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Functional Medicine for Real-World Impact offers practical insights to empower healthcare professionals in transforming patient care through applied functional medicine. Join Tracy Harrison as she dives deep into the interconnected nature of physiology, lifestyle, and innovative interventions—bringing clarity to the science behind complex, chronic conditions. Each episode is packed with case scenarios, clinical pearls, and actionable strategies that practitioners can immediately apply for greater patient outcomes. If you’re ready to do your best work and elevate your clinical confidence, this podcast is your guide to meaningful, impactful change in healthcare.
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Average audio length:
45 minutes
English
United States
51 episodes
since March 10, 2025
episodic
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A presenting symptom tells you where the system is signaling distress. It rarely tells you where the problem started. Functional medicine clinical reasoning gives you a way to trace that signal upstream and identify potential drivers that keep a patient stuck.
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Patients walk into your office already convinced their adrenals are shot. The real physiology tells a different story, and untangling it changes how you assess fatigue, cortisol, and chronic illness in your next patient visit.
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You can order every lab in the book and still miss the answer sitting in the patient's chart. That is the trap at the center of this episode, and it is one of several functional medicine practice pitfalls host Tracy Harrison and guest Edit Zelkind, PA walk through, using real cases from their own p…
Your patient's TSH looks perfect, but she still has every hypothyroid symptom in the book. Reverse T3 may offer an important clue, and many practitioners misread it.
In this episode of Functional Medicine for Real-World Impact, host Tracy Harrison breaks down reverse T3 thyroid myths that have …
Most hormone conversations center on estradiol, progesterone, insulin, and cortisol. This one makes room for a hormone many practitioners may be overlooking.
On Functional Medicine for Real World Impact, host Tracy Harrison sits down with Dr. Anna Cabeca, triple-board-certified physician, OB-GY…
You built the perfect protocol and your patient still does not improve. The missing piece might be trauma biology in functional medicine practice, not another test or supplement.
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Why do so many patients with textbook risk factors still struggle with high blood pressure, fatigue, and poor circulation even after the obvious fixes? On this episode of Functional Medicine for Real-World Impact, host Tracy Harrison makes the case that nitric oxide challenges are often misundersto…
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Some practitioners find functional medicine through curiosity. Heather Slusher found it through a tendon rupture. On this episode of Functional Medicine for Real-World Impact, host Tracy Harrison sits down with Heather to explore what functional medicine for nurse practitioners really means when it…
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