Reader Peter used the website's "Contact Me" on September 21, 2020 to inquire: Hello Professor Lin: I have benefited a lot from browsing many of your articles, which has given me a new understanding of multi-business operations and aca...
Reader Peter used the website's "Contact Me" on September 21, 2020 to inquire:
Hello Professor Lin: I have benefited a lot from browsing many of your articles, which has given me a new understanding of multi-business operations and academic views. The vitamin part has been greatly impacted in my concepts. In the past, my concept of supplementing vitamins was derived from the promotion of "functional medicine" and I also bought many products on IHerb. Therefore, I would like to ask the professor's view on "functional medicine". Thank you.First of all, when you hear "Functional Medicine", do you feel a sense of respect? But, unfortunately, there is no such department in regular medicine since then.
Wallace Sampson, a famous clinical medicine professor at Stanford University, published two articles in doubt "Functional Medicine" in 2008 and 2009. The title of that 2008 article is What is functional medicine? An indecipherable babble and descriptive word salad (What is functional medicine? A nonsense and descriptive text salad that cannot be interpreted). The title of that article in 2009 was Functional Medicine (FM) What Is It? (Functional Medicine, what is it?).
I translated the first paragraph of that article in 2009 as follows: What is "Functional Medicine"? After extensive searches and checks, my answer is still – only the creator of "Functional Medicine" knows. Or, at least, it must be assumed that they know, because as far as I know, I certainly can't see anything that separates Functional Medicine from other descriptions about sectarianism and Supplementary/Alternative Medicine. Advocates may differ because their hypothesis is to discover physical chemistry or physiological Imbalance before adopting one or more uncertified methods or substances. According to my judgment, "Imbalance" or dysfunction is usually hypothetical or at least provocative. Moreover, the definition of the principle is so poor that many unverified methods are adopted from the operators.
Come again, please pay attention to the reader Peter's "In the past, my concept of vitamin replenishing is derived from the promotion of "functional medicine" and has also bought a lot of products on IHerb."
is correct, the so-called "Functional Medicine" is inseparable from vitamins and various health care products. In fact, when you open the "Functional Medicine" page of "Chang'an Neurology Medical Center", you will immediately see 7 cans of health care products of all sizes (please see the illustration above). So, to be honest, "Functional Medicine" is "Health Products Marketing".
To put it slightly complexly, "Functional Medicine" contains two parts. Part of it is asking you to do various tests, and then you will tell you that you have this disease, which disease (such as three highs), or lack this, or less (such as vitamin D), so you need to buy their health products to prevent this disease, treat that disease, or compensate for this deficiency, or prevent that inadequate.
is actually both ridiculous and sad. Functional Medicine is invented by Jeffrey Bland, PhD in chemistry in 1991. He first founded a company called HealthComm in 1985, and then in 1991 he set up the Institute for Functional Medicine in this company.
Just like this, a business term created with full imagination was later sought after (praising) by a large number of people, including a large number of doctors, as a real doctor who can save the world.
In 2000, HealthComm merged with a company called Metagenics, and Jeffrey Bland became Metagenics' chairman and Chief Science Officer.
If you have sharp eyes, you should see Metagenics in the illustration above. That's right, those cans of health care products are Metagenics' products.
HealthComm and Metagenics have been investigated and punished by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC, Federal Trade Commission) and FDA (Domestic Food and Drug Administration) on many occasions.. Please see
1991
FTC Says Forget About Miracle Diet, Over-The-Counter Skin Cream
FTC FILES SUIT OVER `DECEPTIVE’ ADS (FTC filed a lawsuit against fraud ads)
1995
Defendants in a previous FTC lawsuit agree to pay $45,000 civil penalty to settle charges (the defendant in the previous Federal Trade Commission case agreed to pay $45,000 in civil penalty to resolve the charges)
1997
Metagenics and FTC Settle Deceptive Advertising Charges (Metagenetics and Federal Trade Commission to resolve fraud ads)
2003
FDA Warning Letter to Metagenics (Warning Letter to Metagenics from the Food and Drug Administration)
FDA Warning Letter to Metagenics (Warning Letter to Metagenics from the Food and Drug Administration)
FDA warning letter disallows 14 Metagenics products as medical foods (Warning Letter from the Food and Drug Administration)
From these bad records above, you should see that Functional Medicine has the real function of prying open your purse. As for medicine, it is 100% fake.
Original text: Functional Medicine: True Function, Fake Medicine
