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In this episode of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses why diet and why it is so important for people suffering from autoimmune issues to find the proper diet for them. He also discusses why it is so confusing to many and why there is no simple answer to the question: "What diet should I be on?".

So I'm dr. Margaret furred. I am the author of power, health back to basics. I'm, the clinic director of power health here in Reno and and we are doing the next in a series that we put together called functional medicine back to basics, and we put this series together because we, I was probably in the beginning wave Of functional medicine, practitioners learned classical functional medicine, from who, today, how many of the people who were were considered the luminaries in in the functional medicine world and, and I've, just had a lot of people coming in to me now who've been to a lot of functional medicine, doctors and it didn't work and and what they're.

Describing to me doesn't sound like functional medicine, but the other thing is for those who you don't know us. We have about 600, maybe 700 hours online, talking about different chronic conditions. Our practice is a chronic condition patient.

When my colleague says we have the mystery disease practice and that probably is a good description, but we do dizziness vertigo, but we also do fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, the type of diseases and conditions that nobody can put their hands on there's.

No specific tests for, and so we've developed that type of a practice and and in functional medicine, and we've. We've, combined that with something called functional, neurology and and in doing so we get a lot of the folks who who are searching, and it used to be that when people came in here, they didn't.

They didn't know a functional medicine is now they know a functional medicine is and it hasn't worked for them, and and and so again that's. One of the reasons we do this. The other reason we do this is in in having all of those 700 hours online.

We have a lot of people who give us really nice reviews and thumbs up, and but they say you're, not telling us how to get better. You're, telling us what our peripheral neuropathy you're telling you're.

Making us feel like we're, not crazy. You're, telling us what our IBS is your time, but you're, not telling us what that is going to be like getting better. What what do I do with what supplements do I take? What do I eat yeah? All those types of things, so this series is for that.

So for those of you who might just be coming in on this now, we've, already started on what is classic functional medicine supposed to look like it's, a very comprehensive approach and it's. Not it's, not an easy approach.

It's, not a it's, an inner it's. It's. It's. A very, very you have to be able to critically think you have to be able to gather a lot of data. You have to know as much as you can humanly know about that person to be able to make the decisions that you need to be able to make as to, for example, what their diet should be this week is about diet.

Okay, this week is it's, going to be about diet, and we've gone through. We've gone through what the exam should look like. We've gone through what a history should look like. We've gone through obstacles to cure.

We've gone through the basics of foundational basics of what needs to happen before you even get to a diet or before you get the supplements. Some of those foundational basics are blood sugar control.

Getting oxygen into your system and and those are our previous presentations so for today we're, going to go on with we're gonna go with diet and we're, not gonna go with diet in the Way that you might be used to looking up diet online, as my producer said before we started doing this, people are always asking ok, he gets all of the data from you.

He gets all of the other requests and questions and the que...