Hi everyone welcome back to Kibral House Call. I'm here to answer your

wellness weight loss and anti-aging questions today. I'm Steve Cabral, board

certified naturopathic doctor and what I'm going to do is take three

questions based on our motivation Monday topic and go through those one by one and make sure that we try to answer a variety of questions each week.

I think we answer at least 15 to 20 questions of

yours on a weekly basis so please do continue to submit those anywhere you'd like

on social media as well as Stephen Kibral.com

forward slash Ask Cabral.

So let's get started.

The first question comes in today

and it is essentially, let me paraphrase this, what's the easiest way to get started if you have

no idea what functional medicine is, if you've never heard a naturopathic medicine and this whole idea of

essentially getting to the underlying root causes of your issues. So what I

would recommend is even before you take that first step is that do a little bit of

research on your own, do a little bit of homework.

You can certainly buy a book, read a book on what functional medicine is, what natphabetic

medicine is, because there's many different types of medicine. Not every functional medicine doctor or practitioner. is some do stool testing it really depends on kind of how integrated and how diverse

that practitioner's background is and remember they don't have to be a doctor either

you could certainly find a chiropractor acupuncturist, or health professional and nutritionist in general who knows a lot of this information.

Again, it's not just doctors who kind of have the cornerstone or they have the corner of the market on this. So what I recommend is

simply start you can do some research online online is a scary place to do your

research because everyone has an opinion and usually you're only finding the

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