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Kara Fitzgerald, ND, received her doctor of naturopathic medicine degree from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. She completed the first Counsel on Naturopathic Medicine-accredited post-doctorate position in nutritional biochemistry and laboratory science at Metametrix Clinical Laboratory under the direction of Richard Lord, PhD. Her residency was completed at Progressive Medical Center, a large, integrative medical practice in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. Fitzgerald is the lead author and editor of Case Studies in Integrative and Functional Medicine and is a contributing author to Laboratory Evaluations for Integrative and Functional Medicine and the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM)’s Textbook for Functional Medicine. With the Helfgott Research Institute, Dr. Fitzgerald is actively engaged in clinical research on the DNA methylome using a diet and lifestyle intervention developed in her practice. The first publication from the study focuses on reversal of biological aging and was published 04-12-2021 in the journal Aging. She has published a consumer book titled Younger You as well as a companion cookbook, Better Broths and Healing Tonics and has an application-based Younger You Program, based on the study.
Dr. Fitzgerald is on the faculty at IFM, is an IFM Certified Practitioner and lectures globally on functional medicine. She runs a Functional Nutrition Residency program, and maintains a podcast series, New Frontiers in Functional Medicine and an active blog on her website, www.drkarafitzgerald.com. Her clinical practice is in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
Additional publications
PubMed – National Library of Medicine
PubMed comprises more than 25 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
University of Maryland Nutrient Interaction Checker
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Guide.
Medscape Drug-Supplement Interaction Checker
Medscape from WebMD is a part of WebMD Health Professional Network that includes theHeart.org and eMedicine.com.
NutriChem Database
The NutriChem 1.0 server is a database generated by text mining of 21 million MEDLINE abstracts, with information that links plant-based foods with their small molecule components and human disease phenotypes.
NIH Office of Dietary Supplements
The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) fact sheets give a current overview of individual vitamins, minerals and other dietary supplements.
Consumer Lab Independent Supplement Testing
ConsumerLab.com, LLC (“CL”) is the leading provider of independent test results and information to help consumers and healthcare professionals identify the best quality health and nutrition products.
Linus Pauling Institute
Continuing the pioneering efforts of Linus Pauling in orthomolecular medicine; basic and applied research of the application of nutritional factors to health
American Clinical Board of Nutrition
The American Clinical Board of Nutrition (ACBN) is a certifying agency in nutrition. The ACBN is accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA).