Large Intestines – Functional Medicine Back to Basics

Power Health Talk with Dr. Martin Rutherford

https://youtu.be/zPjGmuhN4oc In this episode of Functional Medicine - Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford begins to delve into the nuances of how he goes about treating patients who are suffering with chronic conditions. Today he will be discussing the large intestines and why they are one of the first things that may be tackled. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com Hi Dr. Martin Rutherford this is the next in a series of our functional medicine back to basics. I've. Had many people clamoring to me when you're gonna start doing the asset with the treatment part. So I'm, doing the treatment part, and so so we've talked about basics, we've talked about about exams, we've talked about histories, we've talked about priorities. We've talked about really the foundational stuff that needs to be set up for your treatments, even to really be effective in in the functional medicine world. A lot of times we've talked about how, when you do those back to basics, then when you do those basics that that a lot of times a lot of times, a lot of the problems will clear up, doing blood sugar, doing stress hormones. Doing doing low blood pressure and getting those things under control, you can look back at the at the segment on priorities to see what I'm talking about. If that's, something that sounded like that was interesting to you. So once you start getting the physiology and under control there's, there's, a there's. I think the important thing in functional medicine is there's, a hierarchy of care, and fact I was just at a seminar this past weekend with my mentor dr. KRAS Ian, and he was talking about gut function and he was. He was talking about a north, the South approach, meaning you should look at the gut from north, meaning your mouth to south, meaning the other end of the other end, and and you should - and you should look at it in a specific order. Well, that expands across the board to to every case that comes in here. If you have a person where people come here with neurological cases, dizziness vertigo balance migraine people come here with gut cases, people come here, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, thought Hashimoto's, autoimmune. Those types of things that expands a gut as part of that, but but but you have to evaluate that case and then you have to figure out for that particular case. What should a specific hierarchy be for that case now that doctor I just mentioned doctor Razi and actually developed something called a metabolic assessment for him. I live and die by this form. You can't get it unless you go to his classes. Okay and he's got a copyrighted, and so I can't. Send it to you, because he - because I'm talking about it on here, and he would sue me so he probably wouldn't. He's, a really nice guy, but I can't, send it to you so anyway, so so it's kind of in an order. It's, kind of in an order of the way that you would treat so the first parts like what's called dysbiosis, which largely happens in your that you went in your large intestines and then the next part is leaky gut And the next part is chemical sensitivities now, technically, this is an order in which, in theory, the physiology breaks down, but everybody doesn't break down the same way. So this gives you the opportunity to gather an awful lot of data from the patient and then be able to having studied functional medicine know the hierarchy in which you should in which you should proceed. But I'm, going to kind of go. I'm gonna spend the next several weeks, probably more than several weeks going over the the specifics of this metabolic assessment form, because the this metabolic assessment form directs you to treatment,