Join Dr. Patrick Garrett to learn everything you ever wanted to know about crohn's, ulcerative colitis and IBS.

1. DR. PATRICK GARRETT, DC, B.SCI, DCCN, DABFM, FAAFM
CONCIERGE NATURAL HEALTHCARE
301 NORTH MAIN SUITE 301
316-212-5429
DOCTORGARRETT@YAHOO.COM

2. Who is Dr. Garrett?

3. Dr. Patrick Garrett
Chiropractic College / Medical School
12 Years of Functional Lifestyle Practice
Specializing in reversing acute & chronic
conditions naturally
Patients / clients all over the country & world
Clinical focus on reversing diabetes, asthma,
allergies, eczema, psoriasis, migraines and
epigenetic food therapy.
Physician

4. Postgraduate Educator
300 Hour / 2 Year Diplomate Functional Medicine
/ Clinical Nutrition Program in Denver, Colorado
National Speaker
Internal Disorders
Functional Medicine
Applied Nutrition & Clinical Chemistry
Clinical Nutrition
Functional Approaches to Reversing Diseases
National Speaker

5. Lifestyle Medicine Program
Celiac Disease
Lifestyle Medicine – Metabolic Syndrome & Nutrition
Lifestyle Medicine – Stress Management
Lifestyle Medicine – Weight Management
Lifestyle Medicine – Prescribing Exercise
Lifestyle Medicine – Osteoporosis
Lifestyle Medicine – The Biology of Normal Sleep &
Consequences of Insufficient Sleep
Infertility & Endocrinology & More
Postdoctoral Education

6. Lifestyle Medicine Program
Lifestyle Practices for Weight Management & Health Promotion
Models of Behavior Modification
The Pressure System Model of Lifestyle Counseling in Primary Care
Rationale for Lifestyle & Weight Management Counseling
Weight Bias in Clinical Settings: Improving Health Care Delivery for
Obese Patients
Postdoctoral Education

7. Diplomate of the American Board of Functional Medicine
Board Certified in Integrative Medicine
Diplomate of the American College of Clinical Nutrition
Senior Fellow of the American Academy of Functional
Medicine
Diplomates & Certifications

8. Harvard Medical School Postgraduate Association– Member
American Academy of Integrative Medicine – Member
Physicians Committee on Responsible Medicine - Member
American Board of Functional Medicine - Past President
American Academy of Functional Medicine - Chairman of the Board of Directors
Green Med Info – Board Member
Bloodid - Medical Director
Leadership / Membership

9. The Crohn’s Cure

10. What is Crohn’s?
 Type of Irritable Bowel Disease
 Abdominal Pain, diarrhea, & weight loss
 Anemia, rashes, & arthritis

11. An epidemic of gut inflammation
 Affects 1.6 million Americans
 80,000 are children
 7,000 new cases per year
 1.1 million office visits for Crohn’s
 1.8 million prescriptions for Crohn’s
 187,000 hospitalizations for Crohn’s
 33% will have complications at the time of diagnosis
 50% within the first 20 years of the disease process
And it is getting worse

12. Creating a disease then an
epidemic
From zero to 1,600,000 in just a few decades

13. The Harvard Dichotomy – Medical

14. Crohn’s Cure – Medical Option
 There are no medication cures for Crohn’s
 There are no surgical cures for Crohn’s

15. Crohn’s Cure – Medical Option
 Medication Route
 Goal
 Shut down the immune system
 Minimize the side effects of shutting down the immune system
 Multiple drug management and then chemo
Pharmacotherapy
 5-Aminosalicylic acid derivative agents (eg, mesalamine rectal,
mesalamine, sulfasalazine, balsalazide)
 Corticosteroids (eg, prednisone, methylprednisolone, budesonide,
hydrocortisone, prednisolone)
 Immunosuppressive agents (eg, mercaptopurine, methotrexate,
tacrolimus)
 Monoclonal antibodies (eg, infliximab, adalimumab, certolizumab
pegol, natalizumab, vedolizumab)
 Antibiotics (eg, metronidazole, ciprofloxacin)
 Antidiarrheal agents (eg, loperamide, diphenoxylate-atropine)
 Bile acid sequestrants (eg, cholestyramine, colestipol)
 Anticholinergic agents (eg, dicyclomine, hyoscyamine, propantheline)

16. Crohn’s Cure – Medical Option
 Surgical Route
 Goal
 When in doubt, cut it out
 No bowel, no problems
 Prevent infections and complications for the rest of their life
Surgical Options
 Resection of the affected bowel
 Ileocolostomy or proximal loop ileostomy
 Drainage of any septic foci with later definitive resection
 Strictureplasty
 Bypass
 Endoscopic dilatation of symptomatic, accessible strictures

17. What causes Crohn’s?
 Comprised immune system?
 Genetic predisposition?
 Environmental triggers?

18. The Harvard Dichotomy - Lifestyle

20. Rebuilding the immune system
 Eliminate inflammatory foods that impair the immune system
 Sugar
 Corn fed meat – Fish, Beef, Chicken
 Inflammatory oils
 Inflammatory grains
 DAIRY
 Xenoestrogens
 Food sensitivities

21. There is the easy way and there is
the hard way
 Anti-inflammatory foods that impair the immune system
 Eat only naturally occurring sugars
 Meat – Wild caught, free range, grass finished
 Anti-Inflammatory oils
 Wheat free – gluten free but whole grain
 Organic food, natural cleaners, non-toxic cosmetics
 Identify & remove food sensitivities

22. Fat can heal
Fat can kill
Pain
Inflammation
Arrhythmia
Stroke

23. Stop
eating
allergens

24. One
cytokine
causes
several
inflammatory
results

25. Food Sensitivity
Testing for
Histamine
Releasing
Foods

26. Food Sensitivity
Testing for
Histamine
Releasing
Foods

27. Epigentics – DNA is not your destiny

28. Epigenetic foods
Methylation
 Supplement and/or Nutrient
 B Vitamins - B6, B2, Methyl B12, Folate
 Methyl Donors – Methionine, Choline, Betaine, Serine
 Micronutrients – Retinoic Acid, Zinc, Selenium
 Bioactive foods – Genistein, Tea Polyphenols (EGCG)
 Food
 B Vitamins – Beans, Greens, Probiotics
 Methyl Donors – Methionine, Choline, Betaine, Serine
 Micronutrients – Retinoic Acid, Zinc, 2 Brail Nuts
 Bioactive foods – Organic Tofu or Organic Sprouted Tofu, Organic Tempeh,
Green Tea

29. Epigenetic foods
Acetylation, Ubiquitination & Phosphorylation
 Supplement and/or Nutrient
 HDAC Modulators – Garlic, Buyrate (Fiber)
 SIRT Modulators – Resveratrol, Butein, Fisetin, Quercetin, Piceatannol,
Luteolin
 HAT – Curcumin, Garcinol, Theophylline
 Food
 HDAC - Garlic, Fiber Rich Foods, Brassicas, Broccoli, Horseradish
 SIRT – Red Grapes, Red Wine, Rhus Verniciflua Stems, Apples, Onions,
Nuts, Berries, Blueberries, Sweet Red Pepper, Celery, Parsley
 HAT - Turmeric Root, Garcina Indica, Green Tea

30. Crohn’s is caused – so stop causing it
 20 year male
 Crohn’s & Neuropathy
 24 year female
 Crohn’s, IBS, Reflux

31. You are only chronically sick and
dying prematurely from reversible
conditions simply based on what
your current doctor doesn’t know!
Versus

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