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Will You Be the Next Diabetes Case?

Earlier this year I kept hearing a well known doc in the functional medicine space proclaiming that half of Americans were diabetic or pre-diabetic. I’ll be straight with you – at first I thought it was an exaggerated claim made by skewing the research. Then I heard it again from someone else that I perceive …

Parkinson’s Disease is Rooted in Environmental Pollution

In taking a class in Functional Medicine this fall, I was stunned to discover the following: [Tweet “Parkinson’s Disease is believed to be a disease of predominantly environmental origin.”] Twin studies have demonstrated that environmental factors are the most important cause for Parkinson’s disease (Wirdefeldt et al., 2008). Pesticide and heavy metal exposure are commonly cited …