Functional Medicine Articles
Bloating After Eating: How to Match the Digestive Enzyme to the Food
Protein bloating suggests low stomach acid, fiber points to pancreatic enzymes, fat to gallbladder sludge. Raise the dose until bloating resolves.
This Is How Maternal Epigenetics Shapes Baby Health
People often refer to birth as the miracle of life. And while modern science and medicine have developed a significant understanding of the conception, growth, and birth of babies, that should not take away the awe we feel when a new, tiny, unique human enters this...
Free Resources & Getting Started with Functional Medicine Education
Most practitioners don’t struggle to find functional medicine content. They struggle to find content that’s clinically rigorous enough to change how they practice. The Kharrazian Institute was built specifically to close that gap – offering practitioners who want to...
KI Master Class Series: Webinar Highlights & Presenting Experts
Most continuing education teaches what was established five years ago. The Kharrazian Institute’s Master Class Series is built on a different standard: monthly five-hour functional medicine webinars delivered by the clinicians who are actively shaping current...
How Can I Get Continuing Education for Functional Medicine?
Functional Medicine Continuing Education: CE and CPD Credits Through the Kharrazian Institute Most practitioners who come to the Kharrazian Institute are not looking to check a box. They are managing patients with complex, chronic conditions who have not responded to...
Nutritional Support vs. Pharmacological-Level Nutraceutical Dosing
There is a dosing conversation in functional medicine that most training programs skip entirely. The distinction between nutritional support dosing and pharmacological-level nutraceutical dosing changes patient outcomes, risk profiles, and the clinical reasoning...
Transitioning from a Product-Based Practice to a Consultative-Logic Model
Many functional medicine practitioners build their practices around supplement dispensing. The patient comes in, gets tested, receives a protocol, and buys the products. Revenue is tied to product sales. The model works until it doesn’t: margins shrink, patients...
Metabolic Priming: Preparing Patients for Successful Hormone Replacement
Prescribe hormones into a metabolically compromised patient and you are not replacing a deficiency – you are adding a signal to a system that cannot receive it. This is the clinical mistake that explains why so many patients on hormone replacement therapy report...
How to Better Navigate the Complexities of GI Lab Testing
Matthew, a 43-year-old engineer, developed cyclical headaches, nausea, facial numbness, and autonomic symptoms after a fishing trip. Despite exhaustive conventional evaluations, including extensive workups at the Mayo Clinic, neurologist and gastroenterologist visits,...
Vagal Tone: The Most Overlooked Factor in Chronic GI Motility Disorders
A practitioner treats a patient for years – prokinetics, elimination diets, motility agents, enzyme replacement – and the patient still cannot move food through their gut normally. The GI workup is negative for structural pathology. The gastroenterologist has run out...
Clinically Assessing Mitochondrial Uncoupling Using Standard Lab Markers
Most practitioners ordering a CMP already have mitochondrial uncoupling lab markers in front of them. They’re just not reading them that way. AST, ALT, lactate, ammonia – these values routinely appear on standard panels, and in the right clinical context, they tell a...
Antigens, Haptens, and Sudden-Onset Neuro-Autoimmunity
Practitioners make a common mistake when evaluating patients who develop neurological symptoms seemingly overnight: they search for what just happened, when the real question is what was already happening for months or years before the patient walked in. The...