In this episode, Lyndsay Soprano and Dr. David Bilstrom discuss infection, stress, and chronic illness/disease and how we can get ahead of it at a young age before it creeps up and wrecks all kinds of havoc in our bodies, health, and lives.

But also how to help FIX it after you think it might be too late.

Dr. Bilstrom speaks about Adverse Childhood Events (ACEs) that inform chronic illness and autoimmune disease. They discuss chronic illness from his personal eyes in his family which led him to get involved in asking the question WHY are people, especially women, getting so sick?

This led to the conversation of something called Estrogen Dominance. In his words, it’s the most dangerous disease for women.

Estrogen dominance can lead to so many horrible things in women from ovarian cysts fibroids, endometriosis, bad menstrual cycles, and more. It also drives excessive worry, anxiety, panic attacks, and insomnia.

80% of people that get auto-immune disease are women. And if you get estrogen dominance before menopause, you have a 5.4 times greater risk of getting breast cancer before menopause. And a 10 times greater risk of malignant cancers your entire lifetime--the ones that travel.

LISTEN. AND LISTEN NOW.

Dr. David Bilstrom is an Autoimmune Medicine Specialist, quadruple board certified in Anti-aging and Regenerative Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and Medical Acupuncture. He is the Director of the International Autoimmune Institute and the Bingham Memorial Center for Functional Medicine and the author of the book The Nurse Practitioners Guide to Autoimmune Medicine. He works closely with his wife Jody, who is a licensed clinical social worker and expert in how adverse childhood disease drives chronic disease. Together they help thousands of people a year reverse autoimmune and chronic diseases and are on a mission to change the way autoimmune disease is treated worldwide.

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Book to Promote:
The Nurse Practitioners Guide to Autoimmune Medicine, Reversing and Preventing All Autoimmunity
https://david-bilstrom.mykajabi.com/NursePractitionersGuide