Meet Dr. Betty Murray

Dr. Betty Murray is a Ph.D. researcher, Certified Nutritionist, and Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner (IFMCP). She possesses a Master of Science in Human Nutrition Science and Integrative & Functional Nutrition and earned her Ph.D. at Saybrook University, exploring the complex interplay of women’s hormones and metabolism in women with and without IBS. She leads a team of functional medicine experts in women’s health.

As one of the first 300 certified functional medicine practitioners with the Institute for Functional Medicine (Ifm.org), Dr. Betty has been a thought leader and progressive force for the functional medicine movement since 2006.

Taking a Team Approach

Since December 2023, Dr. Betty hasn’t been taking new clients unless they see one of her other providers first. “We truly work as a team. The client sees my nurse practitioner first and then will see me after we get the labs back. Then the client will continue to work with my nurse practitioner and my coach, and I will oversee their treatment.” She may see the client one or two more times. Most of the time, however, they don’t need to see Dr. Betty, and they can continue to work with the coach after that first visit.
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A Woman on a Mission

I’m on a mission to radically change the health of Americans. I believe that medicine is in serious need of an overhaul. This new paradigm of medicine must be built on the foundation of functional medicine, which brings a biology systems-based approach that’s designed to uncover underlying causes, not just address symptoms.

Through her business ventures, Dr. Betty has developed disruptive innovations that deliver nutrition and lifestyle together with medical professionals to answer today’s most threatening health concerns:

Autoimmunity
Cancer

Cardiovascular disease
Diabetes

Digestive disorders
Obesity

The Founder of Living Well Dallas

Dr. Betty is the founder of Living Well Dallas Functional Medicine Center, a medical center that brings functional medicine-trained physicians, nutritionists, and health coaches together with counselors and mind-body services under one roof in a collaborative and integrative team.

The Living Well Dallas Functional Medicine Center is the flagship center founded in 2005 in North Dallas. Dr. Betty believes in offering incredible solutions for her clients and continues to further her own education in order to do exactly that. Dr. Betty’s certifications and coursework include:

Certified Holistic Health Coach – Institute of Integrative Nutrition (2004)
Certified Nutritionist – American Health Sciences University (2007)
Master of Human Nutrition Science – American Health Sciences University (2008)
Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner – Institute of Functional Medicine (2014)
Master of Integrative & Functional Nutrition – Saybrook University, California (2019)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Integrative & Functional Nutrition – Saybrook University, California (2024)

‘It’s Not All in Your Head’

“I think, as women, we’ve been disenfranchised by the medical community. Usually, we’re told it’s all in our heads because we have these pesky hormones. It’s not in your head!” Dr. Betty’s clients appreciate that she takes the time to listen to them and is never dismissive of their concerns. She loves to see women and all people get healthy and have things that weren’t working in their life change.

A Passion for Nutrition and Functional Medicine

Highly passionate about nutrition and functional medicine, Dr. Betty spends her free time devouring everything she can about them. “In the beginning, when you start learning, you say, ‘I need this diet today, or there’s a new diet.’ So, in the beginning you feel like you have to try everything on. Although there’s always a new diet, I have the perspective of all these years and tens of thousands of clients. What I’ve learned is that bio-individuality is 100% true, so what works for one person won’t work for the other.”

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Finding Out Why a Dietary Approach Isn’t Working

When you think of diet, you think of restrictions. Dr. Betty wants her clients to focus less on what they need to do to restrict their diet and more on how to make their diet more unique or more complex. “I like to focus on why some of the foods you eat or the things you’re doing—once you’ve cleaned up your diet—aren’t working for you.”

She’ll consider the following: Why aren’t you able to handle your environment, your foods, lifestyle, or other things? Is it a lack of tolerance that people’s bodies go through where we can no longer tolerate things we used to be able to tolerate? What is it about your body that is no longer working properly? And can we correct that problem?

My hope for clients isn’t that they become more restrictive but that they get clean and healthy and still enjoy food and life. You shouldn’t feel bad for three days because you ate Thanksgiving dinner!

In Her Spare Time

When she’s not at her practice, Dr. Betty enjoys spending time with her husband, who is a firefighter and paramedic in Dallas. She also loves to travel and listen to live music. An avid cyclist, Dr. Betty is also a thrill-seeker and would jump out of an airplane every day if she could! She loves different cultures and going on new adventures. She’s the proud mom of her four-legged children.

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