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 Aug 18, 2025
Monday Aug 18, 2025
Olivia Muschik—an FDN Practitioner and Functional Hormone Specialist—shares her powerful journey through the challenges of unknown infertility. From navigating a stressful career and unknown infertility with no answers from conventional medicine to discovering a functional approach that led to her pregnancy within 12 weeks, this conversation dives deep into the importance of gut health, nervous system regulation, and a bio-individual approach to fertility.
You'll Learn:
- How Olivia overcame unknown infertility while maintaining a career
- The truth about addressing fertility through foundational health aspects
- The transformative potential of personalized health strategies
- Why Olivia switched her career to help other women with fertility
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Where to find Olivia Muschik:
Instagram: @liv.functional
Thursday Aug 14, 2025
Thursday Aug 14, 2025
FDNP Brenda Krohg—Biomedical Engineer and functional health advocate—explores her powerful journey through resolving prediabetes and achieving sustainable weight loss using functional labs. From facing a prediabetes diagnosis despite a healthy lifestyle to reversing her condition and reclaiming her energy, this conversation dives deep into holistic health and sustainable lifestyle changes.
Weight loss may be some people's initial goal, but it's actually focusing on true health that will naturally give the results, energy, confidence, and freedom that's desired (they're the "side effects"). This work isn’t just about numbers on a chart, it’s about having the energy to enjoy life now and prevent issues later.
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Where to find Brenda Krohg:
Website: hopefullyholistic.com
Instagram: @brendakrohg
Facebook: @hopefullyholistic
Monday Aug 11, 2025
Monday Aug 11, 2025
Lana Kirtley—an inspiring Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner—explores her powerful journey through holistic health transformation. From uncovering root causes of fatigue, hormone imbalances, and digestive issues to bringing high-quality wellness care to rural women, this conversation dives deep into functional health support in non-urban communities and the body’s natural inclination toward health.
She also discusses her passion for the many tools practitioners can use including the PEMF device called BEMER.
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Where to find Lana Kirtley:
Instagram: @lanakirtley
Facebook: @lana.kirtley
LinkedIn: @Lana Kirtley FDN-P
Thursday Aug 07, 2025
Thursday Aug 07, 2025
FDN Practitioner Talisa Joelle—an inspiring Board-Certified Functional Health Practitioner, Herbalist, and Gut Health Coach—shares her powerful journey through overcoming chronic gut issues and discovering lasting recovery.
From her own struggles with an expensive and frustrating trial-and-error approach to developing a signature formula that offers hope and healing, this conversation dives deep into the holistic and functional strategies for gut health.
You'll Learn:
- How Talisa overcame chronic gut issues and found a permanent solution
- The truth about holistic and root cause approaches to gut health
- Insights on becoming a caretaker of your own gut
- How Talisa’s evidence-based practices have transformed lives
- Why Talisa’s passion for gut health is making a massive impact
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Where to find Talisa Joelle:
Website: talisajoellehealth.com
Instagram: @talisajoelle
Monday Aug 04, 2025
Monday Aug 04, 2025
In this episode, Evan and Deniece explore the intricacies of metabolism and weight loss.
Discover how hormones, sleep, nutrition, recovery, and movement all influence energy creation and usage in the body. This episode will help you understand the difference between weight loss and metabolic optimization. Learn why boosting or optimizing metabolism is essential for long-term weight management. You'll Learn:
- How different factors affect the body's energy conversion
- The distinction between weight loss and metabolic optimization
- Why focusing on metabolism can lead to sustainable weight management.
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Where to find Deniece Guyan:
Website: mymetabolicmakeover.net
Instagram: @workoutstowellness
Facebook: @WorkoutstoWellness
Thursday Jul 31, 2025
Thursday Jul 31, 2025
In this episode, Nicole Bell—an author, entrepreneur, and advocate for tick-borne and neurodegenerative diseases— shares her mission to change the diagnostic landscape for these debilitating conditions. She also tells her personal journey, highlighting her husband's misdiagnosis with a tick-borne illness and her drive to prevent others from suffering the same fate.
The discussion focuses on the role of vector-borne pathogens in chronic illnesses, the limitations of current testing methods, and how Galaxy Diagnostics offers a more accurate detection solution.
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Where to find Nicole Bell:
Website: galaxydx.com
Instagram: @galaxydiagnostics
Facebook: @galaxydx
LinkedIn: @company/galaxy-diagnostics-inc-
Monday Jul 28, 2025
Monday Jul 28, 2025
Jennifer Hill—an expert in food sensitivity testing—shares her powerful journey through dietary transformation and holistic health.
From discovering the impact of dietary changes on her own health to helping others achieve similar transformations, this conversation dives deep into the role of personalized eating plans and overall wellness.
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Where to find Jennifer Hill:
Website: betterhealthandbeyond.com
Instagram: @betterhealthandbeyond
Thursday Jul 24, 2025
Thursday Jul 24, 2025
FDNP Josh Saint explores his powerful journey through health transformation and resilience. From battling leptin resistance and overcoming emotional traumas to embracing circadian biology, Josh dives deep into holistic healing.
He experienced significant personal health challenges, including depression and fatigue, during a difficult period in his life, which motivated him to deepen his knowledge and tools in the health field. Josh emphasizes the importance of addressing not just physical health but also emotional and spiritual well-being.
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Where to find FDNP Josh Saint:
Website: saintwellness.org
Facebook: @josh.saint.568
Monday Jul 21, 2025
Monday Jul 21, 2025
Dr. Matt Reddy—a seasoned Naturopathic physician with over 20 years of experience—explores his powerful journey through mastering health detoxification.
From the challenges of finding effective supplements to successfully incorporating cutting-edge Quicksilver Scientific products, this conversation dives deep into the intricacies of heavy metal detoxification.
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Where to find Matt Reddy, ND:
Website: drmattreddy.com
Instagram: @drmattreddy
Website: quicksilverscientific.com
Thursday Jul 17, 2025
Thursday Jul 17, 2025
Dr. Lori Rose gives an overview of the Advance Immune System Health Course.
This course dives into the immune system anatomy and physiology, how other body systems contribute to immune health (digestive, nervous, blood sugar, endocannabinoid), and how to use lifestyle strategies, nutrition, herbs, and supplements to support the immune system. Prevention strategies as well as therapeutic strategies for innate and adaptive immune health are detailed, including strategies for long COVID and other chronic immune issues. CBC lab work assessment of immune health is also covered in this course.
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Where to find FDN's Advanced Immune System Health Course
Website: fdntraining.com/fdnadvimmunesys
All FDN Advanced Courses: fdntraining.com/FDNadvcourses