Jill Carnahan, MD, ABIHM, ABoIM, IFMCP

Mold and MCAS: The Surprising Ways It Affects Your Gut and Microbiome

Dr. Jill will dive into diagnosis and treatment of mold-related illness, CIRS and MCAS and how these illnesses dramatically alter the gut microbiome and intestinal permeability.  She will discuss diagnostic testing, clinical manifestations and treatment options for these conditions including all considerations to optimize gut and microbiome function.

ABOUT DR. JILL

Dr. Jill Carnahan is Your Functional Medicine Expert®. She uses functional medicine to help patients find the root cause of their illness and identify nutritional and biochemical imbalances that may be contributing to your symptoms. Dr. Jill will search for underlying triggers that contribute to your illness through cutting-edge lab testing and tailor the intervention to your specific individual needs. She uses nutrition, supplements, lifestyle changes, or medication to treat your illness, and always seeks the gentlest and least invasive way to help you find hope, restore health and optimize healing.

She completed her residency at the University of Illinois in Family Medicine at Methodist Medical Center and received her medical degree from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

Dr. Jill was dually board certified in Family Medicine in 2006-2016 and in Integrative Holistic Medicine since 2005. She founded the Methodist Center for Integrative Medicine in Peoria, Illinois in 2009 and worked there as medical director. Then in 2010, she moved to Boulder, Colorado and opened Flatiron Functional Medicine where she has a widely sought-after medical practice with a broad range of clinical service including nutritional consultations, chiropractic therapy, naturopathic medicine, acupuncture, and massage therapy.

Dr. Jill is survivor of both breast cancer and Crohn’s disease and passionate about teaching patients how to live well and thrive in the midst of complex and chronic illness. She is also a widely sought-after inspirational speaker and travels around the world to teach physicians the principles of personalized and functional medicine. She is a prolific writer, speaker, and loves to infuse others with her passion for hope, health and healing!

She has been featured in Shape Magazine, Parade, Forbes, MindBodyGreen, First for Women, Townsend Newsletter, and The Huffington Post as well as seen on NBC News and Health segments with Joan Lunden. She recently co-authored the Personalized and Precision Integrative Cardiovascular Medicine Textbook and her prescriptive memoir will be released by Harper Collins/Zondervan in the Fall of 2021.

WHERE TO FIND DR. JILL

Q&A

Why you are passionate about studying the microbiome and/or what motivated you to begin studying microbiome therapeutics:
”Having recovered from both Breast Cancer and Crohn’s disease in my 20’s I realized early on the critical importance of the gut microbiome and altered intestinal permeability and dysbiosis on overall health and disease manifestation. I have spent my career investigating, understanding and formulating cutting-edge treatment protocols which defy the odds and help patients cure the uncurable like I did with Crohn’s disease. I am passionate about teaching other physicians techniques for success in treating gut dysbiosis and other manifestations of abnormal microbiome health.“

What are 3 tips you would share with fellow healthcare professionals if asked how to support a consistent healthcare journey for the patients who struggle with staying on the road to success through a tough healing process?
1. Start with the gut:  Optimizing gut health also optimizes many aspects of downregulation of inflammation,  reduction of autoimmunity, and optimizing brain health and detoxification. 
2. Get to know your probiotics:  Not all probiotics are creating equal and maintaining and enhancing diversity is KEY.
3. Test don’t guess:  Optimize use of critical thinking and cutting edge diagnostic testing to get the best results