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     I was born in Urla in 1979. I was the first of the family's two daughters. After completing primary and secondary school in Urla, I continued my education at Selma Yiğitalp High School. I graduated from Ege University Faculty of Dentistry in 2001 and got married. During the periods we were in Malatya, Konya and Eskişehir, I worked as a dentist in private and public hospitals. In 2006, our daughter Bahar, who was the most beautiful gift in the world, came into our lives.

Dentistry was not a job I did with love, it was a profession I was trained in, and I was doing my best. My friends working in the public sector know that professional satisfaction is very low due to reasons such as technical impossibilities, patient density, and performance pressure, which I never liked and my search continued. While the trainings I received on holistic health were continuing, I resigned from my dentistry job in October 2020, which I have been continuing for years, and opened a new page in my life.

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    How did I meet with functional medicine and wellbeing?

     In 2018, my forgetfulness and the problems we call brain fog started. “Can you give me the spoon?” For example, I was forgetting the word spoon when I should have said it. My doctor friends said that it could be caused by vitamin B deficiency, I did not have a visible improvement even though I had the necessary treatments. While researching why it might happen, I came across the term "functional medicine", which goes to the root of diseases and treats them. At the recommendation of a friend, Dr. I have read David Perlmutter's book Brain and Gut and was very impressed with what was told.

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      While researching what I can learn more about functional medicine, in January 2019, Dr. I bought Mustafa Atasoy's book "Functional Medicine" and then my perspective on life, diseases and my profession has changed a lot. As I learned about the effects of what we eat, the toxins in our environment, the amalgam that I make and am exposed to every day on my body, mind and soul, I wanted to learn more and correct my mistakes.

 

     I attended all of the physician trainings organized by the Functional Medicine Academy. I adjusted my personal diet, started taking the necessary supplements for my body, and began to observe that I felt much healthier than before. I completed IAOMT's SMART (safety amalgam removal technique) training on safe amalgam removal. After this point, I decided that I no longer want to have amalgam removal in a state-affiliated institution without adequate protection for the patient, other employees and myself. I made a presentation on the technical issues of the safe removal of amalgam at the Detoxification training of the Functional Medicine Academy.

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     I have successfully completed the "Functional Medicine Health Coaching" training of the Fonksiyonel Tıp Akademisi. When I learned that Ebru Şinik had started wellbeing trainings with Gedik University, I decided to attend. I finished the "Wellbeing Basic Level" and "Wellbeing Coach" trainings with pleasure and excitement. I completed mindfulness training. While continuing all these trainings, I attended Hülya Kayhan's seminars and got acquainted with healing oils, who is pharmacist and specialist about aromatherapy. I received ICF-approved coaching training and I continue to work for the ACC title. In this period when I turned 40, with the influence of my meditations, I decided that I want to help people who wants to be treated, to heal, to be well, to reach the best version of themselves, and I do not want to continue as a dentist. I left my profession of medicine, which I had been actively pursuing throughout twenty years. Currently, I work at Serkan Şener Functional and Healthy Living and to accompany you on your journey in the field of holistic health.

     Since 2019, I have received and continue to receive various trainings in different fields. The more I learn, the more I want to learn and I continue to learn new things to improve myself. With endless love and gratitude to everyone who walked with me in this process, which I started by listening to the voice of my heart...