Dr. Elizabeth Boham

And then a lot of times those basic tests look normal.

And that's what patients come to me all the time with.

Yeah, my tests were normal.

And they said, maybe there's maybe had some depression.

And I don't blame, I don't blame.

Maybe you've had a low depression.

It's not that we're, you know, they don't blame physicians for that.

They're given a very short amount of time to deal with this very complex symptom.

So I mean, I think what's great with functional medicine is we really, as I talked about, take that really detailed timeline and history and look to connect the dots.

And we're wondering, okay, what's going on, of course, with that person's lifestyle?

You know, of course, we're paying attention to sleep and diet and exercise and stress, but we're also thinking about all the different systems in the body and how they're influencing somebody's energy level.

So everything from, is that person dealing with a chronic infection, right?

So chronic infections, we've got to think about and delve through.

Absolutely, right?

Yeah.

That can happen a lot of times, right?

And sometimes acute infections turn into chronic infections.

And sometimes people just have these smoldering infections in like the digestive system that can really wear their body down, you know, an overgrowth of yeast or some bacteria.

And the body's just chronically having to fight that and it's exhausting.

If it's not healthy, we see that all the time, right?