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Cell Danger Response and the Future of Chronic Illness Care
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Most chronic illness treatment is aimed at stopping what the body is doing, blocking inflammation, suppressing symptoms, quieting signals that won't turn off. But what if that approach is missing the point entirely? Dr. Eric Gordon sits down with Dr. Robert Naviaux, MD, PhD, professor of genetics at UC San Diego and one of the most original thinkers in medicine today, to explore the Cell Danger Response , a framework that reframes chronic illness not as damage to be fixed, but as a healing cycle that got stuck. Dr. N...
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Welcome to the Gordon Medical Forum. Most chronic illness treatment is focused on stopping what the body is doing. But in today's episode, Dr. Eric Gordon sits down with Dr. Robert Naviou to make the case that working with the body's healing cycle, not against it, may be the missing piece
in chronic illness care. Thank you for joining us and here's Dr. Eric Gordon and Dr. Robert Naviou. Welcome everyone. Today is a real pleasure for me to be interviewing Dr. Robert Navio.
Now Bob is a man who has just changed my view of how to understand medicine and what's happening in the body. So Bob, welcome. A pleasure to have you. And what I'd like to start with is a little bit, what made you connect the mitochondria and the rest of healing? Just for a little background, you had been working on inborn areas of metabolism and sort
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