218: Dr. Justin Marchegiani - Is Food Allergy Testing Useless? • Common Parasites • Intermittent Fasting Isn't For Everyone
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Justin Marchegiani is a certified functional medicine practitioner that works with a wide variety of patients all the way from athletes trying to increase performance and heal from injuries to the everyday person with chronic health challenges. Using a holistic approach, he addresses core underlying barriers to health which allows his patients to heal faster and feel better.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How did Justin fall into functional medicine?
- Every bite of food either pushes you toward inflammation or anti-inflammation
- How Tom Brady starts his day
- Emphasizing good proteins and fats, in the morning
- Gut issues may NOT cause gut symptoms
- 80% of your immune system is in your gut
- Is there any value in food allergy testing?
- The autoimmune template... not diet
- Vegans and vegetarians going AIP or paleo to heal
- To sustain life, you have to consume life
- How important are supplements?
- Justin's a huge fan of digestive enzymes and HCL
- What really helped Justin's Hashimoto's
- NDT and desiccated thyroid
- What's the deal with H. pylori?
- How are infections "passed around?"
- What are the most common parasites Justin is seeing in practice?
- Ingesting worms on purpose?!?
- Stop kissing your dog on the lips
- Specific herbs to treat microbial infections
- When intermittent fasting isn't a good idea
- Testing for environmental toxins and heavy metals
- SIBO: small intestinal bacterial overgrowth
- With low energy comes poor mood
- Start your day right, with momentum
- What does Justin's breakfast look like?
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Related links:
Dr. Justin Marchegiani's website
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Listen to Justin's podcast (Beyond Wellness Radio)
Listen to Evan Brand previously on TUHP (episode #200)
Tom Brady - The TB12 Method (book)
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Diagnostic Solutions Laboratory - GI-MAP
The Great Plains Laboratory, Inc.
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| 0:00.0 | If you're only extracting, let's say, 70% of the nutrients from your food and you can get that up to 90 or 100, |
| 0:06.7 | you just access 20 or 30% more nutrition in your diet by not changing one thing in your diet. |
| 0:12.8 | Hello and welcome to the ultimate health podcast episode 218. |
| 0:22.2 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marty Wasserman, and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:28.0 | This week our featured guest is Dr. Justin Marchi Giuseyani. |
| 0:32.0 | He's a certified functional medicine practitioner that works with a wide |
| 0:35.3 | variety of patients all the way from athletes trying to increase performance and heal from injuries |
| 0:40.0 | to the everyday person with chronic health challenges. |
| 0:43.2 | Using a holistic approach, he addresses core underlying barriers to health, |
| 0:47.2 | which allows his patients to heal faster and feel better. |
| 0:50.7 | We know you guys are loving these deep conversations all about functional |
| 0:54.4 | nutrition and functional medicine. Justin is one of the guys who knows how to go |
| 0:58.5 | beneath the surface and really unravel the deep work and he reminds us a lot of Evan Brand and in fact they do a lot of work together. |
| 1:05.7 | So you guys are in for a treat for today's episode. So here's some of what we talk about. |
| 1:10.0 | We talk about why it's important to emphasize good protein and fat in the morning. |
| 1:14.0 | Is there any value in food allergy testing? |
| 1:17.0 | What the most common parasites are and one intermittent fasting isn't a good idea. |
| 1:22.0 | Lots of great stuff that we get into with Justin, here we go. |
| 1:25.0 | Hi Dr Justin, welcome to the show. |
| 1:27.0 | Hey, it's great to be here. |
| 1:28.0 | How are you guys doing today? |
| 1:30.0 | We are doing great and we just have so much we want to dig into with you today. |
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