Dr. Katie Patel: Your Body Is Not the Problem

About this episode

Dr. Katie Patel discusses the importance of foundational health and the role of pharmacologists in addressing chronic health issues.

Dr. Katie Patel spent 15 years as a pharmacologist watching people swap one prescription for another, never asking why they got sick in the first place. Now she straddles two worlds as both a VA clinical pharmacologist and a functional medicine practitioner, and she's on a mission to get people building a foundation before they reach for anything else. Her wake-up call didn't come in a clinic. It came at home, watching her kids mirror her own dysregulation back to her. Combined with years of her own symptoms being dismissed by providers and a postpartum slide straight into perimenopause, she realized the system she'd trained in wasn't asking the right questions. So she started asking them herself. What she found changed everything, not just for her patients, but for her marriage, her kids, and the way she shows up every day. Expect to learn... Why pharmacologists are one of the most underused resources in healthcare and what to actually ask them How the nervous system connects to chronic pain, gut issues, hormones, and diseases most people treat as separate problems Why replacing your prescriptions with a pile of supplements is just trading one problem for another The awareness…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Randy Michaux

Guest: Dr. Katie Patel

Topics covered

• functional medicine
• pharmacology
• chronic pain
• nervous system
• foundational health
• anxiety
• burnout

Keywords

• functional medicine
• chronic illness
• prescriptions
• nervous system
• health habits
• anxiety
• burnout

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: radiantoriginswellness.com

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