Today on the root cause medicine podcast.

I couldn't work for anyone else.

I'm a serial entrepreneur.

Like I had no choice but to open my own business.

And every bank and every investor and everybody told me no.

I was kind of forced into this decision where if I wanted it to happen, I had to make it happen.

You know, movement in isolation isn't enough.

Functional medicine in isolation isn't enough. Functional medicine in isolation

isn't enough. Well, hello there and welcome to the Rood Clause Medicine podcast. I'm your host,

Dr. Kate Kresge, and today I'm sitting down with Kristen Oja, a revolutionary founder of stat

wellness, who's going to talk to us about her journey from personal trainer to nurse practitioner

to a clinic owner with over five practices across the country

and growing. Now, we've heard that muscle is medicine and movement is medicine and that sarcopenia

is a major risk factor for a number of chronic illnesses and even decreased lifespan. But most

of us struggle to figure out how to integrate it into clinic, aside from referring to maybe a physical

therapist or a personal trainer, we're trying to get our clients involved in an exercise program. Kristen decided to solve that.

She created a membership model that treats things like an in-body scan and HRV and muscle balance

as just as important as other vital signs, like blood pressure and heart rate. She's a phenomenal

and entertaining story, and I know you're going to love hearing from her. If you're a nurse practitioner who's thinking about making the leap to opening your own practice, Kristen is an amazing person to listen to. If you're a personal trainer, health coach, or another provider who's passionate about movement and muscle as medicine, you're going to feel like you've found your new best friend in Kristen. Before we dive in, let me give you a preview into some of the biomarkers we're going to discuss, as well as her clinical model. We're going to talk about things like HSCRP, DHA and cortisol balance, pregnant alone, testosterone, and things like vitamin D and nutrients that Kristen treats as baseline for every single one of her patients that walks through the clinic, whether they're a child or an adult.

We're also going to talk about how she keeps teen morale high and how she made it through those

first few years of practice where she was working around the clock. Kristen is an amazing example

of what's possible, not only for our patients, but for ourselves personally as practitioners.

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