Episode Two with Allison Imel PA: Addressing Glaring Weaknesses in Contemporary Approaches to Women's Health
Release Date: 03/07/2025
Jessica Brown- Where Do You Go When the Diet Everyone Else Says Works Made You Worse or Didn't Help at All?
A Good Man and Thorough
What is a clinician to do when patients are not responding to the health care innovation du jour that you helped create? Tell them they're wrong, or there is something wrong with them while clinging to a story that is not true because it does not support the pervading narrative? A clinician with integrity will listen to their patient. They will learn from their patient. They will continue to study to expand the knowledge base to help the patient in need instead of clinging to an idealistic dogmatic principle that has no basis in reality or utility in...
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Episode Two with Allison Imel PA: Addressing Glaring Weaknesses in Contemporary Approaches to Women's Health
A Good Man and Thorough
Addressing modern medical practices, combining functional medicine with conventional protocols, and exploring lifestyle changes and informed consent for actualizing therapeutic potential. In this episode, Dr. Joe interviews women's health trailblazer Allison Imel PA to explore how integrating functional medicine into women's health and metabolic wellness can address issues like vaginal dryness, incontinence, and metabolic syndrome by getting to the root cause through detailed lab assessments, lifestyle modifications, and community-based group programs. They discuss the challenges and...
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Episode One with Documentary Filmmaker Chesley Heymsfield: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis meets Long Covid -- Where Do People with Complex Issues Find Help Where No Model Exists to Support Their Complexity?
A Good Man and Thorough
In this first episode of A Good Man and Thorough, Dr. Joseph Smith, a chiropractic neurologist, sits down with Chesley Heymsfield, producer of the documentary All About ME and founder of the Chesley Initiative. The discussion delves into Heymsfield’s personal battle with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and the broader implications of the condition, particularly in the wake of long COVID. Heymsfield shares her decades-long struggle to receive a diagnosis, navigating a medical system that often dismissed her symptoms. Her experience...
info_outlineAddressing modern medical practices, combining functional medicine with conventional protocols, and exploring lifestyle changes and informed consent for actualizing therapeutic potential.
In this episode, Dr. Joe interviews women's health trailblazer Allison Imel PA to explore how integrating functional medicine into women's health and metabolic wellness can address issues like vaginal dryness, incontinence, and metabolic syndrome by getting to the root cause through detailed lab assessments, lifestyle modifications, and community-based group programs. They discuss the challenges and benefits of using comprehensive diagnostic tools (such as body composition analysis) and personalized treatment plans—including dietary changes and resistance training—to create a more holistic, informed approach to patient care, while also sharing personal journeys and professional insights into transforming conventional practices.
Allison, PA-C, FTNP, MMS, currently practices in Olympia, WA in the fields of urogynecology and pelvic reconstructive surgery and metabolic and lifestyle medicine for women. She educates physician associates and other clinicians in these specialties, furthering her mission to integrate foundational wellness principles into primary care in the conventional healthcare model. Her background includes certification in functional nutritional therapy, a fellowship in functional medicine and treatment of complex chronic illness, and additional training in hormone replacement therapy, complex digestive dysfunction, and mycotoxin illness. Her passion lies in understanding the hearts of her patients in order to promote self-prioritization, self-love, nervous system regulation, and connection to all beings so that we may collectively participate in the healing of the planet.