Bland Jeffrey
, is the president and founder of the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute in Seattle, Washington. He has been an internationally recognized leader in nutrition medicine for more than 25 years. Dr Bland is the cofounder of the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) and is chairman emeritus of IFM's Board of Directors. He is the author of the 2014 book The Disease Delusion: Conquering the Causes of Chronic Illness for a Healthier, Longer, and Happier Life.
Integr Med (Encinitas). 2017 Feb;16(1):22-25.
In the functional medicine model, the word is aligned with the evolving understanding that disease is an endpoint and function is a process. Function can move both forward and backward. The vector of change in function through time is, in part, determined by the unique interaction of an individual's genome with their environment, diet, and lifestyle. The functional medicine model for health care is concerned less with what we call the or , and more about the dynamic processes that resulted in the person's dysfunction. The previous concept of functional somatic syndromes as psychosomatic in origin has now been replaced with a new concept of function that is rooted in the emerging 21st-century understanding of systems network-enabled biology.
在功能医学模式中，这个词与疾病是终点而功能是过程这一不断发展的认识相一致。功能可以向前或向后变化。功能随时间的变化向量部分取决于个体基因组与其环境、饮食和生活方式的独特相互作用。功能医学的医疗保健模式较少关注我们所说的疾病或诊断，而更多关注导致个体功能障碍的动态过程。以前将功能性躯体综合征归因于心身问题的概念现在已被一个基于21世纪对系统网络生物学新认识的功能新概念所取代。
