If your patient has a binder full of labs… but still can’t live their life… something is broken.

In this episode, Dr. Z sits down with Dr. Meagan Von Holtz, DC, KICP, FMACP — chiropractor and functional medicine practitioner specializing in low thyroid and autoimmune conditions — to unpack one uncomfortable question:

Are labs helping patients… or padding invoices?

Brief overview
We love labs. We teach labs. We use labs.
But somewhere along the way, functional medicine started equating more data with better care — and patients started drowning in PDFs without seeing real change.

This conversation pulls back the curtain on the “lab loop” of Functional Medicine 1.0 and lays out what Functional Medicine 2.0 does differently.

Watch this episode to discover:

• Why “testing without a plan” becomes expensive procrastination
• How too many labs can overwhelm both practitioner and patient
• The difference between root-cause thinking and reflexive over-testing
• Why lifestyle architecture and behavior change outperform lab obsession
• How to decide when enough data is enough

If you’re quietly thinking, “Yep… this old model is breaking me,” you’re not alone.

FM2 is where clinicians go when they’re done pretending the current system is fine.

Private community. Real implementation. Zero performative BS.

Let's go! Join here: https://drzfma.com/join-fm2

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