The Disease Delusion: Conquering the Causes of Chronic Illness for a Healthier, Longer, and Happier Life

7. Structure.

But functional medicine isn’t concerned solely with health problems; it isn’t looking at the connection between your outside world and your inside physiology just to rid your body of its health problem. Rather, its systems approach is a way of finding the proper match between your genetic uniqueness and your environment, lifestyle, and behavior so

Using the systems approach, functional medicine practitioners don’t stop looking if they can’t find a specific defective organ that can be “repaired” through acute care. They keep on going, exploring the entire physiological network to find the place or places where genetic expression has been altered by environmental factors. What they are looking

3. Defense.

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL CORE: WHEN AN IMBALANCE OCCURS There are seven core physiological processes that affect all of the body’s organ systems, and imbalances can occur in any and all of them. These imbalances are the source—the origin—of most chronic illness. They are at the heart of our being sick.

4. Cellular Communications.

What happens as a result? One outcome is that the disease or diseases will continue to progress over time. As this happens, the symptoms become more severe and more medications are required to alleviate them. In effect, these patients become lifetime consumers of medications that were expressly designed—and approved by regulators—to be used for a l

2. Detoxification.

did your last annual checkup include an electrocardiogram: an EKG? If so, that display of your heartbeat provides a good check for the presence of heart disease. But it is possible to have a normal heartbeat as recorded in an EKG, get a clean bill of heart health from your doctor, and suffer a heart attack on the way out of the doctor’s office. It