Today on the root cause medicine podcast.

There's this whole thing called sickness behavior.

Sickness behavior is what happens when any mammal gets sick, be it a dog or a cat or a human.

And what happens is we behave in a way in order to conserve our energy in order to allow ourselves to heal for our natural healing process.

Remember, inflammation isn't bad.

Inflammation is how we heal.

We need inflammation to occur.

And what happens when we get inflamed?

The brain in particular, we get tired.

We get this thing called generalized malaise where we don't feel good.

And what we want to do is you want to sit down or

lie down, stay in bed. And it's all about conserving energy so that energy can be shunted else. We're going to go fight off the infection. Well, hello there. I'm your host for today, Dr. Kate Henry, and today we are talking with Dr. Gary Kaplan, the author of Why You're Still Sick, How Infections Can Break Your Mute System,

and How You Can Recover. Dr. Kaplan is the doctor for people with complex chronic illnesses,

or chronic illnesses that don't respond to typical treatment. You'll learn about things like

the root causes of autoimmune disorders, disautonomia, pots, and pandas. These are all things that might sound strange if we've

never heard of them, but if you are a loved one, have them, you know they can be debilitating.

It's critical to understand the root cause and pathophysiology that underlies these disorders

so that you can heal them for good. Dr. Kaplan is going to tell us how to do just that.

Before we get started, I want to talk to you about something that comes up pretty often

on this podcast.

And that, of course, is lab testing.

You see, testing is one essential way to understand the root cause of an illness.

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