So what do pharmacists actually do? Interviews with Lara Zakaria and Connie Grauds.

The Lindsey Elmore Show

Lindsey Elmore

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Alternative Health, Medicine

5.0 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Close your eyes and imagine what you think of when you hear the word, ‘pharmacist.’ What do you think your pharmacist does? What do you think your pharmacist can do for you? Today, Lindsey is chatting with two pharmacists who delve into the worlds of nutrition, and functional medicine. Up first is Lara Zakaria, a nutritionist and functional medicine pharmacist. She talks about the alarming statistics about how much the nutrient quality of our food has decreased, as well as why training and education makes a pharmacist an incredible resource when you’re not feeling like yourself. She’s out to get to the root cause of what is actually wrong with your body, and asks the necessary questions to get to the ‘why.’ Then Lindsey sits down with Connie Grauds, a registered pharmacist, alternative and integrative medicine specialist, and cancer survivor. Her travels led her to the Amazonian jungles of Peru where she discovered the path from medicine to magic. She is an advocate for lifelong health and wellness.

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0:00.0	Close your eyes for just a moment. Envision in your mind's eye a pharmacist. What does a pharmacist do?
0:09.2	What activities fill up their day? What do we wear? How do you reach a pharmacist? How do you call a pharmacist? What advice can your pharmacist give you?
0:25.9	How do you know that you need to ask your pharmacist a question? The fact of the matter is that
0:32.4	I don't think many people know what it is that pharmacists do and what unique skill sets we bring to the entire
0:43.3	health care equation. Pharmacists are not just one thing. Pharmacists can specialize in everything
0:50.9	from ambulatory care to cardiology to compounding, critical care, geriatrics,
0:57.5	infectious disease, nutrition support, oncology. The list goes on and on and on of the
1:04.4	multiple practice sites that pharmacists can have. Some pharmacists are good at saving your life when your life is in immediate danger.
1:13.6	Other pharmacists are helpful at coaching you on how to prevent diseases. Other pharmacists are
1:20.6	going to be amazing in helping you to streamline your medications. Other pharmacists are pharmacists that you can trust in your most
1:32.5	critical of needs, maybe when you've been diagnosed with cancer. And you really need to know that
1:39.0	the person on the other side of that medication bag that's dripping into your arm took care to be sure that the right
1:49.1	drug was at the right concentration is being infused at the correct speed and is monitoring for
1:56.5	adverse effects. Pharmacists live a lot of lives, and I'm honored to call myself a pharmacist
2:03.6	and to be a part of such a noble profession that over time has shifted to have a predominantly
2:12.6	female workforce. Along the way, I have met a lot of amazing pharmacist colleagues, and today I'm
2:20.8	going to be interviewing two of them. First up is Lara Zacharia. She is not only a functional
2:28.7	medicine pharmacist, but also a nutritionist who can help you to get to the root cause of what is actually wrong.
2:40.7	Not just, oh, you have diabetes, here's some insulin, but why do you have diabetes?
2:47.2	What's going on with your blood sugar? Is this a pancreas problem? Is it a thyroid problem? Is it
2:51.6	maybe a cardiovascular problem where you're not absorbing any of the sugars out of your bloodstream?
2:57.7	After that, I will be talking to Connie Grouds. Connie is a pharmacist who changed my life forever
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