#1038 - Dr. Gabrielle Lyon - The Environmental Toxins Killing Your Health

You had two original pillars of health, which were eat and exercise, but then you had to add a third one. How come The third one, was environment and is environment. I do you have time for a quick story? Yeah. Yeah. I graduated medical school, obviously, and then did my fellowship. And when you finish your fellowship and go into private practice, you kinda think you know everything. And I was convinced the key to health was diet and exercise. It was all lifestyle. And I was wrong. I had this patient, very successful patient, CEO of a major company. She was a female as she was doing everything she was supposed to, diet and exercise wise, and she was feeling terrible. And also gaining weight, I said, no. No. No. It's definitely diet and exercise. And in fact, a handful of years later, I had to call and apologize because it wasn't just diet and exercise. She had significant exposures that really affected her health and wellness, and I think these exposures affect a lot of people. And, you know, at the time when I was beginning my practice, it wasn't common, and we weren't even thinking about it. So is it getting more common? It it the talk of complex illness caused by molds, gut health, BPAs, heavy metals, Lyme, parasites, like this whatever this world is seems to be kind of gaining speed. Is this because more people are getting it or because we are detecting it more, effectively? What what do you think is going on there? It's both. We have more exposures than arguably we've ever had now with microplastics, and we are getting better at acknowledging and detecting it, but we're still not there. So for example, mold. Mold exposure, this is we hear a lot about it now in terms of buildings with mold or locations and this musty smell. And oftentimes, we think that it it really doesn't affect people. However, there are certain people that will move into these buildings, walk in there, break out in a rash, have brain fog, fatigue, feel terrible, and it's this exposure to mold mycotoxins. But the reality is for a testing perspective, we don't have validated tests for mold. However, I I think it's really important that we test for it. But it's not like you walk in and you do a a blood glucose test, and there's this diagnosis of diabetes, cut and dry. We don't have that. Well, no. We don't. Well, you do get stuff like the total tox test. Now, obviously, sort of peering under the skirt of what my last two years has been like, this is a a topic of particular interest to me because this is what I've been battling through. But since releasing the health vlog thing that I did a couple of weeks ago, a couple of months ago now, I guess, the number of people that reach out and say, I lived in …