This textbook is a guide to the philosophy and principles of Integrative and Functional Medical Nutrition (IFMNT) in the practice of medicine, and the key role nutrition plays in restoring and maintaining wellness. The text provides an overview of recent reviews and studies of physiological and biochemical mechanisms in IFMNT, and addresses nutritional influences on the whole of human heath, including individual's poor nutrition, environmental toxicant exposures, fractured human interactions, limited physical movement, stress, sleep deprivation, and other lifestyle factors. Ultimately, it serves to help practitioners, healthcare systems, and policy makers to better understand this different and novel approach to addresses complex chronic disorders. It provides the reader with the underlying principles and practices of nutrition therapies with real world examples, and presents the most up-to-date intervention strategies and clinical tools to help the reader keep abreast of developments in this emerging, specialty field. Chapters include comprehensive coverage of the topic and clinical applications with supplementary learning features such as case studies, take home messages, question and answer chapter end reviews, algorithms, and suggested readings.  will serveas an invaluable guide for healthcare professionals in their clinical application of nutrition, lifestyle assessment, and intervention for each unique, individual patient. weiterlesen