What is the Straight Dope on "functional medicine"?

I, too, am grateful to **Jackmannii, as well as grateful for the other intelligent, rational, well-trained people here (such as Qadgop and DSeid), who somehow find the patience to address the numerous woo-meisters who wander in here from time to time dropped their Gish gallops before skedaddling.

I don’t know how y’all do it.

I feel happy having read through all this and seeing the result.

+1 for intelligence! :smiley:

William77 types with the same kind of grammatical errors as the the doc. It could be a side effect of functional medicine.

You are all smart asses, alright. Hope you shine like that at your local pubs. You’d be popular but speed is essential, not like here. My point is Stefan Zweig found something very interesting in this bullshit in his Mary Baker Eddy. Dr Grisanti is a tribute to Zweigs wonderful work.

You also write in a peculiarly unreadable manner. Is it contagious … or is is SATAN?

ok

The who to the what now?

Huh, this guy joined on the 14th and posted exactly 2 messages.
Just something I randomly noticed

I have tried to extract something coherent out of this but I think i’ve failed badly. As far as I can tell Zweig is a philosopher with no medical training and as for his relationship with Mary Baker Eddy:

I’m really not sure how this is supposed to support Functional Medicine in any way.

I’d rather be a smartass than a dumbass…

Yes, it was incredibly stupid of me to post what i#ve posted. Sorry. Posting here on the same day as joining was a terrible idea too, i agree. I will work on my grammar or may God strike me pink!!! Being a smartass is definitely better than being a dumbass, true. I just thought I could somehow stimulate you to read a good book. Never mind.

Observations can be explained in many different ways. Or is this too deep? Or too stupid? The 1 or the 2? Give it your own go.

They can be explained many different ways. But not all of the explanations will be correct. Some of the most plausible ones, and exciting ones, will turn out to be very wrong.

That’s why I like to bring in scientific studies to test the observations, and see which explanations are correct.

Thank you. What I meant was that in seeming madness you find a psychological trait. Rare thing! Since we look for complex behavioral patterns to decipher how the cortex works its spot on.

Look, you are not stupid. Mark Twain was angry with cults too. I think you dont see the elephant behind a fly.

and yes I do know what I am talking about.

Can you really test all explanations? Really? Not really. The live mind is far quicker and elaborate than shackled scientific method. It is wrong but as wrong as any mutation.

I hope “functional medicine” textbooks are easier to follow than Yura’s responses.

Is it a rule somewhere that snake oil defenders always talk in cryptic, barely coherent gibberish?

Do you start to doubt yourself when you speak in coherent sentences?

We don’t need to; all we need to do is test the explanations that are offered. And functional medicine fails.