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  • Bloating and brain fog? You’re probably low in butyrate. 

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    Robin

    The first functional medicine training I ever took was the gastrointestinal module from the Institute for Functional Medicine. It blew my mind.  As a Columbia-trained doctor, I had been taught in medical school to think about gastrointestinal health as an isolated subspecialty. Conventional medicine looked at GI health in a…

  • Plant medicine can be a tool, but it’s not a cure.

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    Robin

    One of my intentions for 2025 is to use plant medicine work selectively with the help of expert guided facilitators to expand my clarity and consciousness, so that I can achieve my highest purpose and impact. Whenever I share this, I get a lot of questions and a few raised…

  • Your comprehensive preventative health checklist.

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    Robin

    If you’re not testing, you’re not learning.  In college, I lost my grandmother to colon cancer. She’d spent a lifetime eating the Standard American Diet—the SAD—and smoked in her adult life, which are both huge risk factors for cancer. Still, her death was totally preventable. She never got the screening…

  • Functional medicine changed my life.

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    Robin

    I was really lucky to learn about functional medicine early in my career. I met Dr. Mark Hyman before I went to med school at Columbia and I’ll never forget what he told me: “Don’t get brainwashed.” By the time I was a resident in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai…

  • The best “calm tech” to hack your vagus nerve

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    Robin

    I’m obsessed with technology that helps us feel better by hacking the amazing machine we are as humans. Lately I’ve been really fascinated with tech that promotes high “vagal tone,” i.e. stimulates the vagus nerve to help lower heart rate, reduce blood pressure, and improve stress response. I went all…

  • Rich Roll and I get to the root of your “feel like crap”syndrome

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    Robin

    If you’ve ever dipped a toe into the worlds of biohacking, veganism, or ultra-endurance sports, you know Rich Roll—the bestselling author and hugely popular podcaster. I know Rich from way back (before the wellness movement was a movement!) and I was so excited to catch up with him in LA…

  • My personal Thanksgiving menu

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    Robin

    I don’t buy into the message that it’s either pleasure or health—especially when it comes to my Thanksgiving menu.  This time of year is full of health fear-mongering—which isn’t totally unreasonable. The majority of the weight the average American gains over the course of a year happens during the holidays.…

  • How to reduce stress in 15-minutes

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    Robin

    Just when I think I have it under control, I realize that I’ve overcommitted. I’m in the middle of teaching my live course on improving mind and gut health in real time, still recovering from the craziness of Halloween with three kids—the costumes, the sugar crashes, and the pressing question…

  • Are seed oils toxic to your health?

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    Robin

    I recently posted something about my favorite healthy on-the-go snacks and was reminded by my amazing Instagram audience how confusing our modern (highly-processed) food landscape is. Especially when it comes to being able to easily spot what’s actually good for you and what’s not. You asked: Are seed oils toxic? The…

  • How to boost your immune system before it fails

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    Robin

    I avoid illness at all costs. No one likes being sick (obviously) but I’m entering a particularly busy season—prepping for my first live course launching October 23, hitting the road to deliver a big keynote speech this fall, running things at Parsley Health, and managing back-to-school craziness with my three…