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Finding Pieces of the Puzzle

Tuesday, 22 July 2008 11:03 by Terry Pollock   RSS Feed

An Interview Featuring Dr. Todd LePine

Terry Pollock, a senior clinical consultant at Metametrix Clinical Laboratory, spoke with Dr. LePine after one of his recent lectures at the laboratory. Listen to their conversation and learn Dr. LePine’s approach in his clinical practice, and how he's “Finding Pieces of the Puzzle” while evaluating complex patients with multiple complaints.

 

Dr. Todd LePine Terry Pollock

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Dr. Todd LePine is board certified in Internal Medicine with advanced training and experience in Integrative Functional Medicine. Utilizing a variety of scientifically based Integrative Medical approaches, he endeavors to transform and heal both mind and body.

The following quote from his Web site at www.drlepine.com gives us some insight into his thoughts on Functional Medicine:

"Functional Medicine offers a paradigm shift in how we look at “disease” and is defined as “the field of health care that employs assessment and early intervention to improve physiological, emotional/cognitive, and physical function. The focus on “function” in this approach to health is intended to bring questions of purpose and design back into medical practice and to acknowledge that root level, highly interconnected, multi-system imbalances must be transformed to improve and optimize health.”



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March 3. 2009 20:55

John Rhicard, DMD

Dr. Lepine has some very interesting points concerning the direction of medicine.  When the lay person thinks of the miniscule amount of drug (often measured in milligrams) and the enormous and diverse effects it has on the drug taker (measured in kilograms of body weight), he/she begins to see the potential for good or harm that our "natural", internal chemicals can have.
The future of health lies in learning how to maintain a good biochemical balance and how to diagnose (and correct) imbalances.  We are only at the threshold of diagnosis in conventional medicine.

John Rhicard, DMD United States

March 5. 2009 08:48

tpollock

I agree with Dr. Rhicard's comment that tiny amounts of certain substances, whether natural or not, can affect us greatly. Doctors and scientists of the 1930's and 1940's seemed much more open to the inherent powers of the micronutrients such as the B complex vitamins, for example. Their physiological concentrations begin at the microgram level or lower, yet increasingly we see, via urine organic acids testing, clear evidence of functional deficiencies of biotin, folate and B12 (all micrograms levels needed for repletion). As common may be B6 deficiency (milligrams). When these micronutrients are replenished, profound improvements happen in the patient. Whole foods diets and supplements are invaluable sources of all micronutrients. Promoting this fact should be a tenet of healthcare. Testing can shed light on nutritional imbalances, "piece by puzzle piece"!

tpollock United States

March 12. 2009 10:28

Dr. LePine

Dr. Rhicard's comment on the power of very low doses of compounds having an effect good or bad on the body really raises the idea of a cocktail effect in the body's biochemistry.  Biochemical individuality also needs to be taken into consideration especially given the work of Bruce Ames regarding High-dose vitamin therapy stimulates variant enzymes with decreased coenzyme binding affinity see ( www.ajcn.org/.../616  Hence the value of the biochemical testing Metametrix offers to better look inside the body to see how our well our metabolism or engine is running!

Dr. LePine United States

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