TCE E287: The Cracked Tooth Case Clinical Thinking Episode 1
January 6, 2026
She looked perfect on paper. Impeccable diet. Physically fit. Emotionally stable. Then she walked into my office and said, “I can’t stop crying. I can’t think. Something is wrong—and I don’t know what it is.” Her labs told part of the story: CRP at 87, neutrophils through the roof, lymphocytes bottomed out. But there was no fever. No illness. No “never been well since” moment. Until she dropped one sentence at the end of our hour together that changed everything.
In this episode:
- Why the obvious answer is rarely the right one
- The 30/30/30 rule for clinical thinking
- How a cracked tooth became the root cause of emotional dysregulation
- The exact protocol I used (and why I kept it simple)
- What I added to my intake form after this case
Resources Mentioned:
- Stealth Pathogen Protocol (Standard Process)
- Herbal Throat Spray (MediHerb)
- Nevaton (Standard Process)
- Turmeric Forte (Standard Process)
- Nattokinase (Doctor’s Research)
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