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they also looked at patients who had PTSD suicidal ideation so those are your severe depression patients and bipolar disorder and they looked at all of their stress hormones they looked at cortisol they looked at aldosterone is a hormone that goes up when you're trying to save sodium into your circulation like if you cut off an arm and you're bleeding out that's why we have aldosterone but it is a stress hormone look to DHEA DHS a sex hormone that comes from your adrenal glands they also looked at estrogen and testosterone levels and what they found is that in the marathon runners, their cortisol levels and they're all aldosterone just went up a little bit but it was only temporary whereas they saw in these soldiers who are out there for two weeks and you know bad conditions their aldosterone went up three times normal what it should be 

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"...So today we're going to talk about an unavoidably controversial subject and that is does heavy metals cause autoimmune disease and it's it's and the reason I say that is I do all the intakes here and so I hear the patient's histories and hear what they've been through and Europe told we had a lot of patients that come in here who've been through a ton of heavy metal stuff I had time to get here and nothing happened I have heard the stories of the person's got Mercury out of their mouth and they got better and I've also seen it way more people coming in here with your logical reactions from heavy metals and and and everything in between so so it's its primary tool for some Physicians there's just been a lot of research over along a road I think of at least five or six or eight or nine years please I know like Jesus but he even was already exciting research on the...that it wasn't good for everybody dr. Crosby and who wrote a book on the brain and so so it's when I say it's kind of controversial the people who hang onto it still seemed to cling to it me as a primary factor now there are also collations that you can get online Galatians in the mail and I'm not sure that you know that's a good thing to do without some sort of background information as to what you're getting into maybe even an understanding of what can happen if you have certain abnormalities that a lot of autoimmune patients have like a bad blood-brain barrier bad got very bad lung barrier any way that I can get something to study art study he's going to talk about some of the new studies and so I think that we've seen here we don't see a lot of heavy metal problems here and we do primarily chronic pain we do line disease we do fibromyalgia propriety we do all kinds of..."

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"...so we dug Gates is a board-certified functional neurologist I'm a functional medicine practitioner we've probably been in functional medicine since the Inception of its explosion if you will well way before its explosion and dr. Gates is affiliated with I would say the group of doctors that almost could say that they help to originate or maybe they did help originate bring rehab exercises and we've developed a pretty much a chronic pain practice okay I got a migraine that goes away I don't need you guys well I get migraines and they never go away I need and I could be fibromyalgia peripheral neuropathy or chronic fatigue or just a number of things so we've we are going to be answering questions from our listeners and the podcast from our viewers on we try to put together a representative compendium of questions that we think will be interesting to those of you who apparently view our products here if you want to call them that over over quite some time because it looks like a lot of these questions are from people who have given a lot of thought to their health the questions that we are seeing here some are very general some are very specific we don't see patients who particularly one particular question or one particular dietary 13 question relative to a supplement is going to make that much of a difference in their in their health that it doesn't that they don't show up here but certainly there are people who don't show up here dietary change has helped them or supplement changes help them and so we're going to address those those issues and we're going to dress those folks also so do you want me to just go down let's go down the so we have a we have a long list we're not going to get through all of them we're going to spend about 15 or 20 minutes going over over these..."

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"...do you want me to just go down let's go down the so we haven't we have a long list we're not going to get through all of them we're going to spend about 15 or 20 minutes going over over these questions and we'll see how far along we get so the first one and these are quotes right off of the right off of the websites and from you so first one is a question about multiple sclerosis what is your thought on stress and multiple sclerosis so what I would say is that with most odd immune diseases what we find is that stress can be an exacerbating Factor when you look at the literature that holds true for many different conditions when it comes to Ms lots of times you'll read will stress may not be a major factor or Diet isn't a major factor but we would say in our clinical experience we disagree substantially any time an individual is under chronic stress just looking at the basic physiology of it you're going to decrease blood flow to the gas...hustle track is putting your body into a state of fight-or-flight ready to fight the line or run from it so to speak and in doing so we know the literature on Ms is robust on the gastrointestinal related to the illness meaning it has been shown that the gastrointestinal tract breaks down and patients who have MS and that leads to immune activation which is also seemingly associated with the immune activation in the brain so we would say stress can be a major component of Ms we've seen viral infections cause patients to go from you know basically secondary Progressive to primary Progressive we've seen the same thing with stress responses so stress is a major factor and if it is present not only in Ms or any other autoimmune illness it's one of the main factors that we have to address some yeah more in general if you're any type of a chronic pain patient the cliff notes on stresses when your chronic stress it can affect your brain it can cause short-term memory loss..."

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"...just a number of things now I can't put them all on order and review them that we've gone through the history we've gone through the exam we've gone through so many of the basics of what needs to be done the and now we're going to start moving into a little bit more into treatment and this this topic today which is stress and how chronic stress creates and or perpetuates chronic conditions is kind of it's kind of a borderline foundational issue and it's kind of a its kind of also a huge functional issue as far as relative to the Future talks are going to be for example about the large intestines small intestines the stomach how they all play into each other the order in which to attack them and so when person comes into our office we once we decided that they're probably a good candidate we have them fill out an...I have one section of about maybe 12 questions on the..."

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"...just a number of things now I can't put them all on order and review them that we've gone through the history we've gone through the exam we've gone through so many of the basics of what needs to be done the and now we're going to start moving into a little bit more into treatment and this this topic today which is stress and how chronic stress creates and or perpetuates chronic conditions is kind of it's kind of a borderline foundational issue and it's kind of a its kind of also a huge functional issue as far as relative to the Future talks are going to be for example about the large intestines small intestines the stomach how they all play into each other the order in which to attack them and so when person comes into our office we once we decided that they're probably a good candidate we have them fill out an...I have one section of about maybe 12 questions on the intestines and then we have another test area on maybe five questions on intestinal permeability we have five pages of questions on the brain and brain chemistry and brain chemistry when it goes abnormal results in anxiety it results in panic attacks or results in the Prussian it results in inflammation it results the bottom line is all of these different physiological neurological abnormalities create a lot of problems I would make the argument that it's at least a ginormous contributor to this expanding group of patients who are The Chronic pain patients the autoimmune patients and and I'm going to we're going to understand why things..."

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"...the basics last time we were talking about stomach and its and its place in the great hierarchy of taking care of patients with functional medicine concept that I keep hoping to get to you is that there are a lot of moving pieces to this there's an organization to it you really need to beginning when you attack a case kind of get a feel for what all the moving parts are for that particular patient is what we've been talking we've talked about that there's what we've been talking about now and and now we are at the pancreas and the pancreas is kind of interesting most people know pancreas relative to somebody who drinks too much acute pancreatitis most people know that that's not a good thing and that if you hear that you start making plans and not always but it's you know when their pancreas gets that bad it's your it can frequently be a life-and-death situation most people know pancreas with diabetes particularly Diabetes Type 1 get real familiar with their pancreas but it's interesting we don't normally see the pancreas being a huge huge player in our world as far as the necessary to start throwing pancreatic enzymes on it are our bovine pancreatic tissue added or anything like that because of the way that we dressed cases the way that classic functional medicine should address cases symptoms of the pancreas I have a cheat sheet here okay so difficulty digesting roughage are fiber okay and it's not so not after protein it's a lot of it's very similar symptoms to lack of hydrochloric acid which we talked about..."

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"...you start out with the largest has a lot of people don't realize that the dysbiosis all these things that they're hearing about are a lot of them are are in the and I made a mistake when I said microbiome that's more your that's more to the small intestines but but large intestines the symptoms would be feeling that balance do not empty completely so and within the framework of this entire category there are specifics a lower abdominal pain relief by gas passing store gas means we have a bacterial problem gas is a bacterial problem okay it's the breakdown of bad bacteria you can get a couple gases but if you get if you get a methane gas that's sibo and small that's a small intestinal bacterial overgrowth that can be gas that can be bloating that can be passing large amounts of foul smell you have sir has in large amounts of foul-smelling gas and you get distension after you eat there's a good chance that you might have something called small intestinal bacterial overgrowth that alternating constipation diarrhea and I first and we're treating a case we're looking at the gut and we're like okay 75% of the immune system is in the gut this person has Hashimoto's whatever it is if you have an autoimmune problem which seventy-five percent of the immune system is in they got most of you have mystery diseases you're struggling you can't figure out what's going on in and everything's normal and your doctor's time you have an autoimmune component to your condition okay so so another symptom alternating constipation and diarrhea this is called irritable bowel syndrome okay here will bowel syndrome is our alerts us to the fact that person is probably in a chronic stress response..."

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