From Patient to Pioneer 4/10 - The Deficiency Theory

"Welcome back to The Learning Corner! Today, I want to challenge the way you think about sickness. What if a disease isn't a random attack on your body, but rather a cry for help because your body is missing something? Let's dive into what I call the Deficiency Theory."

• Redefining Disease:  "deficiency" is a shortage of something essential to health, and a "disease" as an abnormal condition. Q: is it accurate that a disease is just caused by an organ failing, or is the organ failing because it lacks something? 
• Treating the Root: Heart palpitations. While conventional medicine might prescribe a drug, the root cause is often simply dehydration or a magnesium deficiency.
• Vitamin D and Calcium: Bone activity is dependent on calcium, vitamin D and also K2 for its building and breaking down. Why give a drug to do what a mineral can accomplish with out the side effects.
• The 1% Difference: Explain the spectrum of health. Your body can deal with deficiencies for a long time, but eventually, you cross that 1% threshold from 60% healthy to 59% sick, and a disease is born.

Host (Dr. Nicole): "When we make a deficiency sufficient, it starts alleviating symptoms, and pretty soon you're sleeping at night and feeling good again. But how do we know what you're deficient in? That's where your DNA comes in. We’ll cover that in detail next time!"

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Welcome back to the Learning Quarter. I am Dr. Nicole, and today we are going to talk about the deficiency theory. Not like it was before. This is part of our series. So today we're going to jump right in. I want to challenge the way you think about sickness. What if a disease isn't a random attack in your body, but rather a cry for help because your body is missing something? Let's dive into what I call the deficiency theory. Okay. As you probably have listened before, I did a whole series on the deficiency theory. I kind of in bits and pieces putting it together. I'm trying to get it out of my brain and applied into real life. So doing that sometimes takes a bit of refining. Um, but I just want to kind of brief on that. So last time we talked about um functional medicine, right? The missing piece, the time before that, we were discussing the chiropractic puzzle and the brain connection. And before that, it was the patient behind the practitioner. So that's one, two, three. Um, and now this one is four, the deficiency theory. So keep following me as I start talking about my journey as a as a patient, and what brought me into and what continues feeding me as a practitioner is we're not done after we um fix something or treat something or correct something, because we live in a world that's fallen. We have a journey of health, we have a lifestyle that we need to live. It's not one and done, but a accumulation of or a compilation of series of events essentially of what our body and and what our journey is defined as. So if you're sitting there going, oh, I just need one thing to help my weight, I just need one thing to do this. Well, no, I'm I'm not trying to burst your bubble, but the feeling should be, wow, okay, I want to be healthy. And what am I doing right now to accomplish that? And what am I not doing right now that I can change into something I need to be doing? For all of you out there listening, you know what you should be doing. You know what you shouldn't be doing, because your body and your mind tell you it's the things that we don't want to do, that we discipline ourselves to do that usually gets us to the end goal that we want. That's just a little nugget and a side note for any of you listening today that needed to hear that. Um, but let's redefine disease. So, going back to the deficiency theory, defining deficiency as a shortage of something essential to health, and a disease as an abnormal condition. What is it accurate that a disease is just caused by an organ failing? Or is the organ failing because it lacks something? I was in conversation with a good friend of mine, I think it was yesterday. I can't keep track of my days lately because they've been full and exciting. Um, but I was in conversation about, you know, why was an organ failing? You know, when you're in your 20s, you shouldn't need an organ removed. You should be healthy. Well, okay, if that organ needed to be removed because you had cancer or tumor, why did your organ have a tumor, right? What is causing these things? Why are they there? Not let's just take it out and see what happens. That is so common in my practice to hear that. Patients come in and they say, Oh, the surgeon just said, let's just take out my gallbladder because I don't know what else to do, and it may or may not help. Uh, what? No, thank you. So, for those brave souls out there, you know who you are. You came into my office and said, let me get a second completely different opinion and figure out what's happening to my gallbladder or other organ, thyroid, whatever organ you came in, um, uterus, whatever, ovary, testicles, I don't care, whatever that is, you are so brave to say, mmm, wait, that doesn't make sense. That's not common sense. If you don't know why you're removing that, then why should I want you to remove that? Those questions are your questions to be getting answers to. And you don't need to listen to every single doctor, including myself, on what makes sense, right? So you have time sometimes, just to most of the time, just to go, wait a second, I'm gonna go get a second opinion. Obviously, if you're in the emergency room and bleeding out because they need to sew you up and it's like an instant thing, don't be a silly, get it done. But if you're in there going, wow, I've had these gallbladder attacks for three years, two years, six months, and there's no stones, and they can't tell me why this is happening. I should get it, you don't have to get an emergency surgery right there. Anyways, deficiency is a shortage of something that we need to be healthy. The disease is an abnormal condition to that thing. So think about this. Advocate for yourself. It's time. You are your best or worst advocator. You are the one in your body and have to deal with the consequences. So it's better to ask the questions, get the right answers, and feel confident in what you're doing versus just going with the flow, getting something removed, and then going, dang it, I wish I didn't do that. Um, because we all do those things, all of us, both ways. But it's better if we ask the questions first. So that brings us to treating the root, right? So if you look at an organ and why is it being damaged, or why is it not working, or why does it have a tumor, or why do you have heart palpitations? Right? Conventional medicine prescribes a drug, does surgery, but the root cause is very different. It works on dehydration or your deficiencies in magnesium or selenium or something else that might be causing heart palpitations. So you have to look at why is your thyroid not working? Why is your testicles not working, your ovaries, right? Your sex or organs. Um, why is your digestion not working? Why can you get those questions answered? If the person you're going to can't answer those questions that make sense to you, then maybe you need to ask why am I seeing them? All right, moving on. The anemia analogy. How iron deficiency anemia is treated by supporting the body with iron. Okay, so if you have iron deficiency anemia, typically if you're a male, we're gonna look for a bleed. Why are you bleeding somewhere? Because you shouldn't be deficient in iron. It could be a malabsorption issue, maybe you have celiac disease, stuff like that. If you're a woman and you're low in iron and you are during um your menstruation years, your pregnancy years, your childbearing years, however you want to say that, if you're still bleeding and you have iron deficiency anemia, you need to support that. You need to find out why and figure out how to make you have enough iron absorption, usage-wise. Um, do you have any kind of genetic snips that go along with that that is making you, I don't know, uh absorb too much like we talked about before, and it's not anemia per se, but it's absorption issues that look like anemia because I don't know. There's a whole biological reason for that one, but that will take a little bit more talking. Anyways, if you do have low iron or iron deficiency anemia, do you fix it or do you just bypass it and go, man, I'm fatigued all the time. I wonder what my fatigue is from. Why am I so tired? Why am I having XYZ symptoms? Why? Well, no, you know, if you're iron deficient and you're anemic from lack of iron, you cannot carry the oxygen necessary to survive, let alone exercise and do other um higher tasks such as executive thought, planning, um, any of those things. So wouldn't you say that you give iron in the best absorbable form absorbable form, right? Because if you are deficient in iron, your body is going to take and utilize other things to help you get the energy, to help you, you know, get enough iron just to survive. So you're gonna lack an iron in other areas. So I guess the example that I wanted to use maybe isn't as good of one. Um, I'm trying to explain this and it's going in circles. So, what I'm trying to say is this let's use the calcium um absorption, the bone, right? Vitamin D and calcium. So if you're if you're a body, if you're in your 20s and 30s, and you do not have enough calcium in your body or vitamin D because you're low in vitamin D all the time, um, if you do not have enough for your bones to have the right clastic activity, right? Building and breaking, it should be in a rhythm, it should support bone growth and the repairing of bone in the proper amount, right? Osteoclastic breakdown, osteoblastic build up. And so if you're not in the right levels during your 20s, well, even teens, teens, 20s, 30s, 40s, you can have um early onset, um, osteo um, what is it? Oh my goodness. I need to go have some lunch. Anyways, okay, then you're gonna have osteoporosis, osteo, oh boy, we're gonna move past this, guys. You're gonna help me with this. Tell Dr. Nicole she needs to eat more instead of just skipping lunch and working hard. Anyways, you go on and you say, Okay, if I don't have enough vitamin D and I don't have enough calcium, I'm most likely not gonna have the tools that my bones need to build what it needs. Then it's gonna go, hmm, well, if I can't do that, and I need calcium and vitamin D for other cells in the body, so we got to split the difference, and now we're lacking in the bone, but we're also lacking maybe in, I don't know, the calcium channels that need to pump our muscles, um, stuff like that. So when you look at deficiency, it's not just if you don't have enough, your body goes, Oh yay, let's just pull it out of thin air. No, it pulls from something else and gives to something else based upon the hierarchy of what the body says. The body says, first off, we need to breathe. Everybody knows this one. You need to breathe. If you don't have oxygen, you're not going to live past, I think it's four minutes. Then you need water. If you don't have water past about three days, you can die. If you don't have food, um, that's about 40 days, then you can die. So what happens is we have a hierarchy of needs of our body, and if you don't have enough nutrients, something becomes deficient. And in the vitamin D and calcium um realm with osteoporosis, then we're gonna look at going, huh? Well, if we don't have enough for that, and your bone just goes, you have enough to stand, you have enough to work, but maybe in your 50s you fall and you break a hip, which maybe is uncommon, then you look for osteoporosis and go, oh no, I'm osteoporotic. I better go to whatever strong that is and work out all the while. That's been happening for 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years, and maybe you have a genetic component on it. What I'm saying is you have to look at the body. You have to go genetically, this is how your body's programmed. We know these SNPs do this, these SNPs do this. If they're expressed, you will be lacking this, you will be absorbing too much of this, producing too much of this, not any of this, um, whatever that looks like. We have to look at what your genetic blueprint is. And then we have to look at what's actually happening. So the blueprint of the genes and the SNPs, when you look at those, you go, that's how the body could or should be performing. And then you look at the micronutrient testing and you go, that is how it actually is performing in your day-to-day. And it's based upon what you're eating, what you're exposed to, toxicity levels, um, trauma, all the other things. Um, and it can tell you, hey, you need this organic acid, you need this amino acid, you need this, and this is the food you can do. Or if you can't get enough of that because you're extremely depleted, CoQ10, you know, genetically I produce a lot less, so I'm excited to see where my CoQ10 is. Um, but CoQ10 and glutathione, you'll be able to go, yes, I need this much, so I can eat a lot of it, but I also need support with some of it. Those are the things that the micronutrients tests, right? So when you look at deficiency, we have a blueprint of your body, how your DNA from your mom and dad combined in your body, and now on the low to moderate penetrance genes, we know that it's gonna act like XYZ in your vitamin D, in your iron absorption, um, in your obesity, and your even your training. When you look at, you know, do you have the RR variant, the XX variant, the XR variant in the actin 3 gene? Those are the things that really show us what we need to do for our training. We train into our strengths and we build on our weaknesses. So those are the blueprints, and then you can test those things like, huh, micronutrients. Do I have enough? Is what I'm doing today in the last 60 days, 30 days, enough to support my body and what it needs. If it's no, which most of us were gonna have some areas, then you correct those and go, oh, did that get my symptom gone? Is my symptom? Wow, I have more energy. Oh, I'm sleeping through the night. Maybe I'm pooping. Maybe I'm whatever that is, my headaches go away, my menstruation gets better, whatever your symptoms are, that's how it's done. That's the deficiency theory in a synapse. Your blueprint says how you should do and could work. Then the micronutrient test says this is how your body is or isn't actually working, and then we use either the supplementation or the food, preferably, to really introduce those things into your body and that corrects it. And remember, we talked about the 60% threshold to 59% threshold of sick to healthy. Do you remember that? So when you're doing your stuff and you're living your dream, and you're like, oh, you know, I'm a little tired and whatever, my body still feels good, and maybe you're depleting yourself, and now you're you were at 80% health, and now you're at 70% health, and in five years, maybe you're at 60% health, and as soon as you're at 59%, guess what happens? Bam! Your back goes out, you get sick, the body goes, I can't keep it up anymore, I can't do this. So, where are you at? Why is that happening? That's where I come in, that's what I do. I want somebody to tell me these things, and I cannot find somebody to tell me these things. So, guess what? I'm figuring it out, I'm going through all of this to be able to tell you these things. The difference between what I want and what's out there right now is probably what you guys are struggling with as patients as well. What that is, I don't want to be on a pill the rest of my life for no reason. I don't want to be on a supplement for the rest of my life for no reason. I want explanations to why. Why is my body doing this? Give me a reason. I want a reason. And when you get that reason, I want to know how to fix it with diet and lifestyle. I don't want to be on a pill, I don't want to be on a hormone, I don't want to come to your office 25 million days a week. I don't want to do that. I don't want to spend a crap ton of money. I don't want you to just go, oh, it'll maybe help you. I don't know. Well, sometimes we do got to guess a little bit, but it's more like this. Your genetics say this. Your microbiome or micronutrients say this. Let's get your micronutrients stabilized. Let's decrease these areas and increase these areas because your body says you're out of range. And let's see what happens to your symptomatology when we create a balanced optimal range of micronutrients in your body. What? I mean, that's like science, creationism right there at your fingertips. That's what I've been looking for. That's what I that's why I do what I do. So when we make a deficiency sufficient, it alleviates symptoms. Pretty soon you're sleeping at night, feeling good again, your weight starts to go away. But how do we know you're deficient? That's where your DNA comes in, that's where your microbiome comes in. And we are gonna talk in detail about DNA next time on our next podcast. So please tune in. I hope to get some feedback from all y'all. And I'm gonna sign off today because I'm too excited, and I hope y'all are doing great. And until next time, this is Dr. Nicole on the Learning Corner.