Why is Proactive Functional Medicine the latest evolution in health care?
In order to understand the need for a new direction in medical care, we need to understand where we started from, as well as the particular strengths and weaknesses that come from the current conventional perspective. Before the microscope and other scientific advances became available in the 1800’s, the vast majority of doctors were generalists that did a little of everything, and treated the whole person. With the microscope and the greater understanding of the effects of disease upon the structure of the organs came an explosion of knowledge and opportunity for research and learning. This knowledge explosion led to individuals focusing upon one organ or one organ system. Thus the division of medicine into ANATOMICAL specialties began: cardiologists (heart & vessels), neurologists (brain & nerves), orthopedists (bones), etc. Later, as certain diseases were recognized to cross over into many different organ systems we see the development of DISEASE centered specialists: Rheumatologist
