Host Dr. Steve Nosworthy interviews Dr. Brad Rachman about his journey from a personal autoimmune crisis to decades in functional medicine and laboratory medicine, including his work with Genova Diagnostics. They discuss the history and evolution of functional medicine, how to choose meaningful tests, and how labs can both help and overwhelm clinicians. Topics include Dr. Rockman’s origin story with ankylosing spondylitis, high-value lab markers (complement C3/C4, MMP‑9, TGF‑β1, GGT, oxidized LD...
Jun 04, 2026•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 39
In this episode of Func Med Nation, host Dr. Steve Nosworthy talks with Dr. Brad Rockman about his long career in functional medicine, early influences like Jeff Bland and Datis Kharrazian, and his transition from clinician to educator and diagnostic developer. They discuss Brad's personal health journey with ankylosing spondylitis, the evolution of functional medicine, and the importance of understanding labs as indicators of the body's adaptation rather than definitive pathology. Topics covere...
Jun 03, 2026•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 38
Host Dr. Steve Noseworthy sits down with Dr. Joseph Smith — chiropractic neurologist, founder of Atlas Health and creator of the upcoming Nuvius seminar series — to explore how the brain, hormones and immune system interact to drive chronic illness and recovery. They discuss Joseph’s clinical evolution, credentials and the approach behind Nuvius: blending functional neurology with in-exam nutritional trials. Topics include the neuroendocrine-immune “super-system,” the role of Allostasis, common ...
Apr 29, 2026•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 37
My guest today on the Func Med Nation podcast is Dr. Allison Siebecker, a prominent expert in the field of Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) with a wealth of clinical experience and inudstry accolades. Together we delves into the world of SIBO, exploring its origins, symptoms, and cutting-edge treatments. In this episode, listeners will uncover Dr. Siebecker's personal journey from a natural health enthusiast to a leading SIBO specialist. Learn about the two main physiological causes ...
May 14, 2025•2 hr 16 min•Ep. 36
In this captivating episode of the Func Med Nation podcast, host Dr. Steve Noseworthy engages in an in-depth conversation with Dr. Stuart McGill, a professor emeritus from the University of Waterloo and a world-renowned expert in spine function and rehabilitation. Together, they explore Dr. McGill's vast career spanning over three decades, during which he has contributed significantly to understanding lumbar function and back pain. Dr. McGill shares his professional journey and personal philosop...
Feb 18, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 35
Join Dr. Steve Noseworthy as he engages in a captivating conversation with Dr. Stuart McGill, a preeminent figure in spine function, injury prevention, and rehabilitation. In this episode, Dr. McGill, a professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo, shares his life's journey, from his extensive academic achievements to his personal commitment to health and fitness. Explore Dr. McGill's philosophy on maintaining an active lifestyle, his views on training methodologies, and his dedication to he...
Feb 17, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 34
Join Dr. Steve Noseworthy as he engages in a captivating conversation with Dr. Stuart McGill, a preeminent figure in spine function, injury prevention, and rehabilitation. In this episode, Dr. McGill, a professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo, shares his life's journey, from his extensive academic achievements to his personal commitment to health and fitness. Explore Dr. McGill's philosophy on maintaining an active lifestyle, his views on training methodologies, and his dedication to he...
Feb 13, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Send us a text Discover how Dr. Russell Jaffe, a highly esteemed MD-PhD, embarked on an extraordinary journey from traditional Western medicine to embracing eclectic health philosophies. Listen as Dr. Jaffe shares his transformative experiences, from a surprising seven-year apprenticeship in traditional Chinese medicine to integrating yoga and Ayurveda into his practice. These pivotal moments reshaped his medical perspective, emphasizing the significance of blending diverse medical beliefs fo...
Dec 10, 2024•1 hr 49 min
Send us a text In part 3 of my ongoing conversations with Drs. Melillo and Scire we dive deep into Immunoception and how the brain monitors and manages the immune system. It should come as no surprise that if the brain controls movement, cognition, emotion, visceral and hormone functions, it should influence the immune system too. Yet as a community, we hardly ever think of the brain's role in recurrent infections, Loss of Tolerance and autoimmunity. We all leave our basic education with jus...
Nov 19, 2024•1 hr 17 min
Send us a text Nate Jones is the founder and president of Xlear Inc, producers of Xlear nasal spray used to manage sinus and ear infections. But recently, the Federal Trade Commission advised Nate that his company was being sued for misleading information regarding their products, a charge he vehemently denies. Join the conversation as I ask Nate about the court case and the dangerous precedent this would set for supplement manufacturers and natural medicine practitioners. Of course, we talk...
Oct 15, 2024•1 hr 37 min
Send us a text In Part 2 of my conversation with developmental experts Drs. Rob Melillo and Peter Scire we delve into how brain asymmetries develop and how they can create not only kids on the "spectrum" but adults with tendencies to anxiety, depression and OCD. We discuss Interoception and the Insular Cortex and its role in controlling immune over activation, autonomic responses and highlight how all of the Vagal activation therapies common to Func Med are really using the Vagal system to a...
Oct 08, 2024•1 hr 56 min
Send us a text The last few decades have seen an explosion in the rates of ADD, ADHD and Autism that has left families and individuals devastated and hopeless. Join me as I interview author, researcher and clinician Dr. Rob Melillo about the 3rd edition of his best selling book Disconnected Kids. Through Disconnected kids, Dr. Melillo has encouraged parents around the world with a message of hope, and basic tools for self-help. And through his postgraduate courses (The Melillo Method)...
Oct 01, 2024•57 min
Send us a text Dahlia is the Founder and CEO of Panacea and has a BS in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Miami. Dahlia’s experience working for genetic laboratories exposed her to the reality that very few patients were able to access valuable preventative genetic tests. She learned quickly that the lack of insurance coverage for genetic testing and thus physician hesitancy to order testing were the most inhibitory barriers. With an additional 6 years in Healthcare Tech, Dah...
Sep 12, 2024•1 hr 33 min
Send us a text In part two of this 2-part interview Peter and I talk about the clinical presentation of Immunoceptive Dysregulation and the value of harnessing the Vagal system, Cerebellum and Frontal Lobes as therapy. LINKS Dr. Scire's Linktree: https://linktr.ee/DrPeterScire?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=1bbea1de-fb0a-4b2c-b15d-5e4bb31ffe13 Dr. Melillo's Neurodevelopmental Courses: https://www.drrobertmelillo.com/courses/ Links to Immunoception papers: https://www.nature.com...
Jun 25, 2024•59 min
Send us a text Immunoception is a relatively new concept that falls under the broader heading of Interoception, which is the Brain's understanding of the peripheral body. Immunoception refers to the bidirectional crosstalk between the brain and the immunity, with specific focus on how the brain imprints, or remembers, patterns of immune activation. This has tremendous clinical relevance in complex Functional Medicine cases where pattern of chronic stress chemistry and inflammation do not resp...
Jun 18, 2024•59 min
Send us a text Researched Nutritionals started with the lofty mission of bridging the gap between research and functional clinical applications. Dennis Schoen, CEO and Founder, has a passion for research based nutritional formulas that target the multiple mechanisms which underlie the most common, and sometimes complex, health problems we see in Functional Medicine. Listen as Dennis shares his vision of raising the bar in the nutraceutical industry, including paying third party researchers t...
Jun 12, 2024•54 min
Send us a text SIBO is a complex, multi-system problem that resists traditional "4R" clinical programming. It is often missed, poorly diagnosed, and requires a different approach than the usual dysbiotic gut. In this episode Dr. Peter Kan shares insights on how to approach SIBO from a "north to south" perspective, and how to tell if poor Brain health is a driving factor in SIBO persistence. Dr. Kan is Board Certified in Integrative Medicine, Functional Medicine, and a Board Certified Chirop...
Jun 06, 2024•1 hr 16 min
Send us a text New lab companies come and go, but every once in a while one sticks and changes how the diagnostics game is played. Vibrant Wellness did just that. Join me, and Dr. Kim Bruno, as we talk about Vibrant's origins in Silicone Valley, and how they have disrupted the status quo by bringing microchip technology to the biological sciences. Please subscribe and share this with your Func Med colleagues. Watch the video on YouTube. Dr. Noseworthy on social media: Instagram Facebook TikT...
Mar 05, 2024•1 hr 15 min
Send us a text This is a CROSSOVER episode and will also appear on my Inflammation Nation podcast. Maria Emmerich is an international bsst Selling author with well over a dozen titles to her name, including several keto and carnivore cookbooks. She is a nutritionist with a background in exercise physiology and a thriving online keto-community. She is the creator of the Protein Sparing Modified Fast, which she describes as a subset of the Keto Diet. Join us as we talk about her own jou...
Dec 23, 2023•1 hr 17 min
Send us a text Bacterial and fungal infections on functional stool testing are very common and there are any number of herbal antimicrobials that can help eradicate them as part of a larger gut protocol. Most of us have our go-to favorites that we tend to recommend, whether that be berberine, GFSE, olive leaf extract or some other option. But how confident are you that your choices are the most efficacious? Join me as I talk to Dr. Julia Malkowski from Doctors Data to review their Antibiogra...
Oct 17, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Send us a text Dr. Nathan Bryan is one of the world's top Nitric Oxide researchers and holds multiple patents in that field. He started his career as a Drug Discovery Chemist but soon realized that dietary inputs govern nitric oxide formation. He cites the role of the oral microbiome in processing dietary nitrites and its key role in creating and delivering nitric oxide systemically. He is the original founder of Neogenis and their Neo40 lozenges and NO indicator test strips. He has since mo...
Sep 19, 2023•2 hr
Send us a text Dr. Nathan Bryan is one of the world's top Nitric Oxide researchers and holds multiple patents in that field. He started his career as a Drug Discovery Chemist but soon realized that dietary inputs govern nitric oxide formation. He cites the role of the oral microbiome in processing dietary nitrites and its key role in creating and delivering nitric oxide systemically. He is the original founder of Neogenis and their Neo40 lozenges and NO indicator test strips. He has since mo...
Sep 11, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Send us a text Dr. Jason Richardson is a past BMX racing World Champion and Pan AM Games Gold Medalist turned entrepreneur, author/speaker, psychologist and high performance coach. Dr. Richardson has had thousands of hours of conversations with Olympic athletes, executives, and people who were stuck in a proverbial rut to help them overcome their own limitations. The one thing that united them all: The desire to do more, get better and be happier - which just happens to be the title of ...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 38 min
Send us a text Dr. Ryan Cedermark graduated Magna Cum Laude from Life University in 2011. While in school, Dr. Cedermark enrolled in post-graduate neurology courses, earning his Diplomate in Neurology from the American Chiropractic Neurology Board in 2013. Passionate about a multidisciplinary approach to healthcare, Dr. Cedermark graduated Magna Cum Laude with his Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Duke University and completed a Family Nurse Practitioner program at Georgia State University ...
Apr 25, 2023•50 min
Send us a text #1-ranked iTunes podcaster, best-selling author, and 2x 2-Comma Club award winner, Dr. Ed Osburn is one of the leading visionaries in the Chiropractic industry. Through his Laptop Lifestyle Academy, virtual podcast training course, and Men of Iron Brotherhood, he offers a range of training for doctors who want to build massive movements and far-reaching impact, while creating multiple-six- and seven-figure businesses. His philosophy is simple: Your practice can be anythin...
Apr 18, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Send us a text Dr. Melissa Longo is a Family and Pediatric Chiropractor in her 20th year of practice in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada. Her holistic private practice brings her tremendous joy, impacts many families in her community, and gives her flexibility for her two active teenage sons. She has successfully adjusted her business model to create a lifestyle she loves, and this has become the foundation of all the work she does with other Health Care Professionals. In addition to her practice...
Apr 11, 2023•1 hr 21 min
Send us a text Sachin is a father, husband, philanthropist, functional medicine practice success coach, international speaker, and best-selling author. He founded The Living Proof Institute and coaches practitioners all over the world on how to step into their power and profoundly serve their communities. And, he has taught thousands of functional medicine professionals how to start, grow, and scale their practices. Author of the best-selling book, Perfect Practice (Grab a FREE copy here).Fo...
Apr 04, 2023•1 hr 21 min
Send us a text Dr. Tom Culleton is an in demand seminar speaker in both worlds of Functional Medicine and Functional Neurology. His undergraduate studies were int he filed of Human Kinetics at the University of Windsor (Ontario, Canada), followed by his Chiropractic trining in St. Louis. After graduation he created a high volume solo practice in Rome, NY (1995-2008) and quickly developed a reputation as top-tier speaker for the Carrick Instutute of Graduate studies on multiple topics related...
Mar 28, 2023•1 hr 30 min
Send us a text Dr. Yanuck is an adjunct assistant professor in the Program on Integrative Medicine, in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. There he teaches the course “The Immunology of Autoimmune Disease, Inflammation and Chronic Infection: A Research-Based Functional Medicine Perspective.” He has also published papers in the medical literature, including these two recent papers. Click the titles to retrieve the paper...
Mar 21, 2023•1 hr 18 min
Send us a text This is Part 2 of a 2 part series. Dr. Martin Gibala is a professor and the Faculty of Science Research Chair in Integrative Exercise Physiology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. His research examines the mechanistic basis of exercise responses in humans and the impacts on health and performance. He regularly publishes in peer-reviewed journals and speaks at scientific meetings. He runs an exercise physiology laboratory that is internationally recognized for re...
Mar 14, 2023•41 min
