How Do Mitochondria Respond To Health And Disease? | Eric D. Gordon, MD
The Energy Blueprint Podcast
Ari Whitten
4.6 • 781 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
What if your mitochondria aren't broken, but rather stuck in defense mode? What if chronic illness isn't about damaged cells, but about cells that can't sense safety anymore?
Dr. Eric Gordon has spent over 40 years in the trenches of complex chronic illness, working with thousands of patients who didn't fit into conventional medicine's boxes. He's one of the deepest thinkers in functional medicine and an original voice who has witnessed and worked through every health fad out there.
In this conversation, he explains why mitochondrial support sometimes backfires, why your body gets stuck in chronic illness patterns like a "neurotic loop," and most importantly, how to give your cells the safety signals they need to heal.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, this is Ari. Welcome back to the Energy Blueprint podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | In this episode, I am speaking with my friend, Dr. Eric Gordon, who is coming on to the podcast |
| 0:17.7 | for the second time. Dr. Gordon is, in my opinion, one of the most |
| 0:22.3 | brilliant minds out there in the field of treating chronic illness. He's been in practice for over |
| 0:28.8 | 40 years in clinical practice, and he's also been involved in a huge amount of research related to |
| 0:35.9 | treating and curing chronic illness, especially complex chronic |
| 0:41.0 | illness. The type of complex chronic illnesses that leave most other doctors stumped and really |
| 0:49.0 | have no idea what's causing it, what's going on, what the diagnosis is, how to treat it. |
| 0:53.9 | This is really Dr. Gordon's area of expertise what's going on, what the diagnosis is, how to treat it. This is really |
| 0:55.0 | Dr. Gordon's area of expertise. In my opinion, he is one of the most novel thinkers out there, |
| 1:02.6 | and original thinkers out there. I love the way his mind works, and I love the conversations |
| 1:07.8 | that I have with them. Every time we do a podcast together or have a conversation, we usually spend an hour or two separate from the recorded conversation, just talking and sorting through things. |
| 1:19.9 | And we have wonderful, at times, a bit of debates. |
| 1:23.8 | We have back and forth. |
| 1:24.9 | We have slight disagreements. |
| 1:26.6 | And we always find a way to reconcile |
| 1:30.3 | our ideas. And again, I find him to be just one of the most original novel thinkers and one of the most brilliant minds out there, particularly when it comes to treating complex chronic illness. So with |
| 1:45.3 | no further ado, enjoy this conversation with Dr. Eric Gordon. Dr. Gordon, welcome. Welcome. Thank you. |
| 1:54.8 | Thank you so much, Ari. We have been having some really delightful conversations that haven't made it to air time yet. |
| 2:00.9 | So now we're going to give it another shot. |
| 2:03.2 | As you just alluded to, |
| 2:04.6 | you are one of my absolute favorite people to talk to. |
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