In The Beginning

Over twenty years and what sometimes seems like a lifetime ago, I attended a Functional Medicine meeting and met the man who was to become an important mentor for me, Dr. Jeffrey Bland. An internationally recognized leader in the nutritional medicine field, Dr. Bland co-founded The Institute for Functional Medicine in 1991 and is often called the “father of Functional Medicine.” I will never forget that, as he began speaking, he held his hands together as if he was reading from a book and said, “In the beginning we all receive a “Book of Life”, our own unique 23 pairs of chromosomes. But the stories ultimately told in that “Book” are not simply a result of those genes. The stories greatly depend on what bathes those genes, including . . . 
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What we eat,
What we drink,
What we think, and
How we move.
All of these determine how our individual stories will unfold!” 

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