Functional Medicine

Here are the hormonal "best in class." Vanguards of new paradigm medicine, they aim to repair and prevent rather than to postpone the inevitable or mask symptoms with the latest antidepressant.

The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn't working. Not only does this hyper-focused approach to medicine dehumanize patients, it also ratchets up health care costs.

One of every two of you have a deadly disease that's making you sick and will kill you, and 90 percent of you don't even know you have it.

Modern medicine has brought us many wonderful advances but what about the art of medicine?

In a world where the default position seems to about making the unhealthy choice -- whether that’s eating poorly, avoiding exercise, holding onto st...

Although we talk about "health care" reform, what we're actually talking about is "disease care reform." Doctors of western medicine are trained to treat disease -- they are not trained to keep people healthy.

If we don't change why we are unhealthy, not only are we unlikely to secure better medical outcomes, but it will probably bankrupt us too.

After finishing my Internship at Baragwaneth Hospital in South Africa almost 30 years ago, I went to apprentice in a busy General Practice in Johannes...

After 30 years of practicing Medicine, I have learned that for any chronic illness or ailment, treating underlying imbalances and dysfunctions is more...

Here's some depressing recent medical news: Antidepressants don't work. Yet the pharmaceutical industry and FDA have deliberately deceived us into believing that they DO work.

We must not only change who is covered but also what is covered to include personalized lifestyle medicine if we are to make current treatments more effective and less costly.

Years ago, the term "detoxification" was often only applied to a program for those with a drug or alcohol abuse issue, but today there are much broader and more significant applications of this concept in health care.

We see prominent ads on television and in medical journals -- things like 36% reduction in risk of having a heart attack. But we don't look at the fine print. What does that REALLY mean and how does it affect decisions about who should really be using these drugs.

I have come to recognize that there are three therapies that stand above others in helping to reduce the burden of many chronic illnesses.

Finding out whether or not you are suffering from hidden inflammation is critical, because almost every modern disease is caused or affected by it. If your immune system and its ability to quell inflammation in your body are impaired, watch out. You are headed toward illness and premature aging.

We need to wake up to the obvious: the solution is already here, and it rests on prevention, not invention.

Most people don't know how poorly they feel until they feel better. In fact, most of us don't recognize that fatigue, digestive problems, aches and pains, allergies, headaches, and more aren't just annoying symptoms.

We are facing a watershed moment in the history of medicine, one where changing the very way we understand and treat disease is finally possible.