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FUNCTIONAL VS CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE Why you need both · Health, Life & What’s Next

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  Jennifer GNC, where we discuss what it really takes to heal your body.
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  Comfortable and get started Welcome today.
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  I want to discuss the difference between functional versus conventional medicine.
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  And it is very important.
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  You understand why both are needed.
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  Oh, which one you should be utilized the most.
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  Because I am biased since I've been a functional medicine doctor, I believe every body.
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  Should be.
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  In the functional medicine space, more so than they are in the conventional space.
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  But today we're going to discuss the difference because it is important for you to.
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  Identify and determine.
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  When you should use one.
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  Versus the other or how you can use both, conventional medicine that's where everybody's been.
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  Right.
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  You have a stomach issue acid reflux, you go to your primary care doctor and they give you a pill.
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  Or you in pain, you don't know what's going on.
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  If the primary care doctor cannot help you, he or she will refer you to a specialist, which is the GI doctor.
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  So conventional medicine is one umbrella where you have all your specialists under one roof, you have your primary care doctor.
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  Your experts or specialists like a GI doctor, your kidney doctor.
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  your lung doctor pulmonologist, your brain doctor.
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  New allergist or endocrinologist that you have all this expert in here.
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  And the goal is to wheelie.
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  I guess assess you, evaluate you and then give you a pill.
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  So when you go to the conventional space, you are asking for a pill.
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  If I'm being honest with you, that's the way it is.
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  Sometimes you might find a conventional or conservative doctor who doesn't really give you prescription right away.
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  But at the end of the day, 90% of the time.
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  When you see a conventional doctor, you asking for a pill, you will live the office with a prescription, or they will call then.
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  to your pharmacy.
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  Think about conventional.
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  Think about pale for the air.
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  And also with conventional medicine, there's no preventative.
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  Okay.
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  So disease management.
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  Madison.
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  You have to be sick for your doctor to help you in the conventional space.
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  If you are not sick enough.
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  You will not get the help you're looking for.
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  For instance, if you come to the doctor and say, doctor, I've been having headaches, Three days out of the week.
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  And I'm worried.
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  I'm scared.
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  I might have an animism or I might have something.
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  And you go to your primary care doctor.
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  If you don't have the headache at the moment, you are speaking to your doctor, he or she will not do anything for you.
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  With the conventional space.
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  It is a quick visit.
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  This is how it works.
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  You call your doctor.
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  You make an appointment for nine o'clock.
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  And you show up for your medical visit.
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  At LACC eight 30.
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  Most often you will be waiting for hours.
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  What is the purpose of scheduling an appointment?
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  If you have to wait for hours, you sit in the waiting room.
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  With other people waiting to be seen by the doctor.
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  Four hours sometimes an hour, sometimes an hour and a half.
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  Some doctors are trying to do better.
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  Not, they might keep it short.
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  The 30 minutes, but she'll be waiting.
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  So your appointment for nine o'clock might not be, you might not be seen at nine o'clock.
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  You walked in the nurse called you show you to the room set you down do all the things you need to do.
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  Take your.
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  Vital signs.
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  Prepare you the doctor comes in.
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  How are you?
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  My name is Dr.
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  So-and-so.
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  What can I do for you?
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  What's going on today?
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  Depends on the questions.
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  You have headaches what's causing the headaches?
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  I don't know.
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  Okay.
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  Well, let's do some blood tests.
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  Let's do basic things and see if we can help you.
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  And then you get handed a script.
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  A medication.
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  And then off you go.
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  If it's a blood test, you go to the blood test sometimes they'll call you sometimes they don't call you and you have to find out the results on your own.
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  The nurse might call you back and say, everything is normal.
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  Since everything is normal, then you should be normal, right?
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  Why are you not.
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  Feeling your best?
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  Why are you still struggling?
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  Why are you still.
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  Experiencing the symptoms.
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  If everything is normal.
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  If the blood work shows some slight elevation slight abnormalities.
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  The doctor might be telling you, it's just slightly elevated.
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  We'll keep an eye on it.
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  Why are we waiting until things get worse, we to do something about it.
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  This doesn't make sense to me and to many people as well.
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  We don't want to wait until the car is completely broken.
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  It's not functioning to do something about it.
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  So when you think about conventional medicine tech about disease management, Sick care.
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  A pill for the ill.
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  Short brief visit unanswered questions.
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  Not solution driven.
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  That's conventional medicine.
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  Now you might be saying well, Dr.
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  Jensi.
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  It seems like you are completely against conventional medicine, which is not the case.
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  To be honest with you.
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  I used to be a conventional Medicine practitioner.
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  Working in an emergency room and I loved it.
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  I love getting people stabilized.
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  I would love to do a differently instead of giving the medications.
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  But seeing these people come in on a stretcher and live in or admitted to the floor stabilize.
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  If they were having a heart attack or stroke, you can see the body stabilized.
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  But of course I was not helping anybody healed anything.
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  We were just numbing the symptoms, numbing with medications, and then never identifying the with cause true problem.
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  After so long, you realize, okay, I'm not really helping people.
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  My intention is to help people, but how am I doing this?
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  If I'm just given a pill?
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  However conventional medicine is good for emergency care only.
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  If you're having a heart attack, a stroke, please go see a conventional doctor.
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  If you cannot find an answer at all.
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  You notice something wrong and you find a conventional doctor.
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  That is conservative that's going to sit listen to you.
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  Go see that doctor get the medication to stabilize the pain, but you should never stop there.
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  Never.
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  That's the number one mistake people make.
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  Once they get the medication they feel well, or the medication numb the symptoms, they think that's it.
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  They find a solution.
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  They never go above and beyond to really identify what caused the problem in the first place.
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  And then hold them behold.
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  The problem comes back.
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  I use conventional medicine.
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  I still prescribe, if I'm being honest with you, I'm still prescribing.
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  Cause I wrote.
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  I still prescribe to stabilize my patient.
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  Not long ago, I saw a patient with poison Ivy.
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  In pain I'm not going to wait for me to give them herbs.
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  Right.
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  So I give him some valid tricks.
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  I give him some medication for two, three days.
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  To kind of decrease the inflammation, decrease the pain while we navigate the functional natural medicine space.
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  Okay, so conventional has its own.
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  Benefit.
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  It's own use.
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  But I found too often that people stay in that state of mind or in the conventional space.
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  For too long.
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  And that's not helping us.
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  That's why people are still getting sick and they will remain in sick.
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  You might be feeling better today because the medication is working.
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  But I got onto you.
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  Your body would get used to the medication.
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  Your health will plateau.
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  Oh, you might have some complications or experiencing some side effects or more issues the new started with.
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  So that's conventional.
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  I still recommend conventional medicine for what it is, utilize it for what it is.
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  But you just have to know when to use it.
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  And for me.
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  I usually highly recommend patients use it for emergency situation.
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  Only if you have a headache.
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  Conventional medicine is not what you need you have to really take in consideration what's causing the headache if you just have a headache, it's not affecting your vision.
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  The function of the body's not stopping in your truck.
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  I wouldn't recommend conventional medicine.
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  You have to go back prior to having that headache and identify what's causing the headache.
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  That's what you need to do.
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  You might say, well, Dr.
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  Jensi I'm very uncomfortable.
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  My head is killing me and I'm afraid I need to go see the doctor.
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  Takes some Tylenol.
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  Over the counter.
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  And investigate.
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  Why you getting the headache?
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  That's what functional medicine comes into place.
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  There are so many things you can do in the functional medicine space.
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  And I know you might be here in so many things misconception of a functional medicine, some myths about functional medicine, how this is not a well medicine.
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  It doesn't work is a scam.
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  Is Wu medicine.
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  It's voodoo medicine.
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  But functional medicine used to be the medicine.
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  Implemented back in the days.
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  Back in the days we didn't have all these medications, big pharma.
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  Insurance weren't that popular people were listening to the bodies using herbs simple remedies to heal the bodies.
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  What is functional medicine?
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  Functional medicine is the medicine too.
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  We store we pair with juvenate your body naturally.
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  The philosophy is that your body's designed to clean repair restore itself.
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  We have south that I would juvenate.
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  Every single minute.
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  We have tissues that are we pairing every single minute.
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  So if that's the case.
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  Then, if we are patient with ourselves, we find a program, a treatment protocol that works for you.
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  There's no way you're not going to heal your body.
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  The body loves when we keep it simple.
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  It doesn't lack when we complicate and do all these things and put all these things in there and then you become confusing.
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  Collect in taxes and so on and so forth.
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  The body doesn't like that.
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  We functional medicine, we treat the whole body.
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  And my fine doctor that specialize in specific area.
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  Like myself specialize in the gut digestive issues.
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  Because I know by focusing on the gut or the GI track you can healed.
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  The body as a whole.
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  You can address a lot of symptoms as a hope.
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  If you have a headache focused on the gut.
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  If you have skin issues, focus on the gut.
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  If you have chronic fatigue, focus on the gut.
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  If you have joint pain, hair loss.
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  Focused on the gut.
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  So with functional medicine, what we do.
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  It is an investigative medicine.
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  It is a wood cause medicine.
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  It is not for these ease management, sick care.
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  Or you have to be dying for us to treat you.
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  That's not what functional medicine is.
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  It isn't a medicine that's going to help you identify the problem.
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  And if you find a good practitioner is also going to help you fix the problem.
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  Because.
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  The way I see it.
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  Our bad is a not crazy.
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  They are not designed to hurt us.
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  They are designed to work for us.
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  But if we don't know what's happening internally, Then we won't be able to support.
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  And get the healing that we're looking for.
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  We focused on the cells of your body.
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  We know that this ease is a cellular process.
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  So therefore, if we're going to heal your body, we have to focus on the cells.
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  We have trillions and trillions of cells.
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  And they work for us.
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  To make sure we function every day.
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  If you understand this concept of functional medicine.
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  The new and knew exactly how to heal your body.
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  Every human being should embrace functional medicine.
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  Should welcome functional medicine in the lives.
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  It is not one of those medicine you can just bypass or ignore.
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  It is the true medicine.
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  That's really gonna give it a results that you're looking for.
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  That's Willy gonna guide you.
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  That's the medicine for you.
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  I, as I mentioned in the previous.
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  Podcast my journey.
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  In discovering functional medicine.
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  It's like a hole when you world.
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  Cause as I was struggling with my own half issues.
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  With no help.
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  No one to come rescue me.
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  I have to really think outside of the box.
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  I have to get out of the conventional space.
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  And really take a step back and evaluate what's going on here.
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  Why do I not feel my best?
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  What is happening?
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  I was not created to be in pain and have all these half issues.
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  Right.
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  Like Hashimoto thyroiditis.
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  Ty with issues.
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  That's an auto-immune condition.
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  Many people think just taking a pill, that's going to help you know, you need to identify the with, cause you need to identify the root cause what's causing all this inflammation, all this pain and for the organs not to work properly.
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  What's giving you the headache, what's causing the spasm in your brain.
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  If you do not.
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  Address, this that's how people get severely sick.
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  Chronic health issues.
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  Auto immune cancer.
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  Because they live in the conventional space.
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  And they depend on the conventional to get the results they're looking for, which is never the right thing to do.
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  By taking a pill.
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  There's no way you're going to heal your body.
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  If you do not focus on.
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  Identifying.
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  We're moving detoxifying, decreasing inflammation, eliminating.
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  It's like a tune up.
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  For your body.
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  If you embrace this concept you understand the use of conventional medicine, the use of functional medicine.
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  You will go so far.
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  In your house.
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  Now, luckily for me, I have found what worked and everything that I need to hear my body to eliminate symptoms or prevent medications it's in the functional medicine space.
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  But back in the days prior to going on this journey, I was using a lot of conventional, but unfortunately, Just that many other people.
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  All felt no results, no outcomes.
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  Still stick.
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  Still looking still frustrated.
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  Still.
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  Anxious.
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  No clarity.
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  I never understood what was going on in my own body.
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  Until I went back and we'd learn everything.
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  As a doctor.
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  Discover the magical herbs when you listen to your body.
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  You investigate.
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  And you find out the what cause or the underlying condition.
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  You feel better?
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  You do better.
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  You make better choices.
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  You have a plan.
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  There's a light at the end of the tunnel.
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  And then you see that all the possibilities of healing your body with no medications.
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  No medication at all.
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  Now, if you're hearing this and you said, well, okay, well, I don't know why she's talking about, because medication has helped me.
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  Then continue doing that.
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  I have yet to find out or meet someone that only relate a medication in the well, I'm sorry.
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  You might be taking the medication for five years and you manage it.
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  But guess what?
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  You're going to wake up one day and find out something else is broken.
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  Or the medication doesn't work or they have to up the dose.
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  They'll have to try the latest one that, the big farm, I just release.
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  Oh, your symptoms are getting worse.
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  So the goal with this.
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  Is to educate you, let you know you have options.
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  And you should really be considering all your options before you make a final decision.
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  If conventional medicine is where you add, because it's covered by insurance.
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  We'll do a whole thing about why it's covered by insurance and what you get when insurance bay was this functional medicine.
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  That's not covered by insurance.
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  If it's conventional medicine, that's where you need to be.
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  That's fine too.
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  As long as you getting the results and you can sit with yourself and say, yes, I take all the pills.
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  I feel great.
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  Nothing is happening.
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  Or the same pills I took five years ago.
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  It's the same pill that I'm taking now, and I don't need to change anything.
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  That's awesome.
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  Keep it up.
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  Go for it.
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  Continue because we have to do what's worth.
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  But if you find yourself taking one pill after another.
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  And not loving or liking the side effects or you still don't know what's going on with your body.
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  And you find yourself on a rollercoaster session all over the world.
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  Seeing so many people.
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  Asking so many questions and still left.
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  Confused.
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  Then I think it's fair to say.
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  You should at least consider.
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  Functional medicine.
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  At least see what type of help you can receive what can it do for you instead of dismissing it completely because.
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  You've heard bad things about it.
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  Okay.
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  Now.
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  I as the practitioner who's been practicing functional medicine.
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  For over eight years now.
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  I can help you.
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  Guide you.
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  Answer some of your questions.
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  I can help you identify what's going on.
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  So, all you have to do is just book a call.
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  So we do have a physical location here in Danville, New Jersey one, that's going to NJ, but we also provide telemedicine virtual medicine because this year.
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  I am on a mission.
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  To help people.
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  I am tired of seeing people being sick, staying sick, still doing exactly.
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  What they were asked to do the following.
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  Recommendations.
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  But they're still not getting the results at all.
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  I'm tired of it.
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  And since I mentioned in the previous podcast, I was chosen through this work because this is what I live to do.
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  I'm here.
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  My team is here you can get some answers.
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  If you have some confusion, you just don't know how this can work for you.
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  20 minutes out of your time and just speak to a functional medicine doctor and say, Hey, I've tried the conventional it was working for me.
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  It's not working for me anymore.
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  I think I need to navigate, I need to find something else.
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  Can you help me?
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  How can this medicine, this functional medicine helped me.
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  What can I do?
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  What results can I experience?
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  It's just simple as picking up the phone.
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  Okay.
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  So we gonna do.
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  Poor and cons.
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  Functional and conventional medicine.
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  And then.
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  Because at the end of the day, yes.
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  I want you to embrace functional medicine because it is the medicine that have helped.
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  Oh, hundreds of people, including myself.
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  It is the less toxic.
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  Medicine.
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  When you just have your first symptoms.
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  Functional medicine can prevent further damage or complications.
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  It is a restorative medicine.
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  That's why I say it's not a disease because yes, you have this ease.
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  This ease is a way of your body telling you something is off internally.
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  Symptoms is a way of your body communicating with you.
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  What functional medicine is to restore.
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  And give you back your health and your life.
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  Alright, if you are looking for help and you felt like, okay, well, You saw me on there is that the gen Z, I'm going to try to do this functional medicine thing, but I don't know where to start the, who I should talk to just schedule a call for discovery calls.
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  It's 20 minutes.
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  We call it the natural.
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  Half the assessment call.
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  And then I answered some questions if we were a good fit.
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  And then I invite you to work with me.
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  If we're not a good fit, then you have some answers and you can just look for your soulmate.
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  That third.
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  thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for listening to this episode.
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  Bye-bye.