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Hey guys, this is Dr. Roushau and welcome to our short form podcast.

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Hi, this is Dr. Risho, and let's discuss a listener question of a gal who's trying to evaluate.

Here is a local functional medicine provider in my town. Here is the recommendation

that I've been given in terms of the initial visit and the initial testing and treatment

recommendations. Is this what I would consider excessive or reasonable? And it's a great question.

And it's a question that I think needs to be asked more, both by the provider and by the patient.

Because overly expensive functional medicine is not really helping anyone.

I have argued for a while now that it does not help the patient because it throws up unnecessary financial hurdles.

And it does not help the provider because it also throws those hurdles at patients,

which are trying to get help through their offices. And this premise really depends on a key finding,

which is that additional testing and treatment does not produce better results. Some testing and

treatment, of course, produces results.

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