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In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Adina Mintz, a functional medicine physician assistant and founder of New Jersey Functional Medicine. After 17 years in conventional medicine treating over 50,000 patients, Adina realized the system was relying on band-aid solutions rather than addressing the root causes of illness. She discusses her comprehensive approach to functional medicine, combining critical lifestyle adjustments with detailed functional laboratory testing. The conversation covers the dangers of medical gaslighting, the overlooked side effects of oral contraceptives, and how women can stop accepting chronic pain and fatigue as “just part of life”.
Key Takeaways:
- Escaping Medical Gaslighting: Women are frequently told their labs are normal despite suffering from severe symptoms. Adina explains how advanced functional testing, such as hormone cycle mapping, uncovers dysfunctions like PCOS that standard blood tests miss.
- Informed Consent and Hormones: Conventional medicine often prescribes oral contraceptives for painful periods without fully explaining risks like cancer, weight gain, or loss of libido. Adina focuses on restoring natural hormonal balance using bioidentical progesterone instead.
- Strategic Supplementation: Supplements can be dangerous if taken indiscriminately. Adina uses precise saliva, blood, and urine testing to ensure her patients only take the specific nutrients their bodies actually need.
- Healing Complex Chronic Illness: Adina shares an incredible success story of a 20-year-old nursing student who reversed debilitating SIBO, POTS-like symptoms, and tick-borne disease, dropping her medical symptom score from 170 down to 15.
- Challenge the Status Quo: Just because your mother had horrible pregnancies or painful menopause doesn’t mean you have to. Adina urges patients to be proactive, reject the status quo of feeling miserable, and find a practitioner who truly listens.
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