Today on the Root Cause Medicine podcast.

We need to really wake up to this that yes, nearly one and two kids have a chronic health diagnosis, but so many more have chronic health concerns that maybe aren't on the level of getting a diagnosis, but their skin isn't buttery soft and they have exom patches here and there or they're wiggling

and they just can't be comfortable in their own body or they have anxiety that's really

impacting their lives but not enough to go see the doctor just yet and there's so many more

things that our kids are facing nowadays well hello there i'm your host'm your host for today, Dr. Kate Kreske,

and we have an awesome interview about integrative pediatrics for you today. We're talking with

the wonderful Dr. Elisa Song. She's been an integrative pediatric practitioner for 20 years,

and she's written the book, Healthy Kids, Happy Kids, an integrated pediatrician's

guide to whole child resilience, while your child's microbiome holds the key to life form

wellness. This is going to be a phenomenal conversation and this book is incredible. So let me start

by saying if you don't have the book, you should absolutely go get it. It's every parent's

guidebook that they've wished they've had in the middle of the night or when things are going

wrong to all of their options for managing common childhood symptoms naturally. Dr. Song covers everything

from gut issues to eczema to asthma. She goes through common illnesses and how to treat them

naturally at home.

I think the most impactful part of this interview for me was when Dr. Svong said she's only

prescribed antibiotics a handful of times in the last 10 years in her practice.

That is very full of kids.

So we're going to dive into this and we're going to start with part one.

In part one, we're going to talk about why Dr. Alisa chose to dedicate half of her book to the microbiome and to gut health. In the second part, we're going to go over the practical tactical strategies that she uses for common everyday illnesses. Before we get started, though, 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.

If you're an integrative or functional medicine practitioner, chances are you're placing

a ton of orders with a ton of different labs. The root cause medicine podcast is created

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