Heading into a new year, we all want to stay as healthy as possible — and some doctors believe that identifying and eliminating the issues that cause disease are critical actions to take, as opposed ...

"Alternative Medicine" is something of a misnomer for a field that includes healthcare professionals like Dr. Jason Shumard. A Doctor of Chiropractic who specializes in Functional Medicine, the core ...

Generally speaking, it’s usually a win when things are functional. Functional fitness, for example, focuses on movement ...

Mention the words "Botox" or "filler," and the image conjured in the mind's eye of many is still one of overfilled duck lips, a frozen, expressionless face, or puffed-up pillow cheeks—the artificial ...

Integrative medicine blends conventional and complementary care, while functional medicine seeks to identify root causes of symptoms first and restore the function of the different body systems. When ...

An alternative healthcare provider with a massive social media following, Will Cole sells wellness and scary-sounding pseudo-diseases. His empire, like other functional medicine hucksters, sells ...

Dr. Mark Hyman, a “functional medicine” proponent and longtime friend of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is finding powerful allies in his bid to treat disease with blood tests and supplements. By Brendan ...

When we think of traditional medicine, we often picture visits to the doctor’s office, prescriptions for medications, and treatments focused solely on the symptoms of our ailments. While these methods ...

Functional and integrative medicine are closely related. Both approaches take a broad view of the factors that can affect a person’s health and focus on addressing them in treatment. The terms ...