We bring you interviews from people who have conquered the trickiest of health challenges using the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Philosophy and similar healing modalities. You’ll hear from experts who have been through the wringer with their health issues, and yet managed to come out on the other side. If you are interested in natural healing and/or functional medicine, this is the podcast for you! Visit www.functionaldiagnosticnutrition.com to learn more about the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition program.
Episodes
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
JUST in case you're listening to our podcast for the first time, no - we are not for one second suggesting that the SYMPTOMS of IBS are fake/not real. Let us explain...
Our guest today, Sophie Shepherd, was actually diagnosed with IBS herself. It was through her own personal experience in dealing with the condition (and eventually OVERCOMING it completely) that she concluded SOME aspects of the diagnose may in fact be "BS". After all, the diagnosis (if you don't already know) is technically idiopathic, meaning that we don't know what causes it.
With so many people suffering with the symptoms associated with this condition, though, there must be SOMETHING going on. Sophie just may have figured out what that something is, and we share it all in this episode.
About Sophie:
Sophie Shepherd is the founder of SHE Talks Health & the creator of the SHE Talks Health Podcast. Sophie is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner and NLP Certified Life Coach who helps women transform their hormone, gut and thyroid health. Using a combination of root cause functional lab testing, transformation subconscious mindset reprogramming, and diet and lifestyle science, Sophie and her team, partner with you to create a holistic approach to bringing your body and mind back into balance. Her mission is to revolutionize the way women claim their health and slay old stories of being in sick bodies.
Where to find Sophie:
Facebook links: https://www.facebook.com/SHEtalkshealth https://www.facebook.com/sophie.quist.7/
Instagram: @shetalkshealth
Podcast: https://shetalkshealth.com/podcast/
Tiktok: @shetalkshealth
Website: www.shetalkshealth.com
Where to find FDN!
Find all our free resources, workshops, and other channels at fdntraining.com/resources.
Thursday Oct 19, 2023
Thursday Oct 19, 2023
Imagine you go into the doctor's for something that SEEMS like it will have a simple fix, only to get told that, instead, you have a disease that every single one of us fear: cancer. For our guest today on The Health Detective Podcast, Annie Mabashov, this hypothetical scenario was once her reality.
Interestingly, this is NOT another story about someone beating cancer naturally (even though, obviously, these are all amazing stories/testimonials). In today's episode, we are focusing on dealing with "chemo-brain" and the main issues that arise AFTER someone has finished their cancer treatment. We have seen this to be a very underserved community in the functional medicine space, and we are so glad to have Annie on to share her knowledge/experience.
In addition (since most of us are nerds with a bunch of side passions in the health space), we will also talk about a favorite topic of Annie's, which is how our lifestyle affects our mood and mental health.
All of this and more is going down in this jam-packed, inspiring episode!
Where to find Annie:
Instagram: @wellwithannie
Website: WellwithAnnie.com
Where to find FDN!
Find all our free resources, workshops, and other channels at fdntraining.com/resources.
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Did you know that infertility rates are increasing worldwide? In fact, it was reported just in August of this year that the current rate of infertility amongst women is as high as 1 in 6!
Knowing this, an obvious question that might pop up in your head is, "What the heck is happening?"
Our guest today on The Health Detective Podcast, Courtney Saye, not only experienced this seemingly modern phenomenon herself, but has cracked at least part of the code as to what is going on.
Although this can be an extremely emotional toipc for people who have wanted so badly to have children but haven't had success yet, there IS HOPE. Better yet? It might not be nearly as complicated as you think...
Where to find Courtney:
Direct Email: courtney@thrivefunctionally.com
Facebook Handle: https://www.facebook.com/fertilityfunctionally/
Instagram handle: https://www.instagram.com/fertilityfunctionally/
Any other social media you use: TikTok @fertilityfunctionally
Website: www.thrivefunctionally.com
Where to find FDN!
Find all our free resources, workshops, and other channels at fdntraining.com/resources.
Thursday Oct 12, 2023
Thursday Oct 12, 2023
Did you know that hives, although fairly common, are NOT normal to deal with chronically?
Sure, rubbing up against the wrong type of plant while hiking could trigger an otherwise harmless reaction, but dealing with this particular symptom on a daily basis (especially if you're just working indoors) is a WARNING sign of something deeper. Our guest today on The Health Detective Podcast, Erica Duffy, knows this all too well.
Not only did Erica discover how to eliminate her hives for good, but she also discovered a VERY unexpected connection between her health challenges and a medical procedure that many women consider totally harmless! (You'll have to listen to find out what it is ;)
Now, as a fully certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Erica's business is centered on the belief that EVERYONE can achieve a state of vibrant health and comfort in their own skin. She takes pride in helping individuals not only feel better, but also gain the knowledge and tools to maintain lifelong health and happiness.
About Erica:
Erica is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, certified health coach, wife, and mom with a deep passion for empowering individuals to take charge of their well-being.
Her own health struggles with Breast Implant Illness, TMJ, and Chronic Hives along with her husband’s Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis has led her to where she is today as an FDN.
Her mission revolves around helping people discover the path to optimal health and enabling them to embrace their true selves. Through her expertise with the use of functional labs & an extensive medical/lifestyle history, she guides individuals to understand their bodies, identify underlying health issues, and make informed choices that lead to improved vitality and self-confidence.
Her business is centered on the belief that everyone can achieve a state of vibrant health and comfort in their own skin. She takes pride in helping individuals not only feel better, but also gain the knowledge and tools to maintain lifelong health and happiness.
Where to find Erica:
Facebook: @ericaduffywellness
Instagram: @ericaduffywellness
TikTok: @ericaduffywellness
Website, if you have one: www.ericaduffywellness.com
Where to find FDN!
Find all our free resources, workshops, and other channels at fdntraining.com/resources.
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Kim Heintz is an FDN who primarily helps her clients reverse debilitating gut issues.
She has been an FDN for 4.5 years, but her own health journey began long before that. She began getting migraines early in life and they intensified in her twenties - to the point where she was getting them 3-5 times a week. When she was 28, she had a migraine that lasted an entire year straight. On top of this, she dealt with a myriad of other symptoms including insomnia, brain fog, chronic fatigue, anxiety, and depression.
She was told by a doctor that she would have to deal with chronic migraines for the rest of her life. Determined to not accept that fate, she ultimately found the functional health space, and it changed her life. Through functional lab testing, she uncovered a lot of gut issues, food sensitivities, and nutrient imbalances. Through addressing those, she no longer gets migraines and all the other symptoms disappeared as well. Not only did her symptoms disappear, but she has taken things to a completely different level. In addition to running her business, she is also a top competitor in long distance mountain biking in the Midwest of the United States, often taking a podium spot. She feels better at 42 than she ever did at 32 and even 22.
Her own life-changing experience is what led her to become an FDN so that she could help others experience the same freedom she has.
Where to find Kim:
Personal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kim.heintz2013/
Business Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daretolivedreams/
IG: @kim.heintz
Website: www.kimheintz.com
Where to find FDN!
Find all our free resources, workshops, and other channels at fdntraining.com/resources.
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Depending on how long you've been around FDN, you might remember when today's guest and Detective Ev were going live every week! Her name is Bryanna Austin (formerly Bryanna Lindly), and she has the EXACT same energy as Ev!
Although these two extroverts always have fun together, today's topic is a bit more serious (but much needed) conversation around the mental health of first responders. Bry has experience as a first responder herself, and knows all too well that this community of people has not had their mental health supported in any meaningful way for a long, long time.
This type of episode (depending on who is listening) could make you chuckle, cry, or feel anything in between, too. Most importantly, we hope it leaves you inspired and "fired up" to go out and help make a change for these brave men and women.
About Bryanna ("Bry"):
Bry Austin is a mama to two boys and two fur babies. Her husband and her reside in the Bay area, CA with their little family, and they love anything that brings them outdoors. She firmly believes that being in nature every single day will heal all things and that the body is meant to heal naturally. Bry is extremely passionate about holistic health, thinking outside the box, always challenging the “norm” and helping people break down their own barriers through the functional and holistic lifestyle to unlock the magic that lies within them.
Bry has been an FDNP since 2020 and has had the honor of working in a variety of different “niches” with some really amazing clients. She's gotten to work with people who have been exposed to toxic mold, high-level corporate folks, and all kinds of athletes, to name a few.
Bry's hope is to meet everyone that her story and message resonates with and to inspire folks to dive deep into how the holistic and functional lifestyle can potentially help change their lives in the best of ways.
Where to find Bry:
www.rootshealthandwellness.com
Where to find FDN!
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@FDNtraining/featured
Instagram: www.instagram.com/fdntraining
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FunctionalDiagnosticNutrition
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/san-diego-natural-health-&-fitness-ctr
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Link to Vennessa's first episode can be found on Apple by clicking here, or Spotify by clicking here.
Vennessa is a passionate, energetic, tenacious woman, wife and mom of three young boys. She has always believed in helping people whether it be in the community, schools or corporate world. Her career started early, since both her parents and grandparents were business owners. "Hard work" was highly valued in her family. She attended a science and engineering academy through most of high school, attended Southern Illinois University for Industrial Engineering Technology - graduating in 3 years. She worked her way up the corporate ladder very quickly and found herself running organizations at a young age.
During the course of all this corporate success, she was diagnosed with a rare disease - leaving her relying on many different medical professionals. She finally ended her corporate career and her husband and her became pregnant with their first son. Life seemed good. She started a resume writing and executive career coaching business where the skills she learned in corporate, once again created great success. But two things happened: (1) her health took a nose-dive, and (2) she noticed 85% of her clients struggled with health issues that were affecting how they performed at work. No longer could she morally help people find jobs if their health was affecting more than just them.
In taking a sabbatical, she uncovered some hefty relational issues with her husband and her parents, leading to her discovery of functional nutrition and FDN, that ultimately uncovered how trauma creates disease. Now as a board-certified holistic autoimmune and trauma recovery practitioner, FDN-P, certified functional nutrition coach, speaker and author, Vennessa educates and empowers people to take control of their fatigue and pain during the in-between moments, while confidently owning their journey so they can live a vibrant life.
Where to find Vennessa:
https://www.facebook.com/vennessa.morgan
Instagram handle: https://instagram.com/vennessamcconkey
Where to find FDN!
Find all our free resources, workshops, and other channels at fdntraining.com/resources.
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Is there anything functional medicine CAN'T do? Apparently not, as our guest today, Carrie Hicks, is teaching us how we can even prevent/delay HAIR LOSS through a functional approach.
A long-time stylist and salon owner, Carrie isn't a stranger to working with people who are starting to lose their hair. What WAS new for her, however, was the dramatic increase in hair loss that occurred shortly after the pandemic began. Seeing this firsthand, she was fascinated by what was happening and wanted to give her clients a solution.
Not only did she find the solution for her clients, but the research process transformed her into a health detective, too!
Now, Carrie is on a mission to spread the word that hair loss, contrary to popular belief, can become a thing of the PAST for many people.
We hope you enjoy this episode. Please feel free to ask us any questions by shooting us a direct message @fdntraining. Or talk to Carrie directly @nurish.d
More About Carrie:
Carrie Hicks is a hairstylist and salon owner that had to start looking for real answers to her clients' hair loss after the pandemic in 2020 when an alarming number of female clients lost more than half their hair. Already certified as a Holistic Nutritionist, not one to believe in quick fixes or band-aids, and on her own self-healing journey, she set out on a journey to find the actual causes of hair loss, and how to successfully treat it.
She took advanced hair loss education courses, attended the World Congress of Trichology, and studied everything she could get her hands on. She found that most people experiencing hair loss are given prescription medications that can affect one’s hormone health negatively and that 9 times out of 10 no labs were run to assess or manage the effects of these meds. Other treatments can be invasive, painful, and very expensive, and while they can be effective, if the actual hidden stressors and underlying causes of the hair loss are not addressed, the results obtained with these treatments won’t last long.
Carrie founded Nurish.d Hair loss + Wellness two years ago where she has been helping women with hair loss but knew something was missing in being able to really get to the root cause. She then chose the only logical choice, to become a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner. Now she does functional lab testing to help her clients see the big picture of their health and identify the actual contributing factors to their hair loss.
Carrie specializes in working with women experiencing hair loss from a wide range of health issues, including PCOS, hypothyroid, insulin resistance, menopause, digestive issues, and chronic stress. She is currently training her stylists how to help their own clients with a functional perspective on hair loss and is creating a program for other stylists to follow as well because she knows the important role stylists play in their clients' lives and that they have a front row seat to any changes in their health status.
She is the founder of Crimson & Clover Hair Studio in Flagstaff, AZ and Nurish.d Hair Loss + Wellness and is a licensed Cosmetologist, a Certified Holistic Nutritionist, and a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner.
Where to find Carrie:
Instagram: @nurish.d
Linked-In: Carrie Hicks, Functional Hair Loss Specialist
Website: www.nurishd.org
Where to find FDN!
Find all our free resources, workshops, and other channels at fdntraining.com/resources.
Monday Sep 25, 2023
Monday Sep 25, 2023
On today's episode of The Health Detective Podcast, we have a SUPER special guest, Brendan Vermeire!
Brendan is not only an FDNP, but he is a pioneer in the functional medicine space, particularly around the topic of mental health. After struggling greatly with his own mental health (and watching the mental health challenges of a loved one), Brendan dedicated his life to figuring out the many reasons WHY there is such a widescale mental health crisis around the world.
Not only did he come to some amazing realizations, but he has put things together from the research that are truly unique. This is NOT your average mental health podcast episode, that's for sure.
We hope you enjoy this one, and if you have any follow-up questions, you may always reach out to us anytime at @fdntraining on Instagram.
Interested in talking to a Course Enrollment Advisor instead? Visit fdntraining.com/call.
About Brendan:
Brendan is a Mental and Metabolic Health Scientist & Researcher, Functional Medicine Educator, Writer, and Speaker. He is a Board-Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, Master Nutrition Coach, Master Personal Trainer, USAW Sports Performance Coach, and CrossFit Trainer.
He began his career as a personal trainer and nutrition coach at the age of 18 after disappointingly being medically discharged from the United States Navy Seal training pipeline due to an injury. After being exposed to the power of functional lab testing in the start of his career, he began intensely pursuing that as a career path which has led him to be widely regarded as one of the top leading experts in Metabolic Health and Functional Education.
He is the proud owner and founder of the Metabolic Solutions Institute for Functional Health and Fitness Practitioners and the creator of the Functional Mental Health Practitioner Certificate Course (FMHP™). He is also the founder of the Metabolic Solutions Research & Education Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to ‘changing the way the world views mental health’ through advancing the science of Mental Health Dysfunction. He is also the creator of The Mental M.A.P.™, a cutting-edge Lab Panel for Mental Health, and the NeuroCeuticals™ Supplement Line.
When he’s not educating doctors/practitioners/professionals, helping clients overcome their most severe health struggles, or producing cutting edge scientific education, Brendan enjoys all things fitness and is probably working out. He also enjoys anything in nature and any activities that expand his heart, mind, and soul.
The many places to find/connect with Brendan:
Facebook handle:
Personal Profile: https://www.facebook.com/brendan.vermeire
Business Public Profile: https://www.facebook.com/metabolicsolutionsllc
Private Group for Practitioners: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetabolicSolutionsInstitute
Instagram handle: @the_holistic_savage
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-vermeire-23754693/
Website: https://www.metabolicsolutionsllc.com/
Where to find FDN:
Find all our free resources, workshops, and other channels at fdntraining.com/resources.
Thursday Sep 21, 2023
Thursday Sep 21, 2023
While we do not like to stereotype, on paper, Scott Shortmeyer is one of those people that we'd least expect to get into the world of functional medicine and natural healing. After some significant warning signs from his body, though, Scott knew it was time for a change. Thanks to the help of his wife, he was able to get on the right track fairly quickly!
Like so many of our guests, Scott has now effectively turned his pain into his passion, and proudly hosts The Rest and Recovery Podcast. In addition, he is a recent FDN graduate who is now working with (primarily) men to help them stay healthy long after their youthful years have passed.
If you have any questions about what was discussed today, visit us on Instagram @fdntraining.
Want to talk to Ev or one of the other Course Enrollment Advisors? Visit www.fdntraining.com/call to book now.
About Scott:
Scott is a husband of 20 years, father of three girls, 20+ year sales leader, podcast host of The Rest & Recovery Podcast, long-time endurance athlete, coach, and turned FDNP with the goal to enable clients to thrive and live this one life well.
Where to find Scott:
Facebook Profiles: @causewayhealth / @therestandrecoverypodcast
Instagram Profiles: @causewayhealth / @therestandrecoverypodcast
Where to find FDN:
Find all our free resources, workshops, and other channels at fdntraining.com/resources.