Dr. Elizabeth Boham

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The Dr. Hyman Show · Mold, Lyme, Gut Health, and the Mystery of Histamine Intolerance · 21 Apr 2025 podcast

But I did a specialized T-cell Eli spot test on him, and his Lyme Eli spot test lit up like a Christmas tree. Wow. Right. So he had Lyme disease. He had Lyme disease, which was actually... triggering a lot of his mast cell activation type symptoms. So I've been working with him for a while and he did very well.

I put him on a supplement, which is a combination of quercetin, which can help with- It's like a natural antihistamine. Natural antihistamine. Turns out it's really good for COVID too. Yeah, exactly. Very powerful phytochemical. And he did very well by adding nettles along with quercetin in supplement form.

He also worked with nutritionists, got on a low histamine diet, dramatically made a huge, huge improvement. His brain was working better. And his energy was better, but he still wasn't 100% better. So that's where I went to the next level. And he's currently actually being treated for Lyme. And it's in the medical literature.

And I sort of stumbled upon this because I had this patient come into me. And she had the same thing. She had severe mast cell activation. She was on Zolair. She was on injections for- It was like 20 grand a year. Yeah. Yeah, 20 grand a year.

Exactly. And her condition actually turned out to be the same thing. It was actually undiagnosed Lyme disease. And this is, I think, one of those things where you have to think about it. Not that Lyme disease causes everything, but Lyme disease is such a tricky condition that you've got to be thinking about it. It's a great masquerader. It's like syphilis, exactly. It's like the great masquerader.

And people can come in. I've seen people with Parkinson's symptoms. I've seen people with brain fog. I've seen people with rheumatoid, you know, seronegative rheumatoid arthritis.

Exactly. Exactly. I had one patient with fibromyalgia who was, you know, quote, unquote, fibromyalgia, whatever that means. I mean, it just means you're hurt all over. So Lyme can actually mimic fibromyalgia. So you really gotta think about it, and it doesn't present as one neat little boxed diagnosis. You gotta really think about it.

The Dr. Hyman Show · Fatty Liver Is the New Smoking—And 90 Million Americans Have It · 7 Apr 2025 podcast

We're seeing this huge rise in fatty liver, not only because of alcohol, but because of how high blood sugar, high levels of insulin, toxins like glyphosate and all the other toxins you mentioned, medications that people are taking, all are putting stress on our liver.

Fatty liver is when the liver cells, the cells in your liver are replaced with fat cells. So fatty liver just means that some of the cells in your liver have been replaced with fat cells. And so there's fat deposited within your liver. Why do we care? Because then that means your liver can't work as well because it doesn't have all those liver cells doing the job that the liver does, right?

So the liver really helps our body detoxify, metabolize chemicals from the environment, metabolize our own hormones, metabolize and get rid of toxins. And so we definitely don't want to have an under-functioning liver, that's for sure. And this is the prevalence of fatty liver disease.

is is is it is it is really really high and unfortunately it's increasing um but about 90 million people in the u.s have fatty liver disease and so that's uh it's and it's increasing in this country it's increasing worldwide the amount of fatty liver we are seeing so um

Yeah. So. I had a 50 year old gentleman who came in to see me and he was told by his primary doctor that his liver function tests, his ALT and AST were mildly elevated. And so he came in because he was frustrated with his weight. He wanted to lose some weight. He was about 25 pounds overweight.

And he just mentioned to me that his doctor had said his liver function tests were a little elevated and that they were gonna be rechecking them in a few months.

And so, you know, we really got a good detailed history from him and we got a sense of what he was what his diet was like and and and, you know, what his what his alcohol consumption was like, because, you know, that's one of the first things, of course, we think about with, you know, fatty liver or.

or these elevated liver function tests were like, okay, how much alcohol is this person consuming? And what was interesting to me about him was he was pretty moderate in his alcohol consumption. He was having about two glasses of wine a night. And so not for a man, that kind of almost falls within what's considered moderation. So I was, um, you know, he was not a binge drinker.

He was not overusing alcohol from the, from the criteria we were talking about earlier, but I think the amount of alcohol he was consuming in, in connection with his diet and probably his genetics and many other things like his microbiome that we've spoken about, you know, that altogether was really impacting these liver functions for him. And so, um,

We noticed with his diet, it was not rich enough in vegetables, that's for sure. And really, that was probably the biggest thing I would say with his diet. It was just devoid of a lot of vegetables. And you were talking about some of the things, supplements we use for... helping the liver. You know, one of the things we think a lot about is sulforaphane, right?

Which comes from your cruciferous vegetables that helps and encourages the production of glutathione in the body. And so one of the things we really worked on with him is making sure he got some cruciferous vegetables every day, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, Brussels sprouts, you know, really to help support, uh, the, uh, liver and help it heal. Essentially.

We also had him take a break from alcohol. You know, we said, you know, let's just pull away alcohol for a period of time, really help that liver heal. calm down and let it give us some time to heal. And as I was mentioning earlier, we really can see the liver function tests go down pretty quickly for some patients.

We can see if somebody did have fatty liver, you can watch it improve within a few weeks of cleaning up the diet and, and decreasing alcohol intake. So it's, it's, it can be, especially if it's not too far progressed, we can see changes pretty darn quickly. And so with him, we really focused on cruciferous vegetables, lots of the sulfurous vegetables like onions and garlic.

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