Functional medicine
TopicHeard in 1 episode across 1 show since Sep 2026
Functional medicine is a form of alternative medicine that focuses on identifying and addressing the root causes of disease, often emphasizing nutrition, lifestyle, and environmental factors. Created in the 1990s by Jeffrey Bland, who founded the Institute for Functional Medicine, the practice is widely characterized by the mainstream medical community as pseudoscientific and lacking biological plausibility.
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Functional medicine treats the body as an interconnected system.
“functional medicine is a framework for understanding the body as a network, not as a bunch of organs and parts, but actually as a cohesive system”
Open the episode · Dr. Mark Hyman on Function Health & GLP-1 microdosing | E2334Listen at 5:37
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