Functional Medicine Quotes

“Your gut is not Las Vegas. What happens in the gut
does not stay in the gut.”
― Peter Kozlowski, MD, Unfunc Your Gut: A Functional Medicine Guide: Boost Your Immune System, Heal Your Gut, and Unlock Your Mental, Emotional and Spiritual Health

“At the most basic level, scientists are discovering that nearly all of the chronic diseases that cause so much suffering and are steadily driving up the cost of health care all share mitochondrial dysfunction, excessive inflammation, high cortisol levels, and other markers of broken biochemistry. In a very real sense, we all have the same disease because all diseases begin with broken, incorrect biochemistry and disordered communication within and between our cells. For health to return, the chemistry must revert to normal, and communication within and between our cells must be restored. This is true for every disease.”
― Terry Wahls, The Wahls Protocol : How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine

“The Internet . . . it can take you from mild stomachache to believing you might have cancer in two clicks. You can convince yourself that just about anything is wrong with you...when, in reality, a symptom is just your body’s way of communicating the need for balance.”
― Peter Kozlowski, MD, Unfunc Your Gut: A Functional Medicine Guide: Boost Your Immune System, Heal Your Gut, and Unlock Your Mental, Emotional and Spiritual Health