If you've spent any time researching functional medicine in Texas or Florida — whether you're in Austin, Dallas, Tampa, or anywhere else — you've probably noticed a pattern: Beautifully crafted…
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…
"First do no harm" We rely on evidence-based-medicine (EBM) to determine safe and effective treatments for our patients. This is ideal for pharmaceutical drugs that are potent and carry many…
When we go to the health care clinic, we expect to leave with a cause of our illness (aka diagnosis) and a treatment to feel better. But there should be…
Functional medicine is rooted in evidence-based scientific research (aka "proof"), which helps those of us who have chosen this path back up our choices for labs and treatments. For any…
In our medical education, we learn about insulin resistance, and what parameters "define" insulin resistance syndrome (aka metabolic syndrome). But how do we measure it and identify it? …
I once asked my mom what her biggest health fear was, as she gets older. She said she is not scared of cancer or osteoporosis or gaining weight. She is…
I'm often asked the difference between functional and mainstream/conventional medicine. I can repeat the typical definition of functional medicine (find the root cause, systems-based, etc), but I don't think this…
Too often I see a lot of functional medicine practitioners providing well-intentioned information (e.g. on social media site, summits, etc), but this information often induces fear in the audience. Fear…
Functional medicine, a practice that involves looking for and treating the causes of symptoms (rather than just treating the symptoms), is a type of integrative medicine that was developed in…