by KI | Oct 22, 2026 | Advanced Clinical Topics, Blog
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...
by KI | Oct 21, 2026 | Advanced Clinical Topics, Blog
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...
by KI | Oct 20, 2026 | Advanced Clinical Topics, Blog
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...
by KI | Oct 19, 2026 | Advanced Clinical Topics, Blog
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...
by KI | Oct 18, 2026 | Advanced Clinical Topics, Blog
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...
by KI | Oct 17, 2026 | Advanced Clinical Topics, Blog
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...
