Working Out While Fasting: Smart Strategy or Quiet Sabotage?
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Michelle Seguin, MD, FAAFP, DipABLM, IFMCP is a board-certified Family and Lifestyle Medicine physician and certified functional medicine practitioner. With over a decade of experience spanning clinical care, community health innovation, and medical education, she specializes in integrative, root-cause approaches to wellness through food as medicine and lifestyle interventions.
Dr. Seguin currently practices at Root Functional Medicine, a telemedicine-based practice focused on personalized, root-cause care. She previously served in rural primary care in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where she secured grant funding to design and implement the region’s first produce prescription program and publish its outcomes research in Health Promotion Practice. As Director of Community Health at the Portage Health Foundation, she expanded regional capacity for food and nutrition initiatives, including farm-to-school programs, expansion of SNAP at local farmers’ markets, and culinary medicine education. She has held academic appointments at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and Augusta University, where she co-developed curriculum in culinary and lifestyle medicine and received multiple teaching awards. Dr. Seguin has presented at national conferences, including the Institute for Functional Medicine, and publishes a weekly Substack newsletter exploring the intersections of food, health, and seasonal living.

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