Functional “Medicine” - Fake Diagnoses & Predatory Tests (Part 1)

Wellness: Fact vs. Fiction

Danielle Belardo

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

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Summary

Join Dr. Danielle Belardo and her double dose of experts this week, registered dietitian Dr. Kevin Klatt and board certified family physician Dr. Spencer Nadolsky. This trio is fired up and ready to debunk their favorite controversial topic, functional medicine. The world of social media has created a lot of movement in alternative spaces of medicine and nutrition, and it is hard to tell fact from fiction as it “feels” and “sounds” a lot like real medicine. With the claim to address the root cause of illness and restore health, you would think this practice would be standardized with a list of guidelines, but it’s not, and that can be a very slippery slope. On today’s episode, Danielle, Spencer, and Kevin dive into the predatory nature of integrative health practitioners, how more lab tests are not always the answer, and which fake diagnoses you deserve to know the truth about.

Dr. Kevin C. Klatt, PhD, RD is a nutrition researcher and registered dietitian who provides individualized medical nutrition therapy and health coaching to patients/clients. Dr. Klatt completed his doctoral work in nutrition at Cornell University and his dietetic training at the National Institutes of Health. He is currently a researcher at the Baylor College of Medicine.

Dr. Spencer Nadolsky is an obesity and lipid specialist physician who focuses on exercise and nutrition as medicine. He earned a degree in Exercise Science from the University of North Carolina and completed his medical degree at Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (Virginia Tech Campus). His residency training was done through the VCU-Riverside Family Medicine program. He is also the creator of LiftRx.

Myths and misconceptions discussed include:

Functional medicine “diagnoses” including adrenal fatigue, mold toxicity and leaky gut syndrome
Drugstore lab tests and food sensitivity tests
Hormone optimization and hypothyroidism

Thank you so much for taking the time to contribute to a generation that values fact over fiction! Be sure to rate, review, and follow on your favorite podcast app and let us know which not-so-wellness trend you’d like to hear debunked. Follow your host on Instagram @daniellebelardomd and the podcast @wellnessfactvsfiction. Follow Kevin @kcklatt and Spencer @drnadolsky.

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation.
0:08.4	And then they go see a functional medicine doctor who's, they paid cash, by the way,
0:12.6	but spent an hour with them and actually helped them with lifestyle, made them not feel so crappy.
0:17.5	And all of a sudden, it's like, yeah, this functional medicine doctor helped me.
0:21.4	No, lifestyle medicine is absolutely evidence-based.
0:24.8	Diet nutrition ends up being a gateway drug for a lot of functional medicine practitioners
0:29.2	because they say something reasonable about diet and address it and gain a lot of trust with
0:34.3	the patients. And then it doesn't matter whether they say it's evidence-based or not.
0:38.8	It then creates that trust which allows them to sell a lot of tests and supplements and other
0:44.0	things that aren't evidence back.
0:52.2	Welcome to wellness, fact versus fiction.
0:55.2	I'm Dr. Danielle Ballardo and I'm a cardiologist who loves evidence-based medicine and
0:59.5	nutrition science.
1:00.7	But as a millennial, I've watched endless wellness vads take over social media.
1:05.2	It's my mission to get to the bottom of things by bringing on the top expert physicians
1:09.1	and scientists to help us determine what is fact
1:11.8	versus fiction when it comes to your health. It's time to leave the pseudoscience behind and
1:17.2	become empowered when it comes to our wellness.
1:40.2	Hi, everyone. We are back with what I expect to be a comedic episode today because we have the one and only Kevin Klatt and Spencer Nodalski on today.
1:46.1	Kevin Klat is a registered dietitian and PhD nutrition scientist who you all probably know from my Instagram, Spencer Nodalski is a family medicine physician who is also board certified
1:52.2	in lipids and obesity medicine and recently started Lyft RX program. And they are both here today
1:57.8	to discuss one of our favorite topics, one that generally gets everyone pretty heated, which is functional medicine and functional nutrition. Hey, guys. What's up? Hey. I don't know how comedic it will be. You told us to tone it down. I know. I did. I told them I didn't want our editors to have to go to too much work and to keep it, keep it professional here,
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