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In this episode of the Prime Health Podcast, Dr. Derek Baron interviews Katie Garrott, a board-certified clinical nutritionist and founder of VivaWise Functional Wellness. Katie shares how her mother’s battle with fibromyalgia and her own debilitating parasite infections contracted in Central America led her to pursue functional medicine. They discuss her unique, minimalist approach to care that flips the traditional functional medicine “test, don’t guess” model on its head by prioritizing deep listening and lifestyle changes over overwhelming, expensive lab panels. Katie also introduces the Functional Practitioner Academy, her new training platform designed to equip other providers with an organized knowledge base and clinical confidence.
Key Takeaways:
- The Power of Listening: You can uncover the deepest root causes of illness—like chronic stress or poor sleep habits—simply by taking the time to listen to a patient’s story, rather than relying solely on expensive functional tests.
- Minimalist Functional Medicine: By keeping protocols simple and using basic blood work like a CBC to identify inflammation, Katie helps patients achieve their goals without the burnout and high costs of excessive supplementation and restrictive diets.
- Healing the “Incurable”: Katie shares a remarkable success story of a patient diagnosed with lymphangiectasia who managed to reverse severe malnutrition and chronic diarrhea by focusing strictly on foundational gut health and stress reduction.
- The Functional Practitioner Academy: A comprehensive training course and knowledge base—described as a “Wikipedia for functional medicine”—built to help clinicians quickly find protocols, interpret labs, and treat patients effectively without spending 70-hour workweeks researching.
- Optimize Your Circadian Rhythm: Katie’s top piece of health advice is to align your sleep, eating windows, and sunlight exposure with your natural circadian rhythm, putting your health and healing on autopilot.
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