12: Jeffrey Bland PhD: Assessing the Body via the Functional Medicine Framework and Your Detoxification System

The Quantified Body

Functional medicine is a framework for tackling health issues and an approach to optimizing health that contrasts sharply with today's "standard of care" medicine model. In this episode we look at assessing the body via the functional medicine framework and your detoxification system. Where "standard of care" excels at dealing with acute health crises, like car accidents injuries and deadly pathogens and infections, functional medicine has grown to tackle primarily chronic health issues. The argument for a future where we turn increasingly to functional medicine is that: where traditional medicine seeks to manage disease (e.g. pharmaceutical therapy or surgery), functional medicine ...