63. What is the Root Cause? What Your Symptoms Are Really Telling You with Laura Grubb

Yeah, this has been my big focus lately that I am just screaming from the rooftops about.

I feel like essentially, I feel like we are conditioned as society to take a pill, kind of like you said in the intro, to pop a Tums for acid reflux, yet you're doing this every day.

What is actually driving the symptoms? And my philosophy has gotten even deeper than the imbalances because like a lot of us, we need to find out why the body got into that state also.

What is driving your gut function to be off that is causing your acne or so forth and so forth? Nobody's asking that.

I think it's, we grew up just take a Tylenol for this, pop a Tums, do this.

And this is why I feel like I need to get the message out more there's other options you don't have to just accept things you don't have to take imodium every day for your diarrhea there's so many bigger reasons and i really feel like it's a warning sign kind of like our car has the check engine light our symptoms are our bodies check engine light but for some reason we have been conditioned to just turn it off.

And I feel like birth control for heavy periods is another great example, because especially you're going to go to your OB, your OB-GYN, if you have heavy periods and their first option is going to say, do you want birth control? And for the people that don't know that maybe it's a sign that their body's communicating, they might say, okay.

And their heavy bleeding gets resolved and they think everything is well.

but then they also have IBS and then these other symptoms just pile on.

And it's like, well, I thought I was healthy, but the body is always communicating.

Yeah.

Something I want to touch on that you said is that we've been conditioned to take a pill.

And what I can even see too is that in just conversations that I'm having with different people, if they go to a doctor's appointment and they tell them about a symptom that they're experiencing, they can kind of get upset if they don't get a prescription because And they're told to do lifestyle modifications or dietary modifications.

Let's unpack that a little bit more.

Why do you think that people are just looking for that pill?

Yeah, I love this side of the coin because I really do see both sides on a lot of aspects sometimes.

I don't want to completely say conventional medicine is the worst thing in the world because I think there's a time and a place.

And I also came from conventional medicine.

But I also think a lot of society does just want that magic pill.

We want that one thing that's just going to take our symptoms away.

It is quote unquote easier, but sometimes at what cost, because it is your health.

I think also coming from conventional medicine that providers also need to keep patients happy, unfortunately.

And sometimes there will be some really angry patients if you say, well, maybe we need to eat better or maybe we need to cut out the alcohol or what be it, they might say, well, I didn't like this doctor's responses.

And then everything's going to be about patient satisfaction scores.

And so it's just this crazy cycle.