The Functional Medicine Approach To Precocious Puberty with Dr. Elizabeth Boham
The Dr. Hyman Show
Dr. Mark Hyman
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🗓️ 23 August 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The Functional Medicine Approach To Precocious Puberty | This episode is sponsored by Rupa Health and Pique Tea
Hormone disruption is a growing concern, especially for children as many are reaching puberty at a younger age than ever before. Just under one in four children are facing some sort of hormonal dysregulation that impacts not only the onset of puberty, but also presents an increased risk for conditions such as obesity, infertility, endometriosis, and PCOS as they grow older.
In this episode, Dr. Hyman discusses precocious puberty with Dr. Elizabeth Boham. They cover the role that diet, weight, and nutrition play in healthy hormones. They also talk about the effects on hormones from the many toxins in our homes and in our environment; toxins that are used without a lot of testing or experience.
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.
This episode is sponsored by Rupa Health and Pique Tea.
Rupa Health is a place for Functional Medicine practitioners to access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, Great Plains, and more. You can check out a free live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com.
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In this conversation, Dr. Hyman and Dr. Boham discuss:
- The rise of hormone dysregulation in children
- How poor diet and nutrition are driving hormonal changes
- Toxins in our environment, children’s toys, and personal care products wreaking havoc on hormones
- The Functional Medicine approach to treatment
- Best ways to detox from toxins
- A case study of a 10-year-old girl
Additional Resources
Addressing the Root Causes of Childhood Obesity
https://drhyman.com/blog/2021/02/05/podcast-hc42/
How We Are Poisoning Our Children
https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/03/04/podcast-ep96/
How Lead and Other Environmental Toxins are Affecting Us
https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/12/04/podcast-minisode65/
A Holistic Approach To Balancing Your Hormones
https://drhyman.com/blog/2018/12/27/bb-ep35/
How Eating An Anti-inflammatory Diet Is The Key To Regaining Your Health
https://drhyman.com/blog/2021/07/23/podcast-minisode89/
The Real Reason for America’s Obesity Crisis and Chronic Disease Epidemic
https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/04/01/podcast-ep100/
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy, we know that kids that are overweight or obese go into |
| 0:07.4 | Start puberty at a younger age and then we also know that kids who start puberty at a younger age |
| 0:13.0 | have a higher risk of |
| 0:15.3 | Waking when they're older and they have a higher risk of PCOS which is |
| 0:20.1 | You know is it's problem with infertility and insulin resistance? So it becomes almost this vicious cycle |
| 0:25.5 | Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark. I know a lot of you out there are practitioners like me |
| 0:33.1 | Helping patients heal using real food and functional medicine as your framework for getting to the root cause |
| 0:38.7 | What's critical to understanding what each individual person and body needs is testing? |
| 0:44.2 | Which is why I'm excited to tell you about Rupa health looking at hormones organic acids |
| 0:49.7 | Nutrient levels inflammatory factors gut bacteria and so many other internal variables can help us find the most effective path to |
| 0:57.8 | Optimize health and reverse disease |
| 0:59.8 | But up till now that menu are usually ordering tests for one patient from multiple labs |
| 1:04.3 | And I'm sure many of you can relate how time consuming this process was and then it could all feel like a lot of work to keep track of now |
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