A longer visit can uncover a root cause that faster care may miss.
The episode makes a straightforward case for root-cause medicine, patient partnership, and the value of enough time to connect details that shorter visits can miss.

The Functional and Integrative Medicine Podcast for Providers
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Welcome to The Functional & Integrative Medicine Podcast for Providers — the go-to playlist for exploring the cutting-edge world of root cause medicine. Hosted by Ginger Allen, founder of Your Medical Liaison, this podcast dives deep into the transformative power of functional and integrative care.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It connects integrative clinical questions with the marketing, leadership, and operating decisions behind a provider's practice.
Ginger Allen builds each interview around the decisions that shape an integrative practice, moving between patient care and the work of keeping a clinic viable.
Ginger Allen puts the clinician's CEO hat beside oncology testing, if you need both kinds of homework.
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A longer visit can uncover a root cause that faster care may miss.
The episode makes a straightforward case for root-cause medicine, patient partnership, and the value of enough time to connect details that shorter visits can miss.
A functional-nutrition conversation about root causes, chronic symptoms, and the business realities of practice.
Felicia Lochmiller's interview keeps its focus on functional nutrition as a practical part of functional and integrative medicine. Her path from 14 years in hospital systems to founding Vitality Functional Nutrition gives the discussion some shape, but the real center is…
A direct sauna pitch with clear clinic appeal.
Phil Wilson's conversation with Ginger Allen plays like a sales pitch wrapped in a root cause medicine frame. Wilson keeps circling back to RelaxFAR sauna and the effects he says matter most: detoxification, heart rate variability, parasympathetic nervous system support, and the…
A practical look at stress, hormones, and digestion through a clinician's detective lens.
Ginger Allen keeps the conversation centered on root cause medicine as she talks with Dr. Suda Kumar, a board-certified physician with more than 30 years of experience and roots in both Western and Eastern medicine. The piece is at its best when Dr.
A root-cause medicine conversation linking menopause, mood, and hormone care.
This episode treats root-cause medicine as a practical conversation, not a lecture. Dr. Sun brings clinical experience and personal stakes to menopause, gut health, and the way integrative care tries to connect symptoms that conventional visits can leave scattered.
A candid integrative oncology conversation about prevention, root-cause medicine, and lived experience.
This episode treats integrative oncology as daily practice, not theory. Ginger Allen draws Dr. Naysha Winters as a physician shaped by her own cancer diagnosis at 19, and the conversation keeps circling back to root-cause medicine, prevention, and what provider education can…
A practical reminder that the business side matters if root-cause care is going to last.
Ginger Allen and Joanna Sapir treat business strategy as part of care, not something bolted on after the fact. The episode stays on the practical side: structured client journeys, longer-term enrollment, and steadier income for holistic and integrative practices.
A grounded look at root-cause medicine, hormone care, and the patience real progress asks for.
Dr. Sabrina Patel's conversation follows a family medicine physician with more than a decade in outpatient and hospital medicine as she explains how Zia Health brings together concierge care, functional medicine, hormone work, and lifestyle support.



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Joel Kahn, MD, says root-cause cardiology starts with testing beyond the “big five,” including lipoprotein(a), homocysteine, hs-CRP, vitamin D, hemoglobin A1C, fasting insulin, omega-3 levels, and a home sleep test.
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A functional medicine marketing expert and business owner discusses strategies for health practitioners to scale their supplement offerings beyond commission-based platforms.
Ginger Allen interviews Felicia Lochmiller, RD, FMNS of Vitality Nutrition Health about how mold exposure, gut issues, and hormone problems show up in functional practice.
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Phil Wilson, 23-year pioneer in far infrared sauna technology, discusses the RelaxFAR sauna's unique 7-14 micron wavelength specifications and clinical benefits.
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Ginger Allen interviews Tracy Cherpeski, founder of Tracy Cherpeski International and host of the Thriving Practice Podcast, about why physician owners need help beyond clinical care.
Ginger Allen opens with business strategy as a piece of functional and integrative practice that is easy to miss.
Ginger opens by framing the show around root cause medicine and provider advocacy.
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Ginger Allen talks with Chris Hapgood, RN, BSN, about root-cause medicine and the long road from chronic pain toward better health.
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