Is Functional Medicine Causing Mental Health Issues?
Episode 250
In this episode of Integrative You Radio, Dr. Nicole challenges the current state of functional and integrative medicine, questioning whether it has become a source of stress and anxiety rather than a solution. She discusses how fear-based health narratives, extreme elimination diets, and rigid wellness protocols may actually contribute to mental health struggles rather than improving overall well-being. Through personal experiences and industry insights, she explores the importance of balance, mindset, and emotional resilience in achieving true health. Dr. Nicole also dives into the cultural contrasts she has observed while living in Italy, where people lead healthier lives with less obsession over "clean living." She highlights the importance of nervous system regulation, stress reduction, and shifting from a fear-based approach to a more aligned, intuitive way of taking care of oneself. Are we unknowingly becoming victims of the wellness industry? Tune in to find out. What you’ll learn: Wellness Extremes Can Be Harmful – Over-focusing on eliminating every toxin, food, or environmental factor can lead to anxiety, stress, and a dysregulated nervous system, ultimately harming mental and physical health. Mindset and Stress Matter More Than Obsession – People in cultures with less stress, like Italy, often live healthier lives without obsessing over every food ingredient or environmental toxin. True Functional Medicine Isn’t About Fear – Practitioners and influencers pushing extreme health narratives may be creating more stress and fear than actual healing; real health comes from balance, not perfection. Quotes: "If you're constantly living in fear of your environment, your food, and your body, you're already setting yourself up for failure—your nervous system is in survival mode." - Dr. Nicole "True health isn't about eliminating everything in your life that could harm you—it's about creating a foundation of resilience, balance, and alignment." - Dr. Nicole Find Inte
Topics: health, medicine, stress, functional, integrative, fear, wellness, nervous
Key takeaways from this episode
- ## Integrative You Radio: Is Functional Medicine Causing Mental Health Issues?
- Extreme wellness practices, such as excessive elimination diets and constant fear of environmental toxins, can lead to anxiety and a dysregulated nervous system.
- A focus on an overly rigid "wellness" approach can create more stress than it alleviates, undermining genuine health.
- Mindset and stress management are paramount; cultures with lower stress levels often exhibit better health outcomes despite less extreme dietary or lifestyle protocols.
- True functional medicine should empower individuals through balance and resilience, rather than instilling fear and obsession.
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Transcript
**Unknown:** Welcome to IntegrativeU Radio, hosted by Dr. Nick Carruthers and yours truly, Dr. Nicole Rivera. This is the place where you become limitless.
**Unknown:** We are covering the latest and greatest topics, of course, in a disruptive fashion, around integrative medicine, mental health, and human behavior. We are also covering how those topics affect the human and family dynamics. We will be sprinkling in some truth bombs for our healthpreneurs so they can join us in our mission to evolve healthcare. If you are health curious and growth focused, you are in the right place.
**Unknown:** But buckle up, because this is real, this is raw, and this is disruptive. This is IntegrativeU Radio. What's up, guys? Welcome back to another episode of IntegrativeU Radio, and I am very excited about this topic today, mainly because you'll probably hear me get pretty fired up.
**Unknown:** So I'm gonna preface with this. This topic was provoked based off of two things that I saw on social media. One was a text-based post, and it was more like a chart actually, and it had three categories, and it had your conventional doctor, functional medicine in the middle, and then it had your health and wellness influencer. And essentially what it was encompassing was that your conventional doctor is saying toxins aren't real, parasites aren't real, infections aren't real, you know, your blood work looks great, you must be depressed and anxious, and that's why you don't feel well.
**Unknown:** So complete gaslighting, you know, telling you that what you feel is irrelevant and it's in your head. And then on the other end of the spectrum, we have health and wellness influencers, you know, perusing around your social platforms that are like, "If you eat meat, you die. If you eat vegetables, you die. If you, you know, use these personal products, your hormones are screwed and you die." And it's like these two extremes, and clearly this was written by a functional practitioner because, you know, they said, in the middle is functional medicine.
**Unknown:** But I am actually here to challenge that idea and, and to be devil's advocate, and part of it is that I feel that with the r- the way that functional medicine has gone and integrative medicine has gone over the years, because I've been doing this literally 13 years, 14 years almost, and I remember when we first got started, you know, we were the weirdos. This was not a thing. You know, functional medicine was just becoming a little bit known. Integrative medicine was like, "What, what is that?
**Unknown:** What are you talking about?" But, you know, we dealt with a lot of skepticism, a lot of pushback, you know, a lot of people telling us that we're crazy and irrelevant and we do voodoo weird shit, we're witch doctors, you know, you, you name it, we heard it. But we weathered the storm and, and now the market is very, very saturated, and it's a mixed fucking bag, guys. It, you know, there's a lot of mixed information, even when it comes to functional integrative medicine. I feel like a lot of people came to functional medicine in order to get the truth and get answers and get clarity, and to be validated that their symptoms are real, but there's so many people that are breaking into the industry that shouldn't be in the fucking industry, so that's, that's a topic.
**Unknown:** You know, they're, they're essentially medical doctors at heart, but they recommend vitamin D, or they recommend supplements. And we're even putting things like bioidentical hormones into the category of functional medicine. That ain't functional medicine. The whole point is that your body knows what to do.
**Unknown:** Sometimes it just needs a facilitator, it needs a little support. So if you're using pharmaceuticals, you're not fucking functional medicine. You're not integrative medicine. That's not how it works.
**Unknown:** And I think that, you know, the people that have been on the journey and they've been failed over and over again, they realize that what's moving the needle the most for them is working on their mind, working on controlling their stress, you know, trying to eat food that has less fucking poison in it, and also trying to, to just work on minimal foundational things, but that's not to be m- worked on forever. It's just, how can I stabilize this thing that wasn't stable? And so it's like less is more i- is really what it comes down to, and we're finding that the, the strong, you know, pharmaceuticals and the surgeries are the things that actually created the setbacks. So if you really know what you're doing in the functional and integrative medicine space, you do not need to ever dabble in pharmaceuticals.
**Unknown:** You don't need to dabble in any of that. Surgery is obviously has its time and place. You know, s- if somebody's arm is dangling off their body, you know, you need surgery. It's like that's, that's a no-brainer, but there's a lot of surgeries being done for chronic pain and chronic conditions that are not actually benefiting the person, or they're benefiting only short-term.
**Unknown:** So I derail as, as I do per usual. So going back to the reason why I'm doing this is, one, the post I just describedThe second one was a video, and I understand that this video was probably, I hope, for comedic purposes, and also, you know, to have a video that was going to draw in an audience, get more followers, et cetera. You know, people tend to do extreme things on social for those purposes because we're in an... we've been programmed for entertainment.
**Unknown:** I get it. I couldn't help but feel tadly enraged when I watched it, and it was a woman who was getting her hair done, and she was very big into health and wellness in her... you know, as she states in her video, and she's been working on her hormones. And so she was like, "Oh, can you please not use that cream on my hair because you know how many chemicals are in there that will disrupt your hormones?" And then she proceeded to, okay, now they're washing her hair, "Ooh, can you please use my shampoo because I've been working on my hormones and, you know, all the chemicals in these products are going to mess up my h-" And I was just like, "Oh my God, I really hope this is for comedic purposes." And so the point of this podcast is, is functional medicine, integrative medicine, and functional medicine influencers or health and wellness influencers creating mental illness for the general population?
**Unknown:** And my answer, as you may think, is yes. And I'm gonna tell you a story that I think is gonna really help. As you guys know, I love to tell stories. But in my early days of getting into this industry of, you know, functional integrative medicine, I will tell you straight up, I was not in a place to explore my mental and emotional limitations because I was still using my mental and emotional limitations.
**Unknown:** Let me explain. When you go through shit as a kid, and you persevere past it, you know, you use your will in order to, to surpass big challenges, to surpass poverty, to surpass abuse, to surpass, you know, really shitty situations, you can use that as your drive. You use it as your motivator, and I'm saying motivator very specifically because it's not an ins- inspiration or an inspirer, it's a motivator. You can use it as a motivator to create a certain level of, quote-unquote, "success" in your life.
**Unknown:** I say quote-unquote "success" just because everyone's definition of that is very different. That could be money, it could be freedom, it could be a house, it could be a car, it could be a family, it could be whatever. So I was using my past challenges to create a successful career for myself and, you know, I used it in the sense of when shit got hard in business, things got scary of can I even pay my overhead for this crazy business that I just built, or I just got destroyed by some customer through writing a rev- review on every review platform known to man, you know, things like that that really hurt as an entrepreneur, I was able to push past it because in my brain, failure was not an option because I wasn't going back to that old life. I wasn't going back to the life of my parents where they were just controlled by their nine-to-five, and life was about survival, and they were barely making ends meet and, you know, we were...
**Unknown:** we could barely pay for the house that we lived in and, you know, we had to eat really shitty food because we couldn't afford quality food, we couldn't go out to dinner, et cetera. Like, I wasn't going to that life. So I used those experiences in order to persevere and say, "No one's fucking taking me down. I'm going to...
**Unknown:** I'm gonna do this." And for those of you listening, think about it. Maybe that has been something that has created a certain level of, of success in your life, a certain level of achievement. But the thing that happens is that you hit a plateau, and you start to realize that using your will as a motivating factor to po- to persevere can only get you so far because it's really not about that. It's not a just about hustle and overcome.
**Unknown:** It's about alignment, starting to make decisions that are more aligned, that are rooted in inspiration for you to be the person you're meant to be. So how does this correlate to the original topic? So in the beginning of getting into integrative functional medicine as a practitioner, I was very focused on the tangible things, the science you can call it. And it was this person has these biochemical imbalances based on their blood work.
**Unknown:** They have these symptoms. They have these physical issues from scar tissue to old injuries, to surgeries that are creating certain nerve blockages, et cetera, et cetera. And so I worked in that model. I worked in that model of being able to hone in on the things that were...
**Unknown:** they were scientifically valid, they were proven through labs, they were proven through a physical exam, and then worked on that. AndAnd then when we wanted to explain why these things were happening for people, you know, why were they having gut issues? Why were they having liver issues or high cholesterol or heart conditions and certain diagnoses? And, you know, it came down to, "Oh, well, it's because you were poisoned from the old profession that you were in.
**Unknown:** You were a, you were a mechanic. You were a hairstylist. You know, you worked in engineering. You were exposed to chemicals.
**Unknown:** Oh, you don't eat organic. Oh, you had a vaccine injury. Oh, you had a physical trauma like a really bad car accident. Oh, you had four C-sections." Like, there were all of these reasons why they had what they had.
**Unknown:** "Oh, you have parasites." Like, oh, you know, so on and so forth. And so working out of that model, it, it, you know, it made sense. It was like here was the cause, and here was the problem based off of that. But of course, you naturally see that certain people will get better, and then there's a boatload of people that don't.
**Unknown:** And you start to ask questions of, "Okay, well, if this is the presumed root cause, and I've been addressing it, you know, why is this person not getting better?" You know, if their, if their issues are they have biochemical imbalances, you know, they have low vitamin D, they have high cholesterol, and if we're working on addressing those, why are they not getting better? Why are the levels not changing? And really, what it comes down to is that there's so much more. There's so much fucking more to it.
**Unknown:** And so in my own journey, I was a... I, I had that experience. I had that experience that I was doing parasite protocols, liver protocols. I was doing hormone balancing protocols.
**Unknown:** I was doing all of these protocols and, you know, obviously would see results at times and then other times just felt like how have I been working on my liver for three years and my liver still has abnormal labs? Like, what the fuck is going on? This is exhausting. You know, how much money and time have I wasted?
**Unknown:** You know, what, what's the issue here? And when you keep asking better questions, you come across answers, and those answers are not necessarily always in alignment with your current level of consciousness, your current level of understanding, your current level of... I wouldn't say level, but your current belief systems. So when I started to realize that maybe the things that have been a driver for me, the things that I endured in my past, maybe they're now holding me back.
**Unknown:** Maybe it's time for me to stop using these biochemical and physical strategies, and maybe it's more about digging a little bit deeper. Maybe it's about a s- a very foundational program, belief system, limiting belief system, trauma that's holding me fucking back. And that was a really hard pill to swallow, and I know that this, for a long time, is, was a really hard pill to swallow for a lot of people, and for some it still is. But I do think that there is a little bit more talk now, especially post-COVID, of how significant stress is on the body, on your health, how significant it is when you live in fear, you live in anxiety, and how it feels really hard to get ahead in your health, get ahead in your job, get ahead as a parent, get ahead in anything.
**Unknown:** So one of my biggest points here is that we need... One, if you are, you know, an individual who's not a practitioner, don't fucking work with those people. Don't work with the people that when you sit down for your review of findings, they give you, like, the m- the, the horror story of how you fucked yourself up and everything you do is poison and everything you do is harmful and, you know, like, you need to eliminate, eliminate, eliminate and change everything about your entire lifestyle 'cause if you don't, you're fucked and you're gonna be sick forever. Like, that's not how it works, and this is one of the reasons why when you look at other cultures...
**Unknown:** You know, people always make comments about people in Italy, where I live now, people in France, and, and they don't, they don't ever go past the surface. They say, "Why can French people eat cheese and smoke cigarettes and drink wine and, and be skinny and be healthy?" And, you know, in Italy, how does everyone just eat pasta and bread and drink wine and they're healthy? And in America, you know, you have all these people doing these trend diets, restricted diets, taking vitamins and supplements. You can't even get vitamins in Italy.
**Unknown:** I literally have to, like, smuggle shit in from the US. Like, I can't even get things here. It is a... It's wild experience.
**Unknown:** But, like, it i- people don't take them because they actually get nutrients from their food. That's a whole topic in itself. But if you look past the surface of these other cultures that have blue zones, which are, you know, health... People are so healthy that they live past 100, centurions, and you just...
**Unknown:** You look at just generally the statistics of, of health and disease in these countries, they're significantly lower than the US.And the reason being is because they are less stressed than us. They don't live in fear. Peop- like, that is something that I have observed for the past year that I've been here, is like you do not see people running around with anxiety. Like, it's so funny to me because where we live, there are tiny-ass streets.
**Unknown:** Like, like I'm talking that you are in a, a, like a Volkswagen Bug, and you have about a centimeter on each side of your car because that's how narrow the road is. And I'm not talking like there's like guardrails. We're talking like stone walls. Like, it's intense to drive here.
**Unknown:** And guess what? Those skinny streets are two-way streets. So when, depending on the position, whoever is closer to a driveway or something, that person has to back up and get out of the other person's way. Oh, it's wild.
**Unknown:** But still to this day, when we're driving and I will be like gripping the sides of, you know, the, the car, the door, and I always notice that the Italian that, you know, is driving and we, we, you know, end up bumper-to-bumper and like somebody's gotta back up, they never even flinch. Like, they're not... Like, like, that doesn't happen. And I'm always like, "Damn, like these Italians are just so fucking chill.
**Unknown:** Like, how are they so relaxed all the time?" You know, people drive Vespas and scooters around here, and they drive crazy. They split lanes, like they're on highways. And again, you, you know, a car, you see a car switch lanes and like almost clip a scooter, and they still, they don't, "Ugh," panic. They, they just look at them, and they keep going.
**Unknown:** And it's just, it's so interesting because it shows me that their nervous systems are so much more stable. They're not wired in fight or flight the way so many Americans are. You know, when I was in America, like, my kid is, he's, he's a super freak. He can, he knows how to swim.
**Unknown:** He c- he was climbing stairs at like a little over one. We just let him do his thing because we know that, one, we, we taught him, "You wanna go upstairs, you know how to go downstairs." We taught him how, hold onto certain things when you're doing hard stuff. Like, his agility is insane, but he scares the shit out of people. But what's comical is when we were in the US, like we would s- like if we were out in public and he did something like that, jumped, you know, climbed, et cetera, there would be random strangers, like moms or dads, running over thinking like he's gonna die.
**Unknown:** And then I'm just sitting there and I'm like, "He's fine." And it, it do- that doesn't happen here in Italy because they're just like, like clearly, like one, th-their mentality is more like if hi-his parents think he's gonna get hurt, the parents are gonna do something. And number two, kids get hurt sometimes. Like, you know, they'll be fine. So the, the point is, is that these cultures that we deem healthy, the root of their health is less stress, less hustle bustle, less go, go, go, go, go, go, go, and less fucking pressure on themselves of you need to do, you need to go, you need to earn, you need to be successful, you need to reach a certain level of status in your life, in your neighborhood, in your job, in your family, et cetera.
**Unknown:** Like, those pressures don't exist in a lot of other places. And I have a whole theory on some of the root, roots of that, but again, that's a pretty loaded topic. But I think it's actually a very interesting topic, so maybe I'll bring that to you in the next podcast. So essentially, what I'm trying to say here is that there are people that are living their lives not thinking twice about what they eat.
**Unknown:** Again, other countries, food is significantly less poisoned and there is, you know, there's no use of certain pesticides and acaricides that are allowed in the US, so yes, we have that layer of course. But is it perfect? Do they not use any level of chemicals? No, that's not true.
**Unknown:** They definitely do. But they're smoking... People smoke like frigging chimneys here, like smoking cigarettes, drinking wine. Yes, the wine is more pure, it has less preservatives, sulfites, all that jazz.
**Unknown:** Yes, of course. But they're doing a lot of these things that have been deemed super unhealthy, but somehow they are healthier. And we can't just say, "Oh, it's less chemicals." It's a l- it's the lifestyle. It's the less stress.
**Unknown:** It's the fact that these people are not in fight or flight. They are not anxious. They are not running on empty. They're not burnt out.
**Unknown:** They have more balance built into their culture, and they don't have to fight for time off from their job. They don't have to fight for those things because they're built into the culture. I'm living in the Sorrento area right now, you know, fortunately, unfortunately, but for me, this is not gonna be a place that I can stay long term because literally three months from December, actually four months, December, January, February, March, everything is c- like most of everything is closed. And it's because these people here in this area, because it's a tourist area, they work their butts off in the, quote-unquote, "season." The season's very long here 'cause of the weather.
**Unknown:** You know, we're all the, when all the tourists are here, but then they all go to Thailand. I don't wanna say all, but the, like literally a large portion of the people that live here, they all go to Thailand for anywhere between a month to four months, and then they come back and they work again. Like, like you could never ask for that in the US, "I'm gonna go away for four months." Or even if you own a business, y- like everyone would be like, "Oh, they closed." Like it's not, it's not common that people would go away, and like if I had my integrated wellness group still in Belmar, if I closed for four months, I would be almost rebuilding my business when I got back because it's not normal. Like, people would be like, "I'm finding another doctor." So-You know, there, there's a lot of reasons for this, but overall, I do think that we need to get away from this, this bullshit of, oh, if you're not so strict and on an elimination diet, and you've cleaned everything bad out of your personal products, your makeup, your body wash, and you haven't, you know, replaced every single type of cleaner in your house.
**Unknown:** Oh, and also you should do a bunch of remediations in your house 'cause you need to get rid of, you know, old things that might have asbestos. You need to get rid of any lead paint. You need to get rid of the spray foam insulation because that off-gases. Oh, and you gotta get your house checked for mold.
**Unknown:** Oh, and then you need a full water purification system. You know, listen, do I own almost all of those things? I have water purifications, water distillation. I have air purifiers.
**Unknown:** I have all of that stuff. I, I, you know, I'm still very particular in what I eat, but I find it so interesting that I'm living in a place where I'm-- you see-- you observe people that don't have any of those things and are significantly healthier. And again, you can say, "Oh, less toxins in other countries," but is it really just that? So the big point that I wanna drive home in this podcast is, are we subscribing to this idea that all of this happened to us?
**Unknown:** I'm chronically ill because I was poisoned by the government and the, the food industry, and I was also given too many shots as a kid, and then I was recommended pharmaceuticals from my doctor that had side effects, and then I was given a bad surgery, and then also all of the, you know, Monsanto putting all the GMOs in my food and, you know, all the personal products that I, I've used that also put chemicals in there that harmed me. Are we just falling into being a victim, a victim of our choices, knowingly or unknowingly? Because if you wanna get into the science of guilt, shame, victimization, it is the lowest frequency, lowest vibration emotions that exist. And what that means is that if you're gonna live in that place of a low vibration, you're gonna stay in fight or flight.
**Unknown:** You're gonna have abnormal cellular function in your body. You're gonna have pain and inflammation. You're gonna have a lack of serotonin and dopamine. So is this really benefiting us, these, you know, influencers, these doctors that are telling us, like, "You, you've been a victim of poisoning and toxicity and our conventional medical system," and this and that, and, you know, "If you just cut all of this stuff out, you'll be fine." 'Cause what if you're not?
**Unknown:** 'Cause there's a strong probability you're not gonna be, because I've seen it. I've seen it a million times. I've seen people go to the fucking deep end. "Oh, I, I, I got my house checked for mold.
**Unknown:** They did remediate," like hundreds of thousands of dollars, "Remediation, taking forty-five supplements. I got my air purifier, my water purification. I got all this stuff. I...
**Unknown:** Oh, I only eat raw vegan. Oh, I only eat carnivore, and I get my meat flew in from Japan," and you know, like... And I'm just like, "Well, how you, how you doing?" A-and I'm, and I'm like, "Based off of everything you just described, you're, y-you have to be in a level of psychosis because it's almost, like, neurotic to go to those extremes." And we could call it Type A personality. We can call it all these things.
**Unknown:** You, your nervous system is fucked. Like, you, you can't operate that way in a calm nervous system. Because a calm nervous system pauses. It pauses to make strategic and aligned decisions.
**Unknown:** It doesn't make decisions out of emotion. It doesn't make decisions out of fear. It doesn't make decisions out of anxiety. So we have to really think about what, one, what are we looking at on social?
**Unknown:** Two, are we working with a practitioner, a coach, a, a doctor, a nutritionist, a dietician that is of that extreme personality, of that extreme of, you know, "Don't do all these things, and life will be better"? Are you also working with a practitioner that says, "Oh, this is a lifelong journey," you know, "You need to be super strict for the rest of your life. That's the only way you're healthy." You know, some people... Like, for me, I, I'll take supplements probably every day for the rest of my life.
**Unknown:** Like, I, I just will. I, I, I find benefit in them. They... You know, I, I'm able to get nutrients that I'm not getting from certain things that I eat.
**Unknown:** It's a, it's a, it's a thing for me, but it also, it's aligned for me. It's not, like, anxiety inducing or, "I don't wanna do this, but I have to do it." Like, I do it because I want to do it. And so when you're doing a bunch of things that you don't want to do, like, you know, you gotta weigh out the, the pros and cons, you know, the, the risks to the benefits. Because when you're constantly doing things you don't wanna do, you constantly keep yourself in a bad mental, emotional, vibrational state.
**Unknown:** Hence, again, some people that get crazy diagnoses, like, you know, they, they get told, "You only have three months to live. You only have six months to live. You only have a year to live." And these people say, "Fuck it. I'm gonna go.
**Unknown:** I'm gonna go live my best life somewhere, and I'm gonna drink and eat, and I'm gonna laugh, and I'm gonna enjoy, and I'm, I'm gonna say fuck it. I'm gonna spend all my money." And then they live past their, their prognosis because they just finally calm their nervous system down. So, you know, this whole idea of placebo effect, you know, we've heard of it. It, it exists for a reason.
**Unknown:** Placebo effect is just, they always test a medication, even a supplement, against a placebo, and the placebo is that they never, they never gave you the medication. They never gave you the intervention. They just gave you the idea of it. They gave you a sugar pill and said, "This pill's gonna change your life." And you took it, and your life was changed, and it's because you believed that it would.
**Unknown:** It's not because of the biochemical change. It's not because of the effect of the actual pill. It's because you thought that it would work. That alone should be a huge, huge light bulb for you.
**Unknown:** How do you think about your health? How do you think about your life? How do you think about yourself? And if you think in a state of anxiety, then what is it be- what is that being influenced by?
**Unknown:** Is it being influenced by the shit you see on social media? Is it being influenced by the practitioners that you choose to work with? And so if you, if you change your mind, if you change your belief systems, if you surpass past your old programs that have been running in the background holding you back, there's a lot of magic on the other side. We thank you so much for being an avid listener of Integrative U Radio, formerly known as Integrative Wellness Radio.
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