Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

What is Functional Medicine?

19 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD (speaker) defines functional medicine as an umbrella that includes lifestyle medicine (diet, stress reduction, sleep, relationships), translational medicine (applying treatments/research across fields), and integrative medicine (a broad category of non-conventional therapies). The clip frames lifestyle medicine as the foundational element of functional medicine.

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Functional medicine is partly lifestyle medicine. Lifestyle medicine is just the foundations. So that's diet, lifestyle, stress reduction, sleep relationships. Those are what we're going to be talking about today as the foundations of functional medicine. Lifestyle medicine is just that section of functional medicine. But there's also the field of translational medicine. And some of you may have heard that that's the idea of, like, using certain medications in one field and translating it to another field, or certain data or research. Integrative medicine is just a very generic term that just kind of is amorphous for anything outside of conventional medicine. You can kind of integrate herbs, homeopathy, chiropractic, holistic care type models. And then with functional medicine, the way we look at it, it's all those things together.