The Flaw Of Seeing Health Only Through Lab Markers And Biochemistry | Dr. Mel Hopper Koppelman

The Energy Blueprint Podcast

Ari Whitten

Chronicfatigue, Energy, Hypothyroidism, Fatigue, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Chronicfatiguesyndrome, Adrenalfatigue, Howtoincreaseenergy, Adrenals, Hashimotos

4.7 • 751 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I’m speaking with Dr. Mel Hopper Koppelman about her powerful and unique view of medicine, a context that I believe is much more effective than the conventional or even functional medical models we’re used to.

I’m really excited to share this episode with you; Dr. Mel and I had a fantastic conversation that, if practically applied, points us in a new and much more effective direction for building true health.

In this podcast, Dr. Mel and I discuss:

How some scientists and clinicians get stuck in the “biochemical weeds” instead of working from a bigger, more accurate picture of health, aka, first principles thinking
The 2 ways we can view lab tests (blood, stool, hormone, or even organic acid tests) and why most practitioners—even functional practitioners—get it WRONG!
Why even a “good” result on a blood test might not mean much for your quality or length of life!
Her favorite tool to practically address health imbalances and disease that fits perfectly into a big-picture paradigm
The 2 metabolic classifications Dr. Mel uses to help her patients based on her deep knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine…and why other medical models aren’t able to help people with chronic fatigue and similar symptoms

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Ari. Welcome back to the Energy Blueprint Podcast. With me today is Dr. Mel Hopper
0:12.3	Koppelman, who is somebody I really just sort of stumbled across. We became Facebook friends.
0:18.6	I'm not even sure how. And I started reading her post out of the blue
0:23.5	and became really fascinated and impressed with some of her thinking about health and kept reading
0:30.9	more and more of her stuff and continued to be very impressed by her original and very novel
0:37.1	way of thinking about health.
0:38.4	She has background in all kinds of things from nutrition to functional medicine,
0:46.1	to traditional Chinese medicine, to functional developmental behavioral neuroimmunology,
0:51.8	and many, many other fields. She's really a very, very widely read student, geek of health science.
1:02.0	And she knows a lot about a whole lot of dimensions of health science.
1:06.0	And what really most excites me is she's somebody who thinks about health in novel ways,
1:12.3	is really trying to put together different models, different scientific evidence and research,
1:19.9	and piece together new insights and ways of understanding and approaching health and attacking
1:26.4	health problems. So with no further ado,
1:29.4	I'm very excited to share this conversation, part one of what will be a multi-part discussion
1:35.0	with Dr. Mel Hopper Coppelman. Enjoy. Mel, welcome to the show. Hi, thanks for having me.
1:43.0	So I don't know how we connected on Facebook, but somehow we did maybe six months or a year
1:54.0	ago or something like that.
1:56.0	And in my feed, I started seeing posts from yours.
2:00.0	And I think I saw one and I read it, which is not common for me because I don't really
2:05.7	spend much time on Facebook.
2:07.4	I read it and I was very intrigued and impressed by some of the things that you were saying.
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