Vibrant Potential with Dr Chris Frykman: Functional Medicine Strategies for Health, Fitness, and Performance

Today my guest is Dr Ray McClanahanof Northwest Foot & Ankle inPortland, Oregon. I didn’t know Dr Ray personally when I invited him on theshow. As far asfeet goes, he’s a perfect fit for the Vibrant Potentialtribe. He’spassionate about helping people find what he calls “their highestjoy in motion. He’s been a podiatrist for almost 20 years and his years ofexperience along with his personal story as an elite runner (whichhe shares with us at the beginning of this episode) have taught himmost issues with feet from bunions to neuroma’s and many others canbe corrected by restoring natural foot function. As you’re about to hear, DrRay’s entire practice is really centered around helping people getout of pain, perform at higher levels, and be free to feeljoy. Turns out DrRay is a Vibrant Potentialite and didn’t even knowit!

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Have you ever noticed how your mind and brain play ahuge role in how your body feels and behaves? If you listened to episode 31with Brock Armstrong or episode 20 with Dr Denny you’ve heard meexplore some of how the mind, the brain, and your mental state canaffect your body. Today’s episode is a fun one for me. My long time friend, LanceHauge, and I discuss some of the interplay between what he refersto as subtle energy and the more tangible physicalbody. As alwaysboth my guest AND I share personal details about how this stuffshows up in our lives.

If you do choose to listen in on our discussiontoday, please stay until the end. Starting now, every week I’mgoing to give you an invitation at the end of everyepisode. Theseinvites will be extremely varied from each other. I hope to infuse them withfun. Approach themwith curiosity and open-mindedness and you’ll get a lot out ofthem. They are allintended to help you reach YOUR Vibrant Potential.

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Welcome to Vibrant Potential. I’m your host, Dr Chris Frykman. Today’s guest is Dr Jeff Sandquist. I like this dude. He’s a chiropractor, a nutritional expert, and a self proclaimed multipotentialite. This is a killer show for you if you’re constantly being drawn in another direction. I’ve listed tons of resources for you on the the show notes for today’s show at www.drchrisfrykman.com/intentionallywandering. Intentionally Wandering is the name of Jeff’s show too. I love Intentionally wandering because Jeff gives us permission to not know. I don’t know if that’s how Jeff would put it, but for me that’s a significant concept. Jeff encourages us to be flexibly focused on life journey, not the destination. He just released an episode on his show in which he interviews me. You can find that at www.intentionallywandering.com/32.

My intention with this podcast is to help your achieve YOUR Vibrant Potential. Around minute 45 of this podcast Jeff says that he’s said “no” to more things than he’s said “yes” to in the past year. It’s in the context of simple living. I really want to draw your attention to this concept because the more clear I get about what I’m choosing to be up to in this life, the more I can say no to invites, even if they are amazing invites, but if they aren’t congruent with what I’m up to, then it’s a no for right now. Somewhere along the way, I decided it was important to be open minded. I still believe that but more and more I find it important to temper that open mindedness with a construct from which to work from for your life. If you want to create your life, you have to behave in a way that promotes that vision. In last week’s episode, James Butler says we are the sum of all of our choices. So true.

Do you know what you’re up to? If you have an inkling that you have something great to give but you’re not quite sure what it is, I highly recommend having a conversation with James. He graciously opened up 3 premium coaching sessions to the Vibrant Potential tribe and I genuinely hope you are one of the lucky 3 people that will take him up on that. I recently did a session with him myself and I am on FIRE now. I’m constantly redefining who I am and in my session with James I had a huge break through and I’m excited to share that with you soon. For now, if you want to experience that for yourself, check out last week’s show notes at drchrisfrykman.com/peakobjectives and you can find James’ email. Just shoot him an email with the subject line, “Vibrant Potential” and let him know you’d like to take him up on his free coaching session if he still has one open. This episode is a great compliment to last weeks as there are a lot of concepts that overlap. Today Jeff and I talk about creating yourself too. So let’s just get to it. Enjoy the show!

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Vibrant Potential is more than a podcast though. It’s a conversation. It’s a state of optimal living. In the words of the US army, “Be all that you can be.” Whether you’re in the armed forces or not, words to live by. I’ve made it my job to improve the lives of others, specifically in the area of health. If you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything but when you’re healthy you can live life to it’s fullest, meet your goals, feel joy and life flowing in you and all around you. To do this, I found out long ago I need some good tools. Some of those tools are functional medicine, functional neurology, applied kinesiology and many others depending on the situation.

Functional Medicine has gained a lot of popularity in the past few years. Because of this more people have heard about it and are seeking it out. If you’re a casual, outside observer, you may think a func med approach means going gluten free and taking some expensive supplements. Those of you more intimately familiar with functional medicine recognize certain tenets among its practitioners. Primary among these guiding principles is personalization - meaning as a functional medicine doctor, I’m not going to be focused on diagnosing a problem in you and then treating the problem. I’m not going to treat you like everyone else that walks in the door. I’m going to listen to you. I’m going to treat you, not your disease or disorder. Speaking of disease, another tenet of functional medicine is taking a proactive approach to health and to life. Gone are the days you need to wait until something is broken and then hope you can still fix it. Personalized medicine, functional medicine, heck, just GOOD medicine is about watching for trends. Whether it’s because I know someone and have been treating them for years or whether its from taking a thorough history, meaning I’ve taken the time to sit down with someone and really unwind their journey up to this point, in functional medicine we want to notice subtle changes before they become life threatening. An easy example is diabetes. Diabetes is a disease that kills 10’s to 100’s of thousands of people every year in the US alone. And that’s going by conservative numbers. The classic way to diagnosis diabetes is to obtain a fasting blood sugar and if it’s 125 you don’t have diabetes - go home, you’re fine - and if its 126 you do have it and we better get you on some meds to manage this sucker. That’s just bad medicine. A good functional medicine doc is going to look at trends, if your blood sugar is 85, that’s probably fine but if your blood sugar has been 72 for the past 5 years and now it’s 85, we want to look at why. Always why. Let’s get to the root cause of what’s going on here people. We need to stop treating the symptoms and start looking upstream to what the causes of disease are in the first place. Be those reasons physiologic, spiritual, mental, or emotional, chemical or bioelectric, there’s a reason your fasting blood sugars are rising. And if the reason is you’re depressed because your mom just passed away and you’ve replaced your daily run with a tub of ice cream, it’s a poor answer to simply through some glucophage at the situation. Do you see it?

We don’t have to wait to be broken. We can seek more now.

I’m not here to tell you what you should want out of life. I’m here when you want, MORE, out of life.

Want More strength, speed or flexibility? check

Looking for improved mental clarity, better memory, or more focus and drive? check

Do you desire Better relationships through emotional wellness and cultivating an inner peace? check

This is the spirit in which I’ve developed Habitat Retreats with my partner, Dr Shamanie. In an up coming episode, I’m going to ask Dr Shamanie to share her story with you. It’s one of cancer and pain but it’s also a story of healing and happiness. If you want more on how habitat retreats came to be, or how to attend one you can visit today’s show notes page at drchrisfrykman.com/drcarrick or www.habitatretreats.com. For now though, Long story short, Shamanie had a revelation along her own healing journey that health only happens in the right environment. A plant can’t grow without light or water. A human also needs certain conditions to be just right for optimal growth and expansion. These Habitat Retreats have become my preferred method for providing care for people looking for improved health and improved function because there’s simply no other way to incite the kinds of changes we see in a week’s time at these retreats. Sometime soon I’ll share some of what we do at these retreats but suffice it to say, I’ve seen patients make more dramatic brain wave shifts in one week than some people see...

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