Informed Descent, the intersection of healthcare and politics,

with Dr. Jeff Barky, board-certified primary care physician,

and Dr. Mark McDonald, board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist.

All right, welcome to another great episode of informed descent.

I am once again flying solo. My co-host, Mark

McDonald, is off in some faraway land. So while he's gone, I get to bring really interesting

guests on the program, and I got one for you today. And his name is Frank Tortorici. Frank

Tortorici. It's a mouthful. I'm not good at pronouncing name. Frank,

welcome to informed dissent. Thank you for having me. It's good to reconnect to you again.

Absolutely. We did. I think it was maybe a year plus ago, maybe two years ago. It was an Instagram

live or a Facebook. I don't really remember. And it got tons of views. And I was watching you recently. I'm like, oh, damn, I got to get that guy back on. He's doing some good stuff. So first of all, you got a bunch of initials after your name. I'm not sure what they are. FDN and CFT. What's that?

So functional diagnostic nutritionist.

It's a work that I've done through Reed Davis, Dr. Bill Wilcott.

It's basically to help patients, clients address stressors in their life, internal, external

stressors.

We do hormone testing, gut microbiome, things of that nature.

But I really try to focus more on the internal and external stressors.

I mean, so many people are under such chronic stress, I'm sure as you know, in your line of work.

And I really try to get people to get more clarity on the,

how do you say, the invisible stressors in their life, right? Everybody, when they think of

stress, they think of bills, life, work, family. But what I try to get people to look at is,

what are you doing on a day-to-day basis that's causing stress

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