Hello Frankie Listeners,
This was brought to my attention and I wanted to share it with you!
-Frankie
From:Mark Hyman, MD
Today I am in San Diego at the 17th International Symposium on Functional Medicine, on Confronting Cancer as a Chronic Disease. I want to encourage you to watch a lecture on line on a revolutionary approach to cancer by one of the greatest medical thinkers of the 21st century, my mentor, Jeffrey Bland tomorrow morning at 8:30 am pacific time. You can log on at www.functionalmedicine.org to register for and watch the webinar. I have just taken on the leadership of the Institute of Functional Medicine as Chairman. Through education, research and strategic partnerships and policy change we can facilitate the transformation of medicine based on new science that allows us to treat the underlying causes of chronic disease. Our first goal is to scale our educational model to train health care providers in the medicine of the future. We are at a moment in medical history that requires a new way of thinking to successfully address our global epidemic of chronic disease. Practitioners need a new set of lenses to interpret and act on clinical information. Functional Medicine provides those lenses, a new way of seeing the epidemic of chronic disease based on underlying causes, and treatments based on restoring balance within dysfunctional biological systems and networks. It focuses on treating the whole system, not just the symptoms. Applied in practice, Functional medicine can more effectively prevent, treat and often cure chronic conditions, at lower cost, failed by our current paradigm. For the first time in IFM history, this year's international Symposium has officially sold out! This landmark Symposium on cancer as a chronic disease has closed with an attendance list representing 23 countries ranging from Croatia to Japan, Columbia to Finland. Cancers as systemic functional diseases is a topic of critical importance to today's primary care providers, who will find nearly half their patients confronting cancer during their lifetimes. Due to the urgency of this year's Symposium topic, we are opening up this year's introductory talk to the world as a live webcast. We are thrilled to invite you and your colleagues to watch a free, live webcast of the cutting-edge presentation "Looking Anew at Cancer" by Jeffrey Bland, PhD, FACN, CNS, which will address the mechanisms underlying primary cancer formation and growth and how these factors are addressed by various cancer prevention strategies and treatments. Join us on Thursday, May 20th from 8:30AM-10:00AM PST for the live webcast. You can look for the link on IFM's website, www.functionalmedicine.org. There is a prominent banner on the homepage announcing the webcast. You will need to click on the banner, fill out the fields, and then be automatically redirected to the webcasting page which will be offline until the talk starts on Thursday morning, but you can bookmark it now. The archived presentation will be available throughout the duration of Symposium (May 20-23, 2010). Be sure to spread the word. Forward this message to your colleagues and friends, post the link on your website, facebook page, share with medical students and faculty, even invite your patients if you are healthcare practitioner!
-- Mark Hyman, MD
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