The Dark Side of Functional Medicine
Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare
Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
4.5 • 774 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking that functional medicine is infallible; unfortunately, this is not the case. Today we will discuss how a fairly popular functional medicine lab was found to falsify lab ranges, a change which led to increased treatment recommendations, which were serviced by their sister company’s supplements. This story provides a good example for both clinicians and patients as to why a more conservative outlook on functional medicine is important.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and functional medicine. |
| 0:15.8 | To make sure you're up to day on this and other important topics, visit Dr. Rouschow.com and sign up to receive weekly |
| 0:22.7 | updates that's d r r u s c i.com the following discussion is for educational purposes only |
| 0:30.5 | and is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease please do not apply any of this information |
| 0:35.8 | without first speaking with your doctor. |
| 0:39.0 | Now, let's head to the show. |
| 0:42.7 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome to Dr. Russo Radio. |
| 0:50.1 | This is Dr. Rousho, and today we're going to be talking about the dark side of functional medicine, and unfortunately, how a supplement and lab company just agreed to pay over $6.1 million |
| 0:57.0 | to resolve false claims allegations. |
| 1:02.0 | Looking forward to getting into these details. |
| 1:04.0 | Before we do, let me share with you how much of an idiot I am. |
| 1:08.0 | I've been doing pretty good about curtailing my caffeine consumption, as we've talked about |
| 1:12.3 | in the past. But today I was feeling a little bit flat, and I decided to walk over to Whole Foods, |
| 1:16.7 | pick up a kind of pre-made coffee. I picked up a 16-ounce stump town, you know, cold coffee |
| 1:24.8 | in a carton, drank it. And as I'm walking home, I'm saying to myself, |
| 1:30.0 | boy, I really feel kind of jacked up. I wonder how much caffeine is in here. I check the label, |
| 1:34.3 | can't find it anywhere, look it up on the internet. I'm assuming like 100 milligrams, |
| 1:40.9 | 398 milligrams in this thing. So I am admittedly a little bit short circuity right now, so I apologize if I'm a bit all over the |
| 1:51.0 | map. |
| 1:52.0 | I'm going to try to get through this coherently, but the show must go on. |
| 1:55.0 | So the dark side of functional medicine. |
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