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Well you know when your design a car you put in a whole series of gauges to tell you what's going on inside the engine because you don't want the thing to start smoking, burning or grinding and making all kinds of sounds because you didn't know that something was going on. You want a pre-warning of that well, our skin is our own set of gauges, and if you know how to read, it shows a tremendous amount about what's going on inside the body. Unfortunately, one of the ways that dermatology and medicine has progressed is to find out ways to get rid of the problems or basically Cover over some of those various symptoms. It's almost like you know, You keep having that'll light come on. Will, you just get out to black electrical tape and put it over the oil light, then you don't look at the light there's nothing going on and sometimes, of course, treating an acute condition with corticosteroids and such is a good way to calm it down if it's a self-limited condition but, if it's chronic and you keep putting tape over that, you may not only lose the effect of the medication you're using but you may also be hiding something really important that's going on inside and so my practice has evolved over the years to find out ways to read those gauges and find other ways to treat them, know what's going on. In a lot of these cases is there's inflammation that's inappropriate going on in the skin and where's that inflammation coming from well, the immune system is attacking something in the skin very specifically why is it attacking that well.
When I was in my training you know if you had a food that was causing something or thought to cause something then that food had to cause the same disease over and over again, otherwise double-blind studies wouldn't show it to be true, but fortunately I had a lot of education that helped me understand more. When was I restrained as a dermatologist I was involved with holistic and integrative medicine since 1981. I got to be with Jeff, well before functional medicine had a name when we just are a bunch of ant in a room and then a group of holistic ducks including people like Leo Galland. We met for 17 years, and I was part of that group so I got in on the inside and I started bringing this stuff over to dermatology. I also had a very other unusual unfortunate experience which was that I was involved with cellular immunology since 1963, and my last laboratory was at the NIH where we would get work on immune recognition, and we found out something that validated all the stuff that I'd heard from people who were talking about nutrition, that there was a possibility that a very specific thing could cause a very specific reaction in a specific individual that would be different than other individuals.
Basically, we found that there was a histocompatibility or a self-requirement besides, the antigenic requirement for recognition in the cellular immune response and applying that to my work. I then understood all of the things I'd heard about nutrition and healing, so I was able to combine all of this and begin to apply it to look in and be able to ask questions and get deeper and deeper, and the secret that I found the most important secret that I want to share with you about what questions to ask an individual is what was going on before your problem broke out, and also what was going on before there were changes improvements or worsening because, if you have a good understanding functional medicine of immunology and of dermatology you can begin to interpret those different changes according to what was used beforehand and figure out as kind of like the shadows on the wall of the cave what was happening, that was creating that problem what were the actual stimulants for the reaction and what were the other things going on in the functional medicine sense that contributed to that for instance. Where's the gut leaky, gut worse? Was there something that made the the adrenals not work?
Deliver all the different pieces so I think what I'd like to just share with you is that is that this has tremendous implications for all the people who were putting band-aids on their on their skin and other inflammatory problems and it also has tremendous implications for public health because, that's our environment and if our social and eating patterns as a nation is causing all kinds of disease then, we really have to go back in and rethink this and figure out how to make a healthier nation in a healthier world.
Thank you.
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