Live from the Institute for Functional Medicine Annual International Conference 2019
June 3, 2019
Defining evidence-based functional medicine
Heath is personal, and medicine is evolving to become more individualized through advances in medicine and in technology. While this concept of precision medicine aims to incorporate individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle, the emphasis is currently on profiling risk, according to a 2017 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The future of evidence-based precision medicine in the age of genomic diversity, said Jeffrey Bland, PhD, said, moves beyond population risk to understanding individual functional uniqueness. There is less emphasis on risk, and more emphasis on opportunity, he said.
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