NAVIGATING MEDICAL RESEARCH, finding unbiased medical education and learning the skills to enable you to care for patients using the revolutionary principles emerging from that science is a difficult challenge whether you want to transform your practice, enhance your current knowledge base, or simply become more educated about treatments that more than half of your patients are seeking.
I humbly offer you some guideposts and resources that have helped me along the way. There are new opportunities for continuing medical education, new medical journals and new research emerging every day. Putting it all in context is difficult. This corner will be a continually growing area of knowledge for your reference and a place to see what is happening in the field. I hope these resources will provide some guidance as you incorporate changes in your medical practice and care for your patients with intelligence and compassion.
Functional Medicine Newsletter
Functional Medicine Testing: Redefining Disease
A FEW YEARS AGO, Jeffrey Bland quickly blurted out a sentence that speaks to the fundamental change happening in medicine today. “Functional medicine is a disruptive technology that will overthrow the tyranny of the diagnosis.” When I had dinner with Jeff a few weeks ago, he told me that at a recent conference of health... Read More
Paradigm Shift: The End of “Normal Science” in Medicine
WHAT FOLLOWS IS AN ARTICLE I wrote a few years ago that reviews the intellectual history of the pioneers in nutrition and the fathers of functional medicine. These revolutionary thinkers and scientists are responsible for re-framing our entire notion of nutrition and vitamin and mineral therapy away from its once limited use in the treatment... Read More
Why Functional Medicine?
OVER THE YEARS I HAVE SHARED with many of you my passion for an emerging health care model based on systems medicine – functional medicine — that can reduce the global burden of chronic disease, improve patient outcomes, create healthy communities, and avert an economic crisis from escalating health care costs. Welcome to my first e-newsletter created... Read More
