Blood Sugar – Functional Medicine Back to Basics

Power Health Talk with Dr. Martin Rutherford

https://youtu.be/OAruI2Wyj1k In this episode of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses blood sugar and why that is an important metric to monitor for people suffering from chronic health problems especially autoimmune issues. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com Hi I'm dr. Martin Rutherford, author of power, health back the basics clinic director here at power, health in Reno Nevada, and today we're, going to be talking about sugar. We're, going to be talking about blood sugar and I've. Give me a minute or two here: I'll. Tell you why we're talking about blood sugar and we're gonna be talking about every type of blood sugar, probably except for diabetes type one, because everybody's, pretty familiar with that, and that'S a this is a part of a series that were that we are doing and this series generated from, I am also a certified functional medicine practitioner and I've, been, I would say, I was one of the first group of certified functional medicine Practitioner so I've been doing it for a long time and I'm, seeing the change in in functional medicine and I'm, getting a lot of people who come in now, who have already been the functional medicine. Practitioners, except what they're telling me, has been done to them. Doesn't sound, like what functional medicine practitioners are were originally at least taught to do, and I think what are being taught in several of the courses out there and the other reason we're doing. This is because we have, I don't, know five or six hundred hours online. Talking about all of the things that we treat. We have a sort of more or less a chronic condition, chronic pain practice, and so we treat five imagine four frothy and chronic fatigue. Vertigo dizziness balance irritable bowel syndrome, but we treat the things concussion syndrome. We treat the things that come and just won &, # 39 t go, and there are certain elements to that and we have. We saw. We have like 500 hours online with addressing each one of those polycystic ovarian syndrome and blood, sugar and obesity, and all that and that's, a power health talk.com, and in doing that, the thanks that we've got is actually a Lot of a lot, we get a lot of positive feedback, but we get a lot of well. You're, not telling me how to get better. You're telling me what fibromyalgia is you're, not telling me how to get better and in the end I could have a finer fibromyalgia patients in here or 100 migraine patients in here and they'd. All be, you know a little different, so I can't. Do that so, based on all of that, we came up with the idea this year, maybe just going through a series of what is functional medicine. So this is, I don't know. This is fifth or sixth. In the series we've already talked about the foundation of functional medicine and what it should be. We've talked about how you do exams where you know phone and what they mean in functional medicine. We talked about testing and what that means. In functional medicine, we've talked about the initial consultation and how to how? To kind of how to kind of screen out what I call well, I don't call them, like my colleagues and mentors called them obstacles to cure, and so I certainly do that because it's. Important to have people who are able to go through the type of a program that needs to be gone through to get better, and so then we started off. And then we started into the foundational aspects of treatment last week and we talked a lot about oxygen and and how oxygen is very foundational. So in functional medicine online it seems like mostly it's, the magic right. Now it's. To take this pill for that and do your SIBO and take your...