Hello and welcome to pursuing health. I'm Dr. Julie Foucher Brown, 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.

On this episode of pursuing health, I am bringing together some of the most influential voices

in functional medicine to explore what it really means to create health, not just treat disease.

Through these conversations, I reflect on how seeking root causes has shaped the way I practice

medicine.

My hope is that this episode invites

you to think differently about healing and about what it truly means to pursue health. Family physician

Dr. David Hassee reflects on how questioning conventional medical assumptions led him toward a deeper

understanding of what actually creates health. He speaks to the power of seeing patients as

whole people and the relief that comes when biology replaces shame. It took me into this world of

cognitive bias, you know, and I was confronted at that time with this evidence that, you know,

doctors and properly prescribed medications are the third, maybe fourth leading

cause of death in the United States.

Just that medicine as its practice is dangerous.

So two things drove me in the family medicine is that, A, I wanted to become a generalist,

you know, a super generalist, somebody who looked broadly at that person

in the context of their life and the context of their community and, you know, understand who that

person was so that we could better understand what challenges they were having. But instead,

you know, what we end up doing is learning how to diagnose and treat, you know, basically name it, blame it, and tame it, rather than, you know, what we end up doing is learning how to diagnose and treat, you know,

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