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Yoon Hang Kim MD, MPH Functional & Integrative Medicine
John Kim
Jul 30, 20241 min read
Can Methylene Blue Help With Long Covid?
Below link will take you to my favorite medical search engine - scholar.google.com search on Methylene Blue & Long Covid: Click for...
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John Kim
Jul 16, 20241 min read
Reversing Type 2 Diabetes with Optifast?
During my integrative/functional/lifestyle medicine private practice, and endocrinologist referred a patient who needed more than 300...
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John Kim
Jul 3, 20241 min read
How to start Keto EZ way?
NO GPS No Grains (rice, flours, pasta) No potato (or starchy vegetables) No Sugar Duke Keto Eat protein first - chicken, beef, pork,...
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John Kim
Jul 3, 20241 min read
Can type 2 diabetes (T2D) be reversed?
Short answer is yes - it is possible. I am unsure if medications can reverse type II diabetes. In medical school I was taught that...
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John Kim
Jul 2, 20241 min read
How fast can keto-diet work for person with T2D (Type 2 Diabetes)?
I recently saw someone who had an uncontrolled diabetes despite correct medical medical management. As I share often, there are many...
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John Kim
Jun 12, 20241 min read
The Need for Off Ramp from "Ozempic" and other GLP-1 antagonists
My first job while I was still in residency was working for a Kaiser Permanente's Positive Choice Wellness Center which was brainchild of...
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John Kim
May 16, 20248 min read
Optimal Implementation of Integrative Medicine Program in a Health Care System: Lessons Learned from Implementation of Integrative Medicine in Memorial Hospital – a rural critical access hospital.
Optimal Implementation of Integrative Medicine Program in a Health Care System: Lessons Learned from Implementation of Integrative...
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John Kim
May 15, 20241 min read
Functional Medicine & Integrative Medicine Allergy - can we treat the root causes?
One of the strengths of functional medicine is explore root causes of illness. In the case of allergy, allergen(s) trigger our immune...
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John Kim
Jan 21, 20242 min read
Functional Medicine Testing - my four most ordered tests
Functional medicine utilizes scientific advancements often before adoption by the medical community. Below are four tests I use most...
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John Kim
Sep 15, 20231 min read
Keto made easy...
One of my appreciation of functional medicine is the openness to new and developing knowledge. One of these ideas involve Ketosis. Keto...
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John Kim
Jun 14, 20231 min read
IFM - What is Integrative Functional Medicine?
My interaction with artificial intelligence helped me to realize a few things about Integrative Functional Medicine that I am currently...
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John Kim
Jun 4, 20232 min read
What does AI know about functional medicine?
Below is from Chat GTP: Functional medicine is an approach to healthcare that focuses on understanding the root causes of illness and...
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John Kim
May 30, 20232 min read
AI (Chat GTP) take on Integrative Medicine
I asked Chat GTP "What is integrative medicine?" Below was its answer: "Integrative medicine is an approach to healthcare that combines...
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John Kim
Jun 2, 20224 min read
So Doctor, Would You Like to Create Your Own Direct Primary Care Practice?
So Doctor, Would You Like to Create Your Own Direct Primary Care Practice? What is Direct Primary Care? Direct Primary Care (DPC) refers...
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John Kim
May 2, 20222 min read
How Can Health Coaching Serve as a Force Multiplier in Healing?
I confess that I had many coaches for personal growth, how to be a better father, how to be a better spouse, corporate career coach, and...
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John Kim
Apr 21, 20222 min read
What happens when health care kills the goose that lays golden eggs (AKA physicians)? #AtlasShrugged
When I started a project in a value based care setting, I reminded my team members that while the true intent of value based care should...
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John Kim
Apr 21, 20222 min read
How Do We Create Affordable Integrative Medicine/Functional Medicine? Answer: Value Based Care
“Value-based care is a health care delivery model where providers are paid based on successful outcomes rather than for individual...
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John Kim
Apr 20, 20222 min read
What leadership lessons can we learn from Kyocera/JAL for creating affordable integrative medicine
Reference: https://global.kyocera.com/inamori/management/amoeba/ I recently heard from an integrative medicine leader that "getting the...
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John Kim
Apr 17, 20223 min read
2022 State of Integrative Medicine
Since 1999, I dedicated myself to advancing integrative medicine through a number of projects. The best was Georgia Integrative...
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John Kim
Apr 16, 20222 min read
Integrative Medicine and Leadership 2
I met a health care senior administrator who commented that leadership qualities came from 1) attending MBA program 2) going through...
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