AGE–RELATED DISEASES ARE NOT INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCES OF AGING
What if you and your physician could tell what was happening in your body before you had a disease? How about if you knew when you had the earliest symptoms or signs that this disease might be in your future? You could then address the causes before these biological processes resulted in injury to your body’s organs. Functional Medicine provides this kind of information to patients and physicians. (more…)

NOT JUST FOR WOMEN ANYMORE – MORE MEN SEEKING WELLNESS
Historically, men have sought health care in far fewer numbers than have women. Many didn’t consider it “manly” to admit to illness (often considering sickness a sign of weakness). While life expectancy has increased substantially during the last century, living well during later years requires the timely use of preventive health care services. (more...)

WE NEED THE WHOLE TRUTH ON NEW DRUGS
Pharmaceutical-industry influence has tainted the information stream that doctors, medical educators, and consumers themselves rely upon. Do doctors and patients rely too much on drugs for problems that have better solutions? (more…)

THE CHEMICAL EPIDEMIC
80,000 new chemicals have been put into the environment since the 1970’s. Only about a dozen of these have been studied in long-term human trials. The evidence of toxicity is overwhelming, yet most of us don’t know how to protect ourselves. There are several important preventive actions we should be taking to reduce our exposure. (more…)

NO FORMS, NO REFERRALS, NO RED TAPE – DOCTORS AND PATIENTS ALIKE JUST SAY NO.
Both physicians and patients are becoming more and more dissatisfied with the small amount of time available during a typical medical visit. Doctors are frustrated by the red tape and intrusion of HMOs into the doctor-patient relationship. New models of non-insurance-based care are sprouting. Here in greater Portland, physicians and other practitioners at the True North: Maine’s Center for Functional Medicine and the Healing Arts in Falmouth routinely see their patients face-to-face for 1 – 1 1/2 hours (that’s 8-10 times longer than the average physician visit in the US). (more…)