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University of California, San Francisco, and is an IFM Certified
Practitioner. Hyman served as Medical Director at the Institute for
Functional Medicine and founded The UltraWellness Center
[12][9]. His bestselling books include The Blood Sugar Solution,
Food Fix, and Young Forever [12][15].
Hyman has played a key role in advancing functional medicine
into mainstream culture through policy work, bestselling
publications, and public education campaigns [12][9]. As the
founding director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional
Medicine, he helped establish one of the first hospital-based
functional medicine centers in a major academic medical
institution [12][14].
His research demonstrating improvements in patient outcomes
using functional medicine approaches has been published in
peer-reviewed journals, providing important validation for the field
[9][14]. He continues to serve as a leading voice advocating for
food-based healing and systemic reform in healthcare [12][9][15].
Dr. Terry Wahls
A clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa and
creator of The Wahls Protocol. She earned her MD from the
University of Iowa and was honored with the Linus Pauling Award
from the Institute for Functional Medicine [6][13]. After being
diagnosed with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, she
reversed her symptoms using a protocol based on mitochondrial
nutrition, therapeutic diets, and lifestyle strategies [6][13].
Her groundbreaking research has been published in
peer-reviewed journals, demonstrating the clinical effectiveness of
her dietary approach for multiple sclerosis patients [16][13].
Her 2014 book "The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All
Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles" has
become a cornerstone text for both practitioners and patients
[13]. Her approach integrates ancestral eating with functional
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