Dr Jeffrey Bland is known as the father of functional medicine, which is a medical approach that focuses on the personalized prevention and treatment of chronic diseases. Over the past 35 years, Dr Bland has traveled more than 6 million miles teaching more than 100,000 healthcare practitioners in the United States, Canada, and more than 40 other countries about functional medicine. He’s been a university biochemistry professor, a research director at the Linus Pauling Institute for Science and Medicine. He’s the co-founder of the Institute for Functional Medicine in 1991. And is the founder and current president of the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute in Seattle. He’s authored more than 100 scientific papers and 10 books for healthcare practitioners and consumers.