For health professionals

Clinical Nutrition: A Functional Approach, 2nd Edition

Many of today’s most challenging, costly, and debilitating conditions, including a variety of age-related disease, are now recognized as being closely tied to the mismatch between dietary and lifestyle habits and genetic predisposition. Enabling you to use the entire arsenal of food components on behalf of your patient’s health is the purpose of this book, and one of the main goals of functional medicine.

Herbs and Natural Supplements: An Evidence-Based Guide, 2nd edition

Herbs and Natural Supplements: An Evidence-Based Guide 2nd edition presents evidence-based information on the 120 most popular herbs, nutrients and food supplements. Organised alphabetically by common name, each herb or nutrient listed includes information such as daily intake, main actions/indications, adverse reactions, contraindications and precautions, safety in pregnancy, and more.

Textbook of Functional Medicine

Clinicians who have chosen to focus on the management of complex, chronic disease and primary preventive care have not chosen an easy path. This book creates a new road map for improving patient outcomes across a wide range of chronic health conditions. It includes 37 chapters authored by experts from many disciplines whose knowledge has never before been integrated in a single text. The approaches to disease management and prevention described here represent the evolution of the functional medicine model over more than 20 years, through the voices of leading clinicians and scientists.

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) is the most highly rated peer-reviewed journal in ISI's nutrition and dietetics category and publishes the latest worldwide basic and clinical studies relevant to human nutrition in topics such as obesity, vitamins and minerals, nutrition and disease, and energy metabolism. Periodically, supplements to the AJCN are published, and these contain proceedings from internationally recognized conferences on clinical nutrition.

Website: http://www.ajcn.org/

Integrative Medicine: A Clinicians Journal

Launched as a peer-reviewed journal in 2002, Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal (IMCJ) provides practitioners with a practical and comprehensive approach to integrating alternative therapies with conventional medicine. The journal is published 6 times per year under the leadership of Joseph Pizzorno, ND, editor in chief, a cofounder and former president of Bastyr University.

Website: http://www.imjournal.com/index.cfm

PubMed Central

PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Website: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

PubMed

PubMed is a service of the U.S National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Website: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

Natural Standard Database

Natural Standard was founded by clinicians and researchers to provide high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies including Foods, Supplements and Herbs, Health and Wellness, Medical Conditions, Brand Names, Genomics and Proteomics as well as providing Interactive Tools. This international multidisciplinary collaboration now includes contributors from more than 100 eminent academic institutions.

Website: http://naturalstandard.com/index.asp

Linus Pauling Institute's Micronutrient Information

The Linus Pauling Institute's Micronutrient Information Center is a source for scientifically accurate information regarding the roles of vitamins, minerals, other nutrients, dietary phytochemicals (plant chemicals that may affect health), and some foods in preventing disease and promoting health.

Website: http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/

The Institute for Functional Medicine

Functional Medicine is personalised medicine that deals with primary prevention and underlying causes instead of symptoms for serious chronic disease.

The Institute for Functional Medicine Professional Membership is primarily aimed at clinicians and scientists whose interest in functional medicine is deeply connected to examining the emerging research, attending CME courses, discussing issues and patients with colleagues, and so forth.

Website: http://www.functionalmedicine.org/