This week on the Evolution of Medicine podcast, we begin a new series of podcasts called The Future of Health Coaching.  In this series, we welcome leaders in the field who are taking the industry forward. If you've been following the Functional Forum, you know that we'd like to see a health coach in every practice.

We begin this new series with Sandra Scheinbaum, PhD, founder of the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy. Sandy shares with us how health coaches contribute to the success of a medical practice and what roles they can play to connect with patients and the local community. She also provides guidance on how to transition to an integrative practice that utilizes a health coach. 

In this podcast you will hear:

• why Sandy started the FMCA
• what is value of having a functional medicine coach as part of your practice
• how to prepare your team and patients to begin working with a health coach
• what role will the health coach play in the future of medicine

For more information about the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy, visit goevomed.com/FMCA

This week on the Evolution of Medicine podcast, we feature, authors, Glenn Sabin and Taylor Walsh. Their book is called The Rise of Integrative Health and Medicine: The Milestones - 1963 to Present. It features over 120 of the most significant accomplishments in the field during the last 54 years. Evolution of Medicine is proud to be among the chosen milestones.

As we move to the end of 2016 and approach the new year, it's always interesting to look back and see what we have accomplished. We can move forward to 2017 and beyond with more confidence as we learn from the past and understand the impact of the milestones described in the book. You can sign up to receive a free copy of the e-book here.

In this podcast you will hear:

• ​why it is so important to document the key developments of the movement
• some of the most impressive milestones featured in the book
• the value of understanding the history of the movement for practitioners
• how reducing the cost of chronic disease and focusing on preventative medicine affect the movement

This week on the Evolution of Medicine Podcast, we feature Wayne Dysinger, MD. Dr. Dysinger is a leader in the lifestyle medicine space and is actively building a membership-based practice for his new innovative clinic in California, Lifestyle Medicine Solutions. 

Dr. Dysinger has implemented many of the things we have suggested during throughout the Functional Forum. He's incorporated a membership program and fully embraces lifestyle medicine. He's implemented group learning and community outreach, and health coaches and tech tools are an integral part of the success of his practice. He talks about these strategies and more.

In this podcast you will hear:

• Why Dr. Dysinger moved his Direct Primary Care practice into the Lifestyle Medicine realm and how do “support groups” fit into personal responsibility and health behavior change?

• What is a “MACN” and how does it fit into his practice and why is every patient assigned one? (Medical Assistant Coach Navigator)

• The hybrid payment model that Dr. Dysinger chose for his new clinic and how he integrates this into his practice to best support his patients and his success plan.

• Why Dr. Dysinger believes membership-based medicine is key to success in a world where patients are seeking healthcare partners and advocates, rather than the old model of simply treating the sick.

To learn more about the Membership Practice Builder visit goevomed.com/mpb

The Evolution of Medicine is excited to announce the creation of it's second course the Membership Practice Builder. Some of the most successful functional medicine clinics are employing different types of membership models to make it more affordable for patients and at the same time, guarantees income for practitioners. As ever, we have heard our our community of practitioners when they expressed great interest in learning how to to set up a membership practice model. Visit goevomed.com/mpb for more information. 

This week on the Evolution of Medicine Podcast, we welcome, Michael Lubin, Co-Found of Hint Health. We're excited to be partnering with Hint Health on the delivery of our new training program the Membership Practice Builder featuring Tom Blue, Chief Strategy Officer of American Academy of Private Physicians. The Evolution of Medicine is always looking for innovative technology partners that make it easier to deliver Functional Medicine and Hint Health hits the mark. Hint Health is the leading membership management and billing solution for direct pay healthcare. To learn more about Hint Health, visit goevomed.com/hinthealth

On this podcast you will hear:

• how Hint Health came about
• why is the membership model the future of the delivery of functional medicine
• what types of practitioners are a fit for the membership model
• how Hint Health empowers the shift towards the membership practice model

This week on the Evolution we welcome an internationally renowned authority on health, human potential development, and Self-Leadership, Dr. Mark Atkinson. As a functional medicine physician, author, and speaker, Dr. Atkinson has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to become healthier, more effective, human beings. He’s been on the cutting edge of neuro-performance for many years and has now taken his passion to the Bulletproof organization.

On this podcast Dr. Atkinson and James discuss the perfect first visit. How do we provide incredible care in the new functional micropractice model? How do we use the together most effectively to get the most engagement from patients? How do we engage patients into their journey? We address these questions and more.

On this podcast, you will hear:

• what drives Dr. Atkinsons passion 
• why he doesn't focus on the history in the first appointment 
• how does this impact scale by working with Bulletproof  

Bulletproof is introducing a brand-new training course for coaches interested in becoming a certified Bulletproof Coach. They are committed to supporting you in becoming a successful coach who has the skill and knowledge to support your clients in achieving their goals, realizing their potential and upgrading their body, mind and energy.

This week on the Evolution ​of Medicine podcast, we are back with the fifth installment of the "State of the Evolution" with co-founders of the Evolution of Medicine, James Maskell and Gabe Hoffman.  Twice a year we look back at ground take-in the last six months and look forward to the next six. We're excited to share with you what's happened and what to expect during the first half of 2017.

This has been a huge acceleration for our organization. James published his book The Evolution of Medicine. We launched the Evolution of Medicine Practice Accelerator and as always, we've had our monthly the Functional Forum episodes. We've recently introduced the "Future of Functional in 5" which allows our community of practitioners to share their stories and gifts with the whole community. Our Functional Forum meetups continue to facilitate collaboration and community building for practitioners on a local level.  James and Gabe also discuss what's new for the Evolution of Medicine and share details about a course on building a Functional Membership practice, as well as bringing new doctors into our community consistently.

Thanks for being a part of our community and here's to the next step in the Evolution. As ever, we can only achieve our vision by supporting you to achieve yours and so here's to a transformational 2017.

On this podcast you will hear:

• a review of the past 6 months of Forums and new projects
• what to expect from the next six months
• a review from the founder of the current "State of the Evolution"

This week on the Evolution of Medicine podcast, we welcome Brian Mulvaney, Director of Strategy at CrossFit. If you’ve been part of our community for awhile, you know that we’re working towards helping create 100k micropractices. Our plan for micropractices very much mirrors the Crossfit strategy – reduce the overhead, empower individuals to become entrepreneurs.

Listen in as Brian describes the evolution of CrossFit over the last 15 years and shares not only the key lessons that our movement can learn from theirs, but also the clear and present opportunity for clinicians to partner with their local CrossFit boxes to create these new centers of health creation.

On this podcast you will hear:

• The origin story of CrossFit and the early days of web-based education
• How the first affiliates broke through barriers to replicate successfully
• The opportunity for CrossFit and Functional Medicine to merge for community health

This is such an exciting 45 minutes and required listening whether you are running a practice and are looking for a community of new patients or looking to start a new “Functional Micropractice”.

Get a copy of James’ new book The Evolution of Medicine free till October 14th!

This week on the Evolution of Medicine, we welcome our first guest host. Could it be anyone else than Dr. Kelly Brogan?  Dr. Brogan is a holistic psychiatrist and has been a frequent guest speaker on the Functional Forum.  She is the author of A Mind of Your Own and has been an incredible supporter of the Evolution of Medicine from the start.  She interviews James Maskell about his brand new book, The Evolution of Medicine.

Dr. Brogan shares the story of how she first met James and the journey that she has witnessed in the years that she has known him. James shares his story from birth to deciding to becoming an investment banker to making his way into the world of healthcare. From attending conferences to now becoming a featured speaker. From helping one practitioner to setting up clinics and now after 30 episodes of the Functional Forum, reaching thousands of practitioners all over the world. James has taken his years of experience and created a roadmap for the success of modern integrative practitioners in his book The Evolution of Medicine.

On this podcast you will hear:

• The origin story of the Functional Forum and the first episode
• What kick started the vision of 100,000 micropractices
• What you can do to help accelerate the evolution of medicine 

This podcast is brought to you by Nudge Coach. Nudge is a lifestyle coaching software to help better connect with your patients in between visits.  Find out more at goevomed.com/nudge

This week on the Evolution of Medicine, we continue our series called The Future of Patient Compliance with Mac Gambill from Nudge Coach. Nudge Coach is lifestyle coaching software that aims to better connect practitioners with their patients.  It allows practitioners to empower patients through online lifestyle coaching through technology  in between visits.

Mac shares how Nudge Coach provides an efficient and effective way to better coaching and accountability for patients once they step out of the doctor's office. If you've been following us for awhile, you know that we have now moved from the term "compliance" to "empowerment".  In this podcast, we discuss the difference between the two terms and how we have evolved passed some of the old verbiage into a new relationship between the patient and practitioner. 

This week you will hear:

• the value of patient tracking
• the return on investment from using tracking technologies
• what % of people with smart phones are using fitness apps

• the goals of this practice collaboration
• the mistakes that were made along the way
• how to take their experience and use it to make a smoother transition to Functional Medicine 2.0

The episode of the Evolution of Medicine Podcast is sponsored by:

On this week’s super valuable Evolution of Medicine Podcast, we welcome Dr. Joe Tatta, a doctor of physical therapy who has been treating chronic pain for 25 years. Dr. Tatta became uber successful with more than fifteen clinics, where he successfully introduced functional medicine in the treatment of pain.

This podcast is LOADED with valuable info on the potential of a functional medicine micropractice focused on healing pain, as well as the language of pain and how to speak to your patients about it.

In this podcast you will hear:

•    The potential of a functional medicine micropractice focused on healing pain.
•    The language of pain and how to speak to your patients about it.
•    How chronic pain affects about 100 million people in the U.S.
•    The brain is the cause of pain – what can we do to dampen that pain response?
•    The epidemic problem with opioids and the CDC/NIH stance.

Click here to listen to this week’s podcast.

With over 100 million people in the U.S. suffering from chronic from chronic pain, the opportunity to serve the world at large through functional medicine is profound – and the chance to add this successfully to your micropractice is clear.

* I trust this interview will inspire you toward higher success, and we invite you to attend Dr. Tatta’s Healing Pain Summit as our guest: goevomed.com/painsummit

The episode of the Evolution of Medicine Podcast is sponsored by:

They have some incredible webinars coming up on SIBO and “Adrenal Fatigue”, as well as, a free guide to treating some of the most common conditions in a functional medicine practice. Make sure to check out www.goevomed.com/kresser for more information - and watch your inbox for other great trainings from the Kresser Institute.

This week on the on the Evolution of Medicine podcast, we introduce a new innovation from the Evolution of Medicine called the Future of Functional in 5. This is a unique opportunity to share your story and message to the whole Functional Medicine community worldwide.

If you've been following the Functional Forum, you know we've taken the show on the road to engage with as many members of our community as possible.  As we bring the show to Chicago in September, DC in October, Miami in November and back to NY in December, the Future of Functional in 5 will give members of our tribe the opportunity to share and be heard.

On this podcast you will hear:

• the genesis of the Future of Functional in 5
• the first presentations and the impact they had
• how you can give your own talk

Apply to share your presentation at one of our next Functional Forums here: http://functionalforum.com/FoF5

Watch some of the initial videos we recorded at Powder Mountain, Ut in early August.

The episode of the Evolution of Medicine podcast is sponsored by the Kresser Institute for Functional and Evolutionary Medicine.  Visit goevomed.com/kresser for more information.

This week on the Evolution of Medicine Podcast, we feature Dr. Mary Caire who has transformed her former practice into a successful Functional Medicine practice.  Dr. Caire was the inspiration for our new series of podcasts called "Success Leaves Clues".

The IFM survey data showed that very few practitioners were successful when attempting to make this transition and felt there were too many barriers to entry when transitioning from traditional western medicine to a Functional Medicine practice.  We're so grateful to Dr. Caire for sharing her journey, tips, and successes to help shorten the learning curve for the rest of us.

In this podcast you will hear:

• Dr. Caire's journey from physiatrist to a Functional Medicine practitioner
• what percentage of income comes from which sources in Dr. Caire's practice
• how to use genetic testing to motivate patients

What we really want to do is hear from doctors who have made the transition, successfully. If you are one of those practitioners or know someone, please share your story. Write to us at support@goevomed.com

This week on the Evolution of Medicine podcast, we welcome back Evolution of Medicine co-founder Gabe Hoffman and executive coach and keynote speaker, Robert Richman.

Robert is not a doctor, and what he does is not strictly medicine, but he has created something called the Xpill.  It's not a supplement or a prescription, but it seems to have incredible powers to create transformational change.  It encompasses looking at placebo response, coaching, group structures, intention setting for patients - you'll find out why this is so interesting to the future of medicine in one of the most fascinating half hours of this podcast we've ever had!  

In this podcast you will learn:

• What role the move The Matrix played in the creation of the Xpill
• What practitioners can learn from the power of the Xpill
• How groups structure and accountability can amplify the healing response

This week on the Evolution of Medicine Podcast, we feature Naturopathic doctor and IFM faculty member, Dr. Kara Fitzgerald. This is the 2nd of two podcasts about methylation.  Dr. Fitzgerald has just written a new book on this popular topic and any practitioner looking to help their patients most effectively will want to listen.

The “dance of methylation” extends far beyond supplementing with B12 and methylated folate. Indeed, long-term outcome studies using this approach are lacking, and research suggests caution is advised with regard to imbalanced hypermethylation. However, much can be done to safely support methylation balance.

In this podcast you will learn:

• amazing statistic about methylation and how it affects the body
• clinical areas in which meth might be an issue
• sensible ways to help patients deal with methylation

This week we welcome back Dr. Pamela Wible.  Last year she joined us on our podcast to speak to her practice evolution from a "production line" to a "relationship medicine" practice in our Micropractice Evolution series of podcasts.  You can listen to it by clicking this link.

This week, Dr. Wible joins us to talk about the epidemic of physician suicide. She's filmed a powerful TedMed talk on the epidemic of physician suicide where she read the words of physicians on the edge of taking their own lives. As we lose more brilliant minds and healers to suicide, Dr. Wible has started a project to bring this epidemic to light. Her film called "Do No Harm" will do exactly that and she tells us more about the film and how we can support the movement.

In this podcast you will learn:

• the genesis of Dr. Wible's Kickstarter "Do No Harm"
• why physician suicide is a conversation that accelerates the evolution of medicine
• what doctors and patients alike can learn from this huge issue

In this podcast you will hear:

• updates from the White House visit
• what to expect from Organize
• what can we learn from this project to solve other problems

This week on the Evolution of Medicine podcast, we welcome back Dr. Robin Berzin.  The last time she was on the show, we featured her on the podcast New Models of Functional Medicine.  She had just opened up her membership based direct primary care Functional Medicine practice, Parsley Health, in New York.

We've brought her back because her practice is now a huge success.  She's implemented many of the things that we speak about in the 60 Day Practice Accelerator program and the Functional Forum.  James, as a member of her practice, has witnessed it firsthand.  Dr. Berzin is now opening more practices and looking for more physicians to bring on board.

If the membership model and Dr. Berzin's practice inspires you, check out the membership model course we're offering at the end of July in Salk Lake City.  It's a much more efficient way to capture the value of what you provide in Functional Medicine and it makes it much more affordable for patients.  Click here for more information.

Twice a year, Evolution of Medicine founders Gabe Hoffman and James Maskell record a podcast called "State of the Evolution" charting the progress of the last six months and looking forward to the next. Since our last address Thanksgiving 2015, so much has happened, and we hope you enjoy the wrap up.

Some of the highlights of this episode include

• The Functional Forum leaving New York and hitting the road, in American and now internationally
• The incredible growth of the Functional Forum meetup groups and associated ecosystem
• The IFM's landmark Practice Implementation survey and how it informed our strategy for achieving our company mission
• Our 60 Day Practice Accelerator: the genesis, the first pilot program and our hope for it 
• Highlights of the next six months including a huge launch in Washington DC on October 10th

We hope you enjoy this episode and share it with another practitioner. Thanks so much for all your ongoing support and our mission is built on your success.

The Evolution of Medicine often highlights rule breakers and change makers on the medical technology front.  It's why we feature tools

for practitioners to keep in touch with their clients or patients in between visits, particularly, to create behavior change.

This week we feature Maneesh Sethi, the CEO of Pavlok. Pavlok vibrates, beeps, and releases an electric stimulus that ranges from pleasant to aversive to "shock" you into behavior change.

In this podcast you will learn:

• why wearing a device that shocks you is a good idea
• Maneesh shares his experience on the television show, Shark Tank
• how to effectively create behavior change

This week on the news we come back to our monthly segment with John Weeks called "Charting the Convergence" where we look at news stories relevant to our community, looking at the convergence of integrative medicine with medicine itself. 

This week you will learn about:

• The Bravewell Collaborative's Philanthropic Impact of Evolution of Medicine
• Emerging research on the importance of diet for chronic pain
• Oregon leading the way in returning to the therapeutic order for chronic pain
  
  Please send us your best news stories to news@goevomed.com and feel free to share this with colleagues. Thanks to our sponsor, MBODY360. Make sure to check out goevomed.com/MBODY360

Welcome to the Evolution of Medicine podcast.  There has been a lot of discussion, recently, of the opioid issue in America and some of the new CDC guidelines. We reached out to a reformed pain specialist for his unique perspective.

This week we feature pain management specialist, Dr. Kevin Cuccaro.  He's been on a mission to understand the causes of pain and has gone from being an anesthesiologist to an integrative medicine practitioner. He shares his pain medicine journey and what he's learned along the way.

In this podcast you will learn:

• 4 things you need to do to help patients avoid chronic pain
• why chronic pain is a microcosm of the macrocosm
• how to work more effectively with pain management in your practice

This week, we feature food mood expert, Trudy Scott. She's a certified nutritionist and on a mission to educate and empower anxious individuals worldwide about nutritional and natural solutions for anxiety, stress, and emotional eating.

She came to our recent Functional Forum in San Francisco and afterwards approached us with some great ideas about how we can make the Functional Forum more approachable for those with social anxiety.  If you've seen the forum, you know that Gabe and James are not introverted by any stretch of the imagination, so, it was great to learn from the experience of others.

In this podcast you will learn:

• why introversion is a nutrition deficiency and not a personality type
• how to become a better networker, speaker and practitioner by understanding the social anxiety of others
• how to start a Functional Forum meetup and make it a great experience for introverts

For this week's EvoMed News Videocast we welcome a special guest, game-changing physician and best-selling author Dr. Lissa Rankin.

This week we discuss the new research that confirmed what many of us had known for a decade... Iatrogenic Disease (caused by doctors and medicine) is the third leading cause of death in America.

It was a fascinating 20-minute segment, make sure to check it out!

Please send us your best news stories to news@goevomed.com and feel free to share this with colleagues. This week's podcast is brought to you by Dr. Lissa Rankin's Whole Health Medicine Institute. To find out more about the training for doctors, go to www.goevomed.com/rankin

This week we feature the work of Niki Gratrix.  She's an award-winning international renowned registered nutritionist and health writer specializing in stress and optimizing energy. In 2005, she founded one of the largest mind-body clinics in the U.K where they specialize in chronic fatigue syndrome.

We connect with Nikki to speak about ACE score (Adverse Childhood Experience). It plays a significant role in health and Niki has a great track record of working with ACE scores.  She's got some interesting ideas about early life stress and trauma and how it triggers chronic disease later in life.

In this podcast you will learn:

• how to define early life stress and trauma
• how your childhood biography becomes your adult biology
• what functional medicine practitioners can to do become ACE aware

Welcome to our news podcast for April 16th 2016.

Each week we look at the stories that are important to the integrative medicine community.

In this week's episode we cover:

- New review shows healthcare will cost $18tn per year by 2040
- 3-D printed ovaries and what it could mean for fertility
- Conflict of interests to be shown prominently on PubMed
- Sean Parker gives $250 to solve cancer through cooperation

Thanks to our sponsor, MBODY360​. Find out more about their adherence and plan delivery app at www.goevomed.com/MBODY.

Please send us your best news stories to news@goevomed.com and feel free to share this with colleagues.

We are thrilled to welcome back our most popular podcast series "The Future of Patient Compliance" where we talk to technologists helping to solve problems in medicine, specifically those charting the shift from "compliance" to empowerment.

This week we feature a real mover and shaker, Jenna Arnold, co-founder of ORGANize.org, a technology start up aiming to solve the complex problem of organ donation forever in 4 years. As audacious as it sounds they have made amazing progress in the last to years and are under a month away from a major White House policy announcement.

Register here: http://organize.org/

• Why organ donation is such a seemingly complex problem
• How ORGANize is solving the problem and how you can  help
• Lessons for practitioners on how to inspire your patients WHY

In this week's episode we announce a new regular segment for the news. The last Saturday of each month we will do a new spin on the news called "Charting the Convergence", discussing specifically how the practitioner community is converging to make maximum impact in medicine. Choosing the stories and joining us each month will be John Weeks, journalist, campaigner and chronicler of the movement for more than three decades.

This week you will learn about

- The CDC's recent communication on opioid abuse

- How DCs, NDs and L.Acs responded to the news

- The important role of pain care in the convergence

Please send us your best news stories to news@goevomed.com and feel free to share this with colleagues. Thanks to our sponsor, Healthwave. Find out more about their functional nutrition education at www.goevomed.com/healthwave

John Weeks is a chronicler, speaker, change agent and executive with three decades in leadership of the movement for integrative health. He works at the convergence of that historic trend with the medical industry’s recent engagement with creating health. John has consulted and presented with multiple major health care organizations – among these the NIH, WHO, AHA, AAMC, IOM, and APHA – and numerous other academic and professional organizations. He helped found key collaborations in the field including the Integrative Health Policy Consortium and the Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health. John’s writing appears regularly at the Huffington Post, Integrative Practitioner, Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal, the Integrator Blog, and elsewhere. He speaks regularly on the movement's evolution, core challenges and opportunities. He attended Stanford for 3 years, studying history. Four institutions have granted John honorary doctoral degrees. Seattle-based, Weeks feels particularly lucky to have worked 6 of the past 15 years from Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Puerto Rico with his spouse and their two children. 

• JJ's motto for development of collaboration over competition
• What is the Health Mafia?
• Which event will James be speaking at in August?

Welcome to our video newscast for February 20th 2016. In this week's episode we cover:

-3-D Printed pills - Is this the future of supplements?
-T-Cell cancer breakthrough - 94% remission from new therapy
-Zika Virus update - What should we all think about it?

Thanks to our sponsor, Healthwave. Find out more about their new point of sale platform at www.goevomed.com/healthwave

Please send us your best news stories to news@goevomed.com and feel free to share this with colleagues

- What Obama's $1.1bn ask for opioid addiction was missing

Please send us your best news stories to news@goevomed.com and feel free to share this with colleagues

Thanks to our sponsor, IGGBO. Find out more about how the "Uber for Phlebotomists" could help your practice at www.goevomed.com/IGGBO

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Please send us your best news stories to news@goevomed.com and feel free to share this with colleagues

Thanks to our sponsor, Holistic Nutrition Lab. Find out more about their functional nutrition education at www.goevomed.com/HNL

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Welcome to our third news videocast for January 9th 2016.

What you will learn in this podcast:

• What is the motivation molecule?
• How do we individualize our motivation strategy to engage every patient?
• What is the most important question to ask each patient?