Overlooked Autoimmunity Can Cause Chronic Illness – What You Can Do

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

There are two types of autoimmunity that may be responsible for patients who (to put it simply) don't respond to any therapies. Anti-phospholipid syndrome and/or autoimmune dysautonomia may be driving this. I talk with Dr. Schofield about some of the symptoms, history and findings that may indicate these conditions.

We talk about testing (impart a few cautions with functional medicine tests) and we talk about treatment considerations. Some of these are things that we're familiar with - gluten-free, dairy-free, low histamine, improving one's gut health, mass cell activation syndrome supports, etc.

Dr. Schofield is starting to experiment with oral immunoglobulin therapy and also uses intravenous or IVIG as something that can be quite helpful for patients who have otherwise been unresponsive.

We dig in pretty deep in this episode so I hope you’ll find it very informative and helpful. https://drruscio.com/?p=56025

My book Healthy Gut, Healthy You is available at https://drruscio.com/getgutbook/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rucho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and functional medicine.
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0:26.8	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease.
0:33.1	Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor.
0:36.9	Now let's head to the show.
0:39.7	Hi, everyone. I wanted to slip in one quick announcement here. I will be opening up one additional
0:45.6	day in my clinic for the next couple months. I'm doing this to help and reduce the eight-ish month wait time there to be seen as a new patient.
0:57.5	So if you'd like to work with me, I would say now would really be the best time to do it.
1:03.8	This will kind of be my final push to reduce the wait times before I hire another doctor
1:10.7	and start building out the clinical staff to help reduce weight times before I hire another doctor and start building out the clinical staff
1:12.6	to help reduce weight times. So, of course, when there's one or other doctors, you'll still be
1:19.4	able to work with me if you want to, but there might be a little bit more of a weight or, you know,
1:22.7	it may be a little bit more complicated to do so once there's a clinical staff outside of myself. So if you were wanting
1:29.7	to work with me, now would be a great time to do it. I should also mention just because there is a six to
1:35.1	eight-ish month wait to be seen, once you're in as a patient, there is no wait time. It's just we can only
1:41.4	accept so many patients so as not to overwhelm our current
1:45.6	patient calendar. So yeah, if you've been thinking about doing it, I say now would be one of the
1:50.5	best times to do so. I'll be opening up those additional days for a few months, but not forever.
1:57.4	So again, if you're in need of help and you've been thinking about it, I would say now
2:01.6	is the time to act. Okay.
2:05.2	Hi, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Dr. Rucho. This is Dr. Rousho. Today, I'm here
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