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Functional medicine (FM) is a form of alternative medicine that encompasses a number of unproven and disproven methods and treatments. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It has been described as pseudoscience, [ 4 ] quackery , [ 5 ] and at its essence a rebranding of complementary and alternative medicine. [ 5 ]
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For example, the United States National Institutes of Health department studying alternative medicine, currently named the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), was established as the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) and was renamed the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) before ...
Alternative medicine is a term often used to describe medical practices where are untested or untestable.Complementary medicine (CM), complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), integrated medicine or integrative medicine (IM), functional medicine, and holistic medicine are among many rebrandings of the same phenomenon.
Biologically based therapies is the precise name of a NCCIH classification for alternative treatments that use substances found in nature, such as: . botanicals; animal-derived extracts
Functional disorders are common and complex phenomena that pose challenges to medical systems. Traditionally in medicine, the body is thought of as consisting of different organ systems, but it is less well understood how the systems interconnect or communicate [citation needed]. Functional disorders can affect the interplay of several organ ...
Functional medicine is a form of alternative medicine that encompasses a number of unproven and disproven methods and treatments. [ 224 ] [ 225 ] [ 226 ] Its proponents claim that it focuses on the "root causes" of diseases based on interactions between the environment and the gastrointestinal, endocrine and immune systems to develop ...
This is a list of people in alternative medicine who are notable for developing, founding, inventing, promoting, practicing, marketing, commentating or researching on alternative medicine. Contents: