This week’s podcast features: Daniel Schmachtenburger, co-founder and director of research and development at Neurohacker Collective, in Complexity Medicine: The Basis for a Functional Standard of Care.

Daniel is a deep thinker and researcher on how human regulatory systems function, how they break down and how they can be supported to function with greater resilience.

In this thought-provoking half-hour, we take a deep dive into the future of personalized medicine, longevity and health, including:

• How Daniel reversed his autoimmune diagnosis by using complexity science theory and functional medicine
• The importance of non-linear thinking and investigation in pinpointing, stopping and reversing the causal factors of complex illness
• Definitions of the 3 tiers of disease within the homeodynamic axis
• The three fundamental tier 1 root causes of disease based on evolutionary code
• How functional medicine practitioners can help attract biotech companies and entrepreneurs into our space
• Insightful tips for practitioners to gain clarity in uncovering root cause(s) in an era of complex clinical cases
• And much more

This was a fantastically dense half-hour of clinical insights, theory and tips...so grab your notebooks (hang onto your hats), listen and subscribe to the podcast today.

Resources mentioned in this podcast:
www.neurohackercollective.com

This Evolution of Medicine Podcast, Coaching and Functional Medicine: A Match Made in Value-Based-Care-Heaven, features KNEW Health’s Director of Coaches and the founder of The School of Applied Functional Medicine, Tracy Harrison, MS.

Tracy first appeared on the Functional Forum with her “Future of Functional in Five: Health Coach Keys to the Future” in December 2016 (watch it here).

In this interview, Tracy talks about the value she’s seen in KNEW Health’s experiment of creating a new practitioner: the physician-supervised functional-medicine trained health coach.

Tune in for all details, plus some invaluable tips for doctors and health coaches, including:

• Why Tracy believes strongly that functional medicine science alone is not enough to transform people’s health, and how health coaching helps facilitates the behavioral changes necessary to get sustainable results
• The key role health coaches play in helping practitioners prevent burnout, focus on root cause resolution and run a profitable practice
• An insider look at KNEW Health’s physician-supervised, functional-medicine-trained health coaching model---and how this could rapidly transform the future of medicine
• Why “Tier Two” patients are often the ones who benefit most from health coaching
• The inside scoop on what KNEW Health is looking for when hiring health coaches
• ...and much more

If value in medicine is outcomes divided by cost, then the functional medicine-trained health coach could become the most valuable provider in medicine.

Want to learn more about how health coaches could help streamline your practice? Click here to listen and subscribe to the Podcast today.

Resources mentioned in this podcast:

The School of Applied Functional Medicine

KNEW Health

This Evolution of Medicine Podcast, The Archetype Diet: Where Do Women Source Their Self-Worth? features long-time Functional Forum supporter, food coach and author of the newly released Archetype Diet, Dana James, MS, CDN, CNS.

Dana appeared on the very first Functional Forum in a comedy sketch with our co-founder, James Maskell, called: Think Pink.

Her groundbreaking new book is all about how women’s source of self-worth leads to the formation of their health and lifestyle behaviors.

Tune in for a fascinating listen on how self-worth creates or diminishes women’s health, including:

• What Dana discovered after years of practice about why most women can’t stick to an individual nutrition plan long-term
• The 4 key ways in which women source their self-worth, and how these archetypes influence their behaviors
• Typical lifestyle behaviors and health issues associated with the 4 archetypes
• How to use cognitive behavioral therapy to help your patients crack their archetype code, and thus, improve their health
• Tips for practitioners on identifying and addressing these 4 archetypes in practice
• And much more

If you’re a woman, or a practitioner who sees women in your practice, be sure to listen, and subscribe to the podcast today.

Resources mentioned in this podcast:

The Archetype Diet Reclaim Your Self-Worth and Change the Shape of Your Body by Dana James, MS, CDN, CNS

This Evolution of Medicine Podcast, Community in Action: The Evolution of Meetups, features Dr. Cynthia Thaik—the record-holder for the largest Functional Forum Meetup in Glendale, California.

Tune in today to learn Dr. Thaik’s template for growing her Meetup from zero to over 180 people in no time, including:

• How she used the community-building principles she learned from EvoMed to get started strong—including opening events to the public
• The key strategic relationships they created with event venues, speakers, sponsors and patients that helped build their tribe
• The different formats they’ve used to galvanize their group and encourage collaboration
• Their most effective social media channel for promoting their Meetup
• Which surveys they used to get to know their audience and create targeted event topics to meet their needs
• And so much more

Resources mentioned in this podcast:

The kNew Vision Tour