Practitioner Clinical Tips

  Some of the most potentially damaging or debilitating medications are not taken via prescription.  They are “over the counter” drugs, a category that many intelligent people assume is necessarily safe – benign – to use regularly.  Perhaps even in a daily preventive mode.  Which is, of course, not true! If you’re going to use […]

Although you may already be a savvy practitioner, we are certain you will learn something new in this video about ‘Gut-Brain-Pain Interconnectedness.’ You’ll walk away with pages of notes and practical pearls you can use in your practice right away. Here is some of what we cover: Famous for its role in mental health, few people tie […]

The centrality of the Gut!  It’s a key principle in the clinical application of Functional Medicine (FxMED):  All disease can begin in the gut or be exacerbated there, through a host of mechanisms, including toxic overload.   Detoxification is the biotransformation and clearance of chemicals and waste products from the body, those of both endogenous and exogenous […]

In Functional Medicine, we focus heavily on upstream root causes of disease vs. just symptoms. Yet hepatic-biliary dysfunction remains largely ignored unless it becomes acute. Gallbladder removal is one of the most common surgeries performed in the U.S..  Post-cholecystectomy, however, patients often still suffer. From digestive distress to hormone imbalances, metabolic dysfunction, and more. Why? […]

  Congratulations to Layne, an AFMC-certified practitioner who began her career as a nurse practitioner in hospital medicine, trained to diagnose, prescribe, and manage illness.  Faced with her own health crisis, however, that didn’t respond to conventional care, Layne found herself searching for more. She didn’t want another prescription. She wanted to know why she […]

Congratulations to SAFM student, Physician Assistant, and AFMC-certified practitioner, Zoie!  We are celebrating her success with a young patient suffering from multiple autoimmune diagnoses (ulcerative colitis and psoriasis), tinnitus, digestive complaints, low weight, anxiety, and depression.   As you will hear in this excerpt of a conversation between SAFM’s Tracy Harrison and Zoie, autoimmunity is always […]

In this week’s video, I focus on PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome), a big name for a hormonal imbalance that affects a reported ~10% of women, a woefully low estimate in my opinion. The excess androgens and related hormone imbalances present in these women will lead to many states of dis-ease downstream. It’s an important one […]

Hi! Although you may already be a savvy practitioner, I am certain you will learn something new in this video about Weight Loss Through the Functional Medicine Lens. You’ll walk away with pages of notes and practical pearls you can use in your practice right away. Here are some of the things we’ll be discussing: […]

Good day to you! Today we continue the series of videos celebrating case successes from our AFMC-certified practitioners – and key clinical pearls we can all take from their excellent outcomes. Congratulations to Dr. Kelly for her excellent work with a woman in her 20’s who was struggling with obesity, PCOS, severe acne, headaches, IBS, mood […]

  Hashimoto’s, Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis …. These types of disease in the body seem so different because they attack different parts of the body. However, they are all actually caused by dysfunction of the immune system – an overwrought, dysregulated immune system. The brain, the thyroid, the skin, the joints, etc. are just […]