Santa Cruz Medicinals Radio How to actually fix your health (acne, gut health, hormones, crohn's, depression, anxiety)
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Nov 11, 2025 
Dr. Justin Marchegiani, a functional medicine physician and author, dives deep into optimizing health through gut health and hormonal balance. He debunks modern medicine's pitfalls, emphasizing the need for targeted testing and personalized care. Topics include the importance of gut microbiome health, hormone optimization, and stress management strategies. He offers insights on treating acne and inflammatory bowel diseases with functional approaches. Discover effective supplements and lifestyle tweaks to enhance energy and mental clarity!
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Why Conventional Docs Order Few Tests
- Insurance-driven medicine narrows testing to disease-focused checkboxes that miss root causes.
- Functional medicine expands labs and interprets results with tighter "functional" ranges to detect early dysfunction.
Functional Ranges Catch Early Dysfunction
- Functional reference ranges (narrower than clinical ranges) reveal subclinical dysfunction in otherwise "normal" lab results.
- Many people fall into broad conventional normals yet experience poor function that functional ranges catch.
Run A GI-MAP For Persistent Gut Issues
- Test the gut with GI-MAP to find pathogens, parasites, and dysbiosis rather than assuming occasional food poisoning is harmless.
- Treat positives (crypto, giardia, H. pylori) with targeted herbal protocols to remove chronic gut stressors.
