Over the few months, headlines in the health-tech world have centered around legal action between Function Health and Superpower, with allegations ranging from unfair competition and marketing claims to business practice disputes. Regardless of how that shakes out...
Dear Colleagues, As I sit down to write this first email of our Year of Transformation I can’t help but reflect on the remarkable journey we’ve been on together over the last decade. In 2014, we launched the Functional Forum with a simple yet powerful vision: to bring...
Are we as vulnerable to Covid as public health authorities want us to believe? Instead of focusing on our weakness, we should be focusing on becoming more resilient and antifragile. The message of our fragility is everywhere. We are told, “you’re fragile – don’t...
The tagline for the Functional Forum when it first launched in 2014 was “Accelerating the Evolution of Medicine.” We saw that evolution occurring in a number of ways, from conventional Western medicine to functional medicine, from paper-based practices to digitally...
An Open Letter to Naturopathic Doctors By James Maskell Dear Naturopathic Doctor, When Benedict Lust was first laying out the principles of Naturopathic Medicine one hundred years ago, I’m sure he would be thrilled to see the landscape of today. Detoxification has...
This photo was sent to me by a friend who was attending an investor event hosted by Forbes Magazine in Silicon Valley. It depicts part of a slideshow presentation detailing the biggest future trends investors should know about, and the number-one trend is functional...