Getting to the Root Cause of Autoimmune Disease: A Functional Medicine Approach

The Doctor's Farmacy with Mark Hyman, M.D.

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Functional Medicine offers patients many things, especially hope and understanding. Autoimmune disease is a prime example: Rather than condemning patients to a lifetime of symptom management through medication, functional practitioners dig to find the “why,” to address the underlying causes with individualized, multimodal support to create lasting improvement and systemic healing. My guest today, Dr. Sara Gottfried, is a physician, researcher, author, and educator passionate about changing the way we view and treat autoimmunity.

In this episode, we discuss:

• What is a “trauma signature” and what is its role in autoimmunity? (5:55)
• Hidden autoimmunity triggers you might be surprised to learn about (21:30)
• The go-to test panel Sara runs on her patients (27:33)
• Sara’s stack for reducing cortisol and why trauma has to be considered (39:00)
• How Trauma biologically impacts you through the PINE system (41:40)
• Psychedelic therapy and other healing states of consciousness, plus Sara’s personal experience using them (48:10)
• What Sara wishes she told her 20-year-old self about life (1:15:45)

When we dig deeper, we always find out there is more going on below the surface. I know you’ll love this conversation as much as I did.

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