Plasmapheresis for Longevity and Chronic Disease with Dr. Eric Gordon

About this episode

Dr. Eric Gordon discusses the complexities of chronic illness and the importance of addressing the body's inflammatory state rather than just the initial triggers.

Most people think of chronic illness as something caused by a specific trigger…an infection, a toxin, or even an autoimmune reaction. And the solution is to find and eliminate that one thing. But what if that's not how it actually works? Today, I'm excited to have Dr. Eric Gordon back on the podcast. He's built a reputation for doing what most doctors won't, which is looking beyond the diagnosis to find what's actually driving a patient's illness and figuring out the right order to address it. His clinical work spans Lyme disease, ME/CFS, autoimmune conditions, and mitochondrial dysfunction, and many other forms of dysfunction, often all at once in the same patient. In 2016, he co-authored a landmark study with Dr. Robert Naviaux, also a former guest on this podcast and a bit of a personal hero of mine, someone who has done some of the most important work in medicine of the last century, with his work on the cell danger response. In Dr. Gordon's view, chronic illness happens when the body's normal healing cycle gets interrupted and stuck in a persistent inflammatory state. From that perspective, the problem isn't just the original trigger. It's the state your body has shifted…

People in this episode

Host: Ari Whitten

Guest: Dr. Eric Gordon

Topics covered

• chronic illness
• plasmapheresis
• inflammation
• treatment approaches
• Lyme disease
• autoimmune conditions

Keywords

• chronic disease
• healing cycle
• mitochondrial dysfunction
• cell danger response
• inflammatory state

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