249: You've Seen 10 Doctors and Still Aren't Better. Here's Why - Reed Davis

About this episode

Reed Davis discusses the concept of metabolic chaos and why traditional diagnosis may not lead to better health outcomes.

You got the tests. You got the diagnosis — maybe more than one. You took the medication. And you still don't feel like yourself. Reed Davis has spent 30 years working with exactly those people. As the founder of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition, he's trained over 5,000 practitioners in a methodology built on one counterintuitive premise: chasing a diagnosis may be the wrong move entirely. Instead of narrowing in on a label, Reed looks for what he calls metabolic chaos — a constellation of inte...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Philip Ovadia

Guest: Reed Davis

Topics covered

• diagnosis
• metabolic chaos
• functional medicine
• healthcare
• nutrition

Keywords

• diagnosis
• metabolic chaos
• functional medicine
• health
• nutrition
• Reed Davis

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Functional Diagnostic Nutrition

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