The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast

What does it mean to embody your magic? In this episode, Erin talks to psychic channel, medium, spiritual guide, teacher, and author Aycee Brown to get into allllll the tools: astrology, numerology, human design, mediumship, metaphysics, manifestation, intuition, and the ways they can help you come back to yourself. Aycee shares what human design helped her understand about herself as a projector,...

After working with hundreds of 1:1 clients (and thousands across all of TFN's offerings), Erin has noticed some VERY predictable patterns in the healing process. And spoiler alert: healing rarely looks the way people think it's going to! What happens during "the dip" and why do so many people feel like quitting around months 3 and 4? Erin gets into the expectation vs. reality gap that keeps people...

PCOS just got a glow up. This wildly misunderstood condition affects 1 in 8 women and 170 million women worldwide, and has officially been renamed PMOS: Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. In this episode, Erin is joined by TFN lead practitioner Rachel Heintz, MS, RDN, IFMCP, FHP-C, to talk about why this name change matters. Rachel breaks down why the old PCOS label created so much confusio...

Sometimes you go looking for that one cutting-edge clinical pearl, and what you actually get is a full body reminder of why this work matters. After taking the TFN team to the IFM conference in San Diego, Erin is sharing her honest reflections and biggest takeaways, including the conversations that made her feel like functional medicine is moving in a hopeful direction. She gets into GLP-1 taperin...

A physical transformation doesn’t automatically change the story you’re living inside. You can lose the weight, change the labs, clear the symptoms, hit the goal… and still feel like the same OG version of yourself. In this solo episode, Erin is talking about the “neuroscience of reality” – how your brain uses old beliefs, past experiences, and predictive patterns to construct what you see, how yo...

Ozempic culture is officially here, and after last week’s GLP-1 episode with Jessica Brown, Erin has more to say. This time, she’s getting into the side effects practitioners are seeing and the “microdosing” marketing language that’s gotten wildly out of hand. Erin talks about the difference between using GLP-1s skillfully vs. going a little willy nilly with telehealth prescriptions, and people ch...

Oh boy… Erin is FINALLY having an unfiltered GLP-1 conversation with the person she wanted to have it with first: Jessica Brown, a clinical nutritionist, Stanford-trained teacher, founder of the GLP-1 Nutrition Academy, author of The Loving Diet and Beyond the Shot, and one of Erin’s longtime mentors. This is not a “GLP-1s are good” or “GLP-1s are bad” episode. It’s the difference between semaglut...

If you feel like you’ve done EVERYTHING to support your fertility journey, cleaned up your diet, worked on your gut health, taken all the supplements, tracked alllll the things and you’re still not pregnant… this episode will speak to you. Erin and TFN Practitioner Nicole Antes are walking through a fertility case study for a client who came to them after trying to conceive for a year with a 16+ s...

There’s a version of functional medicine that works, and then there’s the version that leaves people with a stack of labs, a cabinet full of supplements, and a whole lot of confusion. In this conversation, Erin is joining holistic nutritionist Ali Shapiro on the Truce with Food podcast to get candid about the difference, what she’s seeing in her own practice, and why things have gotten a little “w...

Transcending chronic symptoms, reclaiming your vitality, and no longer making your health your whole personality? That’s exactly what this episode is about. Erin is breaking down the five stages of healing, and the EXACT patterns her clients go through before they feel free in their bodies. Erin gets into the nocebo effect, health hyper-vigilance, the medicine spiral, and the kind of inner work th...

Let’s talk about manifestation, but not in a vision boards and affirmations kinda way. In this episode, Erin is diving into three of her favorite topics: manifestation, the subconscious mind, and the nervous system, and how they’re ALL deeply connected when it comes to your health. Did you know that 90-95% of what you experience as “reality” is shaped by subconscious patterns? Your subconscious mi...

If you’ve outgrown parts of your life, your identity, maybe even the way you used to cope, and the “what’s next” feels blurry, it can feel destabilizing as hell in your body. Your body is not designed to live in a constant state of fear, panic, and anxiety. And yet, so many of us are stuck there in that in-between space. Erin is sharing the exact tools she uses to de-escalate anxiety in real time,...

Burned out, inflamed, doing all the “right” things, and still getting worse? Emily Markham was deep in that loop for years, managing digestive issues, acne, fatigue, and anxiety while trying to out-supplement a life that was running her into the ground. In this Manifest Your Health client case study, Emily shares what actually changed, and the “secondary gains” and subconscious programming inside...

What if your gut-brain axis isn’t just a “cute concept”… but the thing running the show? Erin is giving you the FULL class from last week’s Funk’tional Nutrition Academy Open House , breaking down how stress, subconscious patterns, and nervous system signaling directly shape digestion. This one’s for my practitioners, but honestly, if your gut isn’t improving, you’re going to want to hear this too...

So many people bounce between specialists, run every lab under the sun, and still feel stuck in the same symptom loop. What if the problem isn’t missing data, but the way we’re looking at the body in the first place? In this episode, Erin is giving you an exclusive sneak peek inside the Funk’tional Nutrition Academy Open House, where she breaks down her model of intuitive functional medicine. Erin...

The mind and the body are always inextricably connected. Here’s the truth: multiple food sensitivities are rarely about the food alone. And if you’re eating in fight-or-flight, you’re physiologically set up to react before the first bite even hits your stomach. This episode connects gut-immune mechanisms with nervous system reality. Erin walks through what actually drives multiple food sensitiviti...

It’s been EIGHT years of The Funk’tional Nutrition Podcast and 400 episodes of consistency. If you’re waiting to “feel ready”, certified enough, niche enough, confident enough, and your nervous system is fried from comparison and perfectionism… this solo AMA from Erin is for you. Erin is getting deep in the trenches about how the podcast started, the pivots along the way, identity shifts, primary...

Everyone says the functional medicine space is “oversaturated.” But what are we actually seeing? And what qualities make up a fantastic clinician? Erin is offering a peek behind the curtain into her most rigorous practitioner hiring process yet, including what consistently showed up in applications, and all the sneaky clinical skill gaps she and Rachel Heintz, MS, RDN see that are holding practiti...

If you’ve ever felt like your nervous system is constantly jacked up and running on pressure, urgency, and adrenaline, this episode is a vulnerable deep dive into why that happens. Erin is taking you inside what nervous system re-patterning and brain rewiring actually look like through the lens of a deadline-driven season where pushing harder led to getting sick and realizing she couldn’t keep for...

Starting a gut healing protocol sounds straightforward until symptoms flare, digestion slows, or your skin freaks out. Do you protocol harder? Do you completely stop? Or is there a middle ground? In this episode, Erin and TFN Practitioner Nicole Antes are breaking down what die-off (aka a Herxheimer reaction) actually is, why it can feel downright gnarly, and how to tell the difference between a n...

Constant stimulation and social media algorithms are draining our life force every single day and keeping us stuck in cycles of nonstop scrolling and reactivity. So what does that mean for your energy, your focus, and your creativity? And how do we interrupt that pattern? You’ll learn how boredom (yes, boredom!) is one of the most unglamorous, but powerful tools for resetting your nervous system,...

If your “normal” winter cold has a habit of spiraling into a full-blown sinus or ear infection, this episode is your prevention wake-up call so you can stop the cycle. Erin is sharing her favorite strategies that are simple and unglamorous, but will keep things moving. You’ll learn why dry air is not your friend (hello winter and airplanes!), how a humidifier can help keep mucus thin, and why nasa...

If you’ve been taking in alllll the health, wellness, business, and self-improvement advice, this episode is your permission slip to start curating your own intentional “board of directors.” These are the people who will help you steer the ship and hold the line for your vision when you want to default into old patterns. You’ll learn Erin’s journaling exercise for filtering your influential inner...

We’re bringing it back to the gut! If you’ve ever started a gut protocol and thought, “Why do I feel worse?” or “Why did this work… and then completely fall apart?” this episode is for you. Erin is sharing what a gut protocol is, why going straight into antimicrobial “kill” mode can backfire, and how ignoring the body’s internal environment can lead to flare-ups and stalled healing. You’ll also le...

If you achieved ALL of your 2026 goals, how would you feel? How would it change your life? This episode is going to flip everything you think you know about intention setting, and why it matters. Instead of focusing on rigid goals or relying on willpower, Erin explains how aligning your 2026 intentions with who you want to become can naturally shape your choices around food, health, and daily habi...