ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Lindsay Simone and I are both Charlotte people, so this one started as a hometown conversation and turned into something I think every clinician sitting in an employed job needs to hear. She was a decade into a big hospital system when she started asking questions and got told to go see the next patient. She had already enrolled in IFM back in NP school, which at the time was close to heresy, because four hours of nutrition training struck her as thin. When the job stopped making sense, she had somewhere to go.
What she built is a practice that runs on the opposite math from the one she left. Four patients on a heavy day. Sixty to ninety minutes each. Thirty days of food before a single hormone gets prescribed, and a flat refusal to treat anyone who will not do that part. We get into her own collapse and rebuild at thirty eight, her father coming off a statin he had been on for a decade and finishing at a testosterone level most men half his age do not hit, why she thinks obesity and metabolic health are the number one problem in this country, and what she has learned about GLP-1s that most of the clinics writing them have not. We also spend real time on the part nobody warns you about: that the business is the hard half, that she was never trained for it, and that the thing keeping her sharp is not a certification but a group chat full of providers arguing about candida on a Friday morning. There is no standard of care in this work. There is a standard of relationship with your peers, and Lindsay has built hers deliberately.
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Lindsay Simone, FNP-C, is a board certified family nurse practitioner and the founder of Simone Medical, a functional medicine practice in Matthews, North Carolina, focused on hormone balancing, medically assisted weight loss, peptide therapy and metabolic health. She came to nursing late, after a first life as a painter and sculptor, and enrolled in the Institute for Functional Medicine while she was still in nurse practitioner school, having noticed that her entire nutrition education added up to four hours.
She started her first NP job in a Charlotte hospital system in March 2020 and was sent home to see patients from her bedroom the same day. What she watched over the next few years pushed her out. Simone Medical began as a side gig and grew into a brick and mortar clinic with a health coach on staff and a patient list that still spans the state by telehealth. Lindsay trained through the BHRT Training Academy, where she now teaches in the cohort connection, is working through the A4M fellowship and a peptide therapy certification, and serves on the board of the North Carolina Integrative Medical Society. Her own turnaround is part of the pitch. At thirty eight she was handed four prescriptions in a single visit, including Xanax and Ambien, turned all of them down, and changed everything instead.
Website: https://simonemedical.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simonemedical/
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