1 hr 4 min
#009 - Functional Neurology, Traumatic Brain Injury, & Why You Should Be Looking at Your Eyes if You Want to Excel in School, Sports, or Business with Professor Carrick Vibrant Potential with Dr Chris Frykman: Functional Medicine Strategies for Health, Fitness, and Performance
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- Alternative Health
Vibrant Potential is more than a podcast though. It’s a conversation. It’s a state of optimal living. In the words of the US army, “Be all that you can be.” Whether you’re in the armed forces or not, words to live by. I’ve made it my job to improve the lives of others, specifically in the area of health. If you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything but when you’re healthy you can live life to it’s fullest, meet your goals, feel joy and life flowing in you and all around you. To do this, I found out long ago I need some good tools. Some of those tools are functional medicine, functional neurology, applied kinesiology and many others depending on the situation.
Functional Medicine has gained a lot of popularity in the past few years. Because of this more people have heard about it and are seeking it out. If you’re a casual, outside observer, you may think a func med approach means going gluten free and taking some expensive supplements. Those of you more intimately familiar with functional medicine recognize certain tenets among its practitioners. Primary among these guiding principles is personalization - meaning as a functional medicine doctor, I’m not going to be focused on diagnosing a problem in you and then treating the problem. I’m not going to treat you like everyone else that walks in the door. I’m going to listen to you. I’m going to treat you, not your disease or disorder. Speaking of disease, another tenet of functional medicine is taking a proactive approach to health and to life. Gone are the days you need to wait until something is broken and then hope you can still fix it. Personalized medicine, functional medicine, heck, just GOOD medicine is about watching for trends. Whether it’s because I know someone and have been treating them for years or whether its from taking a thorough history, meaning I’ve taken the time to sit down with someone and really unwind their journey up to this point, in functional medicine we want to notice subtle changes before they become life threatening. An easy example is diabetes. Diabetes is a disease that kills 10’s to 100’s of thousands of people every year in the US alone. And that’s going by conservative numbers. The classic way to diagnosis diabetes is to obtain a fasting blood sugar and if it’s 125 you don’t have diabetes - go home, you’re fine - and if its 126 you do have it and we better get you on some meds to manage this sucker. That’s just bad medicine. A good functional medicine doc is going to look at trends, if your blood sugar is 85, that’s probably fine but if your blood sugar has been 72 for the past 5 years and now it’s 85, we want to look at why. Always why. Let’s get to the root cause of what’s going on here people. We need to stop treating the symptoms and start looking upstream to what the causes of disease are in the first place. Be those reasons physiologic, spiritual, mental, or emotional, chemical or bioelectric, there’s a reason your fasting blood sugars are rising. And if the reason is you’re depressed because your mom just passed away and you’ve replaced your daily run with a tub of ice cream, it’s a poor answer to simply through some glucophage at the situation. Do you see it?
We don’t have to wait to be broken. We can seek more now.
I’m not here to tell you what you should want out of life. I’m here when you want, MORE, out of life.
Want More strength, speed or flexibility? check
Looking for improved mental clarity, better memory, or more focus and drive? check
Do you desire Better relationships through emotional wellness and cultivating an inner peace? check
This is the spirit in which I’ve developed Habitat Retreats with my partner, Dr Shamanie. In an up coming episode, I’m going to ask Dr Shamanie to share her story with you. It’s one of cancer and pai
Vibrant Potential is more than a podcast though. It’s a conversation. It’s a state of optimal living. In the words of the US army, “Be all that you can be.” Whether you’re in the armed forces or not, words to live by. I’ve made it my job to improve the lives of others, specifically in the area of health. If you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything but when you’re healthy you can live life to it’s fullest, meet your goals, feel joy and life flowing in you and all around you. To do this, I found out long ago I need some good tools. Some of those tools are functional medicine, functional neurology, applied kinesiology and many others depending on the situation.
Functional Medicine has gained a lot of popularity in the past few years. Because of this more people have heard about it and are seeking it out. If you’re a casual, outside observer, you may think a func med approach means going gluten free and taking some expensive supplements. Those of you more intimately familiar with functional medicine recognize certain tenets among its practitioners. Primary among these guiding principles is personalization - meaning as a functional medicine doctor, I’m not going to be focused on diagnosing a problem in you and then treating the problem. I’m not going to treat you like everyone else that walks in the door. I’m going to listen to you. I’m going to treat you, not your disease or disorder. Speaking of disease, another tenet of functional medicine is taking a proactive approach to health and to life. Gone are the days you need to wait until something is broken and then hope you can still fix it. Personalized medicine, functional medicine, heck, just GOOD medicine is about watching for trends. Whether it’s because I know someone and have been treating them for years or whether its from taking a thorough history, meaning I’ve taken the time to sit down with someone and really unwind their journey up to this point, in functional medicine we want to notice subtle changes before they become life threatening. An easy example is diabetes. Diabetes is a disease that kills 10’s to 100’s of thousands of people every year in the US alone. And that’s going by conservative numbers. The classic way to diagnosis diabetes is to obtain a fasting blood sugar and if it’s 125 you don’t have diabetes - go home, you’re fine - and if its 126 you do have it and we better get you on some meds to manage this sucker. That’s just bad medicine. A good functional medicine doc is going to look at trends, if your blood sugar is 85, that’s probably fine but if your blood sugar has been 72 for the past 5 years and now it’s 85, we want to look at why. Always why. Let’s get to the root cause of what’s going on here people. We need to stop treating the symptoms and start looking upstream to what the causes of disease are in the first place. Be those reasons physiologic, spiritual, mental, or emotional, chemical or bioelectric, there’s a reason your fasting blood sugars are rising. And if the reason is you’re depressed because your mom just passed away and you’ve replaced your daily run with a tub of ice cream, it’s a poor answer to simply through some glucophage at the situation. Do you see it?
We don’t have to wait to be broken. We can seek more now.
I’m not here to tell you what you should want out of life. I’m here when you want, MORE, out of life.
Want More strength, speed or flexibility? check
Looking for improved mental clarity, better memory, or more focus and drive? check
Do you desire Better relationships through emotional wellness and cultivating an inner peace? check
This is the spirit in which I’ve developed Habitat Retreats with my partner, Dr Shamanie. In an up coming episode, I’m going to ask Dr Shamanie to share her story with you. It’s one of cancer and pai
1 hr 4 min