A Doctor Who Believes You Can Get Better
by Angela Belford
If you’ve ever felt like your symptoms were being managed instead of truly understood, you are not alone.
Dr. Tricia Thompson knows what that feels like—from both sides of the exam room. In this week’s Dare to Age Well Now podcast, she shares how her journey from emergency medicine to functional medicine was driven by one powerful question: Why did you get sick in the first place?
That simple question changes everything.
After years in the ER watching patients return again and again with the same chronic symptoms, Dr. Thompson went back to retrain in integrative and functional medicine. What she found wasn’t a new set of prescriptions—it was a new way of thinking.
“Our bodies only know how to heal,” she told me. “We just need to get out of the way and let them.”riverside_tricia_& ange…
Today, Dr. Thompson leads a virtual practice where she and her team work with clients facing complex, often misdiagnosed issues—autoimmune conditions, gut disorders, long COVID, chronic fatigue, and more. Many of them come to her feeling like they’ve tried everything. Within weeks, they’re seeing progress.
Not just symptom relief—real healing.
Functional Medicine with a Whole-Person Approach
What makes Dr. Thompson’s approach so effective isn’t just the protocols. It’s the philosophy. She and her team support every part of your healing process: nutrition, mindset, detox, and even rebuilding your energy at the cellular level.
She explains that chronic inflammatory response syndrome (CIRS), mold toxicity, or a disrupted gut microbiome can show up as everything from joint pain to brain fog—but conventional testing often misses the root causes. Functional medicine offers a different lens. It asks: What’s the body trying to tell us? And then gives it the support it needs to come back into balance.
“A lot of people I work with think they’re never going to get better,” she said. “But within four to six weeks, they’re already seeing huge progress.”riverside_tricia_& ange…
A New Story of What’s Possible
One of the things I appreciated most about our conversation is how grounded and compassionate Dr. Thompson is. She’s not selling a magic cure. She’s offering something even more powerful: partnership and possibility.
If you or someone you love has been dismissed, misdiagnosed, or told to just “live with it,” I encourage you to listen to this episode. Dr. Thompson’s story reminds us that healing is possible—even when the system says otherwise.
Check out Dr. Tricia Thompson’s Free Masterclass: https://www.rootcausedoc.com/
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