Getting To The Root Causes Of Why We Are All Tired with Dr. Elizabeth Boham
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Dr. Mark Hyman
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🗓️ 31 August 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Getting To The Root Causes Of Why We Are All Tired | This episode is brought to you by Essentia
Twenty to thirty percent of patients visit their primary care physician with the chief complaint of fatigue; they're tired all the time and want to feel better. Unfortunately, conventional medicine rarely allows for physicians to spend enough time with patients to explore the many reasons someone might be experiencing fatigue. Functional Medicine, on the other hand, uses an extensive personal history to look at a patient’s patterns over his or her entire lifetime and connect the dots.
In this episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with Dr. Elizabeth Boham to discuss the common drivers of fatigue and the Functional Medicine approach to treating it.
Elizabeth Boham is a physician and nutritionist who practices functional medicine at The UltraWellness Center in Lenox, MA. Through her practice and lecturing she has helped thousands of people achieve their goals of optimum health and wellness. She witnesses the power of nutrition every day in her practice and is committed to training other physicians to utilize nutrition in healing. Dr. Boham has contributed to many articles and wrote the latest chapter on Obesity for the Rankel Textbook of Family Medicine. She is part of the faculty of the Institute for Functional Medicine and has been featured on the Dr. Oz show and in a variety of publications and media including Huffington Post, The Chalkboard Magazine, and Experience Life. Her DVD Breast Wellness: Tools to Prevent and Heal from Breast Cancer explores the functional medicine approach to keeping your breasts and whole body well
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In this episode, Dr. Hyman and Dr. Boham discuss:
- The importance of getting a patient’s full-life timeline when treating fatigue
- How factors such as lifestyle, sleep, diet, exercise, stress, gut health, chronic infections, environmental toxins, hormones, and more can influence energy levels
- Dr. Hyman’s personal experience with chronic fatigue syndrome due to mercury poisoning
- Common drivers of fatigue, including nutritional deficiencies, genetic variations, digestive issues, sleep apnea, and more
- Specific patient cases in which they have treated fatigue
- How acid blocking drugs (PPIs) can affect amino acid absorption and lead to energy loss
Learn more about The UltraWellness Center’s upcoming “Eliminate To Feel Great” program at https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2020/08/17/eliminate-to-feel-great/
Additional Resources:
A Simple Diet Experiment That May Solve Most Of Your Health Issues with Lisa Dreher
https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/08/22/podcast-hc24/
Elimination Diets: Still the Gold Standard?
https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2020/08/21/elimination-diets-still-the-gold-standard/
Supplements: Useful Or Useless? with Dr. Elizabeth Boham
https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/07/19/podcast-hc19/
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy. |
| 0:02.8 | We're seeing nutritional deficiencies. |
| 0:04.5 | I see a lot of genetic variations that influence somebody's energy level. |
| 0:08.6 | We see digestive issues that influence energy level. |
| 0:11.6 | We see chronic infections. |
| 0:15.3 | Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark. |
| 0:17.2 | Now, time and again, I hear my patients say they're eating super clean. |
| 0:20.9 | They're exercising. |
| 0:22.2 | And they're doing a lot of great things for the health, |
| 0:23.8 | but they just cannot lose weight or find the energy they're really looking for. |
| 0:28.4 | And when I ask about sleep, they launch into a lauderalist of reasons why they don't have time |
| 0:34.0 | to get enough of it or they say they just never wake up feeling fully rested. |
| 0:38.4 | Now, I've been there too and I used to think that MD stood for medical deity and meant I didn't have |
| 0:43.7 | to follow the same sleep rules as every other human being. |
| 0:46.6 | I stayed up late working long shifts in the emergency room and ignored the demands of my body to rest. |
| 0:52.8 | But the lack of high quality sleep is associated with tons of health problems like insulin |
| 0:57.2 | resistance, obesity, cardiovascular disease, mood disorders, poor immune function or life |
| 1:04.1 | expectancy. And when I wised up, I noticed an amazing change in my health and my overall well-being. |
| 1:11.4 | What we need to do is ready our systems physically and psychologically for sleep. |
| 1:16.8 | We need to guide our bodies into a deep healing rest. |
| 1:20.1 | And we really need to create the right environment and a relaxing haven in order to get optimal sleep. |
| 1:26.8 | For me, my own sleep quality really improved when I made my bed in a wasis that I can't wait to get |
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