FMP Essentials: Functional Medicine Practitioner Show

Host & Guest Details Host:   Dr. Yousef Elyaman, Functional Medicine Primary Care Physician Guest:  Scott Rattigan, JD, Founder of Functional Lawyer   Episode Overview As functional medicine continues to evolve, practitioners have more opportunities than ever to expand their impact through telemedicine, online education, AI, and larger clinical teams. But growth also brings new...

Host & Guest Details Host:   Dr. Yousef Elyaman, Functional Medicine Primary Care Physician Guest: Dr. Lara Zakaria, Integrative Pharmacist & Nutritionist   Episode Overview What can your wearable actually tell you about your metabolic health? In this FMP Essentials episode on functional medicine, metabolic flexibility, and wearable health technology, Dr. Yousef Elyaman sits down...

PMOS, Insulin Resistance & Fatty Liver: Detecting MASLD Before Advanced Liver Disease A patient can live with metabolic dysfunction for years while liver disease progresses quietly in the background. For women with PMOS, formerly PCOS, the connection between insulin resistance, hormonal dysfunction, and fatty liver may be especially important. This episode is deeply personal. Dr. Ellie Campbel...

Host & Guest Details Host:   Dr. Yousef Elyaman, Functional Medicine Primary Care Physician Guest:  Dr. Wendy Warner, MD,   Board-Certified OB-GYN, Functional Medicine Physician, IFM Educator, Herbal Medicine Educator, and Women's Hormone Health Expert.   Episode Overview Many teenage girls are prescribed birth control pills as the first treatment for painful periods, acne,...

Host & Guest Details Host:   Dr. Yousef Elyaman, Functional Medicine Primary Care Physician Guest:   Dr. M Isreb, Nephrologist & Functional Medicine Specialist, Founder of Integrative Kidney Episode Overview Kidney stones are becoming dramatically more common, yet many patients leave the emergency room with little guidance beyond drinking more water and hoping they never experien...

  Host & Guest Details Host: Dr. Yousef Elyaman | Functional Medicine Primary Care Physician Guest: Melody Hartzler | PharmD, BCACP, BC-ADM, ABAAHP   Episode Description In this FMP Essentials episode on functional medicine for PMOS (formerly PCOS), Dr. Melody Hartzler shares her personal health journey and explains why the condition was recently renamed from Polycystic Ovarian Syndr...

 Episode Description   🧠 Anxiety isn't always just a mental health issue. In this FMP Essentials episode on functional medicine for anxiety, Dr. Yousef Elyaman sits down with functional psychiatric nurse practitioner Everest Goldstein to explore the hidden physiological causes of anxiety that are often overlooked in conventional care. Together they discuss how blood sugar imbalances, co...

Host & Guest Details Host:   Dr. Yousef Elyaman, Functional Medicine Primary Care Physician Guest: Natalie Lue, Author & Boundaries Expert   Episode Overview In this functional medicine episode, Natalie Lue explains how people pleasing and lack of boundaries can impact your health, stress levels, and long-term wellbeing. Dr. Elyaman and Natalie explore how these patterns show up...

Host & Guest Details Host:   Dr. Yousef Elyaman, Functional Medicine Primary Care Physician Guest: Dr. Kara Fitzgerald, ND, IFMCP — Functional Medicine & Epigenetics Expert Episode Overview In this episode, Dr. Kara Fitzgerald explains how biological age vs chronological age works and how you can reverse aging naturally using diet, lifestyle, and epigenetics. We break down real resear...

In this episode of the FMP Essentials Show, Dr. Yousef Elyaman sits down with Dr. Joshua Helman, MD, a Harvard-trained physician to explore how functional medicine, systems biology, and precision diagnostics are changing what’s possible in cognitive decline. Rather than viewing Alzheimer’s disease as a single, untreatable condition, this conversation reframes it as a multi-factorial, biologically...

Episode Description In this FMP Essentials episode on functional medicine and women’s hormone health, Dr. Yousef Elyaman sits down with Dr. Tara Scott, a triple board-certified OB/GYN and internationally recognized expert in perimenopause, progesterone therapy, and integrative hormone optimization. With over 20 years of experience transitioning from traditional OB/GYN to functional and integrative...

Episode Description In this episode of the FMP Essentials Show, Dr. Yousef Elyaman sits down with Adam Lamb, healthcare entrepreneur, executive coach, and founder of The One Percent Doctor, for a candid, high-impact conversation on clinician burnout, business overwhelm, and personal misalignment. Adam has worked with hundreds of physicians and healthcare practitioners across the country—many of wh...

Welcome to another FMP Essentials Express episode — fast, focused, and packed with high-yield insights for practitioners, health coaches, and functional medicine fans who want powerful takeaways in just minutes.   In this episode, Dr. Yousef Elyaman sits down with Dr. Anil Bajnath , a physician at the forefront of precision medicine, genomics, epigenetics, and individualized care , to break d...

  In this episode of FMP Essentials, Dr. Yousef Elyaman breaks down the deeper root causes behind hypothyroidism, Hashimoto’s disease, and the patients who continue to struggle even when their labs appear “normal.”   Using the FMP Essentials tree framework—knowledge as the trunk, wisdom as the roots, leadership as the branches, efficiency as the leaves, and outcomes as the fruit—this con...

Are you—or your patients—still feeling drained months after giving birth? In this FMP Essentials episode, Dr. Yousef Elyaman sits down with Dr. Lauren Davis, DO — a double-board-certified family physician and osteopathic neuromuscular medicine expert — to reveal the root-cause science behind postpartum depletion and how functional medicine can restore energy, hormone balance, and gut health — safe...

Host & Guest Details Host:   Dr. Yousef Elyaman, Functional Medicine Primary Care Physician Guest:   Dr. Deanna Minich, PhD, CNS, IFMCP — Nutritionist, Author, and Functional Medicine Educator Episode Description In this inspiring FMP Essentials episode, Dr. Yousef Elyaman sits down with renowned nutrition scientist and functional medicine leader Dr. Deanna Minich to explore how colo...

Host & Guest Details Host: Dr. Yousef Elyaman, Functional Medicine Primary Care Physician Guest: Dr. M Isreb, Nephrologist & Functional Medicine Specialist, Founder of Integrative Kidney Episode Overview Discover the root causes, conventional blind spots, and integrative strategies for managing chronic kidney disease (CKD). Dr. M Isreb, a seasoned nephrologist and functional medicine pract...

Host & Guest Details Host: Dr. Yousef Elyaman, Functional Medicine Primary Care Physician Guest: Dr. Dawn Beaulieu, Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Board Certified Gastroenterologist; Certified in Functional Medicine Episode Overview Dr. Dawn Beaulieu, a trailblazing gastroenterologist and functional medicine educator, joins Dr. Elyaman to explore the nuanced diagn...

Host & Guest Host: Dr. Yousef Elyaman – Functional Medicine Primary Care Physician Guest: Dr. Deanna Minich, PhD – Nutritionist, Author, and Expert in Functional Nutrition & Phytochemicals Episode Overview In this FMP Essentials Express episode, Dr. Yousef Elyaman speaks with functional nutrition expert and researcher Dr. Deanna Minich about the clinical power of phytochemicals, food color...

Host & Guest Details Host: Dr. Yousef Elyaman, Functional Medicine Primary Care Physician Guest: Dr. Cheng Ruan, MD, Internist, Health Technologist, AI Developer, and Founder of Synaptic and the Physician Transformation Institute Episode Overview In this episode of FMP Essentials, Dr. Cheng Ruan joins Dr. Elyaman to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping functional medicine. From sma...

Host & Guest Details Host:  Dr. Yousef Elyaman, Functional Medicine Primary Care Physician Guest:  Dr. Elizabeth Boham, MD, MS, RD, Medical Director at the UltraWellness Center, IFM Certified Practitioner, Breast Cancer Survivor, Author Episode Overview In this powerful and deeply personal episode, Dr. Elizabeth Boham shares her journey from a healthy 30-year-old medical resident to...

Host & Guest Details Host:  Dr. Yousef Elyaman, Functional Medicine Primary Care Physician Guest:  Dr. John Carrozzella, MD, MS, FAARM, Expert in Hormonal Health, Sexual Medicine, and Age Management Episode Overview In this episode, we dive deep into the transformative intersection of hormone replacement therapy, sexual medicine, and integrative age management with nationally recogni...

Host & Guest Details Host:  Dr. Yousef Elyaman, Functional Medicine Physician Guest: Dr. Tom Sult, MD, IFM Educator, Functional & Integrative Medicine Expert, Author of Just Be Well Episode Overview In this eye-opening episode, Dr. Yousef Elyaman sits down with Dr. Tom Sult to explore the functional medicine approach to Lyme disease and complex tick-borne illness. You'll hear how conv...

Host & Guest Details Host:  Dr. Yousef Elyaman, Functional Medicine Primary Care Physician Guest:  Dr. Rajka Milanovic Galbraith, MD, IFMCP, Longevity & Autoimmunity Expert, Founder of Simply Health Institute Episode Overview In this insightful conversation, Dr. Yousef Elyaman is joined by Dr. Rajka Milanovic Galbraith to explore how functional medicine offers a deeper, more pers...

Host Dr. Yousef Elyaman, Functional Medicine Primary Care Physician Guest Dr. Terry Wahls, Functional Medicine Physician, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Autoimmunity Expert, Creator of The Wahls Protocol What You’ll Get in This Must-Listen Episode In this powerful Express episode, Dr. Terry Wahls joins Dr. Yousef Elyaman to share how she defied the odds after being diagnosed with secondary progre...