What is Functional Medicine?
- Functional Medicine is personalized health care that treats the individual, not the disease.
- Functional Medicine is deeply science based.
- Your body is intelligent and expresses itself through a dynamic balance of all your body systems.
- Your body has the ability to heal and prevent nearly all the diseases of aging.
- Health is not just the absence of disease, but a state of immense vitality.
Institute of Functional Medicine
Website: http://www.ifm.org/
Suggested Reading List
Christopher Keroack, MD:
CHANGING DIRECTIONS
David Perlmutter MD:
GRAIN BRAIN
Datis Kharrazian DC:
WHY ISN’T MY BRAIN WORKING
Terry Wahls MD:
THE WAHLS PROTOCOL
Dr. Mark Hyman, MD & Dr Mark Liponis, MD:
ULTRA-PREVENTION
Dr. Jeffrey Bland:
THE DISEASE DELUSION
Gary Taubes:
GOOD CALORIES, BAD CALORIES
Dr. Mark Hyman, MD:
FOOD: WHAT THE HECK SHOULD I EAT?
Dr. George Watson:
NUTRITION AND YOUR MIND
Mark Lauren with Joshua Clark:
YOU ARE YOUR OWN GYM
Michael Roizen, MD & Mehmet Oz, MD:
YOU ON A DIET
Bill Phillips:
BODY FOR LIFE
Shawn Phillips:
STRENGTH FOR LIFE
Mark Verstegen:
CORE PERFORMANCE (Beginner) ESSENTIALS
Mark Verstegen:
CORE PERFORMANCE (Advanced)
Gordon Livingston, MD:
TOO SOON OLD TOO LATE SMART
Willard Harley, Jr:
HIS NEEDS, HER NEEDS
Dr. Emerson Eggrichs:
LOVE AND RESPECT
Gary Thomas:
SACRED MARRIAGE
Gary Thomas:
SACRED PARENTING
Julie Barnhill:
MOTHERHOOD The Guilt that keeps on giving
Julie Barnhill:
SHE’S GONNA BLOW Real Help for Mom’s Dealing with Anger
John Eldredge:
YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES What Every Father needs to know
Stu Weber:
FOUR PILLARS OF A MAN’S HEART
Gordon Dalbey:
HEALING THE MASCULINE SOUL
John Eldredge:
FATHERED BY GOD