Dr. Yousef Elyaman
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Welcome to the Functional Medicine Practitioner (FMP) Essentials Podcast, hosted by Dr. Yousef Elyaman, a leading expert in primary care functional medicine. This podcast serves as the premier educational resource for functional medicine practitioners worldwide, offering unparalleled insights and strategies to enhance practitioner success through mastery of functional medicine. Each episode dives deep into specific health conditions or topics. Dr. Elyaman conducts insightful interviews with top-tier practitioners and thought leaders or delivers powerful solo episodes filled with cutting-edge research, case studies, and practical applications. Our mission is to equip you with the tools, knowl…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Dr. Yousef Elyaman makes functional medicine reasoning traceable through persistent questions about testing, differential diagnosis, and practical patient workups.
FMP Essentials: Functional Medicine Practitioner Show turns clinical interviews into a running examination of how practitioners reason from symptoms to tests and next steps. Dr.
A kidney ultrasound gets a bladder encore, if you enjoy the question after the obvious question.
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A practical discussion of nutrient dosing, monitoring, and clinic judgment.
This episode keeps its focus on vitamin D, vitamin K, and vitamin A, with practical attention to dosing and monitoring. It presents 5,000 IU as the amount the speakers often find most adults need, while still allowing that some people need more or less and that seasonal…
A candid look at how practice habits, home life, and energy shape each other.
This conversation links the business side of practice with what happens at home, especially communication habits, marriage, kids, and whether home still feels like a place of joy.
Hormone markers are framed through metabolic risk.
The episode ties hormone questions to metabolic risk by centering the lab markers that can point toward insulin resistance and cardiovascular risk.
A practical APOE-centered genetics discussion tied to clinical decision-making.
The episode frames gene-informed care as a practical clinical tool. Dr. Yousef Elyaman brings Dr. Anil Bajnath into a focused discussion of genetics and APOE-linked Alzheimer's risk, with the strongest point being how a result can shape what a practitioner looks for next.
Color, timing, and circadian rhythm turn food into a clinical conversation.
Eating the Rainbow for Brain & Gut Health with Dr. Deanna Minich keeps the focus on more than what is on the plate. It moves through four principles - color, creativity, diversity, and rhythm - and then into chrononutrition, where meal timing can shape how food serves the body.
A practical thyroid-testing discussion with clear attention to what each lab marker can and cannot show.
This episode stays centered on thyroid testing in a functional medicine setting, with Dr. Yusuf Elyaman and Dr. Datis Kharrazian working through TSH, free T4, free T3, anti-TPO, and anti-thyroglobulin antibodies.
A practical bridge between functional medicine language and standard kidney care.
Chronic kidney disease is treated here as a clinical problem that needs attention in primary care, not as an abstract diagnosis. Dr. Yousef Elyaman and Dr.
A practical, lab-heavy functional-medicine discussion that treats hormone interpretation with real care.
The episode follows Dr. Tara Scott and Dr. Yousef Elyaman through a functional-medicine discussion of hormone testing and lab interpretation. Much of the conversation turns on DHEAS, DHEA supplementation, estrogen, progesterone, and the way ranges and quartiles can change what…
Herbal medicine mapped through stars and plants.
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Nutritionist and researcher Deanna Minnich explains her eat the rainbow framework, connecting phytochemical color codes to specific organ systems and health outcomes.
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The host opens a candid conversation around a topic he says does not get talked about enough.
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