Post-COVID Syndrome: A Functional Medicine Approach with Dr. Elizabeth Boham

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

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🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Post-COVID Syndrome: A Functional Medicine Approach | This episode is brought to you by Paleovalley

COVID-19 has had an incredible impact on all of our lives, with over 17 million confirmed cases worldwide to date. In the United States, up to 20% of infected individuals are hospitalized and those with a chronic disease are at an exponentially higher risk of hospitalization than someone who is metabolically healthy. Unfortunately, only 12% of us in the U.S. are metabolically healthy. So one of the best things we can do for our individual bodies, and our collective body is to fix our metabolic health as fast as possible.

In every infection, there are two factors at play: the microbe and the host. While we can’t control the microbe, we have extraordinary control over us, the host. This is why it is so important to support your immune system so you are more resilient to infection.

In this episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with Dr. Elizabeth Boham to discuss how we can build resiliency to both prevent poor outcomes and recover from COVID-19 using the principles of Functional Medicine.

Elizabeth Boham is a physician and nutritionist who practices functional medicine at The UltraWellness Center in Lenox, MA. Through her practice and lecturing she has helped thousands of people achieve their goals of optimum health and wellness. She witnesses the power of nutrition every day in her practice and is committed to training other physicians to utilize nutrition in healing. Dr. Boham has contributed to many articles and wrote the latest chapter on Obesity for the Rankel Textbook of Family Medicine. She is part of the faculty of the Institute for Functional Medicine and has been featured on the Dr. Oz show and in a variety of publications and media including Huffington Post, The Chalkboard Magazine, and Experience Life. Her DVD Breast Wellness: Tools to Prevent and Heal from Breast Cancer explores the functional medicine approach to keeping your breasts and whole body well.

For more information, please visit drhyman.com/uwc

This episode is brought to you by Paleovalley. Paleovalley is now offering Doctor’s Farmacy listener's 15% off your entire first order. Just go to paleovalley.com/hyman to check out all their clean Paleo products and take advantage of this deal.

In this episode, Dr. Hyman and Dr. Boham discuss:

How diet-related, inflammatory chronic diseases put people at higher risk for worse outcomes from COVID-19

Building a strong immune system and improving the nutritional status of our population

The role that zinc plays in regulating our immune system, the prevalence of zinc deficiency in the United States, and how zinc levels may influence the severity of COVID-19; food sources include oysters and pumpkin seeds

Vitamin D deficiency and optimizing Vitamin D levels for a healthy immune system

Quercetin and its influence on COVID-19 outcomes; food sources include dill, onion, oregano, chili pepper, apples, leafy green vegetables, broccoli

The benefits of EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate), a component in green tea; recommended 4 cups of green tea a day or 225mg from a supplement

The importance of glutathione, a master antioxidant and detoxifier, on the immune system and its effects on COVID-19 outcomes; food sources include cruciferous vegetables (such as broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kale), green tea, garlic, onions and shallots

Increasing glutathione levels through NAC: (n-acetylcysteine) supplementation, taking liposomal glutathione, IV therapy, and inhaled glutathione

Melatonin’s influence on our immune system; supplementing with 3-5mg of melatonin at night

Post-COVID Syndrome and applying the principles of Functional Medicine to COVID-19 recovery; boosting mitochondria and adrenal function

Supporting gut health for COVID-19 recovery

Using herbs and medicinal mushrooms to support COVID-19 recovery and boost our immune system

Oxidative therapies including intravenous vitamin C, intravenous glutathione, intravenous NAD, and ozone therapy

Improving metabolic health in rapid time

Additional Resources

What Supplements Should I Take?

After decades of collective experience our team at The UltraWellness Center developed the following guidelines. These are generally safe but you should always consult with your health care provider before starting anything new.

Those most helpful for supporting your immune function are the following:

A multivitamin and mineral.
Other options: PhytoMulti, VitaPrime, MultiThera
Vitamin C: 1000-2000 mg a day
Other options: Vitamin C with R-LA
Vitamin D3: 1000-4000 IU a day
Other options: Liquid D3
Zinc: 20 mg a day
Quercetin Ascorbate: ¼ teaspoon twice a day
Other options: Quercetin and Nettles
Melatonin: 1-2 mg at night, sustained release
Probiotics

A Functional Medicine Approach To COVID-19

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/04/01/a-functional-medicine-approach-to-covid-19/

The Functional Medicine Approach to COVID-19: Nutrition and Lifestyle Practices for Strengthening Host Defense

https://athmjournal.com/covid19/research/the-functional-medicine-approach-to-covid-19-nutrition-and-lifestyle-practices-for-strengthening-host-defense/?fbclid=IwAR3SWp3VKQMvQirJ8Wm-9iAArKUcq2hd0FSjFpeGp10iGA6iQfnQbPHzywI&mc_cid=ba135c1a32&mc_eid=bebb318eda

How Diet Is Driving COVID-19 Outcomes with Dr. Aseem Malhotra

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/05/04/podcast-ep109/

How COVID-19 Shines A Light On Our Broken Food System

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/05/18/podcast-ep113/

Reversing Metabolic Disease

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/07/24/minisode-46/

Special Episode: Medicine In The Age Of COVID-19 And Beyond

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/04/04/special-episode-covid-19/

Should We Wear Masks? Will Vaccines Work or Be Safe?

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=721896768593656

Telemedicine Through UWC: We’re Here for You

https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2020/04/07/telemedicine-through-uwc-were-here-for-you/

How To Feed Your Gut

https://drhyman.com/blog/2018/04/13/how-to-feed-your-gut/

Dr. Hyman’s 10-Day Reset and Free Guide

https://getfarmacy.com/

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:02.8	We need to help people build an immune system that can do active surveillance and find viruses and get rid of them,
0:10.6	but also not overreact and cause all this unwanted inflammation that is really underlying a lot of the significant illness and death from COVID-19.
0:24.6	Hey everyone, it's Dr. Hyman here.
0:27.6	Now so many of my patients ask me how I manage to work multiple jobs, travel frequently, well not so much anymore,
0:33.6	and spend time with my family and still focus on my health.
0:36.6	I know it can seem hard to E.L. when you got a lot going on, but the trick is to never let yourself get into a food emergency
0:43.6	and to stay stocked up with the right things to support your goals.
0:47.6	So when I keep nourishing snacks and the right supplements to optimize my health at home and at my office,
0:53.6	I know I'm helping myself make good choices in the future.
0:56.6	Recently I discovered paleovali beef sticks.
0:59.6	I keep these beef sticks at home and at the office so I know that whenever I'm in a food emergency, I have a healthy and delicious option to keep me on track.
1:08.6	It's no secret that I've high standards when it comes to what I put in my body and paleovali beef sticks checks all the boxes.
1:14.6	They're gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, soy-free, and non-gimo.
1:19.6	Plus they use 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef, which not only adds to the flavorful taste, but it also means they're free of any harmful antibiotics or hormones that you'll find in most meat.
1:32.6	With grass-fed beef, you'll get more nutrients than you would with beef fed with grains, things like higher levels of omega-3 fats that help reduce inflammation,
1:41.6	and more B vitamins and other antioxidants to support your body's converting food into energy, and also more of the fat-soluble vitamins that are beneficial for healthy heart.
1:51.6	Plus, instead of being processed with chemicals and other questionable ingredients like similar snacks, these beef sticks are naturally fermented so you get gut-friendly probiotics with every bite. How cool is that?
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2:18.6	That's paleovali.com forward slash hymen. I definitely recommend stocking up on the grass-fed beef sticks to keep in your house and your car and in your office.
2:28.6	It's one of my favorite tricks to staying healthy while on the go.
2:31.6	Alright, now let's get back to this week's episode of the Doctors' Pharmacy.
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