What Is Functional Medicine?

Functional medicine is a science-based health medicine and belongs to the field of preventive medicine. Its application is based on the unique combination of human genes, environment, diet, lifestyle, mind, etc. as an indicator of treatment, rather than just treating the symptoms of disease.

Functional medicine

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Functional medicine is science-based

1 ) Investigation and understanding: understand personal health information by questionnaire, including gender, age, occupation, marriage smoke and family status, family medical history, lifestyle, dietary habits, recent self-discomfort, etc.

2 ) Inspection analysis: Pass

Traditional medical examination ( seeking a doctor )

What is it?

Find out the single cause of the disease

Identify different illnesses separately

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The social practice of mankind in preventing and curing diseases and protecting health has a history of thousands of years in ancient civilizations. People have accumulated rich experience in long-term medical practice, and a systematic summary of these experiences forms medicine. In the medical field, first, scientific observation and experiments have enabled people to have a more correct understanding of the structure and function of the human body. Then clinical observation combined with the patient's autopsy and observation, and the understanding of disease has been placed on the basis of human pathology. Since then, medicine has entered a scientific era.

In modern society, the pace of life and work is constantly accelerating, and various contradictions and pressures have brought more and more heavy mental loads to modern people. Studies have shown that many diseases are related to maladaptive behaviors, which has led to a broader field of vision-behavioral medicine.

Since the middle of the 20th century, the brilliant achievements of biomedicine have attracted the attention of society. In medical education, biomedicine occupies the main academic hours, resulting in a new generation of doctors' relative neglect and ignorance in psychological, behavioral and social aspects. The clinical training is too professional and technical, and the patient becomes a machine to be repaired in the eyes of the doctor. In the hospital, patients rotate between departments like a workpiece on a factory conveyor. Doctors rely solely on laboratory tests and special examinations in diagnosis, and only consider within the scope of personal expertise in the treatment.

The theoretical basis of medical development has always been based on linear causality. People get sick because of "disease". This idea has long been the central idea of mainstream medicine. In fact, although medicine has adopted many scientific tools and rules, it does not belong to the scientific field as people think. Not every medical act can be confirmed in a purely scientific way. The current medical model often relies on statistics to make decisions, such as the success rate of surgery, the success of treatment, the effects and side effects of medicines, but every patient that doctors face when practicing medicine is a unique individual life , Not the so-called "average individual", not to mention a bunch of numbers.

In fact, everyone is not the same from physique to environment, from diet to lifestyle. When encountering health problems, it may be a certain disease with different manifestations, rather than various diseases with different manifestations. The four different manifestations of the so-called "metabolic syndrome" are hidden behind improper diet and nutritional imbalances. , Chronic inflammation, oxidative damage, environmental toxins, and personal stress. This is why understanding the cause of the disease is more important than knowing the name of the disease. The current medicine is not centered on "people" but "disease". It ignores "complex theories" and cannot face the "principle of uncertainty".

Medical statistics show that with the prosperity of society, the improvement of public health, and the continuous emergence of vaccines and anti-infective drugs, the proportion of infectious diseases has fallen sharply, and coronary heart disease, cancer, stroke and trauma have become the leading causes of death. These diseases are closely related to personal lifestyle. For example, high-cholesterol diets have been shown to be highly correlated with atherosclerosis, smoking and lung cancer, alcohol consumption, and traffic accidents and violent injuries. Correcting these behaviors has become a topic to be addressed by behavioral medicine.

In 1974, Alan Dever proposed the epidemiological model of chronic diseases, and found four factors that affect people's health: life style (48%), biogenetic factors (26%), environment (15%), and health. Management system (accounting for 11%).

The development of modern medicine has indeed made considerable progress in the areas of infectious diseases, emergency treatment, and disease diagnosis, which has resulted in a significant increase in the average life expectancy of humans. However, there has been no more significant progress in the treatment and prevention of chronic and degenerative diseases (ie, degeneration or aging). The reason is because: modern medicine is "waiting medicine"-it is necessary to wait for the body to produce organic lesions in order to meet the diagnostic criteria of the disease before it can be treated; modern medicine is "antagonism medicine" and advocates that different diseases are caused by Caused by different bacterial infections. The confrontational therapy advocated by modern medicine has indeed successfully saved countless human lives, and infectious diseases have also been removed from the list of the top ten causes of death in countries around the world. However, although drugs can kill bacteria, they really cannot support human cells to metabolize and provide the substances needed for cell repair.

In 1975, the U.S. Senate established the "Special Committee on Nutrition", which focused on the elites in various fields of human biological sciences throughout the United States to thoroughly investigate and discuss "nutrition and essential substances for humans". The scope of its research covers nutrition issues worldwide. In the US Senate's investigation report, "Ortho Molecular Medicine" was specifically mentioned, which attracted the attention of the global medical community. Its report pointed out that modern chronic diseases are actually diseases with abnormal cell metabolism, which are caused by metabolic imbalance of nutrition. This kind of imbalance cannot be treated by coping with cells, because it is a disease caused by qualitative changes in the body. In the past, nutritional problems were mainly due to insufficient calories, and now the problem of diseases is entirely due to uneven or poor nutrition. In the past, the link between diet and disease was completely ignored.

The theory of "molecular corrective medicine" was published by the famous American quantum chemist Linus Carl Pauling (English: Linus Carl Pauling) for the first time in 1968 on the subject of "Ortho Molecule Corrective Medicine (Ortho Molecule)" In the new direction of treatment, he believes that most of the diseases will be eradicated by giving the body the right molecules (that is, the right amount of oxygen, water and nutrients).

The so-called "molecular corrective medicine" is based on the health of human "body" and "mind". It is a comprehensive study of various related sciences in human biology to thoroughly understand the "molecular" state and genetic genes that make up human cells And cell activities to analyze the four major physical elements of the human body's basic needs: nutrition, soul, oxygen and water, understand each other's interactions and complementary relationships, and then properly arrange, arrange, and fully supply human use, so that the human body has A sound and constant ecological chain promotes normal cell molecules, smooth metabolism, good blood tissue and circulation, stable potential consciousness and mood, and thus forms a natural healing power.

Treatment using this medical theory is called "molecular correction therapy." That is, to prevent cytopathy, we must start by improving cell nutrition, that is, we must do a good job of removing, conditioning and supplementing nutritional molecules.

In 1992, Dr. Goldman and Dr. Collez founded the anti-aging medical discipline in the United States, and established the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medical Sciences to carry out qualification certification for practitioners. This is the origin of health medicine. Functional medicine is a clinical course run by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medical Sciences for qualified doctors and health clinical practitioners. Functional medicine has not formed a medical system and training certification in the United States and other regions.

Whereas molecular correction medicine studies human organ function, it is also called organ functional medicine, or functional medicine for short. Development of Functional Medicine in China

Genova Diagnostics (USA), Metamertix Clinical Laboratory (USA), and Hanshi Institute of Functional Medicine (Taiwan) have vigorously promoted functional medicine in China, and carried out a large number of preliminary clinical and research work.