The short answer? Yes. And the time has never been better. After years of educating over 1,000 nurses and nurse practitioners in functional medicine and holistic nursing, I can tell you with certainty that more nurses than ever are ready to leave burnout behind and step into leadership through a functional, root-cause approach. And for many of my students, that path includes launching their own business. Many never considered entrepreneurship until they find functional medici

Functional Medicine’s Promise—and Its Problem Functional medicine has changed the way many of us think about health. It’s upstream, it’s root-cause, and it finally acknowledges what we as nurses have known all along: healing is about the whole person, not just a disease code. Patients leave functional medicine offices feeling heard in ways they never have before. They finally have a provider asking about their sleep, their stress, their nutrition, their story. But here’s the