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The Functional Medicine Liaison

Supporting Allopathic-Trained Clinicians Interested in Functional Medicine

What I Learned from Starting – and Leaving – A Functional Medicine Practice

At the end of 2017, I left an established functional medicine practice and started my own. At the time, I was living in Austin, TX. I looked into positions at other established functional medicine clinics, but the salaries were abysmal…

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Courses and Training on Mycotoxin-Induced Illness

Mold and Mycotoxin-Induced Illness Mold is part of our world. It is inconvenient when we find it on our food.  It is irritating when it causes allergies.  It can be lifesaving when it creates an antibiotic. But of the more…

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What is the best functional medicine training program?

I started my path in functional and integrative medicine in the 90’s.  I’ve worked for others. I’ve co-owned my own practice. And today, I work with the amazing team at Parsley Health.   One of my “extracurricular activities” involves supporting…

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Brief Summary of Top Functional Medicine Programs

The following programs are mentioned here (I can't include all - that's why the educational resource is in book format!): IFMSAFMKara Fitzgerald's Clinic Immersion ProgramA4M Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) The concept for this was developed by Dr. Jeffrey Bland…

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Article I Wrote for TAPA on My Functional Medicine Business Journey

The following is an article I wrote for the Texas Association of Physician Assistants. 1) What got you interested in functional medicine? When Dr. Jeffrey Bland coined the term “functional medicine”, it was intended to be a hybrid of molecular biology,…

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Green Allopathy

The other day, I was shopping at my local Natural Grocers.  As I walked through the supplement section, I heard a customer discussing some allergy-type symptoms with the employee.  The employee was well-versed in which supplements to suggest, and recommended…

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Tall Poppy Syndrome: Handling Criticism in Integrative Medicine

As practitioners learn and reap the benefits of functional medicine, they will inevitably encounter colleagues that try to belittle their efforts.  Any practitioner that goes beyond the constraints of allopathic medicine (particularly if they have received training in Western medicine)…

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Standard of Care and Functional Medicine

  I once read a Facebook post in an integrative community group that asked members what natural “go-to” remedies were recommended to give her husband (who had been in an accident a few hours earlier, and was “showing signs” of…

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Link to Article on Integrated Connections Website

In 2017, I created a Facebook group specifically for PAs and NPs who were interested in functional and integrative medicine. It was created out of the need for such a group. I had spent almost a decade on my own,…

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The Science of Reversing Alzheimer’s

"Betty" was 65 years old when she was diagnosed with progressive memory loss. Two years later, her condition had progressed to the point of unemployment, she wasn’t eligible for long term care insurance, and was told by her family physician…

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