The roadblock to functional medicine is that it isn’t covered by traditional health insurance, so you can’t take claims out for visits and tests.
That’s what keeps traditional medicine firmly in place despite the fact that traditional medicine is so weak on telling you how to live for wellness and what tests it can provide that really miss so many important aspects of one’s health.
Traditional medicine is kind of a joke in a way — all about pills and surgery and nothing about lifestyle — whereas functional medicine is clearly the future, but being held back because of this roadblock.
I am a voracious reader and also enjoy writing. I often have a very different point of view than the popular one. I do see value in debate, and thought it might add to the public debate on controversial issues if I were to express my contrarian opinions. I also started keeping my poems recently (I've written little pieces my whole adult life but never kept any); and I've been a photographer now for over 25 years. So I will be adding an occasional poem and hopefully interesting photograph to the blog along the way, just to spice things up.
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