218: Dr. Justin Marchegiani - Is Food Allergy Testing Useless? • Common Parasites • Intermittent Fasting Isn't For Everyone

Dr. Justin Marchegiani is a certified functional medicine practitioner that works with a wide variety of patients all the way from athletes trying to increase performance and heal from injuries to the everyday person with chronic health challenges. Using a holistic approach, he addresses core underlying barriers to health which allows his patients to heal faster and feel better.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How did Justin fall into functional medicine?
• Every bite of food either pushes you toward inflammation or anti-inflammation
• How Tom Brady starts his day
• Emphasizing good proteins and fats, in the morning
• Gut issues may NOT cause gut symptoms
• 80% of your immune system is in your gut
• Is there any value in food allergy testing?
• The autoimmune template... not diet
• Vegans and vegetarians going AIP or paleo to heal
• To sustain life, you have to consume life
• How important are supplements?
• Justin's a huge fan of digestive enzymes and HCL
• What really helped Justin's Hashimoto's
• NDT and desiccated thyroid
• What's the deal with H. pylori?
• How are infections "passed around?"
• What are the most common parasites Justin is seeing in practice?
• Ingesting worms on purpose?!?
• Stop kissing your dog on the lips
• Specific herbs to treat microbial infections
• When intermittent fasting isn't a good idea
• Testing for environmental toxins and heavy metals
• SIBO: small intestinal bacterial overgrowth
• With low energy comes poor mood
• Start your day right, with momentum
• What does Justin's breakfast look like?

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Related links:

Dr. Justin Marchegiani's website

Follow Dr. Justin Marchegiani on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube

Listen to Justin's podcast (Beyond Wellness Radio)

Listen to Evan Brand previously on TUHP (episode #200)

Tom Brady - The TB12 Method (book)

Trace Minerals Research - Endure

Redmond - Real Salt

Cleve Backster (books)

Cronometer

Diagnostic Solutions Laboratory - GI-MAP

The Great Plains Laboratory, Inc.

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