This week, Tee is joined by Katie Kirklin, a Certified Functional Nutrition Counselor and Licensed Registered Nurse whose career bridges conventional medicine and root-cause healing. Katie's nursing background took her from a hospital ship in West Africa to a children's hospital in Australia to travel nursing across the U.S., but she felt pulled toward prevention over crisis care. After her own struggles with gut issues, anxiety, and disordered eating, she discovered Functional Nutrition and now helps clients achieve lasting, personalized healing through food as medicine.

In this episode, Katie uncovers the missing pieces that often keep people from feeling their best, even when they're doing "all the right things." She shares how her own years of chasing diets and quick fixes led her to Functional Nutrition, an approach built on the idea that healing isn't one-size-fits-all. Tee and Katie discuss what it really means to address root causes instead of just managing symptoms.

The conversation also dives into one of Tee's favorite topics: the hidden, everyday factors that quietly undermine our health. Katie shares how gut health, stress, and food sensitivities often get overlooked by conventional medicine, and offers practical ways to start identifying what your body actually needs. Whether you've felt dismissed by traditional healthcare or are just starting to explore root-cause healing, this episode offers a hopeful, personalized path forward.

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