 Hi, this is Dr. Ruscio. I'm here with Laura and she's had some good results in the clinic So I wanted to kind of take a moment talk with her and get her perspective on things So tell us a little bit about how you were feeling when you first came in. I was feeling Not at an optimal health. I had spikes during the day in terms of maybe a little bit too much frantic energy and then Then feeling depleted. I was having trouble losing weight. In fact, I was gaining weight regardless of how I altered my diet I had a lot of problems with sleep Usually I would wake up in the middle of the night and Around two in the morning and not be able to go back to sleep. It's not fun. I know right wasn't fun It was really affecting the quality of my life. Sure sure and then arthritis. I have yes I have arthritis in my hands and a little bit in one knee and Those really affect the way I feel so if If I could find a way to get rid of the arthritis at least keep it under control. That's important. Sure sure and so She came in eating a fairly healthy diet Definitely you were taking steps to try to use healthy as you could But definitely a diet that was hiring grains and some other inflammatory food And so I think it was a little bit of a Kind of news for you to think that some of the foods that you thought were really healthy may have been a little bit counterproductive, but we decided to do a dietary experiment And in conjunction with that we did some lab work and we did find Hashimoto's so there was some thyroid information So we did some work with with her diet We put her on the the autoimmune paleo diet And we did some work to help with her thyroid hormone conversion to put the information out in her thyroid gland And then we also did some other support for some of her other hormones and you responded really really well So tell us a little bit about the change that you've seen in only about two months now. Well First of all, I'll just say that all came as a surprise. I had no idea that I had I Knew that I had a thyroid condition That I was hypothyroid, but I had no idea that it was as significant a problem as that And I also did not relate what I was eating to that. So putting those two things together. I think was really critical. Sure I thought I would have a lot of trouble with the elimination diet because Essentially, we were taking out almost everything your samples. Yes, my dietary staples And I thought I'll never be able to do this. But in fact, I found it Very easy after the first couple of days as long as I planned and had the foods that I needed I always felt Satisfied I never felt hungry and I've now been on that diet for two months and feeling really good on it It regulated everything. So I don't feel deprived, which is really important when you're trying to change your eating habits I've lost about a pound a week. So it's been about eight pounds of loss, which for me is a lot Yeah, if you can't tell in the camera. She's not a she's a shorter shorter gal. So that's for your frame That's that's a fair amount of weight weight and I have a ways to go But it's been really a good way to lose weight very steady. Sure not precipitous where you sort of feel I don't even know what the word is, but it feels really steady I'm sleeping. Well, boy that counts for almost everything I thought I was fated to be an insomniac for the rest of my life But I'm now sleeping through the night most nights every once in a while I'm up, but by far my sleep has improved I would say my sense of well-being my energy level everything's kind of More regulated. I just feel The quality of my life has gone up a lot and I'm no longer feeling pain in my knee. Good and Less stiffness in my hands, which is where I had fairly significant arthritis Good. So yes, she's done really really well and One of the things that you've probably heard me talk about is this conservative Model of functional medicine where we don't do a ton of testing and a ton of treatment. So With her we've done just some preliminary stuff and that's gotten a lot of result and now we have some other things We we may want to investigate with lab work, but we just had the conversation of Let's see how much more she continues to improve with our current plan And then when we follow up if she's not all the way where we want her to be Then we can do the testing, but if she's feeling great There's no need to do the testing and we can just let her go off and live her life And I think that's probably gonna be how it's gonna be. It's fairly short Inexpensive process where we got right to the root of the problem. You're feeling better and I can go enjoy the nice sunny day And it is very empowering. I think yeah, we were just talking earlier about the importance as you age and I'm 67 so I'm You have to get used to change things changing your body One of the things that's really important is to have a sense that you've got some control over what's going on This made such major changes in my life that I realized I had attributed things to aging that actually weren't aging Yeah, they were just you know things not being functionally well. Sure. So now that that's Been addressed really successfully. I have a really different idea about what's going on with myself And I don't feel I feel younger and freer good good. So she's not great I'll continue to share these cases with you guys and thank you so much for taking a moment to talk