A short YouTube talk (by Joy Kong, MD) arguing that functional, holistic, and anti-aging medicine emphasize treating underlying causes (e.g., vitamin C, microbiome effects across organs), whereas conventional medical training (e.g., at UCLA) is drug-focused and influenced by pharmaceutical funding; the speaker claims doctors are trained and 'groomed' to be drug deliverers and thus often do not investigate root causes.
Functional medicine, holistic medicine, or even anti aging medicine is all coming from the same offshoot, which is to look at underlying causes of health overall. And there's so much research all around the world about how even something as simple as vitamin C or microbiome, how is that affecting all your organs and all your systems. The medicine that we are trained in, such as ME trained at ucla, we focus on drugs. There's no question about it. That's how medical school are funded by big Pharma. And that's how we were taught. We are groomed to be drug deliverers. So when it's drug oriented, you are not looking at any of the underlying causes. And doctors are very locked in within the model of seeking what drug to give patients.
