Dr. Mark Hyman

and they follow people for a while and they see what happens.

The data is pretty compelling.

It shows like 50 to 80% of women see improvement.

Yeah, I mean, that's sort of classic functional medicine.

If someone's sick, you take out all the bad stuff until you see what happens.

Because you don't know.

And the truth is that many people have autoimmune diseases or issues for many reasons.

And so, the way I think about toxins is it's sort of like a cup that overflows.

Your body can handle it to a certain extent.

moment, and then your toxic load gets so high that it tips over into a disease.

And so, you know, there may be other factors and other toxins that are affecting you.

There may be other things in your microbiome.

There may be dietary factors.

There may be late infections.

There's a lot of reasons for all those symptoms that relate to immune activation and inflammation and autoimmunity and microbiome issues.

Even there's heavy metals, right, in the silicone.

Yeah, it's small, but it's a cumulative effect of all this.

And so I think that, you know, we're now in an era where we're beginning to understand that, you know, toxins play a role in human health.

Doctors have been really notoriously bad at thinking about that or assessing it.

And unless you have an acute poisoning, they don't think toxins are a problem because your body can handle it.