Dr. Mark's Minute - What Really Makes You Sick

So what really causes being overweight or what we call diobesity, this whole spectrum of obesity all the way to diabetes? All the phenomena that we see in diobesity are the results of the same thing. Imbalances in the seven key systems in your body. And these systems form a web or like a network in in your biology. Understanding this web is the basis of something called functional medicine. It's a method of treatment that's grounded in a whole new scientific field called systems biology. And that seeks to understand how systems in the body are interconnected rather than simply discrete organs and body parts that have no relationship to one another like most doctors think. You know, you got a different body part for every specialty. The perspective of medical specialization, organizing medicine by organs and by diseases, and by geography, like location and where it is in your body, and by symptoms, is deeply flawed and it has a place in medicine, but it really isn't how we should be thinking about disease. And what it's done is place modern medicine at a crisis point. Our way of thinking about disease is outdated and it doesn't take advantage of the latest scientific advances. Functional medicine, on the other hand, implements the best of current science and systems thinking. and it helps us solve the puzzle of chronic disease, often where conventional medicine fails.