Dr. Sheila Dean is one of the nation’s premier integrative nutritionists. She is a co-founder of the Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy and has practiced functional medicine for two decades. Her insight has not only changed the lives of many patients, but her teaching and mentoring has inspired and empowered a new generation of nutrition specialists and health professionals.
In today’s episode, we dive into one of Dr. Dean’s keen interests – metabolic detoxification. We discuss the physiologic process of detoxifying xenobiotics and hormones and why nutrition, genomics, and the microbiome are vital.
Today on The Lab Report:

3:00 Meet Dr. Sheila Dean and hear about her path to functional medicine
9:15 Toxins, Detox, and Biotransformation
13:15 Phase I and Phase II pathways
16:35 Nutrition, genetic SNPs, and detoxifying hormones
24:45 Clinical strategies for optimizing key detox pathways
31:00 All about IFNA
33:40 The Fireball

Additional Resources:
Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy
DetoxiGenomics
Essential Estrogens
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