Is Functional Medicine Dysfunctional?

Savely Yurkovsky, MD

Since last month’s article on this subject, I came across other authors who either questioned the true validity of functional medicine or of the biochemical/pharmaceutical approach on a whole that functional medicine represents. Among these, the editor of The American Journal of Medicine, Professor Joseph Alpert, MD, who asked for proof of “quality” concerning medical treatments in his sharp editorial, “Socrates On Quality,” (AJM, August 2018;131(8)). This very issue concerning absent evidence of quality of functional medicine, mentioned in my April 2018 article, was also noted by a medical doctor on the internet

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just as correctly, he also commented that its inventor, biochemist Jeffrey Bland, PhD, refuses to conduct clinical trials to produce such proof. The reason for this, that clinical trials are an allegedly unfit common methodology, is a cop out, in my opinion, since other existing methodologies can and must be chosen for any medical approach to either establish its legitimacy or worthlessness. Looking for an excuse constitutes an insult to what makes science different from “take my word for it” stories, For the record, Field Control Therapy® (FCT) has been seeking clinical trials; please help if you can. So far, no bites.

Interestingly, a recently published good book, Can Medicine Be Cured? The Corruption of a Profession, reverberates the same reasons for the failure and deceit of biochemical-pharmaceutical medicine, which also concerns functional medicine.

This book was written by a competent British medical researcher who also worked for many years for the British equivalent of our NIH, National Health Science Service, Seamus O’Mahony, MD. Dr. O’Mahony describes how “scientific medicine,” exploiting impressive scientific verbiage, has destroyed both the medical profession and the entire modern healthcare.

The main means for this destruction was the creation of Big Data, through Big Research into the biochemical human ocean. These data were matched with any tests and pharmaceuticals one wished to sell. These matches were then dragged through some formal “clinical trials,” using shady statistical manipulations to “prove” the necessity of these interventions. In the process, Big Data and Big Research have created a “convincing” Big Science. However, what stayed under the rug is that Big Data and Science lacked real clinical significance and, therefore, cured no one.

Functional medicine, short of clinical trials, uses the same recipe to impress with its validity. Among the impressive moves are many sophisticated lab tests to collect Big Data, as if really getting to the bottom of it, that makes it look like Big Science. Quoting the aforementioned doctor online: “One of the most prominent identifying features of FM is its reliance on laboratory tests, lots and lots and lots of laboratory tests. They use these laboratory tests to seek out each patient’s “biochemical” individuality and analyze his systems in these areas:

• Assimilation: digestion, absorption, microbiota/GI respiration;

• Defense and repair: immune, inflammation, infection/microbiota;

• Energy: energy regulation, mitochondrial function;

• Biotransformation and elimination: toxicity, detoxification;

• Transport: cardiovascular and lymphatic systems;

• Communication: endocrine, neurotransmitters, immune messengers;

• Structural integrity: subcellular membranes to musculoskeletal integrity.”

Also, among these is the “king” of all tests, genomics, to tell us “exactly” why we don’t detox or get sick. Certainly, it only makes sense that individual biochemical profiles are necessary in medicine and so are individual treatments. Yet, while both make sense, “individual” represent just another mirage in this case.

Throughout the history of science and medicine, “make sense” theories have failed so many times that science prefers only the actual results

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It would make a lot of sense if vaccines were primarily responsible for a significant mortality drop from those noxious infections that they were to prevent. However, the actual data that was presented in October 1970 by a no less than Harvard infectious disease professor and the president of the Infectious Disease Society of America, Edward H. Kass, MD, stated that the largest drop in mortality occurred before vaccines were available. Likewise, reducing the main source of mortality – cardiac arrhythmia – in the first year following myocardial infarction by placing these patients on antiarrhythmic drugs was “making sense” too. Yet, the major Cardiac Arrythmia Suppression Trial, started in 1987, indicated that the drugs only produced more deaths. Since fat deposits are a big part of coronary artery disease leading to myocardial infarctions, to reduce cholesterol-rich foods and blood cholesterol through cholesterol-lowering drugs was making sense as well. The end result of many studies: numerous side effects of drugs with hardly any benefit, at a staggering cost. Since excessive free radicals are common to virtually all degenerative diseases, it made much sense to recommend supplements—antioxidants—as functional medicine does to reduce these diseases. However, several major trials have showed just the opposite results.

Homeopathy is widely considered a make-no-sense, overdiluted, energized water; yet when its containing ‘nothing’ vaccine was tested on 2.5 million people against a deadly leptospirosis infection in Cuba, it fared even better than a conventional ‘real’ vaccine that cost 10 times more. Ideas deemed not to make sense in biology and medicine such as jumping genes, bacteria causing stomach ulcers, proteins infecting and destroying the brain, (prions in Mad Cow disease) yet have ended up earning Nobel prizes for their previously widely ridiculed scientists. The bottom line: Functional medicine, where is your real proof that all of these “make-sense” scientific profiles and treatments aren’t just a big mirage and total waste? Considering that selling these fancy lab profiles generate 110 million dollars annually, for which we all pay indirectly through astronomical health insurance premiums, this may not be an idle question.

These photos add to the obvious answer too. The first shows copies of the tests brought to me by a patient who has been treated based on these and very similar other tests and remained just as sick for over a dozen years. The second photo reflects a number of nutraceuticals consumed by another patient based on the same type of tests and similar “make-sense” information. She has remained just as sick for 34 years, until she started FCT.

These tests and treatments cannot possibly address the ‘promised land’ of functional medicine, “biochemical individuality,” or something else to unlock chronic diseases. No one has ever seen such a land, and it represents only a speck, above far-deeper entities. Among these entities is genetic individuality, which no one at this time in medicine well understands and can do much about, to indirectly quote geneticists from Dr. O’Mahony’s book. Two, all the biochemical markers originate from internal organs and tissues, which these tests cannot access. Three, true individuality is not biochemical but energetic since according to physics all body chemistry is run by energy fields. Thus, strictly scientifically speaking, a more correct term would not be biochemical, but energetic individuality. But since these individualities cannot be altered, they only carry unnecessary clinical meaning and distraction.

Real science abhors unnecessary fancy verbiage, which only detracts from the real issues. That’s why Einstein despised such empty talking as superfluous erudition. Also, biochemical or energetic profiles can fluctuate on a 24/7 basis as the result of toxicological, electromagnetic, and infectious agents, and even mood, affecting organs and genes themselves. From here it is obvious that neither can these tests provide any semblance of biochemical individuality nor can the pharmaceutical treatments they call for change anything of essence. True, the idea of detoxification is important. But as promoted by functional medicine, to carry it out through folic acid and other pills to allegedly promote DNA methylation for gene detoxification from mercury and other toxins is at best a shot in the dark, at worst, playing Russian roulette with cancer. Firstly, methylation is not the only mechanism that protects DNA; RNA and histone are related too, but how to control these remains unknown. Concerning methylation, the scientific literature states that excessive methylation causes cancer, once a fine line is crossed. Lab tests or doctors cannot determine this fine line.

After years of testing folic acid, other B vitamins and pills as unnecessary through bioresonance testing, at least with FCT treatment, I contacted a national expert in methylation and epigenetics, Professor Michael K. Skinner, PhD. He has conducted dozens of scientific studies and stated that folic acid might offer some protective effect only in folate-deficient populations and in the process of acute exposure to chemicals. “Outside of this, folate is harmful if given in high doses. The epigenetic programming we see is permanent and cannot be modified with any dietary supplement, even folate. I would be cautious about recommending folate as [such] high levels are likely more harmful than the original situation.”

All in all, the best kept secret in medicine is that the real reasons for so many tests and treatments under Big Science has been reiterated by physics Professor David Deutsch, PhD. It is that the important problem-solving tool in science is not the data itself but understanding the key principles which run it. In this way, one accomplishes far more with knowing factually far less and vice versa. He specifically stated that if medicine used physics to get to the depth or real causes of diseases, it would need far fewer specialists and accomplish much more. (The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes–and Its Implications)

So, instead of pursuing the impossible through all of these unnecessary immune, detoxification, hormone, neurotransmitter and other profiles, FCT simply goes to the very depth—internal organs—to find the main causes of their illness. It accomplishes this through the existing energetic communication between the organs and muscles.

Please, read this email that I have just received from a total stranger who compares the findings between FCT and functional medicine tests:

BLOCK? SHADE? ITALICS?

From……………@ymail.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2019 5:06 PM
To: info@yurkovsky.com
Subject: Interested in Becoming an FCT Practitioner

We’ve used a variety of functional medicine programs and tools and it always amazes me that FCT testing results consistently match with our very expensive functional medicine labs!

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However, FCT testing is far more informative because besides detecting malfunctioned organs, it also determines the main causes of these malfunctions.

  One of many concrete examples from FCT practice reflects how its depth makes it easy, while biochemical-pharmaceutical medicine is hard.

Several years ago, I saw a new patient who had developed a severe neurological disease right in a bath tub while using some detox powder. She was hospitalized for two-three weeks, seen by many specialists, 14 doctors in total, and had undergone endless batteries of tests and treatments. Her hospital bill was $296,000 with more charges to come. I did not believe the figure until she showed me the copy of the bill. Nevertheless, following all of this impressive Big Science care, the real cause of her disease remained unknown with its symptoms just covered with high doses of prednisone and other drugs; and she still felt very sick.

Going right to the depth level of her disease—nerves, immune, and other organs—FCT bioresonance testing determined that the detox powder was the offender as it contained mercury. After only a single treatment, with energetically programmed water to expel it, she reported a substantial improvement in her condition, while a prednisone dose was significantly reduced.

Conclusion

While both conventional and alternative health practitioners continue looking to new research and treatments to end failures, the real answer paradoxically comes from a far simpler and seemingly unscientific solution. Quoting a kaballic rabbi that “God’s main tool for obtaining high knowledge is a bulldozer to the walls which block it,” it seems necessary to do the same in medicine. FCT has evolved by tearing down such walls, which functional and pharmaceutical medicine represent.

© by Savely Yurkovsky MD

About the Author

Savely Yurkovsky, MD, is internationally known as an author and teacher with an extensive background in the thorough study of scientific principles behind the numerous alternative and conventional approaches. Having realized that the primary source of health and disease, according to physics, stems from the corresponding cellular energy fields, he adopted a revolutionary new medical model, one that interfaces the theories of biology and physics established by his mentor, Professor Emeritus William A. Tiller, PhD, of Stanford University.

Having evolved a unique bio-energetic medical system that integrates a great deal of pertinent but, until now, underused knowledge from medical and non-medical sciences, Dr. Yurkovsky’s system has been able to transform the often-vague nature of medical specialties from “hit and miss” paradigms into a far more effective, exact, and predictable science. Dr. Yurkovsky has founded a teaching organization, “SYY Integrated Health Systems, Ltd.,” which is dedicated to sharing his medical system under the concept of FCT – Field Control Therapy^® or Guided Digital Medicine^TM. Since 1999, he has taught this curriculum to medical doctors and licensed health care professionals with special emphasis on energy-based diagnostic and therapeutic modalities aimed particularly at toxicological, biological or nuclear agents. These, as a rule, elude conventional and most of the alternative diagnostic methods yet represent the primary source of all chronic diseases. His book Biological, Chemical, and Nuclear Warfare – Protecting Yourself and Your Loved Ones: The Power of Digital Medicine is an excellent illustration of both the scientific basis and effective practical means to combat the ravages of acute and chronic diseases in our toxic world. His system is the only alternative medical modality that has drawn attention from one of the departments of the Homeland Security Office. This year, along with several other doctors from premier medical schools in the US, he has been nominated for the prestigious Bravewell Leadership Award for “significant contributions to the field of medicine” and “compelling vision for the future of medicine.”

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