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St. Louis, MO- MindBody Talent, a professional recruiting firm specializing in the fields of Functional, Integrative, and Personalized Medicine, is excited to announce its partnership with IntellxxDNA. IntellxxDNA is an industry-leading genomics platform that enables trained physicians to address some of the toughest challenges in personalized health care. IntellxxDNA is a cutting-edge platform, which uses DNA analysis and personalized data to provide insights into a wide range of complex health conditions, including autism, cognitive decline, mental health disorders, and cardiometabolic disease. This innovative partnership between MindBody Talent and IntellxxDNA aims to provide Functional Medicine professionals and their practices with the tools and support they need to help patients who may have been declared “untreatable” by conventional medicine. “We are thrilled to be partnering with IntellxxDNA,” said MindBody Talent CEO, Robin Stewart. “This partnership will provide our practitioners with access to science-grounded tools and support, enabling them to provide the best possible care for their patients. We believe that this partnership will help our clients and their practices continue to grow and succeed in the Personalized Medicine space.” MindBody Talent is committed to supporting both practitioners and practices in the Functional, Integrative, and Personalized Medicine communities. Through its partnership with IntellxxDNA, the company aims to provide even more value and support to its clients. “We are excited to partner with MindBody Talent,” said IntellxxDNA CEO Carol Bilich. “This partnership will provide IntellxxDNA with even greater reach to the clinicians, practices, and patients who could most benefit from our platform. Overall, we believe that it will help us to make an even greater impact in the world of Personalized Medicine.” With this partnership, MindBody Talent and IntellxxDNA are committed to driving innovation and improving patient outcomes in the world of health and wellness for a wide range of daunting health challenges.  More information is available at https://mindbodytalent.com/start-a-discussion/.  About MindBody Talent MindBody Talent was incorporated in St.Louis, Missouri in 2019. Founders Rich Hoffmann and Robin Stewart were driven to create a company that addressed major dysfunction within the US healthcare industry. Using their professional experience in recruitment, business development and team collaboration, the pair incorporated MindBody Talent. Given the critical importance of qualified clinical talent and ancillary staff in providing quality care for patients, the primary goal was to improve recruitment in the fields of Functional, Integrative, and Personalized Medicine.  The new partnership with IntellxxDNA demonstrates the company’s commitment to providing practitioners and their teams and patients with the best possible tools and professional support.  Anyone who would like to find out more about MindBody Talent and the partnership with IntellxxDNA is encouraged to make use of the following contact details: Business name: MindBody Talent Website: https://mindbodytalent.com/ Press contact name: Richard Hoffmann Press contact email: rich@mindbodytalent.com Business name: IntellxxDNA Website: https://www.intellxxdna.com/ Press contact name: Andrea Sanchez

Joint Venture to Revolutionize American Health and Wellness Services May 7, 2020 7:00 AM CST Centennial, Colorado and St. Louis, Missouri – Novis Health and MindBody Talent today announced a strategic partnership focused on recruiting and integrating qualified healthcare professionals into the innovative Novis Health model of franchising the development of Functional Medicine healthcare practices across the United States. Working closely with a network of medical practice service providers and franchising experts, Novis Health has created the first franchise model of its kind in North America. Focus on Proliferating Functional Medicine Services The companies aim to proliferate much-needed Functional Medicine services through individual healthcare practices and area development strategies in key target areas across the U.S. The Novis Health Blueprint is based on successful practice prototypes in South Carolina and Colorado. The unique franchise model will enable rapid practice start-ups or conversions of existing practices in a consistent delivery methodology that focuses on the highest quality of patient care.   A Return to the Roots of Optimum Health Management “Functional Medicine” is the field of health care focused on treating complex diseases, chronic health problems and promoting healthy living by focusing on the root causes of illness and the biological foundations of good health. Practitioners of Functional Medicine provide a holistic system alternative to the conventional allopathic medicine approach of diagnosing symptoms and prescribing pharmaceutical products or surgeries that has dominated the American healthcare system since the 1950’s. In her landmark book, “A Nation of Unwell – What’s Gone Wrong”, Dr. Kristine Gedroic, MD equates the allopathic approach that she and other practitioners learn in conventional medical schools to “masking root causes and unplugging the smoke alarm while underlying fires of illness burn uncontrolled”.  In contrast, the Functional Medicine field facilitated by the Novis Health and MindBody Talent partnership seeks to transform U.S. healthcare from the illness focus that is perpetuated by conventional medicine to the wellness focus facilitated by Functional Medicine practitioners. A rising wave of patients, caregivers and healthcare practitioners are also seeking that transformation.   A Rising Tide of Interest and Need According to the 2020 Industry Report of Functional, Integrative & Naturopathic Medicine, the healthcare fields commonly referred to as Functional, Integrative or Lifestyle Medicine are estimated to become an $89 billion industry in 2020, growing six times from its level of $14.7 billion in 2012. Patients and their caregivers are displaying a rising hunger for alternatives to allopathic medicine and the negative consequences of pharmaceutical-centric health care. The 2020 Industry Report found a 5000% increase in Google searches for integrative care over the last five years. The Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine reports a 2,200-patient waitlist. The University of California at San Francisco Osher Clinic sees 10,300 patients annually and reports a four-month waitlist for services. The Report predicts that there will be over a million Integrative Medicine practitioners in the U.S. in 2020. Medical schools and credentialing boards are scrambling to enhance Functional Medicine education and board certifications. Unique Franchise Model Benefits Patients and Practitioners Novis Health is addressing the explosion in demand for Functional Medicine solutions through its delivery of a turnkey healthcare franchise model that gets practices up and running quickly, as well as economically for both patients and practitioners. The Novis Health Blueprint surrounds healthcare practitioners with everything they need to ramp up new practices or convert existing practices into high performance centers for patient care. “Doctors and advanced care providers should not have to worry about sorting through the hundreds of details involved with starting, ramping and running their practices”, explains Dr. Ryan Valencic, CEO of Novis Health. “Healthcare practitioners want to spend as much of their time as possible with patients. That’s where their patients need them to focus their time and energies as well. The Novis Health model enables the management of high-performance healthcare practices that are able to optimize patient-facing time, to the benefit of patients and practitioners alike. Our model delivers healthcare that is both highly effective and highly accessible for patients.” More efficient practice management enables practitioners to devote their time and attention to the hallmark of the Functional Medicine discipline – getting to the root causes of what is making people sick and facilitating reversals in the disease process. Enhancing quality time with patients enables treating the whole person … nutritionally, physically, emotionally and spiritually, rather than just the disease they’ve been labeled with by the conventional medicine approach. Novis Health has chosen an initial focus on the areas of hypothyroidism, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, immune system management and whole food nutrition because those tend to be linchpins in the process of serious disease management, recovery from chronic illness and identifying pathways to healthy living. Talented Professionals are the Key to Growth Novis Health’s partnership with MindBody Talent was created to source, recruit and integrate top Functional Medicine practitioners and administrative personnel into Novis Health practices. “Our plans for growth are based on finding and recruiting the best physicians, advanced care providers and administrators in the country”, explained Dr. Valencic. “MindBody Talent shares our vision, as well as a commitment to our aggressive growth plans. They have exactly the right skills, experience and knowledge in our field to keep our practices supplied with key talent.” MindBody Talent’s principals agree. “We founded MindBody Talent with a driving passion to return our country to a state of wellness and vitality”, explained Robin Stewart, CEO and Managing Director of MindBody Talent’s Recruitment and Placement practice. “We recognized that same passion in the mission of Novis Health. Our partnership creates a perfect synergy in supporting practices and practitioners who serve on the front lines of the long overdue Healthcare Revolution that is sorely needed across America.” In addition to recruitment services, MindBody Talent will support Novis Health practices with a baseline of consistent training, personnel on-boarding and operational readiness services. Depending on the needs of individual practices, MindBody Talent’s service lines can be activated individually or in combination to fuel the effectiveness of Novis Health practices and

Industry Veterans Pool Talent and Networks to Revolutionize Healthcare December 2, 2019 12:00 PM CST ST. Louis, Missouri – MindBody Talent today announced five integrated service lines and a broad talent network created to fuel a long-overdue revolution in healthcare. The services are designed to provide comprehensive support to medical practitioners and practices that are committed to the fields of Functional, Integrative and Lifestyle Medicine. Wellness Industry Definitions and Stats “Functional”, “Integrative” and “Lifestyle Medicine” are terms commonly used to describe the fields of healthcare that are focused on identifying and treating the root causes of illness and disease with the goal of restoring sustainable health. Collectively, those fields form the basis of the industry defined as, “Wellness”. According to the Global Wellness Institute, the Wellness market was a $4.2 trillion global industry in 2017 and is on a pace of further rapid growth. Research from Statistica and other sources project that the U.S. share of the Wellness market will be in the range of $179 billion by 2020. MindBody Talent Mission to Fuel a Wellness Revolution Given the size and momentum of the Wellness industry, MindBody Talent was created to coordinate and catalyze growth for Wellness practices and practitioners, as well as for the patients they serve. Its goal is to fuel a wellness revolution, but that goal comes with a range of daunting industry challenges. Despite the size and projected growth of the Wellness industry, the founders of MindBody Talent recognize a major gap that they seek to address with their company, including its range of services and talent network. “There are a lot of very talented and innovative professionals in the field of Wellness”, said Robin Stewart, CEO and co-founder of MindBody Talent. “But those professionals, as well as the industry overall, lack a coordinating force and foundational support system for those practitioners and their practices. MindBody Talent’s five service lines were each designed to provide essential elements of that support system, as well as supplying that coordinating force.” Ms. Stewart went on to describe the challenges that MindBody Talent seeks to address, “The Wellness industry is fighting a difficult battle on two fronts. One front is the Western medicine ‘allopathic’ approach to healthcare that is fueled by the massive pharmaceutical and insurance industries. Those industries represent over two trillion dollars of momentum behind a medical approach that focuses on treating symptoms with pharmaceutical drugs and surgery. The second battle front is the embedded mindset of several generations of patients and their caregivers who have been conditioned to believe solely in the allopathic approach.” Battling $2 Trillion of Momentum and Generations of Mindset MindBody Talent’s other co-founder and COO, Richard Hoffmann, further outlines the metrics of the challenges, as well as the company’s approach to the revolution. “For almost 70 years, we have been receiving a progressive volume of brainwashing telling us that taking drugs and undergoing surgeries as prescribed by allopathic doctors is the right way to manage health. That ‘diagnose and prescribe’ approach to treating illness has resulted in Americans taking higher quantities and more complex combinations of prescription drugs than any country in the world”, said Hoffmann. “Drug prescriptions in the U.S. rose 85 percent between 1997 and 2016, from 2.4 billion to 4.5 billion a year. That growth continues unabated. Meanwhile, our population is suffering from unprecedented epidemics of diseases that include obesity, autism, dementia, diabetes, cancer, depression and a range of autoimmune disorders, as well as drug addictions, overdoses and contraindications. A growing body of research is showing that excessive prescribing and use of pharmaceutical drugs is causing or worsening the diseases they were originally intended to fix”, added Hoffmann. A recent study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine says that medical errors should rank as the third leading cause of death in the United States. According to the study and its base of research, medical mistakes that can lead to death range from surgical complications that go unrecognized to mix-ups with the doses or types of medications patients receive. The Johns Hopkins study estimates that more than 250,000 Americans die each year from medical errors. On the CDC’s official list, that would rank just behind heart disease and cancer, which each took about 600,000 lives in 2014, and in front of respiratory disease, which caused about 150,000 deaths. The authors of the Johns Hopkins study urged, in an open letter to the CDC, to immediately add medical errors to its annual list reporting the top causes of death. These statistics don’t even begin to account for the myriad of health problems caused by pharmaceutical drug overuse, side-effects, adverse reactions and unforeseen contraindications. They also don’t consider that the medical errors caused by excessive use of prescription drugs may also be contributing to the first two leading causes of death. Urgent Need for a Wellness Revolution “The current system of healthcare in the west has created a major cyclical problem for patients and our overall state of health”, Hoffmann explains. “Aggressive pharmaceutical marketing, medical school curricula and insurance company policies oriented around the ‘diagnose and prescribe’ model of illness management, and medical practice profitability models that force physicians to spend minimal time with patients have collectively created a broken model for truth ‘health’ care. We’re in desperate need of a systemic change.” “The root of the term ‘revolution’ means to ‘turn around’ or to ‘roll back’”, Hoffmann continued. “Through the framework of services from MindBody Talent, we’re supporting a nationwide network of Wellness industry practitioners and practices in their quest to return us to the methods and practices that worked for thousands of years in the management of illness and the restoration of health. Our clients and partners in our talent network are mining and honoring ancient wisdom that was largely discarded with the advent of modern science and the development of the pharmaceutical medicine industry. They are charting paths that honor the old while embracing the new in blended models that work for our modern life and times.” Near-Term and Long-Term