Many patients come into the clinic and they ask a very simple question. Can I just get hormone replacement? The answer to that question is… why would you get just hormone replacement when hormones can’t fix everything? Your body has to have a foundation of...
One question we get often is: “Can you help me understand my labs?” When you get that lab report back in your hands, sometimes those numbers can be very frightening, if things are out of balance. It can bring up worry and anxiety. And absolutely we...
So the question is: “Does FMI do primary care?” Well let’s define what primary care is first of all. Primary care for us is: primarily caring about you. What I mean by that is that primary care should be designed to keep you out of the doctor’s...
I think let’s first of all define what insurance is. Most people have an idea of what they call health insurance, but we personally don’t believe there’s anything that is such a thing. Here’s what I mean by that… Do you have...
One of the number one things patients come into the office and ask is: “Can you help me with my stress?” You’re probably stressing out right now, just talking about stress. Stress stresses you out. Stress stresses me out. Stress! What is stress?...
Patients come in all the time and they ask, “Can you help me sleep better?” Insomnia is an absolute national crisis. People coming in asking for medications and pills. A pill to calm the ill so that they can sleep. Well of course we can help you sleep and...
One of the very special labs that we use in the clinic is called a cardiometabolic lab. This is like the Cadillac of all blood panels. It gets into detail in terms of your chemistry, your lipid panels, your particle sizes, your hormones, your thyroid, certain...
One of the labs that we utilize in the clinic is the DNA lab report. In the DNA lab report, there’s a lot of really exciting information and it has several sections. The first section is the health report. The health report goes into things like lipid...
We have a very special test that we use in the office that’s different from any serum laboratory test, and it’s the micronutrient test. Yes, I said micronutrient, and why is it different? It’s because it measures the intracellular levels of...
A lot of times people ask us, “what is our approach to health?” We have a five prong process that’s designed to give us this complete or total wellness. The first prong is Lifestyle. Lifestyle includes the following things. What we eat What we do How...
A common question we get every day is what supplements should I take? Well, everybody is different and everybody is unique, but we have what we call, the core four. What’s in the core four? Number one is magnesium. Magnesium is required for over 350 metabolic...
So persons ask, “What is the responsibility of me the patient, as a part of the FMI community?” It’s pretty simple… We want you to learn and grow up. We want you to come in with a learning attitude, willing to think about things differently and...
We get often asked, “What is the best kind of exercise?” Well first things first… The best kind of exercise are those fork curls, or what you put at the end of your fork. That is the best exercise you’ll ever get. But the best exercise for each...
So in our office we use a lot of really special tests. And one of the very important test thats we use is DNA. You know, DNA is your blueprint. There’s only one you, so you only have one blueprint. Here’s an easy way to understand it… DNA is like a...
We get asked the question all the time: “Why is nutrition and lifestyle so important?” Well first off, 85% of your immune system is in your gut. So nutrition, nutrition, nutrition. It’s all at the end of your fork. If you focus on your nutrition,...
