15 Questions
What was the initial perception of molecular medicine and integrative medicine?
They were seen as mutually exclusive models
What did the author recognize as missing in bridging the gap between molecular medicine and integrative medicine?
An operating system
Where did the author gain experience and understanding of molecular medicine and integrative medicine?
Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine
What is the term used to describe the therapies prescribed by the integrative medicine model?
Experiential therapies
What type of diseases are mentioned in the text as the focus of molecular medicine and integrative medicine?
Chronic diseases
What is the term used to describe the operating system that would connect therapies prescribed by the integrative medicine model with the mechanistic understanding of noncommunicable, chronic diseases?
Integrative operating system
What type of medicine is described as being more experientially and culturally rooted in observation?
Integrative medicine
Which institute did the author have the opportunity to interact with some of the best minds in molecular medicine and clinical innovators in integrative medicine?
Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine
What perception was initially associated with molecular medicine?
Mechanistic and reductionist
What is the focus of molecular medicine and integrative medicine?
Chronic diseases
What is the main focus of the functional medicine model?
Understanding disease as a process
What determines the vector of change in function through time in the functional medicine model?
All of the above
What concept has replaced the previous understanding of functional somatic syndromes?
Biology-based function
When was the Institute for Functional Medicine founded?
1991
How has interest in functional medicine changed over the last 2 decades?
It has grown dramatically
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