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...so Alzheimer's is kind of an interesting topic I still keep hearing nobody's found the cause of it yet I'm not sure there is a the cause relative to that and and and then our observation we do a lot of chronic pain that's what we do for those of you haven't seen us we combine functional medicine and functional neurology to create a paradigm to address kind of the cornerstones of physiology that seemed to be the core of what causes chronic conditions chronic pain in general and so if a person comes in here let's say with fibromyalgia it's pretty common that they're going to have brain fog and short term memory loss and and people come in here and there in PTSD there they're going to have short-term memory loss they're going to have they're going to have difficulty sleeping and things of that natur...going to bed but a substantial portion of our patients come in here with short-term memory loss and brain fog and and other things that you know have that Nuance of is this house hi so the Alzheimer's type of thing we have seen Alzheimer's patients but more often we see people who would seem to me to be in the process of going in that direction so it's of Interest to us to know what's going on and and so this is something that isn't that is it's enveloped in that core of conditions and and of problems chemical problems chemical Pathways neuronal pathways systemic problems that cause chronic problems chronic pain fibromyalgia preferably chronic fatigue dizziness vertigo balance a lot of these things it's interesting how they kind of overlap...

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"...on polycystic ovarian syndrome PCOS and depression today much to my surprise doctor uh Justin for me we've never done one which is because we've done a lot of talk on PCOS and we see it a lot pretty common clinical picture that comes in here we see a lot of thyroids to correlate coordinate with a lot of Hashimoto's types problems so I'm not exactly sure where dr. Gates is going with this because we just talked about it but this is a subject that I happen to know that we're extremely conversant with and so I'll be anxious to hear if he comes up with anything new today it's good I'm not aware of and if not I may or may not chime in what's that so PCOS and depression well what's menopause but that's what people come in...of times guys am I going into menopause yeah yeah and actually some of the lead Endocrinology researchers will say that most women and menopause are actually kind of in a state of PCOS because at that point chemically yeah chemically so for those of you have PCOS you know how what a burden this condition really can be especially emotionally and not only affects you know your menstrual cycles and whether they're happening every month or every six months but also hair growth can be a big big factor for PCOS patients unwanted hair growth as well as those cysts on your ovaries for all intensive purposes explode at times and that can be exquisitely painful as well but PCOS is incredibly common it's one out of five females and Essence when diagnosed via the Rotterdam criteria the Rotterdam criteria was established to say that if you have two out of the three that I just mentioned if you have..."

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"...and today we're going to talk about a concept that has time so I think been controversial I think at times been considered theoretical when I first got into functional medicine years ago is actually a prominent Conrad of the immune system and because what we started to realize was in chronic pain we have a chronic pain practice for those of you who haven't watched us before and we treat just about anything that won't go away and we've combined two disciplines functional neurology and functional medicine to address fibromyalgia and periphery often chronic fatigue and chronic got problems chronic thyroid problems and dizziness vertigo balance things that won't go away people get things they go away B they don't go away you need to know why and the immune system was an obvious first place to start I think for those in the field at that time that there must be something with the immune that's causing the problem there's a concept called th1 th2 shifts th1 th2 balance I've drawn the little seesaw picture of it and I think a thousand times and try and explain to people and and and I think it's I don't I think dr. Gates is going to explain to me today whether it's getting more credibility or just something that you're using more because you see it's a valuable tool because it is affecting people frequently will talk about that Gates does all the treatment now and he's always researching and frequently will tell talk to me about how this was a that this was a shift during pregnancy this is the mystical why do I get pregnant and then I feel good and then all sudden I don't after I deliver the child it's this is the if you have allergies you have a shift more towards one side than the other so and certain autoimmune problems have a certain quality..."

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"...obstructive sleep apnea is a breathing disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of Airway obstruction during sleep leading to periods with breathing stops known as apnea moving from wakefulness to sleep causes relaxation of muscle tone including the muscles of the upper Airway this allows the soft palate and the tongue to relax and to create an obstruction that reduces the patency of the respiratory tract rapid eye movement or REM sleep, in particular, is known to feature this reduction in muscle tone but it can happen throughout the Sleep Cycle there is snoring when some still enter but as the obstruction progresses the airflow can be severely reduced causing apnea the reduction in the ventilation of the lungs causes a reduction in blood oxygen levels and as a result there is an interruption in sleep known as neurological arousal with a partially awakens in order to restore muscle tone and therefore oxygenation but this isn't necessarily perceived by the person partial collapses with reduced oxygen or arousals a termed hypo apneas while apnea is defined as over a 90% airflow obstruction lasting 10 longer a cycle is there for generated alternating between periods of deeper sleep and higher wakefulness with a typical sleep cycle is which ultimately disrupts the quality of sleep and can cause sleep deprivation risk factors are thought to be obesity as it increases the amount of soft tissue around the airway..."

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"...I am a certified functional medicine practitioner dr. Gates, I am a board-certified chiropractic neurologist and say that from now on because I always mess it up and together we have chronic pain I say it every week kind of just evolve kind of developed on its own frankly in the efforts are actually in the efforts of me to get better from my issues but ultimately with the help of some very very talented people and we've been doing it for a while and we it's pretty much all we do now so we share we're sharing with you what we know because a lot of most people everybody comes in here with these ideas from the Internet or from their research no offense to those of you who do your research but research on the Internet is fraught with landmines I would put I think that would be an understatement but because doctors would agree with that almost got it was in today's day and age going with that yeah so so so anyway so we're going to talk about "berberine" what we want to do is put it in a context because it can be a pretty amazing adjunct to what we do some really good success with them but lately I have been seeing pamphlets going out to the nation on various things one of them was on gluten one was a for those of you have Celiac for those of you who are Gluten Sensitive it was a pamphlet to said take this supplement you can eat pizza for the rest of your life I'm trying to assimilate my disastrous that must have been for a lot of people but they probably sold a lot of their product but one right now I'm seeing a lot of is burglary products that have significant success in clinical populations are frequently taken to Market by some unfortunately some..."

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"...I am a certified functional medicine practitioner dr. Gates, I am a board-certified chiropractic neurologist and say that from now on because I always mess it up and together we have chronic pain I say it every week kind of just evolve kind of developed on its own frankly in the efforts are actually in the efforts of me to get better from my issues but ultimately with the help of some very very talented people and we've been doing it for a while and we it's pretty much all we do now so we share we're sharing with you what we know because a lot of most people everybody comes in here with these ideas from the Internet or from their research no offense to those of you who do your research but research on the Internet is fraught with landmines I would put I think that would be an understatement but because doctors would agree with that almost got it was in today's day and age going with that yeah so so so anyway so we're going to talk about "berberine" what we want to do is put it in a context because it can be a pretty amazing adjunct to what we do some really good success with them but lately I have been seeing pamphlets going out to the nation on various things one of them was on gluten one was a for those of you have Celiac for those of you who are Gluten Sensitive it was a pamphlet to said take this supplement you can eat pizza for the rest of your life I'm trying to assimilate my disastrous that must have been for a lot of people but they probably sold a lot of their product but one right now I'm seeing a lot of is burglary products that have significant success in clinical populations are frequently taken to Market by some unfortunately some..."

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"...a chiropractic physician and a board-certified functional neurologist this is Dr. Randul okay you know he's the fourth certified functional neurology we're certified Chiropractic neurologist technical way to had I ever immigrants your certified functional medicine practice can you tell I was just talking about 23 different things before we just started I was just told I don't think that disgusting fish oil the truth about fish oil this is dr. Gates this topic today he chose and why are we picking on fish oil because we're kind of sort of going to pick on fish oil not really like badly if you're taking fish oil doesn't mean I've stopped taking it but we spent a lot of time developing protocols to help people within with chronic pain issues chronic syndromes...we're going to be like emptying the oceans for fish oil and we're not going to make the point that it's not because obviously it has been proven to be useful for a variety of functions of the brain function and anti-inflammatory Sarah however in our clinical World we're responsible results and we have to use certain methods to change symptomatology to get conditions to calm down and or disappear and we haven't had maybe the greatest experience with fish oils versus saying even turmeric we've used turmeric which we don't use that often anymore but we've used to work and when we used it in high dose..."

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"...a chiropractic physician and a board-certified functional neurologist this is Dr. Randul okay you know he's the fourth certified functional neurology we're certified Chiropractic neurologist technical way to had I ever immigrants your certified functional medicine practice can you tell I was just talking about 23 different things before we just started I was just told I don't think that disgusting fish oil the truth about fish oil this is dr. Gates this topic today he chose and why are we picking on fish oil because we're kind of sort of going to pick on fish oil not really like badly..."

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"...on polycystic ovarian syndrome PCOS and depression today much to my surprise doctor uh Justin for me we've never done one which is because we've done a lot of talk on PCOS and we see it a lot pretty common clinical picture that comes in here we see a lot of thyroids to correlate coordinate with a lot of Hashimoto's types problems so I'm not exactly sure where dr. Gates is going with this because we just talked about it but this is a subject that I happen to know that we're extremely conversant with and so I'll be anxious to hear if he comes up with anything new today it's good I'm not aware of and if not I may or may not chime in what's that so PCOS and depression well what's menopause but that's what people come in...of times guys am I going into menopause yeah yeah and actually some of the lead Endocrinology researchers will say that most women and menopause are actually kind of in a state of PCOS because at that point chemically yeah chemically so for those of you have PCOS you know how what a burden this condition really can be especially emotionally and not only affects you know your menstrual cycles and whether they're happening every month or every six months but also hair growth can be a big big factor for PCOS patients unwanted hair growth as well as those cysts on your ovaries for all intensive purposes explode at times and that can be exquisitely painful as well but PCOS is incredibly common it's one out of five females and Essence when diagnosed via the Rotterdam criteria the Rotterdam criteria was established to say that if you have two out of the three that I just mentioned if you have..."

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"...more with one of them and that and in and I think as we were going along we realized our patients were stressed but we would actually when we first got together we would actually say okay on this patient it's there really stress so we should do like just the brain and not do the functional chemistry and and not worry about the gut and and these people will just do the gut and not worry about it because they don't seem to be quiet and one of our big breakthroughs was to realize that most of our people were not just stressed that they were actually kind of a chronic fight flight or post-traumatic stress syndrome and it's amazing when I bring this to people in the consult it's amazing how many people acknowledged and literally stopped me in the middle of my explanation go that's me and and they had at that hadn't really given a thought to the fact that they weren't a chronic stress response and these people are of course are here because they're trying to figure out what's causing their their chronic pain..."

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