Functional Medicine (CS31)

What exactly is functional medicine? It sounds reassuring to learn that it focuses on the patient, but is this approach any different from regular medicine? And why is the biggest proponent of functional medicine endorsing a shaman who casually says he can regenerate his body? Welcome to a medicine that might actually be dysfunctional.

This is episode 31 of Cracked Science, for April 13th, 2019.

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