Speak Your Patients’ Language, with Funk Roberts

<h2>Functional Medicine Field: What You Will Learn:</h2> <ul> <li>The principles Funk uses to help his clients achieve their fitness goals</li> <li>How Funk’s fitness regimen aligns with the <strong>functional medicine field</strong></li> <li>Why Funk’s communication style can help FM providers better connect with their patients</li> <li>What practitioners can do to help their patients understand the clinical side of their treatment strategy</li> <li>How to work with patients to undercover their driving ‘why’ for treatment</li> <li>How to help men better fulfill their role as patriarchs by improving their health</li> <li>Nutritional products that Funk recommends to men over forty who want to boost testosterone</li> </ul> <h2>Shredded Over-Forty</h2> <p>Funk Roberts is the owner of Funk Roberts Fitness Inc., the Over 40 Alpha Brotherhood, and Funk Supplements Inc. On top of being a successful serial entrepreneur in the functional medicine field, Funk is also a certified metabolic trainer and former professional volleyball player. Funk is the author of Rapid Body Makeover, and also has a new book coming soon called “Over-40 Shred.” In this episode of The FM Shift, Funk joins us to share his journey and talk about what we can do to help our patients see the big picture when it comes to treatment.</p> <h2>In Layman’s Terms</h2> <p>Funk may not be a practitioner, but he employs many of the values and principles that we live by in the functional medicine field. He understands the clinical nature of functional medicine, but his main goal is to help men over forty get shredded. He has been successful in doing so by communicating complex medical information to average people so they can understand it and use it to their advantage. Clinicians have a lot to learn from the way Funk communicates with the male patient population, and they can apply the same tactics in their own practices.</p> <h2>Connecting the Dots</h2> <p>Through Funk’s journey, he made it abundantly clear that practitioners in the functional medicine field