Why You Keep Getting Sinus Infections, Colds, Urinary Tract Infections, And Other Recurrent Infections with Dr. Elizabeth Boham
The Dr. Hyman Show
Dr. Mark Hyman
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🗓️ 15 May 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Many of us wonder why we keep getting sick and repeatedly suffer from recurrent infections—whether it be sinus infections, ear infections, urinary tract infections, cold and flu, or a range of other infections. While conventional medicine typically treats these infections with antibiotics, Functional Medicine digs deeper to determine the cause of the infection and what can be done to eliminate it.
In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman is joined by Dr. Elizabeth Boham to discuss the Functional Medicine approach to breaking the cycle of recurrent infections and how to make ourselves more immune resilient.
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.
In this episode, Dr. Hyman and Dr. Boham discuss:
- Strengthening our immune system to break the cycle of recurrent infections.
- COVID-19.
- How antibiotics can disrupt the balance of bugs in our microbiome, affecting the immune system, and leading to a cycle of infections.
- A 10-year old patient Dr. Boham treated who was consistently getting sick from cold and flu.
- Dairy as a common cause of congestion and recurrent ear infections.
- Boosting the immune system with zinc and vitamin C.
- How heavy metals, such as lead, interrupt gut function and affect the immune system.
- Using probiotics and supplements to personalize treatment for recurrent infections.
- Supporting the detoxification system to improve the immune system.
- Treating recurrent bladder infections.
- Common causes of urinary tract infections (UTIs).
- Breaking the cycle of recurrent bladder infections by drinking a lot of water, urinating frequently, wiping from front to back, wearing cotton underwear, and urinating after sex as well as with probiotics, cranberry, D-mannose, and herbs.
- Rejuvenating the immune system with sleep, exercise, stress reduction, a whole foods diet, getting off sugar, and eliminating ultra-processed foods.
For more information visit drhyman.com/uwc
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Additional Resources:
“Five Tips for Building a Better Immune System”
https://ultrawellnesscenter.com/2020/02/08/five-tips-for-building-a-better-immune-system/
“5 Steps to Break the Cycle of Chronic Urinary Tract Infections”
“Getting to the Root | Episode 3 | Supporting the Immune System”
“Top 5 Foods to Support Your Immune System”
https://ultrawellnesscenter.com/2018/11/12/top-5-foods-to-support-your-immune-system/
“The Wrong Gut Bugs Can Make You Fat and Sick (and How to Fix Them)”
“How To Feed Your Gut”
https://drhyman.com/blog/2018/04/13/how-to-feed-your-gut/
“Are You Still Consuming Dairy?”
https://drhyman.com/blog/2017/07/27/still-consuming-dairy/
“Stuffy Nose, Headaches, and Honey”
https://drhyman.com/blog/2017/04/21/stuffy-nose-headaches-honey/
“Heartburn and Candida: What is Your Gut Trying to Tell You?”
https://drhyman.com/blog/2017/04/06/heartburn-candida-gut-trying-tell/
“Here’s the Downside of Antibiotics Your Doctor Might Not Tell You”
https://drhyman.com/blog/2017/01/25/heres-downside-antibiotics-doctor-might-not-tell/
“A Functional Medicine Approach to COVID-19”
https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/04/01/a-functional-medicine-approach-to-covid-19/
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy, we'll see that somebody gets an infection, right? |
| 0:05.3 | For this kid it was his ear infection or for somebody else it might be a urinary tract infection or a sinus infection. |
| 0:11.0 | They you're given antibiotics, |
| 0:13.2 | but those antibiotics get rid of the infection, but they also they also can get rid of all that good bacteria. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the doctor's pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Heimann and this is a special episode called House Call with my colleague and friend and partner at the |
| 0:32.5 | Ultrawalena Center of the Medical Director, Dr. Elizabeth Bohem. And this is a conversation that you should all pay attention to because it's about how to prevent infections. |
| 0:41.1 | And given our current situation with COVID-19, we should all be paying acute attention on how to boost our immune systems, |
| 0:48.6 | how to make ourselves more immune resilient and how to as my friend Dr. Jeffrey Blanc says how to create a process of immunorejuvenation. |
| 0:58.5 | I like that. |
| 0:59.7 | This is a great word, which is how do we make ourselves |
| 1:04.2 | immune warriors? So our immune system is functioning on all cylinders. So one, we may be able to resist getting infections. |
| 1:11.5 | We'll talk about some cases on how we do that, not with COVID, but in general. And two, |
| 1:16.3 | how if we get something we might not get that sick. |
| 1:20.2 | And I think that yesterday I was |
| 1:23.8 | talking to a physician's assistant who worked in the emergency room in |
| 1:28.8 | a hospital in |
| 1:30.4 | Massachusetts and she was saying how they saw probably 30 to 40 |
| 1:35.3 | COVID patients a day. |
| 1:38.5 | Most of them came in for testing with mild symptoms. |
| 1:42.3 | And then there was a few that were very sick who came in really short of breath, |
| 1:46.8 | really struggling and |
| 1:49.0 | unable to sort of manage who had to be admitted to the hospital or |
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