You can only heal something you are connected to, so a crucial step in recovery is to stop being afraid of your body's uncomfortable sensations and instead inhabit it and listen to its messages.

Major funding bodies like the NIH often give scathing reviews to diet and lifestyle studies, viewing them through a pharmaceutical-centric lens and believing people are incapable of following such protocols.

Studying one intervention at a time, like diet without exercise, is like trying to grow a plant with only nitrogen but no water or sunlight; creating health requires supporting the entire system at once.

Organ meats like liver are shockingly more nutrient-dense than almost any other food, containing massive amounts of B vitamins, minerals, and mitochondrial nutrients like CoQ10.

The Wahls Protocol recommends a daily intake of nine cups of vegetables, specifically broken down into three cups of leafy greens, three cups of sulfur-rich vegetables, and three cups of deeply colored ones.

Intuition is not a mystical gift but a skill that can be practiced and developed, much like music or art, by silencing the analytical mind and connecting with your body's sensations.

A diet high in gluten can cause gut inflammation that manifests in surprising ways, such as causing enamel defects and numerous cavities, even in children with good dental hygiene.

Functional medicine practitioners can be thought of as 'inflamologists' because they focus on treating inflammation as the root cause of chronic disease, which conventional medicine often doesn't recognize as a treatable condition itself.