when in balance or disease when out of balance,” attests Bland, whose career has focused on searching for a unifying principle behind all healing that can be used to discern the best possible therapy for specific individuals. Incorporating what he learned from Linus Pauling, Ph.D.,
two-time Nobel Prize laureate, and Lee Hood, M.D., Ph.D., as well as systems biology and practicing lifestyle medicine, Bland founded the nonprofit Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute (
PLMInstitute.org) in 2012. Seeking to transform the entire medi- cal approach to chronic illness, the Seattle-based organization is a virtual and onsite hub for health professionals, researchers, educators and the public to share ideas and converse about how personalized functional medicine can be delivered to everyone as an improved standard of care.
Role of Genetics Te National Human Genome Research Institute, in Bethesda, Maryland, maintains that an evolved approach to medicine starts with using an individual’s genetic profile to determine the best path to preventing, diagnosing and treating diseases. By 2003, scientists had delivered the first essentially complete sequence and map of all the genes in the human body. Tree decades ago, the medical fraternity had few reliable
explanations for the origins of chronic health issues. Today, accepted factors include predispositions for a specific disease re- lated to an individual’s genome, along with contemporary epigen- etic influences such as nutrition, environment and lifestyle. None of these elements, however, necessarily define our destiny. “Tis genomic personalized medicine approach is creating
friends among all healing arts practitioners because it facili- tates our using information to design a less-toxic environment, lifestyle, diet and treatment to meet an individual’s specific needs and particular circumstances that led to a disease,” says Bland. “Diseases are only names assigned to a collection of
symptoms,” says Bland. “Tey don’t indicate how the individual became afflicted. If 10 patients with Type 2 diabetes each had epi- genetic variations that triggered getting the condition, it would be unwise to treat them all the same; it’s far better to treat those factors that specifically led to the disease.” Addressing the concern that genetic test results might be
used to deny someone health insurance, Bland notes, “Tis is a significant misunderstanding about genetic testing. Our genes don’t tell us how we are going to die. Tey tell us how we should live. Understanding how our genes can help us live to 100 is a model of enlightenment. Tose that practice this systems biology approach are counting on functional personalized medicine becoming the updated standard of care.” Physicians oſten offer genetic testing services. At-home
DNA testing can be done using a saliva collection kit mailed to a laboratory, offering both ancestry and health information that must be interpreted by an informed professional.
Linda Sechrist is a senior staff writer for Natural Awakenings. Connect at
LindaSechrist.com.
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