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Hi!
Are you confident in your knowledge of asthma, as seen through the functional medicine lens?
Although you may already be a savvy practitioner, I am certain you will learn something new in this video. 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:
- The #1 intolerance that triggers asthma: are you confident in how to address it?
- Medications are often prescribed as a first line therapy for asthma, but at what cost long-term?
- Learn power rapid relief tools that can buy you time to uncover each patient’s unique root causes.
- The Gut Strikes Again – The 3 most common dynamics that begin in the GI tract and promote asthma. Over and over again!
- The surprising hormone imbalances that are often at play in asthma too!
- An everyday nemesis that is so toxic, it can trigger asthma all on its own. Are you looking for it?
- The biggest functional practitioner misstep that actually worsens asthma. Are you making it too?
Thank you very much for joining in the fun and learning!
With warmth, love, and gratitude to you for sharing your gifts with so many –
Please share your thoughts (please be thorough) in the “Ask a Question” area below about what inspired you in this presentation! Include what type of practitioner you are, so that we can all see your unique perspective.
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Once again thank you for the excellent pearls. It was interesting to hear how congestion and post nasal can have the same root cause as asthma. I’m wondering if Epsom salts baths can be a viable way to increase magnesium levels? Thank you once again for sharing your wisdom so freely.
For remission of modern chronic inflammatory dynamics, DON’T put all your eggs in one basket (especially since likely eliminating eggs along with dairy–LOL) but, rather, since dis-ease/disease often from a cluster of factors joining forces to cause a perfect storm of cascading issues, DO try to address a cluster of potential factors on a number of fronts like: deficiencies in B6, B12, magnesium; deficient T4 to t3 conversion (which a TSH reading will fail to divulge) and since T4-to-T3 takes place almost entirely peripherally (e.g., in liver, kidneys, intestines, etc.) and needs zinc, iron, selenium, check those; low stomach acid that impairs digestive secretions which can impair nutrient absorption, thus nutrient insufficiency/deficiency.
Thank you Tracy for today’s video! I’ve been dipping my toes into FM for a while now and think I’m almost ready to dive in to the next semester course, which I think starts in September. It’s hard to pick a single pearl to say was my favorite, but as a huge proponent of magnesium, I was happy to learn its important role in asthma. I also had never thought through why we’re all deficient and was intrigued to learn the soil itself is deficient. Fingers crossed to win the deep dive course ?
I’ve been a Practicing Health Coach since 2012.
ACE Certified Health Coach 2016 – present
Certified Bredesen ReCODE practitioner IFM 2017 – present
So many pearls to choose from. The common
Predisposing factors that will set up the immune system
To lead to a toxic inflamed state. Genetic predisposition and
Chronic lifestyle choices. Immunosuppression causes crap food
Toxins and stress. We eat less and less real food which is draped
and imbedded with chemicals.
Less fresh air, less whole food, less
Natural environment, less microbes, less dirt, less skin, less sweat,
More anti microbial agents, more fillers, so much engineered experience,
A lot less naturalness on earth and in environment, more plastic, electronics
Poor sleep, ruminating thoughts all predisposing factors to disease.
Also the Fred the Immune Cell and Bob the buddy cell Anecdotal Vignette for clients
Using the example of Cool Ranch Dorito shows a relatable picture to help explain
Crap food and how it affects the immune response.
Great information! Looking forward to sharing this with my audience. I wasn’t aware of the connection between asthma and hypothyroidism, and the importance of a full thyroid panel, and especially free T3.
Thank you Tracy for a wonderful presentation! Sorry the internet went wonky! Hope everyone. was ok in the storm. For me the most interesting was about hypochlorhydria in children in relation to asthma as well as the interconnection to low B12 and low methymelonic acid.
Hello Tracy! Thank you for providing these monthly presentations as a service to the collective and ever-widening community of practitioners. I was inspired to hear how you present the story of immunity and how relatable and simple we, as teachers, can make it to convey powerful tenents of health which ultimately empower and change behaviors. I also enjoyed hearing the common connections you made with inflammation changing cells either in the bronchioles or vessels, you point out that it is all the same basic inflammatory response with each tissue manifesting it a bit differently. I would love to hear/learn more about inflammation and the chronic pain experience since this is the area of work that I have been focusing on in the past year as a FNP. How does the immune system know which tissue it is going to settle in for any given person and more importantly how do we reverse the many different etiologies of chronic pain and reduce the need for addictive or harm producing pain relievers?
I am a Certified Health Coach in Austin, Texas. This was my first time learning with Tracy. I thoroughly enjoyed her presentation. It was very informative. My pearl I was gifted with came in the form of learning that corticoid steroids deplete potassium- what an important thing to know!
My take away that I did not know – interconnectedness between subclinical hypothyroid and asthma; I’ve never encountered any residents in the nursing home (I’m a senior care consultant pharmacist) that gets their Thyroid Panel checked when they have asthma. Something that I should recommend to get tested.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us in such an enthusiastic, concise and thoughtful way. I really love listening to you and learning from you. The connection of asthma with the thyroid and wheezing with the B vitamins was very interesting and new to me.
Thank you again Tracy for another super insightful presentation. One new fact I learned was that low Vit B12 can be linked with asthma, and especially that checking methylmalonic acid levels is an indicator of mitochondrial sufficiency of Vit B12.
After 9 months as a student of SAFM, it still amazes me how many priceless pearls I still learn about. Hypochlorhydria , food allergies (milk and eggs) as root causes for asthma is mind blowing. I am grateful to be able to learn about so many great facts backed by science at the SAFM. Additional pearls such as how to treat with herbs like Nettle Leaf (not root) and tone sure the client who is suffering from asthma has plenty of B12 in his/ her cell’s mitochondria is absolutely priceless information. I look forward to using this new knowledge on my future asthma clients.
I was inspiried by the B12 info, gut healing and triggers by eggs and dairy thank you
Oh that wheezing part and B12 was very helpful info. I really like the Fred and Bob – this will mede me remember it all the time 🙂
I alway find the level of interconnectedness fascinating. In this case the interconnectedness between our respiratory system. gastrointestinal system and our immune system. It’s such an excellent reminder of how the systems of the body function as a whole. Individuals who have Hypochlorhydria, low stomach acid, have 10 times the level IGE mediated allergy. Low stomach acid effects the denaturing of proteins and proteins that are not properly denature can look like foreign invaders to the immune system, which can cause an immune response and lead to inflammation in the body. Fascinating!
I really appreciated how your immune system has sentinel cells and others that perform surveillance and decide whether to tolerate a food item or have an immune response. This was a new idea for me. I plan to use that with my patients when discussing food choices and discussing how hyper vigilance on the part of immune cells can be contributing to asthma.
Hi I am a Nutrition & Lifestyle Practitioner I am based in the UK.
I found the clinical pearls fascinating and in particular the info on b12 and wheezing, and how digestion can also impact on asthma such as hypochloridia having an impact on incidents of asthma
Can wait for you to share your next clinical pearls!
Pearl that I pulled out:
Some signs / symptoms of subclinical Mg are constipation, headache, higher blood pressure, charlie horse, bronchial spasms.
To asses Mg level good to RBC Mg – should be in the upper 1/3 of reference range.
Another amazing clinical session with Tracy! Anyone else absolutely LOVE the cool ranch doritos analogy?! LOL
Stop confusing Fred & Bob people! End the stranger danger madness!
I love the connection that Tracy made between asthma and food sensitivities. Allopathic medicine will have you believe that the problem is in the lungs, when in fact there can be a hyperactive immune response that is starting in the gut and exerting its effect on the lungs. Dairy is something that people resist HARD when it comes to food elimination techniques, but it makes all the difference!
Brandi
Functional Medicine Pharmacist
Thank you, Tracy, as always helpful information. It was interesting to hear about B-12 and wheezing. Of course, any time the gut is compromised, B-12 is one nutrient that is especially hard to absorb because of the lack of intrinsic factor in the compromised gut.