Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Tin Man Gets a Heart | From Donut Holes to Real Food_ Transformative Health Changes

28 Sept 2024 · 0 min

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A brief excerpt from a YouTube video by Aaron Hartman, MD, describing a patient transformation achieved primarily through lifestyle changes: removing the patient from a moldy, smoking environment, eliminating processed foods ('donut holes'), and providing real food. The speaker frames this as emblematic of functional medicine’s emphasis on non-pharmacologic interventions while acknowledging medications are used when necessary for advanced disease.

I got him out of a moldy smoking environment, took away the donut holes, and gave him real food. Everything's better and the sky's the limit. Yeah. And it's. It's like none of this was done with a bunch of medications and seeing a bunch of. It was lifestyle. Right. It's. It's the kind of epitome and the core of what we do in functional medicine. And granted, we use those things when necessary, and sometimes we have to use those, especially in the adult population that has decades of disease that we're trying to prevent from getting worse in reverse.