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Originally Posted by kiwi33
Dr Hyman has a Web site with a very pretentious and question-begging label: "The UltraWellness Center". It is not common for evidence-based health professionals to use pretentious and question-begging labels like that for their Web sites.
His site includes a "Patient Store" in which members are very kindly given a chance of buying various "nutritional supplements".
How important consuming nutritional supplements (unless of course they have been recommended by an evidence-based health professional like a dietitian) may be to the concept of "Functional Medicine" is outside my knowledge.
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I watch Dr. Hyman and other professionals like himself on public television stations. It is true that each of them is earning a ton of money from their books, internet programs, supplements, and other products. My solution to all of this, because I really like their message..... don't buy into their products. I don't have a problem with them making money at the same time they are providing a valuable service AND changing the way traditional medicine approaches things like mental health.
Tell me this... when you were diagnosed with a mental health disorder, did your primary care physician run a series of medical tests on you first to rule out any other physical issues that could be causing some of your symptoms, including nutritional deficiencies? That is one of the major differences you will find between functional medicine and traditional medicine.