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Introduction [00:00:00] Detective Ev: Well, hello, my friends. Welcome back to another episode of the Health Detective Podcast by Functional Diagnostic Nutrition. My name is Evan Transue, AKA Detective Ev. I will be your host for today’s show with Dr. Kyrin Duston on mastering hormones. I must say I loved this conversation. First of all, I loved her story, but second of all, just the passion that she brings to this. It’s something that I see relatively often in the space. But I love when people just let it flow and come out verbally. Passion is something that I believe cannot […]

Introduction [00:00:00] Detective Ev: What is going on my friends and welcome back to another episode of the Health Detective Podcast by Functional Diagnostic Nutrition. My name is Evan Transue, AKA Detective Ev. I will be your host for today’s show in which we have a pretty special guest with us. His name is Dr. Sandeep Gupta. The reason he is such a special guest is because he is our first medical director who has ever been on this podcast. At the FDN course, once you graduate, you are allowed to facilitate lab orders through our doctors. People are always pretty […]

Introduction [00:00:00] Detective Ev: Hey, what is going on my friends? Welcome back to another episode of the Health Detective Podcast by Functional Diagnostic Nutrition. My name is Evan Transue, AKA Detective Ev. I will be your host for today’s show on a unique topic – tic disorders. I had the privilege of getting to interview a longtime friend of mine. She is a fellow FDN practitioner herself, Dr. Piper Gibson. She is a doctor in naturopathic medicine just to be clear. Really cool story, she ended up having this thing where her son was the main person with the health […]

Introduction [00:00:00] Detective Ev: What is going on my friends? Welcome back to another episode of the Health Detective Podcast by Functional Diagnostic Nutrition. My name is Evan Transue, AKA Detective Ev. I will be your host for today’s show where we are speaking to FDN extraordinaire about her terrible gut issues. Her name’s Kristin Thomas. I say that because she is someone that not only mastered the health side of FDN, she mastered the business side to the point where for the last couple of years, she has been exclusively coaching FDNs and other health professionals with getting their business […]

Introduction [00:00:00] Detective Ev: Hey, what is going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Health Detective Podcast by Functional Diagnostic Nutrition. My name is Evan Transue, AKA Detective Ev. I will be your host for today’s show on gut testing. As you guys know maybe two months ago now, we transitioned this podcast into talking more about the FDN certification program, the FDN course. What’s been really cool is you guys have seemed to love this. I’ve been surprised actually, that some of the topics we’ve put on, maybe I didn’t expect to get nearly as many listens […]

Introduction [00:00:00] Detective Ev: Hello, my friends. Welcome back to another episode of the Health Detective Podcast by Functional Diagnostic Nutrition. My name is Evan Transue, AKA Detective Ev. I will be your host for today’s show. This is the second and final part in a two-part interview with Mr. Michael Vasconez. In this 2nd episode we will be discussing how healing our relationships can help heal our health. We are transitioning now in this second part, what happened to Michael when he started to be open about the many things he was doing that were not so great in his […]

In this episode we talk about: What inspired Reed to create FDN Why tests are so important for identifying underlying causes What types of “functional labs” does Reed recommend How Reed sees the future of medicine and healing How does conventional medicine fit into the big picture of the healing model Asking “why” we and/or our children have a health issue, and finding solutions based on the “why” Understanding the effect of epigenetics, and harnessing epigenetics to find solutions How having a health coach as part of your health team makes a difference What it is like to be trained as […]

Introduction [00:00:00] Detective Ev: Hello, my friends. Welcome back to another episode of the Health Detective Podcast by Functional Diagnostic Nutrition. My name is Evan Transue, AKA Detective Ev. I will be your host for today’s show. We are talking to my buddy, Michael Vasconez, who has worked through a serious time with chronic fatigue. He is actually someone who is local to me. We’ve only seen each other a couple of times in person. But this guy has a heck of a story, long enough and interesting enough that we actually ended up doing two parts here. There was another […]

Reed Davis, Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP) and Certified Nutritional Therapist (CNT), is an expert in functional lab testing and holistic lifestyle medicine. He is the Founder of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® (FDN) and the FDN Certification Course with over 3,000 graduates in 50 countries. Reed served as the Health Director at a Wellness Center in Southern California for over 10 years and with over 10,000 clients is known as one of the most experienced clinicians in the world. Reed serves on the Advisory Board of the American Natural Wellness Coaches Board and the American Association of Natural Wellness Coaches. He […]

Introduction [00:00:00] Detective Ev: Hello, my friends. Welcome back to another episode of the Health Detective Podcast by Functional Diagnostic Nutrition. My name is Evan Transue, AKA Detective Ev. I will be your host for today’s show. We are talking with Debi Robinson who is going to reveal a lot to us about beating osteoporosis the natural way. It’s a cool topic in general, I must admit. As I always tell you guys, if you’ll leave us a review, leave us a comment and tell us what you’d like to hear, I am always going to do my best to make […]

Have you ever been frustrated that a medical diagnosis didn’t do anything to fix the problem? Reed Davis talks about how this frustration led him to learning more about how to see and improve the health of the whole person through holistic lifestyle medicine.  In this episode you will learn: The difference between functional medicine and diagnostic medicine. The constellation markers that functional medicine uses to connect the dots of your health. The most recognizable patterns that are measurable for improvement. The factors within your own control to change and create a healthy lifestyle. How to preserve and maintain your health.

Introduction [00:00:00] Detective Ev: What is going on my friends? Welcome back to another episode of the Health Detective Podcast by Functional Diagnostic Nutrition. My name is Evan Transue, AKA Detective Ev. I will be your host for today’s show in which we will discuss why you can’t supplement your way to good hormones. We have special guest and repeat guest, Ms. Jennifer Woodward. She is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition practitioner herself and a board-certified functional wellness coach currently pursuing her master’s degree in Integrative Nutrition. She is also someone wearing a very important hat here at FDN. She’s the Executive […]

Introduction [00:00:00] Detective Ev: Hello, my friends. Welcome back to another episode of the Health Detective Podcast by Functional Diagnostic Nutrition. My name is Evan Transue, AKA Detective Ev. I will be your host for today’s show. We are talking all about food sensitivities, why they matter, why they’re important, and why we greatly prioritize one specific type of food sensitivity test in the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition certification program. It is a test that unfortunately at this time is only available in the USA and Canada. I say, unfortunately, because we do have practitioners all over the world. It’s in over […]

Introduction [00:00:00] Detective Ev: Hello, my friends. Welcome back to another episode of the Health Detective Podcast by Functional Diagnostic Nutrition. My name is Evan Transue, AKA Detective Ev. I will be your host for today’s show. We had the privilege of getting to talk to none other than, drum roll, please, Mr. Jimmy Moore. We had the privilege of discussing Jimmy’s 20-year health journey and some awesome things he has learned along the way. If you do not know who Jimmy Moore is, one, I don’t know how, but two, Jimmy is a huge name in the space of functional […]

Finding yourself sitting for long periods of time? Over the past few decades, much of the U.S. population has gone from being physically active to being mostly sedentary. We don’t move very much throughout each day anymore. And that pattern has progressively gotten worse. Many people in the US work jobs that require long hours of sitting in front of a computer screen. Seemingly endless cable channels, streaming services, video games, and smartphones keep us staring at screens, instead of being physically active. And studies show that people are sitting 8 hours a day on average. For many people that number […]