The Link Between Autoimmune Disease, Chronic Fatigue, And Hidden Infections with Dr. Steven Phillips and Dana Parish

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The Link Between Autoimmune Disease, Chronic Fatigue, And Hidden Infections | This episode is brought to you by TrueDark, Essentia, and Tushy

Pandemic aside, we’re seeing a national immune crisis. Autoimmune conditions continue to rise to record numbers, not to mention all of the chronic mystery illnesses that so many people struggle with daily. I’ve experienced this firsthand, along with the corresponding frustration and fear. There is an intriguing hypothesis about these conditions that I get into with my guests, Dana Parish and Dr. Steven Phillips, today on The Doctor’s Farmacy: underlying infections. Sneaky tick-borne diseases like Lyme, parasitic infections, and certain viruses can be extremely hard to diagnose. Meanwhile, they can contribute to an immune system collapse and other life-threatening breakdowns throughout the entire body.

Dr. Phillips and Dana Parish share their incredible stories of overcoming chronic stealth infections after numerous doctors couldn’t help them. Lyme was a common factor for both of them, while Dr. Phillips was also able to diagnose Bartonella in Dana. At their worst, they both had extremely limited mobility and felt their lives were at risk. Dana shares that in addition to recovering her mobility and strength, treating these infections also had a profound impact on her mental health by reducing her anxiety and depression. Dr. Phillips’ journey not only forced him to be his own detective to find healing, but also showed him how much discordance there is among conventional medicine in treating diseases like Lyme.

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Here are more of the details from our interview:

How Dr. Phillips came to identify the pervasiveness of underlying infection driving autoimmune illness (7:39)

Dr. Phillips' personal life-threatening health crisis 8:54)

Lyme induced heart failure 14:01)

How a tick infection derailed Dana’s health in the prime of her life (18:24)

Testing for chronic tick, parasitic, and other latent infections (26:27)

Long-hauler Covid Syndrome (also called Long-Covid or Post-Covid) (28:56)

Out-of-the-box/under-the-radar treatment for chronic infection (37:06)

Infection induced mental health issues and the importance of advocating for your own health (38:44)

How conventional medicine often lacks a framework to uncover the root cause of illness (42:20)

Advice for individuals struggling to get answers for your mysterious symptoms (43:49)

Get Dr. Phillips and Dana Parish’s book, Chronic: The Hidden Cause of the Autoimmune Pandemic and How to Get Healthy Again, at https://www.thechronicbook.com/ and learn more on Facebook @thechronicbook, on Instagram @thechronicbook, and on Twitter @lymebook.

Learn more about Dr. Steven Phillips at https://stevenphillipsmd.com/.

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy, I think a lot of people suffer from anxiety and depression
0:06.0	Along with their quote autoimmune diseases and people tell them well you're anxious because you have fibromyalgia or because you have RA
0:14.1	No, you're not anxious because you have those things necessarily. I mean, yes, they suck. You're it's depressing
0:20.0	But there's a brain component here. There's a neurologic component
0:24.0	Hey, we wanted to talk to Mark most people don't realize that our exposure to light has a huge impact on our health
0:32.3	And that's because we're wired to respond to the changing position of the sun
0:35.8	Which regulates our bodies circadian rhythm and either helps us to feel energized and awake or lets us know it's time for bet
0:42.3	But our modern always on culture means we're now surrounded by conventional LEDs
0:46.5	And fluorescent bulbs and digital devices with bright-lit screens that have a junk light around the clock
0:50.8	My friend Dave asked by actually coin that phrase junk light to describe the excess of blue light as well as green and violet light that disrupts our circadian rhythms
0:58.7	junk light reduces our ability to produce melatonin which is a key hormone for regulating our internal clock sleeping well and even aging well
1:05.4	It's important to realize we actually need to be exposed as certain amounts of blue light in a daytime
1:09.8	Otherwise, we may feel as to sleep you're tired
1:12.5	It's the excess of all that blue light along with other types that leads to a long list of potential problems
1:18.4	So how can we get just the right amount of light throughout the day?
1:21.9	Well going outside is of course key, but we almost all work on computers these days and have our phones with us 24
1:27.7	And that's why I was really excited to learn about the true dark daylight glasses
1:32.0	True dark daylights are meant to be worn during the day they come with either clear lenses that block 40% of blue light or yellow lenses that block
1:39.6	75% of blue light
1:41.6	Some of these daylights also act as transition sunglasses that in addition to boxing toxic blue light indoors
1:47.2	Also have photochromatic lenses that are darker when exposed to natural sunlight outdoors and block 99% of UVA UVB rays
1:55.4	So they double the sunglasses with true dark daylights you help prevent eye strain and headaches from overexposure junk light
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