Dr. Katie Patel spent 15 years as a pharmacologist watching people swap one prescription for another, never asking why they got sick in the first place. Now she straddles two worlds as both a VA clinical pharmacologist and a functional medicine practitioner, and she's on a mission to get people building a foundation before they reach for anything else.
Her wake-up call didn't come in a clinic. It came at home, watching her kids mirror her own dysregulation back to her. Combined with years of her own symptoms being dismissed by providers and a postpartum slide straight into perimenopause, she realized the system she'd trained in wasn't asking the right questions. So she started asking them herself.
What she found changed everything, not just for her patients, but for her marriage, her kids, and the way she shows up every day.
Expect to learn...
Why pharmacologists are one of the most underused resources in healthcare and what to actually ask them
How the nervous system connects to chronic pain, gut issues, hormones, and diseases most people treat as separate problems
Why replacing your prescriptions with a pile of supplements is just trading one problem for another
The awareness, acceptance, responsibility pattern that underlies all real change
How type A perfectionism quietly fuels anxiety, chronic illness, and burnout
Why foundational health habits have to come before labs, protocols, or biohacking stacks
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