If people find out that that's what I'm doing and that's what's going on, then so be it.

Because I found myself in a very grave situation being a patient at such a young age.

And that's now part of my journey.

That's part of my life.

And I stopped hiding.

And what did that feel like once you made that decision and you started to share more openly with your patients?

Liberating for me, empowering for me too, because then I was able to infuse all the things that I learned

and all the things that I was frustrated with into how I think about patient care and what my patients are experiencing.

Hello and welcome to pursuing health. I'm Dr. Julie Foucher, family physician and former

CrossFit Games athlete. Here I bring you information and inspiration to

help bridge the gap between fitness and medicine and support your journey toward your healthiest self.

Thank you so much for joining me. Now let's get started with this week's episode.

Welcome back to pursuing health. I am very excited to be here today with Dr. Jacqueline Tolentino,

who is very high, the lead functional medicine physician at this flagship location of Love Life in Los Angeles.

And if you're watching this on video, you wouldn't know it because we're on two separate videos and computers, but I'm actually here with her.

And she just gave me an amazing tour of Love Life. And so I'm excited to talk more about that as we get into the conversation.

But first, just a brief intro, a little bit of information about Dr. Jacqueline to get us started.

She is a board certified family medicine physician.

She sub-specializes in hormone optimization.

She graduated from the Edward via College of Osteopathic Medicine with the doctor of osteopathy philosophy, which laid the foundation for her

holistic approach, treating the whole person and empowering the body's natural ability to heal.

She did her residency in family medicine and then subsequent training through the Institute

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