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 welcome Dr. Sheila Dean back to the show for a masterclass in hormone detoxification – including the importance of testing and clinical pearls using nutritional therapeutics.
Today on The Lab Report:

3:20 Dr. Dean is back with a detox pathway recap
7:20 Importance of hormone detox
11:10 The need for testing metabolites
16:30 Clinical pearls for optimizing estrogen metabolism
21:45 Role of Genetic SNPs and the microbiome
28:30 IFNA program highlights
30:35 The Fireball

Additional Resources:
Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy
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