Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Dr Nathan | Challenging Medical Norms_ From Skepticism to Discovery

25 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Nathan recounts clinical experiences from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s: patients with a then-new presentation were often labeled psychiatric and referred to psychiatrists, but psychiatric treatments failed. This prompted investigation into other causes. By the early 1990s, clinicians (including Dr. Nathan) were beginning to recognize intestinal dysbiosis, magnesium deficiencies, and more complex hormonal interactions as relevant factors.

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What medicine does with something that's new is it's in your head until we prove it otherwise. Those folks were referred to psychiatrists for treatment. Well, it didn't work. It didn't do anything for them. So it was obvious to me that something else was causing that. We needed to study it. So that was in the mid-80s. By the early 90s, we had begun to learn about things like intestinal dysbiosis and magnesium deficiencies and more complex ways of understanding hormones that most endocrinologists get into.