After working in a traditional Western medicine model for many years, Cynthia Thurlow began exploring alternative healthcare options in an effort to help her son’s severe eczema. Now, Cynthia runs a predominantly virtual practice as a Nurse Practitioner and Functional...
After her own frustrating experience of struggling with hormone imbalance and receiving no beneficial assistance from her doctor, Jill Troderman decided to go to school for holistic nutrition and figure out what was going on with her own body. Now, she is an...
When Dr. Mila McManus became a medical doctor, she assumed she would learn how to cure the many chronic ailments that had plagued her since youth. Instead, by the end of her residency, she found herself on 12 prescription drugs and feeling worse than ever. Once she...
Inspired by her own experience of thriving in spite of health challenges that traditional medicine could not address, Maryann Stone became a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach. She now works primarily with clients experiencing cognitive and depression issues,...
Dr. Akil Palanisamy is a Harvard-trained physician, author, speaker, and holistic medicine expert. After becoming an MD, he felt that his education had been lacking in the areas of diet, nutrition, and the mind-body connection, and he went on to study holistic...
At just 13 years old, Sandi Cohen developed IBS and was given the medical advice to simply ignore her stomach problems. After years of trying to follow this advice and accept her “gut fate”, Sandi took her health into her own hands and endeavored to understand what...