A Functional Medicine Approach to Complex Chronic Illnesses (Full Event)

Andrew Lenhardt, MD and patient Sharon discuss what functional medicine is, and how it can help people with complex multi-systemic illnesses such as ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome), fibromyalgia, long Covid, and chronic Lyme disease.

The featured speaker, Andrew Lenhardt, M.D., is a board-certified family doctor with a background in functional and integrative medicine. He has long experience treating people with complex, chronic diseases. He practices in Beverly, MA. He is the author of two books: The Best of Both Worlds and Emotional Intelligence in a Complex World. Dr. Lenhardt is on the faculty of Tufts Medical School, Endicott College and Yale University and has been teaching medical students and nurse practitioner students for over 15 years. He has developed the algorithms used for the RootFinder tool at Complex Health Solutions. In his personal life, he is married with three sons and two Pomeranians. His interests include pickleball, bridge and exotic travel.

The event moderator is Kerry Lang, LMHC, Wellness and Mental Health Program Manager at the Dean Center for Tick Borne Illness at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital

00:00 Introduction
1:49 Introduction to Functional Medicine
6:07 Case Study #1
14:22 Case Study #2
19:21 Case Study #3
22:16 Two Worlds that Don't Collide
26:04 Chronic Fatigue vs. ME/CFS
29:03 Lessons from Long Haul Covid for ME/CFS
39:10 Summary
41:11 Patient Perspective
50:09 Q&A

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This was very interesting, I learned alot mroe than I thought I would and was very impressed with the functional medicine approaches being discussed. It's sort of a common sense joined up thinking apporach to medicine really. I found myself agereeing with so much that was being talked about. The root finder tool sounds truly excellent, I would love that to be availble widely in the UK, and I wiah functional medicine approaches were the same as the sort we're used to here, mainstream or whatvere you want to label it....what I eman by that is for functional medicine to BE the mainstream way, joined up thinking and personalised healthcare, integrating whole body, lifestyle approaches alognside traditionla medications and treatments as and where needed, just sounds liek it would be the absolute perfect way to treat everyone for everything frankly. Thanks for this!