Ep. 061: Why Functional Medicine Works

Guest: Dr. Jeffrey Bland

Dr. Jeffrey Bland is the father of functional medicine.

He says, “We’re in a time of revolution. This transition into the 21st century with biomedicine and our understanding of the origin of health and disease is truly epicly changing.”

According to Dr. Bland, functional medicine reflects the coming together of western, complementary and alternative therapies. He says, “In the late '80s and early '90s we had integrated, complementary, alternative, holistic, Chinese and ayurvedic medicines and therapies. All of these were techniques or historical ways of treating patients but they lacked a kind of a coherency to link them to Western medicine, they lacked a mechanistic framework. Functional medicine is a systems biology approach to taking Western thinking and applying it to all these other disciplines.”