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Your patient is already convinced she has parasites. She saw a video on Instagram, bought the recommended product, and now you’re the one who needs to break the news that what she paid for might not work, even if she does have parasites. Brushing her off isn’t going to work either.   You can’t blame her

You check the bank account to see if there’s a little extra sitting there so you can take a draw for yourself. But then you quietly hope there’s enough left to cover the rest of the month. In order to make sure there’s plenty to go around, we need to figure out how many patients

If I hear about one more woman being told that her brain fog, her weight gain, and her low sex drive are all a testosterone problem, it’s going to drive me crazy. Does your patient actually need testosterone? Probably not. What she needs is someone willing to ask a different question before testosterone is every

Your male patient is already convinced he needs testosterone. He saw the ad on Facebook, he feels flat and unmotivated, and he’s ready to get started today, no questions asked. He’s not remotely concerned about the testosterone replacement therapy risks that come with it. He just wants to feel better. Here’s what no one is

You’ve likely used AI in your functional medicine practice to ask a specific patient question, and part of you is wondering if you did it the right way. Here’s the honest answer: probably not, and neither did I the first dozen times. The most dangerous AI answer in a clinical practice is never the obviously

Your patient is sitting across from you, unable to finish a sentence, waiting for a word that used to come easily. That is the perfect example of what lion’s mane mycelium and its compound, erinacine A were designed to do. You have already covered her diet, her stress load, and her sleep, but her brain

I’ve been doing this long enough to recognize the exact moment symptoms stop being one problem and start being four problems, all of them leading back to the same root cause. That’s exactly what CKM syndrome is – the new cardiovascular kidney metabolic syndrome, collectively approved by four major medical organizations. If you’ve got a

You know this patient. She improves with every single thing you try. Her gut settles, her sleep gets better, her brain fog lifts, and then two weeks later, she’s back at the beginning with the exact same symptoms. For years I chased the symptoms but adjusting protocols and didn’t even consider mold as a possibility.

Methylene blue has had quite the career. It began as a synthetic textile dye, became a laboratory stain, entered medicine as an early antimalarial and is now being promoted online for energy, cognition, mood, sleep and longevity. That history is fascinating. It is not, however, proof that every patient with fatigue or brain fog needs