How and why illness occurs, with Pete Williams

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Liz Earle

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🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Is functional medicine the future of wellness? Founder of Functional Medicine Associates, Pete Williams, joins Liz for this podcast to discuss how this biology-based approach can deal with chronic disease and illness.

Pete talks through how and why illness occurs, diagnostic tests that fall outside of conventional medicine, and understanding barrier function for conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome, Alzheimer’s disease, and depression.

Liz and Pete also cover probiotics, prebiotics and postbiotics for gut health, the effects of declining oestrogen on the brain in menopause, and dealing with burnout.

Make sure to listen next week as Pete will be back to answer even more functional medicine questions.

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0:00.0	With a chronic disease patient there will be multiple inputs that is driving that patient's illness.
0:07.8	And so whilst a medication may or may not work effectively across a couple of pathways. There may be thousands of pathways
0:14.5	that also need to be looked at and resolved over time. And that takes a lot of work both from the
0:20.9	practitioner and from the patient. So you've got to team up, you've got to be brutally
0:25.7	honest about how long this is going to take, and you've got to really put the work in.
0:32.4	Pete Williams is the founder of Functional. working. in an individual. I'm Liz Earl and welcome to the Liz Earl Well-being show. This is the
0:45.5	podcast that helps us all have a better second half and it's my mission to find ways
0:50.8	for all of us to thrive in later life by investing in our health and our well-being today.
0:56.0	Well, this is the first episode of 2024.
1:00.0	So today I want to look to the future of health care by understanding functional medicine.
1:06.4	This is a real whole body approach to health care and I've noticed it becoming such a buzzword right now and it's an area of health care and wellness
1:15.2	that I've been delving into while researching for my new book, A Better Second Half,
1:19.8	out at the end of April 2024, and I've become increasingly convinced that it's the future for genuine
1:26.4	wellness not just about treating the symptoms of disease but addressing their root cause and protecting our health as we age.
1:35.0	Well, Pete is an exercise and physical scientist, we actually met about 25 years ago I worked out
1:41.0	when he founded a high-end gym in London and in 2013 he was in the first
1:46.7	worldwide cohort to be awarded Institute for Functional Medicine certified practitioner status and has represented the
1:54.4	Institute as a clinical innovator. He was an early adopter of the Professor Dale
2:00.4	Bredizen training to better understand neurodegeneration and has treated people with a really wide
2:07.1	range of chronic diseases, all of which will come to during this conversation.
2:11.9	Pete has over 20 years of experience applying
2:14.9	functional medicine in clinical practice. So what does a truly
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