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The Root Cause Medicine Podcast

Reducing Toxins to Detoxify Your Life with Greer McGuinness: Episode Rerun

The Root Cause Medicine Podcast

Kate Kresge

Alternative Health, Medicine, 810564, Health & Fitness

4.8581 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Greer McGuinness answers questions about toxins and the impact of toxic exposures on our health. They dive into: 1. Uncovering the toxin exposure 2. Toxin exposure symptoms in adults 3. Decrease your toxic load 4. The four pillars of detoxification 5. Investigating PFAS toxins in everyday items With more than fifteen years of experience in the medical field, Greer McGuinness is a biomedical clinician. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Food Science from SUNY Plattsburgh and a Master's degree in Science from Central Michigan University. Additionally, she is a Certified Leap Therapist, having helped many individuals with food allergies and intolerances. Greer serves as an expert Clinical Lab Educator at Vibrant Wellness. She also established Biomedical Healing For Kids, a private practice in functional medicine that focuses on children with developmental disorders like Autism, ADHD, and PANDAS.

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0:00.0

Today on the Root Cosmedicine podcast.

0:03.1

Kid does not have a full functioning liver until they're about 18 to 21, which is our drinking age,

0:08.5

which is the reason why we have that drinking age.

0:11.1

Their kidneys are not fully functioning for a few years.

0:13.8

So you have a high window of all this bioaccumulation, all these bioaccumulated toxins and that child and that person

0:23.8

cannot get rid of them so we store it. So now the toxic burden will build up over time. And it's like

0:30.5

what's happened to our society where these toxic burdens are building up so much and we're more

0:37.3

toxic than we've ever been.

0:39.1

Hello, hello. I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones. And today, I'm talking with longtime

0:44.9

integrative dietitian Greer McGuinness, who is also a clinical lab educator at Vibrant Wellness,

0:52.2

all about toxins, and the toxin exposures in our lives that greatly

0:57.5

affect our health. It was an extremely eye-opening discussion given her experience in pediatrics

1:04.9

all the way to adulthood and how these different types of chemicals can negatively affect so much of our body.

1:13.1

How do we test for it? How do we avoid it? What do we do? Listen along as she covers all these

1:19.5

questions and more. Before we get started, though, I want to talk to you about something that

1:24.8

comes up pretty often on this podcast, and that,

1:27.7

of course, is lab testing.

1:30.1

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

1:35.5

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1:40.4

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1:48.0

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1:55.0

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