Textbook of Functional Medicine - Hardcover

Sidney MacDonald Baker; Peter Bennett; Jeffrey S. Bland; Leo Galland; Robert J. Hedaya; Mark Houston; Mark Hyman; Jay Lombard; Robert Rountree; Alex Vasquez

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0977371301 ISBN 13: 9780977371303

Publisher: Institute for Functional Medicine, 2005

Synopsis

The Ideal Text for Understanding Functional Medicine
Clinicians who have chosen to focus on the management of complex, chronic disease and primary preventive care have not chosen an easy path. This book creates a new road map for improving patient outcomes across a wide range of chronic health conditions. It includes 37 chapters authored by experts from many disciplines whose knowledge has never before been integrated in a single text. The approaches to disease management and prevention described here represent the evolution of the functional medicine model over more than 20 years, through the voices of leading clinicians and scientists.

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Discover What Makes This Outstanding Text Indispensable to Practitioners in the Health Professions

• The healthcare system needs to substantially improve the management of complex, chronic disease and the health of an aging population in the 21st century. The Textbook of Functional Medicine provides a model of care that helps us achieve that goal. In addition, the book outlines a rigorous architecture for embracing available scientific breakthroughs so that powerful tools in systems biology can be brought to bear on improving both disease prevention and treatment outcomes (Section I).
• The scientific principles, building blocks, and fundamental physiological processes for "comprehensive patient evaluation" are carefully clarified (Sections II through IV).
• An exploration of the fundamental clinical imbalances that underlie complex, chronic disease (Section V) precedes a wide-ranging discussion on practical clinical approaches for improving patient management (Section VI).
• The practical application of the functional medicine methodologies is presented in the context of important patient care issues commonly experienced today (Section VII).

Edition details

• Publisher: Institute for Functional Medicine
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0977371301
• ISBN 13: 9780977371303
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 820