Unsourced Statement: Functional Medicine Represents a $66 Billion Market Opportunity in the US

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Found via this article from san.com:

The doctor who claims functional medicine reversed her MS

A physician with multiple sclerosis says diet and lifestyle changes helped her regain mobility, sparking debate over functional medicine’s promise.

san.com

The doctor who claims functional medicine reversed her MS​

Linking to a page of The Intellectual Medicine University:

Functional Medicine Training: 10 Stats Proving $500K Revenue Growth

10 industry stats prove functional medicine is a $66B+ opportunity. Learn how providers add $250K-500K revenue with BHRT training, IV courses & peptide therapy from IMED University.

www.imeduniversity.com

But this might be a better page, although again, no source is mentioned for the claims:

Ultralight Raises $9.3M to Arm Doctors in Personalized Medicine Revolt - BriefGlance.com

As clinicians flee traditional medicine, Ultralight's AI platform gets $9.3M to build the operating system for a new era of root-cause healthcare.

briefglance.com

The Great Resignation of Doctors​

The healthcare industry is grappling with a quiet but powerful movement. Disillusioned by a system that prioritizes volume over value, a significant number of physicians are leaving conventional practice models. Burnout fueled by 15-minute appointments, overwhelming administrative tasks, and an inability to practice the deep, investigative medicine they were trained for has led them to seek alternatives.

This exodus is fueling one of the fastest-growing segments of practice formation in the United States. The market for functional, integrative, and longevity medicine is experiencing explosive growth, with some projections showing the global complementary and alternative medicine market reaching over $900 billion by 2034, growing at a compound annual rate of nearly 18%. In the U.S. alone, the functional medicine market is valued at over $66 billion and continues to see double-digit annual growth.

These clinicians are not abandoning medicine; they are seeking to reclaim it. They aim to build practices centered on the full patient story, using advanced diagnostics and personalized protocols to address the root causes of chronic illness. However, in building this future, they have found themselves running on infrastructure designed for the system they left behind.

 

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Critics say the combination of limited evidence and high out-of-pocket costs can make the field appear driven as much by revenue as by patient benefit

Kind of hilarious to make this argument in the US. Elsewhere in the world it's certainly a difference with real medicine, but in the US this is just regular health care.

This is the natural outcome of psychosomatic ideology, there will be so much more of it. The article frames the same "root causes" that we usually see in those models: diet and stress. Even though they are obviously no such thing. The Venn diagram of psychosomatic ideology and alternative medicine is almost a perfect circle.

Truly one of the most bizarre regressions in human history.