In today’s functional medicine practice, practitioners like myself are confronted with a myriad of chronic inflammatory conditions and autoimmune diseases. Functional medicine is often referred to as "systems medicine" as it understands the importance of assessing and treating all systems individually, while also keeping the interconnectedness of these systems in mind. When dealing with autoimmunity however, one system in particular, the gastrointestinal system, appears to have more and more clinical relevance with autoimmunity, especially with a condition called leaky gut.
May 8, 2015
March 23, 2011
Here’s a great article from the Wall Street Journal Health blog on the growing awareness of gluten sensitively. It’s refreshing to see this is finally becoming recognized by the mainstream medical model.