Darrian Peck noticed patients on thyroid and hormonal medications stayed sick because doctors weren't fixing the underlying problems. She shifted to functional medicine to address what medications alone couldn't solve.
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What made you go the women's health route in functional medicine? What I saw was that they were doing those things and it still wasn't working. And they were on all these medications, thyroid problems, hormonal issues, and realized that we're assuming that they have a deficiency of medication, when the reality is they have all these other deficiencies that aren't being met. These women are not getting help with the implementation of this information. Things will change short term, but then they go right back to where they were because they never fixed any of the foundational problems that were existing. And so I started to ask the question, like, who else is going to do this if it's not for me?