Philosophy

What Is Functional Medicine?

By Brandon LaGreca / March 11, 2019 / Comments Off on What Is Functional Medicine?

There has been a movement within allopathic medicine to adopt a holistic model in their paradigm. This gave rise to functional medicine, practiced by a new generation of integrative physicians, having great success in esteemed medical centers such as Cleveland Clinic.

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Getting the Correct Diagnoses—All of Them

By Brandon LaGreca / February 11, 2019 / Comments Off on Getting the Correct Diagnoses—All of Them

I have great reverence for the scientific method and one of its beneficiaries, conventional Western medicine (immunotherapy played a role in my cancer journey). Yet conventional medicine sometimes fails to address the whole person—body, mind, spirit—through its reductionist lens. For that piece of the healing puzzle, many turn to practitioners of holistic medicine, such as naturopathy and Chinese medicine.

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Accumulating Cancer: Little Compromises and Big Implications

By Brandon LaGreca / November 20, 2018 / Comments Off on Accumulating Cancer: Little Compromises and Big Implications

What if cancer, like so many chronic diseases, is an accumulation of little compromises? 

Sometimes cancer has a big, blatant cause—like radiation exposure. Other times the cause is unclear and its inception insidious. Without an obvious etiology, conventional oncology tends to default to badly behaving genes as the cause of malignancy.

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