Functional Medicine vs. Conventional Medicine

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1 Dignity Health. (2018, Jan. 24). What is Holistic Health Care, Anyway? Retrieved April 25, 2024. 

2 Bland J. (2017). Defining Function in the Functional Medicine Model. Integrative medicine, 16(1), 22–25. 

3 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2021, April). Complementary, Alternative, or Integrative Health: What’s in a Name? National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. Retrieved April 25, 2024.

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