Mission Functional Medicine

03/08/2026

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02/18/2026

Medicine has changed in the last 6 or 7 years and not in a good way. Some pharmacies have lost sight of the most important thing and that is working together to help our patients. Pharmacists are an essential part of the care team. I think some pharmacies have lost sight of that. So many are not doing right by our patients but I wanted to highlight the good that Costco continues to do.

Last night a patient of mine needed an antibiotic. The pharmacy told them it was not covered by their insurance and they needed to contact my office. They also failed to mention that they did not even have said antibiotic in stock. They did not call the on call number, they just sent an after hours fax. While working on charts, I noticed the fax at about 8:30 pm. Too late to get another pharmacy in the area to get the medication to my patient. The message was, pick a medication covered by patients insurance but no suggestions on what was covered.
Today I called the pharmacy, and asked what is covered? They offered me a 1-800 number to call the patients insurance. I have been doing this for a long time, this is something they can figure out for me within two minutes or less. My patient decided to pay cash for the drug, Surprise! that's when we learned it was out of stock. The pharmacy told her to wait another 24 hours to get her ANTIBIOTIC. No call to me, no offer to send to another pharmacy in town that may have this common drug.

Enter Costco pharmacy. With my patient's permission, I resent the prescription to Costco. The pharmacist had a question and guess what he did, he called ME. We had a conversation. He ended it with I am going to get right on processing this. Costco pharmacy always meets my expectations. Kudos to Costco! My patients deserve a Costco pharmacy experience!

02/10/2026

Hot Topic February 2026: New Study Links Air Quality to Obesity and BMI Reading Time: 5 minutes | Written on: February 5, 2026 By Machell Collier, MSSenior Marketing & Clinical Content Specialist, IFM Obesity is a chronic disease that affects an estimated one in eight people around the globe.1 This...

01/12/2026

One of last year's projects...completed.

01/01/2026

Check out upcoming EVENT!

12/12/2025

Want to thank everyone who came to our stress talk today and hope the folks that got acupuncture have great results!

09/11/2025

More and more we are hearing about the importance of the gut microbiome. In functional medicine we have been talking about this for a very long time. The Journal of the American Medical Association recently published an article discussing the importance of the gut microbiome and cancer. Below are some of the highlights from that article.

What we eat and ingest has a profound impact on our health and so much of that impact is because of the impact on the gut microbiome.

In our gut microbiomes we have bacteria, viruses, fungi, and archaea. An intact gut barrier and a high diversity of healthy microbes is important for optimal health.

Dysbiosis which is a suboptimal balance of microbes, and a disrupted gut barrier are known to cause systemic inflammation and disruptions to our immune system. There are well-established links with the gut microbiome and depression, anxiety and many different autoimmune diseases.

A study of 111 patients with pancreatic cancer, from two separate institutions, shows that people who survived longer than five years after surgery had a higher diversity of microbes within the tumor microenvironment and a greater abundance of cytotoxic killer T lymphocytes.
Another study took f***s from patients who had survived greater than 5 years with pancreatic cancer and those who did not and did a f***l microbiome transplant with mice who had pancreatic cancer. The mice who got the transplant from the survivors had reduced tumor growth and improved anti-tumor immunity compared to mice who received transplants for patients with pancreatic cancer who had short term survival.

Several studies of patients with cancer who received broad-spectrum antibiotics prior to treatment had lower tumor response rates to therapy and reduced overall survival and higher rates of adverse effects.

One retrospective analysis of 128 patients with metastatic melanoma showed an association with fiber intake and longer remission.

JAMA. 2025 Jun 24;333(24):2188-2196.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2025.2191.

09/09/2025

Back by Popular Demand-The 30 Plant Challenge!

The Challenge: Eat 30 Different Plants Per Week!

The Prize: Improved Gut Microbiome Diversity and 2 Free Passes to the Revive Room at Mission Functional Medicine

How To Win: Eat 30 Different Plants Per week for 4 weeks

Start Date: September 22nd 2025
End Date: October 19th 2025

To Collect your Prize: You must send or bring your list of plants to Mission Functional Medicine.

Who Can Participate: ANYONE! People who are not patients at Mission Functional Medicine and have a medical condition need a doctor note to use the sauna in the Revive room.

The best way to increase diversity in the gut microbiome is to diversify your diet. Good Luck on the 30-plant challenge!

Follow us on Facebook over the next 6 weeks to learn why you want to optimize the health of your gut microbiome.

08/19/2025

Dementia & Cognitive Health Slowing Neurodegeneration With Exercise Practitioner | Reading Time: 4 minutes | Updated on: June 3, 2019 Maintaining cognition and brain fitness is a priority for many patients. And exercise is one of the strategies that has been shown to optimize both mitochondrial and....

02/06/2025

Wow today was a wild one! I did not get dragged behind the truck but I ran pretty fast today. Doing a fascia lines class with some of my patients was the perfect ending to my day. It was great to see everyone! Being gifted a box of chocolates at the end was awesome! I am not saying I was eating my feelings but that box of chocolates was pretty magical. Thank you to the person who gifted them! They hit the spot. My daughter and husband enjoyed some too!

02/06/2025

Had a great night learning how to improve my fascia with my patients. Thank you Fascia Lines!

02/03/2025

Want to Burn Fat AND improve your bodies ability to detox?

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Effect of Decaffeinated Green Tea Polyphenols on Body Fat and Precocious Puberty in Obese Girls: A Randomized Controlled Trial