Dear Clinicians, Practitioners, and Members of Our Health Community,

Most people think hypertension is a “pressure problem.” 

In real life, it’s usually a regulation problem—the body is working harder to keep blood moving through a system that’s stressed, inflamed, stiff, overstimulated, or metabolically strained.

If you’ve ever seen blood pressure improve… then spike again with travel, stress, poor sleep, pain, illness, or a demanding season, this Clinical Brief will explain why—and what actually changes durability.

This new FMU Clinical Brief walks through hypertension across Levels 1–4, showing the difference between controlling a number and rebuilding regulation so outcomes hold under real life.

Click here to read the full FMU Clinical Brief on Hypertension (with optional 9-minute audio included in the article).

A key distinction FMU emphasizes:

Most functional medicine training expands your toolbox. FMU changes your operating system.

We train clinicians to make decision-changing calls, sequence care safely, and build patient “readiness” so improvements hold under real life.

That’s how care becomes reproducible—without protocol dependency or constant tinkering.

My hope is that this gives you a clearer clinical lens—and a more dependable way to help patients stabilize rather than cycle.

Warmly,
Ron Grisanti, D.C., D.A.B.C.O., D.A.C.B.N., M.S., DIANM, CFMP

P.S. Most trainings teach what to address. FMU teaches what changes outcomes first—the sequencing and readiness layer that makes driver-based care hold up under real life. 

If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing the right things but results still don’t stabilize, this is the missing skill FMU was built to teach.