This 50-minute lecture by Dr. Robert Hedaya, MD to medical doctors at the Center for Functional Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio shows depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, bipolar 2, and much more can be treated holistically through the lens of Functional Medicine! Watching it, I felt like I was in med-school. Definitely over my head in spots but reassuring enough to ascertain that this psychiatrist knows knows what he is talking about and knows how to effectively treat it!

Dr. Hedaya is a high-level Functional Medicine Psychiatrist and MD practicing in Rockville, Maryland. His all-encompassing approach to disease – both mental and physical – is done through a functional medicine lens. He has helped many, many people in his 107 years of living (bad joke by Dr. Mark Hyman on the video, though it’s true, Dr. Hedaya has been practicing medicine a long time). Chemical imbalances can be balanced by including nutrition and supplementation into the functional medicine medical mix. Nutrition and supplementation work to combat mental illness!!!

Dr. Hedaya reminded me that functional medicine is data-driven, and that the extensive lab work required is a key component in knowing the root cause of mental (as well as physical) disorders.

This guy is credentialed. Dr. Hedaya is the Founder of the National Center for Whole Psychiatry, a Clinical Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University Medical Center, and a Faculty Member at the Institute for Functional Medicine.

I personally have no affiliation with Dr. Hedaya other than he graciously and intelligently spoke to me by telephone when I contacted him 1 1/2 years ago about my daughter-in-law who was suffering from a brain tumor.

I urge any readers to look at Dr. Hedaya’s lecture and hear for yourself the science behind the disease of mental illness. I quote him, “Yes, early childhood is important. Yes, trauma is important. Yes, helplessness is important. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is good. Even medications have a role…but they cannot touch some of the things that we are dealing with…the environment, the chemical soup we are in is different.”

Dr. Hedaya has recently emailed me that, “Suicide is on the rise and I am so concerned about it that I just volunteered to give a webinar to the Institute for Functional Medicine on the subject, which they have accepted.” I am looking forward to hearing that lecture, too. So will you!

I can provide contact information for him if necessary.