Dr. Rob Whitfield explains the SHARP Method, a non-surgical program that addresses gut health, food sensitivities, toxins, and hormone balance through functional genomics. Practitioners work remotely with patients using protocol-based care, and Whitfield argues genetics deserves its own field rather than being lumped into functional medicine.
clinic has blended those and we have a program that runs now for patients that I don't operate on that I've wrote my book about, The Sharp Method. It just blends what we know about functional genomics, gut health, food sensitivities, toxicity burden, hormone balance. And then we have our functional practitioners, you know, work with patients from around the country to help them, you know, recover. I can't operate on everybody and, um, You know, more and more people want to take advantage of what we've learned over time. So to your point, we, we try to implement our protocols, um, to help others. And they're mostly— I would, you know, consider them functionally based. But I— to me, genetics is like its own separate thing. I don't think it should be owned by the functional medicine space. That seems a bit odd. I think, uh, genetics is still very untapped in terms of its ability to help us and, and, and whether it's therapeutic or just understanding things. I mean, yeah.
