Khalsa Medical Clinic

Functional Medicine Now at the Cleveland Clinic!

By Soram Khalsa, M.D.

I am delighted to announce to my readers and patients that the world-famous Cleveland Clinic has opened a Center for Functional Medicine in Cleveland Ohio. My longtime friend and colleague Mark Hyman, M.D. is the director of the center. One of the patients who recently received tremendous benefit from the center, has already created an endowed chair for the center, which Mark Hyman sits in.

As most of my patients and readers know, functional medicine and integrative medicine are essentially synonymous.

The term functional medicine emphasizes that the goal of the physician is to restore proper organ function and a proper relationship of balance between all the organs in the body. This allows the patient to be brought back to health. As is commonly said functional medicine clinicians “think and link” instead of “naming and blaming”.

Remember that there is a weblike interaction between all the organs in the body. It is essential for a physician to look at the interactions between the different organ systems. Unfortunately, conventional medicine has broken organs into “silos”, where the doctor only knows about his or her silo. Attention is not paid to the interaction of that one organ system and the other systems of the body.

In creating this new Center, the Cleveland clinic is the first academic medical center in the United States to embrace functional medicine. Four research projects have already been started, comparing standard treatment for asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, type II diabetes, and migraine with functional medicine treatment. The results will be published in a major medical journal when the studies are finished.

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