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populations, rendering its diagnostic process inherently
compromised and scientifically incoherent.
Most conventionally trained licensed medical
professionals4including physicians, nurse practitioners, and
physician assistants4are not educated in functional interpretation
and are unaware of the flaws in conventional lab ranges.
They often defer entirely to lab interpretation printouts or standard
flags without understanding the deeper biochemical significance
of the numbers. In truth, the average conventional provider is
dangerously under-informed on blood chemistry and misled by
the very diagnostic structures they are trained to trust.
This is not just unfortunate 4it’s scandalous.
That medicine, which claims to be rooted in logic and scientific
rigor, falters so embarrassingly hard in its ability to interpret the
body’s most basic data renders it nearly irrelevant outside of
acute emergency care.
It may be well-suited for trauma, surgery, and short-term
pharmacologic intervention4but as a model for chronic disease,
root-cause solutions, or preventative care, it fails almost
completely, with the exception of physicians who are naturally
predisposed to think outside the box and/or are functionally or
holistically trained.
If the roles were reversed4if natural, functional, and holistic
medicine operated on distorted, disease-skewed population data
and routinely missed dysfunction 4it would be ridiculed,
censored, and torn apart by conventional medicine and the
institutions that serve it.
Yet here we are: conventional medicine, standing confidently
inside a glass house of broken diagnostic standards, throwing
stones at the very modalities that offer clarity, prevention, and true
healing. This is not just hypocrisy4it is an institutional disservice to
science, to patients, society at large, and to all of mankind.
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