my thyroid markers stay within range because of that fix.
00:23:06
And so, that's actually a program that I basically created for our patients based on
00:23:11
what I did for myself and I fine tuned this six month program.
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If you're interested, go to alessifunctionalhealth.com/gut to learn more.
00:23:21
The third thing, chronic stress and nervous system dysregulation.
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So, this one gets ignored but it's massive because if your nervous system is stuck in
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fight or flight, cortisol will remain elevated, inflammation will be high and your body cannot
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heal, it shuts down.
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What does the fix look like?
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Nervous system regulation, making sure your vagus nerve is healthy, humming, deep breath
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work, sleep restoration.
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So, going to sleep at the same time and waking up at the same time, getting deep sleep, dark
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room, no blue light before bed.
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Breath work, HRV training and recovery focus.
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So, hacks like red light, using things like breath work.
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And then structural correction, making sure that your nervous system is able to
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communicate.
00:24:06
So, things like chiropractic care, spinal decompression to take pressure off of the
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nerves.
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What we see all the time with our chiropractic patients is that they can't sleep or they're
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getting non restful sleep because they're in pain.
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Basically, the nervous system is unable to relax because there's pressure on it.
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And so once we decompress the spine or take pressure off their spine with chiropractic care
00:24:30
or decompression, they come back the next day, they're like, had the best sleep of my life.
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And it's because we were able to let that nervous system relax.
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Because you cannot heal in survival mode no matter how clean your diet is.
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The fourth one, toxic load.
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Okay, this is very important and often where we start with patients is some level of
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detoxification from plastics, mold, heavy metals and chemicals because your liver can
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only handle so much and when detox pathways back up, inflammation will skyrocket.
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Basically the liver backs up into the gut, the gut backs up and then the body cannot handle
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that.
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And so what the fix looks like, number one, identifying the exposures.
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Is it heavy metals, is it mold, is it plastics, is it environmental toxicity?
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And then supporting the liver and the lymphatic system.
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So we use specific things like binders and detoxification protocols along with our high
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frequency vibration platform and red light therapy to really push the body into
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detoxification.
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Sauna, sweating, movement, these are all fantastic as well.
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The journal Environmental Health Perspectives in 2019 has a quote saying chronic low dose
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toxin exposure drives immune activation and inflammatory disease.
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So be aware of what things we're putting in and on our body.
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Lotions, perfumes, plastic in our clothing, those things can all build up.
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And then the fifth thing we're always going to assess is nutrient deficiencies.
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Inflammation is going to skyrocket when the body lacks the raw materials to regulate the
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immune response.
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The most common deficiencies we see are things like magnesium, omega threes, zinc, vitamin D
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and B vitamins.
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The fix looks like using doctor grade nutraceuticals in the correct dose to replace
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and restore these levels.
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Now, this is all gonna depend on the person, their genetics, their biology and then
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obviously the labs that we run.
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And so, we use a really awesome lab called the NutraPro Genetic Panel to tell how someone's
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genes influence the way that their body prioritizes the absorption and the utilization
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of nutrients and minerals.
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It's pretty awesome.
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And so, the biggest takeaway from this is lifestyle alone isn't always enough.
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It's important, but it's the foundation.
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For many people, it's not the full solution.
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So, if someone has years of inflammation, autoimmune activation, deep insulin resistance
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or toxic buildup, they often need advanced testing, targeted protocols and then ongoing
00:27:08
monitoring and maintenance.
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However, there are answers and there are fixes, you just need to do it in the right order.
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You didn't get inflamed overnight and you won't heal overnight either, but you can heal.
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This is exactly why we built our Total Care Program the way we did.
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I'll be upfront and honest about it.
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It is not a quick fix, so if that's what people want or are looking for, this isn't likely for
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you.
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It's not a one size fits all either.
00:27:39
It requires some specific testing to see where your deficiencies are.
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But, with a deep lab analysis and pattern recognition focused with some root cause
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protocols including lifestyle, nutraceuticals and physical medicine integration, We don't
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just manage inflammation, we dismantle it layer by layer.
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So let me leave you with this, and then I'll stop talking.
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Inflammation doesn't mean that you're broken, it just means that your body is asking for
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help.
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Chronic disease is not just bad luck, it's unaddressed inflammation, and if left unchecked
00:28:13
for too long, it can develop into more, like chronic disease.
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So if you are interested in learning more about any of our cutting edge functional health
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programs for gut, liver detoxification, heavy metals, those kinds of things, visit
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