The Functional Pharmacy + Continuing Education Podcast
The Functional Pharmacy + Continuing Education Podcast
Robert Kress Functional RPh
Welcome to Functional Pharmacy Podcast, where we are Alchemizing Healthy Lives and Rewarding Practices. For Patients and Practitioners alike, PLUS Pharmacy Continuing Education Credits Twice Per Month. (Look for the CE on each post) My name is Robert Kress, and in addition to my conventional pharmacy studies I have received by Certification In Clinical Nutrition, the art and science of compounding, Reiki, kinesiology / muscle testing, yoga YTT 200, Primal Health Coach, MovNat Certified Instructor, with continued studies in functional, mind-body medicine, mindfulness, meditation, and more.
The path of the Godfather of Functional pharmacy
Tyne on in to learn about my path in Functional Medicine, and Pharmacy, what I've learned, where I've been, where I am, and where we're all going.
Oct 25, 2023
21 min
A Functional Approach to Assessing Heart Disease
Heart Disease is the number one killer for both men and women. The primary approach to assessing and preventing heart disease is through cholesterol- measurement and treatment. In this podcast we will be taking a Beyond Lipid Approach and look at other areas that can both identify risk factors for heart disease and optimize our treatment approach. Area's including: - Optimizing of lipid / cholesterol testing - Inflammation and oxidation - Blood sugar/insulin - Clotting potential - Hormones My listeners can claim ACPE-accredited continuing education for listening to this podcast episode! I have partnered with freeCE.com to provide listeners with the opportunity to claim continuing education credit for select episodes. For existing Unlimited (Gold) freeCE members, this CE option is included in your membership benefits at no additional cost! A password, which will be given at some point during this episode, is required to access the post-activity test. If you’re not currently a freeCE member, I recommend that you explore all the benefits of their Unlimited Membership on their website and earn CE for listening to this podcast. Thanks for listening!”
May 9, 2023
51 min
Treatment approaches to Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
Hashimoto's thyroiditis is the number one cause of hypothyroidism, and often goes under addressed in treatment. Tune in while I cover different treatment approaches as well as an overview to Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. This Episode counts for CE credit through freece.com and ACPE, To earn credit for this episode, visit the link below and use the code HYPO. For those of you who are not members of freece.com I recommend their Unlimited Membership, and use the code PODCAST2023 for a 15% Discount
Mar 8, 2023
28 min
Thyroid and Non Thyroid Labs for Optimal Thyroid Metabolism
Hypothyroidism often goes under assessed, and under addressed, often leaving the patient in a state of subclinical hypothyroidism. In this podcast you will learn direct thyroid and non-thyroid lab assessments to help optimize thyroid metabolism, have your patients feeling better, and reducing risk factors to a number of disease states. This Episode counts for CE credit through freece.com and ACPE, To earn credit for this episode, visit the link below and use the code T4T3. For those of you who are not members of freece.com I recommend their Unlimited Membership, and use the code PODCAST2023 for a 15% Discount
Feb 27, 2023
56 min
What's Your Medicine?
We are at a time when people are asking, "what are my options?" because the old way of doing things isn't working anymore. We are conditioned to think "medicine" in the conventional way, although medicine is all around us, medicine is what lights us up, medicine is is what heals and helps us grow through our mind, our body, our emotions, energies, and more
Dec 6, 2022
21 min
How Masculine and Feminine Energies Can Serve us Best in Our Personal and Professional Lives
I think you will really enjoy this podcast- It's a video training which I have in my Functional Pharmacy Members area, and, after re-reviewing it I realized it would make an excellent podcast. You might be hearing a lot about Masculine and Feminine Energies- and I want to clear some confusion, and share with you how to authentically tap into these energies to optimize both your personal and professional life. Enjoy!
Nov 19, 2022
18 min
What's the best exercise to lose weight?
This is one of those questions we get a lot, or not enough... Tune on in as I give you the down and dirty of weight loss, and what we see as the primary reasons for weight loss resistance, as well as the roadblocks that people might encounter such as THE WRONG KIND OF EXERCISE FOR THEIR STATE OF HEALTH. What's the deal with insulin resistance and fat burning? What does my adrenal and cortisol status have anything to do with weight loss? Why its not just calories in, and energy expenditure out Primal? Why Primal? The importance of moving well, moving naturally, and moving often Hacks to dialing in your heart rate so you are not on the hamster wheel of carb burning, not fat burning And more...
May 16, 2022
13 min
Nothing Is Absolute!
Probably one of the key "universal principles" to ones health...Nothing Is Absolute This is a mantra I use with my professional clients and my patients to help empower them in their own health, or uncovering blockages in their patients. Tune in while I share examples such as: Their story is not your story A lab test is a view in to uncover something not seen, or confirm something believed to be seen A diagnosis is only to get us to hopefully look in the right direction The body has an inherent ability to heal when we provide it with the right environment A genetic trait or mutation is not a guarantee of disease Pharmacogenomics are only one piece of the puzzle Why you need to know about NNT (number needed to treat) in relation to medical interventions
May 10, 2022
24 min
Connection: The Primal Need for Health and Longevity
Science has long known that connection and community are key factors to health and longevity. Although that does not mean that you have to become a social butterfly- we thrive on connection many different ways: to people, to ourselves, to nature, animals, as well as source (God, angels, Universal energy) Tune on in while I share with you some tips to reengage connection in your life, as well as some awareness tid bits on where we are now in our society and how this disconnection is the real epidemic.
Mar 15, 2022
14 min
They say history doesn't repeat itself...well, maybe it gets turned up a notch
Howdy!  I've got some passion flowing in this one folks- let's call it a structured rant! Today some of our countries brightest and bravest physicians were hosted by Senator Johnson for a discussion on U.S. COVID-19 response, and much of what I was writing about in my 2013 book, Whole Pharmacy, in Chapter 4, pg. 33 The Extension of Sick Care- is the same crap that is going on today...but worse. Why worse? More lives are paying the ultimate price- their health and their freedom. In my book I talk about publication bias...drug companies cherry picking on the positive studies and burying the negative studies...we are seeing it with CV Vax In my book I talk about Vioxx- burying data that lead to tens of thousands of heart disease...we are seeing it with CV Vax In my book I talk about agencies recommending Tamiflu while data from phase III trials were never released- EVEN 10 YEARS AFTER APPROVAL`... we are seeing it with the CV Vax Tune in folks! Yours in health and freedom, Rob
Jan 25, 2022
13 min
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