Dr. Kara Fitzgerald | New Frontiers in Functional Medicine, Longevity, Epigenetics
179 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 217 ratingsWelcome to New Frontiers in Functional Medicine, Longevity & Epigenetics™ where I interview the best minds in functional medicine to discuss the science and research behind medicine, longevity, epigenetics, and so much more. Expect thought-provoking ideas, new research, lots of clinical pearls for practitioners, and step-change information for clinicians and patients. Join us! ~DrKF
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Episode 76: SP: The Business of Functional Medicine: Secrets for Success for your FxMed Practice
December 12, 2019 18:44 - 58 minutes - 22.9 MBDr. Jeff Gladd is a brilliant Fx/integrative physician who is PASSIONATE about all things Fx business. If there is ONE area I get more requests on, it’s business: setting up a practice, platform building, building a reputation, finding one’s focus and passion. Extra-clinic revenue streams. And mentorship: finding your tribe, building your collegial connection, moving off the island of medicine and into your tribe. With that in mind, Jeff – who is the CMO at Fullscript – and I have a tour-de-f...
Episode 75: Aging as an Evolutionary Program with Josh Mitteldorf
December 01, 2019 08:19 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBAs FxMed docs, we’re committed to working with the body’s own capacity for health. Dr. Josh Mitteldorf offers a contrarian strategy, one which he says is grounded in a new breed of evolutionary medicine. He tells us that diseases of old age are qualitatively different from the diseases we get when we’re younger, different because in old age, our bodies are part of the problem, not part of the solution. Aging, says Josh, is the body deliberately destroying itself (for the sake of the populat...
Episode 74: Sponsored | Innovations in Clinical Laboratory Testing with Dr. Michael Chapman
November 01, 2019 05:53 - 58 minutes - 22.7 MBA work horse laboratory in any functional medicine practice is stool testing. But really gleaning the best insight into our patient’s clinical picture can be tough. What do all of these commensal organisms really suggest? How do they correlate with the inflammatory findings? Of the bell weather bugs (like akkermansia) how can we increase levels? Is there ANY place for microscopy (O&P) and culture in today’s high throughput Omics world? You see where I’m headed. Even for the most seasoned FxMe...
Episode 74: Innovations in Clinical Laboratory Testing with Dr. Michael Chapman
November 01, 2019 05:53 - 58 minutes - 22.7 MBA work horse laboratory in any functional medicine practice is stool testing. But really gleaning the best insight into our patient’s clinical picture can be tough. What do all of these commensal organisms really suggest? How do they correlate with the inflammatory findings? Of the bell weather bugs (like akkermansia) how can we increase levels? Is there ANY place for microscopy (O&P) and culture in today’s high throughput Omics world? You see where I’m headed. Even for the most seasoned FxMe...
Episode 73: Making Sense of the Microbial Ecosystem with Dr. Marvin Singh
November 01, 2019 05:52 - 56 minutes - 23 MBMarvin Singh, MD is a practicing gastroenterologist with a focus in personalized lifestyle medicine. I met Marvin in 2017 when I was asked to submit a chapter to Oxford University Press Integrative Gastroenterology, 2nd Ed. Marvin has been coediting this behemoth with my IFM colleague Gerry Mullin, MD. (Full disclosure: very large props must go to Nikky Contractor, PhD for the heavy lifting on our chapter). Marvin’s evolution from a very traditional, academic gastroenterologist to integrative...
Episode 73: Making Sense of the Microbial Ecosystem with Dr. Marvin SIngh
November 01, 2019 05:52 - 56 minutes - 23 MBMarvin Singh, MD is a practicing gastroenterologist with a focus in personalized lifestyle medicine. I met Marvin in 2017 when I was asked to submit a chapter to Oxford University Press Integrative Gastroenterology, 2nd Ed. Marvin has been coediting this behemoth with my IFM colleague Gerry Mullin, MD. (Full disclosure: very large props must go to Nikky Contractor, PhD for the heavy lifting on our chapter). Marvin’s evolution from a very traditional, academic gastroenterologist to integrative...
Episode 72: Nocturnal Hypoglycemia & Continuous Glucose Monitoring: the amazing Dr. Sara Gottfried
October 08, 2019 18:48 - 1 hour - 25.4 MBBy far one of my most wide-ranging conversations on New Frontiers, Dr. Sara Gottfried and I set out to talk about her new book Brain, Body Diet and quickly headed north. Listen to our lively, personal, smart, heart-felt conversation as we dive into her experience using a continuous glucose monitor to address fairly severe nocturnal hypoglycemia, her thoughts on addictions and genetics, taming the dopamine-deprived COMTer, and lots of women’s health. You know that Sara is, of course, extraor...
Episode 71: SPONSORED: Cornerstone Interventions for GERD with Victoria Albina
October 02, 2019 20:23 - 54 minutes - 21.4 MBTake a second and think about this: what clinical presentation would prompt you to prescribe cognitive behavioral coaching, breathwork or meditation? Did GERD make your list? Along with gentle, but powerful botanicals and nutraceuticals (IT’s Motility Activator, DGL Chewables, Heartburn Advantage), these are cornerstone interventions for GERD in the practice of Victoria Albina, NP, MPH. Victoria operates from a patient empowerment position, believing that it’s essential for lasting change in ...
Episode 70: Improving Perinatal and Trans-Generational Health with Functional Medicine
September 05, 2019 11:26 - 1 hour - 26.1 MBSome of the most extraordinary work happening in medicine right now comes from the GrowBaby team of Leslie Stone, MD and her daughter, Emily Rydbom, CNS. In their mostly Medicaid model, they’ve adopted a systems approach to pregnancy, and thereby doing so, have remarkably improved outcomes. Their rates of autism, eczema, ADHD, premature labor, gestational diabetes and pregnancy-induced hypertension fall well, well below national averages. Learn about their unique program and outcome studies i...
Episode 68: What’s the deal with Lectins and Autoimmunity? with Dr. Datis Kharrazian
August 29, 2019 11:17 - 1 hour - 46.7 MBIf you’re practicing functional medicine, you’re aware of (and likely prescribing) the autoimmune paleo diet, pulling folks off of many foods, lowering carbs, reducing or eliminating lectins (and nightshades). In this terrific podcast with Dr. Datis Kharrazian, we talk about his research in stratifying who’s who with regard to autoimmunity. For example, Dr. K suspects that very roughly about 30% of his autoimmune patients are truly lectin sensitive; they tend to be those with arthritic muscul...
Episode 69: SPONSORED Telomere Integrity: What Clinicians Need to Know with Dr. Joseph Raffaele
August 29, 2019 11:15 - 1 hour - 42.7 MBAre you thinking about age management with your patients these days? I am. And I’m thinking about it regarding myself, quite frankly. To that end, I just had a tour-de-force conversation with clinician researcher Joe Raffaele, MD. Can we halt, or even reverse, the biological aging process? There are an extraordinary number of variables to consider here, but the take-home appears to be YES. Of course, FxMed is our foundation, but layer onto that telomere biology, and telomerase activation usin...
Episode 67: Functional Medicine Pediatrician Dr. Elisa Song on PANS/PANDAS DX and Treatment
July 13, 2019 09:12 - 1 hour - 32.2 MBIn this podcast of New Frontiers, I’m talking with Dr. Elisa Song, a functional medicine pediatrician and superb teacher. If you are practicing FxMed, you’re probably seeing more and more kids if your scope allows (even if you didn’t before). Kids need FxMed, yet there are arguably LESS pediatricians transitioning into FxMed than other disciplines. Thus, working with kids can come with questions – labs, dosing interventions. Listen as Dr. Song and I gallop through loads of foundational inform...
Episode 66: SPONSORED | New Hope for Fibromyalgia Patients with Erik Lundquist, MD
July 08, 2019 16:26 - 39 minutes - 15.3 MBAs a clinician interested in participating in research, it’s very exciting to see others jumping into the research conversation, too. Today I talk to Dr. Erik Lundquist, who heads a large, integrative clinic out in Southern California. Erik recently completed a clinical pilot study looking at the use of SPMs (just 2 gelcaps per day) in patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia (Dr. Lundquist reports that the bulk of these patients have underlying mold exposure or Lyme as the primary etiology for F...
Episode 65: Bacteriophages in the age of antibiotic resistance - Drs. Paul Turner and Benjamin Chan
June 14, 2019 14:14 - 1 hour - 29.5 MBOnce upon a time, in a pre-antibiotic world, bacteriophages were a hot research topic in this country and elsewhere. In the 1940’s, Eli Lilly had seven OTC bacteriophage products available – good for everything from abscesses to URIs and mastoiditis. However, with the advent of antibiotics, the research into and use of phages ceased in the US. But in the age of antibiotic resistance, we’re back at phage research, and its wildly interesting and extremely important to explore. Phages are bacter...
Episode 64: SPONSORED Compounding Pharmacies: An Essential Functional Medicine Tool
June 12, 2019 09:20 - 50 minutes - 19.6 MBCompounding pharmacies: SO essential to the FxMed clinician’s toolkit. Compounding individualized prescriptions are at the heart of what we do, and on this podcast of New Frontiers, I am delighted to talk to Michelle Violi, Pharm. D, of Women’s International Pharmacy. Located in Wisconsin and Arizona, but serving clinicians and patients everywhere, WIP has been compounding bioidentical hormones for decades. Join our conversation, where we cover the background of WIP, their commitment to educa...
Episode 63: Strategies Preventing Cognitive Decline with Neurologist Dr. David Perlmutter
May 16, 2019 17:59 - 1 hour - 27.9 MBIn this episode of New Frontiers, Dr. Fitzgerald talks with Dr. Perlmutter about the best strategies for preventing and slowing cognitive decline, and how his thinking about preventive lifestyle strategies has evolved since he published his first book Grain Brain.
Episode 62: SPONSORED Methionine Metabolism and Methylation with Dr. David Quig
May 06, 2019 17:29 - 46 minutes - 18.1 MBI enjoy discussing all things nutritional biochemistry, and few minds are more engaging to chat with than David Quig, PhD, VP of Scientific Support at Doctor’s Data. In this NFFM podcast, we’re drilling down into the laboratory assessment of methylation and sulfuration. As Dr. Quig makes clear (yet again)--- while we might make some *basic* inferences around methylation activity by looking at a person’s SNPs, SNPs are not our destiny (thank God!). Ultimately, SNP assessment doesn’t hold a ca...
Episode 61: Must-know Causes for Refractory Sibo with Dr. Steven Sandberg-Lewis
April 23, 2019 17:39 - 1 hour - 25.5 MBA huge, constant question we get from clinicians and patients is: what to do about refractory SIBO? Patients want hope, clinicians want to successfully resolve… Listen to my podcast to discover what one of the greatest minds thinks about all this and more. Dr. Steven Sandberg-Lewis, co-founder with Dr. Allison Siebecker of the National University of Natural Medicine SIBO Center – one of only four centers in the US dedicated to diagnosis, treatment, education and research, is a longtime natur...
Episode 60: SPONSORED: Dutch™ Research and Validation in Peer-Reviewed Journal
April 19, 2019 20:17 - 39 minutes - 15.2 MBWhat’s the best way to test hormones? That is the key question that drove Mark Newman to create the DUTCH test. DUTCH stands for Dried Urine Test for Comprehensive Hormones and it gives clinicians a robust picture of a patient’s hormone levels and functioning. DUTCH tests are used by many leading functional medicine practitioners, including hormone expert Sara Gottfried, MD. Here, Dr. Kara Fitzgerald talks with Mark Newman about the advantages of using the DUTCH test, the strengths and limita...
Episode 59: Environmental Toxicology: Swimming in the Solution with Dr. Lyn Patrick
March 25, 2019 10:03 - 59 minutes - 24.2 MBOne of the bright lights in the naturopathic/FxMed world, Dr. Lyn Patrick has devoted much of her career to training physicians in environmental medicine. She’s got loads of exquisitely valuable information, and I spent every inch of our hour together mining as much as I can for you. Take a listen and let me know what you think.
Episode 58: SPONSORED Borrelia Research & Clinical Strategies using Botanical Antimicrobials
March 04, 2019 17:36 - 44 minutes - 17.4 MBLyme disease (and co-infections) can be tough to treat. The Lyme spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, has adopted loads of devilishly clever cloaking devices – from thriving in biofilm to existing in pleomorphic forms – to ensure survival despite aggressive treatment. Enter botanical therapy. With or without concurrent antibiotics, botanical combinations are an essential component of the FxMed clinician’s toolkit.
Episode 56: SPONSORED Advances in Stool Testing: The GI-MAP™ GI-Microbial Assay Plus
February 13, 2019 15:55 - 1 hour - 29.9 MBDSL’s GI-MAP stool test is, as CEO Tony Hoffman states, “a clinician diagnostic tool;” it’s not a microbiome test. Yes, of course the GI-MAP looks at the microbiome, but it's not a broad sweep of the myriad of bugs taking up residence. Rather, it’s a carefully curated investigation of organisms with demonstrated imbalance potential, be it pathogenic or dysbiotic in nature. The test is designed to be user-friendly, interpreted rapidly, logically, providing clearly actionable data that, when ...
Episode 57: The Future is Great with Medicinal Mushrooms with expert Jeff Chilton
February 13, 2019 15:55 - 1 hour - 24.7 MBA wide body of research—not to mention centuries of use in Chinese medicine—has shown the power of medicinal mushrooms in promoting health, and no one knows more about the cultivation, manufacture, and distribution of supplemental mushrooms in modern integrative health care than Jeff Chilton. The president of Nammex, one of the biggest medicinal mushroom extract companies in the nutritional supplement industry, Jeff talks with Dr. Fitzgerald in this episode of New Frontiers about how mushroom...
Episode 55: Plant Medicine, Photonutrients, and the Health Benefits of Eating a Rainbow
January 09, 2019 09:10 - 1 hour - 26.5 MBDr. Deanna Minich preaches: Eat a rainbow. Why? There are over 700 carotenoids found in plants – all bioactive, and generally pleotropic (ie: they do more than one thing in the body). We don’t need tons of any single carotenoid, and indeed – if anyone recalls the beta carotene smoker study from the early 2000’s, too much of a single compound could arguably be toxic. But variety is essential. And amazingly, certain groups of carotenoid colors favor certain organs. Think “orange for ovaries”; ...
Episode 54: SPONSORED Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Dr. Robert Rountree shares his Expertise
January 03, 2019 19:14 - 1 hour - 26.3 MBNon-alcoholic fatty liver disease is an urgent, often unrecognized concern. It’s the hepatic pandemic of the 21stcentury, and there is NO approved pharmaceutical therapy (the race is on, however…). Fortunately for us, there is MUCH we can do in functional medicine – indeed, our toolkit is powerfully effective in turning around NAFLD and even NASH – the next step progression. Listen to my conversation with my good friend and longtime colleague Dr. Robert Rountree (finally on NFFM!). Bob outlin...
Episode 53: SPONSORED From Biological Plausibility to Clinical Efficacy w Food Sensitivity Testing
December 07, 2018 14:00 - 47 minutes - 18.5 MBDr. Joel Evans – you probably know him as long-time IFM faculty teaching in the Advanced Practice Hormone Module. He’s also donned a newish hat as KBMO’s Medical Director. Dr. Evans loves the FIT test for delayed hypersensitivities to foods, and states that the addition of complement fragment C3d to their test significantly reduced the incidence of false positive results found on standard IgG testing. Listen to our convo on the FIT test, how he’s using it in practice, who he uses the test on,...
Episode 52: Ground Zero for Gut Health: Probiotics, Microbiota Manipulation and Dr. Jason Hawrelak
December 05, 2018 10:26 - 57 minutes - 38.7 MBThe centrality of gut health in overall health cannot be overstated, and for many years researchers and practitioners have encouraged probiotic use to promote gut health. But their recommendations have been based on early and inchoate research. Today, several decades after the emergence of gut health as the ground zero of overall health, science has been able to correlate specific bacterial strains with specific health outcomes—and one man has spent years anthologizing all that research and m...
Episode 51: All things Mast Cell with World-Renowned Clinical Researcher Dr. Theoharides
November 20, 2018 11:29 - 1 hour - 40.3 MBIn my Tour de Force conversation with the brilliant Dr. Theoharis Theoharides, we covered all things mast cells, from “bench to bedside.” In case you have not yet encountered his work yet, he is one of the most highly decorated, well-published clinician researchers in the world. The focus of his life’s work has been on all things mast cells, and mast cell associated conditions. Given the meteoric rise in said conditions (and our improved understanding of the role of mast cells in most chronic...
Episode 50: SPONSORED Multi-mechanistic approach to treat anxiety & depression w Dr. Corey Schuler
November 16, 2018 16:28 - 57 minutes - 22.3 MBSome of our most popular podcasts have been with Dr. Corey Schuler: he’s down-to-earth, practical in his approach to patient care, and very evidence-informed. And today is no exception! Join me and Corey as he talks through his “4 Pillar” approach to treating anxiety and depression. He discusses the multifactorial biochemical underpinnings of both conditions, his assessment tools (including labs), treatment (for acute presentations, chronic and co-managing those on pharma) and expectations of...
Episode 49: SPONSORED Prescribing bioidentical hormones using DUTCH test w Dr. Lynne Mielke
October 29, 2018 16:25 - 56 minutes - 22.1 MBIt’s not often that I get to spend an hour chatting with a busy clinician on pearls learned over years of practice. In today’s podcast, I’m talking with long time integrative medical clinician and anti-aging expert Lynne Mielke, MD about her approach to bioidentical hormones and why the Precision Analytical DUTCH is her preferred test for assessing HRT response. It’s her experience that the “gold standard” blood tests often lead to over-prescribing, and she commonly finds herself initiating t...
Episode 48: Mastering Diabetes with Dr. Mona Morstein
October 01, 2018 12:44 - 1 hour - 27.3 MBDr. Mona Morstein has focused the bulk of her career on treating all types of diabetes (DM). In late 2017, she published the a superb 500+ page very well-referenced book on the topic, titled Master Your Diabetes: A Comprehensive, Integrative Approach for Both Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes. Despite written in layman language, clinicians will find it meaty enough to be useful in practice – I especially like the sections on DM complications. In our conversation, we look at the four main types of d...
Episode 47: Dr. Stephen Sinatra and the Past, Present and Future of Integrative Cardiology
September 04, 2018 12:22 - 1 hour - 25.1 MBIf you’ve listened to my podcasts, you surely know that I love what I do. And my podcast with Dr. Stephen Sinatra is no exception. One of my most inspiring conversations to date, Dr. Sinatra is, as you know, a pioneer in the field of integrative cardiology. Hear about his remarkable, very early transition to integrative cardiology, including pivotal encounters with patients and scientists that shaped his thinking; his gutsy, hospital grand rounds presentations on the use of CoQ10 for heart ...
Episode 46: SPONSORED Endotoxemia: The Underlying Reason Most of Your Patients Need Immunoglobulins
July 25, 2018 17:27 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBEndotoxemia. A fundamental driver of chronic disease. What is it? And more importantly, what do we do to address it? In my podcast with Dr. Jill Carnahan this month, she unleashes a torrent of compelling science and clinical savvy on all things endotoxemia. From heart disease and diabetes to autoimmunity (genetic or acquired) and mast cell activation, Dr. Carnahan is clear that pathological intestinal permeability (she discusses testing, but at this point in her career believes most everyone ...
Episode 45: Acupressure Tapping in Clinical Practice - A conversation with Jessica Ortner
July 24, 2018 11:30 - 51 minutes - 20.6 MBAnxiety can get in the way of patients achieving their health goals—especially when a practitioner recommends significant lifestyle and nutrition changes. Patients may feel suffocated by the new regimen and then make changes for a while but revert back—or they may not make them at all. The Emotional Freedom Technique, also known as tapping, can help patients ease anxiety and better achieve their health goals. It can also help with the subjective experience of pain or be used in service of a s...
Episode 44: The Lyme Solution: A conversation with Dr. Darin Ingels
June 28, 2018 12:30 - 1 hour - 24.9 MBAfter suffering through a lengthy Lyme infection himself (with classic presentation), which initially responded to antibiotics but didn’t resolve the infection, Dr. Darin Ingels went on a years-long quest to recover, returning to naturopathic principles and discovering essential less-used protocols. The results are in his book: The Lyme Solution: A 5-Part Plan to Fish the Inflammatory Autoimmune Response and Beat Lyme Disease (Penguin Random House), and he has been treating patients with Lyme...
Episode 43: Fasting Mimicking Diet: Beyond caloric restrictions with Dr. Valter Longo
June 08, 2018 11:05 - 1 hour - 25.1 MBWow! What a great conversation with Dr. Valter Longo, director of USC’s Longevity Institute. It’s always exciting to talk to someone in the trenches of bench and clinical research, especially a rock-star like Valter Longo! You can hear my nerves as we begin ☺, yet there’s much to learn about Dr. Longo’s journey from a Blue Zone upbringing in Italy to music major to biochemisty major to leading expert in articulating the biochemical and genetic underpinnings of the aging process. Dr. Longo was...
Episode 42: SPONSORED Unlocking the potential of endocannabinoid system w Dr. Jacqueline Jacques
May 16, 2018 10:16 - 55 minutes - 21.7 MBYes, hemp & marijuana are major providers of cannabinoids, and in the FxMed space, we are extremely excited about this potent family of bioactive molecules. In particular, we are looking at CBD for indications ranging from pain to mood, inflammation, memory and more. Turns out the endocannabinoid system (ECS) extends body-wide, and similarly, phytocannabinoid sources extend far beyond hemp and marijuana. Listen to my conversation with Dr. Jacqueline Jacques, Senior VP with THORNE – and tour t...
Episode 41: Food: What the Heck Should We Eat with Expert Dr. Mark Hyman
May 06, 2018 00:00 - 44 minutes - 18 MBIn my conversation with Mark Hyman on his new NYT best seller, Food: What the Heck Should I Eat?, we discuss the myriad challenges consumers face in figuring out the correct diet, but also, what WE as clinicians caring for patients – what do we prescribe? What do the data show? Are grains really verboten? Is dairy completely off-the-plate? What about meat? And fats/cholesterol and the APOE4 patient? Mark enlightens me to the new “regenerative agriculture” movement; going far beyond organic, r...
Episode 40: The Epicenter of Epigenetics; Discussing the Agouti Mice Study with Dr. Randy Jirtle
April 12, 2018 11:27 - 1 hour - 29.8 MBI am thrilled and honored to podcast with Dr. Randy Jirtle. The field of epigenetics has exploded in the last decade, initiated almost exclusively by the groundbreaking research of Randy and his colleague Robert Waterland. Their 2003 study on the effects of nutrition on epigenetic gene regulation in agouti mice is the most cited paper in the history of science, and his trailblazing discoveries have expanded our understanding of human health and the etiology of disease. Listen to my fascinatin...
Episode 39: SPONSORED: Scientific Serendipity: Beautiful Bio-Botanicals with Dr. Rachel Fresco
April 06, 2018 10:33 - 49 minutes - 19.5 MBA lot of scientific discoveries are borne out of serendipitous moments where a brilliant idea and unmet need collide. Such is the case with one of my all-time favorite “workhorse” botanical combination products, Biocidin. Listen to Dr. Rachel Fresco, founder and president of Bio-Botanical Research, talk about the story of Biocidin, the decades of interesting and on-going in-vivo and in-vitro research, and loads of clinical reports demonstrating efficacy. Also hear about Bio-Botanical’s suite ...
Episode 38: SPONSORED HPA, Organic Acids and the DUTCH Test with Dr. Carrie Jones
March 21, 2018 18:05 - 45 minutes - 17.8 MBWhy would Precision Analytical, the laboratory famous for the ground-breaking DUTCH test (Dried Urine Test for Comprehensive Hormones) and Cortisol Awakening Response test, decide to offer a handful of key organic acids on their panel (incidentally, at no extra charge)? The answers will wow you in this terrific podcast with Dr. Carrie Jones, Medical Director at PA. Turns out, looking at compounds such as homovanillic acid, vanillmadilic acid, 5HIAA, pyroglutamate, 8OH2DG and xanthurenate have...
Episode 37: The Gut/Thyroid Connection with Dr. Michael Ruscio
March 16, 2018 10:01 - 1 hour - 25.8 MBJoin me for an interesting, clinician-friendly conversation on the gut/thyroid axis with Dr. Mike Ruscio. Dr. Ruscio challenges both conventional understanding (where the gut/thyroid relationship isn’t recognized outside the research setting) and in the functional medicine world, where he argues we are often over-treating and over-testing thyroid function. What is the thyroid adrenal relationship? What should we expect with regard to thyroid antibodies and successful treatment? What should we...
Episode 36: Changing the World with Unconventional Medicine – A Conversation with Chris Kresser
February 20, 2018 12:21 - 55 minutes - 22.2 MBWhen Chris Kresser, M.S., L.Ac, was in his early twenties, he traveled the world surfing and learning to meditate. Along the way, he fell ill — and when he returned to the States he discovered that the conventional medical paradigm had little to offer when it came to treating complex, chronic illness. So he embarked on his own healing journey, studying acupuncture and Chinese medicine and learning about ancestral health. Today he is a globally recognized leader in the fields of functional and...
Episode 35: SPONSORED: Dr. Kenneth Brown / Atrantil
February 13, 2018 09:47 - 52 minutes - 20.3 MBSmall-intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO, is notoriously hard to treat. Patients often experience persistent bloating—and even when they find relief, symptoms can return months later, seemingly out of the blue. After struggling to help patients feel better using the tools of conventional gastroenterology, Dr. Ken Brown began to research compounds that could effectively treat SIBO-related bloating. The result of his work is Atrantil, the only all-natural formulation for treating SIBO-rel...
Episode 34: Miracle Mind, Warrior Heart: A conversation with JJ Virgin
November 22, 2017 21:12 - 57 minutes - 23 MBJJ Virgin was a well-known fitness and nutrition expert and author of several books when her son was hit by a car and severely injured. The doctors told her to prepare for the worst; they didn’t expect him to make it through the night. But, Grant lived. And JJ’s insistence on making sure he had access to both conventional and functional medical care is the reason why. She became an expert on the essential interventions for severe traumatic brain injury and insisted on their use during his rec...
Episode 33: SPONSORED: Further Down the Elemental Diet Road with Dr. Corey Schuler
November 18, 2017 10:55 - 59 minutes - 23.1 MBElemental Diets have a long therapeutic use history for myriad GI issues. EDs allow the gut to take a break from the hard work of digestion, offering the GI tract a chance for renewal and repair. They have been shown to help with a variety of conditions, including SIBO, IBS, non-specific intestinal inflammation, and autoimmunity, including IBD (among others). In this podcast, the director of clinical affairs for Integrative Therapeutics, Dr. Corey Schuler, answers some of the most frequently...
Episode 32: SPONSORED | The Cortisol Awakening Response With Mark Newman, MS
October 25, 2017 11:54 - 50 minutes - 54.6 MBMark Newman is the founder Precision Analytical and the developer of the DUTCH test, one of the most accurate and patient-friendly measures of sex hormones on the market. The test eliminates the need for multiple types of testing by using dried urine to measure sex hormones, hormone metabolites, and free cortisol. Free cortisol is a key indicator of the health of the HPA axis — and having that measure, alongside a measure of sex hormones and their metabolites, gives providers more information...
Episode 31: Calorie-Restricted Ketogenic Diet for Cancer with Miriam Kalamian CNS
October 17, 2017 17:10 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBTumor cells have more insulin receptors than healthy cells, so they preferentially metabolize glucose. When you cut off the glucose supply to tumor cells, they struggle to make the fuel they need to proliferate. The ketogenic diet sharply limits the glucose that reaches tumor cells (while providing other anticancer benefits), and animal studies (and one small but seminal human study) have shown promise in using the ketogenic diet as an adjunctive treatment for cancer. Author of the new book,...
Episode 30: Transformational Approaches to Multiple Sclerosis and Autoimmunity with Dr. Terry Wahls
September 29, 2017 23:49 - 51 minutes - 20.5 MBDr. Terry Wahls was a practicing primary care physician when she was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting MS. Despite treatment at some of the finest medical institutions in the United States, her health progressively declined until she could no longer walk. When she discovered functional medicine, she made a rapid turnaround. Soon she wasn’t just walking again, she was doing 20-mile bike rides. Today, Dr. Wahls conducts research using variations of her protocol, including intensive directed nu...
Episode 29: The Vaccine Balancing Act with Dr. Hilary Andrews
August 30, 2017 15:51 - 1 hour - 25 MBI went to school with Dr. Hilary Andrews. She graduated before me, but I recall her then—she had a reputation for brilliance (and was voted class valedictorian, incidentally). Hilary applied that brilliance to childhood health and nutrition, which inevitably included investigation around vaccine safety. Flash forward to current time, Hilary continues to research and lecture extensively on the topic of immunization. She’s developed a number of CE courses available for clinicians. Make no mis...