I went to college to be a medication expert, so that is where I focused all my energy at work. I meant well, and believed medications were powerful solutions to people's health problems. I knew fitness and nutrition were also important, but I left those pieces of patient care to the physical therapists and dietitions. 

But after years of practicing, I recieved a wake-up call from within. I kept seeing patients on the very best medications still having a poor quality of life and dying from the same diseases that the medications were treating. It became more and more apparent, that the drugs were just treating the symptoms, and not the root cause of sickess. Nor were the medications doing anything to proactively prevent people from getting sick in the first place. So I decided to educate myself by world-class experts on how to implement functional medicine within a practice.