In the functional medicine world, we are all about preventive care. But, there aren’t a ton of resources written on helpful testing – the sort to catch potential health conditions early or look deeper at the root cause of your symptoms. Be equipped with testing you can take to your doctor. With this approach, you’ll know if there are areas of your health you need to work on earlier rather than later.

Dr. Mark Hyman talks with Dr. Jeffrey Bland about Functional Medicine.

The A4M 2017 Congress was an opportunity for all the participants to learn about a wide variety of anti-aging topics from an incredible pool of experts.

The A4M World Congress offers an opportunity for practitioners and laypeople alike to become educated on the latest research and protocols for the health issues that are common place today. Review some of the topics and presenters from the 2016 conference and learn how you may participate in the 2017 A4M World Congress in December.

In this talk James Maskell explores what it would take to turn Guernsey into the healthiest country in the world by 2020, drawing from emerging research and his experience of working with doctors, coaches and technologists on the front lines of health creation.

The Evolution of Medicine provides step-by-step instruction for building a successful "community micropractice." This invaluable handbook will awaken health professionals to exciting new career possibilities.

Functional Medicine is gaining a place in the world of health because it gives an answer for chronic disease which has been lacking through conventional medicine. Learn about the ways that doctors can become educated to address medicine in a way that addresses the core of the disease and not simply the symptoms through the Functional Forum.

Personalized lifestyle medicine is a newly developed term that refers to an approach to medicine in which an individual's health metrics from point-of-care diagnostics are used to develop lifestyle medicine-oriented therapeutic strategies for improving individual health outcomes in managing chronic disease.

There are several kinds of approaches to natural health. The doctors who have the best results are ones who understand why the condition developed and understand the intricate biochemical reactions to it.

The Institute for Functional Medicine is an organization doing ground breaking work to bring integrative medicine into the doctor's office. The 17th Symposium focused on Confronting Cancer as a Chronic Disease: Primary Care Takes a 360 degree View. If you are looking to address cancer with an attitude of prevention, healing and repair then functional medicine is the avenue to follow.

Abram Hoffer (November 11, 1917 - May 27, 2009), was a Canadian psychiatrist known for his work with nutrition, schizophrenia, and cancer. He is considered to be the father of Orthomolecular Medicine.

There are many complex problems that took many decades to create and that will require a long-term national effort and effective leadership in public policy to alter. In this article by Dr. David S. Jones, Laurie Hofmann, and Sheila Quinn, IFM recognizes – and emphasizes – that not only must we change healthcare and medical education (the primary focus of this paper), but over the next decades we must also change the practices and priorities of our political, social, and economic structures to achieve fundamental change in the public's health.

In an effort to convey the intention of the lengthy white paper submitted by the Institute for Functional Medicine, the Foundation for Alternative and Integrative Medicine (FAIM) has produced the following summary.