Aaron Hartman explains what separates a good functional medicine practitioner from a bad one. Look for someone committed to ongoing education, not their degree. Avoid providers who keep reaching for the same narrow solutions instead of drawing from a broader toolkit.
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That's something that you can definitely pick up on once you've, you know, joined a practice. You can kind of see, like, does the person kind of go around the same loop again and again? Are they always thinking that something is gi? Are they always thinking that you need a stool study? Is that the solution to all of the problems, you know, or does a person have a bigger toolkit from which to draw from? And that would usually be an indicator of continuing education. So I think a commitment to continued education would be the first thing to look for. And honestly, probably the most important thing, I'm less concerned about the degree that the provider has, whether an MD or a DO or a naturopathic degree or PA or an np. It's, I think, more, like I said, about the education that they've had since then that's really gonna help them to be a better functional medicine provider. And.