Functional Nutrition Lab

Founded by Functional Medicine Nutritionist @andreanakayama the Functional Nutrition Lab provides online #functionalnutrition training for health professionals.

[Andrea Nakayama (she/her) @AndreaNakayama]

Empathy is about insight, appreciation, and rapport for the individual.

Empathy is not “I feel your pain."

Instead, it’s “I see your pain."

https://t.co/NCxwIaBqXi

[Andrea Nakayama (she/her) @AndreaNakayama]

Music to our ears!

A new study in @bmj_latest shows that patients who were played soothing background music and positive messages for 20 minutes under general anesthesia had reduced post-operative pain and even and lower opioid prescription levels. https://t.co/LFYAc3W1Hi

[Andrea Nakayama (she/her) @AndreaNakayama]

Stressed Neutrophils are a Tumor’s Alarm Clock.

New research draws a connection between stress hormone circulation and dormant tumor cell activation.

Don’t stress! Breathe. Move. Meditate. Relax. It matters.
https://t.co/RpmM1sP9qw
@ScienceMagazine

[Functional Nutrition Lab @fxnutritionlab]

One of the things we’re doing at the Functional Nutrition Alliance is looking to analyze the space we occupy. Where are you looking? What are you seeing? The more we collectively recognize the truths of the (many) disparities, the better equipped we are to help make a difference.

[Functional Nutrition Lab @fxnutritionlab]

When it comes to disparities in healthcare, we all have a job to do! The disparities are many and varied. A new study shows that there are even racial differences in the rates of autopsy.
https://t.co/YxG9FoudXp

[Lucy Kalanithi @rocketgirlmd]

#MedTwitter has taught me so much, including structural competency. “Structural competency emphasizes diagnostic recognition of the economic and political conditions that produce health inequalities in the first place.” -@RFentonMD #ShareTheMicNowMed https://t.co/JMq54cDGHb

[Lucy Kalanithi @rocketgirlmd]

On June 22 from my account you’ll hear Dr. Rebekah Fenton (@RFentonMD) — pediatrician, advocate, mentor & writer — on addressing healthcare inequities (especially for teens) & increasing Black representation in medicine. Read some of her powerful writing below: #ShareTheMicNowMed

[Functional Nutrition Lab @fxnutritionlab]

Recently on @onbeing with @kristatippett, Reemsa Menakem helps explain why vulnerabilities and inequities laid bare by the pandemic have fallen hardest on Black bodies. https://t.co/nSLvnFqWG8

[Functional Nutrition Lab @fxnutritionlab]

"A momentous question awaits us on the far side of the current crisis: Are we willing to address the many vulnerabilities that the novel coronavirus has so dramatically exposed?" via @michaelpollan

https://t.co/mJ4bOaPonR

[Functional Nutrition Lab @fxnutritionlab]

"Of the millions of substances people encounter daily, health researchers have focused on only a few hundred. Those in the emerging field of exposomics want to change that." Read more in this study from
@KnowableMag https://t.co/ruGiTUeCPm

[Functional Nutrition Lab @fxnutritionlab]

"I started to see how an understanding of biology, along with a thorough appreciation of a person’s signs, symptoms and history, could be properly used as a lens through which to view health... " ~@AndreaNakayama

[Andrea Nakayama (she/her) @AndreaNakayama]

How Functional Nutrition became my life’s purpose https://t.co/i6IdX0OKnI

[Functional Nutrition Lab @fxnutritionlab]

On the latest #15minutematrix episode @andreanakayama invites dry eyes expert, Dr. Travis Zigler to discuss why dry eyes are a symptom of an overall inflammatory state in the body. Listen in: https://t.co/fG48xF0C2l