Influences

Mark Hyman, MD

A physician and author who did as much as anyone to bring functional medicine into public view and to frame chronic disease as a systems problem rather than a set of isolated symptoms.

Frank Lipman, MD

A New York physician whose integrative, lifestyle-forward practice has long sat at the meeting point of conventional and complementary care.

Chris Kresser, MS, L.Ac.

A clinician and educator, and an acupuncturist, whose work translates functional and ancestral-health thinking into clinical practice.

Rangan Chatterjee, MD

A physician and author focused on lifestyle medicine and the everyday behaviors that move health before medication does.

Deepak Chopra, MD

An author whose writing on mind-body medicine helped put the relationship between mental state and physical health into mainstream conversation.

Andrew Huberman, PhD

A neuroscientist whose public work translates the mechanisms of the nervous system into practical terms, a translation problem I care about in my own field.

Dan Buettner

An author and researcher whose Blue Zones work reframed longevity around environment and daily habit rather than intervention.

Michael Mosley

A physician and broadcaster whose work made metabolic health, fasting, and self-experimentation legible to a general audience.

Jill Blakeway, DACM, L.Ac.

An acupuncturist and author whose New York practice and writing helped define the modern role of Chinese medicine in fertility care.

Lorne Brown, Dr.TCM, CPA

A Chinese medicine practitioner who built a rigorous, integrative model of fertility acupuncture and a large educational effort around it.

Aaron Spitz, MD

A urologist and author who has done a great deal to make men's urological and reproductive health a topic people will actually discuss.

Jed Diamond, PhD

An author whose long body of work on men's health and midlife hormonal change opened up a conversation most of medicine avoided.

James Maskell

An entrepreneur and author whose work on community models for functional medicine rethinks how care is actually delivered and paid for.

Sachin Patel

A practice coach and educator focused on helping clinicians build functional-medicine practices that hold together as businesses.

Isa Herrera, MSPT, CSCS

A physical therapist and author in New York whose work brought pelvic floor rehabilitation to a much wider audience.

Sarah Duvall, PT, DPT

A physical therapist whose education work on pelvic and core rehabilitation is widely used by clinicians in the field.

Amy Stein, DPT

A pelvic floor physical therapist and author in New York whose work on pelvic pain sits right alongside the problems I treat.

Giovanni Espinosa, ND

A naturopathic doctor whose integrative approach to urology models the kind of cross-discipline collaboration my own pelvic work depends on.