functional medicine

noun

functional medicine

noun

Etymology Created by charismatic leaders in the 1990s; more in Wikipedia at functional medicine.

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A form of alternative medicine; its many critics have asserted that it is the same as integrative medicine or is an especially pernicious subset thereof; many consider all of these things pseudoscientific (for example, with deliberately vague and unfalsifiable concepts) and in some cases even quackery.

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