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The Health Detective Podcast by Functional Diagnostic Nutrition

We bring you interviews from people who have conquered the trickiest of health challenges using the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Philosophy and similar healing modalities. You’ll hear from experts who have been through the wringer with their health issues, and yet managed to come out on the other side.If you are interested in natural healing and/or functional medicine, this is the podcast for you!Visit https://www.fdntraining.com/resources to learn more about the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition

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47:10

How to Get Clients as a Health Coach Without Feeling...

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2026/10/08

How do you get clients as a health coach without constantly posting on social media, sending cold DMs, or feeling like a pushy salesperson?If you're a health coach, nutrition coach, or Functional Diagnostic Nutrition (FDN) practitioner struggling to attract clients, market your services, or grow your coaching business, this episode of the Health Detective Podcast is for you. Michele Scarlet, FDNP, CPT, sits down with nutrition coach and business mentor Mike Millner to explore how to build trust,

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33:33

From Skin Cancer to Root Cause Healing: Mold, Gut...

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2026/10/01

What happens when a health problem keeps getting treated but the deeper questions never get answered?In this episode of the Health Detective Podcast, Michele Scarlet sits down with Diane Dahi, an FDNP, integrative health coach, massage therapist, and personal trainer, to explore a deeply personal health journey spanning decades of bodywork, wellness, chronic health challenges, and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition. Diane shares how a skin condition that was repeatedly dismissed as eczema was

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24:28

Will AI Replace Health Coaches? ChatGPT, Functional...

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2026/09/24

Is AI coming for health coaches, or is it about to make good practitioners even better?In this episode, Michele Scarlet sits down with FDN business mentor Jenn Malecha to unpack what AI actually means for health practitioners. They discuss how tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini can support practitioners, why the quality of the prompt matters, what happens when AI confidently gives you inaccurate information, and why critical thinking still matters. Jenn also shares how AI is beginning to be used

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45:25

Multiple Sclerosis, Root Cause Healing & Nervous...

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2026/09/18

What if a diagnosis could explain your symptoms without defining your future? In this episode of the Health Detective Podcast, Michele Scarlet sits down with Dr. Sierra Bains, Doctor of Physical Therapy, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, best-selling author of Rooted, and founder of Lightstyle, for a powerful conversation about Multiple Sclerosis, root cause healing, nervous system health, chronic stress, and functional health.Sierra shares the story of being diagnosed with Multiple

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37:45

GLP-1s for Weight Loss & Metabolic Health: Benefits,...

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2026/09/10

What happens when weight loss becomes about more than the number on the scale? In this episode of the Health Detective Podcast, Michele Scarlet sits down with FDNP Brandy Buskow for an honest conversation about GLP-1 medications, obesity, metabolic health, gut health, weight loss, and the role of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition practitioners in supporting clients through this changing health landscape.Brandy shares her personal journey with lifelong obesity, severe IBS, anxiety, digestive issues,

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46:36

Emotional Eating, Self-Worth & Mindset Healing | How...

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2026/09/03

What if lasting physical healing requires more than changing what you eat or taking another supplement?In this episode of the Health Detective Podcast, Michele Scarlet sits down with Amber Romaniuk, an emotional eating, digestive, and hormone expert, to explore the powerful connection between mindset, self-worth, emotional healing, nervous system regulation, gut health, hormone health, and physical wellbeing. Amber shares her deeply personal health transformation, including her experiences with

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35:17

GLP-1s & Peptide Therapy: Weight Loss, Food Noise,...

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2026/08/27

GLP-1 medications and peptide therapy are everywhere right now, but are they simply weight loss tools, or is there more to the conversation?In this episode of the Health Detective Podcast, Michele Scarlet sits down with holistic health practitioner Laura Young to discuss GLP-1s, peptide therapy, metabolic health, food noise, inflammation, healthy aging, and the importance of building strong health foundations first. Laura shares her own experience using GLP-1 peptides after struggling with

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49:17

Red Light Therapy & Infrared Sauna Benefits for...

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2026/08/20

What are the real benefits of red light therapy and infrared saunas, and how could infrared therapy support detoxification, inflammation, pain, recovery, and overall cellular health?In this episode of the Health Detective Podcast, Michele Scarlet sits down with Robby Besner, Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Therasage, whose work with infrared technology began after his teenage daughter was diagnosed with Lyme disease. Robby shares his daughter’s Lyme disease journey, the limitations they

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46:33

Chronic Bloating & Constipation | What Functional Lab...

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2026/08/13

What if you’ve spent years being told that everything is “normal,” while your body is telling you something completely different?In this episode of the Health Detective Podcast, Michele Scarlet sits down with Chandra Marin, a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, to explore her decades-long journey with chronic symptoms, digestive dysfunction, brain fog, anxiety, fatigue, and unexplained health challenges. Chandra’s story began in her teens with severe constipation, episodes of passing out,

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44:16

Functional Lab Testing, Metabolic Health & the...

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2026/08/06

What if sustainable weight loss isn't about eating less, but about fixing what's happening beneath the surface?In this inspiring episode of the Health Detective Podcast, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDN-P) Lori Balue shares how she transformed her health after decades of obesity, Metabolic Dysfunction, PCOS, Prediabetes, Depression, Anxiety, Chronic Inflammation, asthma, and failed dieting. Despite trying countless calorie-restricted diets, lasting results only came after

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45:16

Bloating, Gas And H. Pylori: What A GI Map Test Reveals

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2026/07/31

In this episode of the Health Detective Podcast, Michele Scarlet sits down with recent FDN graduate Jaime Dadd to unpack what a GI Map test finally revealed after a lifetime of guessing: H. pylori, low pancreatic elastase, bacterial overgrowth, and gut inflammation that had likely been building since her teenage years.In this episode: Why bloating and gas on a clean diet almost always point somewhere deeper than food What low stomach acid looks like decades before anyone connects the dots How ten

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45:00

The Root Causes Behind Hormone Imbalance, Gut Issues...

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2026/07/23

What happens when every medical test comes back "normal," yet your body is telling you something is seriously wrong?In this powerful episode of the Health Detective Podcast, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDN Practitioner) Betsy Stevenson shares her remarkable journey through years of unexplained neurological symptoms that mimicked mini-strokes, debilitating fatigue, digestive dysfunction, insomnia, hormone imbalance, and overwhelming burnout. Despite extensive medical testing,

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90:01

The Hidden Reason Women Feel Sick Despite “Normal”...

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2026/07/16

Why do so many women continue battling fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, hormone imbalance, bloating, and food sensitivities, even when their lab results come back “normal”? In this episode of the Health Detective Podcast, Michele Scarlet sits down with Dr. Stephanie Dunlop, a board-certified emergency medicine physician and founder of RootRX, to explore why conventional medicine often overlooks early dysfunction and how a root cause approach can uncover the hidden patterns behind persistent

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90:01

The Story Behind Functional Diagnostic Nutrition...

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2026/07/10

In this special episode of the Health Detective Podcast, FDN Founder Reed Davis shares the remarkable story behind the creation of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition (FDN) and explains how a passion for helping people evolved into one of the world's leading Functional Health and Health Coaching education programs. Reed reflects on his transition from environmental law into the wellness field after witnessing firsthand how conventional healthcare often failed to uncover the true causes of chronic health

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90:01

How to Build a Bulletproof Health Coaching Business |...

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2026/07/03

What if one unexpected event, a partnership ending, a pandemic, a health crisis, or losing a major client could completely disrupt your business? More importantly, how do you build a health coaching business that can survive every setback? In this episode of the Health Detective Podcast, Michele Scarlet shares the real business journey behind building a resilient Functional Diagnostic Nutrition practice. From launching a personal training studio at age 22 to navigating failed partnerships, COVID

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42:14

Why Chronic Bloating Keeps Coming Back | The...

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2026/06/25

How do you help someone whose chronic bloating, abdominal distension, digestive issues, hormone imbalance, and fatigue keep returning, even after working with multiple practitioners? In this episode of the Health Detective Podcast, Michele Scarlet sits down with FDN Practitioner Becca Chilczenkowski, co-owner of FitMom Functional Health, to break down one of her most complex Functional Diagnostic Nutrition case studies. Together, they explore how a woman struggling with severe bloating, recurring

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30:54

5 Years of Acid Reflux & Stomach Pain, Gone: The Root...

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2026/06/18

If you have lived with acid reflux, heartburn, bloating, or stomach pain that will not go away, even after PPIs, elimination diets, and round after round of doctor visits, this conversation is for you.For over five years, Jessica Washington cycled through the ER, a PPI, a SIBO label, and increasingly restrictive diets, with no real answers. Her H. pylori test even came back negative, something that happens far more often than most people are told. Everything changed when she ran functional labs

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45:15

Why Health Coaches Need More Than Functional Medicine...

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2026/06/11

Is Functional Medicine truly addressing the root causes of Chronic Illness or has it started falling into the same symptom-focused patterns as conventional healthcare?In this episode of the Health Detective Podcast, Michele Scarlet sits down with Reed Davis, founder of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition (FDN), to explore the philosophy, principles, and clinical framework that have helped thousands of practitioners and clients uncover the hidden stressors behind chronic health challenges. Drawing on

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43:35

Don't Wait Until You Graduate: Build Your FDN Client...

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2026/06/04

Most FDN trainees believe they need to wait until they graduate before they can start getting clients. According to Jenn Malecha, that's one of the biggest mistakes new practitioners make.In this episode of the Health Detective Podcast, Michele Scarlet sits down with Jenn Malecha to reveal how FDN Practitioners, Health Coaches, and Functional Health Practitioners can begin building a client waitlist long before certification is complete. One of the most common fears among new practitioners is not

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35:20

Joint Pain, Psoriasis & Hormones Healed as ER Nurse...

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2026/05/28

Michele Scarlet sits down with RN, Nurse Practitioner, and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner Connie Wade for an honest conversation about what 25 years inside the emergency room taught her about the limits of conventional medicine, why her own doctor told her she was not "sick enough" to treat, and how she finally healed the symptoms she had been "swiping away" for years.In this powerful Health Detective Podcast episode, Connie shares her personal journey through psoriasis, debilitating

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