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THE EVOLUTION

OF TOTAL HEALTH

RESTORATION Q. Tell us what your specialized ap-

proach to medicine is all about.
CONTINUES Dr. Forman: Our practice is entirely
focused on chronic degenerative health
problems. These types of health condi-
Q & A with Miami’s Healthcare tions, such as high blood sugar, low thy-
roid function, and IBS are poorly treated
Pioneer Dr. Michael Forman using only drug therapies. I am focused
on correcting the cause: organ function
that has declined over time.
By Bill Kress
Q. Why should people stop saying
While some people may still be stuck medicine claimed for many years that natural natural therapies are in the category of
on calling natural medicine “alternative” therapies are alternative because they have “alternative” medicine?
medicine, the use of this well-worn term not been “scientifically proven.” As it turns Dr. Forman: Because they need to
may now be considered totally inaccurate. out this is not necessarily true. Dr. Forman consider that many natural therapies are
That’s because those who have long asserts that not only are they proven to be in fact scientifically proven to be effective.
known natural healing as an alternative effective, natural medicines are often used as They are also often used as the primary
form of medicine are now discovering that the primary component of many drugs. component of many of our drugs. In
Functional Medicine with nutritional- Even though Dr. Forman has a busy addition, there are countless drugs and
based therapies often works better and more medical practice, he believes the general procedures in conventional medical stud-
consistently than many drug therapies. public is not yet fully embracing Functional ies that have not necessarily been proven
Miami’s leading pioneer in this field Medicine with nutrition-based medicines as scientifically, but are used because we
is Dr. Michael Forman of Total Health the most appropriate care for many chronic (doctors) know from clinical experience
Restoration. Dr. Forman says that for too health conditions. that they work.
long, health care has been divided into just And it’s time for that to stop.
two categories: real medicine and “that We caught up with Dr. Forman at his Q: So you believe the conventional
stuff,” referring to practices that use natural MCH Medical Center clinic located beside medical system in the U.S. is somehow
healing methods. the Baptist Hospital Medical Campus to flawed?
Proponents of so-called “conventional” learn more about it. Dr. Forman: Frankly, it would be hard to
find very many people these days who
do not think that our current convention-
al medical system is flawed. To be fair, the
system is designed to treat and address
acute and emergency medical problems
– and for that it is pretty good. Our sys-
tem is not, however, designed to address
the majority of health problems in the
U.S. – chronic degenerative diseases.
There are basically three types of
health problems: First, there are congen-
ital conditions such as Type-1 Diabetes,
Spina Bifida, Hemophilia etc.; secondly,
there are traumas like a heart attack,
stroke, cancer, falling off the roof, etc.,
which require medical intervention as
acute or emergency medical problems.
Add these two types up and it’s about
40 percent of the health problems in the
U.S.
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