by Kharrazian Institute | Jul 7, 2026 | Blog, Essentials of Functional Medicine
Most autoimmune patients arrive at a functional medicine clinic carrying the same thing: a diagnosis, a suppressive medication, and a list of symptoms that medication isn’t touching. The practitioner who treats the diagnosis will get the same result the...
by Kharrazian Institute | Jul 7, 2026 | Blog
In 2002, researchers published the results of the Women’s Health Initiative, a massive clinical trial designed to investigate the effects of menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) on postmenopausal women. The study claimed that hormone replacement therapy significantly...
by Kharrazian Institute | Jul 3, 2026 | Blog, Essentials of Functional Medicine
Most chronic disease patients arrive at a functional medicine office having already seen multiple specialists. Each specialist found something. Each one treated it. None of it resolved the underlying problem. This is not a failure of the individual clinician — it is a...
by Kharrazian Institute | Jun 30, 2026 | Blog, Essentials of Functional Medicine
Most practitioners treating autoimmune patients are managing the immune attack. Fewer are asking what started it. That distinction is the clinical divide between patients who stabilize and patients who cycle through flares indefinitely. The Kharrazian...
by Kharrazian Institute | Jun 26, 2026 | Blog, Hashimoto's Hypothyroidism
Most practitioners order TSH and call it a day. When it comes back normal, the patient is told their thyroid is fine — even when they have every clinical sign of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. The problem is not that the test is wrong. The problem is that TSH alone...
by Kharrazian Institute | Jun 23, 2026 | Blog
During a 2012 urgent care meet-and-greet, a woman visited Randy Vawdrey, NP-C, complaining of heartburn-like symptoms. Because she didn’t have insurance at the time, she couldn’t pay for expensive testing (such as an EKG). After going through a list of standard...
