125: Dr. Robin Berzin - Making Functional Medicine More Accessible

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🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Functional medicine is an effective alternative to traditional medicine because it addresses the root causes of chronic diseases and aims to reverse them.

The problem is that it’s an expensive option, making it impossible for most people to access it.

Until now.

Dr. Robin Berzin, the CEO and founder of Parsley Health, is working hard to change that in her practice, which focuses on making functional medicine more accessible.

Not only do they provide an affordable and effective option, they also aim to train other physicians to do the same thing so that people across the United States can get the help they need.

In today’s episode, you’ll discover why functional medicine is so effective, how Dr. Berzin and her team approach each patient to identify what needs to be addressed, and how they tackle mental health issues.

You’ll also hear more about what Dr. Berzin’s team focuses on and why, the exercises she recommends, and the role your gut microbiome plays in mental health.

Dr. Berzin and Dr. Anthony Gustin also chat about why our health system is so messed up, what the future of that looks like, and how things are changing because of Covid.

Dr. Robin Berzin is a practicing physician who went to medical school at Columbia University and trained in internal medicine at Mount Sinai.

From there, Dr. Berzin went on to study at the Institute of Functional Medicine, where she worked with some of the top physicians in this space.

Fast forward to today and Dr. Berzin and her team at Parsley Health work with patients in her clinic to help address chronic diseases and reverse as many as possible.

You’ll hear more about how that’s possible when you check out the episode now.

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0:00.0	Today I welcome on the show Dr. Robin Burzen, who is a CEO and founder of Parsley Health.
0:11.3	She is trying to democratize a lot of what makes functional medicine really complicated.
0:15.8	And while I love how functional medicine works on the root cause of health and trying to
0:21.4	restore that for people instead of trying to just manage symptoms like traditional
0:26.0	Western medicine does, there are some huge problems with it. Number one would be how expensive
0:31.7	it is. So providers even here in Austin that are pretty good are charging three four five
0:36.2	thousand dollars. Yes, I'm not kidding you five to five thousand dollars just for the
0:40.3	intro intake. And that doesn't include testing either. And that is a huge problem. It's
0:46.4	not accessible for a lot of people. The second one is just a variability in training. It makes
0:51.3	it really confusing and hard to get providers in the same page around what they're testing
0:55.0	why they're testing in in Parsley aims to help with both of these problems. They are trying
1:00.2	to make it extremely affordable as well. Train a lot of conditions in their way that they
1:05.7	do functional medicine. So it's an awesome awesome podcast. Robin, I also chat a lot about
1:11.2	why we think the health system is so messed up and the future of medicine. So if you are
1:15.6	interested in functional medicine at all or curious about how we think the world is going
1:20.6	to change down the lead of COVID, turn into this one. And I think you guys are going to get
1:24.1	a lot of gems here. So tune in and I hope you enjoy. Before we get to the episode, I wanted
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