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Lab Testing for the Functional and Holistic Health Practitioner
Learning how to read lab’s can be a great benefit to your coaching career. But is it a requirement for success?
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Helping Alzheimer’s Patients with Cognitive Decline: Plugging the Metaphorical Holes in the Roof
Learn how functional medicine is helping Alzheimer’s patients improve their cognitive decline.
Read MoreThe One Tool to Help You Get Results as a Functional Practitioner
If I were to ask you what caused you to become interested in the field of nutrition, you’d likely tell me a personal story. Maybe you were sick. Or you watched your partner, child, parent, or dearest friend suffer. Perhaps you’re motivated by global pain and suffering, and, for your own unique reasons, you felt […]
Read MoreFunctional Nutrition Tool: Sleep Assessment
Sleep is what I call a “Non-Negotiable.” It must be addressed. Right away. In fact, one of the principles that helped me solve the “unsolvable” cases and help guide people to resolution even when they’d been everywhere and done everything is this: If they’re not sleeping, pooping, and their blood sugar isn’t stable, you (as […]
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