[EP 56] Don't miss the low hanging fruit to create healing in your case!

11/26/22 • 7 min

https://www.drhughwegwerth.com/post/mystery-case-solved-with-addressing-the-low-handing-fruit-for-her-healing
Mystery Case Solved With The Correct Approach

If you are suffering from a mysterious medical condition that has been difficult to diagnose, then this may be the article for you.

What follows is an example of a client. It is important to note that this example is a fictional person, but these symptoms are extremely common in the patients I work with every day, and may even sound like symptoms you are experiencing yourself.

Let’s say we have a female patient who is:

45 years old

Premenopausal

Has both low blood pressure and low blood sugar

Low levels of iron and thyroid functions

GI problems (particularly gas, bloating, and constipation)

Low levels of vitamin D

Gluten sensitivity

Difficulty remaining asleep

What Does Not Work for This Client

The conventional system will see she is premenopausal and fatigued, and say she must be depressed. They then prescribe an antidepressant.

Next, they look at her GI problems and say it must be gerd. They give her a medication meant to reduce the amount of stomach problems, which only messes with her system even more.

Once they identify her sleeping problems, they may even add a third medication to help her sleep at night.

The process goes on and on, and soon she is pumping herself full of medications.

There is a better way.

Functional Medicine’s Approach

I would tell this client they are not crazy, that these symptoms are real, but that we can treat them as naturally as possible. The goal is not to fill them with medications, but is to increase their God-given ability to heal.

First we would run some labs to see what different readings we have. These labs often can tell us a lot more about what may be causing some of these problems. For example, she may have deficiencies or excess amounts of some nutrients which are affecting her thyroid, sleep, or blood pressure.

Speaking of which, I would immediately check blood pressure. A lot of women who come to me end up having low blood pressure. Because blood pressure is what causes nutrients to enter into your cells all over your body, if we don’t address the blood pressure, then nothing else we do will have much effect.

Next I would look at blood glucose levels over time. It is very simple and affordable to do, and we can find that she has poor sugar regulation throughout her day.

Once we find your low iron levels I would ask her about fatigue and if she has heavy menstrual cycles. She may be losing enough blood to throw off her body’s ability to regulate iron. It may also be diet related. Iron delivers oxygen to the body, so low iron will cause a lot of different problems.

Next is the thyroid. The conventional system only does the cheapest labs available for your thyroid. On the other hand, we have found that you have an autoimmune disease against your thyroid. That would lead us down an entirely different path of treatment as well.

With vitamin D, the typically acceptable range is 30-100. Anywhere in there, the conventional system will tell you that you are fine. I like to see you closer to 80, so we add vitamin D to your diet.

We also look at your food sensitivities to address your gluten and GI problems. It i

https://www.drhughwegwerth.com/post/mystery-case-solved-with-addressing-the-low-handing-fruit-for-her-healing
Mystery Case Solved With The Correct Approach

If you are suffering from a mysterious medical condition that has been difficult to diagnose, then this may be the article for you.

Let’s say we have a female patient who is:

45 years old

Premenopausal

Has both low blood pressure and low blood sugar

Low levels of iron and thyroid functions

GI problems (particularly gas, bloating, and constipation)

Low levels of vitamin D

Gluten sensitivity

Difficulty remaining asleep

What Does Not Work for This Client

The conventional system will see she is premenopausal and fatigued, and say she must be depressed. They then prescribe an antidepressant.

Next, they look at her GI problems and say it must be gerd. They give her a medication meant to reduce the amount of stomach problems, which only messes with her system even more.

Once they identify her sleeping problems, they may even add a third medication to help her sleep at night.

The process goes on and on, and soon she is pumping herself full of medications.

There is a better way.

Functional Medicine’s Approach

Next I would look at blood glucose levels over time. It is very simple and affordable to do, and we can find that she has poor sugar regulation throughout her day.

With vitamin D, the typically acceptable range is 30-100. Anywhere in there, the conventional system will tell you that you are fine. I like to see you closer to 80, so we add vitamin D to your diet.

We also look at your food sensitivities to address your gluten and GI problems. It i

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[EP 56] 75 year with chronic UTI's found to have high glucose and iron!

https://www.drhughwegwerth.com/post/chronic-utis-in-a-75-year-old-floxed-female-with-high-glucose

If you're watching this video and you have a chronic problem, you definitely want to watch the whole entire video. Why? Because I'm going to go over some very, very critical data that it can that can explain why you have a chronic problems and why you're chronically inflamed and why you're not getting well. So what I'm going to do right now is I'm going to go over a case. I'm going to go over some general symptoms that she presents. She's a female in her seventies, super, super great lady, wants to get better and she can meet and we put her on a guided plan. I'm just going to go over some couple clinic, real specific clinical gems that could help you out and figure out what's going on with your problem. So she comes in with she's been down by damaged by antibiotics in 2007. She has neuropathy, weak legs, pain in a hip current UTI and then poor sleep wakes up almost every hour. So these are really devastating things. And we did a variety of things. But I'm going to go over a couple key things that we did with her. So one of the key things that I do is I have all my clients take their blood sugar. It's a very, very simple process. You can buy the meter on Amazon for 30 bucks. So what we do is we check your glucose before you eat, 60 minutes, before you eat, 30 minutes after 60 minutes, after 90 minutes after.

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[EP 57] Heart Attack Lab Assessment of your risk of a heart attack!

https://www.drhughwegwerth.com/post/heart-attack-lab-assessment-of-your-risk-of-a-heart-attack

Over is advance cardiovascular labs that you can have done to see exactly what kind of condition your arteries are in and if you are actually prone to cardiovascular disease, because let's be frank, 50% of all people in America will die of heart disease.
And guess what? The first sign of cardiovascular diseases or what the first sign of a heart attack is? It is death.
That's right. 50% of people that have a heart attack die. So that's 50% of your symptoms are no symptoms. It's death.
So what I'm going to walk you through is a case of mine, of a client of mine that is, that we did some labs and he has chronic pain all over his body and in particular in his low back.