Personalizing Medicine, Past Reductionism
Along with such progress at the far frontier of biomedical science, personalization has been widely adopted into the modern ethos of medicine. Functional Medicine, an approach with both its fans and detractors, was much propelled into the mainstream when the Cleveland Clinic embraced it in 2014. Whatever it winds up being in the hands of a given practitioner, at its origins this field, introduced by biochemist Jeffrey Bland, PhD, in the early 1990s, was about using detailed insights regarding a given patient’s metabolic profile to customize care and treat disease nearer to its unique-to-you causes.