Answering Your Questions About Autoimmune Disease, Optimizing Sleep, And Inflammation
The Dr. Hyman Show
Dr. Mark Hyman
4.6 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Thrive Market, and InsideTracker.
In today’s episode, I’ve compiled questions submitted by my social media audience from some of my most popular Masterclass episodes. I am joined by my good friend and podcast host, Dhru Purohit, to discuss a range of topics related to autoimmune disease, optimizing your sleep, and inflammation.
Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.
This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Thrive Market, and InsideTracker.
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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):
- The main Functional Medicine approach to treating autoimmune disease (4:15 / 00:43)
- Hashimoto’s disease and thyroid testing (8:59 / 5:59)
- Is there a connection between autoimmune issues and allergies? (21:01 / 15:58)
- Where to start to heal autoimmune disease (26:32 / 21:30)
- Top three mistakes people make in dealing with autoimmune disease (28:34 / 23:36)
- Do you need to go to bed and wake up at the same time every day? (33:44 / 28:43)
- Supplements and sleep aids (40:55 / 35:58)
- Do grains affect inflammation? (43:43 / 38:48)
- The biggest driver of chronic inflammation (46:11 / 41:20)
- Can inflammation be driven by genetics? (47:42 / 42:41)
Mentioned in this episode:
How a Doctor Cured Her Autoimmune Disease with Functional Medicine
Reversing Multiple Sclerosis and Autoimmune Disease with Functional Medicine
Dr. Hyman’s Sleep Master Class
IFM's Find A Practitioner Tool
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy often people have two or three autoimmune diseases and it's stunning to me how |
| 0:08.1 | Traditional medicine doesn't ask why |
| 0:11.2 | Hey, everyone it's Dr. Mark one of the most important tools I have for helping my patients optimizer health is testing |
| 0:17.3 | And that is why I love what root-be-help is doing functional medicine testing can require placing orders with lots of different labs |
| 0:23.7 | And it kind of get really complicated for doctors and their patients to easily access results and keep track of everything |
| 0:30.6 | But root-be-help has totally streamlined that process looking at hormones organic acids nutrient levels inflammatory factors good bacteria |
| 0:38.7 | And so many other internal variables can help us find the most effective path to health in healing |
| 0:44.4 | I'm really excited about that now and I can finally take advantage of these tests without the hassle of the confusion of |
| 0:50.2 | So many multiple labs root-be-help is the place for functional medicine practitioners to access more than two thousand |
| 0:57.2 | Especially lab tests from over 20 labs like Dutch vibrant America, Genova, great planes and more |
| 1:02.4 | It's 90% faster letting you simplify the process of getting you the functional tests that you need and giving you more time to focus on your patients |
| 1:11.6 | This is really a much needed option in the functional medicine space and it means better service for you and your patients |
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| 1:24.3 | Time and again, I've had my patients tell me they're too busy to eat healthy as they like and that's when I ask them |
| 1:30.3 | How much time they spend on email or social media? |
| 1:32.7 | I like to tell them that if they have that time to scroll then they have the time to shop online for healthy foods |
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| 1:48.0 | Thrive market is an online membership-based grocery store that makes eating well convenient and more affordable |
| 1:54.4 | They've got everything from ethically sourced cabinet essentials to sustainable meat and seafood |
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