Thread by @KetoCounselor

Seriously, I don't know how you functional medicine practitioners get anywhere diagnosing anything with the confounding, hot mess variable of insulin resistance being half-assedly "treated" with a bunch of supplements. (1/12)

Insulin resistance muddies the picture of blood tests, gut testing, etc. I worry you are sending your patients on a wild testing and supplement goose chase. (2/12)

And I gently and lovingly challenge you that if you are working with a client that doesn't want to clean up their diet to find root cause, and you know blood sugar dysregulation and insulinemia are present that you are part of the problem. (3/12)

Are you wanting to be liked more than you want to give them the info they need? Are you part of a dysfunctional system with your patient perpetuating one more test or supplement that is not going to give you a clear enough picture to practice? (4/12)

Are you dangling the carrot of root cause treatment but not really going to the tree's root and addressing these issues that damage and disable mitochondrial and organ functions over time? (5/12)

If you are enabling patients to not make changes to their lifestyle and diet by scheduling constant testing in which you get a cut from the lab and supplement selling through your Fullscript account, you are not practicing ethically. You are enabling. (6/12)

A ketogenic diet has multiple pleiotropic effects on gut health via microbiome, gut and BBB integrity, microbiome, hormone, immune and thyroid regulation! (7/12)

After three to six months on a ketogenic diet, the functional health picture looks COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than when they began! (8/12)

How do I know? Because people in my online program take an extensive functional diagnostic assessment so they can track how all those mysterious, seemingly unrelated symptoms improve! (9/12) #fun

Clean up the clinical picture with a ketogenic diet first, and then send these people for testing! Clean up the clinical picture first with a ketogenic diet before fine-tuning supplements. (10/12)

That's how I like to work in the functional health coaching portion of my Brain Fog Recovery Program, where I teach people how to feel better from #mood and #cognitive symptoms. (11/12)

I hope this very small #rant has helped you in some way on your journey trying to find all the ways you can feel better. (12/12) 💜