What is functional medicine and what can it do for you? Dr. Christina Bergstrom explains all this, and more, in this interview.
Functional medicine investigates the whole body, the whole person, not simply the components. Bergstrom does not use band-aids to cover up boo-boos like standard Western medicine. 
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62 What is Functional Medicine and What Can it do for You?

The Live Fit Podcast takes a whole-person approach to improving your health with diverse interviews, insight, research and experience. Exercise physiologist, college instructor, personal trainer and health coach, Glenn Johnson has more than 15 years experience as a fitness professional. Glenn will give you the bottom line on ways to stay fit, lean, healthy and vital. Live life to its fullest. The Live Fit Podcast will show you that living healthy and lean can be easy and satisfying.

In this episode, I speak with Dr. Harry Adelson who is a specialist at using stem cells to heal damaged tissue and relieving pain in backs, knees and hips (to name a few areas).

132 Heal Your Bad Back with Stem Cells

Dr. Charles Elder is a senior physician with Kaiser Permanente in Portland, Oregon and helps with patients balance their bodies through the use of food, drink, herbs, spices and a few daily practices.

Ayurveda is the oldest health care system known. The origin of Ayurveda dates back to 5,000 BCE.

In this episode, Dr. Elder shares this ancient philosophy and how you can use it to improve your health.

130 What is Ayurveda?

Today's guest is Jeff Chilton. He's an ethno-mycologist from the PNW and has been raising mushrooms since 1973. He was responsible for bringing fresh shiitake mushrooms to the US market in 1978. In the 80s he started Nammex, a business that introduced medical mushrooms to the US nutritional supplement industry.
Jeff's company, Nammex, was the first to offer a complete line of Certified Organic mushroom extracts to the supplement industry.

129 The Mushroom Man, Jeff Chilton

Lane Kennedy is known as the "Original Female Biohacker". This is because, 20 years ago she was unhappy with the way Western medicine was treating her and she became her own advocate and researcher.

She took care of her body and mind with yoga and meditation, which helped tremendously, yet, she was still in pain. Until one day a friend of hers gave her a bottle of CBD oil. It did the trick. And now she's a believer.

128 Biohacking, Pain, CBD, and more w/ Lane Kenndy

Find your "activation energy" and how to become unclogged with Mary Shores.

Mary spends her career as an author, speaker, and entrepreneur, generating positive and pragmatic solutions for people who are freaking out.

Mary blends personal experience with her extensive knowledge of neuroscience and human behavior to guide businesses and individuals to defeat the freak out and create their ideal life.

62 What is Functional Medicine and What Can it do for You?

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