functional medicine

Dan Stock, a functional medicine practitioner from outside Indianapolis, rocketed to pseudoscientific stardom in August with a rant he delivered against masks and vaccines at a meeting of a local school board.

Health and wellness professionals, ranging in titles from physicians to naturopathic physicians, functional medicine health coaches to holistic nutritionists, come together on a single platform.

To be sure, Functional Medicine or related fields like Lifestyle Medicine may not have all the answers.

Mark Hyman, MD, best-selling author, and current chair of the Institute of Functional Medicine, sees it as anything but quackery.

Critics of Functional Medicine claim that they too are interested in curing, not palliating disease.