Foundations of NFM
What this medicine actually is, and where it comes from.
4 essays
- Normal Is Not the Same as Optimal
A lab report that says 'normal' is describing a crowd, not you — but 'optimal ranges' is also the exact phrase used to declare healthy people sick. How to tell the few places your normal genuinely is not good enough from the many where 'optimal' is being invented to sell you something
Foundations of NFMEvidence & MethodMetabolic Health - Healthspan, Not Lifespan
Aging is a genuinely modifiable process — but the interventions with real human evidence are unglamorous, and almost everything sold as 'anti-aging' rests on mouse data, a surrogate marker, or nothing. The whole discipline is knowing the difference
Foundations of NFMEvidence & MethodMetabolic HealthLongevity - 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 - 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