Hello, welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host Evan Braine. If you're new to the show, welcome.

I'm an online functional medicine practitioner. What I do is I help people investigate their health

issues, anything from anxiety, allergies, depression, chronic fatigue, joint issues, hormone imbalances,

low libido, low energy, you crash after exercise, you're irritable, you're grumpy, you don't

know what the hell's wrong with you. Even if you've been to 20, 30 doctors, usually people

end up knocking on my virtual door. And then what we end up doing is we find things that they've

never discovered before. We use at- home functional medicine lab testing to investigate your

mitochondrial health. We look at your neurotransmitters, your nutrient levels. And there's a lot

we can do with natural medicine, specifically herbs, botanicals, binders, liver support,

adrenals, adaptogenic herbs, you name it. There's so many tools in the natural medicine

toolbox that do amazing things and in many, many cases, far more effective and definitely

safer than the pharmaceutical alternatives such as proton pump inhibitors. Maybe if you

have a digestive problem, you temporarily need one.

If you have major gastritis, maybe you have ulcers or you have some sort of other major

gut flare, you might need something like a PPI.

But if you just look at the literature that's coming out now on long-term use of PPI's, this is a potential risk factor for

neurodegenerative disease development. What does that mean? That means Parkinson's,

dementia, Alzheimer's. Look it up. Type in proton pump inhibitors, dementia. It's a massive factor because when you're turning down

stomach acid production you're not digesting your food and after testing 3,000

plus people around this planet even in the quote healthiest organic eating

people there are massive nutrient deficiencies that we see every single day.

We had a little girl yesterday in the clinic four years old. Her mom's done everything right on paper.

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