Unconventional Medicine, Join the Revolution to Reinvent Healthcare, Reverse Chronic Disease, and Create a Practice You Love
by Chris Knesser
The world is facing the greatest healthcare crisis it has ever seen. Chronic disease is shortening our lifespan, destroying our quality of life, bankrupting governments, and threatening the health of future generations. Sadly, conventional medicine, with its focus on managing symptoms, has failed to address this challenge. The result is burned-out physicians, a sicker population, and a broken healthcare system.
In Unconventional Medicine, Chris Kresser presents a plan to reverse this dangerous trend. He shows how the combination of a genetically aligned diet and lifestyle, functional medicine, and a lean, collaborative practice model can create a system that better serves the needs of both patients and practitioners. The epidemic of chronic illness can be stopped, if patients and practitioners can adapt
This book will change the way you practice medicine. — Mark Hyman, MD, Director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, and Chairman of the Institute for Functional Medicine.
In this exposé, Chris Kresser not only explores the depths of our failed health-care system, but also explores a positive blueprint for moving forward. — David Perlmutter, MD, Author of the #1 New York Times best seller “Grain Brain” and “The Brain Whole Life Plan”
Whether you call it progressive medicine, as I do, or unconventional medicine, as Chris does here—this is truly the future of health and wellness.— Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, MD, BBC television’s Doctor in the House and author of The Four Pillar Plan
A passionate manifesto that will inspire healthcare practitioners to embrace a functional medicine approach to preventing and reversing chronic disease — Terry Wahls, MD,