What do u know about functional medicine?

@samueltyler2 my functional doc is also an MD, but interested in the root causes of things, whereas GPs don’t care about that. A GP will give u prescriptions.

@Wiseacre No offense to you or your physician, it shouldn't matter if an MD, DO, MB, or whatever the formal letters for a medical degree, all physicians should try to find the ca=se of an illness and treat it. Some illnesses, unfortunately, have no therapy except to handle the symptoms.

@samueltyler2 yes, but they don’t have the time…treatment of symptoms is easier.

@Wiseacre i am not going to argue, it isn't the way I or my colleagues worked.

@samueltyler2 u’re in forensics, right? Didn’t u spend most of ur days in court? Here in Canada, patients only get a few minutes with the docs. So if there is no medical explanation for chronic symptoms, then u must find a functional doctor.

@Wiseacre no not at all. I spent most of my day taking care of patients, helping provide for public health. When I saw patients, i spent whatever time was needed. I made sure they knew enough about their illness that they were involved in their care, decisions about treatment plans, etc. as I said, I don't care what you call a physician, if they are fully trained in medicine and provide treatment appropriate for a condition, that is fine. But if someone offers to avoid standard, recognized therapy then I would cautiously ignore that advice.

Having said that, i was, still am, open to learn new therapies and theories, and if they are proven effective, sound and safe, then i incorporated them into my practice.

@samueltyler2 I have a book to recommend: OUTLIVE by Dr Peter Attia and his Medical 3.0. I think u’ll enjoy it.

@Wiseacre I will look into it. I have to admit to you though, i earned my MD in 1967, when medicine was a far different thing than now, much more art. I spent the last 36 years of practice as a boarded medical to oncologist, picking up the pieces of individuals who were subjected to a wide variety of unproven therapies and found themselves with far worse conditions then they had to begin with, often their diagnosis was far from what other practitioners stated.

Yes, it was very different. My partner was an MD and he told me all about that. He was old school, born in the 40s, and lucky for me, he taught me a lot about medicine, but he knew nothing about the new frontier of anti-aging medicine, which is exciting . @samueltyler2]

@Wiseacre my daughter worked on the same anti-cancer therapy as Attia when she was working at NCI. It is called tissue agnostics therapy. She also did telomere research in college.

@samueltyler2 wow, impressive..she is an MD also? Dr Elizabeth Blackburn got a Nobel prize for her research on telomeres.

@Wiseacre yes, she spent several years at NCI then at DC Children's before being recruited by the FDA.