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Yoon Hang Kim MD, MPH Functional & Integrative Medicine
Sick Care System: One Doctor’s Journey Through the Madness
Preface: I'm writing this book out of the painful experience of surviving the healthcare system. To put it mildly, I often tell people...

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Can Methylene Blue Help With Long Covid?
Below link will take you to my favorite medical search engine - scholar.google.com search on Methylene Blue & Long Covid: Click for...

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Jul 30, 20241 min read
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Reversing Type 2 Diabetes with Optifast?
During my integrative/functional/lifestyle medicine private practice, and endocrinologist referred a patient who needed more than 300...

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Jul 16, 20241 min read
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How to start Keto EZ way?
NO GPS No Grains (rice, flours, pasta) No potato (or starchy vegetables) No Sugar Duke Keto Eat protein first - chicken, beef, pork,...

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Jul 3, 20241 min read
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Can type 2 diabetes (T2D) be reversed?
Short answer is yes - it is possible. I am unsure if medications can reverse type II diabetes. In medical school I was taught that...

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Jul 3, 20241 min read
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How fast can keto-diet work for person with T2D (Type 2 Diabetes)?
I recently saw someone who had an uncontrolled diabetes despite correct medical medical management. As I share often, there are many...

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Jul 2, 20241 min read
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The Need for Off Ramp from "Ozempic" and other GLP-1 antagonists
My first job while I was still in residency was working for a Kaiser Permanente's Positive Choice Wellness Center which was brainchild of...

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Jun 12, 20241 min read
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Optimal Implementation of Integrative Medicine Program in a Health Care System: Lessons Learned from Implementation of Integrative Medicine in Memorial Hospital – a rural critical access hospital.
Optimal Implementation of Integrative Medicine Program in a Health Care System: Lessons Learned from Implementation of Integrative...

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May 16, 20248 min read
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Functional Medicine & Integrative Medicine Allergy - can we treat the root causes?
One of the strengths of functional medicine is explore root causes of illness. In the case of allergy, allergen(s) trigger our immune...

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May 15, 20241 min read
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Functional Medicine Testing - my four most ordered tests
Functional medicine utilizes scientific advancements often before adoption by the medical community. Below are four tests I use most...

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Jan 21, 20242 min read
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Keto made easy...
One of my appreciation of functional medicine is the openness to new and developing knowledge. One of these ideas involve Ketosis. Keto...

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Sep 15, 20231 min read
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IFM - What is Integrative Functional Medicine?
My interaction with artificial intelligence helped me to realize a few things about Integrative Functional Medicine that I am currently...

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Jun 14, 20231 min read
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What does AI know about functional medicine?
Below is from Chat GTP: Functional medicine is an approach to healthcare that focuses on understanding the root causes of illness and...

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Jun 4, 20232 min read
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AI (Chat GTP) take on Integrative Medicine
I asked Chat GTP "What is integrative medicine?" Below was its answer: "Integrative medicine is an approach to healthcare that combines...

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May 30, 20232 min read
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So Doctor, Would You Like to Create Your Own Direct Primary Care Practice?
So Doctor, Would You Like to Create Your Own Direct Primary Care Practice? What is Direct Primary Care? Direct Primary Care (DPC) refers...

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Jun 2, 20224 min read
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How Can Health Coaching Serve as a Force Multiplier in Healing?
I confess that I had many coaches for personal growth, how to be a better father, how to be a better spouse, corporate career coach, and...

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May 2, 20222 min read
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What happens when health care kills the goose that lays golden eggs (AKA physicians)? #AtlasShrugged
When I started a project in a value based care setting, I reminded my team members that while the true intent of value based care should...

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Apr 21, 20222 min read
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How Do We Create Affordable Integrative Medicine/Functional Medicine? Answer: Value Based Care
“Value-based care is a health care delivery model where providers are paid based on successful outcomes rather than for individual...

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Apr 21, 20222 min read
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What leadership lessons can we learn from Kyocera/JAL for creating affordable integrative medicine
Reference: https://global.kyocera.com/inamori/management/amoeba/ I recently heard from an integrative medicine leader that "getting the...

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Apr 20, 20222 min read
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2022 State of Integrative Medicine
Since 1999, I dedicated myself to advancing integrative medicine through a number of projects. The best was Georgia Integrative...

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Apr 17, 20223 min read
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