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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]
Hyman is one of the most prominent proponents of functional medicine, [8] a controversial form of alternative medicine; [9] [10] there is no definitive clinical evidence of its effectiveness. [23] He is a contributing editor to the journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine and was editor-in-chief until 2008. [24] [25]
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 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.
Kimball C. Atwood IV writes, in the journal Medscape General Medicine, [8] Naturopathic physicians now claim to be primary care physicians proficient in the practice of both "conventional" and "natural" medicine. Their training, however, amounts to a small fraction of that of medical doctors who practice primary care.
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:
[2] [3] Upon establishment, the board first issued licenses for physicians; it expanded to osteopaths in 1901. [4] It had responsibility for chiropractic until 1981 and for podiatry until 1993; [4] those areas are now governed by the Board of Chiropractic Examiners [5] and the Podiatric Medicine Board, [6] respectively.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 November 2024. American medical doctor and scientist Robert P. Lanza Lanza in 2009 Born Robert Lanza (1956-02-11) 11 February 1956 (age 69) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Nationality American Alma mater University of Pennsylvania Known for Stem cell biology, cloning, tissue engineering, biocentric ...