Dr. Patrick Hanaway joins me on The Doctor’s Farmacy where we dive into the current state of COVID and his experience treating patients. Integrative practices have actually shown to reduce hospitalizations from COVID 8-times more than conventional treatments alone. Dr. Hanaway points out that it’s not about dismissing all of the conventional methods of treatment—it’s not either OR, it’s both AND.
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.
Dr. Hanaway was initiated in 2009 as a Mara’akame (Indigenous healer) by the Huichol people of the Sierra Madres in Mexico. He holds community fires, leads ceremonies, and offers traditional healing sessions. This part of his practice provides some much-welcome spiritual and emotional insight into addressing our imbalances as a nation.
Vitamin d is very important to the regulating functions of the immune system and it also plays an extremely important function in metabolic health.
It is like putting grease on a car but there is no point greasing the car mechanical components if the engine has no oil.
Like he said combining vitamin D3 with probiotics works well and vitamin k2 helps with absorption also,I drink raw milk kefir to get my probiotics have read that you get more strains of probiotics that way than any pill,I buy it at the health food store.very exspenive or you can make it for less if you want to save money
Guys it’s just the flu, you need to relax a bit. BTW if you run out of toilet paper during the next Lockdown you can always use a mask, just saying.
Just the flu? You haven’t been hearing from health care workers, have you? The following was posted by someone just two days ago (and is not at all the only person with these kinds of stories). I urge you to read it.
I worked the last two days and slept in until 9 today because I am exhausted. I only worked two shifts, TWO. I used to do 8 shifts in a row. I feel like a zombie today after how hectic my last two shifts were.
For those of you on the fence about the vaccine or against it, wearing a mask or not wearing it, posting about how COVID isn’t that bad…I really wish you could spend a day in my shoes or those of my amazing coworkers. I have been in the ER a total of 15 years and in the last 9 months I have seen more death than I have in all of those years combined. I have put someone’s family member, neighbor, coworker, friend, etc in a body bag basically once a shift. I’ve held a grown mans hand while he sobbed and sobbed as we put him to sleep to intubate him…he never woke back up, he died less than a week later with a nurse and a respiratory therapist at his bedside. Then shortly after his wife died as well. I’ve seen people my age, people older and people younger die over and over again. I’ve seen people pee and poop on themselves because they are too tired and weak to move and quite frankly they just can’t breathe so all of their energy is going to just breathing. When was the last time you had to really think about breathing? Probably never, it’s not normal to have to think about breathing.
I wear my respirator all shift long for my protection because quite honestly I assume everyone that comes in to the ER is infected. I have to basically yell all shift long while I talk to my patients because the respirator muffles my voice.
The ERs are overloaded, the ICUs are overloaded, the other floors are overloaded. We are running the ER out of a conference room at times because the ER is full. Where do you put people that NEED a bed when there are no beds?! You don’t. They wait. As nurses and doctors we do what we can while they wait. People with oxygen and IVs in the waiting rooms, conference rooms, hallways, or wherever we can fit them.
I’m demanding with my patients because we (ER staff) have been here before, the patient hasn’t…
“I need you to turn on your stomach because your oxygen levels are low, being on your stomach will help you breathe better”
“I don’t want to” (gasping for air)
“Well I DON’T WANT TO PUT A TUBE DOWN YOUR THROAT or have to call your family so you can say goodbye but that is where we are headed, turn on your stomach NOW”
I’m not lacking compassion, I’m not rude, I’m trying to keep people alive with my coworkers. We can’t and won’t save everyone. I’ve accepted that. But if we can all do our part and remember COVID is bigger than each of us individually. Just because you haven’t had covid, or had it and it wasn’t that bad for you and maybe you were asymptomatic please think about everyone else including your family, friends, coworkers, neighbors, etc.
I had a coworker talk about the PTSD that a lot of frontline workers will have from this when it’s all said and done. I think he’s right, the numbers will be astounding. If only you could see what we’ve seen. Then you may have less to say about how COVID is not that bad. I can assure you, it is that bad.
Please wear your mask and get vaccinated when you can.
Synergy!
Dr please talk about palpitations i have constent palpitation they get worse when i drink alcohol or coffee or pot i did every test they say i’m fine. (i have theories roemhold sdr, nervous system dysfunction, hidden blood vessels problem…)
@DrMarkHyman please add a link in the drop down to get to the full episode. TIA