Metagenics Institute

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08.27.2020
From Bench to Bedside
In this Grand Rounds presentation, Niccolò Terrando, PhD shares scientific research on the role of specialized pro-resolving mediators (SPMs) in perioperative neurocognitive disorders. Dr. Terrando uses a preclinical mouse model to study postoperative neuroinflammation and elucidate the impact of SPMs...
02.12.2020
Creating Synergy Between Allopathic and Integrative Medicine
Frank Lipman, MD works to bring new modalities into partnership with Western medicine using an evidence-based approach. In this episode, Dr. Lipman explores a new hybrid path between allopathic and Functional Medicine to discover a higher potential for health and...
02.05.2020
An Affordable Approach to Integrative Medicine (Even in Challenging Cases)
The cost of obtaining personalized care can be extremely high for patients, both in terms of seeking care from practitioners as well as in getting advanced laboratory testing done. Michael Ruscio, DNM, DC knows how to solve this problem. He...
01.29.2020
Pregnancy: An Integrative Medicine Perspective
The foundation for our health starts during pregnancy and delivery, but the medical system in the United States performs shockingly less effectively during this crucial period than many third-world countries. Leslie Stone, MD, IFMCP and Emily Rydbom, CN, BHCN, CNP...
01.22.2020
A New Perspective on Alzheimer’s Disease
Lisa Mosconi, PhD, a brilliant neuroscientist, reveals the latest research on Alzheimer’s disease and on the disproportionate rate that women are affected by Alzheimer’s, depression, and anxiety. Get the surprising new estimates regarding the role of genetics, as well as...
12.19.2019
Connecting Methylation to Gut & Immune Health
Kara Fitzgerald, ND helps us understand methylation and its effects on modulating gene expression and impacting immune health. She’ll also provide a primer on the herbal bioactive constituents in the hops plant and give us a sneak peek into her...
12.11.2019
The Elimination Diet Unlocks Priceless Data about the Individual
The elimination diet gives specific experiential evidence about reactions to foods that can motivate people to make changes. As with most protocols, the challenge is compliance. Join us as Deanna Minich, PhD, CNS, FACN, IFMCP provides the three key principles...
12.05.2019
Intermittent Fasting: Examining Effects on Metabolism and Detoxification
Get the inside scoop from Sara Gottfried, MD on the latest research on intermittent fasting, time-restricted eating, and the relationship to your metabolism and detoxification abilities. Explore several periodic fasting regimens and how to implement them.
11.27.2019
Cracking the Code on Balancing Appetite, Energy, and Weight
Alan Christianson, NMD specializes in natural endocrinology with a focus on thyroid disorders. In this episode, Dr. Christianson explores a 28-day approach to weight management designed to reset the metabolism.
11.20.2019
The Role of Insulin in Balancing Sex Hormones
While hundreds of millions of dollars are spent annually to balance hormones through replacement therapy, practitioners may be failing to assess the hormone that makes the biggest difference. Filomena Trindade, MD, MPH is a leading expert on hormones, with surprising...
11.13.2019
Unraveling the Invisible Epidemic of Anxiety in Men
Myles Spar, MD, MPH, an integrative medicine practitioner who specializes in men’s health, clarifies the difference between the anxious state men have grown accustomed to and being in a flow state that brings focused effectiveness and helps men create the...
11.06.2019
Can We Predict, Detect, and Mitigate Disease Through Epigenetic Approaches?
Florence Comite, MD, a leading force in precision medicine, has the data on why Father Time strips away the genetic gifts Mother Nature gives us and what we can do about it.
10.30.2019
How Practitioner-Patient Relationships Can Replace the Pill-for-Every-Ill Model
Jen Landa, MD has escaped the pill-for-every-ill model and created partnerships with her patients to form lasting health. Explore the upside of breaking free from the allopathic model to enjoy better outcomes for practitioners and patients alike.
10.23.2019
Doctor Becomes Patient: A Catalyst for Practicing Personalized Medicine
Jill Carnahan, MD walked away from a high-salary position as a director at a well-known medical facility to start her own personalized lifestyle medicine practice. Learn why she took this step, how she transitioned away from allopathic medicine smoothly, and...
10.08.2019
Challenging Degenerative Disease: How Much Healing Is Possible?
Terry Wahls, MD challenges the conventional medical view that MS is progressive and degenerative and shares her personal journey with MS, which is a shining example that healing is possible. This riveting story reveals how a once-conservative academic internal medicine...
05.16.2019
Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: Improving Cognition with the Bredesen Protocol
Host: Deanna Minich, PhD Guest: Amylee Amos, MS, RDN In this discussion, Amylee Amos, MS, RDN and Deanna Minich, PhD examine how nutrition and lifestyle factors can be leveraged in an individualized way in primary intervention for different subtypes and Alzheimer’s...
05.08.2019
Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: The Resolution of Inflammation
Host: Deanna Minich, PhD Guest: Kara Fitzgerald, ND In this discussion, Kara Fitzgerald, ND and Deanna Minich, PhD explore the active process of inflammation resolution and how to provide clinical support to quench inflammation chronicity in your patients. Dr. Fitzgerald thinks...
04.23.2019
Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: The Emotional Stress-Inflammation Link
Host: Deanna Minich, PhD Guest: Jennifer Stagg, ND In this discussion, Jennifer Stagg, ND and Deanna Minich, PhD examine the relationship and connection between psychological stress and emotions with health and chronic disease states, and the mediating role that inflammation and...
04.01.2019
Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: The Hypothalamus & Hormone Balance
Host: Deanna Minich, PhD, CNS, FACN, IFMCP Guest: Deborah Maragopoulos, MN, FNP “The hypothalamus is like the CEO of your entire body. Everything else are workers.” – Deborah Maragopoulos, MN, FNP In this edifying discussion, Deborah Maragopoulos, FNP and Deanna Minich,...
03.19.2019
From Bench to Bedside: SPMs for Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorders
In this Grand Rounds presentation, Niccolò Terrando, PhD shares scientific research on the role of specialized pro-resolving mediators (SPMs) in perioperative neurocognitive disorders. Dr. Terrando uses a preclinical mouse model to study postoperative neuroinflammation and elucidate the impact of SPMs...
02.06.2019
Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: Anxiety & Women: Changing the Conversation
Host: Deanna Minich, PhD Guest: Sara Gottfried, MD In this discussion at the forefront of personalized lifestyle medicine, Drs. Sara Gottfried and Deanna Minich explore anxiety in women and the connection to female-centric physiological changes throughout the life cycle. In addition...
01.26.2019
Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: PANDAS
Host: Deanna Minich, PhD, CNS, FACN, IFMCP Guest: Karima Hirani, MD, MPH In this cutting edge discussion, Drs. Karima Hirani and Deanna Minich discuss pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS), honing in on its clinical presentation, assessment, and...
12.20.2018
Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: Detox Program Tips and Tools
Host: Deanna Minich, PhD, CNS, FACN, IFMCP Guest: Tricia Paulson, ND In this discussion, Drs. Tricia Paulson and Deanna Minich discuss the nuts and bolts of detoxification or “detox” and explore practical tips for practitioners in structuring a successful group detoxification...
10.25.2018
Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: SIBO & The Connection to Sulfur
Host: Deanna Minich, PhD, CNS, FACN, IFMCP Guest: Bridget Briggs, MD “Sulfur is part of our constitution.” – Dr. Deanna Minich You may be familiar with small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), but what about its critical connection to sulfur? Drs. Minich and...
09.22.2018
Personalized Lifestyle Pearls, Episode 4: Tackling Our Children’s Toxic Environment
Host: Deanna Minich, PhD, CNS, FACN, IFMCP Guest: Paul Thomas, MD, FAAP, ABAM, ABIHM Obesity and chronic disease are on the rise in our nation’s children. Prevalence of neurological and mood disorders is also increasing. Drs. Paul Thomas and Deanna Minich discuss...
09.11.2018
Arthritis: Exploring Oxidative Stress, Microbes, Gut Permeability and More
In this podcast Kara Fitzgerald, ND and Susan Blum, MD, MPH discuss the underlying pathology and management approaches for arthritis. Thanks to Dr. Susan Blum, Functional Medicine has even more to offer for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis...
09.11.2018
The History (and Future) of Functional Medicine: Jeff Bland, PhD and Kara Fitzgerald, ND
In this podcast Drs. Jeff Bland and Kara Fitzgerald discuss the origins of Functional Medicine, how it has evolved over the years, and how technology has advanced the way data is collected, influencing the lives of many clinicians today, on a...
08.24.2018
Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: Omega-3s, Let’s Get to the Heart of the Evidence
Host: Deanna Minich, PhD, CNS, FACN, IFMCP Guest: Mark Houston, MD, MS, FAHA, FASH, DABC Drs. Mark Houston and Deanna Minich delve into the science and proper clinical use of omega-3 fatty acids for the prevention and treatment of heart-related conditions. Dr....
08.07.2018
Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: The Ketogenic Diet: Weight Loss and Beyond
Host: Deanna Minich, PhD, CNS, FACN, IFMCP Guest: Christopher Keroack, MD, IFMCP You may have heard about the ketogenic diet. This high-fat, low-carbohydrate, moderate-protein dietary pattern has experienced a revival of sorts in the mainstream media and dieting world. But, before “keto”...
06.21.2018
Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: Drugs vs. Personalized Lifestyle Medicine
Host: Deanna Minich, PhD, FACN, CNS Guest: Jeffrey Bland, PhD, FACN, FACB, CNS There has been considerable discussion recently as to what is the best approach in the management of early stage chronic disease- drugs or lifestyle? To help us...
06.18.2018
The Power of Nutrition: Food Matters
In this podcast Cory Rice, DO and Nilima Desai, MPH, RD discuss the need for improved diet and nutrition as a preventative measure to reverse the epidemics of obesity and heart disease, which have become endemic in today’s patient population....
06.18.2018
Integrating Nutrition and Lifestyle Therapy Into Your Practice
In this podcast Tricia Paulson, ND and Nilima Desai, MPH, RD discuss how to integrate nutrition and lifestyle therapy into your practice. Dr Paulson provides specific insights on how to encourage patients to choose their food wisely, and not focus...
04.25.2018
Pain Management: Symptomatic Relief of Inflammation
Pain Management: Symptomatic Relief of Inflammation: Robert Bonakdar, MD Inflammation impacts numerous systems and can be challenging to treat. In this talk Robert Bonakdar, MD Director of Pain Management at Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, discusses these pathways and ways to...
04.18.2018
Real World Insights into Medical Nutrition Therapy with Nilima Desai, MPH, RD
In this podcast Nilima Desai, MPH, RD provides insights on medical nutrition therapy (MNT) and its function in managing optimal health outcomes, as well as the history of MNT. Medical nutrition therapy is defined as “nutritional diagnostic therapy and counseling...
04.13.2018
The Cardiometabolic Consequences of Obesity and Nutritional Strategies for Prevention
The Cardiometabolic Consequences of Obesity and Nutritional Strategies for Prevention – Frank Hu, MD, PhD The prevalence of obesity in the US has reached epidemic proportions. In this presentation, “The Cardiometabolic Consequences of Obesity and Nutritional Strategies for Prevention,” Frank...
04.13.2018
Precision Medicine: Tools for Patient Success
The application of precision medicine in integrative healthcare Jennifer Stagg, ND Jennifer Stagg, ND discusses methods and application for precision medicine in an integrative healthcare setting. Dr. Stagg explores how you can utilize advances in genomics and epigenetics in health promotion and preventative...
04.13.2018
Total Patient Care Management: Knowing the Predisposition of Chronic Disease
Total Patient Care Management: Knowing the Predisposition of Chronic Disease – Robert Martindale, MD, PhD In this presentation, “Total Patient Care Management: Knowing the Predisposition of Chronic Disease,” Robert Martindale, MD, PhD of Oregon Health & Science University discusses how...
04.10.2018
Food & Mood: Scientific Understanding and Clinical Strategies for Eating Issues Related to Obesity
Food & Mood: Scientific Understanding and Clinical Strategies for Eating Issues Related to Obesity: Deanna Minich, PhD, CNS Over 75% of overeating can be attributed to emotional factors. Lifestyle habits can translate into an obese phenotype, but understanding the psychological underpinnings...
04.06.2018
Obesity, Comorbidities & Weight Change Patterns
Obesity, Comorbidities & Weight Change Patterns: Osama Hamdy, MD, PhD Obesity is on track to be the #1 killer in the US. Concurrent with the obesity epidemic is the rapidly growing diabetes epidemic. Environmental impact and lifestyle choices contribute to...
04.06.2018
Inflammation & Resolution Physiology in Obesity
Inflammation & Resolution Physiology in Obesity: Joan Clària, PhD Unresolved, low-grade chronic inflammation triggers adipose dysfunction and is the culprit of obesity comorbidities. In this presentation “Inflammation & Resolution Physiology in Obesity,” Joan Clària, PhD explores how the resolution phase of...
03.29.2018
Novel Clinical Insights on Inflammation: Resolving not Blocking
In this presentation “Novel Clinical Insights on Inflammation: Resolving not Blocking,” Andrew Heyman, MD, MHSA shares clinical experiences and observations related to health conditions associated with increased inflammatory biomarkers. Dr. Heyman explores the role of specialized pro-resolving mediators (SPMs) in...
03.28.2018
Leaky Gut Syndrome
Leaky gut syndrome is a proposed condition some health practitioners claim is the cause of a wide range of serious long-term conditions, including diabetes, lupus, and multiple sclerosis. In this podcast, Dr. Robert Martindale discusses the pathology of leaky gut,...
03.28.2018
Digestive Health & Intestinal Hyperpermeability
In the second podcast of the series, Jennifer Ryan, ND and Bianca Garilli, ND discuss leaky gut. Dr. Ryan also describes underlying factors that contribute to intestinal hyperpermeability and provides evidence-based management recommendations including dietary, lifestyle, and supplement options to...
03.28.2018
Leaky Gut: Definition & Clinical Assessment
In the first of a two part series, Bianca Garilli, ND and Jennifer Ryan, ND discuss leaky gut. Dr Ryan defines intestinal hyperpermeability (a.k.a. “leaky gut”) in the context of normal and pathologic gut permeability on a cellular and molecular...
03.28.2018
A Functional Medicine Approach to Patient Care and Management: Hypertension
One out three US adults have hyptension and elevated blood pressure is the number one attributable risk factor for death throughout the world. However, fewer than half of patients who are diagnosed with hypertension have it under control. The prevalence...
03.27.2018
Navigating Complex Cases with Logic and Ease: Microbiome Science in Clinical Practice
Michael Ruscio, DC is a clinician, researcher and best-selling author whose practical ideas on healing chronic illness have made him an influential voice in the Functional Medicine community. In this highly informative podcast, clinical discussions highlight the importance of bringing a...
03.20.2018
The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis: Shared Neurochemistry and Its Potential Role in Infection and Behavior
The purported roles of the microbiota is ever emerging, and the associated technology is rapidly changing, but what do we know today? In this presentation, Mark Lyte, PhD, MS, MT (ASCP) discusses, “The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis: Shared Neurochemistry and Its Potential...
03.20.2018
Stopping the Progression of Chronic Disease, Robert Martindale, MD, PhD
What tools exist to help prevent chronic inflammation and disease? In his talk “Start the Resolution: Stopping the Progression of Chronic Disease,” Robert Martindale, MD, PhD, Professor and Chief for the Division of GI and General Surgery at Oregon Health...
03.19.2018
Insights from the Metagenics Lifestyle Summit: Dr. Charles Serhan
Charles Serhan, PhD: Insights from the Metagenics Lifestyle Summit 2015 in Phoenix, AZ Dr. Serhan cites his research to answer a variety of questions on the advantages of supplementing the diet with specialized pro-resolving mediators (SPMs). Even if a patient...
03.14.2018
Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease: Module 2
Gail Cresci, PhD, RD, LD, CNSc: The Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease 2-part series, “Therapeutic Manipulations of Gut Microbiota – Module 2” In this module Dr. Gail Cresci discusses the therapeutic manipulations of gut microbiota, including methods for managing peptic...

What's Metagenics Institute about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Metagenics Institute episodes:

From Bench to Bedside

Creating Synergy Between Allopathic and Integrative Medicine

An Affordable Approach to Integrative Medicine (Even in Challenging Cases)

Pregnancy: An Integrative Medicine Perspective

A New Perspective on Alzheimer’s Disease

Connecting Methylation to Gut & Immune Health

The Elimination Diet Unlocks Priceless Data about the Individual

Intermittent Fasting: Examining Effects on Metabolism and Detoxification

Cracking the Code on Balancing Appetite, Energy, and Weight

The Role of Insulin in Balancing Sex Hormones

Unraveling the Invisible Epidemic of Anxiety in Men

Can We Predict, Detect, and Mitigate Disease Through Epigenetic Approaches?

How Practitioner-Patient Relationships Can Replace the Pill-for-Every-Ill Model

Doctor Becomes Patient: A Catalyst for Practicing Personalized Medicine

Challenging Degenerative Disease: How Much Healing Is Possible?

Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: Improving Cognition with the Bredesen Protocol

Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: The Resolution of Inflammation

Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: The Emotional Stress-Inflammation Link

Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: The Hypothalamus & Hormone Balance

From Bench to Bedside: SPMs for Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorders

Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: Anxiety & Women: Changing the Conversation

Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: PANDAS

Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: Detox Program Tips and Tools

Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: SIBO & The Connection to Sulfur

Personalized Lifestyle Pearls, Episode 4: Tackling Our Children’s Toxic Environment

Arthritis: Exploring Oxidative Stress, Microbes, Gut Permeability and More

The History (and Future) of Functional Medicine: Jeff Bland, PhD and Kara Fitzgerald, ND

Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: Omega-3s, Let’s Get to the Heart of the Evidence

Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: The Ketogenic Diet: Weight Loss and Beyond

Personalized Lifestyle Pearls: Drugs vs. Personalized Lifestyle Medicine

The Power of Nutrition: Food Matters

Integrating Nutrition and Lifestyle Therapy Into Your Practice

Pain Management: Symptomatic Relief of Inflammation

Real World Insights into Medical Nutrition Therapy with Nilima Desai, MPH, RD

The Cardiometabolic Consequences of Obesity and Nutritional Strategies for Prevention

Precision Medicine: Tools for Patient Success

Total Patient Care Management: Knowing the Predisposition of Chronic Disease

Food & Mood: Scientific Understanding and Clinical Strategies for Eating Issues Related to Obesity

Obesity, Comorbidities & Weight Change Patterns

Inflammation & Resolution Physiology in Obesity

Novel Clinical Insights on Inflammation: Resolving not Blocking

Leaky Gut Syndrome

Digestive Health & Intestinal Hyperpermeability

Leaky Gut: Definition & Clinical Assessment

A Functional Medicine Approach to Patient Care and Management: Hypertension

Navigating Complex Cases with Logic and Ease: Microbiome Science in Clinical Practice

The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis: Shared Neurochemistry and Its Potential Role in Infection and Behavior

Stopping the Progression of Chronic Disease, Robert Martindale, MD, PhD

Insights from the Metagenics Lifestyle Summit: Dr. Charles Serhan

Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease: Module 2