253: What we know about COVID today | Patrick Hanaway, M.D.

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Patrick Hanaway, M.D.: “The microbiome of the world and of our forests have an impact on the immune system.” Hanaway, a board-certified family physician and leader of the COVID-19 Task Force at the Institute for Functional Medicine, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to strengthen your immune system in the face of COVID, plus: *Which foods and supplements can help strengthen immunity* *The top three medicinal herbs and why they work* *What steps to focus on if you're immunocompromised* *How to treat symptoms that won't go away, even after overcoming the virus* *How our forests' microbiome affect disease and immunity* Enjoy this episode sponsored by CVS! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
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0:44.6	guaranteed. Since we first did a deep dive on COVID-19 on the June 30th
0:51.4	podcast with Dr David Katz so much has changed or has it
0:55.6	What do we know about COVID today? What don't we know about COVID today? And what I specifically want to know about is what's the functional medicine perspective on COVID.
1:05.6	That's what I'm interested in. That's what we're interested in here at my Buddy Green.
1:10.0	After all, it took the CDC six months to acknowledge the role of nutrition
1:15.2	and even then their information was thin and hard to find on the site.
1:19.3	What took so long? Not to mention we just found out recently that Dr. Fauchy takes
1:24.8	vitamin C and Vitamin D. Yes, Dr. Fauchy. This is all functional medicine
1:29.2	101. As I know that so many of you know, there's so much we can't control with this terrible virus,
1:35.6	but there's so much we can control with regards to building our immune resilience.
1:41.2	This is the power of functional medicine.
1:44.0	And sure, I'm not a doctor, but if you ask me, we need to embrace functional medicine now, more than ever, our lives and the future of this planet might depend on it.
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