Kirk Hamilton PA’s NUTRITIONAL, FUNCTIONAL AND LIFESTYLE MEDICINE APPROACH TO ASSESSING AND TREATING CHRONIC DISEASES…From Complaints to Testing to Finding Out Beneficial Treatments – 43 Years of Clinical Experience
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Summary
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Kirk Hamilton PA, host of the Staying Healthy Today show, discusses his 43-year approach to patient workup from a nutritional, functional, and lifestyle medicine perspective. He emphasizes identifying complaints without disease labels and examining health across decades, focusing on gut and immune system issues. Hamilton conducts detailed diet, exercise, and environmental histories, including mold exposure. He performs extensive blood testing, including vitamins, minerals, and hormones, and recommends elimination diets and IV therapies. He advocates for a holistic approach, using elimination diet and the fasting mimicking diets (ProlonLife.com) and antifungal trials, and prefers to address hormone therapy after addressing overall health.
Key Points…
Conduct detailed patient history, including each decade of life.
Gather diet, exercise, environmental, and social history.
Order appropriate blood tests, including fats, vitamins, minerals, blood sugar indices, inflammation markers and hormones.
Recommend an elimination diet, often removing wheat, dairy, eggs, sugar, alcohol, and caffeine and/or the fasting mimicking diet.
Consider using intravenous vitamin C, vitamins, mineral and B-vitamin injections.
Document patient’s progress and follow up regularly.
Outline
Patient Workup Overview…
Kirk Hamilton introduces himself as the host of the Staying Healthy Today show, focusing on nutrition, prevention, integrative, and lifestyle medicine.
He explains the importance of understanding how to work up a patient from a nutritional, functional, and lifestyle medicine perspective from his 43 years of practicing integrative medicine.
The first step is to ask patients what complaints they want to address without focusing on disease labels.
Kirk emphasizes viewing health as spokes on a wheel with the goal of tightening the spokes to make the whole wheel turn more smoothly.
Kirk goes through each decade of life looking for health insults, especially potential immune or gut issues.
Identifying Health Issues Across Decades…
Kirk discusses common health issues in different age groups, such as chronic ear infections in children and acne or sinus infections in teenagers (chronic infections in any age group)
He highlights the impact of chronic antibiotics and a highly processed food diet on the microbiome, leading to long-term health problems.
The importance of gut health is stressed, with a focus on the significant number of bacteria in the gut that outnumber the cells in our bodies.
Kirk outlines the process of taking a diet history, including specific questions about breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, alcohol, and sugar consumption.
Exercise and Environmental Factors…
Kirk emphasizes the importance of exercise, noting that those who exercise do much better in terms of health.
He discusses the need to consider environmental factors, such as bedroom conditions, dust, pets, and mold.
Kirk mentions his training in mold treatment and the challenges of dealing with mold in patients’ homes.
Social history and stressors are also important, with Kirk asking about significant stressors in patients’ lives.
Testing and Laboratory Analysis…
Kirk explains the extensive testing he conducts, including blood tests for vitamins, minerals, and blood sugar control.
He highlights the importance of fasting insulin levels
He notes a comprehensive metabolic profile (CMP) and complete blood count (CBC) are common tests for major diseases done by many physicians but these basic blood tests are insufficient for evaluating nutrition, metabolic, hormonal and inflammatory problems.
Additional tests routinely are vitamin D, B1, zinc, RBC magnesium, CoQ10, essential fatty acids, and hormones if appropriate.
Kirk prefers to address the whole picture rather than just hormones, emphasizing the need to generally work on overall health before considering hormone therapy.
Elimination Diet and Initial Treatment…
After the initial visit while waiting for lab test to return (2-4 weeks) Kirk recommends an elimination diet removing wheat products, dairy, eggs, sugar, and caffeine on almost everyone to see if patients improve.
He notes that MANY SERIOUS HEALTH issues can clear up with the elimination diet mentioned above and discusses the benefits of removing processed foods.
Kirk allows the use of whole grains like quinoa or brown rice during the initial elimination period.
He schedules follow-up appointments to review patients’ progress and adjust the diet based on blood work results and symptom improvement.
IV Therapy and Antifungal Treatment…
Kirk is a big fan of IV therapy, including vitamin C infusions, multivitamin cocktails, and B vitamin injections.
He explains the use of anti-fungal trials for patients with heavy past or recent antibiotic use especially with a history of sugar consumption, using antifungals like fluconazole and itraconazole, nystatin tablets or powder, and probiotics are also used to address potential fungal loads effect gut and immune function and systemic symptoms.
Kirk emphasizes the importance of therapeutic trials over stool exams for accurate assessment though he does do some stool exams.
Fasting Mimicking Diet and Reintroduction of Foods…
Kirk advocates for the fasting mimicking diet, which involves eating a dairy, wheat, egg, and sugar-free pre-packaged diet (www.ProlonLife.com ) for five days sometimes monthly for the first three to six months if the patient will comply.
He highlights the benefits of the diet, including stimulating autophagy, reducing inflammation, and improving blood sugar and lipid levels.
The fasting mimicking diet is used as both a test and a treatment to see how patients react to different foods.
Kirk encourages especially paying attention to the reintroduction of common foods to identify any adverse reactions and adjust the diet accordingly. Attention to this process of reintroduction of foods can save thousands of dollars on additional testing and medical treatment.
Kirk Hamilton believes the elimination diet and “conscious” re-challenge of foods is one of the most powerful, if not thee most powerful tool in medicine, that empowers the patient, can lead to dramatic symptom reduction and medical visits, and health expenditure savings, and puts the patient more in control of their own health.
Hormone Therapy and Patient Compliance…
Kirk prefers to use hormone therapy after patients have worked on their overall health, especially in males over 60.
He warns against suppressing natural hormone production in younger men and emphasizes the potential lifelong need for hormone therapy.
Kirk spends a lot of time with patients, ensuring they follow the agreed-upon treatment plans and documenting their progress.
He stresses the importance of patient compliance and regular follow-up to ensure effective treatment and improvement in health.ADDENDUM TO VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPT SUMMARY – Kirk Hamilton PA has considerable experience treating Covid-19, Long Haul, Post Vaccine Syndrome and cancer (including his own) with a combination of repurposed drugs, nutraceuticals, diet, IV therapy and mind-body practices. The number and timing of Covid-19 vaccinations and reactions, Covid-19 spike protein IgG quantitative antibodies; the number, timing and severity of Covid infections and their sequelae are always part of Kirk’s initial assessment and plan.
Highlights…
VACCINE SAFETY CBS INTERVIEW – MCCULLOUGH FOUNDATION – CBS, Kaiser Family Foundation Health News Sends Top Medical Reporter to McCullough Foundation About Report on Autism. Dr Grounder poses questions aimed to defame and discredit while protecting vaccine interests. Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, Dec 03, 2025. ( VERY INTERESTING READ: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
1) McCullough Foundation Report: Determinants of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
2) McCullough Foundation.
Nutrition, Prevention and Integrative Medicine…
BOWEL MOVEMENTS – HIGH LIGHT ACTIVITY – Associations Between Physical Activity and Gastrointestinal Transit Times in People with Normal Weight, Overweight, and Obesity (i.e. High light activity = Normal walking, light chores, routine movement) “…More time spent on physical activity at high light intensity was associated with more rapid colonic and whole gut transit time, independent of age, sex, and body fat, whereas other intensities of physical activity and gastrointestinal transit times were not associated…”
GROUNDING – HEALTH – FOOT STABILITY – Bare Feet, Grounding, and Health from the Earth Up Through the Body. Dr McCullough goes on a tangent with Owen Shroyer for FOCAL POINTS Substack #3000. Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, Focal Points (Courageous Discourse), Dec 02, 2025.
HAIR LOSS – Management of Hair Loss with ROOTS System. Key is to start early and get ahead of the problem. Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, Focal Points (Courageous Discourse), Dec 03, 2025.
1) Role of vitamin D in hair loss: A short review. “Vitamin D is intricately involved in various signaling pathways of growth and differentiation of hair follicles. Most studies show an inverse relationship between serum vitamin D levels and non-scarring alopecias such as telogen effluvium, androgenetic alopecia, alopecia areata, and trichotillomania. Vitamin D deficiency is also associated with scarring alopecia…further studies are needed before vitamin D can be routinely recommended as a treatment modality in these conditions…”
2) Micronutrients and Androgenetic Alopecia: A Systematic Review. “…Deficiencies or imbalances in specific vitamins and minerals, especially vitamin B, vitamin D, Fe, Se, and Zn are involved in the pathogenesis of AGA (adrogenic alopecia) and may represent modifiable risk factors…”
3) Health Effects of Coconut Oil-A Narrative Review of Current Evidence. “…Coconut oil products may also be useful in preventing hair damage due to protein loss during grooming processes and ultraviolet (UV) exposure; however, more studies are needed to confirm this effect…”
4) Signaling pathways in hair aging.”…Androgens, particularly DHT, have a substantial impact on HFs (hair follicles), contributing to diseases such as MPHL (male pattern hair loss). Estrogens, on the other hand, play a crucial role in promoting HF growth as well as protecting HFs from antioxidant damage. Chronic stress-induced hormones such as cortisol also account for hair aging.…In conclusion, hair aging is a complex process influenced by numerous factors… These processes can be attributable to oxidative stress, hormonal imbalance, inflammation, and DNA damage…”
Cancer…
COLORECTAL CANCER – IVERMECTIN and MEBENDAZOLE – 38 year old Texas woman with Stage 4 Colorectal Mucinous Cancer metastatic to peritoneum – reports after 3 months – all tumors shrinking! William Makis, MD, Covid Intel, Dec 01, 2025.
GLIOBLASTOMA – IVERMECTIN and MEBENDAZOLE – 69 year old Kentucky man with Glioblastoma reports after being on Protocol for 12 months. William Makis, MD, Covid Intel, Nov 30, 2025.
LUNG CANCER – IVERMECTIN, FENBENDAZOLE, MEBENDAZOLE, ITRACONAZOLE, DOXYCYCLINE, DMSO – 59 year old South Carolina woman with Stage 3 NSCLC Lung Ca reports after 3 months – 91% tumor shrinkage. William Makis, MD, Covid Intel, Dec 01, 2025.
OVARIAN CANCER – IVERMECTIN and MEBENDAZOLE – 66 year old Idaho woman with Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer, failing conventional Oncology after 4 years – reports after 5 months. William Makis, MD, Covid Intel, Nov 30, 2025.
PROSTATE CANCER – Australian man Stage 4 Prostate Cancer reports after 8 months – PSA drop 736 to 5, most extraprostatic disease gone. William Makis, MD, Covid Intel, Dec 01, 2025.
PROSTATE CANCER – IVERMECTIN and FENBENDAZOLE – 72 year old Canadian man with Stage 4 Prostate Cancer reports after 8 months. William Makis, MD, Covid Intel, Nov 30, 2025
TURBO CANCER – COVID VACCINES – RUSSIA – Russia: Covid ‘Vaccines’ Triggered Global Turbo Cancer Crisis. William Makis, MD, Covid Intel, Dec 01, 2025.
Covid Syndrome…
HEART ATTACK – COVID 19 VACCINATION – Harvard Confirms Heart Attack Surge Among Pfizer mRNA-Vaxxed. William Makis, Covid Intel, Dec 02, 2025.
1) Comparative Safety of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 Vaccines in a Nationwide Cohort of US Veterans.
LOCK DOWNS – Study Confirms Lock downs, Mandates, and Totalitarian Restrictions Were Built on a Fraudulent PCR Illusion. Epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher on GB News with Bev Turner Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, Focal Points (Courageous Discourse), Dec 02, 2025.
1) 86% of PCR-Positive “COVID Cases” Were Not Real Infections. New study finds that during the early pandemic period, only 14% of PCR “COVID cases” were real — proving that lockdowns and vaccine mandates were built on a fraudulent testing illusion. Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, Focal Points (Courageous Discourse) Nov 07, 2025.
MYOPERICARDITIS – COVID VACCINES – PEER Reviewed Paper Finds mRNA “Vaccines” Convey Silent Heart Damage — Presents Approach to Diagnosis and Management. We present the first-ever paper to map the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of COVID-19 vaccine-induced subclinical myopericarditis — the silent condition driving “unexplained” sudden deaths. Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, Focal Points (Courageous Discourse), Dec 01, 2025.
MYOPERICARDITIS – COVID 19 VACCINE – Induced Subclinical Myopericarditis: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Clinical Management. PDF
POST VACCINE SYNDROME – COVID VACCINATION – Post-COVID-19 Vaccination (or Long Vax) Syndrome: Putative Manifestation, Pathophysiology, and Therapeutic Options.
POST VACCINE SYNDROME- COVID VACCINATION – Immunological and Antigenic Signatures Associated with Chronic Illnesses after COVID-19 Vaccination.
Practice, Persistence and Patience – My Favorite. The first story of transformation that “jumped out” at me before my cancer and then the first one “sent” to me after my cancer diagnosis. A physician cures herself of a rare, life threatening sarcoma after chemo, radiation and alternative therapies had been tried.
”Source” the Documentary – The Science behind the practice. Highly recommended.
Proof – Stories of Transformation (listen to a few stories of transformation from serious health problems)
Research: The Science Behind Mind/Body Healing and Meditation
Dr. Joe Dispenza’s Book: Becoming Supernatural
Falun Dafa – Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance
Brief Introduction to Falun Dafa
Books & Recent Writings of Mr. Li Hongzhi
Video & Audio Materials
Take an Online Class
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