Twenty-five and a half years ago I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I’ve been living symptom-free for over a decade. I consider myself to be in "remission" from my mental illness, because I no longer have symptoms that plague me, so I no longer fit the diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder comes with … Continue reading Keeping Bipolar Disorder in Remission
As a mental health advocate, functional medicine practitioner, and someone who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 18, there is a frequently used phrase about bipolar that makes me crazy. When someone says, “he is bipolar” or “she is bipolar” or “she’s acting bipolar,” I’ll likely get pretty defensive pretty fast. Bipolar disorder is NOT … Continue reading You Are Not Your Diagnosis
Dr. Matthew Dawson is the co-founder and CEO of Wild Health, a Precision Medicine service providing personalized, genetics-based care to help patients achieve optimal wellbeing. In that, Dr. Dawson has trained thousands of physicians in Precision Medicine through online education, and has lectured in over twenty countries around the world. Dr. Dawson also co-hosts the … Continue reading How Genomics Takes Precision Medicine to the Next Level
For over 30 years, Dr. Bill Rawls has dedicated his life to medicine. When a health crisis with chronic Lyme disease abruptly changed his quality of life, he came face to face with the limitations of modern medicine and began to explore the vast possibilities of alternative treatments. Restoring his health through holistic and herbal … Continue reading The Power of Herbs for Lyme and Chronic Disease
Tracy Harrison is the Founder and Lead Educator of The School of Applied Functional Medicine. She is deeply passionate about transforming healthcare with the powerful combination of functional medicine and savvy clinical partnership. A scientist who left the high-tech corporate world in 2007, Tracy built a wildly successful, multi-modality practice utilizing functional medicine principles, and … Continue reading Surprising Facts About Histamine Overload and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome
Dr. Anjali Agrawal is a family chiropractor, functional nutritionist, founder, and speaker. Dr. Anjali helps families navigate their journey from conception to adulthood. As the founder of Back In Balance, Dr. Anjali integrates gentle chiropractic adjustments, functional nutrition, ergonomics, and a variety of unique diagnostic testing to identify the root cause of symptoms. In this … Continue reading Why You Should Chew Your Food 32 Times
Jennifer Nathanson is a functional medicine provider and parenting coach. She firmly believes feeling confident in parenting impacts our overall well-being by decreasing/removing one of our main stressors - self doubt as a parent. This episode focuses on the struggles of parenting and more specifically, the struggles of parenting children who are neurodivergent or sensitive. … Continue reading Parenting with a Nurtured Heart Approach
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Here's my controversial opinion: we don’t need more mental health awareness. We need more tools to get well and stay well. We need practitioners willing to think outside the box, beyond the checklists and low-efficacy treatments. At 18, I met the criteria for a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. When … Continue reading Do We Need More Mental Health Awareness?
Amy Campbell is a functional health consultant who specializes in women’s hormone balance and supporting gut health. With over 10 years of experience as a nurse, she has recently received her Applied Functional Medicine Certification through the School of Applied Functional Medicine where she spent nearly 500 hours of rigorous training. Amy works with women … Continue reading How Functional Lab Testing Can Validate Your Health Concerns
Do you relate to any of the following symptoms? Cravings for sugar and overly processed foods. Asthma and allergies. Recurring illness and overuse of antibiotics. Frequent yeast infections. Debilitating depression. Racing thoughts and anxiety. Headaches and foggy thinking. Nasty PMS. Low immune tolerance. IBS symptoms and gastrointestinal upset. I experienced all of these... once upon … Continue reading How to Get to the Root, Once and For All
