¨Volume 2¨of the Inflammation Mastery and Functional Inflammology series of books and videos is now available as the exact same text in 2 different formats FULL COLOR Textbook of Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Vol. 2: Protocols for Common Inflammatory Disorders ISBN-10: 0990620441. Available on Amazon.com and discounted at the ICHNFM website. GRAYSCALE discounted printing Functional Medicine Clinical Protocols for Inflammatory Disorders via Amazon´s publishing company https://www.createspace.com/6137194 The complete work is published as Inflammation Mastery, 4th Edition. This work is the culmination of several thousand research publications combined with Dr Vasquez's many years

Scientific writing is different from other types of writing, with the major themes being concision, precision, and translation. I see these issues all the time in my editing and writing work; I just started reviewing for another Medline journal, and I also just rejected a major paper submitted to our journal IJHNFM: Concision: Keep the article as short as possible; make each word count. Articles that are too wordy don't get read because the readers realize that either/both: 1) the author does not understand the material sufficiently to make the message clear, and/or 2) their time would be better used reading something else. In either of these situations, the article (same with presentati

Atanas G. Atanasov PhD Biographical sketch: Dr. Atanasov is a senior researcher at Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Vienna, Austria. He was involved in the execution of the Austrian national network “Drugs From Nature Targeting Inflammation” (DNTI, 2008-2014), a collaborative research project which has been financed with >3 000 000 Euro from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) to support the identification and characterization of plant-derived natural products counteracting inflammatory responses. Dr. Atanasov has also been appointed as a beneficiary member and actively contributed to the European Commission 7th Framework Program (FP7) network consortium “Good Practice in Traditional

Barcelona Spain—March 8, 2016: Doctors have struggled for years in their treatment of chronic pain disorders such as migraine and fibromyalgia because the treatments have been based on an incomplete understanding of these conditions; the resulting treatment plans were therefore incomplete and insufficiently effective, leaving many patients to suffer despite receiving the “best available” medical treatments, generally with multiple pharmaceutical drugs such as analgesics of various types, each with significant cost and adverse effects. New comprehensive reviews of the research literature have provided more accurate disease models to provide clinicians new ways of understanding these condition

Citation: Vasquez A. Neuroinflammation in fibromyalgia and CRPS is multifactorial. Nature Reviews Rheumatology 2016; March 3: doi:10.1038/nrrheum.2016.25. http://www.nature.com/nrrheum/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nrrheum.2016.25.html Basically what I do in this Correspondence is refute the idea that these "chronic pain" and neuroinflammatory / central sensitization conditions are "idiopathic" and are --rather and importantly-- multifactorial. The distinction is of massive importance, because if we view these conditions as multifactorial we can then begin to dismantle these conditions by addressing the components. Based on my previous work starting in 2004 on migraine (textbook: "Integrative O

Among the perplexing paradoxes that exist in healthcare is coexistence of our adoration of allopathy for its “scientific method” along with the description of most chronic diseases as “idiopathic.” If the allopathic use of the scientific method were so adroit, then why are so many conditions described as having “no known cause”? Is the scientific method inadequate, or is the allopathic lens incapable of bringing disease causation into focus? Perhaps a third option exists: that some groups—namely the medical profession generally and the pharmaceutical companies specifically—benefit by convincing us that most diseases have “no known cause” and that therefore the best that doctors and patients