Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Maegan Hodge | Rethinking Depression_ Beyond Mental Health

8 Nov 2024 · 0 min

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A short conversation (YouTube) where Aaron Hartman, MD interviews Maegan Hodge about alternative views on depression, emphasizing links between mood disorders and physical causes such as gut dysfunction and perspectives from traditional Chinese medicine. Hodge states that, in her clinical experience, gut dysfunction appears in roughly 80–90% of people with mood disorders who come to her.

What if it's brain inflammation? What if it's gut issues? And so, like, it's almost like traditional Chinese medicine is more equipped to view that. Depression with sleep disturbances, depression with, like. Because you said pattern recognition.
Yes, absolutely. So in a sense, it's kind of a simple. It might sound like an overly simple answer, but usually with people with mood disorders, I see one of two things that are happening, and there's exceptions to this, but I would say this is 80 to 90% of people that happen to be coming to me, and the biggest one is gut dysfunctions.