Deep dive: Personalization as the Future of Functional Medicine
Modern medicine has long been structured on a “one-size-fits-all” model, grounded in population averages and standardized protocols. While such an approach has been effective in acute care and public health, it falters in the context of chronic disease, where inter-individual variation in genetics, environment, and behavior profoundly shapes outcomes. Functional medicine advances a personalized paradigm, […]
The Future of Healthcare: Personalization and Prevention in Functional Medicine
Why Healthcare Is Changing For most of the past 100 years, modern medicine has focused on fighting disease after it shows up. If you get an infection, you’re given an antibiotic. If you have a broken bone, you get surgery or a cast. This approach has saved millions of lives. But when it comes to chronic […]
Why Functional Medicine Has a Different Purpose: The Teleology of Health
When most people think about medicine, they think about fixing what’s broken: lowering blood pressure, shrinking a tumor, killing a bacteria. Traditional medicine is excellent at crisis response. But what if the real goal of medicine is not simply to remove disease, but to restore your body’s ability to thrive? This is where functional medicine […]