Is Functional Medicine Legitimate. A functional medicine doctor believes that the body's systems are intrinsically connected, and defines true health as the body functioning optimally. Taken over by the concept of “getting away with it” we got lulled (somewhere between the late 1940’s and the 1960’s) into this idea of better living through science.
A functional medicine doctor is either an individual that has attained traditional medical school and goes on to practice functional medicine or is skilled in another form of care like chiropractic care and goes on to specialize in functional medicine. So is functional medicine legitimate? In order to uphold the integrity of the regulations set in place by the institute of functional medicine, legitimate certified functional medicine doctors make use of specialty testing panels that are not covered in the traditional way by insurance companies.
