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Disciplines in Medicine & Healing Traditions
Clinical medicine and public health alongside the functional, integrative, Chinese and Ayurvedic traditions.
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Roger J. Williams
1893 – 1988Discovered pantothenic acid and argued for biochemical individuality — the idea beneath functional medicine.
Abram Hoffer
1917 – 2009Ran the first double-blind trials in psychiatry and founded orthomolecular medicine with high-dose niacin.
Vincent Felitti
b. 1935Co-led the Adverse Childhood Experiences study linking childhood trauma to lifelong disease.
Sidney MacDonald Baker
b. 1936Framed clinical practice around the tack rule — take out what harms, put in what's missing.
Jeffrey Bland
b. 1946Coined and codified functional medicine; founded the Institute for Functional Medicine in 1991.
Joseph Pizzorno
b. 1948Co-founded Bastyr University, the first accredited natural-medicine university in the United States.
David Perlmutter
b. 1954Neurologist who put diet, glycemia and the microbiome at the centre of brain health.
Terry Wahls
b. 1955Reversed her own progressive MS disability with a mitochondrial-nutrition protocol, then trialled it.
Mark Hyman
b. 1959Took functional medicine mainstream through the Cleveland Clinic Center and a run of bestsellers.