Moshe Szyf

You know, I've been having the pleasure and really the privilege of doing Functional Medicine Update for going on 29 years now. Seems like a long time. It's hard to even believe 29 years have gone by over the time that I've been engaged in interviewing these extraordinary people who are the clinicians and the researchers who have been building the new science and the new medicine of the 21st century. But I have to say this last month with the interview with Dr. Moshe Schiff from McGill, was one of those wonderful watershed events for me. It was just one of those times where everything kind of came together. All the things that we've been discussing over the 29 years in the birthing of preventive medicine, then functional medicine, and now moving into the systems biology approach was really almost crystallized, condensed in that interview that I had the privilege of having with Dr. Schiff that you're going to hear in this month's Functional Medicine Update. I would call it epic. Certainly for me, it was one of those goosebumps experiences in which I really felt that so much that we had been talking about was really kind of coming to life, coming to clinical application, and coming to a level of understanding that we didn't have before. So I think you're going to find Dr. Schiff's discussion about the epigenetics of disease, how social imprinting, how environmental imprinting, how nutritional imprinting influences gene expression to then create a symphonic orchestration of the genesis that may be in the state of function of either alarm, which we call disease, or of health, which means vigilance without inflammation, without dysfunction. So those kinds of constructs which really underlie Functional Medicine Update really are exemplified in this extraordinary interview with Dr. Chip. I share it with you, and I think you're going to really enjoy it.