Functional medicine and how it helps optimize health

<p>In this episode, Dr. Jeffery Gladden discusses with Dian Ginsberg MD, who has years of<br /> experience providing comprehensive obstetrics and gynecology treatment and is a functional<br /> medicine physician. They talk about young plasma, young plasma transfusion, and the various<br /> benefits.</p> <p>Dr. Ginsberg has a special interest in functional medicine and how it helps minimize severe symptoms and optimize health. She is the author of The PCOS Environmental Roadmap. Rectangularization of aging is her passion. She is faculty at the American Academy of Anti-Aging, where she lectured about bio-identical hormone replacement and telomeres (DNA caps) and how instrumental their preservation is for ongoing health.</p> <p>Dr. Gladden introduces Dr. Ginsberg and gives an overview of their discussions (1:00)</p> <p>Dr. Ginsberg introduces herself and how she got to start doing what she does today. She mentions how her transition to the functional space came from her kids and how she brought it into her Obgyn to help others. (2:59)</p> <p>Dr. Ginsberg mentioned how about three to four years ago, her patient decided to be involved in the longevity space and look at what younger factors could to the aging process. This led to them getting involved with a lab that collected plasma with young factors. (4:55)</p> <p>Dr. Ginsberg talks about how the lab they connected with was already using young plasma to randomly do a whole bunch of things. Dr. Gladden also mentions how sex/gender and blood groups are essential when using plasma. (6:35)</p> <p>Dr. Ginsberg mentions how plasma is used and what quantity is run into the recipient. She talks about how they started with a liter of plasma. Dr. Ginsberg also says running it very slowly helps them avoid problems and complications. The liter of plasma, as she mentioned, is usually infused in two to three hours, giving the body time to process it. (8:00)</p> <p><br /> Dr. Ginsberg mentions that she is into the research aspects of plasma transfusion. She notes that as the resea