For decades, Dr. Jeffrey Bland has been on the cutting edge of Functional Medicine, which seeks to pinpoint and prevent the cause of illness, rather than treat its symptoms. Managing chronic diseases accounts for three quarters of our total healthcare costs, because we’re masking these illnesses with pills and temporary treatments, rather than addressing their underlying causes, he argues. Worse, only treating symptoms leads us down the path of further illness.
In The Disease Delusion, Dr. Bland explains what Functional Medicine is and what it can do for you. While advances in modern science have nearly doubled our lifespans in only four generations, our quality of life has not reached its full potential. Outlining the reasons why we suffer chronic diseases from asthma and diabetes to obesity, arthritis and cancer to a host of other ailments, Dr. Bland offers achievable, science-based solutions that can alleviate these common conditions and offers a roadmap for a lifetime of wellness.
Reviews
“The godfather of functional medicine elegantly explains the core tools to overcome the chronic ailments of modern society.”
-- Mehmet Oz, M.D.
“Dr. Bland’s book should be a textbook in medical schools all over the world. I wish I had found it while I was in medical school myself.”
-- Alejandro Junger, MD, Founder of the Clean Program
“What the personal computer revolution did for old-fashioned mainframe computing—empowering us all—is what functional medicine is doing for healthcare; and if there is a Steve Jobs of functional medicine, it is Jeffrey Bland—visionary, innovative, and perennially two steps ahead.”
-- Dale E. Bredesen, MD, Augustus Rose Professor, Director, Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research, Director, Neurodegenerative Disease Research David Geffen School of Medicine UCLA
“Filled with solid science, fascinating medical detective stories, and practical tips, this powerful book can save your life.”
-- Daniel G. Amen, MD, Founder, Amen Clinics and New York Times bestselling author
Customer Reviews
Must read for anyone living inside a human body by Alejandro Junger
I had been to medical school for 8 years, done 6 years of postgraduate training and had practiced as a cardiologist for another 8 years before I discovered the teachings of Jeffrey Bland. My medical practice was transformed in such a profound way that not only allowed me to get way better results with my patients ( with way less medications ) but also to enjoy doing it.
Now anyone can learn these concepts and practices through this new book, which I consider a masterpiece.
Do yourself a huge favor and read this book...
An effective toolkit for reclaiming your health and vitality by Terry L. Wahls
I am a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa. I discovered Functional Medicine in 2007 and used the principles described by Dr. Jeff Bland to restore my health and vitality after having six years of steady decline and spending four years in a tilt/recline wheelchair due to secondary progressive MS. I can now walk easily, bike 20 miles with my family and even jog again. Over one hundred years ago, Thomas Edison foretold that, “The physician of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his [or her] patient in a proper diet, the care of the human frame and the cause and prevention of disease”. Sadly physicians are mostly still in love with the latest greatest and priciest drugs and interventions.
We are finally seeing that prophecy come to pass in the work of Dr. Bland and Functional Medicine. With The Disease Delusion you will be introduced to Functional Medicine and how you can finally understand the real root cause of health and of disease, and most importantly what you can do to create health and thereby stabilize and reverse the vast majority of chronic health problems. Your will learn that your environment, every aspect of it, is talking to your genes and creating your state of health or of disease. Your will also learn the tools to begin changing the messages from your environment to your genes to create health and begin the process of restoring vitality. I tell my patients who have suffered for years, often decades, to give me just a month of a functional medicine approach to health and then decide at the end of the month whether to continue the diet and lifestyle changes I recommend on the basis of Functional Medicine. Time and time again I see blood pressures fall, blood sugars normalize, mood stabilize, autoimmune conditions reverse. The need for medications steadily decline. People are able to reduce and eliminate medication after medication as their bodies repair themselves.
This book is life changing. It will give you the tools to understand how to become well once again. Terry Wahls, M.D., author The Wahls Protocol How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine.