In 1988 Dr. Jeffrey Bland (drjeffreybland) said: we need to stop focusing so much on individual organs in medicine and focus on systems biology–how all of these organs are interconnected. On this week’s episode of the BeingBrigid Show I sit down with Dr. Jeffrey Bland (drjeffreybland) for an inspiring conversation on how he started the entire field of functional medicine and pioneered an entirely new way of thinking–teaching others about mitochondria, insulin resistance, inflammation and the gut microbiome. In 1988, when he originated the concept of functional medicine, he had a “burn the boats” mentality–meaning he wasn’t going back to his prestigious career in academia. Most of his colleagues in medicine thought he was crazy. And then came around many years later to credit him for being revolutionary. This is one of the most important conversations I’ve ever recorded. Dr. Bland explains how to think about disease from a systems perspective, why autoimmune disease is so mu...