“Mitochondria” is a big word from a boring biochemistry lecture. However, Dr. Bryan Rade has found that mitochondria optimization is a missing link in accelerating recovery and remission of chronic illness, brain fog, a slow metabolism, and beyond. Here’s what you need to know about it and how to optimize yours.

Bio:

Dr. Rade is a graduate of the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine and is the current President of the Nova Scotia Association of Naturopathic Doctors.  He owns and operates the East Coast Naturopathic Clinic in Bedford, Nova Scotia, where he is joined by a team of innovative naturopathic doctors, as well as naturopathic residents.  His practice focuses on complex chronic illness, persistent Borreliosis and coinfections, mold illness, integrative oncology, autism spectrum disorder, PANS/PANDAS, neurological disorders, SIBO, and chronic pain. Dr. Rade lectures at medical conferences on a range of topics related to chronic illness and also teaches training courses on injection therapies, SIBO, and other subjects.

Website

https://www.eastcoastnaturopathic.com

 

TRANSCRIPT

[00:00:00] Dr. Lauryn: [00:00:00] Well, hello, hello, hello. Welcome to another edition of the Break the Rules podcasts, where we talk about quieting the noise in the health, food, and fitness world. And today we have Dr. Brian Rade in the house. And Dr. Rade Is a naturopathic doctor who is living in Nova Scotia. And he is part of the Nova Scotia Association of Naturopathic Doctors up there, running a clinic where he specializes in complex chronic illness. So seeing patients from mold illness to chronic co-infections, mold, Lyme, integrative oncology, autism spectrum, pans, and pandas… you name it he’s seen it and really dove in to help individuals find the best version of themselves beyond illness. And Dr. Rade has also really taken an affinity to looking at what our mitochondria function can do for healing not only from complex chronic illness but paying attention to our mitochondria function for a variety of health imbalances that we may experience.

[00:01:30] Today we’re just going to talk about some layman’s understanding of what the mitochondria are, how they impact our health, and what we can do to support it. So, Dr. Rade, thanks so much for coming on. And if you could just give our listeners a little bit of intro, more so into what got you doing the work you’re doing in the world, and we’ll go from there.

[00:01:51] Dr. Bryan Rade: [00:01:51] All right. Sounds good. It’s nice to chat with you today, Lauryn. Well, I got interested in sort of complementary and alternative medicine back when I was a teenager. I had some chronic health issues, myself, chronic digestive issues. And as a generally happens, when you’re a young person and you’re feeling unwell, your parents bring you to the family doctor and up to that point, any malady that came my way, there was some pill or solution for that. And in this case, they just couldn’t figure anything out and basically told me to live with it. So thankfully my mom had a library at home, basically of different books on complementary and alternative medicine, and I out of desperation just started looking at some of those and got really fascinated with the world of complementary and alternative medicine. And that was just a natural segue into becoming a naturopathic doctor.

[00:02:38] In terms of treating patients with complex chronic illness, that just started for me about nine years ago or so, where a patient came in with persistent symptoms following a Lyme disease diagnosis. She was treated with antibiotics.