Functional Medicine Practitioner · Board-Certified Holistic Nutritionist · 3x Author · Podcast Host · Founder, Empower Functional Health
Available for interviews, speaking, and expert commentary on chronic inflammation, root-cause healing, therapeutic nutrition, gut health, environmental illness, nervous system health, and her upcoming book, Inflammation Fix.
01 — Why Now
With chronic disease rates rising and many people feeling treated but not better, Inflammation Fix offers a practical framework for understanding why health breaks down and what can actually help rebuild it.
Most people are not dealing with a single problem. They are dealing with accumulated stressors: food, gut dysfunction, toxins, infections, stress, trauma, poor sleep, and environmental load. Yet healthcare often treats the loudest symptom instead of asking why the system became inflamed, depleted, or dysregulated in the first place.
This is why so many people cycle through diagnoses, medications, supplements, and protocols without fully recovering. The issue is not that symptoms do not matter. They do. But symptoms are signals, not always the source. When we only suppress the signal, we can miss the deeper pattern driving the illness.
Judy speaks to the audience that has done everything right and still feels wrong. She translates the gut-brain-immune connection into language patients, hosts, and skeptics can hold onto, and she names the order of operations most protocols skip.
The result is a conversation that respects medicine, refuses fear-mongering, and gives listeners a real next step: stop chasing every symptom in isolation and start rebuilding the terrain that allowed the symptoms to persist.
02 — Interview Angles
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Why so many people are sick, and what to do about it.
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Why symptom suppression often misses the root driver.
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The common thread behind autoimmunity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.
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One system, three faces.
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Toxins, refined sugars and oils, additives, and the case for nutrient density.
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Judy's own clinical pivot and what it revealed.
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Why the order of operations matters and most protocols get it wrong.
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The missed driver hiding in your home.
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Lyme, MCAS, long COVID, chronic fatigue, and why the body may stay stuck in an inflammatory state.
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Why some people cannot recover despite doing everything right.
03 — About Judy
Judy Cho is a functional medicine practitioner, board-certified holistic nutritionist, and the author of Carnivore Cure, The Complete Carnivore Diet for Beginners, and the forthcoming Inflammation Fix. She is the founder of Empower Functional Health and host of the Nutrition with Judy podcast, ranked in the global top 0.5%.
Her own story begins with a mental health crisis after more than a decade on a plant-based diet. When she shifted to a carnivore elimination protocol, the results were undeniable and set the direction for the clinical practice and publishing work that followed.
Over 2,500 clients later, her work has expanded from carnivore education into a full root-cause framework: food, gut health, toxins, drainage, mold, environmental illness, nervous system regulation, and whole-person healing. Inflammation Fix is the expression of that evolution.
She holds multiple degrees from UC Berkeley. She bridges the worlds of therapeutic nutrition, functional medicine, and evidence-based health communication for a mainstream audience.
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04 — The Book
Most treatments manage inflammation. This book explains why it starts and what it actually takes to stop it.
Inflammation Fix connects the full landscape of chronic inflammation: food and nutrient density, gut health and the microbiome, environmental toxins, mold and air quality, drainage and detox pathways, hormones, sleep, and nervous system regulation. Instead of chasing isolated symptoms, it gives readers a framework for understanding how multiple stressors accumulate and how to reduce that burden.
The book is for anyone seeing early signs of illness or metabolic dysfunction, as well as those who have tried everything and still feel unwell. It is evidence-based, clinically grounded, and written to be used, not just read.
Root-Cause Healing in a Symptom-Chasing World · Forthcoming 2026
Chronic Inflammation
Root-Cause Healing
Gut-Brain-Immune
Therapeutic Nutrition
Environmental Illness
Nervous System
Drainage and Detox
Whole-Person Recovery
Metabolic Dysfunction
05 — Interview Topics
Each topic is a stand-alone episode. Mix, sequence, or combine. Judy tunes the depth to your audience.
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Why so many people receive care, take medications, run labs, and still feel exhausted, inflamed, anxious, or undiagnosed.
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Why symptom suppression can reduce the noise while the deeper imbalance keeps progressing.
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Reframing chronic inflammation from villain to messenger: what the body is reporting and how to listen more accurately.
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The common thread behind autoimmunity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and metabolic dysfunction.
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One system, three faces: how gut dysfunction can shape mood, immune activation, inflammation, and burnout.
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How toxins, refined sugars, industrial oils, additives, and nutrient depletion influence inflammation and resilience.
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An honest clinical map of therapeutic carnivore: who benefits, who plateaus, and what must be addressed next.
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The driver hiding in plain sight: how cumulative exposure can shape symptoms that are often mislabeled or missed.
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Lyme, MCAS, long COVID, chronic fatigue, and why the body may stay stuck in an inflammatory state.
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The order of operations most protocols skip, and why patients often crash when detox starts too soon.
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The hidden bottlenecks: drainage, terrain, nervous system dysregulation, mold, infections, and immune overload.
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Why safety, vagal tone, sleep, and stress physiology can determine whether a protocol works or fails.
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Judy's clinical pivot from plant-based healing to therapeutic carnivore, and what it revealed about inflammation, food tolerance, and recovery.
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From personal health collapse to the clinical model now used with 2,500+ complex chronic illness clients.
06 — Sample Questions
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07 — Past Appearances
A selection of long-form interviews across health, performance, and root-cause medicine.
08 — Endorsements
Judy Cho combines extensive research, clinical insight, and practical wisdom into a guide that challenges conventional thinking while remaining grounded and useful.
Dr. Richard Horowitz, MD · NYT Bestselling Author, Why Can’t I Get Better? and Ending Chronic Illness
Judy Cho explores the powerful connections between nutrition, metabolism, environment, stress, and inflammation with clarity and conviction. A broader lens for anyone seeking a more complete path to health.
Dr. Robert B. Lufkin, MD · NYT Bestselling Author, Lies I Taught in Medical School · Former Professor, UCLA and USC Schools of Medicine
Judy is one of the few health practitioners I constantly refer people to. She’s way ahead of the curve. For chronic conditions, Inflammation Fix is cutting-edge. I can’t recommend it enough.
Mikhaila Peterson Fuller · Founder, Peterson Academy · Creator of the Lion Diet
If you’re tired of chasing symptoms and ready for real root-cause resolution, this book is your no-nonsense roadmap.
Dr. Ken D. Berry, MD · Author, Lies My Doctor Told Me
09 — Press Assets
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10 — Official Bios
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Judy Cho is a functional medicine practitioner, board-certified holistic nutritionist, 3x author, and founder of Empower Functional Health, helping people get closer to root-cause healing by reducing chronic inflammation.
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Judy Cho is a functional medicine practitioner, board-certified holistic nutritionist (BCHN, FNTP), and founder of Empower Functional Health. She is the author of Carnivore Cure, The Complete Carnivore Diet for Beginners, and the forthcoming Inflammation Fix, and host of a globally top-ranked podcast on chronic illness. Her clinical work focuses on the gut-brain-immune connection, therapeutic nutrition, drainage and detoxification, and whole-person recovery for patients who have been treated but are still not well.
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Judy Cho is a functional medicine practitioner, board-certified holistic nutritionist (BCHN, FNTP), and 3x author known for bridging therapeutic nutrition with root-cause healing. She is the founder of Empower Functional Health and host of the Nutrition with Judy podcast, ranked in the global top 0.5% with over 5 million listens. After more than a decade on a plant-based diet led to a personal health crisis, Judy found recovery through meat-based elimination nutrition, an experience that shaped her entire clinical approach. She has since worked with over 2,500 clients with complex chronic illnesses and built one of the most trusted voices in metabolic health, gut health, and environmental medicine. Her forthcoming book, Inflammation Fix, expands her work into the full landscape of chronic inflammation: food, gut health, toxins, mold, drainage, nervous system regulation, and whole-person recovery. She holds multiple degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
11 — Interview Request
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