Functional Health & Fitness

This is to be a site where I can share my insights, education and advice regarding functional health and vitality. The traditional medical institution has let us down. In the early 20th century allopathic medicine excelled at treating infectious and surgical disease. The advent of antibiotics, public health initiatives like clean water rapidly improved the health of our population. The early advances in basic drugs for pain, anesthesia and infection were powerful. They were derived from natural sources and made huge impacts on our ability to treat and heal the body. Sadly though, the popularity due to that success led to a path of monetary greed and influence that has since corrupted the practice. Today it is not a healthcare system, it is a disease management and treatment system designed to profit from the “management” of disease, not the cure. Other large financial interests (food, media, electronics) all benefit financially from products that harm humans more than they help it seems.

There it a movement away from this. Many MD’s, DO’s, ND’s and others have developed a system of “functional medicine” focused on the avoidance of disease and treatment through diet and lifestyle primarily using drugs as a last resort. It is not just the pursuit of health, but of vitality and longevity.

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