Patient X comes in with the works: chronic headaches, IBS, overactive bladder, widespread body pains and fatigue with post-exertional malaise. The good diagnostician you are, you quickly flag the relevant micro-nutrient deficiencies, the gut dysbiosis, the candida overgrowth, the methylation detox SNPs, and clean up the patient’s diet.

But nothing seems to shift the needle. In fact the great detox supplements seem to cause a crash, the anti-Candida treatment cause major IBS flares and set backs, and the clean diet seems to ‘help’, but it’s becoming increasingly restrictive due to a growing food sensitivities list…

Puzzled, but unperturbed, you address vagal nerve toning, trauma physiology with EDMR, counselling and breathing. The patient promises you they’re not overly stressed or depressed, but boy are they tired; and it’s getting worse. Also; the B vitamins are starting to cause flares, and they’re asking you about finer points in  mitochondrial chemistry that remind you you ought to read that physiology chapter again…

But no matter the approach, your formulas that SHOULD work continue to fail, despite diagnosing a myriad of functional disorders: estrogen dominance, Zn:Cu imbalances, heavy metal burdens, SIBO, MARCoNs… the list of helpful or even TOLERATED treatments shortens.

With a long list of problems, but no clear first steps, you find yourself apologising to your patient that the bag of tricks is running dry, and have you thought about “trying an IV”, “just to see if that helps?”

Come along to discuss the labyrinth that is complex multi-system inflammatory disease, the epidemic of our time. We’ll be discussing a therapeutic order for the sensitive patient. Valuable missing diagnostic pieces, and critical early interventions.

Dr Nicholas Morgan, B.Med, FRACGP, FACNEM, Dip TM&H

Clinics:

NIIM, Melbourne
Merge Health, Melbourne

Date/Time: Sun 15th September 6pm (AEST)