Dr. Elizabeth Boham

Heavy metals.

You know, and I think it's really great.

Some patients even come in with their timeline, you know, and sometimes that's so helpful because they write down, you know, over the years when certain things happened in their health history.

And then you can look at that, and again, you start to see some of these patterns.

Right.

And that mercury for you just depleted your glutathione stores and that then influenced all these other aspects of your health.

I think it's so interesting how some people just need more support than others in certain areas.

And, you know, we talked about this on another podcast about supplements.

And I think that's what the key is, is when you figure out for that individual person where they need that extra support in a personalized way, it makes all the difference in the world.

often undiagnosed and something we have to look for.

You know, we look for the signs of sleep apnea from somebody snoring, not remembering their dreams, their blood pressure being elevated, they're not having a heart, gaining weight, right?

Because it causes the weight gain.

It causes you to gain weight around your belly.

Signs of insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome, that high fasting insulin, the high waist to hip ratio, you know, all those things make us think, okay, we got to think about sleep apnea.

And then when we examine them, sometimes you can see clues on exam.

And it's critical that we diagnose it and treat it because it makes a huge difference in not only how somebody feels, but their risk for all sorts of diseases, right?

When you have the wrong bacteria and the wrong yeast levels, you can get a lot of bloating after you eat, you can get a lot of fatigue after you eat, you can get those symptoms of constipation and diarrhea, and that causes this inflammation in the digestive system, so all of your digestive enzymes don't work well.

When you have the wrong bacteria and the wrong yeast levels, you can get a lot of bloating after you eat, you can get a lot of fatigue after you eat, you can get those symptoms of constipation and diarrhea, and that causes this inflammation in the digestive system, so all of your digestive enzymes don't work well.

When you have the wrong bacteria and the wrong yeast levels, you can get a lot of bloating after you eat, you can get a lot of fatigue after you eat, you can get those symptoms of constipation and diarrhea, and that causes this inflammation in the digestive system, so all of your digestive enzymes don't work well.

So it was a 24-year-old gentleman who came in to see me and was really struggling over the last year with his digestive system. He was having a lot of bloating and gas, pain in his stomach every time he ate. He was having diarrhea and sometimes he was getting constipated and He went to his traditional GI doctor, and they told him you have irritable bowel, but he wasn't getting any better, right?