Functional Medicine: An Operating System for Integrative Medicine

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Jeffrey Bland

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4712869/

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December 18, 2023

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October 27, 2025

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I have been a student of and advocate for molecular medicine the past 40 years.

I came to better understand how molecular medicine fits together with what was emerging to be called integrative medicine. (View Highlight)

At first it seemed as if these 2 models were mutually exclusive, with molecular medicine being seen as mechanistic and reductionist in its formalism, and integrative medicine being more experientially and culturally rooted in observation (View Highlight)

This model takes medicine from a disease-centric focus to that of a systems biology-centric focus. The challenge is to develop an operating system for medicine that is robust enough to incorporate the complexity of the human biological system that derives out of the interaction of a person’s genome with their environment (View Highlight)