Clinical writing by IAFM members on the science and practice of root cause medicine, with the limits of the evidence stated as plainly as its findings.
Clinical practice3 min read
Two patients carry an identical label and respond nothing alike. The difference usually sits in the systems that produced the diagnosis rather than in the diagnosis itself.
Clinical practice3 min read
Most of the information needed to understand a chronic presentation is already in the patient's history. It is usually lost because it was collected as a list rather than as a sequence.
Research2 min read
Cardiometabolic disease, several autoimmune conditions and some neuropsychiatric presentations share more mechanism than their specialty boundaries suggest.
Autism3 min read
Gastrointestinal symptoms are substantially more common in autistic children than in their peers. That finding is solid. What follows from it requires care.
Metabolic health3 min read
Fasting glucose is often the last measure to move. By the time it does, the underlying process has usually been running for a decade.
Gut health3 min read
The intestinal barrier is real, measurable and clinically relevant. Much of what is sold on the strength of that fact is not.
