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Functional medicine is the science of creating health ❤️

Functional medicine is the science of creating health, as opposed to the science of treating disease. To fix our broken healthcare system, we need a total rethink. More in #CuraLink @CuraFdn: bit.ly/CURALINK

Thanks Mark Hyman, MD Robert Lustig for your invaluable contributions to Healthcare swimming against the 5P forces of our modern healthcare to educate consumers and treat the cause NOT symptom so one can “create their own Health”. As consumers of modern world in 21st century, we know what we want and know how to prioritize our wants and need with goods and services… but often we DONT know the same in buying, procuring, choosing Healthcare products and services not to mention that we have no clue of good food, nutrition, and what heals and harms us. To maintaining our good health Patients asks their doctor what is good for them genuinely but often treated with “Medicine Centric” (hit them with all known Rx to treat symptom not the cause), or “Doctor Centric” (throw all actions of their experience - been there …seen that …take this treatment)… The functional medicine and integrative medicine on the other hand is “Patient Centric” (often referenced by Danny Sands, MD, MPH as Participatory Medicine)…

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