Using Genetics to Balance Hormones

In this special edition of the Integrative Practitioner Podcast, Mark Tager, MD, joins Integrative Practitioner Content Specialist Avery St. Onge for a live interview at the Integrative Healthcare Symposium to discuss specific nutrients and lifestyle interventions that target skin, hair, and nail health.

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About the Expert

Mark Tager, MD, is known for the synergistic and entertaining approach he takes to educating and training his colleagues and consumers. He has trained hundreds of healthcare practitioners to improve their in-person and on camera skills. Clinically, he is most passionate about complementary treatment for chronic conditions, with personalized nutrition as one of the foundations for integrative care. He is currently the Chief Enhancement Office for ChangeWell Inc. He has served as the founding Vice President of Marketing for Reliant Technologies, where he launched the Fraxel® laser and has also served as Chief Marketing Officer for Syneron and as a strategic consultant for Lutronic. He has served as Director of Practice Management for the Miami Cosmetic Surgery conference and Director of Strategic Initiatives for A4M. Along with Dr. Peter Staats, he co-founded The Vagus Nerve Society. Most recently, Dr. Tager created the 40-hour CME course on Personalized Nutrition for Practitioners on behalf of The American Nutrition Association. He is on the faculty of Duke Integrative Medicine. His most recent book is Feed Your Skin Right: Your Personalized Nutrition Plan for Radiant Beauty. The book serves as the basic content for a 10-hr online professional training program called Inside Skin Beauty. He did his medical training at Duke Medical School and Family Practice at the University of Oregon. He lives outside San Diego where he grows impressive tomatoes.

In this special edition of the Integrative Practitioner Podcast Darshan Shah, MD, and Ashley Koff, RD, join Integrative Practitioner Content Specialist Avery St. Onge for a live interview at the Integrative Healthcare Symposium to discuss how to approach GLP-1 agonists with integrative medicine.

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Darshan Shah, MD, is a well-known health and wellness specialist, board-certified surgeon, published author, entrepreneur, and founder of Next Health, the world’s first and largest Health Optimization and Longevity clinic. With expertise in all body systems, he has performed over 15,000 surgical procedures, including trauma surgery, general surgery, and reconstructive procedures. As a health and wellness specialist, he has advised thousands of patients on how to optimize their well-being and extend their lifespan. Dr. Shah began his training at an accelerated MD program at the University of Missouri and earned his medical degree at the age of 21, becoming one of the youngest doctors in the United States. He continued his training at the Mayo Clinic, one of the most prestigious medical institutes in the country. After earning his board certification, he opened medical/surgical centers throughout California, started innovative tech companies, created patented medical devices, and advised dozens of startups in medicine, finance, and tech. Dr. Shah’s belief in continual education and self-improvement has earned him alumni status at Harvard Business School, Singularity University, and other prestigious institutions.

Ashley Koff RD is a 25+ year personalized nutrition expert. Renowned for her ability to translate nutrition science into deliciously doable recommendations, Koff is a longstanding advisor, educator and strategic consultant for the media, practitioners, businesses, and organizations. Today, as the founder of The Better Nutrition Program, Koff helms a team of clinicians, coaches, and experts to create and implement personalized health solutions at scale. She lives in Maine, plays the trumpet, loves hiking and dogs, is a connector, optimist, and humanitarian.

In this special edition of the Integrative Practitioner Podcast, Mark Hyman, MD, joins Integrative Practitioner Content Specialist Avery St. Onge for a live interview at the Integrative Healthcare Symposium to discuss how artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies will transform the practice of medicine.  

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Mark Hyman, MD is a practicing family physician and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in the field of Functional Medicine. He is the founder and director of The UltraWellness Center, Founder and Senior Advisor for the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, a fifteen-time New York Times best-selling author, and Board President for Clinical Affairs for The Institute for Functional Medicine.  He is the founder and chairman of the Food Fix Campaign, dedicated to transforming our food and agriculture system through policy. He is a co-founder and the Chief Medical Officer of Function Health. He is the host of one of the leading health podcasts, The Doctor’s Farmacy with 200+ million downloads. Dr. Hyman is a regular medical contributor to several television shows and networks, including CBS This Morning, Today, Good Morning America, The View, Fox and CNN.

Aly Cohen, MD, FACR, joins Integrative Practitioner Content Specialist Avery St. Onge to discuss the relationship between environmental toxins and autoimmune disease and strategies to reduce toxic exposures.

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Aly Cohen, MD, FACR, is triple board-certified in rheumatology, internal medicine, and integrative medicine, as well as an environmental health expert in Princeton, New Jersey. She is on faculty of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine  (AIHM), where she created and manages the environmental medicine curriculum for medical colleagues. Dr. Cohen has collaborated with the Environmental Working Group, Cancer Schmancer, and other disease- prevention or­ganizations, and is coeditor of the textbook, Integrative Environmental Medicine, part of the Oxford University Press/Weil Integrative Medicine, Academic Series. In 2015, she created TheSmartHuman.com to share environ­mental health, disease prevention, and wellness information with the public. She lectures nationally on environmental health topics for el­ementary/ high schools, colleges/ universities, medical schools, and physician- training programs, and she is a regular expert guest for tele­vision, print, and podcasts. She is a legal medical expert for toxic tort environmental exposure cases. She has been the recipient of countless awards, including Top Docs NJ in rheumatology from 2016-2023, Top Docs New York Magazine 2023, Top Docs Philadelphia and New York Magazines 2023, Exceptional Women in Medicine 2020-2023, the NJ Healthcare Heroes Award in Education for The Smart Human educational platform in 2015, and the 2016 Burton L. Eichler Award for humanitarianism.

Daniel Kraft, MD, joins Integrative Practitioner Content Specialist Avery St. Onge to discuss the advancing technologies changing healthcare today and what they may mean for the future of integrative medicine.

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Daniel Kraft, MD, is a Stanford and Harvard-trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator and is serving as the Chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic & Health Alliance. With over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has served as faculty chair for Medicine at Singularity University since its inception in 2008, and in 2011 founded Exponential Medicine, a program (now evolved to NextMed Health) that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare. Following undergraduate degrees from Brown University and medical school at Stanford, Daniel was Board Certified in both Internal Medicine & Pediatrics after completing a Harvard residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital & Boston Children’s Hospital, and fellowships in hematology, oncology, and bone marrow transplantation at Stanford.

Elisa Song, MD, joins Integrative Practitioner Content Specialist Avery St. Onge to discuss how understanding the underlying pathophysiology of leaky gut and leaky brain in children could inspire a new approach to treating pediatric neuropsychiatric conditions.

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Elisa Song, MD, is a Stanford-, NYU-, UCSF-trained integrative pediatrician, pediatric functional medicine expert, and mom to 2 thriving children. In her integrative pediatric practice, Whole Family Wellness (www.wholefamilywellness.org), she’s helped 1000s of kids get to the root causes of their health concerns and empowered parents to help their children thrive – body, mind, and spirit – by integrating conventional pediatrics with functional medicine, homeopathy, acupuncture, herbal medicine, and essential oils. Dr. Song created Healthy Kids Happy Kids (www.healthykidshappykids.com) as an online holistic pediatric resource to help practitioners and parents bridge the gap between conventional and integrative pediatrics with an evidence-based, pediatrician-backed, mom-approved approach.

James Gordon, MD, joins Integrative Practitioner Content Specialist Avery St. Onge to discuss his experience of bringing nationwide trauma healing to Ukraine and why it pertains to integrative practitioners in the United States.  

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James S. Gordon, MD, author of Transforming Trauma: The Path to Hope and Healing, is a board-certified psychiatrist and former National Institute of Mental Health researcher, a clinical professor of psychiatry and family medicine at Georgetown Medical School, and the Founder and CEO of the nonprofit Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM). Dr. Gordon headed the Special Study on Alternative Mental Health Services for President Jimmy Carter’s Commission on Mental Health, was first chair of the program advisory council to the National Institute of Health’s Office of Alternative Medicine and chaired the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy under Presidents Bill Clinton and G.W. Bush. Most recently, Dr. Gordon testified to the U.S. Congress Helsinki Commission about war crimes against women and children in Ukraine and helped to write legislation to address the traumatic consequences of those war crimes.

Navaz Habib, DC, AFMCP, AcuP, joins Integrative Practitioner Content Specialist Avery St. Onge to discuss the research behind vagus nerve stimulation and how it can help treat various inflammatory conditions and improve cognition.

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Navaz Habib, DC, AFMCP, AcuP, is the author of Activate Your Vagus Nerve and host of The Health Upgrade Podcast. Dr. Habib graduated as class valedictorian from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in 2010 and went on to practice traditional chiropractic for years, until he utilized the power of functional medicine to transform his own health. He is the founder of Health Upgraded an online functional health consulting clinic, supporting optimal health by elevating the awareness and function of the vagus nerve.

Tieraona Low Dog, MD, ABOIM and Ashley Koff, RD, join Integrative Practitioner Content Specialist Avery St. Onge to discuss how to navigate personalized nutrition in an era where practitioners and their patients are overloaded with contradictory information and data from social media and direct-to-consumer products.

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Tieraona Low Dog, MD, ABOIM is a leading expert and thought leader in the fields of botanical medicine, dietary supplements, and Integrative Medicine. During her 40-year career, she has led two Integrative Medicine fellowships, chaired five expert panels at the US Pharmacopeia, received a presidential appointment under Bill Clinton, published 50+ peer-reviewed articles, written seven books (four with National Geographic), received an honorary doctorate in naturopathic medicine from Bastyr University, was honored as Time Magazine’s Innovator of the Year, and is a recipient of four Lifetime Achievement Awards, and three Awards for Excellence in Science and Public Health. She has been an invited speaker to more than 600 science/medical conferences. In addition to her medical degree, Dr. Low Dog has been trained in midwifery, massage therapy, and holds a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

Ashley Koff RD is a 25+ year personalized nutrition expert. Renowned for her ability to translate nutrition science into deliciously doable recommendations, Koff is a longstanding advisor, educator and strategic consultant for the media, practitioners, businesses, and organizations. Today, as the founder of The Better Nutrition Program, Koff helms a team of clinicians, coaches, and experts to create and implement personalized health solutions at scale. She lives in Maine, plays the trumpet, loves hiking and dogs, is a connector, optimist, and humanitarian. For more information, please visit TheBetterNutritionProgram.com

Austin Perlmutter, MD, ABIM, joins Integrative Practitioner Content Specialist, Avery St. Onge, to discuss how climate change is contributing to brain disease and environmental and lifestyle interventions to improve brain immunity and reduce neuroinflammation.

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Austin Perlmutter, MD, ABIM, is a board-certified internal medicine physician, New York Times bestselling author, published researcher and international educator. His mission is to help people improve their health by targeting the biological basis of “stuckness” in our brains and bodies. His writing, presentations, podcasts, and online educational programs explore how environmental factors influence our cognitive and mental state and have reached millions. Dr. Perlmutter currently serves as the managing director at Big Bold Health, a food-as-medicine company focused on helping people rejuvenate health through better immune function, where he is running a first-of-its kind study exploring the effects of plant nutrients on human aging through epigenetics.