Dr. Aunna Herbst is a researcher, instructor, clinician, and owner of Funxional Medicine. She was a former clinical adviser and physician at Cleveland Clinic, the first hospital-based functional medicine institution in the world. Dr. Aunna has over 20 years of experience as a Naturopath, which allows her to have a holistic approach to health and patient care. Because of her skills and experience, she can utilize both functional and conventional medicine together under her Salt Health practice.

Dr. Aunna joins us to discuss the differences between functional and conventional medicine. She shares how she found her way to practicing functional medicine and what her career was like before transitioning her approach to patient care. She explains how her Salt Health practice merges the two worlds and what it means to provide continuity of care. Dr. Aunna also describes the types of patients she encounters and how they differ from those who opt for traditional healthcare.

 

“The functional medicine approach to medicine is growing and is much needed.” - Dr. Aunna Herbst

 

This week on The Lab Report Podcast:

• The difference between conventional and functional medicine.
• What her path to functional medicine was like and why she was drawn to it.
• What the Salt Health practice is about and the services it offers.
• How she practiced as a doctor before she found functional medicine.
• What it means to provide continuity of care.
• The patients she encounters as someone who practices functional medicine.
• The frequency of patients who come in for sports medicine.
• Oxytocin therapy and its potential in functional medicine.

 

Question of the Day:

• Where is the literature to back different, alternative testing methods?

 

Connect with Dr. Aunna Herbst

• Funxional Medicine
• Salt Health
• Book: Functional Medicine in Primary Care

 

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