Functional Medicine, Reimagined: Why Functional Medicine Isn’t Working Anymore (And What to Do Instead) | Ep 376
The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast
Erin Holt
4.9 • 759 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Functional medicine isn't broken, but in a world of quick-fix protocols and “labs first funnels”, it's time for the next evolution of wellness for both practitioners and patients.
In today’s solo episode, Erin is sharing a solutions-focused perspective which builds on the strengths of systems biology and root-cause thinking, expanding care to include the nervous system, trauma, and lived human experience. By weaving together labs with client storytelling, science with discernment, and clinical skill with true coaching, Erin’s framework has the power to strengthen the industry from the inside out.
Intuitive Functional Medicine™ doesn't replace functional medicine. It expands on it, and more than ever, we need practitioners ready to step into this deeper work.
Learn more about the fall 2025 cohort of Funk’tional Nutrition Academy™ and apply today!
In this episode:
- The current state of the functional medicine industry, and why overemphasis on labs and protocols creates more problems than solutions
- How the new wave of complex, highly educated clients is changing the industry
- What the “nocebo effect” is and how it undermines healing in functional medicine
- Why Intuitive Functional Medicine™ weaves in the nervous system, trauma, and belief systems
- Real-world examples of how blending science with client storytelling leads to deeper results
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Applications are now open for the fall 2025 cohort of Funk’tional Nutrition Academy™.
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| 0:00.0 | intuitive functional medicine really expands the map to include the terrain of the mind, |
| 0:06.6 | the emotions, the subconscious, and the lived experience. We bring in the lens of psychoneuroimmunology, |
| 0:13.3 | which looks at how the psyche, the nervous system, and the immune system are constantly |
| 0:17.7 | communicating. So it's not just the gut impacting our brain or the brain impacting |
| 0:24.6 | our gut. It's also the belief stored in the nervous system that shape immune function, |
| 0:30.6 | inflammation, and even hormone output. In this reimagined model, trauma imprints, thought patterns, belief systems, all of these |
| 0:41.7 | matter just as much as labs and supplements. |
| 0:46.9 | Welcome to the functional nutrition podcast, spell it with a K, because we do things |
| 0:50.5 | a little differently around here. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm your host, Erin Holt, and I've got 15 years of clinical experience |
| 0:55.5 | as a functional nutritionist and mindset coach, |
| 0:58.1 | creating a new model that I call intuitive functional medicine, |
| 1:01.4 | where we combine root cause medicine |
| 1:02.9 | with the innate intelligence of your body. |
| 1:05.9 | This is where science meets self-trust. |
| 1:08.6 | Your body already knows how to heal, |
| 1:10.7 | and this show is going to show you |
| 1:12.2 | how. If you're looking for new ways of thinking about your health, be sure to follow and share with |
| 1:17.0 | a friend because you never know whose life you might change. Hello, we are back with another |
| 1:23.5 | episode and today I'm talking about functional medicine reimagined. Why functional medicine |
| 1:29.0 | isn't working anymore, at least in some of the ways it's being practiced and what we can do |
| 1:35.6 | instead. Definitely going to be a longer episode today. I sat down to write this and really had to |
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