Functional Physician / Integrative Physician

Hello! We are looking for a Functional Physician or Integrative Physician (I believe they are the same, but am not 100% certain) for our teenage daughter. We've found a few online, but would like to get a personal recommendation. Does anyone have one they - or a close friend or family member - would recommend?

Thank you!

I know of one in Point Pleasant who is a complete quack, his specialty is chiropractic

Mark Guariglia

Thanks, jmitw - it's good to know the ones to stay away from, too!

BklynToMW said:
Thanks, jmitw - it's good to know the ones to stay away from, too!

I think the problem is that they're all kind of quacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_medicine

Functional medicine significantly departs from mainstream medicine in
its emphasis on treatments and concepts of health and disease which are
not currently known to be effective or which have been shown to be
ineffective by clinical research.[3] These include

• Orthomolecular medicine [6]
• Detoxification of undocumented toxins.[7]
• "Biochemical Individuality" (i.e. the notion that the nutritional
• needs, chemical constitution and disease states are unique for every
• individual;[8] this represents a revival of the mainstream medical conception of disease common before the development of germ theory[9])
• Organ reserve
• Diagnosis of chronic occult infections (e.g. so-called chronic Lyme disease)[10]
• Homeopathy, including "Biopuncture", the injection of homeopathic remedies[11]
• Scientifically unproven nutritional interventions, including
• avoidance of gluten for people who do not have celiac disease or
• non-celiac gluten sensitivity[12][13][14][15]
• Antivaccine advocacy[5] including promotion of the discredited link between MMR vaccine and autism[16] (the retracted Lancet paper by Wakefield et al.[17] is cited in The Textbook of Functional Medicine)[18]
• Leaky gut syndrome[19][20][21]

I have chicken bones and I throw them up in the air and where they land on my carpet, tells me where you are sick. I don't charge much for this.

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