Caroline de Braganza
Nov 6 · 1 min read

I agree one-hundred percent. I’m pleased to see that more doctors in the US are now practicing Functional Medicine — treating the person and not the disease. I first discovered this through Dr Mark Hyman’s first Broken Brain series early last year.

Rather than try to rewrite what he said in his latest newsletter I’m just gonna paste it below.

Thanks for spreading the word!

“That’s because Functional Medicine looks at the body with a systems-based approach, understanding how all our different parts work together and looking at a symptom as a sign of dysfunction that we need to get to the root cause of, not just tame. And this method works! In fact, the Journal of American Medical Association — JAMA Network Open just published the first-ever retrospective cohort study of the Functional Medicine model from the Center for Functional Medicine at Cleveland Clinic.”

“In this cohort study, Functional Medicine patients exhibited significantly larger improvements in patient-reported quality of life outcomes at 6 months, remaining through to 12 months, than propensity-matched patients at a family health center. Functional Medicine patients’ results were also less likely to decrease over time. While this is the first study of this kind, it suggests that Functional Medicine may have the ability to improve global health in patients (something I’m a big believer in).”

Caroline de Braganza

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Wise Old Woman (WOW). Mixing heart, spirit, mind and emotional health — the Stew of Life. Forever curious. Young at heart, but a little creaky in other places.

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