Here's a 19-minute Mark Hyman TEDMED video on Functional Medicine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhkLcpJTV9M
From yee Wiki:
Functional medicine is a form of Western alternative medicine unrelated to the Western biomedical approaches.
It focuses on treating individuals who may have bodily symptoms, imbalances and dysfunctions. Functional medicine seeks to identify and address the root causes of disease, and views the body as one integrated system, not a collection of independent organs divided up by medical specialties.
Functional medicine practitioners provide chronic care management with the belief that "diet, nutrition, and exposure to environmental toxins play central roles in functional medicine because they may predispose to illness, provoke symptoms, and modulate the activity of biochemical mediators through a complex and diverse set of mechanisms."
It was developed and originated by Dr. Helmut W. Schimmel.
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