How One Physician’s Perseverance Opened Doors to New Worlds

“Every time you learn something, you acquire a new life,” shares Dr. Marwa Hazzah, functional medicine practitioner. Marwa started off her career in internal medicine and her passion for helping women with autoimmune conditions ultimately led her to pursue functional medicine. She was determined to learn everything she could to help improve the lives of her patients who were dealing with chronic illnesses. Now Dr. Marwa runs groups that help inspire and encourage patients as they face their similar challenges together. 

 

Dr. Marwa knew there had to be a better way for her patients to live other than a lifelong medication routine. Wanting alternative healing treatments, Marwa poured herself into finding answers about the impacts of inflammation on the body. At the beginning of the pandemic, her research showed the risks of endothelial dysfunction long before the data was released, and she was able to help her COVID positive patients have better outcomes. Dr. Marwa threw herself into learning right alongside her patients and even did the elimination diet with them to help show how beneficial it was. Her tenacity and love of learning opens doors for her patients that otherwise would have remained closed. 

 

Tune into this week’s episode of The Catalyst to hear more about the benefits of functional medicine, how perseverance can change lives, and the importance of always learning something new. 

 

Quotes

• “Healthcare is changing, and we are either going to be pulled and dragged along or we can actually be at the front of that change." (3:22-3:29 | Lara)

• “One of the very catalytic moments that really helped me improve was that Michael Lee called me on the second day of the pandemic saying, ‘I spoke yesterday to my patient, and he was doing fine. Then after a few hours, his wife called me and by the time he was in the ER, he was dead.’… I went to hang up and said this is not hypoxia…We know inflammation will cause endothelial dysfunction. So I started every patient on aspirin early on, before all the data came out.” (12:26-13:53 | Marwa)

• "It's so hard to do what's wrong when you know what is right." (16:49-16:51 | Marwa) 

• “We have to teach our medical residents and our trainees how we can go back and work on the pathology and why it happened and what's going on exactly in the model of functional medicine.” (25:10-25:21 | Marwa)

• “It's not about just what you eat, it’s about how you feel. It's your stress. It's how happy you are. We know it's going to cause inflammation in the body, but maybe certain food brings you good memories and makes you feel happy. And I think that will impact your gut microbiome at the same time.” (28:10-28:32 | Marwa)

• “Every time you learn something, you acquire a new life.” (33:52-33:54 | Marwa)

 

Links

 

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