The Functional Nurse Podcast - Nursing in Functional Medicine · Brigitte Sager, DNP

Interview with Shantrece Davis, DNP, NP-C, FNP-BC

·1 hr 5 min·5 clips

Bridget Sager welcomes Shantrice Davis to the Functional Nurse Podcast. Davis is introduced as a dual-certified family nurse practitioner and transformational life coach with more than a decade in healthcare. She is also behind Fight Well, a coaching platform for nurses and women over 35 to overcome hormonal imbalances, fatigue, and emotional overwhelm using functional nutrition and holistic practices. Through her proprietary aligned vitality approach, she blends functional health strategies, mindset coaching, and personalized wellness blueprints to help clients regain energy and redesign their lives. The conversation starts with how functional medicine has changed her approach to women's health. Davis says the work matters because it keeps attention on root causes instead of stopping at surface symptoms. She traces that interest back to a friend from school who was already doing functional medicine. That friend helped open the door to a field she says held many things she did not yet know. A family history of holistic thinking had already pointed her in that direction. After graduation, she and that friend even planned to partner. The episode also touches the illness with GBS that shaped her perspective. That experience made conventional medicine feel valuable, but not enough on its own. She keeps returning to the whole person: nutrition, stress, sleep quality, and movement patterns. Bio-individuality comes up as a key idea because each person has unique needs. She describes functional medicine as exciting because it gave structure to questions she had been carrying for a long time. The discussion stays close to nursing judgment. Bridget asks what this lens changes in real practice, and Davis answers in practical terms about what nurses can notice and how they can explain it. She also talks about how learning functional medicine has affected her work in women's health. Near the end, she credits the Functional Medicine for Nurses course with pushing her to do more and be more. She says it felt like a fast-forward into the work she loves. The interview closes with gratitude, a note about how energizing the space feels, and a simple wish for listeners to be well.

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A practical functional medicine conversation for nurses and NPs focused on root causes, women's health, and holistic care.

Shantrice Davis and Bridget Sager keep the focus on practical functional medicine, with root-cause thinking, nutrition, and bio-individuality all tied back to women's health and day-to-day nursing practice.

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A steady listen if you want functional medicine, root-cause care, and nurse-led women's health perspective in one conversation.

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