The Asian Lineage
The Asian roots of individualised medicine — and why the region that originated it is least likely to recognise it.
6 essays
- The Diabetes You Were Told to Manage
Type 2 diabetes can be put into remission for a definable group of people — what the evidence actually shows, and, just as importantly, where it stops
Evidence & MethodThe Asian LineageMetabolic HealthNutrition & Diet - What the Old Pharmacy Got Right
The traditional Asian pharmacopoeia was not ancient wisdom to be revered — it was a vast, unindexed library of molecules. The handful that became medicine did so only after modern chemistry isolated the compound and a trial tested it. The credit belongs to the molecule and the method, not the mysticism
Evidence & MethodThe Asian LineageSupplementsMetabolic Health - Why This Is the Future of Medicine
Why the resistance the previous article described is a rear-guard action — and the forces, scientific and demographic and economic, that are moving mainstream medicine toward the framework nutritional and functional medicine already practises.
Medicine & InstitutionsThe Asian Lineage - The History
And why the most contemporary-sounding category in medicine turns out to be one of the oldest ideas in it — formalised over eighty years, and rooted in a clinical principle far older than that.
Foundations of NFMThe Asian Lineage - Why Asia Has Not Heard of This
How the region that originated the clinical philosophy at the centre of this medicine became the region least likely to recognise it — and the regulatory trap that keeps it that way.
Medicine & InstitutionsThe Asian Lineage - 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
Foundations of NFMMedicine & InstitutionsThe Asian Lineage