Soil to Soul Living
Michelle Seguin MD
Dr. Seguin is a physician, educator, gardener, and writer. She believes in a lifestyle-driven approach to health that focuses on supporting the individual, family, and community. Much of her advocacy and teaching are centered on the premise that food is medicine. She encourages local & seasonal eating, a colorful & diverse variety of plants, homecooking, and traditional foodways as means to a healthful, fulfilling life.
Dr. Seguin received her medical degree from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and completed her residency at the Marquette Family Medicine Residency Program. After residency, she practiced rural family medicine for five years and implemented a produce prescription program in Upper Michigan, which sparked her passion for lifestyle and functional medicine. She led various community nutrition and food access programs in her role as director of community health at the Portage Health Foundation in Hancock, Michigan, from 2019 to 2022.
Dr. Seguin is a board certified family medicine, lifestyle medicine, and certified functional medicine physician (IFMCP). Her speaking, writing, and teaching interests include topics related to: food as medicine, culinary medicine, lifestyle medicine, functional medicine, and nature as medicine.
Her clinical expertise includes: Women’s health, PCOS, gut health, metabolic health, and personalized lifestyle medicine.
Do you want to work with Dr. Seguin?
Dr. Seguin offers telemedicine only consults through Root Functional Medicine.
She is licensed in: MI, CA, CT, DE, FL, GA, IN, LA, MA, ME, MN, MO, MS, NC, NJ, NH, NM, NY, OR, PA, RI, SC, TX, VA, VT, WV, WI
Education & Training
Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians (FAAFP)
Diplomate of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine (DipABLM)
Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner with the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFMCP)
Residency: Marquette Family Medicine Residency Program
Doctor of Medicine: Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
B.S. Biological Sciences: Michigan Technological University
Faculty Appointments
Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept. of Family Medicine, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine (Past)
Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept. of Family Medicine, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University (Past)
Memberships
American Academy of Family Physicians
Michigan Academy of Family Physicians
Institute for Functional Medicine
American College of Lifestyle Medicine
Awards
Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians (FAAFP), 2021.
Provost Recognition for Teaching Excellence, 2016, Michigan Technological University.
Resident of the Year, 2014, Marquette Family Medicine Residency Program.
Resident Teaching Award, 2014, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
Resident Teaching Award, 2014, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.
Chief Resident, 2013-2014, Marquette Family Medicine Residency Program.
Faculty Recognition of Outstanding Resident of the Year, 2012, Marquette Family Medicine Residency Program.
