Episodios

  • In Conversation with the 2025 Linus and Ave Helen Pauling Award Winner Deanna Minich, MS, PhD, and Jeffery Bland, PhD
    Sep 22 2025

    On this special episode of Pathways to Well-Being, IFM co-founder Dr. Jeffery Bland talks with the winner of the 2025 Linus and Ave Helen Pauling Award in Functional Medicine, Dr. Deanna Minich.

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    40 m
  • Exploring the Potential of Psychedelics in Mental Health with Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD
    Aug 15 2025
    On this episode of Pathways to Well-Being, noted psychiatric researcher Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD, discusses the potential of psychedelic-assisted therapies to better understand how these agents may be applied therapeutically to support mental health and brain function.
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    48 m
  • Vagus Nerve Stimulation: Modulating the Parasympathetic Response
    Jul 17 2025

    On this episode of Pathways to Well-Being, Peter Staats, MD, MBA, discusses the role of the vaga
    nerve is modulating the body’s response to chronic and acute stressors, and explores vagus nerve
    stimulation therapies for restoring parasympathetic balance.

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    44 m
  • Ketogenic Diets and Brain Health with Dr. Terry Wahls
    Jun 18 2025

    On this episode of Pathways to Well-Being, legendary IFM educator Dr. Terry Wahls discusses how low-carbohydrate dietary plans like paleo and keto can provide the necessary nutrients to fuel the brain and help prevent cognitive decline and neurodegeneration, as well as how we can help patients implement and sustain these dietary changes to improve brain health.

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    48 m
  • Breath, Autonomic Balance, and Health with Sachin Patel, DC
    May 20 2025

    On this episode of Pathways to Well-Being, we welcome AIC 2025 presenter Dr. Sachin Patel to discuss the importance of breathing, mindfulness, and achieving balance from within.

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    52 m
  • Whole Health and Transforming Healthcare Systems With Tracy Gaudet, MD
    May 13 2025

    On this episode of Pathways to Well-Being, Whole Health pioneer and featured 2025 AIC speaker Tracy
    Gaudet, MD, who has years of experience as an agent of change in healthcare systems, will explore what
    healthcare transformation means and how practices and hospital systems alike can begin to achieve it.

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    44 m
  • Healing the Physiological Effects of Trauma
    Apr 30 2025

    On today’s episode of Pathways to Well-Being, AIC 2025 speaker Aimie K. Apigian, MD, MS, MPH, explores physiological dysfunction rooted in past trauma, differentiates between the body’s stress response and trauma response, and discusses how trauma affects mental, emotional, and physical markers of health.

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    42 m
  • Optimizing Protein Intake for Muscle Health and Improved Health Across the Lifespan
    Apr 19 2025

    On today’s episode of Pathways to Well-Being, 2025 AIC speaker Donald Layman, PhD, FASN,
    explores why muscle health is so important to overall health, the lifestyle-based approaches that
    benefit muscle quality and preservation, and the important role that protein plays.

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    50 m