Functional Medicine Podcast

In this episode, Dr. McMinn and Coach Lindsay discuss the Top Ten Concerns of Women in a Johnny Carson type countdown, and offer a functional medicine perspective on these concerns.

This episode features Rachel Olsen, MS, RD, who is an IFM certified functional nutritionist. Dr. McMinn and Coach Lindsey delve into the topic of functional nutrition with Rachel and try to articulate just how important nutrition is for our health, wellness, and many other aspects of life.

Breast cancer is the number one cancer in women, and has reached epidemic proportions. However, women are not helpless victims in the fight against it. In this podcast, Dr. McMinn and Coach Lindsay share evidence-based information and strategies to empower you in the fight against breast cancer.

On this episode of the FMP, Dr. McMinn and Coach Lindsay explore the root causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and repercussions of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). They also discuss conventional and integrative therapies to help women with PCOS achieve optimal outcomes.

The topic of this podcast is toxins and detoxification! While not acknowledged by much of western medicine, toxins exist in many areas of our daily lives, and can wreak havoc on our bodies. Listen in to learn how to avoid and treat toxins!

Today's episode is about one of the pillars of health, SLEEP. Without a good night of sleep, the rest of your journey to wellness gets much harder. Dr. McMinn and Coach Lindsay spend some time to tell you about why it is important, and how to have a better rest period.

This episode is an abbreviated cast where Dr. McMinn discusses one of the most serious, yet treatable conditions that he sees: osteoporosis.

Fibromyalgia may be the silent killer preventing you from achieving optimal wellness. This episode, Dr. McMinn and Coach Laurel discuss common misconceptions, causes, and treatments that coincide with fibromyalgia.

Dr. McMinn's favorite saying is "There is a gut-everything connection". This episode focuses on the gut-skin connection, and features Dr. Mary Brittain Blankenship, founder of Spruce MD in South Carolina. Discussion topics include the cause and treatments of skin conditions that originate in the gut.

Functional Medicine Chart Review is a new mini-series where Dr. McMinn will use real patients (anonymously) to explain popular topics among his experiences at McMinn Clinic. Episode 1 is about "optimization".

This episode, Dr. McMinn and Coach Lindsay speak with guest Nikki Woods, who is a physical therapist specializing in pelvic health. Together, they explain all aspects of pelvic floor issues and how they are handled by the team in the outpatient setting.

Functional Medicine Podcast is back to talk about the variety of ways to effectively manage the issues that involve your favorite gland: the thyroid. Dr. McMinn is a thyroid expert, and today he opens up on his favorite treatment protocols, including medication types and lifestyle changes that can best help alleviate symptoms of thyroid disease.

This episode of the Functional Medicine Podcast features a special guest: Christina Pierpaoli Parker, MA, who is a fifth-year graduate student in the Clinical Geropsychology doctoral program at the University of Alabama. Mrs. Parker joins us today to discuss SLEEP and help us better understand how it can be improved and how it interacts with the many parts of our lives. To help you better navigate the podcast, see the following notes: 1:14 Introduction of Christina Pierpaoli Parker, a 5th year PhD candidate in Clinical Geropsychology at UAB focusing today on insomnia in older adults. 3:07 CBTI Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia is an evidenced-based treatment for the management and cure of insomnia involves 4-8 sessions in a clinic with a health psychologist. 5:10 CBTI recommended over hypnotic medications (e.g. Ambien or Lunesta). 8:04 There are some features of CBTI that work quickly such as guided relaxation technique. 9:08 Sleep latency is how long it takes to get to sleep which should be 15-30 minutes. Tips for what you should do if it takes longer. 10:40 Insomnia profile tend to spend more time in bed awake than asleep, the brain starts to see the bed as a cue for wakefulness rather than sleep. 12:20 The bed should be only be used for the 3 Ss: sleep, sex and sickness. 13:50 Only go to bed when sleepy, not just tired. 16:00 What do night people do, circadian rhythm disorder and chronotypes. 17:50 Night owls and Early Bird chronotypes 19:00 Shift work predicts various dysfunction. 20:00 Circadian rhythm disorder- work with a sleep psychologist and do chronotherapy 24:00 Light and stimulation- why we care about it. 26:50 Stages of sleep 30:42 Effects of sleep deprivation on beta amyloid (associated with dementia) 36:09 Is disrupted sleep bad? Some tips. 37:57 Tips for sleep hygiene 42:06 What about naps? 43:20 Use of CBD oil 44:45 Sleep myths 47:04 How to know if you’ve had enough sleep. 53:35 Sleep and sex 56:25 Complementary Sexual Health support group offered at McMinn clinic once a month 57:06 Work that Dr. Pierpaoli Parker is doing, her blog https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/engaging and book 1:03:45 How to contact or find Dr. Pierpaoli Parker

This podcast covers one of the most frequently used tools in the McMinn toolbox: Hormones. Dr. McMinn is here with nurse Laurel Roberts to tell you how to take control of your hormones so they don't control you.

Today, Dr. Kristine Lokken, PhD takes some time out of her busy schedule at the Brain Health Institute, to discuss the topic of brain health with us. Dr. Lokken is a renowned neuropsychologist, and the perfect person to tell us the best practices to keep our minds sharp.

This episode is a special stress edition featuring McMinn Clinic's own Donna Mullinax. Donna is a licensed counselor and hypnotherapist, and today she and Dr. McMinn discuss the realities of stress, and share the tools that they use to deal with it.

In this episode we bring on Dr. Suzanne Judd, PhD to talk with us about nutrition. Dr. Judd is a professor at UAB, and is currently a program manager for a large scale stroke study. Today, we got the opportunity to pick her brain about the importance of nutrition and what we can do to improve ours.

In this episode, we discuss the invisible illness, dysautonomia. Dizziness, brain fog, anxiety, fainting, racing heart... All being treated under the blanket of "stress". We are here to tell you about a treatable condition that might be the diagnosis that the other guy's are missing.

This episode of Functional Medicine Podcast features our first guest, Mary Ann Davis from Wellness Pharmacy! She is the PCCA Pharmacist of the year, and comes to offer her professional insight into the benefits of compounding and bio-identical hormones, while clearing up some common misconceptions.

The final installment of the Gut Health Series is an explanation of our approach to healing the gut, as well as maintaining your gut health. Every person is unique, even at the gut level; however, there are some helpful tips that all of our guts will thank us for.

The fourth installment of the Functional Medicine Podcast's Gut Health Series is a feature about the gut lining. This episode takes the listener into the healthy gut, and explains why a "leaky gut" can be the root cause of dozens of crippling autoimmune diseases.

The third installation to our Gut Health Series is a feature on one of the hot topics of the medical world, the gut microbiome. Dr. McMinn and Coach Lindsay show us the relationship between our body and the bugs that inhabit it.

The second installment of our Gut Health Series is a look inside the anatomy of the gut. Dr. McMinn and Coach Lindsay delve in to the science behind digestion, and speak about some of the bacteria and processes that keep us healthy, or give us signs that we are not.

Our third podcast is the first part in our Gut Health Series. This mini series will act as a crash course on gut health and the many gut connections that control so much of what goes on inside us. Episode 1 is the introduction to the gut and sets us up for the detailed episodes in the coming weeks.

Our second podcast gives you some insight on how fatigue is addressed in the functional medicine setting. Dr. McMinn and Coach Lindsay talk about how fatigue appears in the patients that they see, and where they start to get the mojo back for their patients!

Our first podcast is an introduction to functional medicine, integrative medicine, and The McMinn Clinic. Topics discussed include how Dr. McMinn defines integrative and functional medicine, Dr. McMinn's Four Axes of Care, wellness, and a backstory to the creation of The McMinn Clinic. We hope you enjoy!