The Hidden Cause of Your Chronic Illness (It's Not What You Think)
Mark Hyman and Neil Nathan discuss why conventional medicine misses complex chronic illnesses like mold toxicity and Lyme disease, and how to treat them in the right sequence.
The gist
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Treating mold, Lyme, or chemical sensitivities in the wrong order can make patients worse, so stabilizing the nervous system comes first.
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Nathan recommends calming the limbic and vagal nervous systems before targeting the root toxin or infection, using vagal stimulation or retraining programs.
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Urine mycotoxin testing is the most useful diagnostic tool for mold toxicity, and binders should match the specific mycotoxin found.
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Frequency specific microcurrent and osteopathic cranial work are among the hands-on tools Nathan uses to help sensitized patients tolerate further treatment.
"I use Apollo Neuro a lot to help reboot the vagus. I love osteopathic cranial work for the vagus. I love frequency specific microcurrent."
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"Bob Mozayeni has a T-BAb test where you can send a specimen of your blood and you can look at it under the microscope with a special fluorescent stain that only stains that part..."
"Bruce Patterson's Radiance Lab does a test for 14 different cytokines. It turns out especially from Dr. Patterson's research that there's a different pattern of cytokines in Lym..."
"The phospholipid exchange I find really helpful too, which is a whole different approach that was developed by Patricia Kane and others that uses high doses of phosphatidylcholi..."
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"I use Apollo Neuro a lot to help reboot the vagus. I love osteopathic cranial work for the vagus. I love frequency specific microcurrent."
Neil Nathan
8 picks · guest
"Bob Mozayeni has a T-BAb test where you can send a specimen of your blood and you can look at it under the microscope with a special fluorescent stain that only stains that part..."
"Bruce Patterson's Radiance Lab does a test for 14 different cytokines. It turns out especially from Dr. Patterson's research that there's a different pattern of cytokines in Lym..."
"For the limbic system, there's a number of very excellent programs out there that patients can do to do the reboot. There's Annie Hopper's Dynamic Neural Retraining Program."
Mark Hyman, MD
2 picks · host
"The phospholipid exchange I find really helpful too, which is a whole different approach that was developed by Patricia Kane and others that uses high doses of phosphatidylcholi..."
"I did ozone. I had really bad mold poisoning, and I did ozone, and it helped me. I did it and it was like literally in two days it snapped me out of it."
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