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"diarrhea is defined as having stools that occur more than three times a day and a looser than usual specifically 200 grams 24 hours is considered diagnostic but as you can imagine trying to measure the weight of stools in everyone referring to diarrhea would be a mess literally so first off the call divide them into acute and chronic causes for start acute diarrhea is defined as lasting less than...

"...chronic kidney disease or chronic renal failure is a progressive irreversible condition characterized by either a reduction in kidney function or kidney damage as a result of any cause that a present for more than 3 months it is divided into stages based on the glomerular filtration rate which is a measure of how well the kidneys are functioning it shows the flow rate of filtrate through the g...

a sudden deterioration in the function of the kidneys is known as an acute kidney injury sometimes also called acute renal failure to measure this reduction in kidney function glomerular filtration rate or GFR is normally used which is a measurement of how well the kidneys are filtering the blood the functional unit of the kidney that actually does this is the Nephron made up of the glomerulus whi...

polycystic kidney disease is a condition characterized by the development of multiple cysts within the renal tubules of the kidney and is the most common hereditary renal disease the normal functional unit of the kidney is the nephron made up of a glomerulus and Bowman's capsule proximal convoluted tubule Loop of henle distal convoluted tubule and the collecting duct blood filters through the glom...

Nephrotic syndrome is a collection of signs and symptoms that result from damage to the kidneys and is often confused with nephritic syndrome in fatigue syndrome there is a substantial amount of protein being lost through the kidneys in the urine defined as more than 3.5 grams per day this leads to hypoalbuminemia a low level of albumin in the blood as albumin is the most abundant protein normally...

"...nephritic syndrome is a collection of signs and symptoms that result from glomerulonephritis which is inflammation of the kidney specifically the glomerulus this could be remembered because it means inflammation rather than being a disease itself nephritic syndrome is the manifestation of an underlying disease that causes the inflammation and there are many of these causes it is easily confuse...

"...tennis elbow and golfer's elbow a to similar conditions causing pain in the elbow and a medically know is lateral and medial epicondylitis respectively this means inflammation of the epicondyles which are bony protuberance has on the distal of the humerus the elbow is made up of the humerus articulated with the radius and ulna and allows for flexion and extension of the forearm however there a...

"...a shoulder dislocation is when the humerus separates from the shoulder joint and is the most common of the large joint dislocation normally the shoulder joint is made up of the head of the humerus articulated with the glenoid fossa of the scapula which is why it is known as the glenohumeral or joint it is a synovial ball and socket joint with a large range of motion but at the cost of being mo...

"...ankle fractures a common injuries involving a break in one or more of the bones that make up the ankle joint there are three bones that make up the ankle the tibia fibula and tailless specifically the medial and posterior malleolus by the and the lateral malleolus of the fibula there is an additional joint between the tibia and fibula called the tibiofibular syndesmosis this is a fibrous struc...

"...Osgood-Schlatters disease also known as tibial tubercle apophysitis is a condition characterized by the anterior knee due to inflammation of the apophysis and apophysis is a normal developmental protuberance from a bone that provides an insertion site for tendons in this case the patellar tendon on to the tibial tubercle it primarily affects children and adolescents because by adulthood the ap...

"...for those of you who have not tuned in to us we run essentially a chronic pain practice board Gates is board certified functional neurologist I'm a board-certified functional medicine practitioner we melded those two disciplines into a model of care to address a substantial portion of chronic conditions chronic Jesus and and although we cure few we're able to help most get under some some cont...

"...so we're going to talk about Hashimoto and Plastics today Hashimoto's is a subject that we've been long associated with frankly probably for most people are associated with and we're taking quite a bit of use for even diagnosing people at and so and getting heat on it and the point from that is that Hashimoto is the understanding of what's going on with Hashimoto's is the number of things it's...

"I never heard a group okay and so the bottom line is that he was talking about that a long time ago it's been around a while when I started to see the Improvement in my page consistently I thought wow this is what I want to do for a living and I had no clue 0 no clue at all that I was going to become conversant in gut problems I did that was going to become in thyroid problems there's going to ha...

"...yeah I'm giving a presentation every week on different topics that we treat and we share with you research we share with you our results occasionally our failures and whatever we can do to help you get a better grip on your situation and sometimes even things that will help you this is our first of the month answering questions session and the questions this month we went over them last night...

"...So today we're going to talk about Alzheimer's and sleep and more or less the basic concept of what we're going to talk about is Alzheimer's cause sleep problems or do sleep problems cause Alzheimer's kind of we're going to have kind of a chicken or the egg type of a discussion here today and we just saying that dr. Gates depending on someone asked this yesterday and asked me to retrieve a lot...

...so Alzheimer's is kind of an interesting topic I still keep hearing nobody's found the cause of it yet I'm not sure there is a the cause relative to that and and and then our observation we do a lot of chronic pain that's what we do for those of you haven't seen us we combine functional medicine and functional neurology to create a paradigm to address kind of the cornerstones of physiology that...

"...on polycystic ovarian syndrome PCOS and depression today much to my surprise doctor uh Justin for me we've never done one which is because we've done a lot of talk on PCOS and we see it a lot pretty common clinical picture that comes in here we see a lot of thyroids to correlate coordinate with a lot of Hashimoto's types problems so I'm not exactly sure where dr. Gates is going with this becau...

"...and today we're going to talk about a concept that has time so I think been controversial I think at times been considered theoretical when I first got into functional medicine years ago is actually a prominent Conrad of the immune system and because what we started to realize was in chronic pain we have a chronic pain practice for those of you who haven't watched us before and we treat just a...

"...obstructive sleep apnea is a breathing disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of Airway obstruction during sleep leading to periods with breathing stops known as apnea moving from wakefulness to sleep causes relaxation of muscle tone including the muscles of the upper Airway this allows the soft palate and the tongue to relax and to create an obstruction that reduces the patency of the r...

"...I am a certified functional medicine practitioner dr. Gates, I am a board-certified chiropractic neurologist and say that from now on because I always mess it up and together we have chronic pain I say it every week kind of just evolve kind of developed on its own frankly in the efforts are actually in the efforts of me to get better from my issues but ultimately with the help of some very ver...

"...I am a certified functional medicine practitioner dr. Gates, I am a board-certified chiropractic neurologist and say that from now on because I always mess it up and together we have chronic pain I say it every week kind of just evolve kind of developed on its own frankly in the efforts are actually in the efforts of me to get better from my issues but ultimately with the help of some very ver...

"...a chiropractic physician and a board-certified functional neurologist this is Dr. Randul okay you know he's the fourth certified functional neurology we're certified Chiropractic neurologist technical way to had I ever immigrants your certified functional medicine practice can you tell I was just talking about 23 different things before we just started I was just told I don't think that disgus...

"...a chiropractic physician and a board-certified functional neurologist this is Dr. Randul okay you know he's the fourth certified functional neurology we're certified Chiropractic neurologist technical way to had I ever immigrants your certified functional medicine practice can you tell I was just talking about 23 different things before we just started I was just told I don't think that disgus...

"...on polycystic ovarian syndrome PCOS and depression today much to my surprise doctor uh Justin for me we've never done one which is because we've done a lot of talk on PCOS and we see it a lot pretty common clinical picture that comes in here we see a lot of thyroids to correlate coordinate with a lot of Hashimoto's types problems so I'm not exactly sure where dr. Gates is going with this becau...

"...more with one of them and that and in and I think as we were going along we realized our patients were stressed but we would actually when we first got together we would actually say okay on this patient it's there really stress so we should do like just the brain and not do the functional chemistry and and not worry about the gut and and these people will just do the gut and not worry about i...