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Functional Medicine
Peptides & Biological Signaling | Part 4
The Peptide Paradox: How Restricting Safe Clinical Access Made the Wild West Bigger
When the system narrows the legitimate path, demand doesn't disappear. It just moves somewhere nobody can track it.
The FDA restricted 19 peptides in September 2023. One month later, tirzepatide was approved for weight loss. Dr. Hartman explains what actually happened.
Peptides & Biological Signaling | Part 3
When the Body Forgets How to Heal
What Peptides Are Actually For
Your body doesn’t forget how to heal all at once. It happens slowly: growth hormone pulses less, sleep gets shallower, injuries take longer, connective tissue stops holding.
Medical Blind Spots | Part 2
Medical Gaslighting
When Medicine Says It’s All in Your Head
If you’ve ever been told your symptoms are stress, anxiety, or “just in your head,” you’ve experienced what Dr. Hartman calls medical gaslighting. It’s not manipulation. It’s a structural problem in how medicine handles uncertainty. And it has a pattern.
Medical Blindspots | Part 1
How Often Is Modern Medicine Wrong?
The Pattern No One Wants to Talk About
Some medical errors are just errors. Others become doctrine.
Mystery Illnesses | Part 1
The Myth of “Mystery Illness”
If your labs are “normal” but you don’t feel well, the mystery may be the model. A conversation on fragmentation, autoimmunity, and systems.
What If We Were Wrong About Food?
The Unintended Consequences of Getting Nutrition “Right”
What if some of our biggest nutrition problems didn’t come from eating the wrong foods, but from removing the ones our bodies needed?
Functional Dentistry
Functional Dentistry 101
The Mouth–Body Connection We Keep Missing
Bleeding gums, hormones, fatigue, and stalled healing may be connected. Here’s why functional dentistry treats the mouth as part of the whole body.
Low-Dose Naltrexone
The Tiny Dose That Tricks Your Body Into Healing Itself
After 25 years treating chronic conditions, I’ve found one therapy that consistently delivers results where conventional medicine fails. This simple, affordable treatment has helped my patients overcome Long COVID, POTS, chronic fatigue, and autoimmune conditions by teaching their bodies how to heal naturally.
Metabolic Syndrome | Part 4
The Complete Protocol
Becoming a Professional Athlete of Your Health
Discover the complete protocols that reverse fatty liver disease, drop A1C from 11 to under 7, and transform metabolic health—if you’re ready to commit.
The Connected Life Crisis
Body Image in the Filter Age
A Functional Medicine Approach
“We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls.” Facebook said that. Not some…
From Global Justice to Personal Healing
Meet Veronica De La Torre (MS, LN, MPAS, PA-C)
Meet RIFM’s newest provider: Veronica Porterfield, whose remarkable journey from global justice advocate to functional medicine expert brings hope to patients seeking root-cause solutions for complex chronic conditions.
Creating a Healing Journey
Curating the Patient Experience at RIFM
I recently interviewed my wife and Co-CEO, Becky Hartman. Becky has been instrumental in shaping the patient experience at our clinic, and in our conversation, we delved into the intricacies of what makes our approach unique and effective.
Chronic Health Issues
Autoimmune & Autoinflammatory Disease
Addressing the Seismic Rise in Chronic Health Issues
Chronic health issues (autoimmune & autoinflammatory) are now the most common medical problems we deal with. How can you protect yourself?
Functional Primary Care | Part 2
Functional Primary Care: It’s Never Too Late to Invest In Your Future.
(And We’ve Made It Easier Than Ever)
Jodi’s journey is a testament to her belief that it’s never too late to make a life change.