While I had great faith in science, I had begun to see that I stood at the edge of what medicine knew, and that medicine, given its own conservative, data-driven, evidence-based approach, had run out of things to offer me. I needed something else: I needed help getting through my day, and help figuring out why I felt better on some days than on others. Alternative and functional medicine’s attention to nutrition and sleep and improving my health around the edges had a great deal to offer me, even if it was just the alleviation or improvement of my worst symptoms, or a few more days of energy
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