Most people now
know about Functional Medicine testing as a means of investigating root causes of disease expression.
Most people
know about functional medicine, but functional neurology is like a personal trainer for your brain.
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know Dr. Hyman, he is a rock star in the health and nutrition world, leading the way for
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A leader in integrative and
functional medicine and member of the mbg Collective, Dr. Lipman wants you to
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know, something we're gonna talk
about today is
functional medicine is a specialty but we're breaking that down.
But when I learned
about functional medicine — which is an evidence - based high tech science driven approach to holistic
medicine — I fell in love, and
knew that there was no going back.
He taught me a lot
about evolutionary
medicine and nutrition in general, opened many doors and introduced me (directly and indirectly) to various players in this field, such as Dr. Boyd Eaton (one of the fathers of evolutionary nutrition), Maelán Fontes from Spain (a current research colleague and close friend), Alejandro Lucia (a Professor and a top researcher in exercise physiology from Spain, with whom I am collaborating), Ben Balzer from Australia (a physician and one of the best minds in evolutionary
medicine), Robb Wolf from the US (a biochemist and the best «biohackers I
know»), Óscar Picazo and Fernando Mata from Spain (close friends who are working with me at NutriScience), David Furman from Argentina (a top immunologist and expert in chronic inflammation working at Stanford University, with whom I am collaborating), Stephan Guyenet from the US (one of my main references in the obesity field), Lynda Frassetto and Anthony Sebastian (both nephrologists at the University of California San Francisco and experts in acid - base balance), Michael Crawford from the UK (a world renowned expert in DHA and Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, at the Imperial College London), Marcelo Rogero (a great researcher and Professor of Nutrigenomics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sérgio Veloso (a cell biologist from Portugal currently working with me, who has one of the best health blogs I
know), Filomena Trindade (a Portuguese physician based in the US who is an expert in
functional medicine), Remko Kuipers and Martine Luxwolda (both physicians from the Netherlands, who conducted field research on traditional populations in Tanzania), Gabriel de Carvalho (a pharmacist and renowned nutritionist from Brazil), Alex Vasquez (a physician from the US, who is an expert in
functional medicine and Rheumatology), Bodo Melnik (a Professor of Dermatology and expert in Molecular Biology from Germany, with whom I have published papers on milk and mTOR signaling), Johan Frostegård from Sweden (a rheumatologist and Professor at Karolinska Institutet, who has been a pioneer on establishing the role of the immune system in cardiovascular disease), Frits Muskiet (a biochemist and Professor of Pathophysiology from the Netherlands, who, thanks to his incredible encyclopedic knowledge and open - mind, continuously teaches me more than I could imagine and who I consider a mentor), and the Swedish researchers Staffan Lindeberg, Tommy Jönsson and Yvonne Granfeldt, who became close friends and mentors.
I always like asking people who've spent more than a decade working with
functional medicine and complementary
medicine because you have a menu of things that you
know about that's unusual even in complementary
medicine.
So we have like the big picture perspective, so people don't forget what the root causal things that can't be ignored are, and then we'll also talk
about you
know, palliative things we can do on top of just the — the
functional medicine principal stuff to get even better results.
maybe you've got all those symptoms, but wouldn't you rather test yourself first with these
functional medicine test that we're talking
about rather than building up your supplement graveyard even further and buying supplements that you've heard but you don't really
know if you need them?
So if you're having an issue, you're tweaking the diet, you're listening and you're applying all the things we're talking
about, the next step would be the
functional medicine component where we, you
know, look underneath those rocks and see what's there.
Telling people
about — MS, like you
know, there's a
functional allophatic
medicine doctors pretty famous in Iowa State, you
know, Terry Wahls
We
know so many people doing it right now, and you can see that
functional medicine is
about to hit the prime time, and it's an exciting time to be part of the industry.
Then it's like the next group of doctors, primarily care, family
medicine, that realize that something's wrong, maybe they're working in a hospital that has a McDonald's or Burger King in it, maybe they are just sick of seeing people getting sicker and sicker, and putting them on a treatment plan where there's literally no ends in sight, and having sort of a moment where they realize this is the kind of
medicine they want to practice, but they don't
know how to get there, let's bring those people across, let's get them set up with a
functional micropractice, and then phase 2 could be something like what you're talking
about.
What is
functional medicine, how is it different from regular
medicine, and why is it important to
know about when managing Hashimoto's hypothyroidism and high TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone)?
But when I learned
about functional medicine - which is an evidence - based high tech science driven approach to holistic
medicine - I fell in love, and
knew that there was no going back.
Finding myself multi-passionate
about food and cooking, positive psychology, lifestyle and behavior change, spirituality, entrepreneurship,
Functional Medicine, relationships and a creative mind that never stops, I
knew there was a lot I wanted to share with the world to help.