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Evolution of Medicine Podcast · Functional Forum

The Consumer Lab Wars

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Dr. Isabella Wentz says Hashimoto’s was misread as depression, anxiety, and panic attacks for nearly a decade.
James Maskell opens by saying he is about to share what he thinks may be the worst pharmaceutical commercial of all time. The larger point, he says, is that companies are bringing lab tests into the mix because that data, paired with biometric data, gives them a strong picture of health over time. He uses that to argue that practitioners need to get better at working with data. The goal is not just more numbers. It is a clearer way to understand how people live and how they heal. He welcomes listeners to the second episode of the second season of Evolution of Medicine. He frames the show as a place for serious conversations about the future of functional, integrative, and precision medicine. He returns to the ad tease and invites listeners to judge it for themselves. Before moving on, he spends time on an innovation corner segment about practical tools for practices. The segment points listeners toward a free guide and a bootcamp-style website upgrade path. After that, he turns to the most popular video in the history of Functional Forum. He notes that the channel has more than 11 years of content, so older videos have had more time to pile up views. Even so, one talk sits far above the rest. That talk came from a February 2017 event at E-Town in Boulder. He describes E-Town as the best venue Functional Forum ever used. He credits the room, the practitioners in Boulder, and the production setup for making those events easy to run. The session that night featured Janet Settle and Will Vanderveer. He says Vanderveer has since become a leader in the overlap of psychiatry and psychedelics, and that he helps educate mental health professionals in psychedelics and integrative psychiatry. The talk he is pointing to was delivered by Dr. Isabella Wentz, whom he describes as an early functional pharmacist and a PharmD who became widely known in the space. He notes that she has written books on thyroid health and has a new book focused on IBS, then closes by inviting listeners to weigh in on future topics like psychosocial health, psychedelics, symptoms, and the psychology of disease.

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A data-first look at where functional medicine is trying to go.

The episode starts with James Maskell using a pharmaceutical ad as a way into a practical question: how should functional medicine use data? It moves through lab work, biometric tracking, and the kind of information handling practitioners need, then folds in a 2017 Functional…

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