There is an old quote by Hippocrates- "Before you can heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick." How can you solve a problem until you know the true cause? Our diet and lifestyle contribute so much to our wellbeing. In my practice, most of client's issues stems fro what they think, do, feel, and eat.
I'm a DC with chronic fatigue syndrome. What you are saying is 100% true. Early on when I contracted CFS I visited an integrative medicine doctor named Joanne Pizzino MD who was practicing in Raleigh, NC. She basically looked at everyone using a bunch of functional medicine cookie cutter algorithms, did virtually no in depth history, and ended up treating surface problems but made no progress on the condition. The most progress I've been able to make to identifying that the CFS was the result of an EBV infection followed by HSV-6 with a history of Herpez Zoster. Clinical symptoms were of active apoptosis (muscle fasciulations) that died down and stopped, followed by cold skin, lowered body temperature, lowered resistance to infections (tooth loss due to reinfection from past root canals). Everything pointed to chronic viral co-infections suppressing the immune system. From there I researched the apoptosis checkpoints and tested various supplement regimes with a course of GCMAF which have been shown to stop apoptosis blocking. This checked the progress of the CFS then gave a large improvement and reduction in the symptoms. Functional medicine doctors largely act like conventional doctors that just add more conditions which they feel predispose to poor health. It's a shotgun naturopathic-style approach that doesn't heal patients with chronic diseases. However, in the current profit-driven system doctors don't have time to do research and try new approaches so they are fine with giving up and moving on to the next patient. Experimental medicine by PCPs is largely dead.
There is an old quote by Hippocrates- "Before you can heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick." How can you solve a problem until you know the true cause? Our diet and lifestyle contribute so much to our wellbeing. In my practice, most of client's issues stems fro what they think, do, feel, and eat.
Wise beyond your years....
I'm a DC with chronic fatigue syndrome. What you are saying is 100% true. Early on when I contracted CFS I visited an integrative medicine doctor named Joanne Pizzino MD who was practicing in Raleigh, NC. She basically looked at everyone using a bunch of functional medicine cookie cutter algorithms, did virtually no in depth history, and ended up treating surface problems but made no progress on the condition. The most progress I've been able to make to identifying that the CFS was the result of an EBV infection followed by HSV-6 with a history of Herpez Zoster. Clinical symptoms were of active apoptosis (muscle fasciulations) that died down and stopped, followed by cold skin, lowered body temperature, lowered resistance to infections (tooth loss due to reinfection from past root canals). Everything pointed to chronic viral co-infections suppressing the immune system. From there I researched the apoptosis checkpoints and tested various supplement regimes with a course of GCMAF which have been shown to stop apoptosis blocking. This checked the progress of the CFS then gave a large improvement and reduction in the symptoms. Functional medicine doctors largely act like conventional doctors that just add more conditions which they feel predispose to poor health. It's a shotgun naturopathic-style approach that doesn't heal patients with chronic diseases. However, in the current profit-driven system doctors don't have time to do research and try new approaches so they are fine with giving up and moving on to the next patient. Experimental medicine by PCPs is largely dead.