7/4/25: Functional Medicine Isn't Functional; MAHA: Discrediting Science; Nutritional Deficiencies & GLP-1's; FREE CPEU

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📝Posted on LinkedIn by Ginamarie L. (click for hyperlink)

Hot Take: Functional Medicine Isn’t Functional Anymore—It’s Just a More Expensive Eating Disorder

”At some point, functional medicine stopped treating patients and started selling identities. Mold. EMFs. Poor methylation. “Toxic” foods. “Detox” protocols. The entire system now revolves around convincing relatively well people that they are fundamentally broken—and then offering boutique tests and supplement stacks to fix the fabricated damage….
And don’t get me started on the diets. We’ve created a generation of people who are terrified of their own food, convinced that gluten causes divorce, oxalates ruined their childhood, and lectins are why they can’t sleep. This isn’t personalized medicine. It’s curated restriction with a lab printout.

You want to know what actually works?
Medical Nutrition Therapy.
Real food.
Stable blood sugar.
A trained professional who isn’t trying to “optimize” you into nutritional bankruptcy.

Most people don’t need another test. They need someone to look them in the eye and say:
“You’re not broken. You’re underfed, overstimulated, and chronically afraid of the wrong things.”…

If this offends you, there’s a 90% chance you’re constipated and low in magnesium—but you don’t need a $400 panel to find that out.”

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⚠️Article: “Beware the Virtuous MAHA Movement”

Katie Suleta, DHSc, MPH

“…While health freedom, as promoted by MAHA, purports to empower individual choice and reduce healthcare regulation, its actual implementation reveals a more calculated strategy. This strategy hinges on two strategic tactics, designed to undermine conventional medical wisdom and pave the way for alternative, non-science-based approaches…

🚫Discrediting and Replacing the Experts

🚫Discrediting and Replacing the Science

It is crucial to recognize that we are not simply choosing between different approaches to health; we are substituting one "Big Industry" (Big Pharma, as they claim) for another (Big Wellness, which benefits directly from MAHA's influence) and one set of experts, credentialed scientists, for another, influencers. More perilously, MAHA substitutes feelings and vibes for reality. This path is not merely inefficient for running healthcare or a society; it is a direct route to their very destruction.”.

❓What do YOU think?

💉Nutritional Deficiencies & GLP-1’s

STUDY: Nutritional deficiencies and muscle loss in adults with type 2 diabetes using GLP-1 receptor agonists: A retrospective observational study - ScienceDirect

From LinkedIn posted by Michelle Cardel, PhD, MS, RD:

📉 After starting GLP-1s:
✔️ 13% had diagnosed nutritional deficiencies within 6 months
22% within 12 months
✔️ Vitamin D deficiency was most common (6-month incidence was 7.5 %; 12- month incidence was 13.6 %)
✔️ 3% experienced muscle loss
✔️ Nutritional anemia and dehydration were also observed
🔍 Critically, patients who saw a registered dietitian were 1.4–1.5x more likely to have deficiencies identified.
At 12 months:
✔️ Nearly 1 in 3 patients who saw a dietitian had a diagnosed deficiency
✔️ 1 in 5 had vitamin D deficiency
✔️ 6% had nutritional anemia
✔️ 4% had muscle loss
These numbers likely reflect higher nutritional risk or complexity among those referred to RDs, and that dietitians take the time to look for these deficiencies 👀