Why You Keep Getting Sinus Infections, Colds, Urinary Tract Infections, & Other Recurrent Infections

Many of us wonder why we keep getting sick and repeatedly suffer from recurrent infections-whether it be sinus infections, ear infections, urinary tract infections, cold and flu, or a range of other infections. While conventional medicine typically treats these infections with antibiotics, Functional Medicine digs deeper to determine the cause of the infection and what can be done to eliminate it.⁣
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In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman is joined by Dr. Elizabeth Boham to discuss the Functional Medicine approach to breaking the cycle of recurrent infections and how to make ourselves more immune resilient. ⁣
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Elizabeth Boham is a physician and nutritionist who practices functional medicine at The UltraWellness Center in Lenox, MA. Through her practice and lecturing she has helped thousands of people achieve their goals of optimum health and wellness. She witnesses the power of nutrition every day in her practice and is committed to training other physicians to utilize nutrition in healing. Dr. Boham has contributed to many articles and wrote the latest chapter on Obesity for the Rankel Textbook of Family Medicine. She is part of the faculty of the Institute for Functional Medicine and has been featured on the Dr. Oz show and in a variety of publications and media including Huffington Post, The Chalkboard Magazine, and Experience Life. Her DVD Breast Wellness: Tools to Prevent and Heal from Breast Cancer explores the functional medicine approach to keeping your breasts and whole body well. ⁣
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For more information visit drhyman.com/uwc

[@mskiran36]

Oh please get ti the point and share the information, we are here because we are suffering 😢

[@TheMothers3]

Mark I am an avid fan and love your endless enthusiasm. However, you have a tendency of having guests on your show and then you keep talking, I know your really knowledgeable on so many health issues, just an observation please please do not take offence.

[@tcrwdr8209]

Agreed. I'm 7 minutes in and am leaving this video. I want to hear the guest.

[@sophie4636]

It's a conversation not an interview, he even says that at the start. It's two Dr's talking.

[@alexmoore3907]

I purchased HSV 2 and HPV herbal medicine from (Dr Alaho Adebayo Olu) on KZbin and received it within 4 days and i used it as prescribed, I tested negative within 3 weeks of usage. He cures HIV/AIDS too.😊😊

[@karenlayland251]

In the first few mins ,you got my attention asthma sinus infection ongoing for over a year I had to give up work fed up with being sick just want my normal life back🤧🙈

[@leen1q84]

Have you had covid?

[@alexandrasanteex1892]

They pretty much described my story with the woman who got reoccurring UTIs! I went to a functional medicine doctor in my area and they helped heal me. I’m so thankful at how far I’ve come in my healing journey!

[@ginalibra02]

You did a lot of liver, kidney cleansing? Any cleansing? Please, let me know

[@globalvisualizationgis2855]

Could you please recommend us that Doctor? I am suffering so much!!! I am tired of UTIs😭

[@Lina126y]

I am too. I would love to know who I could go to to help me with this issue. 🥲

[@mrbigsdaddy]

@@ginalibra02cleansing is always bull shit. More like, stop putting something in, like exclude highly refined everything…sugar, grains , seed oils.

[@Ida-Adriana]

@@globalvisualizationgis2855You need long term high dose antibiotics for chronic embedded UTI. Look up professor Malone-Lee protocol.

[@ashleycallejas8845]

Fifth uti this year 😖 really enjoying this video to learn about why my body is acting up and hopefully this is the answer I was looking for 🤗

[@pamwade4301]

D-mannossee helped me soooo much!!!

[@andrean1831]

Thank you for sharing the UTI probiotic information and about the D-mannos . That was new news for me and am excited to try it.

[@lotharferricchio]

Dear Mark, please let your host talk more. We know you, your story, and your dedication to functional medicine and appreciate you, but we really want to hear more from your host(s). Just a suggestion. Thank you.

[@LindyFordNutritionWellness]

SO happy to hear Dr. Bonham say she has a degree in nutrition. I'm so much likely to listen to her. A LOT of great wisdom here. I've posted this on my Insta, FB biz etc. . .Thanks so much docs!

[@susanpuckett7682]

Thx so much!! Priceless info.

[@ligiasommers]

Love the episodes with dr Boham 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻🌷

[@hey_kudisco_podcast]

This was incredibly useful. Thank you.

[@flowergirl6035]

Tip for interruptions- I have this issue too. It’s a sign of extremely intelligent person. My advice because I get that negative feedback too. Try to take a note pad with you. When you are active listening to your guest and get an insight, just jot it down. Also tell your guests that that when you have insight, I will touch my nose. This will enable your guest to finish the story and allow awesome interjection from you. Advice the guest to do the same. Use a mind map when you are on a topic. Draw a tree with branches of ideas. If you have this in place you will get less excited and anxious to interrupt. You will see the scope of the conversation and be calmer. No coffee before a talk it is a bad choice for super intelligent anxious speakers. Love ❤️ n hugs 🤗

[@Jennifer-wr9si]

I like how you just told everyone you're extremely intelligent 🤣

[@flowergirl6035]

@@Jennifer-wr9si Who cares about your comment??? Who? Again who? Not anyone fool!

[@Madelyndaisy246]

Great video

[@Disgruntledman]

I don’t miss any contents from Dr. Hyman. Thank you for your efforts in transforming people’s lives! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@ericshubert2007]

It's rarely just one thing.

[@sheylamartinez2150]

Please Dr. let the lady talk!

[@lindahollander3588]

Blame the medical colleges not training the doctors and nurses throughly. They dont believe in showing how antbiotics and fungus can hurt you

[@darlingdear2687]

My whole entire childhood and adolescence I was plagued by tonsillitis and sinus infections to the point of hospitalization. They treated me with home remedies and sulfates and only when got to be 18 I took a decent long course of antibiotics and got rid of these infections forever. Over 30 years l don't have any of those anymore

[@sandra1674]

how long was the course?

[@darlingdear2687]

@@sandra1674 a couple of weeks. Oletetrin it was. It is a wide spectrum antibiotic a combination of tetracycline and oleandomycin

[@clementinakuku5683]

Thank you!

[@lindawhitchurch3040]

I have suffered from UTI’s for 20 years or more.Now thanks to being prescribed too many antibiotics over the years I am sure that has led to gut issues.I now have Fibromyalgia,Hashimoto disease osteoporosis,Reumatoid Arthritis! I am 65 years old and have always stayed active,held a healthy diet but still my immune system is so low thanks to the over prescription of antibiotics!!

[@kathrynhull7404]

Same with me. I've had 100s of antibiotics from bladder infections. Eventually had to have 16 intravenous drips. Got an ulcer, excema, arthritis, headaches, cancer. Since going on blood grouo diet, doing deep breathing, exercise and cold showers, EVERYTHING has cleared up.

[@ghismo2675]

@@kathrynhull7404 what exactly are you doing? I'm suffering from so many issues and I'm almost sure everything developed after so many antibiotics. Thank you in advance!

[@angelamorris4304]

I have had anxiety for about 16 years. It's so debilitating due to the overwhelming, out-of-control feelings of going crazy. I have always had sinus and allergies, every since childhood. My question is: Are the dizzy spells that I'm having, and balance problems as a result of chronic ear, nose, and throat infections? I also have hypothyroidism, where my hair comes out at times by the gobs. I have tried Keto, taken different supplements, vitamins, foods, and even recreation, but I still have a ton of problems. The same way I was thinking. My deficiencies haven't been addressed. I decided to ask my Doctor for an antibiotic.

[@jentbotbfa]

Have you looked at the MTHFR gene mutation or in particular your methylation process? I am finding out that I am a overmethylator. I’ve struggled with a lot of the same things you have. Hope you find or have found answers!!

[@JanaeLynn]

Insomnia pays off. thank you for a great video

[@publiusovidius7386]

Almost everyone has some metabolic reading that isn't "normal"--according to the diagnostic cut off points that are getting ever stricter.

[@jsquire5pa]

I wonder what dr sarno would say 😂

[@tonywillan2749]

Well she got in a few words...

[@luvfitall]

Great. How do we doctors to get on board with this? As a patient who is always prescribed antibiotics, I never know when it is or isnt necessary.

[@2dodger2]

I need to hear again the two types of probiotics she recommends to heal the gut after antibiotics.

[@mirandayeoh8606]

She mentioned Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Lactobacillus reuteri.

[@karenf9137]

@@mirandayeoh8606 thank you

[@2dodger2]

Miranda Yeoh --yes! Thank you!

[@gtrplaya1]

It is so apparent that we need to work from the inside out rather than the outside in (masks) yet this isn't being addressed by our representatives with PSAs, better access to healthy foods, subsidies for farmers...

[@Emily00Strange]

This is what I've been saying since this pandemic started. There doesn't seem to be a push for building up your immune system and taking care of yourself from the inside.

[@ifoodsservices]

​@@Emily00Strange If there's a push for building up our immune system and taking care of ourselves from inside then Big Pharma and the medical establishment will run out of business; their industry will collapse. You see? The joke is on us. It is time we put an end to their nonsense. Yes subsidies to the farmers. Medical doctors are drug pushers and the PharmaCysts are drug dispensers, they are not there for our wellbeing but to make money. They are a business.. All these should end.

[@lindahollander3588]

Just like they don't address the cause just treating symptoms

[@ambergrace8064]

Any sucess stories for breaking reocurring strep??

[@netto682]

Good job🇧🇷👏👏👏

[@user-co2lp3ob5g]

Thank you once again Dr Omole on KZbin for this information. Since following you (for some years now), my kidney stage results has decrease from stage 3 to stage 1. You saved me from dialysis. Thank you and please keep the videos coming!! God Bless..

[@SuperSammieeee]

I don’t have pro and prebiotics. Is BetaineHCI and Pancreatin Pre and Probiotics?

[@theresageiger584]

How do you get the microbiome of the skin back

[@sssl9528]

The chlorine in water which most municipalities use to treat water can also kill good bacteria in the gut.

[@SamRadRV]

I used asparagus extract along with d mannos.... a lot of water..... changed my diet reduced the sugar and i stopped having utis ...... i believe i had candida

[@SamRadRV]

But asparagus extract helps so much ... I guess its an astringint!! Plant power

[@JK-ux9du]

Samantha Williams I’m English and have no idea what D Mannos (?) is?

[@Florida-is-my-home]

Jude Knight -D-Mannose is actually a sugar that keeps E-Coli from sticking to the walls of your bladder. E-Coli is the most common cause of UTI’s. D-Mannose isn’t a cure, it’s a preventative measure for people who suffer from UTI’s.

[@JK-ux9du]

zarralinda. Similar to cranberry juice then? Thanks for letting me know😊

[@Florida-is-my-home]

Jude Knight - Also organic apple cider vinegar. If I feel a UTI coming on, I’ll take a tablespoon every hour for 3-4 hours. It works very well. Must be organic with the mother. Braggs is the best, IMO.

[@kamalaupadhyay8389]

I can't sign up can you please send the link

[@lorifreeman8307]

Too much antibiotics when young. Something got in me young I know I'm filled with candida. Age 14 eyes got real bad after bad stye. Sinuses allergies then other female stuff. Doctors all normal. I'm 50 now battle etd. Everyday never goes away. Had sinus surgery dr said nothing can do for ears. Hear sticky fluid in ears const. Painful at times effects my teeth. 2 years after sinus surgery lost my vision pretty sure theres a connection. But daily the sinus ears sticky fluid I spit out everyday along in ears. I get as much help natural help to just function. But I'm not living pay for so many thing to just be ok sometimes but the fatigue is crazy been diagnosed with lyme 5xs several viruses. Not the covid but eps bar. Hpv. Etc. So much more. If anyone knows anyone who could help with out being a fortune maybe payments please let me know. I'm just surviving not striving and I want health and energy so I can help others. So many with these problems. Any help god bless.

[@micaonyx5301]

If you're open minded watch dr. Jennifer Daniel's videos on the use of turpentine and sugar. It gave me back my life after spending thousands with my conventional doctor who said I was fine even though I was so weak and sick I could barely function. Also look into grapefruit seed extract. I take one 250mg capsule 3x a day for Candida and it works great. If you not willing to try the turpentine at least do a good parasites cleanse. I hear para 1&2 is good but for me turpentine is the best.

[@yuppers1]

You can work with a doctor at The Ultra Wellness Center. Or look for a functional or integrative doctor that takes insurance (probably won't apply to everything). Good luck to you...

[@erossinema8797]

Black cumin seed oil

[@k.scottphillips8933]

There are many more of us developing these conditions after multiple COVID infections. Hopefully better research will help develop solutions. Somehow the epithelial immune system in the nose and ears gets overactivated from viral damage and can't recover homeostasis. ENTs are stone age when it comes to treating this stuff, all they have are saline steroid rinses. We need way more money funding sophisticated research into this problem as it has a huge impact of quality of life.

[@hellodolly9879]

3.33 minutes in and she now just begins to speak. He should do a brief introduction and then allow the guest to speak.

[@leen1q84]

He always talks over the guest

[@erossinema8797]

Yes, it's annoying. I hate when hosts talk over guests

[@Dancestar1981]

The Covid vaccines did it too me I was completely healthy beforehand

[@vortexelectronique8893]

Same here

[@lindahollander3588]

Me and my husband stopped taking the vaccines

[@lisalu3994]

Cant listen to this, the host just keeps talking for thr guest and doesnt let her speak.

[@carrielegg5480]

I need help. I have MRSA ..second time this year. For 15yrs now I don't eat sugar, flour or caffeine and lost 225lbs. Why is this happening?

[@josephtein3835]

I always appreciate Mark's helpful presentations; I especially enjoyed hearing him say here that "the fat isn't just holding up your pants." I appreciate this wisdom and all the other wisdom you share with us 🙂

[@k.scottphillips8933]

Mark... Um.. not sure.. I had the same... multiple ear infections and lots of antibiotics as a child. Now after COVID I am borderline CFS with defective T-cells. But I wonder really is it due to mucous in the passages? Mucous is actually antimicrobial. I am thinking it is more due to a genetic component that makes the T-cells ineffective to certain viruses that is the problem. And once you have viral susceptibility, of course bacterial secondary infections follow. The solution is to fix the T-cells. And that is likely ONLY achievable through taking them out and fixing them (T-cell therapy). This is Occam's razor.. simplest explanation. Viruses such as herpesvirus and coronavirus genetically modify our cells, and for some reason some of us get damaged immune response from it. The likely only simple therapies that may provide some help are fasting (when not sick, to get rid of the epigenetic modifications) and if there are nutrients or drugs that can correct dysfunctional T-cells (so far we don't know of any, although some people think glutathione or other antioxidants may be helpful.. possibly to some extent, but it seems like time, rest and lack of immune challenge are the only things that help some people, but as soon as a new infection comes along they are knocked back down again.. and this repeats until many people have full-blown dysfunction that can take decades to reverse or may not reverse at all without intervention. Bruce Patterson has also had some success with Maraviroc and statins, but this is not working for everyone every time, likely because it can only help get rid of activated cells and doesn't fix or create properly working new ones).

[@geraldinePuppy-tq9lq]

Hi i suffer bad with Sinus i am tired of going to doctors please help me thanks

[@jackkennard4539]

What are your thoughts on using a saline rinse?

[@tadscobey3706]

Eat less sugars. Substitute in okra and sweet potatoes. Watch your body transform!

[@azamqureshi7186]

What about yogurt

[@kamalaupadhyay8389]

What is demands

[@wmp3346]

Not unusual, I think it happens on many podcasts

[@JK-ux9du]

I take exercise, don’t drink or smoke, eat healthily and am quite slim but whatever I do I just can’t lose the weight around my tummy area. I am 55 years old and post menopausal which I know can be a factor but can you suggest anything else I can do please?

[@kanthareddy7822]

What we think is healthy is not really healthy try listening to Dr Becky gillaspy or Dr gundry maybe it will assist you🤔👍

[@EmmaDee]

Jude Knight if we could get the magic answer to this, they would be bottling it up and selling it. If I’m being honest without even listening to this video, I’m not sleeping properly, my diet still sucks, I’m not exercising and definitely a mouth breather where as we should all be nose breathers.

[@JK-ux9du]

Emma Dee That’s true!😂

[@JK-ux9du]

Kantha Reddy Thanks - I’ll check them both out!

[@rebeccashockley189]

Jude Knight ARE YOUR HORMONES IN BALANCE? IF ESTROGEN AND TESTOSTERONE ARE NOT REGULATED YOU WILL FEEL THAT TUMMY AREA INCREASING.

[@yosoytercio245]

👍🏼

[@tonywillan2749]

Mark shut up a bit let them talk

[@redemptionhappens7725]

Probiotics caused me to have a decade long battle with SIBO. I quit eating refined carbs and dairy and have never had an illness of any kind since. Probiotics can do more harm than good.

[@janenwilhelm]

Is Mark interviewing himself again🙄

[@annebackache7707]

What do u think of the vaccine

[@jaimeescalera9638]

Don't take it. Work on your immune system.

[@courteneypark9907]

Exactly. We need truth from actual doctors like them! It's time for actual functional medicine doctors to SPEAK UP AND SPEAK TRUTH.

[@kamalaupadhyay8389]

Meany Demanos not demand

[@kman8271]

Ok well I have an infection from the last virus I got. Now what?

[@miriamspirit]

Annoying that he constantly interrupts her disrespectful to the host

[@vikkiprevette2934]

What about bladder infections

[@annakon8423]

I'd like to know what this doctor is reaching for when she gets a UTI? They use antibiotics themselves and don't want to prescribe them to patients.

[@zedonutube]

Could you give her a chance to speak, please? You're longwinded. You can be a little more succinct.

[@kardrasa]

[@meetu295]

Dr. Hyman why don’t you let your guest talk. You interrupt a lot and that makes you bad host. Be careful next time.

[@mercedescarrillo2310]

Listen carefully, (this conversation between doctors), shared experiences that can help build our immune system and feel healthier and stronger.

[@deniceferguson3592]

This dude should have been on by his own self. He so rude...

[@nataliatarasova975]

So much empty talk

[@Weesson]

E coil coming from meat 😀. So don’t eat meat