⚡️Functional medicine will transform your health - how to change your gene expression & protect your immune system!

💬 “Our immune system is unbelievably intelligent and it has a mastery that we still are only starting to fully understand” ~Dr Jeffrey Bland

➡︎ Functional medicine started in the 1990s thanks to the incredible Dr Jeffrey Bland. Where modern medicine diagnoses problems and treats disease, functional medicine takes a proactive approach, focusing on the uniqueness of each individual to create tailor-made solutions for lasting health.

➡︎ Dr Jeffrey Bland is known as the “Father of Functional Medicine” and founded The Institute for Functional Medicine with his wife in 1991. His work is championed by the likes of Mark Hyman, Terry Wahls, Kara Fitzgerald and David Perlmutter.

➡︎ Much of his work focuses on the immune system, which he believes is hugely misunderstood and plays a much bigger role in our overall health than we realise. And he says it doesn’t have to get worse as we age!

➡︎ In this episode, Tim and Jeff explain how our whole body is connected and why modern medicine’s focus on individual symptoms is failing our health. How we CAN control our health despite our genes, by changing the way they express themselves. Why immune “boosting” doesn’t work and why we should be looking instead at “immuno-rejuvination”. And why we need to think more positively about our health if we’re going to fix it.

💡 Highlights

(1:58) How functional medicine began

(7:56) What is functional medicine?

(11:36) How modern medicine is failing you

(15:05) Power of the immune system

(24:47) Dr Bland’s most profound discovery

(29:45) Shocking truth of chronic illness

(33:10) How to get functional medicine mainstream

(35:27) Why immune “boosting” is a scam

(43:52) Future of functional medicine

(45:30) Dr Bland’s legacy

(47:55) Dr Bland’s heroes

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