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Welcome to a new episode of the Future Generations Podcast! In this conversation, Dr. Stanton Hom sits down with Dr. Karyn Shanks! After decades in conventional practice, Dr. Shanks reinvented how she practices to serve people with chronic, complex illness who were failed by the standard medical system. In this episode, they explore why so many are “walking wounded”, how trauma (including trauma from the medical system itself) underlies much chronic illness, and why illness is often the body’s intelligent healing response rather than a “broken” malfunction. They dive into COVID as a pandemic of human vulnerability, systemic gaslighting, polarization, and how cultural narratives and dogmatic biomedicine disconnect us from our bodies’ wisdom.
Highlights:
“Illness is beautiful… it’s a healing cycle.” –
“The only sustainable model of healthcare is one that works itself out of a job.”
“The bedrock of human illness and chronic disease is that we live according to these narratives where we don’t even trust our bodies anymore.”
“Simple, small, and slow, that’s my mantra.”
Timestamps:
00:02 – Introducing Dr. Karyn Shanks and her 35-year journey
01:37 – From internist to holistic, integrative, and functional medicine
03:40 – “Unbroken” and why your body isn’t wrong when it’s sick
05:23 – The only sustainable healthcare model: working yourself out of a job
08:22 – COVID as a pandemic of vulnerability, not just a virus
15:41 – The biggest problem today: dogma, righteousness, and reductionism
20:46 – Dr. Shanks’ core mission: returning patients to safety and self-trust
30:55 – How she practically creates safety for chronically ill patients
42:32 – Case study: healing begins in a sewing room, not a prescription pad
54:59 – One daily practice: a few moments to listen to what you need
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About Dr. Karyn Shanks
KARYN SHANKS MD is a physician, author, and teacher who helps clients recover their lives from chronic complex Illness—a journey she’s walked herself. Her work integrates the sciences of directable human potential—epigenetics, neuroplasticity, systems-based functional medicine, and transformational psychology—with the lived wisdom that safety, compassion, and story are the true foundations of healing. Over four decades, she’s learned one enduring truth: everyone can heal, and the best medicine comes from within.
She is the author of Heal—A Nine-Stage Roadmap to Recover Energy and The Wisdom of COVID-19—How to Rejuvenate, Reclaim Hope, and Heal in the New Post-Pandemic World.
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