Ricci Flow Nutrition Podcast · Cameron Borg

Leland Stillman: Medicine, Trauma & Upholding The Hippocratic Oath

·1 hr 9 min·4 clips

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1. Ricci Flow Nutrition Podcast episode with Cameron Borg and Leland Stillman focuses on Leland Stillman’s view of medicine, trauma, and the Hippocratic Oath. 2. Cameron Borg hosts; Leland Stillman is an American integrative medical doctor in Naples, Florida, and he works with Clark Engelbert of Nutritional Analytics on HTMA interpretation through stillmanwellness.com. 3. The episode asks how a doctor can help patients regain vitality without overpromising, and how language, behavior, and environment shape health outcomes. 4. Leland says he grew up with integrative medicine through one parent and conventional medicine through the other, then followed a naturopath’s advice to attend medical school for broader licensure and scope of practice. 5. He says the ER and ICU showed him the clearest value of conventional medicine, especially when IV fluids and mechanical ventilators acutely saved lives. 6. He also says he became skeptical of many drugs in training and began using as little medication as possible after graduation. 7. Leland describes a disillusioning falling out with an early mentor and says that experience pushed him toward working for himself. 8. He says integrative and functional medicine still has problems with overreliance on supplements, short visits, and weak coaching or education. 9. He contrasts short-term engagements with the longer continuity he now prefers in his own practice. 10. He says consistency and long-term commitment produce better results than a 'churn and burn model.' 11. Leland says the first clinical conversation has to define where the patient is, where they want to be, and why the goal matters. 12. He uses examples like psoriasis, eczema, arthritis, and brain fog to show that people care about how conditions affect appearance, play, family life, or movement. 13. He says unrealistic expectations are a major obstacle, especially when patients want rapid change without matching effort. 14. He tells women after menopause that youth-preserving goals usually require weight training and, in some cases, bioidentical hormones. 15. He tells men that overwork, stress, poor food, and no sunlight can catch up by the time they reach their 30s. 16. He says patients need to become comfortable with uncertainty and with 'falling in love with the process' rather than focusing only on results. 17. The conversation turns to trauma, EMDR, and the idea that a patient’s psychological state can alter symptoms that look purely physical. 18. Leland describes a practical style that mixes case examples, long explanations, and direct challenges to patient expectations. 19. People interested in integrative medicine, goal-setting, and mind-body links would likely listen closely. 20. People wanting a brief, conventional, symptom-only medical discussion would probably skip it.

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A wide-ranging, mechanism-minded look at medicine as teaching, with emotional life folded into the body.

Leland Stillman and medicine are the center of this conversation, with Cameron Borg presenting a case for health as something deeper than symptom control.

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If you want medicine treated as teaching, this one keeps widening the frame through environmental medicine.

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