Functional Nutrition

During a recent Live Q&A with a group of new students, I was asked a great question that really got me thinking.The question was: Where’s the nutrition in Full Body Systems?At first I was baffl...

‘Functional’ has become a buzzword in the health industry lately.And for good reason. Practicing functionally can help you in several ways: Identify the root causes of issues, so you can bring your...

As you likely know, I’m 100% in service to the Functional Medicine model. I believe it’s designed to address many of the key problems we’re facing in healthcare today—problems where patients are ge...

Last year, I attended the Grand Rounds presented through the Cleveland Clinic, where Dr. Dale Bredesen spoke about the reversal of cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Even if yo...

Listen to this post instead!One of my favorite tenets of the Functional Medicine model is that of the therapeutic partnership—a constructive relationship established between patient and practitione...

Last week I introduced the Non-Negotiable Trifecta — sleep, poop, and blood sugar balance.I also shared the new Sleep Assessment that we use in my clinic.These 3 factors (sleep, poop and blood suga...

It’s true. There’s an elephant in the room! You were likely told in nutrition school that you already know everything you need to know about the principles of a healthy diet. And that’s true too. ...

Listen to this post instead!The first tenet of Function Medicine and Nutrition – of any functional practice – is to address the root cause or, as I like to say, the ‘root causes’ (as most conditio...

If you want to help people who just aren’t getting better with the traditional methods they’ve already tried, then there’s a distinction you need to know: Pathological vs Functional.What is Patholo...

Perched atop a shelf in my office is the hefty “compact” Oxford English Dictionary that my late husband bought me for Christmas many moons ago. In thinking about the word “symbiosis” I hoisted the ...

Listen to this post instead!The phrase ‘root cause resolution’ gets thrown around a lot these days. It’s a brilliant expression, that allows us to think about “upstream” factors that could be caus...

Functional lab testing has become a wild healthcare trend that can all too often be misused and misunderstood. As a result, patients are spending unnecessary dollars on lab tests that may not be is...