Totally Not Appropriate
Welcome to Totally Not Appropriate, where medicine meets mystery—and healing finally becomes whole.
Hosted by Taylor Sappington, a medical astrologer and herbalist blending 15 years of Western and Eastern practice, and Adrienne Irizarry, HWH, a reproductive rebel, cycle alchemist and East Asian medicine practitioner rewriting the story of women’s health, this podcast is a sanctuary for the witches in the broom closet, the healers in hiding, and the ones who walk between worlds but have been told it’s safer to stay silent.
We don’t buy into quick fixes or cookie-cutter care. We bring together the science of the body, the wisdom of the Earth, and the patterns written in the sky. We’re here to challenge the systems that left us unseen, to honor the ancient ways that still work, and to show you that the most powerful medicine is always rooted in who you are.
Each week, we’ll dive into raw, real conversations about healing, identity, and reclamation. From sage to SSRIs, acupuncture to astrology, herbal remedies to holy revelations—we hold space for it all. Because clinical isn’t enough.
This is your reminder, your permission, your initiation: the safest thing you can be is yourself.
Totally Not Appropriate
Functional Medicine Is a Ceiling, Not a Floor
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What if optimizing your labs isn’t the same as being healthy?
You fixed your gut.
You balanced your hormones.
Your inflammation markers dropped.
So why do you still feel stuck?
Functional medicine has transformed modern healthcare. It moved us beyond symptom suppression. It asks better questions. It looks at root causes. It integrates physical, mental, and emotional health.
But what if it’s still operating inside an incomplete model of the human system?
In this episode, we explore a provocative idea: functional medicine may be the ceiling of biological optimization — not the floor of true human wholeness.
From a quantum medicine lens, humans are not three-body beings. We are five-body systems. And the tools designed to regulate the physical, mental, and emotional layers do not automatically access the deeper energetic and informational bodies that organize our health.
If we don’t update the field, the body will keep expressing the old program — no matter how clean the labs look.
This conversation isn’t about rejecting functional medicine. It’s about contextualizing it. Stabilization is powerful. But coherence is transformative.
In This Episode
- How functional medicine changed the healthcare landscape
- The limits of the three-body model (physical, mental, emotional)
- The five-body framework of health
- Why optimizing chemistry doesn’t automatically recalibrate identity
- Hardware vs operating system: a new lens on healing
- The optimization trap in biohacking culture
- Why coherence — not endless tweaking — is the real foundation of health
The Evolution of Functional Medicine
We begin by honoring what functional medicine does well:
- Root-cause investigation
- Personalized protocols
- Integration of trauma and stress biology
- Nervous system awareness
- Moving patients from chaos to regulation
Functional medicine optimizes biology.
It stabilizes the organism.
It addresses the physical, mental, and emotional bodies.
And that matters.
The Three-Body Model
Modern integrative medicine generally operates within a three-body framework:
- Physical body: biochemistry, inflammation, hormones, cellular health
- Mental body: conscious beliefs, thought patterns, cognition
- Emotional body: trauma, attachment, stress response
This model explains symptoms.
But does it explain identity?
Does it explain why some people with perfect labs still feel unsafe, stuck, or unfulfilled?
The Five-Body Framework (Quantum Lens)
From a quantum medicine perspective, humans operate across five layers:
- Physical body (matter)
- Mental body (conscious narrative)
- Emotional body (nervous system imprinting)
- Energetic body (electromagnetic coherence and charge)
- Informational body (identity architecture, subconscious programming, meaning structures)
The last two bodies are regulatory layers. They organize the first three.
Supplements change chemistry.
Therapy reframes cognition.
Somatic work regulates state.
But identity coding lives deeper.
Field coherence lives beyond chemistry.
And without recalibrating those layers, symptoms often re-emerge in new forms.
Where Functional Medicine Hits Its Ceiling
Functional medicine can:
- Lower inflammation
- Improve resilience
- Balance hormones
- Improve cognition and mood
But it cannot:
- Define your purpose
- Correct subconscious identity patterns
- Resolve existential misalignment
- Rewrite deep inf
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