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In this episode of The Functional Medicine Radio Show, Dr. Carri’s special guest Dr. Tom O’Bryan talks about The Autoimmune Fix.
Dr. Tom O’Bryan is a world expert on gluten and considered the ‘Sherlock Holmes’ for treating chronic disease and metabolic disorders from a Functional Medicine Perspective. He holds adjunct Faculty positions with the Institute for Functional Medicine and the National University of Health Sciences. He is the visionary behind “The Gluten Summit – A Grain of Truth”, bringing together 29 of the world’s experts on the Gluten connection to diseases, disorders, and a wide-range of symptoms and ages. His 2016 critically acclaimed ground-breaking book, “The Autoimmune Fix” outlines the step-by-step development of degenerative diseases and gives us the tools to identify our disease (or dis-ease) process years before the symptoms are obvious.
Main Questions Asked about The Autoimmune Fix:
- Can you talk about some of the statistics about autoimmune disease in North America?
- What inspired you to write the book?
- Tell us about the Betrayal series?
- What should someone expect once they implement your protocol?
- Is there anything else that we haven’t talked about yet that you think is important?
Key Points Made by Dr. O’Bryan about The Autoimmune Fix:
- When we combine the various autoimmune diseases into one statistic, it is growing rapidly and is the most common cause of many other diseases.
- Every degenerative disease is a disease of inflammation and the inflammation is caused by an autoimmune function.
- We should be treating the cause of a disease, not just the symptoms.
- There are three components to an autoimmune disease – the first is genetics; the second is an environmental trigger that sets it off; the third is damage to your intestine, or leaky gut.
- Nine out of ten newborn babies have an average of 283 toxic chemicals in their bloodstream when they are born.
- You can arrest the development of autoimmune disease by healing the gut.
- Every patient with hormone imbalances has food sensitivities that they don’t know about.
- Studies have found that wheat has a key role in autoimmune disease and is the trigger that breaks the weak link.
- Many people have elevated antibodies in their system years prior to having symptoms of autoimmune disease.
- Testing the levels of your antibodies can give you a Positive Predictive Value of developing an autoimmune disease. This will give you a chance to address the problem before it gets worse and years before it becomes a full fledged autoimmune diagnosis.
- It can take up to 17 years for cutting edge research to reach a local doctor’s office.
- A particular gene, HLDRB1 can mean that you are vulnerable to developing an autoimmune disease in response to vaccines which may be why vaccine movements have started recently.
- Autoimmune diseases can actually be reversed if you follow the correct protocols. You should be able to notice a change for the better within three weeks.
- You can’t fix what you can’t know.
- Our environment is generally so toxic, we are not only killing off the majority of the wildlife on the planet but humanity as well.
Resources Mentioned for The Autoimmune Fix:
Betrayal Series – The Autoimmune Disease Solution They’re Not Telling You…
The Gluten Summit – A Grain of Truth
Book – Reclaim Your Energy and Feel Normal Again
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