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Food, Medicine, and Function: Food Is Medicine Part 1.
Mark Hyman1, Elizabeth Bradley2
1Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, 55 Pittsfield Road Suite 9, Lenox, MA 01240, USA.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America
|August 21, 2022
Summary
Food provides critical biological information, not just calories. Functional medicine uses personalized nutrition and lifestyle interventions to correct imbalances and promote health, unlike conventional medicine
Area of Science:
- Nutritional Science
- Functional Medicine
- Systems Biology
Background:
- The standard American diet is nutrient-deficient and promotes inflammation, leading to dysbiosis and metabolic dysfunction.
- Conventional medicine primarily treats diseases with pharmaceuticals rather than focusing on proactive health creation.
- Functional medicine views the body as an interconnected system to address root causes of illness.
Purpose of the Study:
- To highlight the informational role of food in health and disease.
- To contrast the approaches of conventional and functional medicine.
- To emphasize personalized nutrition and lifestyle interventions for restoring health.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of the impact of dietary components on biological systems.
- Comparison of functional medicine principles with conventional medical paradigms.
- Integration of diet, lifestyle, and nutrition for personalized health interventions.
Main Results:
- Food acts as complex biological information influencing health outcomes.
- The standard American diet contributes to chronic disease through inflammation and dysbiosis.
- Functional medicine offers a systems-based approach to identify and correct underlying imbalances.
Conclusions:
- Personalized dietary and lifestyle interventions are key to functional medicine's health-restoring approach.
- Addressing the informational content of food is crucial for preventing and managing chronic diseases.
- Functional medicine provides a framework for optimizing health by correcting root causes of dysfunction.
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