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Ancel Keys

1904 – 2004

The Seven Countries Study put diet at the centre of cardiovascular prevention.

United States·Nutrition · Public Health

Jeffrey Bland

b. 1946

Coined and codified functional medicine; founded the Institute for Functional Medicine in 1991.

United States·Functional Medicine · Nutrition · Chemistry

Terry Wahls

b. 1955

Reversed her own progressive MS disability with a mitochondrial-nutrition protocol, then trialled it.

United States·Functional Medicine · Nutrition

Mark Hyman

b. 1959

Took functional medicine mainstream through the Cleveland Clinic Center and a run of bestsellers.

United States·Functional Medicine · Nutrition

Tieraona Low Dog

b. 1963

Herbalist-physician who shaped US botanical-medicine standards and education.

United States·Integrative Medicine · Nutrition