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How have you had success creating more margin in y

How have you had success creating more margin in your week? 🗓️⏰

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Join our team! We're looking to add another Patien

Join our team! We're looking to add another Patient Care Coordinator to the in-person team at Resilient Roots! The ideal candidate will have a passion for helping people and an interest in integrative medicine. Previous experience in a medical setting is a plus but not required. We’ll provide excellent training; you provide the positive and team-oriented perspective. Our PCCs play an integral role in the day to day operation of the clinic. This is an *in-person only* position with set hours between 25 and 30 hours per week.

**To learn more or apply, please email your resume and questions to Lora at lora@resilientrootsfxevomed.com

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The real heroes 🦸‍♀️ If you’re looking

The real heroes 🦸‍♀️
If you’re looking for a list of foods to start incorporating or emphasizing in your week, start here! 🍣🍳🥩🥦🥬🌱🫐🍓

We simply cannot replicate the synergy of these nutrient-packed foods with supplements. Nutrients travel together in purposeful ways that increase their absorption and utilization in the body.

Were you surprised 5 of the 8 were protein-rich meat/fish/eggs? Animal and fish protein sources provide a *host* of vitamins & minerals in their most bioavailable forms (ie: readily used by the body) and in the greatest quantity compared to plants. Traditional cultures prized and prioritized foods like organ meat for couples planning to conceive and children knowing the importance of these nutrient-filled foods. Plants are important too but an omnivorous balance is key. Whether we’re talking about children’s nutrition or adults, these foods are worth seeking.

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The health and function of our cells and tissues r

The health and function of our cells and tissues rely on adequate nutrition.
One of the best things we can do to increase the nutrient density of someone’s way of eating, is to ensure they’re consuming adequate, high-quality protein with each meal. This is not to say a variety of colorful plant matter isn’t incredibly important and helpful, it just cannot replace the nutrient gaps left by a low protein way of eating. Have you tried increasing your protein and what was your experience? 💬

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✨Education✨ A cornerstone of care at Resilient

✨Education✨ A cornerstone of care at Resilient Roots. We help distill down complex topics in an effort to empower *you* with knowledge and personalized resources to change your health. Every clinician and team member prioritizes patient education at Resilient Roots.
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As promised earlier this week, an explanation of m

As promised earlier this week, an explanation of my “rules for lab testing,” point number 4.

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Calcium and albumin are just one example. Maybe we can share more in future posts? We could honestly teach a whole year-long course on the topic! At our clinic, I distill this nuance down for each patient as a part of their lab review visits, and our team is trained to do the same.

-Rob Abbott, MD
Integrative Medicine Physician & Medical Director at Resilient Roots

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Meet Lora! Lora Richardson, MS serves as the funct

Meet Lora! Lora Richardson, MS serves as the functional nutrition practitioner for Resilient Roots. Lora began her studies in functional medicine and nutrition after witnessing the significant limitations of traditional nutritional services during her post-baccalaureate studies in nutrition and dietetics. Building upon her dietetics training, Lora obtained a Masters of Science in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine from the University of Western States and is currently a candidate for the Certified Nutrition Specialist designation. Beyond her graduate work, Lora has completed training in a number of women’s health-related topics including the fertility awareness method (FAM), preconception and prenatal nutrition, nutrition and lifestyle supports for postpartum recovery, and breastfeeding nutrition. She is currently engaged a post-graduate mentorship in integrative women and children’s health. Lora previously served in an integrative mental health clinic, offering nutrition and lifestyle coaching to those seeking a mind-body approach to better mental health. Lora loves being a wife, mama to a busy toddler, lifting heavy things, and anything outdoors.
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Truly integrative lab interpretation is nuanced ⬇️

1) You need lab trends. Single markers are almost always insufficient. Lab markers are static representations of you at one point in time. Blood is not homogenous and is at best a surrogate marker for what’s happening in cells at the level of a tissue like the heart and bone. I’ve seen blood cholesterol labs drawn at the exact same time and sent to two different labs and be quite significantly different. “Same” blood. We need trends and we need context to understand what certain markers represent and which ones can fluctuate quite dramatically. Most of the systems in our body are under some form of ultradian rhythm so hormones amongst many other blood labs fluctuate throughout the day. Easy to see how that can impact things.

2 & 3) “Normal” on a lab test often times isn’t actually normal at all. I want to dig a little more into lab ranges and what exactly is “normal.” While some tests utilize something called a decision value or threshold value for diagnosis (ex. glucose over 100 for elevated blood sugar or 126 for diabetes), the majority of commonly run tests employ the use of reference ranges that are set using simple statistical calculations after a specified population takes a given test. In order for the range to be helpful and valid, there must be some sense of uniformity in the “normal” population sampled.
Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) is another example. While there are slight variations from lab to lab, the crux of the argument questioning the validity of TSH ranges involves the lack of uniformity in the sampled “normal” population as people with *undiagnosed hypothyroidism* were still included to create the “normal” range.

More to follow on point # 4 later!

-Rob Abbott, MD
Integrative Medicine Physician at Resilient Roots