Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Repetition in Functional Medicine: Understanding Hormones

18 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube talk by Aaron Hartman, MD, emphasizing the role of repetition in functional medicine patient education. The speaker explains that repetition helps patients absorb a new way of seeing medicine and describes using intake data and a 2-hour initial interview to gauge hormone dysfunctions tied to patients' chief complaints.

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I tell all my patients that reputation is intentionally built into what we do for the sole purpose of making it less overwhelming and also educating. Because you come in, it's a new way of seeing medicine. And it might be drinking from a fire hose. It often is. And so that repetition is actually helpful. So if we're saying stuff that we said in the previous episodes, great, because it's just going to hammer it home. So most people come in with some degree of chief complaint, or chief complaints, plural. And so based on their history and their intake information and then this in depth 2 hour initial interview, I'm kind of gauging how dysfunctional their hormones might be.