Functional Medicine Update Reception 2014

That's kind of what's happening right now. There's this network of people of which you are the leaders that are the ambassadors taking this information out. I'm hopefully giving something to you that you can use and distribute in this kind of replicative way. So with that, I wanted to take a moment to have a special honor. And that is when we reviewed our group, the 32 Years of. Of clinician researchers that we've had. We recognize that all of them have been uniquely important in setting the tone for what functional medicine has become. But as I look back at kind of seminal moments, there are a few along the road that we have acknowledged as being kind of groundbreaking, paradigm shifting, aha experiences. And we've over the years occasionally noted a certain series of kind of meritorious, above the crowd, distinguished contributions. And certainly we at FMU recognize that one of those has just occurred. You know, the first time I had the opportunity to interview Randy Jertel was not just for him, amazing experience. It was for me an amazing experience. And he was tenacious and willing enough to do a second interview. For those of you that FMU subscribers recall, we did an update with him a second go around. So, Randy, I'd like you to step up and step up here, Step up here. And. So we would like, on behalf of the personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute, which now is the steward of functional medicine Update, we'd like to recognize you, Dr. Randy Jertel, for your breakthrough discoveries related to the development of nutritional epigenetics. Your interviews on functional medicine Update have been considered two of the most significant presentations over the past 30 years of our audio magazine. And we as a staff of plmi, want to thank you so much for your contributions to all of us.

Oh, thank you. I mean, this is amazing. I'm not as good at speaking as Jeff is, but. I'm actually speechless. This is incredible. Here's a little bit of a story. In addition to doing that interview, which truly was the best interview I've ever had, I mean, there's no doubt about it because I. And then to demonstrate that, actually I emailed Jeff and I asked him whether I could have. I could put the MP4 of that interview on our website, geneimcoop.com and you know, I know that they're on CDs, people get it because they pay subscriptions to it and stuff like that. And there was never any hesitation. And it's still on there along with the transcript that was.

Trish.

It's amazing.

Well, we want to thank you. I really appreciate this Absolutely. You can hang it next to the ifm Linus Pauling Ward. Below the Linus Pauling Ward.

Now, I know you all heard this, but it was. The reason that I wanted to come to this meeting was to meet Jeff. I never met him personally, and I almost blew it. I thought, because we got into this issue about CME credits.

Oh, that's right. Well, no, that was.

And somebody. I don't remember who it was, saying, well, maybe you have no, you know, experience with CME credits. I said, yeah, I've had a lot of experience with it. I told myself I would never, ever give a lecture again where I had to get through that bureaucracy. And I said, I've done this only because I wanted to meet you.

Thank you.

Little did I know that I was going to get this award. So I thought, my God, I almost blew this.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. So just to finish up this recognition, just to show you how the web of life weaves ourselves into interesting patterns again, last week, I got an email from a colleague in Chicago who is not at all in the nutrition or medical field. He's actually a professor of the business school at Northwestern. And he says, jeff, I just got your book. I just started to read it, and I had it as I was coming to dinner at the dinner table, and my daughter, who was in the eighth grade, was sitting there, and she saw the title of the book and she said, so, dad, what's that book about? And I was trying to explain to her, and then she looks at me, she says, so is there anything in that book about epigenetics? Yes. She says, you know, that diet can actually influence the marks on your genes. This is what he emails me last week. So, Randy, it's going all down through the school system. This wasn't even from a health care provider. So I think that's really good. So, again, I just want to thank all of you. People have asked questions over the years like, you know, is this a thriving business? Let me tell you, this has not been a thriving business. This has been a labor of love. Trish and Annette and Tom can attest that this has been something that Susan and I have actually been funding for the last 30 years. We take no income out of it. It's more of something we just love doing. But I think when I get this feedback, you know, when a person will come up to me and say that fmu, that one issue really changed my life, that that's worth, like, 10 years of doing it. So I want to thank all of you. I feel really privileged to be in a position where I can still distribute information that you consider useful or be a conduit, really, for all these extraordinary people that I have a chance to meet. It's really the path for my 6 million miles because, you know, not everybody gets all the bonus miles, but maybe you can get without having to stay in hotels, some of the advantage, without having to go through the jet lag to get to these different places. And we have, you know, people from Kennedi is from England and I said, Peter's from Sweden and we have really people from all over the world. I think we have 36 or 38 countries that we have listeners now to FMU. And you know, as someone said, you may not be the brightest, but you've got the longevity quotient. You know, 32 years at least. We've been around. So thank you. Thank you all. I don't want to take too much of your time tonight, but it's been a real privilege to be part of this community. Thanks.