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Healthcare today has mostly become a game of Whack-a-Mole where medications or supplements are used to handle symptoms that the patient is having. While this can be good for the short haul it unfortunately does not lend itself to finding out what the cause of the problem was in the first place and working on that to prevent those symptoms from returning or even getting worse over time as the pills stop working. In today's video Dr. Rutherford discusses how properly practiced Functional Medicine is different.

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Hi I'm Dr. Martin Rutherford clinic director of power, health rehab and wellness in Reno, and today we're, going to be talking about whack-a-mole health care versus classic functional medicine procedures. What brought this topic to to the forefront for me has just been the the understanding and that I'm, seeing a different patient population than I saw 12 years ago, I've, been in functional medicine for quite some time.

Could I think I could legitimately argue I was in the pole, one of the original functional medicine, practitioners and - and it was quite a different experience back then than it is now treating functional medicine seekers if you will and so basically, every in our clinic, we interview Everybody we interview everybody before we even decide whether that individual would be a qualified patient to go through a functional medicine practice and get a consistently successful result.

And then these interviews, things have changed quite a bit. In the day, in the day when we first started out and and in in patients, were just desperate to get better, we pretty much treats chronic pain, chronic conditions back then people came in he wouldn & # 39.

To really know much about much of anything when it came to alternative health care. If you said the word gluten to somebody back, then they'd, go gluten. What's that or they'd say or they'd? Go? Oh, you're one of those or something along those lines.

Now I think gluten has become more and more widely accepted. You talk to people about diet. At that point in time, people would say diet how's. Food gonna help anything house food's. Gon na change. I'm Emmett Payne.

I got paying every joint in my body and I got I got an inflammation and that sounds tough. Today, everybody comes in my office, has already tried five different diets and believes that they're familiar with those diets and believe that, because they tried those diets and they didn't work - that the diet - probably isn -'t Gon na be a part of what's going be helping them, so they're there.

There's, just been a significant change again back then, and the day I well, I think I'm gonna go talk to my medical doctor and see if he thinks that I should work with you and today it's, like I already went to my medical doctor and and and my medical doctor, really can't help me and my medical doctor is playing whack-a-mole.

My medical doctor was looking at and and had symptoms that people kind of have that down today. My medical doctor is looking at symptoms and they can just give me a pill. And frankly, I usually going to defend the poor medical doctor because they're working with their hands tied behind their back having to work by insurance codes and things of that nature.

So so there's, been an evolution of the patient that walks in here some ways. It's a lot easier today and some ways it's, a lot harder, because I used the determine mall. We used it in the intro and and and in the title of this talk and it's kind of like what I'm.

Seeing I'm, seeing we've now morphed from the patients who used to come in largely had not gone to alternative practitioners in the day they usually came straight to us because they desperately heard there's, some not Over there,