Remove Toxins First: Key to Health and Wellness

23 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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Paul Savage MD (speaker) argues from ~15 years of functional medicine practice that removing toxins should be the initial step in treatment because many patients are highly toxic; after toxin removal, he recommends fixing the gut and reducing stress to improve success. The clip contrasts earlier teaching (clean gut and stress first) with his evolving view that toxin removal must come first for very toxic patients.

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Yeah. I mean, the. The way I see it, and this is important, removing the toxins is like the start of the process. When I started doing functional medicine probably 15 years ago, it was taught the first thing you've got to do is you got to clean, you got to fix the gut, and you've got to address stress, and then we go from there. But what I'm kind of learning is, is because we're getting so many sick patients that are so toxic, it really starts us. We need to start doing tpe, clean that up, then fix the gut, then reduce stress, and we'll have better success.