The Origin of Functional Medicine

Talking about the origin of functional medicine, first of all, we have to go back to the United States, about 30 years ago, a group of medical professionals in the United States are dissatisfied with the existing medical model of disease prevention and chronic disease management, began to explore new medical models, so there is a functional medicine and the original concept of anti-aging medicine, people expected these new medical model can play a role in disease prevention and chronic disease management, to the disease-centered western medicine to play a complementary role. The first idea of functional medicine and anti-aging medicine was that these new medical models could play a role in disease prevention and chronic disease management, complementing the disease-centered Western medicine.

The occurrence of chronic diseases is the result of the interaction of complex mechanisms, and in the process of dealing with chronic diseases, the existing medical model is too simple and crude, and scholars believe that often doctors do not find the real cause of the patient's unhealthy, but only symptomatic treatment, which can not really prevent and treat the disease, and then try to establish a new theoretical system, which is essentially just a system of theory. This is an attempt to make doctors and patients understand "why they are sick" and "how to restore their health".

It was not easy to figure out why we got sick, because medical tests and assessments at the time were designed to diagnose disease. Tests could only tell you "if you're sick" but not "why you're sick", which is obviously not what functional medicine wants, after all, it's more about managing health than treating disease. Therefore, there is a new industry was born is "functional medicine testing". Currently in the United States, there are more than ten large and small functional medicine testing laboratories, these laboratories provide a variety of testing services for functional medicine doctors, most of the tests are used to reflect the patient's (the client's) state of health in all aspects of good health at the same time to tell the doctor where the problem is, rather than used to diagnose the disease.

Functional medicine has been in China for some years now, more than 5 years in the short term, no less than 10 years in the long term, but the development in China has not seen any improvement, but recently there has been some development in the domestic market, a local biomedical enterprise in Hebei, Huis Amp developed a functional medicine testing equipment, I do not know whether it can be successfully promoted and applied in the future. The prospect of the development of functional medicine lies in: the market attracts talent and technology, talent and technology to promote the industry, first industry and then academia, and finally I hope that more policies and resources to the field of functional medicine tilted, and I hope that more people will pay attention to the field of functional medicine and get involved in the field of functional medicine!