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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, welcome back.

This is Dr. Michael Ruchel. I am a practicing clinician, a clinical researcher, and an adjunct faculty

at the University of Bridgeport. And today I have a very alarming case of

what happens in functional medicine and what you must be aware of. And I don't mean to be

overly alarmist, but as I'll outline for you here, a poor lady, we'll call her Jane, did four hundred and eleven dollars worth of testing to feel worse

and develop an eating disorder what i want to do is weave together for you what testing has no

validity or very little utility that you should avoid and show you the actual tests and

evidence plus juxtapose that with jane's case so you can see what you should avoid because

when you're not feeling well i understand you're looking for any lifeline towards improvement

but you shouldn't fall prey to the false

promise that lab tests often make. So let's unpack this so you can understand how to navigate

integrative and functional medicine appropriately and not get pulled into what Jane did,

the $2,400 worth of lab testing plus over a 10-month

period, development of an eating disorder, and a total expenditure of $7,400 to feel no better, in fact,

felt even worse. Okay, so here is the background. Jane is a 38-year-old female previously diagnosed with

Crohn's, although it's currently quiescent, thankfully, and SIBO. Her main symptoms were

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