In this episode, the team follows the journey of Ask Why team member Dr. Witt Wilkerson as he shares what steps he’s taking to improve his health.

Even though he lives a healthy lifestyle and feels healthy, when Witt saw the results of his exhaustive blood panel, he was shocked at his results. However, under the care of Dr. Gina he’s been able to implement a “precision strategy” so he can move forward in his health journey. Witt shares the lifestyle changes that he’s made, including exercise, improving his sleep and airway, boosting his nitric oxide levels, improving his oral health, and working on inflammatory numbers through dietary supplements and probiotics.

Stay tuned for another installment, where we will continue to keep up with Witt's journey.

“Precision medicine means we’re not just arbitrarily taking thousands of milligrams of this and that, but we’re actually measuring the vitamin levels, we're looking at these inflammatory markers, and we're deciding how we are going to attack these issues in a specifically targeted way.” Dr. Witt Wilkerson, DMD

References:

Perio Restore Tray

Stella Life

ProBiora Pro oral probiotic

One tablet of D3per day

B12 vitamins

Niacin

Vitamin B3

Test for LPa

Omega3

1. EPA
2. DPA
3. DHA
4. Vascepa

Magnesium

Turmeric

Baby aspirin

Statins - Rosuvastatin

In this episode of the Ask Why podcast, Lora Hooper, RDH, Dr. Gina Pritchard, and Dr. Witt Wilkerson discuss the importance of practitioners testing not only their patients but themselves.

Witt Wilkerson describes his own experience with having chronically high cholesterol, and how implementing an anti-inflammatory lifestyle helped keep him healthy. The team discusses the different changes that everyone has experienced since the COVID pandemic started, including a more stagnant lifestyle and poorer mental health, which have potentially had negative effects on their overall health.

The team details the tests that they recommend asking for as a patient. They talk about the importance of breathing through the nose in order to make enough nitric oxide for your body, and how one should breathe through their nose all night.

“With the inflammatory panel, we’re trying to determine if the body’s immune system is doing its job correctly and if we’re helping it.” —Dr. Gina Pritchard

References:

Tests to ask your doctor for:

1. Myeloperoxidase
2. LPPLA2
3. CRP test
4. ADMA test

In this episode, Ask Why team members Dr. Gina Pritchard and Lora Hooper discuss food’s impact on our daily lives.

Lora opens with the life-changing story of her son’s recent diagnosis of type 1 diabetes, and how that shifted her perspective on what is normally considered to be “healthy” food. The two discuss the fact that food may have a different effect on each individual, and that it’s important to figure out how food affects your own body. Lora and Dr. Gina additionally encourage listeners to wear a continuous glucose monitor, and what to look for when reading the data.

“Relying on the hemoglobin A1C as an adult to tell us if we’re in danger or not- that is killing us. It truly is killing people, because they’re ignoring what they’re eating and saying, ‘I’m okay, my hemoglobin A1C looked okay,’ when truly each year you could be coming closer and closer to becoming diabetic.” - Gina Pritchard, DNP, RN, ACNP

References:
Hemoglobin A1C
Continuous glucose monitor