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Hi!
Although you may already be a savvy practitioner, I am certain you will learn something new in this video about ‘Autoimmune Disease Through the Functional Medicine Lens‘ You’ll walk away with pages of notes and practical pearls you can use in your practice right away.
Here are some of the things we’ll be discussing:
- Perhaps the biggest fallacy of the typical conventional medicine lens on Autoimmunity. It’s too often promoted in FxMed too.
- Poly-autoimmunity – the good, the bad, and the ugly.
- The 4-legged stool model of autoimmune disease activation: can you name the legs?
- The 3 most common mechanisms for triggering target tissue attack in autoimmunity.
- Why they get better but don’t stay better? Perhaps surprising keys to help patients maintain their progress and prevent flares.
- The most common dietary pitfalls of popular autoimmune food regimens – and what to consider instead.
- The gifts and gotchas of autoimmune pharmaceutical solutions. Life saving for short-term use and then promoting downstream autoimmune disease (the very diagnosis it is prescribed for in the first place). Huh? Yes, this one can be insidious.
- Key biochemical considerations in times of COVID that must stay on our clinical radar.
- Perhaps The Most Important thing to do First when working with an autoimmune patient.
Please share your feedback below in the “Ask a Question” area about what specifically inspired you in this presentation. We look forward to hearing your perspective!
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40 Questions for “Autoimmune Disease Through the Functional Medicine Lens”
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Carlien Hefer says:
I love the analogy of sitting on 3 tacks and the need to remove all three! Elevated Alkaline Phosphatase can be because of a disease dynamic in the bone, not necessarily because of a disease dynamic in the hepatic biliary tree.
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Ankita kaul says:
Two skills that we need to explain our patients:
One – Patience – ready, willing, sustainable changes
Two- Discipline-3 thumbs tack model is a great way to explain why we need to be disciplined in our healing journeyI lost a client who’s main goal was weight loss – she could not wait to loose all the excess weight in less than 3 months… I think I failed her as did not work on setting her expectations right by sharing the two skills needed to achieve the desired goal:
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Marina Barnard says:
Learned a lot about poly – outoimmunity and treatment and to keep patients motivated for long term adherence to a program and to look for all 4 legs of the stool and not only certain parts
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Jennifer Catino, MPT, LMT says:
the information about how to address LPS, like good gallbladder function as well as alkaline phosphatases impact in the gut on LPS was inspiring!
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Archana Shah says:
I enjoyed the analogy of the 4-legged stool and the importance of each leg
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Brittany Heyden says:
Be realistic about time frames!! Healing doesn’t happen over time!
LPS-alk phosphates -low can be due to nutrient deficiencies!!
Gallbladder function needs to be optimal-so many issues with this!!!!
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Jenny Howell says:
I loved the thumb tack analogy – so helpful when explaining to Clients. Loved this Facebook LIVE training thank you so much!
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Amanda Thornton says:
I absolutely loved the tacks in the butt – I think every client would appreciate the wisdom.
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Thank you, Tracy! So much great information here, and the ‘Three Tacks’ analogy really spoke to me. So visual, easy to explain and very relatable way to explain the importance of expectations and the skills of patience and consistency!
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Shanedra Davis says:
This was a great topic on autoimmune disease through the functional medicine lens. I have learned that we can not look at people through lab work (especially when it’s normal) when they are suffering, we need to understand there symptoms and what causes the triggers. Understanding that active genetics and a week immune system can be the root to an autoimmune disease.
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Kristina DePuyt says:
I’m new to this. Really becoming interested in more since my daughter is going through diagnosis of another autoimmune disease on top of celiac so I’m very interested in the lipopolysaccaride’s role in this.
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Karina sherman says:
Great talk , thank you.
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Simone Jamie says:
I loved the reminder about keeping explanations with clients simple, with minimal medical language references – keeps out fear and also post-session googling by clients. Having some great analogies in order to explain concepts to clients do they are clear and motivated to make changes and follow recommendations 🙏
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Ruth says:
I just so needed to hear so much of this again! Sometimes when working with complex cases it’s so easy to become fixated with the trigger and frustrated that you can’t find it, and forget the all the other wonderful diet and lifestyle elements you are doing are just as crucial 🥰 thank you so much for the reminder!
Ps I hope this was the right place to enter the competition!!
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Vindeira Resaul-Maraj says:
I really appreciated the analogy of the 3 pins and sitting on the cushion blindly. It’s a perfect analogy to use with my clients as this is exactly what occurs. And so through using analogies like this, I can help them to understand the bigger picture. I also appreciated that we need to talk about sustainability even after we have reached our desired optimal functioning status. Wonderful presentation! Thank you!
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Tiffany Turley says:
I have PAGES of notes, honestly all of it is amazing…this go round it wasn’t even a scientific favorite…it was you reminding us to SEE the person where they are at. Find out their history, labs last. And Part of my new motto, “I am a heart centered individual with a calling”
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Beatrix Szokola says:
TTG’s – clarifying the mechanism how celiac can affect the brain and skin
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Kathy Martin says:
Great program today!
I learned more about the importance of gut health to affect leaky gut and produce inflammation which can become systemic (among other goodies / clinical info)!
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Karolina Skrzypek says:
I loved learning about the innate vs adaptive immune response
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This is reminding me to revisit all my food sensitivities and see if the serious neurological problems I am having are facilitating the pain and numbness in my right hip and , groinand leg. i have recently had CAt scans and MRI’s for this. had been seeing a chripractoer for 6 weeks twice daily. The pain relief only lasts for anywhere from 30 minutes-1-2 hours.I had a huge cancerous tumor removed from my right side (was on bladder) May 29th 2022.Same cancer from 13 years ago had returned.
Feeling much better,but no have serious mobility issues, pain and numbness.Your talk today spoke about food sensitivities and neurological problems and leaky gut(you used a better newer term, word escapes me at present.) You also spoke about anger possibly being a symptom. Although I believe,that basically the world is currently in overwhelm Covid, wars, cancel culture etc.,It made me think, that perhaps the aclose to the surface anger may be not just du eto pain and stress, but other things ahppening in the body. I will endeavor to listen to your talk again.Thank you! lots of love and blessings to you an dyour team!Warmly, Karen xx