Does information get you results quicker? Rarely. It’s when you combine information with action that you create knowledge and you’re heading in the right direction. But if you want to save even more time getting to your health goals, you must combine knowledge with this…

Nutritional debates will never end. Most debates have the starting point of ‘XYZ food item as being good or bad?’ This is why the debate will never be settled. People are trying to create a scientific argument within a moral framework. This is when nutrition turns into religion or dogma.

What happens when you leave the corporate world to pursue your life’s purpose, passion, and mission?  You might end up really sick.  What happens when that life’s passion is potentially wrecking your health?  Do you double down and work harder?  Do you change course?  Do you give up the dream?

Follow Lynn’s journey from Washington DC to a farm outside of Austin, Tx and the toll pursuing one’s passion can have on your health.  But also follow Lynn’s incredibly inspiring words that helped her pick her self up and create health so she can continue to pursue her passion and life’s work.

A wife, author, future 90 year old bad ass, and race horse rescuer, Lynn has fought hard through Hashimoto’s, arthritic pain and inflammation, fatigue, and plenty of natural disasters.

It’s cool to have people ask how the experiment is going. Honestly, it has been hard to quantify until I started hearing fellow gym goers talk about the workout load from last week (the week of January 14) and how they felt wrecked. I look back at what we did and hearing how sore they were, last week’s workout load has given my experience with the Somaderm gel new light as I haven’t been sore at all.

Hey, Dr. Kurt here and I want to tell you about our signature program here at Dr. Kurt’s Place called YOUniversity with the emphasis and goal of guiding you to Read More

Whether it’s a blood or a scratch test, I think testing for food allergies and sensitivities is overrated. These are reactions to disruptions higher up the food chain (pun intended). Consider a few of these tests before testing your food reactions.

My two oldest kids join me today with an experiment of having a conversation about health with kids.  I can’t guarantee there’s no reference to poop or male body parts.  Short and sweet, and definitely a little loud in the ears at times, here’s a glimpse of the Perkins boys at home.

You’re waking up from surgery, getting your bearings, and trying to figure out what bus just hit you. As the anesthesia is wearing off and you’re being loaded up with pain meds, you realize you chose for this trauma to happen and you want to get back to normal day life as quickly as possible.

Surgery might be the solution you need but for the health conscious person, the risks of interventions used are always at the top of the mind. There are the effects Read More

A common complaints of systemic inflammatory conditions like brain fog, auto-immune disorders, and even chronic pain is the ability to make decisions.

A question I get often is, “why should someone avoid gluten even if they don’t have a sensitivity to it?”

While optimizing your lifestyle is a key components of our YOUniversity program to make you the best version of YOU, identifying and applying your unique super powers is where people really start to soar with results.

One thing to consider through this experiment is that I’m still training hard. I think people make the false assumption that you can take hormones and do nothing. You should Read More

Life is filled with moments that shape our journey. As I enter my 15th year of clinical practice, there are 3 defining moments that shaped my career path and lead me to functional medicine as a provider.

My personal chiropractor, Dr. Jason Cahill, joins the podcast today to put the shoe on the other foot.  Past interviews have focused on the clients that are using their health gains to serve their purpose and passion more effectively.  If it were’t for Dr. Jason, I wouldn’t be able to keep up the demands of life I place on myself without creating a tipping point into dysfunction.  

A husband, Chiropractor, and Man of the Woods; Dr. Jason is intricate in my health journey and not being a victim to my circumstances.

Wanting to start the New Year off well with your perfect diet but not sure how to figure it out? Is it Keto? Vegan? Paleo? Or is it better to assess your unique biochemical needs and not and try to fit into a box of diets?

Before you step foot into a functional medicine clinic, it’s imperative that you understand these 4 things to shape your expectations and experience.

The body never does stupid stuff, it’s just dose dependent. There seems to be benefits of a lower IGF-1 and benefits to a higher IGF-1. But there are also trade-offs of both.

Kortney joins us on this episode.  A series of health issues stemming from vaccine reactions at 2 years old catalyzed a host of health issues and some dark times as a teenager with suicidal thoughts.  Regaining her health by recognizing the God-given self healing, self regulating capabilities is now launching her into a career in the holistic health field.

A sister, daughter, essential oils coach, photographer, and nutraphoria student; youth, fear, hormone swings, and inexperience were no excuse to play victim to her circumstances.

Jordan joins us with her reality of grief.  Being a primary care taker for 8 years for a husband battling brain cancer and raising a toddler at the same time, her health disciplines are what kept her strong.  The road was never easy, it still isn’t, as life threw more at her with the sudden death of her sister a year after her husband passed away.  Find comfort in Jordan’s story that you have the strength to keep pushing too.  Health isn’t just about what goes into your mouth or what body parts are moving but the community built that lifts you up in the midst of the storms.