Essay in progress, meanwhile please see this PDF sample from Dr Vasquez's textbook. Here are the facts:
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Medical doctors receive zero training in clinical nutrition in medical school and residency; the only training that we receive in nutrition is the study in Pathology of nutritional deficiency diseases, but doctors have no clue how to use nutrition effectively in the interventional treatment of clinical disease.
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Medical journals such as JAMA, NEJM, AFP and news outlets such as Medscape publish rubbish on nutrition (usually by medical authors who of course have no training and zero expertise in nutrition, ie the blind leading the blind), engage in active fear-mongering against nutrition, and essentially exacerbate confusion and ignorance among physicians rather than serving them appropriately with accurate and useful information.
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These organizations and publications should hire a real expert physician with doctorate-level training in clinical nutrition: Dr Alex Vasquez
Perpetuating Nutrition Ignorance among Medical Physicians: The Role of Medical Schools, Medscape, JAMA, NEJM, and AFP/AAFP
Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition
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Not simply a "book": 1,182 pages in color + more than 20 hours of video access
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Discount via ICHNFM.ORG: US$170 plus shipping and handling (retail: US$250 plus shipping and handling)
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Updates: Includes and bypasses everything from the previous editions published as Integrative Rheumatology (2), Naturopathic Rheumatology, Functional Inflammology and Functional Medicine Rheumatology; complete overhaul/expansion/update of the migraine and fibromyalgia protocols.
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Inflammation Mastery 4th Edition provides everything from laboratory interpretation to the details of fatty acid biochemistry and mitochondrial dysfunction and hormonal imbalances/correction in one convenient location with a complete index. Also available as a two-volume set titled Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine.
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Peer-reviewed: Yes, as you can see in the PDF sample on page 6; see also:
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Mitochondrial Nutrition in Primary Care Integrative Med 2014
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Western Diet in Inflammatory Autoimmune Diseases Current Allergy and Asthma Reports 2014
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Neuroinflammation in fibromyalgia and CRPS is multifactorial Nature Reviews Rheumatology 2016; full-text is printed in the book and in the Syllabus of the Microbiome and Dysbiosis course
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The Clinical Importance of Vitamin D (Cholecalciferol): A Paradigm Shift with Implications for All Healthcare Providers Altern Ther Health Med. 2004
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Understanding Functional Medicine by Appreciating the Web-like Interconnections of Physiologic Factors Integrative Med 2006
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Dr Vasquez introduces the "Functional Inflammology Protocol" at the 2013 International Conference on Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine (PDF brochure)
Dr Vasquez's "functional inflammology protocol", famously recalled by the FINDSEX ® acronym, is reviewed in this presentation for its application to the three general types of inflammatory diseases/responses: 1) metabolic inflammation, including glial activation and emphasizing the component of mitochondrial dysfunction, 2) allergic inflammation, including asthma and eczema, and 3) autoimmune inflammation, including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and the many other conditions that Dr Vasquez has detailed in his books starting in 2004 (Integrative Orthopedics) and 2006 (Integrative Rheumatology, now published as Inflammation Mastery, 4th Edition).