It used to eat me up. That changed a few months back. The Hunger Monster I was afraid of hunger most of my life. I’d plan in advance, even waking early after 48 hour shifts, to avoid confronting my hunger.

Functional medicine regards food as medicine. Why? We become what we eat Every cell we consume is broken down. Then built up into the cells and tissues of our body. Into our selves. We become why we eat, and how we eat We can eat for hunger or to satisfy

I’d always sensed that there was more to health than what I was taught in med school. But it took me a long struggle with my own health to actually believe it.