Short introductory video (December 2013) in which Dr. Jeffrey Bland presents the Functional Medicine Update. He previews the main feature on Dr. Terry Wahls — her experience reversing progressive multiple sclerosis using a paleo/functional medicine approach — and announces a bonus interview with Dr. Michael Nova of Pathway Genomics about genomics and personalization in functional medicine.
Well, hi, it's really a pleasure to visit with you and let you know a little bit about our December 2013 edition of Functional Medicine. Update yes, we have a surprise. In fact, we have two surprises. First of all, our focus for the December issue is around the extraordinary experience of Dr. Terry Wahls. You probably know Dr. Wahls in her new book that's coming out entitled the Wahls How I Beat Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Using the Paleo Principles in functional medicine. And Dr. Wahls, who has had this extraordinary experience, is amazing. Medical school academic professor, internist, OB GYN describes her success in going into remission and successfully beating back the rising tide of Ms. Using the Functional medicine Systems Biology model. I think you'll find this an extraordinary kind of narrative that specializes to her own particular circumstance, but generalizes to the whole functional medicine experience as it relates to a system of an approach for chronic very serious degenerative disease. Secondly, I told you two surprises. The second surprise is that we're offering this month a complimentary bonus edition of an extraordinary opportunity I had to interview Dr. Michael Nova, MD, PhD, the Director of the Medical Group at Pathway Genomics, a San Diego based group that is involved with genomic evaluation. I think you'll find this discussion I had with Dr. Nova, who comes with a PhD in genetics from the laboratory of a Nobel Prize winning geneticist and then later an MD with a specialization of dermatology, to be one of the most informative and broad brush kind of evaluations of the pluses, minus puts and takes and opportunities that are in the genomics field at for personalization and how that interfaces with a functional medicine model. So that's your bonus edition this month the extraordinary discussion I had the privilege of having with Dr. Michael Nova. So look forward December issue Dr. Terry Wahls and the bonus of the discussion with Dr. Michael Nova. Thanks so much and look forward to hearing from you how you enjoy this issue.
