220: Body: How Functional Testing Changes Everything You Thought You Knew About Your Body with Reed Davis

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today’s episode is super interesting for those of you who really want to understand what is “below the hood’ of your health!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I am joined today by Reed Davis, a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP) and the founder of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">®</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(FDN). He has literally trained thousands of practitioners around the world on how to leverage functional testing, how to understand and go deep with functional testing to truly understand what’s happening inside someone’s body and someone’s health.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The key to what he’s doing is not necessarily all of the years he has spent in school; it’s the thousands of tests that he has performed on patients over the course of his career. Reed offers such incredible and unique insight in terms of what is going on with our bodies on a functional level</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">not lab testing that just pumps out a value</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">— b</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ut lab testing that helps us to understand the intricacies of what is developing and what is going on in our health.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this fascinating episode, Reed gives us a deeper understanding of our susceptibility to viruses, explains the metabolic chaos that can happen when we have hormones that are dysregulated, provides unique insight on the role of stress (and how it plays out in shifting our health over the long term), how our microbiome plays into the overarching status of our health and life, and much more!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If there is one thing that I hope you all take away from this episode it is that there is this</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">huge</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">oppo