932 - The Most Effective Approach To Functional Medicine Testing & Treatment W/ Andrea Nakayama

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Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Functional medicine has created great tools to help us test and treat different conditions. However, some methods have been proven to be more effective than others. In this episode, I sit down with functional nutritionist Andrea Nakayama to discuss the efficacy of functional medicine practices, as well as her unique approaches that have healed her patients.

Learn more about Andrea!

https://www.andreanakayama.com/

https://www.instagram.com/andreanakayama/

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

04:29 Why “Narrative Medicine” is necessary

09:29 Best practices for assessments & recommendations

23:48 Symptom tracking strategies

30:30 Creating an effective diet

38:41 Thyroid testing and treatments

56:17 Tools for symptom tracking

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rucho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.
0:14.8	To stay up to date on the latest topics, as well as all of our prior episodes, make sure to subscribe in your podcast player.
0:22.2	For weekly updates, visit Dr.rucio.com.
0:25.6	Hey, everyone.
0:26.4	Had a great conversation today with functional nutritionist Andrea Nakayama.
0:31.4	She said something after we stopped recording that I wanted to repeat here, which is some people in her consulting practice
0:39.2	are angry with functional medicine. And I get it. And a big part of that is because of the
0:45.7	excessive amount of lab testing and expense that's being performed with markers and labs that
0:52.0	are functional and theoretical. And unfortunately, the field needs to grow further to weed out some of these tests that have not been shown to be beneficial,
1:00.6	or at least do so in more of a cautious manner where treatment decisions are not made exclusively based upon lab markers.
1:08.7	So we discuss this concept in the bigger context of how listening to the person and their story
1:17.6	should really be the primary data point that we use to steer diet, lifestyle, and treatment
1:25.0	recommendations with a peppering in secondarily of lab tests.
1:30.1	She talks about this narrative-based medicine approach, which I really enjoy, so we'll expand
1:36.4	more upon that. Some of those common diets she uses, how she helps people navigate if
1:42.7	they're going more and more restrictive, but they're
1:45.3	not feeling any better. We talk about thyroid testing and diet for thyroid and some of the
1:51.8	trip wires that we can navigate successfully there. We also discuss the importance of symptom
1:59.0	tracking. And again, just a very, I think, fruitful conversation in terms of if you've been trying to improve your health, you feel like you're floundering a little bit.
2:09.9	You maybe have gotten a few diagnoses or diagnoses that felt off.
2:17.3	How can we sort of course correct and start listening more so to you,
2:22.5	quantifying your personal non-lab data, like your symptoms and your history, onset, response
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