Autoimmune Diseases Are On the Rise: The Hidden Contributing Factor that No One Is Talking About with Dr. Sara Gottfried

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Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 102 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Fatty15, Our Place, and Lumebox. Autoimmune conditions are on the rise, driven by various environmental factors. One often overlooked contributor? Trauma. Today’s guest sheds light on how trauma influences the body to attack itself, triggering autoimmune diseases. Today, on the Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru interviews Dr. Sarah Gottfried about the surge in autoimmune conditions and their link to trauma. Dr. Gottfried discusses three factors that can lead to autoimmune conditions, symptoms indicating a condition, and the progression timeline of these symptoms. She also examines research findings on metabolic dysfunction and autoimmunity, along with traits observed in individuals who do not develop autoimmune conditions. Additionally, Dr. Gottfried highlights the benefits of adopting an elimination diet and using objective tools to measure the body’s reaction to stressors, clearly assessing what truly supports or harms the body. Dr. Sara Gottfried is a board-certified physician who graduated from Harvard and MIT. She practices evidence-based integrative, precision, and Functional Medicine. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Thomas Jefferson University and Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health. Dr. Gottfried is a global keynote speaker and the author of four New York Times bestselling books about trauma, hormones, and health. Her latest book is The Autoimmune Cure: Healing the Trauma and Other Triggers That Have Turned Your Body Against You. In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Gottfried dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): The rise in autoimmune conditions (00:00:11 / 00:00:11) Symptoms and the timeline of autoimmune conditions (2:34 / 2:34) Three requirements that lead to autoimmunity (10:54 / 7:03) Traditional versus functional medicine approach to autoimmune conditions (12:51 / 9:00) Genetic predisposition versus environmental factors contributing to autoimmunity (20:13 / 14:25) The link between ACE scores and autoimmune conditions (24:48 / 19:00) What causes the body to attack itself (29:48 / 24:00) Higher rates of autoimmunity and metabolically dysfunction in developed countries (35:48 / 30:00) Traits of individuals who don’t develop autoimmune disease (46:48 / 41:00) The role of assessing trauma in healing and the tools for objective assessment (1:05:48 / 1:00:00) Elimination diet, how to do it right, and potential supplements (1:22:08 / 1:16:20) Genetic testing and supportive relationships (1:32:18 / 1:26:30) For more on Dr. Sara Gottfried, follow her on Instagram @saragottfriedmd, Facebook @drgottfried, Twitter @DrGottfried, YouTube @drgottfried, and through her website, saragottfriedmd.com This episode is brought to you by Fatty15, Our Place, Lumebox. Fatty15 is offering an additional 15% off its 90-day subscription Starter Kit. Go to fatty15.com/dhru and use code DHRU to replenish your C15 levels for long-term health. Reduce your toxic load by starting with your cookware! Go to fromourplace.com and enter the promo code DHRU at checkout to get 10% off any order. Lumebox is offering my community $260 off their FDA-approved portable Red Light device! That's over 40% off! Go to thelumebox.com/dhru and get your Red Light device. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dr. Sarah Godfrey, welcome back to the podcast. You're here today to sound the alarm on a super important subject.
0:08.5	You know, globally, you've shared with your audience that conservatively we know that one in ten that's
0:15.7	10% or globally 800 plus million people have a diagnosed autoimmune condition.
0:24.0	And one of the things you're on a mission to talk about
0:27.5	is that for those people, and maybe some others,
0:30.0	we'll get to that in a second,
0:31.8	if we don't have an honest conversation about the role that trauma,
0:36.7	lack of boundaries both inside and outside the body, chronic stress, and the sort of toxic milieu that we're in, if we don't have an
0:46.0	honest conversation of how those things are worsening and making it harder for people to heal, we're not looking at a bright future ahead.
0:58.4	I'd love for you to expand on that a little bit more if you could.
1:01.6	True, it's so good to be back with you.
1:04.0	Thank you for having me.
1:05.4	And I would say that statistic that she just gave,
1:07.8	10% globally have autoimmune disease.
1:11.0	The fact is it's much graver than that.
1:13.0	So we think that people with autoimmune disease
1:16.0	have about 7 to 14 years before they get diagnosed.
1:20.0	And the sad fact here is that many people who've got autoimmune disease or
1:26.3	auto immunity which is a pre-disise state can struggle going to see four to six
1:31.6	doctors before they get a correct diagnosis. They can go for
1:36.4	years, sometimes up to seven years, before they are correctly diagnosed. But I want to back up for a second to something that makes this relevant for so many more than just 10% of the population.
1:51.0	We believe that post-pandemic, that the rates of auto immunity, this
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