COVID has taught us a lot over the last year, and continues to do so every day that we battle this pandemic. We’ve seen what an overburdened medical system looks like and been faced with the reality of social distancing for many months now. Perhaps one of the most important lessons we have learned, though, is that a body that’s already suffering from chronic disease has far greater risks of COVID severity and even death. In the US, where the majority of people are metabolically unhealthy, we’ve seen our population faring much worse than other countries against this virus. Here, there are 500 COVID deaths per million people (at the time of this episode recording). In China, that number is 3 per million. Look at that alongside the 42% obesity rate here and the 2.6% rate there. COVID has shown us just how out of balance we are as a nation and how our baseline of disease has gotten us into such a mess.
I sat down with my colleague, good friend, and former roommate Dr. Patrick Hanaway to talk about the Functional Medicine approach to treating COVID-19. Dr. Patrick Hanaway is a board-certified family physician trained at Washington University. After 10 years as Chief Medical Officer at Genova Diagnostics, Dr. Hanaway became the Chief Medical Education Officer for the Institute for Functional Medicine. In 2014, Dr. Hanaway was the founding Medical Director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine. His research focus is on nutrition, the microbiome, and evaluating value in Functional Medicine models of care. Currently his teaching focus is on cancer, COVID, and uncertainty.
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We are not having this conversation because too many people are making too much money the way things are.
The food industry, the agricultural industry, the petro chemical industry, the pharmaceutical industry.
It’s wonderful to hear you talking like a Chiro!
What does Chiro have to do with this vid?
@ET Himself obviously you do not realize the Chiropractic Physician has long been deeply well educated in nutritional biochemistry and all things in natural healing. See ICAK.USA
@dr gerni It is clearly stated that both are Medical Doctors. So there is some confusion
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your findings! I use niacin, also, for covid lingering simptomes. It may help!
covid19 = sars
Love this video. At 63 and after 4 MI’s and 19 stents i decided robustly to take back my own health care. Invited my PCP on my keto/IF journey (per Dr Davis book “Undoctored “) . Now 28 months later I’m off 17 the Rx meds and doing well. I refuse to be a sheeple geriatric patient and eat properly for my social security income. Fully fat adapted I eat OMAD, 2MAD and actually enjoy fasting.
Really I learned all that I have come to know from dedicated professionals (doctors/body builders) and owe gratitude to you all! My goal is not just life,rather QUALITY of life! Building up the gut biome and mitochondria to “optimum” is my plan of action.
Thank you Mark for this discussion. Very much needed.
what specific probiotic does Dr. Hanaway take?
This is perfect and exactly what we needed. Thank you all!
What does the word doctor mean. Plain and simply it means teacher. Traditional medicine had long lost this concept. The pharmaceutical industry runs our medical schools our hospitals and our health care system. As Dr William Davis states in his book Undoctored, we do not have an American health care system, we have an American wealth care system. It takes money from people who don’t have it and gives it to people who don’t need it or deserve it. I actually had a friend’s doctor tell him after continued questioning about his condition “John I don’t know I’m just a drug pusher.” Modern medicine has become an industry to generate income off treating symptoms not trying to cure disease or trying to teach someone how to be healthy. But how could they, have you ever noticed the number of overweight and obese doctors and nurses. Doctors have one of the lowest lifespans of any professions. Hats off to the functional medical community the only ones who really look at the real cause of disease and actually teach(doctor) their patients to become health to eliminate disease and help prevent future disease and enjoy a high quality long functional life .