How Functional Lab Testing Can Find Root Causes Behind Diseases and Heal Individuals

Reed Davis is a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner and Certified Nutritional Therapist.

He is an expert in functional lab testing and holistic lifestyle medicine. He is the Founder of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® (FDN) and the FDN Certification Course with over 4,000 graduates in 50 countries.

He was the Health Director at a Wellness Center in Southern California for over 10 years and with over 10,000 clients is known as one of the most experienced clinician in his field.

02:20 How Reed Got Into Health and Wellness

• Started working at a health and wellness center
• Saw thousands of labs in 10 years
• Discovered patterns in health
• HIDDEN: Hormone immune digestion detoxification energy nervous system
• DRESS: Diet Rest Exercise Stress Supplementation

10:55 Is there a single root cause behind disease or are there multiple?

• There usually is not one
• This is metabolic chaos and needs to be sorted holistically

12:20 How does Reed see individuals?

• Sees individuals and asks questions
• Runs 5 labs on each person
• Saliva test, hormones, gut, immune system
• Reed understands the cluster of symptoms and gets to the root cause
• Reed also has a health coaching on getting the results from home

27:50 Why are different reasons for hypothyroid symptoms?

• Stress can be a big factor
• Reed sees that there are less autoimmune related thyroid cases than people believe

33:10 Why are autoimmune cases going up?

• Stress usually starts the autoimmune conditions
• Even if the stress is long gone
• Daily stressors can take a toll on you
• This can cause gut dysbiosis

36:50 How prevalent is food sensitivity tests?

• Food sensitivities are quite common
• Elimination diets are better than food sensitivities tests

43:45 How To Learn More About Reed

• Go to FDNTraining.com/antiaginghacks