Are My Supplements Working? - Dr. Martin Rutherford

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Are My Supplements Working? And this is one that, when presented to me, I was actually excited about doing because this is a challenge. I work in a field in which we use diet, lifestyle and a variety of different supplementations from herbs and botanicals to nutraceuticals, to vitamins, to minerals, and so on and so forth, combined with diets. So I work with this every day. It's a very nuanced area and, "Are my supplements working," is something that I hear a lot. People will come in for their first consultation and sometimes... I had a lady there that came in with three bags of supplements. I think it was 31 supplements that she was taking multiple times a day. Multiple was at least two, was at least two times a day. Most of my patients come to me with bad digestive systems to begin with. So throwing 60 some supplements a day or more into a bad digestive system probably reduces the effectiveness of supplementation just for the record, and that's part of it.

Okay, so supplements, let's go A to B on this. First of all, when I'm treating patients, right now, at a point in the evolution of functional medicine and the evolution of my career, it's changed dramatically. It used to be people came in and if I started giving them some supplements, they were like, "Hey, I'm on four to five drugs. What are supplements going to do?" People were more medically oriented. Now people are coming in with laundry lists of supplements and sometimes they're the right supplement, sometimes they're not at the right dosage. But the point is, obviously they're not working for them or they wouldn't be here talking to me about their chronic fatigue, and their fibromyalgia, and their leaky gut syndrome, and their irritable bowel syndrome, and their chronic anxiety, and all that type of stuff.

Why are they not working? All right. So one big reason why they're not working is, and this is always a challenge for me when the patient comes because I use supplements. We have a pharmacy, if you will, of supplements in our front office that we've been fine-tuning and developing for probably a decade and a half at least. And different companies have different strengths in the field. One company has a strength that they're really the guys in glutathione. Other people might really be the company in berberine, other people... and on and on. Okay, so you get the point there. But that company doesn't just do glutathione and this company doesn't just do berberine. They then start to do all of the things that the other companies do, and then they have to tweak it to make their product special. So they'll put a couple of different ingredients in there, which a person may be sensitive to, they may not be sensitive to.

And these are the quality companies I'm talking about. These are the people I know and respect. And these are the companies that you can count on that what they put is in there. And what they say is in there is in there. And the amount that they say is in there is in there. And so we have a whole pharmacy of these. But I have the pharmacy of certain supplements from this company that are the best because those are the best for that company, and then the same thing for the other. So it's hard for the consumer to know that because you haven't been using trial and error on these supplements on very sick people for a long period of time on thousands of cases. So that's one of the reasons that your supplementation may not be doing the job that you think it should be doing.

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