Brandy Zachary, DC
Brandy Zachary, known as Dr. Z, is a chiropractic physician, an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner, and the founder and CEO of TDZ Functional Medicine Academy (TDZ-FMA), LabDX, and DiagnoseThis. She built TDZ-FMA with no outside investment into a 2026 Inc. 5000 company with 2,095 percent three-year growth, and she is the inaugural Gold Stevie Award winner for Best Female Entrepreneur.
Zachary graduated cum laude from the Honors College at Loyola Marymount University with a degree in communications and earned her Doctor of Chiropractic degree in California in 2001, graduating magna cum laude as salutatorian. After reactivating her chiropractic license, she opened Body Love Cafe in Walnut Creek, California, in fall 2016. The award-winning holistic health clinic, with several practitioners, earned Diablo Magazine's Best of the East Bay recognition across multiple years during her ownership.
She is the lead instructor for TDZ-FMA, which is jointly accredited through bodies including the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and the American Nurses Credentialing Center, and she developed the academy's FMACP certification. She has taught for or been interviewed by the Institute for Functional Medicine, Rupa Health, Designs for Health, 3x4 Genetics, and SIBO SOS. She also knows the health care system as a patient, having traveled to Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, and the University of California, San Francisco, in pursuit of her own diagnosis.
Zachary is the author of eight books, six of them Amazon No. 1 bestsellers. They include How to Read a Client from Across the Room (McGraw-Hill, 2012), which won a Bronze Axiom Business Book Award and introduced the Character Code System; Middle-Aged Mama in a Muumuu, a marketing and business playbook for practitioners; and A Practitioner's Guide to Mastering Functional Medicine Lab Values, a four-volume series used as required reading in other functional medicine training programs. Her writing has also appeared in Entrepreneur, and she hosts the Functional Medicine 2.0 Podcast. She shares updates from the academy on Instagram.
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For most of my life, I have experienced medicine from both sides of the exam table. As a patient, I spent years on Social Security disability and accumulated diagnoses across specialties. At one point, I had my brain electrocuted twenty…
For most of my life, I have experienced medicine from both sides of the exam table. As a patient, I spent years on Social Security disability and accumulated diagnoses across specialties. At one point, I had my brain electrocuted twenty times for what ultimately turned out to be an infection. Eventually, a primary immunodeficiency helped explain why so many unrelated things had happened to me.
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