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Accessibility to nutritious, affordable, high quality food has long been a challenge in low income and rural areas across the US. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, these challenges may be magnified. Everything from demand for staple goods to supply chain challenges and widespread furloughs have hit many communities, but low income families, the elderly, and children are especially vulnerable to what has become an increasingly pervasive state of food insecurity. Find out what one Functional Medicine clinician is doing to help.

Pesticides and a wide variety of other chemicals persist in the environment and make their way into our everyday lives. While the concept that toxicants accumulate in the body and are the cause of various health problems has long been a fundamental tenet of traditional healthcare systems around the world, researchers have learned a great deal in recent years about how toxicants affect the human population, where they originate, and how to improve our ability to detoxify in a toxic world. How can we help patients manage the health risks of exposure to these ubiquitous substances?