A Shocking Cause For Acne, Weight Gain, Hair Loss & Rapid Aging In Women | Dr. Elizabeth Boham

and today's conversation is going to matter a lot because it's a special house call episode with Dr Elizabeth boham talking about something called PCOS or polycystic ovarian syndrome which is a super common Affliction that affects women that causes all sorts of misery from infertility to acne to facial hair to loss of hair on their head and weird periods and it's just a miserable problem that affects millions and millions of women traditional medicine just doesn't do a great job at this so we're going to get into it today and talk about this problem so welcome welcome Liz thank you Mark it's great to be with you all right well let's get into it because this is such a common problem how many people does it affect it's amazing 5 to 10% of women are impacted by PCOS 5 to 10% of women that's a lot of women I mean listen if half the population America is 330 million if that's the population half of that's like aund let's say 65 million y uh and 10% of that's like 16 million people that's a lot of people yeah and you know it is PCOS or polycystic ovarian syndrome is a syndrome that that is um involves irregular periods or not having any periods and androgen excess or changes in your hormone balance but it is a syndrome so that means that there's a Continuum where some people have all aspects of PCOS and some people just have some aspects of PCOS and we can talk more about that but but so so there there may even be there may even be more than this you know that we don't we're not even picking up it's it's quite common and it's definitely something we're thinking about all the time when somebody's coming in and complaining about irregular periods or not having had their period for a bunch of months you know a young woman that should be having regular you know periods and then get really heavy periods they can Mis periods they get light periods what are the other symptoms that are pretty common yeah so um we see uh heru ISM which is the growth of hair that sounds terrible yeah the growth of hair where women don't want to have it so um on their on their lip on their chin on their abdomen like in their belly um area so their hair is growing where they where they don't want to have it and then they they may have hair loss uh where they want to have hair so they may have some male pattern hair loss um they get acne and typically basically they're they're losing hair where they don't want to lose it and they're getting hair where they don't want it and it's because of these high levels of male hormones yes like DHEA and testosterone then end up causing basically this male appearance almost yeah they their their hair their hair growth shifts because their hormones shift and so you see the bearded women in the circus that's what this is right yes well they might some of them may have had some other things going on too to an extreme right but um but yes in en yeah this is you know you're you're starting to grow hair where you don't want it and and not having good hair where you on the top of your head where you want it and all because all because there's been a real shift in your hormone balance in your body and so when you check when we actually check we see high levels like you mentioned of that DHEA in the blood we may see high testosterone levels or High free testosterone levels and um so so those are some of the biomarkers that will show up when you look yeah El get acne bad acne bad acne yeah a lot of times like in the the lower jaw jaw area acne um and uh and sometimes cystic acne um so and then they'll they'll often gain weight now not everybody with PCOS is overweight um we have there's a lot of women and um uh we can even talk more about that today there's a lot of women who who don't who don't have the obes part of it and they they're just dealing with irregular periods but for a good portion of women with PCOS they gain weight because of the high levels of insulin that are going on so you know if they have high levels of insulin floating around so when with PCOS typically there is high levels of insulin and we've talked about insulin so many times on this podcast and you've talked about it many times you know but that insulin is that hormone that helps us balance our blood sugar so you eat a meal the body makes insulin that insulin tells your body to take your food and get it into your muscles so it can be used for energy and what happens when somebody has insulin resistance is their body's not listening to that insulin as well and they've got high levels of insulin and that that high level of insulin will cause people to gain weight around the belly and so we often see with PCOS that weight gain around the belly that belly weight yeah so this sounds like a miserable condition you get pimples you lose hair on your head you grow a beard you are infertile your period are all over the place um this just sounds terrible and and traditional medicine has very kind of weird approach to it because the way I think about it is that it's called polycystic ovarian syndrome which makes people think it's a gynecological problem but it's actually a dietary problem right right right it's often a dietary problem and you know it's not it's not always dietary which is so interesting right because we're you know we're learning about how um toxins from the environments like BPA and Plastics and we were learning about the microbiome and how that can be a trigger um so there are other and there's so toxins and and and disbiosis or imbalance in the microbiome are are common toxins can cause insulin resistance absolutely and the microbiome imbalances can cause insulin resistance and pre-diabetes so it's all it's all connected it's all connected and you're right and a huge portion of people it's it's dietary as well you know where they're um but I think it's important to remember it's not always that right but but but there's a huge portion of people where they're um just eating too many carbohydrates too many refined and processed carbohydrates for their body so you know or for anybody's body um but but those high levels of refined and processed carbohydrates really can be a trigger for this insulin resistance and weight gain and then that insulin resistance shifts the hormone balance and then you get this imbalance in hormones and you get the high androgens or testosterone and DHEA and then the periods get irregular so but interestingly as a syndrome it can it can be it's important that we pay attention to that individual person because it's very different you know you may have 10 women in a room with PCOS and you may have 10 really different reasons for why they have PCOS that goes really not all the same yes it's really an interesting aspect for for functional medicine doct I mean that just speaks to the whole approach of functional medicine which is because you know the name of your disease it doesn't mean you know what's wrong with you right absolutely just this description of the symptoms but not the cause and so functional medicine is about the cause it's about why not what not what disease you have PCOS but why do you have that right in traditional medicine the symptoms are treated symptoms atically so what what what are the traditional treatments that you see regular doctors giving for PCR yeah so often women will be placed on birth control pills because if they're if they're having irregular periods or they're skipping their period many times the physician will put them on birth control pills because it will regulate their cycle um they'll put them maybe on Metro um sorry metformin because metformin improves insulin sensitivity it's a diabetes drug yeah so and then that can many times help with the waking it sometimes helps with the the acne and the hair growth or hair loss um and they'll often put them on spironolactone which is another medication that helps with balancing the hormones and can help with some of the symptoms it's a diuretic and it just blocks the conversion of testosterone to the kind that really causes the hair loss yeah called DHT but it's it's really fascinating but it but it really doesn't speak to addressing the root causes so from a functional medicine perspective what are the root causes for PCOS and how do we start to deal with these yeah so you know as you mentioned already diet is huge diet is has a huge impact when somebody's eating too many of the refined and process carbs too much sugar too many of those coffee drinks with sugar in it you know uh juices uh sodas refined and processed oatmeals um you know cereals and you know pastas and Breads and and muffins and you know those foods that um we've been we've been grabbing too much of um for some people with some genetics that can really throw off this whole system in their body um another big common area are toxins I see this a lot I see a lot of I think is is Toxin related we know genetics plays a huge role here we also know that when what women are exposed to um as a fetus when they're when what has happening to their mom is really when their mom's pregnant with their with them um that really impacts their hormone balance and their metabolism later in life so what the mom's eating yes she's at Dunkin' Donuts all day and what's fascinating witha mocha lates you know all day long with more sugar than three cans of coke I mean yeah people don't realize that yeah so when they're pregnant with their baby it's really important that they're paying attention to what they're eating because if they're gaining too much weight or eating too many refined carbs or not ging enough weight it's kind of interesting so if they're if they're if they're not gaining enough weight or they're gaining way too much weight or they're eating too many refining processed carbs and sugars that really throws off the the fetus that baby's metabolism and so you know sometimes you know we we tell the the our patients you can just blame it on your mom they call epigenetics which in the genes get tagged and messages of uh you know Jeff Bland's called The Book of Life and where the bookmarks are in the Book of Life you've got this whole genetic code but not not all of it gets read but you can bookmark different aspects of it depending on what exposures you've had and this we know this from lots of research on epigenetics that what the mother does what she eats what she's exposed to her thoughts feelings all those tag the baby's genes for what happens to them in the future and whether they get diabetes or heart disease or cancer or obesity I mean it's all programmed but that doesn't mean it's not fixable you you can actually modify your Gene depression and that's what functional medicine is all about is changing the environment then the big picture of the environment meaning your diet lifestyle toxins etc etc how all of those inputs affect your gene expression is what functional medicine is about it's about modifying your your lifestyle and your environment to influence your genes to change your health in every aspect yeah so for some people it's harder for them than others like some people come in and they're like it's just not fair I have to be so much more careful than my friend Susie right and and it's true you know cuz it it it there are some people yes there are some people that have to be so much more careful with their diet I mean we all should be eating a healthy diet but some people have to be more careful with the carbohydrates than others yeah I would say you know there are uh a few people who are better adapted to higher carbohydrate diets and and there're very few yeah I know a few of them and those are the ones who stay skinny eating anything but when you look at the fact that 88% of Americans are metabolic and healthy almost nine out of 10 of us have some degree of insulin resistance y you know that should get our attention it's it's it's probably the majority of us who don't do well with a lot of starch and sugar Y and there's a Continuum right some can do more some can do less some are look at a bagel and they gain weight literally because they're think about it and their insulin goes up and they put all the fat on their bodies I want to jump back to something you quickly talked about which is toxins and I want you to explain how environmental toxins and what toxins influence hormones and influence insulin resistance because because both of those things are going on with PCOS and I think it's something people don't understand yeah um you know this was impacting more men more than women but we realized an agent orange right so when men were exposed there may have been a few women I don't really know how many women went to Vietnam probably not very many right not too many not too many so when um they were exposed to Agent Orange um in Vietnam they had a much higher rate they have a much higher rate of getting diabetes with less weight gain right so that's when we started to say oh this is interesting there's a real interesting connection between toxins and the environment and our metabolism and our weight and they would get diabetes and they get di agent orange exposure had lots more diabetes lots more diabetes at less weight gain so you know um you know for I'm just going to make this up here make up some numbers but so people understand they may have only had to gain 10 pounds or 20 pounds to get type 2 diabetes where a typical American maybe was gaining 50 pounds before they got type two diabetes right you know just on for an example so they were getting type two diabetes at with less weight gain meaning that there was more to it than just the weight gain right and that's when we we realized that the that these toxins were damaging uh probably the mitochondria right so those that Powerhouse of your cells um we also know BPA that plastic that's been really yeah really well studied to show there's a connection with insulin resistance you know we know we've known for a long time about the connection with breast cancer and BPA um but there's also this connection with insulin resistance and weight gain so that hard plastic um they it's they use BPA in the lining of cans or on receips baby bottles baby I know right yeah when you get your credit card receipt your gas station receipt people say join your rece I'm like no thanks like you take it CU I I don't want to constantly expose myself gets absorbed to the skin yeah yeah so you know we realize that this toxin caused weight gain insulin resistance and and I'm sure there's a lot of other toxins that we haven't even you know figured out yet that are really influencing well pretty much all the petrochemical toxins all the Plastics and all the fossil fueld derived toxins are endocrine disruptors and I read way back when we were candy Ranch I read a book called our stolen future by Theo curn which was about the ways in which these environmental toxins were disrupting reproductive health of animals and humans and I was like oh my God and so what's going on is that these are not just one exposure you're not just exposed to BPA you're exposed to literally hundreds of these in our daily life through our modern living and there are ways to reduce it and I think the environmental working group has a great resource for finding out what household products skincare products cleaning products you know are food products that you can eat that are not going to be full of these chemicals and you just go to ewg.org so that's important hey everybody it's Dr Heyman thanks for tuning in to the doctor's Pharmacy I hope you're loving this podcast it's one of my favorite things to do and introducing you all the experts that I know and I love and that I've learned so much from and I want to tell you about something else I'm doing which is called Mark's picks It's My Weekly Newsletter and in it I share my favorite stuff from foods to supplements to gadgets to tools to enhance your health it's all the cool 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called LPS or lipopolysaccharides that these things can then these uh components can get into the body and they've shown that this can trigger this insulin resistance in our um in our body so that people when they have higher levels of these abnormal bacteria will have more insulin resistance that's absolutely right so you know we we we there's a name for this we call metabolic endotoxemia which is a fancy way of saying that the poison crap in your gut leaks into your bloodstream and your immune system goes ah and starts creating an inflammatory response which then affects your insulin sensitivity so anything that causes inflammation right anything stress bad food toxins infections microbiome nastiness all that can drive inflammation that can cause ins some resistance yes so you don't to even be eating sugar right but if your guts a mess for various reasons then you have to fix the gut and also um there's a lot of effect on on insulin resistance but there's also other effects in the gut around the kind of bacteria that are there and how they affect your metabolic processing of estrogens and other hormones so it's really important to eat the right kinds of fiber and the right kinds of foods and to feed your microbiome and your inner Garden so we've talked about a lot of things we talked about diet we've talked about stress we talked about environmental toxins we've talked about the gut microbiome um all these things play a role and so the job of a functional medicine doctor is to dig down and figure these things out so how do we begin to assess these uh you know and and I want to share I want you to share a little bit about some cases but how do we assess because it seems like a lot of stuff that you go to the endocrinologist or the gynecologist they're not like looking at your poop they're not measuring your toxin levels they're not looking necessarily at insulin resistance very well what what do we look at That's So Different Here at elra Wellness Center and through the lens of functional medicine I mean I think that's what's critical about about functional medicine and what we do is is we get a really good detailed history and that gives us a lot of information so when we take the time to get to know our patient and get all of the history of their life their timeline of their of their life what things have happened to them what what illnesses they've had what disruptions they've had what exposures they've had what other things are going on in their body that really impacts where we go and what we choose to look for so you get a really good history first and foremost and then that informs you what you want to test you know you could you could test everything but you know this ends up being a lot of tests so what's important is to get a really good history so you know where to really focus so for one person it may be I really got to look at their gut microbiome I've got to figure they they've got this sort of History I think that might be an area that we really have to focus on I want to look at what those the balance of the good and bad bacteria are I want to see if they have maybe some of these lipopolysaccharide components that may be triggering inflammation and insulin resistance or maybe somebody else you know you've got a sense based on their history and some of their other symptoms that it's more toxin related um or somebody else it may be you know more lifestyle you focus more breaking that ccle of of craving those carbohydrates because what happens for a lot of people is it becomes a vicious cycle right they grade the they eat the carbohydrates the real refined process carbohydrates their insulin goes up but then they they end up CRA they gain some weight then they crave more and more of them and it becomes this vicious cycle that gets out of hand and I think that's that's important toay so important we we we we really you know don't just look at the hormone levels which a typical endocrinologist or gy we look at those too but because they're very helpful and informative to look at the testosterone levels DHT and look at dheas and all kinds of things that we look at but we're also do looking at toxin load we're looking at the microbiome we're looking at nutrient levels or looking at insulin resistance in in ways that may not be looked at so tell us about the first patient you had who was 20 and she had these really regular periods and acne and bad digestive issues um how did that all get started for her right so so she was 20 when she came to see me and she was frustrated with her um she was frustrated with her acne she was frustrated with her digestion and her she her periods were kind of all over the place um she had a lot of ear infections as a child so she was she was put on antibiotics and then ended up getting a lot of recurrent ear infections and more antibiotics and more antibiotics and um and so I think that really just set the stage for her microbiome to be out of balance and and then when she she started having her period when she was 14 it never was regular so from day one she had an irregular cycle so always you know one month it' be six weeks and then two or three weeks and then she'd skip a month and then you know she'd be eight weeks between periods so always irregular and um and then as a you know I'm not really that surprised just having done this for so long but she also then in puberty developed a lot of acne so you know probably because of some of the in the microbiome in her young young years and then you know just all of these things going on and you see that a lot you kid you know kids lot of ear infections maybe she's eating dairy which commonly can cause a lot of congestion they throw the antibiotics at the kids and then they get a little older then they start getting gut issues and they start getting acne and other things and so it's all connected yeah so what we did is you know because of her digestive issues and her acne and her irregular periods I said you know I'm really curious about her digestive system I really wonder what's going on in there and you know could this be the driver of her insulin resistance and so we did a test that looks at antibodies against different components uh in the digestive system and one of the things it looks at is these lipopolysaccharides which are on these gram negative bacteria which as we as we talked about has been shown to trigger these are bacterial toxins essentially insulin resistance and when we did that test on her she had really high levels which means that her levels were high enough to get into the body to trigger this this these antibody uh levels to occur so um we also did a stool test in the stool test we showed it showed that she had an imbalance she didn't have enough of the good bacteria she had an overgrowth of some unwanted bacteria so she had this disbiosis and um so I said you know what this is where we've got to start this where we got to focus to help both your skin well actually all your skin your digestive system and your Cycles your periods we did we did see when we did hormone testing that um she had signs of of PCOS she had some high level of DHEA and her testosterone was a little bit high and her uh there was a her LH FSH ratio was off so we did see some signs on hormone testing that that that she had some PCOS going on so so so Lizz when um you treated her you also took her off Dairy yes and and I want you to talk a little bit about why Dairy is bad both for hormones and insulin resistance and acne because she had all these problems yeah so you know as as you can imagine Dairy is dairy products both milk and cheese and dairy products coming from a cow are full of hormones you know the those that that cow to make cow's milk is um has a lot of hormones floating around those hormones get into the milk even if it's organic yeah yeah and so and there's more in ones that aren't organic yes there's like 60 different hormones in milk yeah and so and some people are very sensitive to those hormones and um they will cause uh acne production they will um they will cause uh more acne more more and then of course people are a lot of people are sensitive to Dairy so it can cause a lot of Digestive unrests and digestive issues and was also interesting to me is that when you look people consume dairy dairy will Spike insulin pretty high yes a 300% increase in insulin consuming Dairy which I was sort of surprised at when I looked at the literature especially the lower fat Dairy right because that right you know and so for so long we were going to the lower fat and then we were going maybe to the lower fat chocolate milk in school right you know all those things that were spiking insulin and I would say for women with hormonal issues um I think Deary's got to go for most of them to start at least to see how it affects them because absolutely you know whether it's irregular Cycles or whether it's PCOS or whether it's acne what whatever is going on I think it's it's an incredibly hormonally disruptive food for so many people and a lot of people can tolerate it fine but if you got problems you got to start thinking about what you got to cut out and I think what is really helpful a lot of times at the beginning when you're dealing with when you have a lot of things going on and you're not sure how food's impacting you sometimes to do a full elimination of a food or a group of foods is really helpful because it gives you a lot of feedback so sometimes if you just sort of cut down you don't really go I'm not really eating much Dairy and I get that all the time cheese after dinner that's no I I agree it's like it's hard for people to understand that you know a little bit can do a lot of damage and the way I explain it to people is think about like a a peanut allergy sometimes if you're like just exposed to peanut dust you can get an anaphylactic reaction right that's how powerful your immune system it responds to microscopic doses yeah right so I think I think that's important to remember so what happened with this her young woman you treated her yeah so because we found this disbiosis or imbalancing good and bad bacteria we needed to get rid of the disbiosis so we used an herbal combination to treat that um we also gave her a lot of good probiotic and prebiotics the things that feed the good probiotics and we took her off a dairy we also um we also we did more of a comprehensive Elimination Diet at the beginning so we took her off a dairy but we we also removed gluten and um a lot of other inflammatory foods and really focused on a phyton nutrient-rich diet and I think sometimes we we don't think about how powerful that can be right those phytonutrients those components from our plant foods that uh have amazing qualities in our health from lowering inflammation to helping detoxification to helping the process of elimination of our hormones that we want to eliminate you know so they really are powerful and so when you help people get those 8 to 12 servings of phytonutrients which come from your your vegetables um some fruits some um nuts seeds yes spices teas really that can be really powerful for the body yeah so it's not just about what eliminate it what it's what you add that's very true yeah I like to I want to change the name called the addition diet uhhuh uhhuh yeah I like that um so so that was very powerful for her um we also added in some anasl a combination product that has some myosl and deyro andosol which actually helps improve insulin sensitivity so um so we did this for a while as well you know it it can help improve the cell signaling in the body and improve how how the insulin Works um we also really repleted some deficien she deficiencies she had she was low in D vitamin D which we know is important for insulin sensitivity we and and we she was low in vitamin A which is important for skin she was low in omega-3 fats which is really anti-inflammatory so we we replaced a lot of the deficiencies that we found as well it's amazing and then what happened well you know it was great because her digestion improved that was the first thing that got better and then her skin it got better and then o after a few months her periods just started to really get regular for her yeah I mean it's just so I get honestly Liz I get so angry because um and doing functional medicine for so many years people suffer so needlessly from problems that do have Solutions and it's not rocket science it's not like we need to know some great new discovery in medicine we we understand biology enough now using the lens of functional medicine and systems biology uh which is now gaining more traction and people are becoming more aware of it but it's it's just so disheartening to me it takes so long for people to get access and I I think I want to just sort of end with a with a case a short case study uh that you had of a woman who had infertility yes because this is a problem that affects one in seven women we've covered it before on the podcast but I think I want to dig into this particular cause because it is one of the most common causes and also easily remedied and I can't tell you how many women that I've treated personally I know sure you have who had this problem and you fix it and then they get pregnant oh yes we see it all the time it's phenomenal so this woman was 34 and she came to see me because she was trying to get pregnant and she had been trying for for um three four four plus years I think and um had not gotten pregnant yet and her periods were really irregular and you know she was 34 so she was getting closer to that age where she was getting really concerned about the fact that she hadn't gotten pregnant yet and um she also noted that over the last few years she had been she had gained some weight she was about 20 lbs overweight most of that weight gain was around her belly which was making her frustrated you know and and she didn't really feel like she was um doing much different anymore she also had to get some laser therapy done so to remove the hair on her chin and on her belly so she had had some laser therapy done and she was also struggling with acne she was on birth control pills from the age of 17 to 29 to really regulate her period but when I hate that I hate that when I hear that sentence Oh my doctor put me on the pill to regulate my period I'm like yeah well why is it irregular and let's figure that out instead of just slapping you on the birth control pill which is not side effect free right no it's not no and so but when she went off of the birth control pills um her periods were irregular since then and she developed a bunch of acne so you know she really came in to really for us to help her with her fertility and so we did testing and we found that her testosterone level was high her DHEA was high her LH FSH ratio was off and her insulin her fasting insulin was really high so her fasting insulin was 13 and um you know we really want that to be like five yeah so it was really it was high and to me that signaled okay that that this was an area that you know she's got insulin resistance she's got PCOS and that's really what's driving all of these things that she's dealing with and so when I got her diet history which she filled out when she came to see me you know she said you know she was she was trying to eat healthy she um she was having oatmeal for breakfast you know she's having that refined oatmeal that so many people are eating thinking it's healthy right sandwich for lunch and at at dinner she'd have some pasta with some chicken or vegetables on it um and so that's really where we focused we really worked to lower that carbohydrate intake for her we pulled away the those extra refined and processed cars oatmeal you think it's healthy you having a breakfast but it was also healthy for someone like that no and especially a lot of the oatmeals out there you know and the way that we eat them like if we're if we're eating um a bowl of oatmeal with not a lot of other stuff in it there's none of the you know good healthy fats and and protein to balance that blood sugar right so you know you can have some you can have some steel a small amount of steel cut oats with a lot of you know nuts and um maybe some coconut milk and um and and and that can you you know for some people that can be a healthy breakfast but for her that's not how she was eating her oatmeal and it was it was spiking her blood sugar and it wasn't helping with her with her weight it wasn't feel making her feel satiated and satisfied hungry and yeah so so what did you do so we really you know food First with her we we put her on the pegan diet right you know we pulled away the um the extra refined carbs we said we when you're getting your carbohydrates we want them to come from vegetables you know that's where you're going to be getting most of your carbohydrates from from the greens and the broccoli is a carbohydrate yeah exactly it's a wonderful healthy carbohydrate you know and um and uh really rich in all those phytonutrients we work to balance her blood sugar so she had a good protein source and fat Source at every meal and um and we got her exercising you know she had really kind of just she was really focusing more on the fertility and working and had kind of like let that go so we got her on a good exercise program both that included U some some high-intensity interval training and some good cardiovascular exercise and strength training she was a she was a healthy woman so we just had to get her moving again more intensely and um and within you know within a few months three months or so she she lost that extra 20 pounds her periods regulated and she got pregnant that's unbelievable so basically you know these are people who go to fertility doctor spend tens of thousands of dollars and what you're saying is all you did was take a good history and get all the starch and crap out of her diet and sugar got her moving a little bit she lost 20 pounds her Cycles regulated and she got pregnant I I I wish uh it was this easy for for most people some people it's a little more complicated but you'd be surprised at how many people just following this simple approach can make a huge difference uh there was a book by one of the top Harvard uh scientists of all time Dr Al will it called the fertility diet that really focuses in on this whole idea of why we have so much infertility and why it's such a problem so this is this is this is an area where I get nuts because from a functional medicine perspective it's it's relatively straightforward to sort through this using a very detailed history the right kinds of diagnostic tests that you wouldn't get at your regular doctor using a a food first lifestyle approach fixing the basic things need to get fixed whether it's diet toxins you know allergens low-grade gut issues it all can drive problems uh and we just see amazing results and it's so satisfying and you know I think your work is just so incredible Liz and I'm just so happy we're all here at the ultra Wellness Center because we get to see Miracles every day and uh they're really not Miracles are just application of good science but they seem like Miracles and I and I'm just so happy to be able to do this and and provide this in the world and and I just want to thank you for your amazing work uh teaching functional medicine all around the world virtually now of course but you really have been a leader in the field and we have you know probably over 60 years of collective experience here at the ultra wellness and functional medicine so if you're suffering from any of these issues we'd love to see you here at the ultra Wellness Center in Linux we can do all virtual visits now people can't make it here in person um and we'd love to see you so if you love this podcast please share with your friends and family uh share on social 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