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Ep193: UnCurable: Why Some Diagnoses Only Mean the System Has Failed You with Dr. Aaron Hartman

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Hartman says 'incurable' only means the practitioner has 'exhausted what they can offer you,' not that nothing else exists.

1. Burn It Nutrition Podcast Ep193, 'UnCurable,' examines whether diagnoses such as cerebral palsy, Lyme disease and stage 4 cancer are as final as patients are told. 2. Host Joseph Navarro, who says functional medicine helped him through a year of undiagnosed Lyme disease, interviews Dr. Aaron Hartman, founder of Richmond Integrative and Functional Medicine, a researcher on over 70 studies, and author of Uncurable. 3. Hartman's thesis is that 'as long as you can give your body what's lacking and find out what's blocking your body's ability to self-heal,' it will do what it was designed to do. 4. His daughter Anna, adopted at age one, was told she would never walk or talk, yet she began walking, singing and reading, and at nearly 20 she can text and makes Christmas cards. 5. When the family declined a feeding tube, they were reported to child protective services for medical neglect, and the investigation ended with the nutritionist telling them to keep doing what they were doing. 6. Hartman credits food as medicine as the first big change for Anna, using phospholipid-rich foods like egg yolk, caviar and organ meat plus home-made bone broth, with later therapies built on top of that base. 7. He lays out a 'triangle of health' of gut, sleep and stress, and says 75% of neurotransmitters and 90% of serotonin are made in the gut, which is why he starts there. 8. He lists commonly overlooked drivers, including Lyme, Babesia and Bartonella, mold, mast cell activation, POTS and dysautonomia, and hypermobility, which he says raises neurodivergence risk 400%. 9. On false hope, he cites the book Radical Remission and says over a thousand cases of spontaneous cancer remission appear in the medical literature, while describing a patient with stage 4 colon cancer stable for about six years. 10. Suited to chronic-illness patients and caregivers seeking functional medicine perspectives.

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