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The whole medicine study is a joke since it focuses on symptom treatment and not treatment of the cause(s) of the symptoms. Functional Medicine is the science that tries to find the causes and treat those but less than 1% of medical doctors practice functional medicine.

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> whole medicine study is a joke since it focuses on symptom treatment and not treatment of the cause(s)

This is bunk. Antibiotics, chemotherapy and gene therapy are three treatments, off the top of my head, that are proven to treat causes and not symptoms.

Functional Medicine, on the other hand, has a history of being fined for false marketing [1]. I would be shocked if an entire percent of medical practitioners would touch it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_medicine

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