When Medicine Meets Mother Nature: Exploring the Synergy of Nutraceuticals and Pharmaceuticals with Dr. Lara Zakaria

The Root Cause Medicine Podcast

Kate Kresge

Alternative Health, Medicine, 810564, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 581 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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In today's episode with Dr. Lara Zakaria, you’ll hear us take a deep dive on: 1. Balancing medication and nutrition for optimal health 2. Understanding drug-herb interactions 3. Enhancing medication efficacy with functional foods 4. Nutrient interactions with pharmaceuticals 5. Nutrition and lifestyle strategies for managing depression 6. Factors contributing to chronic anemia 7. Improving mental health with a Mediterranean diet and gut health support Lara is an Integrative Pharmacist, Certified Nutrition Specialist, and IFM Certified Practitioner (IFMCP). With over two decades dedicated to community pharmacy and retail, she seamlessly blends her expertise with more than ten years in integrative Functional Medicine, emphasizing nutritional strategies and plans. Currently, Lara serves as a Pharmacist and Clinical Nutritionist at Foodie Farmacist and holds a position as a Clinical Pharmacist at AndHealth. In the academic sphere, she enriches minds as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Bridgeport. Order tests through Rupa Health, the BEST place to order functional medicine lab tests from 30+ labs - https://www.rupahealth.com/reference-guide

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0:00.0	Today on the root cause medicine podcast. For some people, they want to get off of their medication.
0:05.5	They want to replace their medication either with a nutraceutical with just a food first approach,
0:10.4	but that's either going to be realistic for you or not realistic for you depending on your health
0:15.6	history and whatever else you're willing to do in order to achieve that goal. It's very highly individualized.
0:22.2	And as a result, that conversation can shed a little bit of light for us on, one,
0:27.5	what are the pros and cons?
0:28.9	What are the risks?
0:29.7	What are the benefits?
0:30.6	And how could we piece this together to help you understand the risk of what you're
0:36.2	currently taking and whether or not it's appropriate
0:38.4	or the benefits of maybe making some changes so that you can get your goal more efficiently.
0:44.4	Hey, guys, we have a really special episode for you today. Dr. Lara Zacharia is going to talk to
0:50.2	us about overhauling your medicine cabinet. So did you know that you can actually use natural interventions to increase the effectiveness
0:58.4	of your prescriptions and decrease the side effects?
1:02.4	Did you know that some prescription medications can actually deplete nutrients?
1:07.0	And did you know that a functional pharmacist can actually help you find and heal the root cause of a disorder in addition to taking medications to manage the symptoms?
1:15.4	We've got that and more for you today.
1:17.9	Before we get started, though, I want to talk to you about something that comes up pretty often on this podcast.
1:22.9	And that, of course, is lab testing.
1:25.4	Lab testing is one essential way to find and treat the root cause
1:28.8	of an illness. If you're a functional medicine practitioner, chances are you're placing a ton of
1:33.5	different orders with a ton of different labs. The Root Cause Medicine podcast was created by
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