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Episode Two with Allison Imel PA: Addressing Glaring Weaknesses in Contemporary Approaches to Women's Health
03/07/2025
Episode Two with Allison Imel PA: Addressing Glaring Weaknesses in Contemporary Approaches to Women's Health
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 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.
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