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What is Evidence-Based Medicine? Defined, evidence-based medicine is the cumulative result of a synthesis of clinical expertise, patient’s values and the best scientific evidence we have available relative to that patient’s care. Evidence-based medicine (EBM) originated in the second half of the 19th century and represents the conscientious use of the best evidence available in…

Functional Endocrinology Functional endocrinology is different from allopathic or Western Medicine endocrinology primarily in the way it assesses and evaluates endocrinological dysfunction of the body related to hormones. The focus in functional endocrinology is on assessing the hormonal changes that are occurring at the time of symptom onset rather than waiting for the organs to…

Biochemical Individuality in Functional Health Functional health focuses on global health by emphasizing the personalized and systems-oriented approach found in the functional health matrix. At the heart of this is the consideration of everyone as a “biochemically individual” patient. Just what does this mean? Definition of “Biochemical Individuality” This term represents a concept that the…

Clinical Nutrition in Functional Health Clinical nutrition used within the contextual framework of Functional Health (FH) is similar in structure, but not theory, to Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) practiced by Registered Dietitians as commissioned by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND). The difference lies in the theory and how the framework is applied to…

The Importance of Therapy Individualization Many of you have been in health clinics where you must “take a number” and be seated. Well, sometimes that’s what it feels like when you visit your MD. You go into the clinic room and wait for the doctor who spends all of ten minutes with you and that…

Using Functional Health to Heal Disease First, we need to define the disease. What do most of us think of when we think of disease? Most of us can gain an intuitive idea of examples like cancer, diabetes or even tuberculosis. What represents a disease can even change over time. Osteoporosis once thought of as…