In this episode I look at Functional Medicine, a movement which started in the USA and is practised predominantly by non-medical practitioners but also increasingly medical doctors.
It comes under a lot of fire from doctors and I want to explore why this, including that is isn’t ‘medicine' and what the differences and similarities are between functional medicine and conventional allopathic medicine.
Links:
Intro to functional medicine by IFM: https://www.ifm.org/functional-medicine
A review of functional medicine by Jeffrey Bland: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9173848/
Methylation explained: https://www.healthline.com/health/methylation#takeaway
Methylation, a view from a functional medicine practitioner: https://www.drkarafitzgerald.com/2016/08/01/methylation-whats-fuss/
The British College of Functional Medicine: https://www.bc-fm.org/
Patient story from The Cleveland Clinic: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/patient-stories/196-functional-medicine-helps-woman-regain-her-life-after-44-years-of-chronic-pain
An allopathic doctors view: https://www.doctormather.com/blog/redflags
Limitations of Evidence Based Medicine: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735109716331370
Evidence Based Medicine: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/11/e067268
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