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The Mission of the Academy of Functional Medicine and Genomics is to educate healthcare practitioners
about the latest, cutting edge, diagnostic technologies that define the root causes of
many chronic medical and psychiatric disorders. These causes, which have been called biochemical
individuality, are unique to each patient we evaluate, even those who share the same
diagnosis or symptoms. Once Academy participants learn how to discover
these root causes of illness or disorders through in-depth laboratory testing, they
go on to learn about the latest, targeted treatments. These revolutionary treatments
intelligently replenish specific nutritional deficiencies, excrete toxins, balance hormones
and brain neurotransmitters, remove chronic infections and optimize metabolism. Often
a comprehensive functional medicine evaluation involves gene testing to uncover certain,
unique, genetic vulnerabilities in our patients. No doubt you have seen police movies or TV
shows like Bones or CSI, which use in-depth, laboratory analysis to solve crimes. But,
perhaps you never asked, Why are these prodigious technologies I see
on TV, or in the movies, not being used to solve human suffering from various chronic
medical and psychiatric disorders? The answer to this question is simple. Technological
innovations have moved so rapidly within the last 20 years that healthcare teaching institutions
have not been able to keep up with the latest advances. In the field of biochemistry, the
gap between what is known and what is taught is so vast that conventional medicine does
not even have a paradigm, a way of even understanding what is being discussed here.
Many models of healthcare treatment or so-called accepted standards of care, are indeed cutting
edge and necessary for certain healthcare problems, especially emergency, end-stage
and acute problems. Unfortunately, other conventional models of care, especially for chronic problems,
are far behind the curve, relying on obsolete technologies, which are resulting in incalculable
harm. Our patients are senselessly suffering today.
And, many of us do not believe that it is wise or ethical to wait several decades for
conventional healthcare to eventually break free of certain obsolete models. Instead,
we prefer to apply the science that is available now.
The Mission of the Academy of Functional Medicine and Genomics is not to wait, but rather to
educate healthcare practitioners today about the latest, cutting edge, diagnostic technologies
that can determine the root causes of many chronic medical and psychiatric disorders.
This enables treatment to not simply be palliative, or the covering up of symptoms, but actually
potentially curative, or at least optimizing of genetic expression as much as possible,
so that our patients can achieve their best psychological and physical functioning.
The motto of the Academy of Functional Medicine and Genomics is:
If you don't test, you've guessed. According to its Chief Medical Officer, Dr.
C. E. Gant, "Once participants begin to appreciate the wisdom of investigating the unique, root,
biochemical causes of suffering in each patient, they will never be satisfied with guessing
again". Modern medicine has made astonishing advances
in the treatment of acute healthcare problems, but increasingly consumers suffer from so-called
incurable, chronic disorders such as arthritis, diabetes, cancer, addictions, heart disease,
depression and auto-immune diseases. With the advent of Functional Medicine, healthcare
practitioners and consumers can now relegate symptomatic treatments of chronic medical
and psychiatric problems to treatments of last resort instead of treatments of first
resort. Because of the Academy, healthcare practitioners
learn about a new paradigm. Specifically, a way of providing care that is potentially
curative and which can be a treatment of first resort, because it addresses the underlying
risk factors and causes of chronic medical and psychiatric disorders. A scientific rationale
for prevention through nutrition, diet, lifestyle changes, and stress-management techniques
now also begins to make scientific sense. The training provided by the Academy of Functional
Medicine and Genomics, and other like-minded educational programs, is the long-awaited,
missing component in the holistic model of mind, body, energy and spirit treatment. By
scientifically addressing the body, the critical physical and sustainable foundation for all
mind/energy/spirit approaches is set. Holistic and alternative medicine and dentistry, as
well as psychotherapy can work, but these fields will never come close to their potential
without functional medicine. The Academy of Functional Medicine and Genomics
is an educational, webinar-based program. The emphasis of the curriculum is on learning
"how to think" about medical and psychiatric disorders through biochemical and physiological
investigations, rather than on "what to think", or simply learning and memorizing facts, which
is a more conventional approach to learning about healthcare matters.
The primary course objective is to establish a new way of thinking about medical and psychiatric
disorders. This exciting paradigm shift can refresh one's career as every patient approached
from a functional medicine perspective can teach us new information, if we are open to
investigating the underlying, scientific causes of their suffering.
For more information, visit: Academy of Functional Medicine dot com