What does it actually take to win functional medicines highest honor? @functionalforum
What does it actually take to win functional medicines highest honor? @functionalforum
Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
What does it actually take to win functional medicine's highest honor?

I sat down with Joel Evans, MD, FMCP-M — the 2026 recipient of the Linus and Ava Helen Pauling Award in Functional Medicine — live from IFM's 33rd Annual Conference to find out.
We talked about the flood of unvetted hormone advice online, why "just take estrogen" isn't real care, and the three trends reshaping women's health: metabolic flexibility, mitochondrial health, and GLP-1s done right.

🎧 Full conversation here: youtu.be/VfD0SLcWwXU

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