Absolute Health

Absolute Health Absolute Health is committed to providing Ocala families, and those of the surrounding communities. Elyaman, known to his patients as “Dr. E” .

Absolute Health was founded in 2006 through the extraordinary vision of Dr. Yousef A. We specialize in caring for both children and adults, making Absolute Health a convenient healthcare solution for your whole family. We maintain separate waiting areas for children and adults to ensure your comfort and we are committed to keeping wait times to a minimum. Our approach to healthcare is unique. At Absolute Health, we combine both functional medicine and integrative medicine through a systems oriented approach. Rather than simply treating an isolated set of symptoms, our practitioners form a therapeutic partnership with patients to determine the underlying causes for illness. This is accomplished by taking the time necessary to discover our patients' medical histories and examine the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors which can influence long term health and complex chronic disease. Our treatment plans incorporate the latest in Modern Medicine as well as Natural and Alternative treatments that have been found to contribute significantly to overall health and well-being. It is our mission to provide you and your family with the ABSOLUTE best in healthcare.

11/28/2025

🕵️‍♂️ Functional Farm Edition

Wife’s out of town.
The mission? Keep the kids alive… and the animals fed.

Milk the cow. Soak the hay.
Measure magnesium, scoop cool calories, track electrolytes like it’s a lab order.

As a Functional Medicine doctor, I design personalized protocols all the time.
But this? This was next-level lifestyle medicine… with hooves.

It’s one thing to customize health plans for patients.
It’s another to execute a full nutritional protocol… on a farm.

Watch till the end — and tell me:

What’s your honey-do list look like?
Mine included bran ratios and goat-proofing a calf feeder.

— Dr. Elyaman





11/27/2025

🧬 Did you know your sense of smell might detect genetic compatibility?

In research like the famous “sweaty T-shirt study,” women preferred the scent of men with different MHC genes — linked to stronger immune systems and healthier offspring.

But here’s the twist: when women were on hormonal birth control, that preference often disappeared or even reversed.

💡 Your biology is talking all the time — sometimes through your nose.

⚠️ Educational only. Not medical advice.

11/27/2025

If you’ve breastfed and felt like your bones or joints “weren’t the same”… there’s a real physiological reason behind it.

During breastfeeding, the body makes a hormone called PTHrP (parathyroid hormone–related protein).
Its job?
To gently pull calcium from the mother’s bones so the baby gets the high levels they need for growth.

This creates temporary bone loss — and it’s completely normal.
Research shows this bone density reverses within 18–24 months after breastfeeding stops.

But here’s the part most women never hear:

🍼 Back-to-back pregnancies + nursing cycles
🦴 Without time for bone regeneration
👉 Can lead to earlier osteopenia

The good news?
With adequate nutrient intake and recovery time, bone density can fully rebuild — even after multiple pregnancies.

Your body is designed to protect your baby and recover — it just needs the space and nutrients to do it.

🎙️ Full conversation with Dr. Yousef Elyaman & Dr. Davis on the FMP Essentials Show.

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11/26/2025

If you felt like you “crashed” after giving birth… there’s a real cortisol reason behind it.

During pregnancy, your cortisol rises each trimester — not because you’re “too stressed,” but because your body is supporting fetal development, immune adaptation, and massive mitochondrial energy demands.

But right after delivery?
Cortisol drops fast.
And many women feel the impact:

😮 Exhaustion
🔥 Inflammation
😔 Mood shifts
💭 Feeling overwhelmed or “not like yourself”

This isn’t weakness.
It’s physiology — and it deserves understanding, not shame.

When we look at postpartum health through the cortisol curve, everything finally makes sense.

🎙️ Full conversation with Dr. Yousef Elyaman & Dr. Davis on the FMP Essentials Show.

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11/25/2025

We filled the truck! 🙌
And it’s all thanks to our incredible Absolute Health family.

From staff members who brought in armfuls of supplies…
to patients who walked in with bags of food, toiletries, and baby items…
every single donation added up to something big.

This truckload you see here is Absolute Health’s contribution to Marion County Medical Society
Pay It Forward Food & Toiletry Drive —
and together with the full outreach effort, these items will help support 150 families in our community.

I want to personally thank:
✨ Our staff, who led the way with generosity and heart
✨ Our patients, whose kindness never stops inspiring me
✨ Marion County Medical Society, for spearheading this important outreach and giving us the chance to take part

Moments like this remind me what community really means —
and how powerful it is when people come together to take care of one another.

Thank you for giving.
Thank you for caring.
Thank you for paying it forward.

— Dr. Yousef Elyaman

11/25/2025

Your body doesn’t just make milk… it selects the bacteria your baby needs.

During pregnancy, rising estrogen actually reshapes a mother’s gut microbiome — not randomly, but strategically.
Studies have shown that hormones like estrogen influence which bacterial species grow and which ones fade (Kumar et al., 2016; Torres-Fuentes et al., 2016).

🧬 Estrogen helps “select” specific bacteria in the gut
🍼 Those bacteria then travel into breast milk through immune pathways (Funkhouser & Bordenstein, 2013)
🦠 The breast milk microbiome reflects the mother’s gut environment (Aakko et al., 2020)
👶 These transferred microbes help “seed” the infant’s developing immune system for life (Pannaraj et al., JAMA Pediatrics, 2017)

This isn’t just digestion.
This is biological intelligence — a built-in system designed to deliver the right microbes and immune signals to the newborn exactly when they need them most.

Maternal gut health matters more than most people ever realize.

🎙️ Full conversation with Dr. Yousef Elyaman & Dr. Davis on the FMP Essentials Show.

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11/25/2025

Around the Clinic — Emoji Challenge: Part Two

Welcome to another moment in our Around the Clinic Series 💛

At last week’s Thanksgiving party, our team took on another emoji puzzle —
🥔🧄🧈🍲
Can you guess what it represents… before our staff does? 👀

What we love most about moments like this is how quickly they shift the whole room.
A little play.
A little laughter.
A little connection.
And suddenly everyone feels more grounded, more bonded, and more themselves.

In Functional Medicine, environment isn’t extra — it’s part of healing.
Joy regulates the nervous system.
Community supports resilience.
And a team that feels safe together creates a space where others can feel safe too.

🧡 Community is medicine.
🧡 Play is medicine.
🧡 Connection is biology.

11/24/2025

Welcome to another moment in our Around the Clinic Series 💛

Last week's Thanksgiving party came with a twist — a multi-emoji puzzle that had the whole team debating, laughing, and second-guessing their answers.
(🎃 + 🍁 + 🥧 =????😄)

But here’s why moments like this matter:

At Absolute Health, joy isn’t extra — it’s part of the environment that helps people feel safe.
Laughter regulates the nervous system.
Connection builds trust.
And healthy teams create healthier outcomes.

Whether you’re a patient, a parent, or a practitioner…
this is the kind of culture that makes healing possible.

🧡 Community is medicine.
🧡 Environment is medicine.
🧡 Joy is medicine.

11/24/2025

Last week Marion County had that unexpected 911 outage alert…
and there was only one thing to do.

(Cue the Batman shirt.) 🦇😂

But here’s the Functional Medicine lesson behind the joke:
Moments like that remind us how important it is to stay regulated, resilient, and able to think clearly — especially when things catch us off guard.

Your nervous system is your command center.
Stress can overload it.
Calm strengthens it.

Stress → panic → inflammation
Calm → clarity → better decisions

We can’t control every situation —
but we can strengthen the system that carries us through them.

— Dr. Yousef Elyaman

11/20/2025

Ah thanksgiving party 🙂

11/14/2025

During pregnancy, your gut actually becomes MORE permeable — and it’s not a bad thing.

Increasing gut permeability allows immune information and microbial components to transfer into breast milk.
This is how a mother seeds her baby’s microbiome and early immune system.

🦠 Microbes from mom’s gut → travel through immune pathways → enter breast milk
👶 Baby receives beneficial bacteria, immune signals, and microbial metabolites
💡 This shapes digestion, immunity, and long-term resilience

The breast milk microbiome is more connected to the maternal gut than most people realize.
This is why maternal gut health matters long before birth — and long after.

🎙️ Full conversation with Dr. Yousef Elyaman & Dr. Davis on the FMP Essentials Show.

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Yesterday our entire Absolute Health team came together for a deep-dive training on healing with food — one of the most ...
11/14/2025

Yesterday our entire Absolute Health team came together for a deep-dive training on healing with food — one of the most powerful (and most overlooked) tools in Functional Medicine.

From understanding cooking oils and inflammation…
to the real impact of everyday food choices…
to how nutrition can shift hormones, metabolism, energy, and mood —
this was a high-impact session designed to help our team better guide and empower every patient we serve.

Knowledge is the first step.
Application is the next.
And together, we’re committed to both.

— Dr. Yousef Elyaman

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Absolute Health was founded in 2006 through the extraordinary vision of Dr. Yousef A. Elyaman, known to his patients as “Dr. E” . We specialize in caring for both children and adults, making Absolute Health a convenient healthcare solution for your whole family. We maintain separate waiting areas for children and adults to ensure your comfort and we are committed to keeping wait times to a minimum. Our approach to healthcare is unique. At Absolute Health, we combine both functional medicine and integrative medicine through a systems oriented approach. Rather than simply treating an isolated set of symptoms, our practitioners form a therapeutic partnership with patients to determine the underlying causes for illness. This is accomplished by taking the time necessary to discover our patients' medical histories and examine the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors which can influence long term health and complex chronic disease. Our treatment plans incorporate the latest in Modern Medicine as well as Natural and Alternative treatments that have been found to contribute significantly to overall health and well-being. It is our mission to provide you and your family with the ABSOLUTE best in healthcare.