I finished undergrad at Wake Forest University as a Health Science & Chemistry major with every intention of going to medical school for my MD. I somehow got into strength training and nutrition during undergrad and became interested in what would later become known as “functional medicine.”

I was burning the candle at both ends, working several part time jobs and keeping a perfect GPA, and I really got sick. I was dealing with a lot of symptoms that had me concerned: fatigue, insomnia, joint pain, decreased libido, inability to recover from exercise, constipation and frequent stomach pain. I spent the last two years of undergrad trying to find someone to help me.

My parents relied on mainstream medicine when I was a kid, and I was prescribed antiobiotics like it was candy…Read More