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The Importance of Healthy Bowels in Mycotoxin Illness

Mycotoxin and Chronic illness Summit 2022

<h6>Dr. Jamie Kunkle</h6>
Beings, I&#8217;m Dr. Jamie Kunkle I&#8217;m joined here by Dr. Brian Plante. We are gonna be talking about the gut today, but first I&#8217;d like to introduce Dr. Plante a little bit, who&#8217;s a colleague and friend of mine. I&#8217;ve actually worked with him extensively at our shared prior practice in the Sacramento area. Dr. Brian Plante is a licensed naturopathic doctor, he has extensive training in integrative healthcare approaches. He specializes in working with patient suffering from complex immune dysfunctions, such as Lyme disease, chronic infections, viral infections, environmental toxicities, including mold and metals, autoimmune disorders, muscle activation, chronic fatigue. He helps patients recover from functional gastrointestinal conditions, which is what we&#8217;re gonna be talking about today. Adrenal and thyroid disorders, neuropsychiatric as well. Yeah, and he conducts a comprehensive evaluation in order to get a complete picture and creates individualized treatment plans to address the patients specific concerns. He&#8217;s a graduate of National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. Great school. And he&#8217;s an active member of ILADS, fellow ILADS member. Which is really cool as well. We&#8217;ll just dive right in though. Here I think we&#8217;ll talk more about Plante as we go. We&#8217;ll get a good sense of who he is. He&#8217;s really very smart, very sharp individual here with chronic diseases. He has the mind for it, for sure. As we know this can be difficult. So we&#8217;re gonna talk about mold and we&#8217;re gonna talk about the gut. The central place of our worlds sometimes, not always. It&#8217;s funny when somebody comes in without a gut issue, but it comes up. Well, let&#8217;s just say that. So please, let&#8217;s just dive right in here, Dr. Plante if you&#8217;re cool with it. Explain the mechanisms of toxin removal from the body. Tell me about this concept of amontaries too. Like how do people get these toxins out of their body? And then we&#8217;ll get into the gut specifically.
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Dr. Brian Plante is a licensed naturopathic doctor with extensive training in integrative healthcare approaches. He specializes in working with patients suffering from complex immune dysfunction such as Lyme disease, chronic viral infections, environmental toxicity (such as from mold and heavy metals), autoimmune disease, mast cell activation syndrome, and chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis. Additionally, Dr. Plante helps patients recover from functional gastrointestinal conditions, adrenal and thyroid disorders, and neuropsychiatric disorders. With each patient Dr. Plante meets, he conducts a comprehensive evaluation in order to get a complete picture and then creates individualized treatment plans to address that patient’s specific concerns.
Dr. Plante is a graduate of the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, OR, as well as a member of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS).

Brian Plante

Brian Plante, ND

Dr. Kunkle has a diverse skill set including (but not limited to): Lyme/infectious disease, autoimmunity, environmental medicine, pain management, hormone regulation, metabolic/weight loss optimization neuropsychiatric conditions to name a few. Dr. Kunkle is skilled in low dose immunotherapy and low dose antigen therapy for treatment of allergies, is trained in hyperbaric oxygen therapies, botanical medicine including Chinese herbs, and intravenous/intramuscular nutrition. Dr. Kunkle is an active member of International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS).
Dr. Jamie Kunkle has been practicing as a dual licensed Naturopathic Doctor and East Asian Medicine Practitioner (Acupuncturist) for 6 years. He currently holds a Naturopathic Doctor’s license in California and will be pursuing acupuncture licensure in the future. He recently practiced primary care and infectious disease management in Brattleboro, Vermont where lyme disease and co-infections are endemic. Dr. Kunkle received a Bachelors of Science in Neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh. He received his masters in acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine and doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine at Bastyr University in Seattle, WA.
Dr. Kunkle has two daughters that keep him very busy. He enjoys being in nature, working on his house and spending time with his wife whom is also a Naturopathic Doctor. He is also an electronic musician when he finds the extra free time.

The Importance of Healthy Bowels in Mycotoxin Illness

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