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Leopold David Galland (born March 7, 1943) [2] is a New York-based internist and author who specializes in undiagnosed or difficult-to-treat illnesses. [3] [4] [5] His practice combines conventional and alternative therapies. [1] [6] [7] Galland was awarded the Linus Pauling Award by the Institute for Functional Medicine in 2000. [8] [9]
Means dedicated her practice to functional medicine, which focuses on the root causes of disease. In 2019, she co-founded the digital health company Levels Health, which produces a continuous glucose monitor. [4] [5] Casey and Calley Means co-authored the 2024 book Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health. [6]
Mark Adam Hyman (born November 22, 1959) [1] is an American physician and author. [2] [3] [4] He is the founder and medical director of The UltraWellness Center. [5]Hyman was a regular contributor to the Katie Couric Show until the show's cancellation in 2013. [6]
Functional medicine was created by Jeffrey Bland, [8] who founded The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) in the early 1990s as part of one of his companies, HealthComm. [9] IFM, which promotes functional medicine, became a registered non-profit in 2001. [10] Mark Hyman became an IFM board member and prominent promoter. [8] [10]
The academy's co-founders include Klatz and Goldman, who are licensed osteopathic physicians and have Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degrees (D.O.). However, according to The New York Times, they also received M.D. degrees as doctors of medicine from a university in Belize in 1988, although the paper notes that they had not studied in Belize. [44]
Henry G. Bieler – American physician and author of Food is Your Best Medicine, known for diet-based healing and treatment of Hollywood celebrities. Ty Bollinger - Co-founder of The Truth About Cancer, promoter of ineffective cancer cures.
Julia Seton (1862–1950) - American physician, lecturer, New Thought writer; Frank Slaughter (1908–2001) - American bestseller author, wrote (Doctor's Wives) Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) - author; Benjamin Spock (1903–1988) - American pediatrician, wrote Baby and Child Care; Patrick Taylor - Canadian best-selling novelist
The terms alternative medicine, complementary medicine, integrative medicine, holistic medicine, natural medicine, unorthodox medicine, fringe medicine, unconventional medicine, and new age medicine are used interchangeably as having the same meaning and are almost synonymous in most contexts.