The Immune-Heart Connection: How Viruses Impact Us with the Father of Functional Medicine, Dr. Jeffrey Bland : Episode Rerun
The Root Cause Medicine Podcast
Kate Kresge
4.8 • 581 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dr. Jeffrey Bland talks about immunometabolism, the long-term effects of COVID-19 on our immune system, chronic fatigue syndrome, your cardiovascular health, and much more. They dive into: 1. Understanding immune rejuvenation 2. Weak immune system and COVID-19 3. The chronic fatigue syndrome 4. Post-COVID cardiac effects Dr. Bland is an internationally recognized leader in the nutritional and functional medicine field. He co-founded The Institute for Functional Medicine in 1991 and is known to many as the “Father of Functional Medicine.” In the early 1980s, Dr. Bland was hand-selected by two-time Nobel Laureate Dr. Linus Pauling to serve as Director of Nutritional Research at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine. Dr. Bland has authored several best-selling books about nutritional medicine and over 120 peer-reviewed research publications. He is also the CEO of KinDex Pharmaceuticals, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of Bering Select Seafoods Company, and Founder and President of Big Bold Health and the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute. Dr. Bland is a fellow of both the American College of Nutrition, where he is a certified nutrition specialist and the Association for Clinical Biochemistry.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Root Cause Medicine podcast. |
| 0:03.1 | Biology is not generally a one-way street. |
| 0:05.3 | Biology generally has two ways in the street. |
| 0:07.5 | You can travel either towards improving your functional status over time, or you can continually |
| 0:15.0 | travel on the path towards increasing disability and dysfunction. |
| 0:19.4 | And there are biological mechanisms available in our body to do either one of those. |
| 0:24.0 | And so to some extent, it depends on what route we want to take. |
| 0:28.8 | And to take the route of renewal, of immune renewal, of getting rid of these scars and |
| 0:33.1 | regenerating our immune system function, we have to do things that are probably different than what we |
| 0:38.7 | did to get us into the problem to begin with. |
| 0:40.8 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:41.9 | I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones. |
| 0:43.9 | And today, I am talking with the one and only godfather of functional medicine himself, Dr. |
| 0:50.7 | Jeffrey Bland. |
| 0:52.1 | It was such an absolute honor to have him on, |
| 0:55.0 | as he is one of the founders of the Functional Medicine movement |
| 0:58.0 | through the creation of the Institute for Functional Medicine, |
| 1:02.0 | known as IFM to many of us, |
| 1:04.0 | and is the founder and president of the personalized lifestyle medicine institute, |
| 1:08.0 | or PLMI. |
| 1:10.0 | He's a best-selling author and has over 120 |
| 1:12.9 | peer-reviewed research publications. I have the utmost respect for him and was so glad we could |
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