Essays

What Nutritional and Functional Medicine Actually Is

And why the category most people have heard of bears only partial resemblance to the clinical practice that bears its name

There is a category of medicine that has been growing globally for the past four decades, that has accumulated significant clinical literature, that operates within mainstream institutions like the Cleveland Clinic and Weill Cornell Medicine, that has trained tens of thousands of physicians worldwide, and that most patients have never heard described in a way that lets them understand what it actually is.