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IFM Honors Joel Evans, MD, FMCP-M, as the 2026 Linus and Ava Helen Pauling Award Recipient
The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) has named Joel Evans, MD, FMCP-M, as the recipient of the 2026 IFM Linus and Ava Helen Pauling Award in Functional Medicine. This prestigious honor recognizes a clinician or researcher who has significantly contributed to the development of the Functional Medicine Model and expanded its influence within the global ...
Non-nutritive Sweeteners Affect Human Microbiomes and Can Alter Glycemic Responses
Since the late 1800s non-nutritive sweeteners have promised to deliver all the sweetness of sugar with none of the calories. They have long been believed to have no effect on the human body, but researchers challenge this notion by finding that these sugar substitutes are not inert, and, in fact, some can alter human consumers’ ...
Bastyr University Researcher Launches Program for Those With Parkinson’s Disease
In 2014, Dale Bredesen, MD, demonstrated reversal of cognitive decline in an Alzheimer’s population using a comprehensive, personalized therapeutic program.* Bastyr University researcher Laurie Mischley, ND, MPH, PhD thinks a similar approach can also be applied to Parkinson’s disease (PD). “There are plenty of established strategies for slowing, and even reversing, PD,” said Dr. Mischley. “Most ...
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