No matter how hard he tried, Dr. K just couldn't get this one patient out of his mind. What could be the cause of her problems?
 
She came to Dr. Kalitenko's office with anxiety, depression and insomnia. She was lost and trying to find a way to get better. A single, working mother, she was afraid these symptoms have come too far, she might soon lose her job. What can she do?
 
Dr. Kalitenko wakes up at sunrise with this question, after a refreshing sleep.  He does his usual morning routine: he meditates, eats fruit, drinks water, takes vitamins and microelements and goes to car. On the way to work at the hospital Dr. K usually listens to the scientific conferences recordings to get his news and make the most use of his time, but today he is pre-occupied with this patient.
 
How did it happen that a woman who is still relatively young would be going through this. Sure, many people have stress in their lives, but when it becomes anxiety, depression and insomnia is it something much different?
 
Could it have been one test that could have prevented disaster?
 
It's ridiculous, he thinks. Dr. K knows that this patient has gone to other doctors prior to him. Her primary care physician saw nothing wrong with her and suggested a psychiatrist, who put her on medications, that made her feel more drugged, not better at all. She wanted a solution.
 
At the hospital Dr. K spends much of his day seeing just what the effects of the wrong lifestyle are. He learns a lot from people's mistakes. He studies how they take care of themselves. He looks at their life and sees where they could have fixed it on their own, naturally, or with functional medicine.
 
He spends the day learning from other's mistakes.
 
Maybe this patient's disaster started a long time ago? Just like these patients he is seeing, by the time they end up in the hospital it's usually not with a first time illness. It's usually something that "got so bad" they ended up at the ER.

May be they should have taken her symptoms seriously instead of thinking that "it is only her nerves". Her body was telling her, that something is wrong!

May be it would be better to look at the root cause of her problem instead of treating her symptoms with drugs?
 
Something is causing this. It may be hormonal imbalance, it may be infection, it may be gut problems or neurotransmitter imbalance or heavy metal toxicity, so what can it be?
 
On the way from the hospital to his practice, Dr. Kalitenko thinks about what he can do for this lady. He arrives to his office. It is time to have his secret workshop. It is time to clear his mind, concentrate and think how to help his patients.
 
Before his secret workshop, he needs healthy food: he eats some fruits and vegetables and maybe some shrimp or fish. Drinks plenty of water. He also takes the time out to meditate to clear his mind and ready himself for patients.
 
Dr. K's secret workshop consists of sitting in his office, alone, thinking about how to manage his patients better. He looks at the charts of those he will see today, or the patient's whose results have come in. He looks at labs, articles, manuals and thinks about clinical cases to find a better way to help his patients.
 
During this time, his mind goes back to this woman. He sees a similarity in a chart he is looking at.
 
It is not her heart, not stroke, not cholesterol, not hormones. Dr. Kalitenko knows this from her story, physical exam and tests. But he also knows that no matter what the tests show, it is something that  it causing her symptoms and he must help her before disaster strikes.
 
Looking at her chart now, Dr. Kalitenko realizes that this time, as with so many times, one test could have prevented disaster! Testing her gut gave him the results that he needed and he is ready to give her his diagnosis and create a plan of action for her. It is her gut, which is not functioning properly. The gut is causing a chronic inflammation and neurotransmitter imbalance, leading to all these problems!

Dr. K starts seeing his private patients. He is doing his routine job: helping his patients by finding the root cause of their problems and treating it until the last patient for today leaves the office.

Dr. K now feels better.  He learned, he helped his patients, he dealt with his day the best way that he could. He feels relaxed and calm even though his day is busy.
 
He goes home, has a warm bath to relax and goes to bed just after sundown, because he needs good sleep. He's learned that lesson from his experience, his hospital and private patients, and this woman, who he now feels confident to help.