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Erin Holt discusses the importance of viewing the body holistically in functional medicine and the role of self-trust in healing.

So many people bounce between specialists, run every lab under the sun, and still feel stuck in the same symptom loop. What if the problem isn’t missing data, but the way we’re looking at the body in the first place? In this episode, Erin is giving you an exclusive sneak peek inside the Funk’tional Nutrition Academy Open House, where she breaks down her model of intuitive functional medicine. Erin explains why healing requires more than labs and protocols, how nervous system patterns shape our symptoms, and why self-trust might be one of the most overlooked pieces of root cause care. In this episode: Why chronic illness is often a breakdown in communication between body systems instead of a single root cause How practitioners can help clients rebuild self-trust and reconnect with their body’s healing intelligence The surprising role of interoception and how trauma, stress, and conditioning can distort how we interpret signals Erin’s framework for combining lab data, nervous system work, and intuition in root cause care Resources mentioned: The Funk’tional Nutrition Academy Open House ends March 24th. Join us for FREE live classes. Applications are now open for Funk’tional…

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