Brandilyn Binstock, ND, IFMCP
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About Brandilyn Binstock, ND, IFMCP
Dr. Brandilyn Binstock is a Functional Medicine Physician at Vida Integrated Health, specializing in integrative primary care with broad clinical interests. She has additional specialty training in gastrointestinal conditions, autoimmune conditions, mast cell and allergy conditions, hypermobility spectrum disorders, cardiometabolic disorders, iron deficiency and the anemias. Dr. Binstock is committed to finding clinical answers for her patients and staying up to date on effective and evidence-based therapies. Her medical decision-making is guided by a philosophy of identifying and intervening in underlying disruptions in health, in addition to treating intolerable or health-compromising symptoms. Her training is informed by a background in conventional medicine and research, as well as naturopathic and functional medical training. Dr. Binstock completed a three-year residency at the Bastyr Center for Natural Health (BCNH), the teaching clinic of Bastyr University, with the final year as the Chief Resident Physician at BCNH, where she mentored and supervised resident physicians and medical students. It was during her residency that she also completed the Functional Medicine Practitioner certification through The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM). Dr. Binstock has a passion for working alongside medical students and resident physicians and feels strongly about teaching the merging of functional medicine diagnostics and conventional standard of care with an integrative approach to treatment. She currently maintains an adjunctive position at BCNH, supervising medical students and resident physicians in the training of primary care, Functional Medicine and intravenous therapy. She also regularly lectures on emergency medicine for primary care physicians, iron deficiency and intravenous iron therapy and hypermobility spectrum disorders. Dr. Binstock sees a lot of hypermobile EDS or hypermobile spectrum disorder patients. These patients not only have chronic pain but they often struggle with other symptoms associated with nervous system dysfunction. This group of patients benefits from personalized medicine. Comprehensive lab data is gathered to figure out if there are any nutritional deficiencies that can be perpetuating their symptoms or hormonal imbalances that could be resulting in inability to heal connective tissues. Often a genetic analysis is done too. When managing these symptoms and conditions a combination of therapeutics is often used. The functional medicine concierge model works really well for patients that have hypermobility and chronic pain along with other nervous system symptoms including fatigue because there is more time together. This allows for gathering more comprehensive data and changing the plan out as needed depending on the season of life. Functional nutritional specialists are tapped in to look at the diet and determine if there are any areas where nutrition may not be adequate.