Hey there and welcome back to the Energy Blueprint Podcast.

I'm your host, Ari Whitten, and today I have with me, Dr. Scott Antoine.

He is a board-certified emergency physician who has served for seven years on active duty with the United

States Army as an emergency physician. And also very unusual, a little biography here. He went

from emergency medicine to functional medicine. So in addition to his board certification

and emergency medicine, Dr. Antoine completed a fellowship

in metabolic nutritional and functional medicine through the Metabolic Medical Institute,

which is affiliated with George Washington University and the University of South Florida.

And in 2016, he was one of only 121 physicians nationwide to achieve board certification

in integrative medicine through the newly formed American Board of Integrative Medicine.

And he also holds a certification in functional medicine through the Institute for Functional Medicine.

So welcome to the show, Dr. Scott Antoine. Thank you very much. All right.

It's great to be here. Yeah, pleasure to have you. So I first want to start off with your very

unusual biography that, you know, it's not very common for someone to go from emergency medicine

to functional medicine. So what prompted that whole, which it's quite a big shift,

right? Like the skills you have as an emergency physician don't necessarily translate into

functional medicine and dealing with chronic complex diseases. You know, to deal with like acute

stabbings or gunshots or car accidents and stuff

doesn't necessarily translate into an ability to deal with heart disease or Lyme disease

or chronic fatigue syndrome or something like that. So what prompted this huge shift in your

area of focus and training? Sure. Well, I really, I still work clinically in the AR about four shifts a month. I really enjoy

what I do. I worked in several trauma centers, level one trauma as well as in the military,

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