Is Functional Medicine BS and another cancer scam?

Описание: Functional Medicine - also called integrative medicine, is a newly invented field of medicine that claims to be better than traditional medicine, as practiced by Dr Rohin Francis aka ‪@MedlifeCrisis‬ and I. It is not based on robust evidence or trials, unlike everything I did as a cancer surgeon.

Functional medicine doctors say that they treat the root cause of your illness, potentially blaming your cancer diagnosis on your lifestyle - stress, emotional toxins, lack of exercise, diet, poor sleep. There are those who would blame you if your cancer came back for not following their treatment strictly enough.

It is also the only branch of medicine that attacks other doctors. You would never hear a dermatologist tell a breast surgeon that they didn't know how to treat breast cancer, and yet that is what is happening all over the internet and on podcasts too.

And conventional doctors do treat patients based on the root cause, when it is known. Putting stents in blocked arteries or giving antibiotics for a bacterial infection.

Rohin and I discuss the good and the bad of functional medicine, and we're honest and say that some traditional doctors aren't great. We don't always have the time to talk about lifestyle factors, and if a patient wants to pay to see someone for an hour who can tell them how to sleep, eat and lower their stress levels, there's nothing wrong with that.

The harm comes when functional medicine doctors with a huge following spout pseudoscience online, in articles, videos and podcasts, persuading people to spend thousands of pounds on books, courses and supplements that they probably don't need, with no evidence to prove that these things were essential. If they were, don't you think your own doctor would be telling you about them or prescribing them, for free (in the UK)?

I can't wait to hear what you think x