Join Dr. Jeffrey Gladden and Dr. Peter Kozlowski in this episode of the Gladden Longevity Podcast. Dr. Koz is a Functional Medicine M.D. and award-winning author with a new book: GET THE FUNC OUT: Balance Your Hormones and Detox. He uses a broad array of tools to find the source of the body's dysfunction: he takes the time to listen to his patients and plots their history on a timeline, considering what makes them unique and co-creating with them a truly individualized care plan. Currently, he works with patients online and in person via his Chicago, Illinois, and Bozeman, Montana-based offices. Dr. Kozlowski did his residency in Family Practice but started training in Functional Medicine as an intern. He trained in the clinics with leaders in his field, including Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Deepak Chopra, and Dr. Susan Blum. In this episode, you will learn about the surprising link between hormones and toxicity and the steps you can take today to eradicate hidden toxins in the body and balance your hormones once and for all. Do you know the toxins we encounter daily and how they affect our hormones? Is there such a thing as hormone imbalance? Listen to find out more.

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Show notes:

Dr. Gladden notes that listeners are going to love learning about what they can do today to balance their hormones and deal with toxicity. (1:03)

Dr. Gladden welcomes Dr. Koz to the show and goes over the issues they will be touching on. (1:35)

Dr. Gladden mentions that Dr. Koz has written a book called - Get the Func Out. (3:12)

Dr. Koz lists out five main areas he considers when it comes to functional medicine: food, gut health, hormone imbalance, environmental toxins, and mental and emotional, and spiritual health. (4:00)

Dr. Koz highlights that functional medicine's mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects seem to be the most critical aspects. (6:05)

Dr. Koz points out a red flag he comes across when dealing with patient documentation. (7:55)

Dr. Koz refers to going to treatment at twenty-seven or twenty-eight and not being able to name an emotion. (10:25)

Dr. Koz reveals that he was very traditionally minded and never thought he would be doing functional medicine today. (12:00)

Dr. Koz emphasizes that the symptoms of adrenal fatigue can look the same as the symptoms of a low thyroid, so different tests are needed. (13:55)

Dr. Koz explains that the thyroid gland makes T4 and that T4 is converted to T3 and shares that T3 is the hormone that binds to cells all over your body. (16:00)

Dr. Gladden mentions that the only way to deal with some issues is to do genetic testing. (18:19)

Dr. Koz says an area of functional medicine he was not willing to get into originally was environmental medicine. (20:20)

Dr. Koz advocates that the accumulation of toxins results in disease. (22:10)

Dr. Koz explains how toxins may get stored in any cell in our body. (24:55)

Dr. Koz maintains that heavy metal is the number one toxin he would test anyone for. (26:45)

Dr. Koz reveals that organic products are not necessarily protected from things that are in the air. (30:09)

Dr. Gladden says that those that are near highways have higher levels of exhaust fumes and toxic products in their toxic profiles. (33:05)

Dr. Koz discloses that he will use different detox strategies depending on the toxin he finds. (37:10)

Dr. Koz shares that his favorite detox supplement is glutathione. (39:19)

Dr. Koz states that what he was taught in functional medicine was to start with the gut. (41:49)

Dr. Gladden details that he was taught detoxification in phases. (43:00)

Dr. Gladden lists the Dirty Dozen and how it is important to clean them before consuming. (47:00)

Dr. Gladden highlights the importance of testing your environment and opening phase 3 pathways. (49:39)

Dr. Koz realized that doing the gut was not enough, replacing hormones was not enough, but there were other steps that he needed to take. (51:00)

Dr. Gladden expresses that he really enjoyed the conversation. (52:37)

Dr. Koz ends his conversation by saying he would love for people to dig more into functional medicine's mental, emotional, and spiritual parts. (53:24)

Dr. Gladden notes that what we fail to understand is that our biochemistry is mainly influenced by our mental, emotional, and spiritual state. (54:13)

Dr. Koz is very confident that getting your hormones right starts with proper testing. (55:33)

Steve thanks everyone for listening to the podcast. (57:00)

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