The Functional Health Coaching Show

Fantastic Friday Call: Special Guest Dr. Bruce Eichelberger! Bio.  Dr. Bruce has a background in Chinese Medicine with over 44 years of clinical experience.  Dr. Bruce is a certified Metabolic Typing Advisor and an FDN graduate.  He now uses a combination of Chinese Medicine, Metabolic Typing, and Functional Medicine in his practice.  Dr. Bruce is also a member of the FDN Advisory Board.

Ask the Mentors! 1.  What is the difference between the Metabolic Typing Questionnaire online and the one offered through MTDiet.com?   2.  Why do you not recommend alkaline water? is that Kangan water am I understanding right it neutralizes HCL?   3. Client contracts and agreements   4.  Dealing with E. Histolytica   5.  DRG with SIgA of 146,000,000   6.  When to run or not run a SIBO test   7.  Use of LBF #1 and #2   8.  Using HTMA to determine Metabolic Type  

Special Guest Kiran Ram; Kiran Ram is a UK Food Mood Expert professionally trained in hormone balancing for women aged 40+. She blends the best of cutting edge science with the wisdom of targeted and effective natural healing solutions. She specialises in helping women 40 + across the UK understand the powerful effects of hormones on their weight, bouts of extreme fatigue due to disturbed sleep and sheer lack of energy and enthusiasm towards life. Kiran is a Certified Women’s Holistic Health and Functional Nutrition Coach with a specialty in hormonal health. She trained in the Gottfried Protocol with Dr Sara Gottfried and followed that with a year long training at the Institute of Nutritional Endocrinology. She is currently studying Herbal Medicine for Women with Dr Aviva Romm, USA. She is a registered member of the American Association of Drugless Practitioners and the Federation of Holistic Therapists UK. Kiran has been featured in media worldwide-Huffington Post UK, 1st Class Lifestyle (US), Smart Healthy Women, and the I AM Woman Project (Australia), to name a few.

Ask the Mentors!   1.  Release of new Stress and Hormones: The DUTCH Test module, Lisa Pomeroy guest   2. For the case where someone has known genetic mutations affecting detox (MTHFR, MTRR, BHMT, MAO, COMT), and also have toxic mold sickness, and gut issues, where would you start first?   3.  How do we go about looking into whether there is underlying cancer, or hardening of the arteries (should we ask family doctor? should we show them the 101 results?)   4.  Tough case of sugar cravings   5.  Is Rhodiola OK for people with low cortisol- in stage II or III HPA Axis Dysfunction? Or does it lower cortisol even further? It seems to be in so many adrenal formulas. 6.  Client with terribly broken sleep on 400 mg phosphatidyl serine at night (recommended by someone else, not me). She believes it is starting to backfire on her and may be contributing to her insomnia. Anyone experience this w their clients or know this to be true?

Reed Talk Business!   What business structure is best?  Sole Proprietorship, LLC, Corporation? What do I need to look for in an accountant? Do I even need an accountant? Talking to businesses about what you do 2 Callers set up as LLC and why Do I need professional liability insurance? Talking about prescription for pathogens and recommending hormone drops Enforcing client contract agreements Handling negative reactions to supplements

Fantastic Friday Call: Special Guest James Fitzgerald Bio.  James Fitzgerald, Founder Opex Fitness The guy that paints the picture, James is the founder of OPEX (Formerly OPT) and The International Center for Fitness. When not coaching, he is a full time husband, father and fitness athlete. His 20+ years of experience and service as a strength coach/technician, tireless practice on refining energy system work, nutritional and lifestyle balancing techniques and training of other coaches has made OPEX a sought after method of bringing fitness to a Higher Order. James has found a desire and passion to understanding fitness through assessment, testing, research, programming and more. He has had many years experience as an athlete from early childhood into adulthood, from playing top level soccer, short and long distance running, to CrossFit, where he was crowned “The Fittest on Earth.” He was also winner of the 2007 CrossFit Games.

Practitioner Spotlight with Lynn Altieri-Need Check out Lynn’s White’s websites: www.NutritionforSeizures.com  &  www.AdvocateforHealing.com

Ask the Mentors! 1. Insight on Cyrex Array 3 and Array 4. Negative on the HLA genes, Gluteomorphine (IgG)  and caseomorphine high, and egg/corn equivocal. How to move forward and heal the gut.  2.  Covering DRESS during R&R and coaching sessions 3.  Do viruses create biofilms and how do address if they do 4.  Using biofilm busters with SIBO 5.  Determining pricing and packages 6.  Clients taking results to MD and losing confidence or quitting based on how doctor responds.  

Fantastic Friday Call: Special Guest Dr. Russell Jaffe! Bio.  Russell M. Jaffe, M.D., Ph.D., CCN Fellow, Health Studies Collegium Russell Jaffe is Founder and Chairman of PERQUE Integrative Health, LLC (PIH, www.PERQUE.com) a company that offers the world scientifically proven, integrative health solutions that speed the transition from sick care to healthful caring. Dr. Jaffe has more than 40 years of experience contributing to molecular biology and clinical diagnostics. His focus is on functional, predictive tests and procedures designed to improve the precision of both diagnosis and of treatment outcomes and he has authored nearly 100 articles on the subject. He received his B.S., MD and Ph.D. from the Boston University School of Medicine, completed residency training in clinical chemistry at the National Institutes of Health and remained on the permanent senior staff before pursuing other interests, including starting the Health Studies Collegium think tank. Dr. Jaffe is board certified in Clinical Pathology and in Chemical Pathology. He is the recipient of the Merck, Sharp & Dohm Excellence in Research Award, the J.D. Lane Award, and the U.S.P.H.S. Meritorious Service Award. Dr Jaffe was honored as an International Scientist of 2003 by the IBC, Oxford, England, UK for his lifetime contributions to clinical medicine, biochemistry, immunology, methodology, and integrative health policy. He is widely published and sought to explain complex subjects to any audience. Dr. Jaffe is also founder and chairman of ELISA/ACT Biotechnologies, and MAGique BioTherapeutics.

Fantastic Friday Call: Special Guest Dr. Tom Polucki, FDN Medical Director! Bio.  Dr. Polucki is an Upper Cervical Chiropractor and chiropractic instructor in practice for over 25 years helping provide fast and lasting pain relief without drugs or surgery. He has served as faculty at Sherman College of Chiropractic and assisting technical consultant at Southern California University of Health Sciences. Dr. Polucki also has certifications in Functional Diagnostic Nutrition®, Metabolic Typing® and Functional Medicine that allows him to help people with permanent weight loss, nutritional detoxification, allergies, bio-identical hormones, sleep and digestive tract rehabilitation. Dr. Polucki hosts a weekly radio show “The Dr. Polucki Family Health Hour” on KHTS AM 1220 in Los Angeles and streaming online where FDN Founder, Reed Davis, has been an occasional guest. Dr. Polucki serves as an FDN Medical Director.

Practitioner Spotlight with Angie White, FDN-P, AFDNP Member

Ask the Mentors! Can you discuss ideas for challenging/testing/determining HCL levels? (assuming h.pylori has been ruled out)   Followed by methods/ideas on restoring HCL? How did you find your first paying clients? Using Reed’s Lecture Packages successfully. Handling cross-reactivity results, especially in personal care products and environment First client has very high progesterone, testosterone, and DHEA, low estrogen - where do I start?  

Practitioner Spotlight with Lisa Pomeroy.

Ask Reed! What is FDN and what it's not.  Diagnosis and treatment vs Lifestyle Coaching. Our only tool is DRESS What to do when you feel inadequate or like you don't "know enough" How long is it safe to take the program enhancers (hormones like DHEA, pregnenolone, progesterone, and melatonin)?  While these are only supposed to be used temporarily until the body stressors are reduced and body function is returned, how long can they safely be used if function has not returned yet?

Special Guest Dr. Jim Hawver!