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The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat

any disease. Please do not apply any of this information

without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, today I spoke with

Dr. Hannah Hamlin, one of the amazing doctors on our clinical team. We discussed a couple things.

We discuss a case study of colitis, lining of the gut being inflamed.

In this case, what's known as lymphocytic colitis, wherein the immune cells are infiltrating

and inflaming the lining of the colon, who was also incorrectly told that she was hypothyroid.

And we kind of talked through what does this look like, what did we do, what helped her.

So gut thyroid interplay and how all of these other symptoms that we should be paying attention

to, like anxiety, like insomnia, can improve when we tend appropriately to someone's gut health.

So we share that case study from our office.

We also talk about the importance of mindset and how for some people, previous traumatic events, namely in childhood, can lead to either

IBS, anxiety, or both later in life. And we tie this into why it's so important to not

over-test, to not incorrectly diagnose, and I guess not to get swept up in all of the

bells and whistles of things that could be wrong with you because XYZ test said so,

practice that is so commonplace in functional medicine, because of those things feed

what can be this hyper sensitivity to stress.

And we briefly cover a study that looked at how a time in nature impacts activation of

the amygdala.

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