Unconventional Medicine: Join the Revolution to Reinvent Healthcare, Reverse Chronic Disease, and Create a Practice You Love - Softcover

"Chris's book shines a light on why conventional medicine is failing to address the epidemic of chronic disease--and gives practitioners a clear vision and path for reinventing healthcare." - Mark Hyman, MD, Director, Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine & Chairman, Institute for Functional Medicine

"Americans are anything but healthy. With 45% of us suffering from a chronic disease despite over $3 trillion in healthcare expenditure, something is terribly wrong. In Unconventional Medicine, Chris Kresser explores the depths of this failed system and reveals how misdirected altruism underpins our healthcare system's inadequacies at every level. But beyond the exposé, he provides a blueprint for positivity, envisioning how things could be moving forward. By embracing the tenets of Functional Medicine, Kresser reveals that our lifestyle choices are fundamentally the key determinants of health, disease resistance, and longevity. This understanding refocuses responsibility back to the consumer and Unconventional Medicine eloquently guides these choices." - David Perlmutter, MD, Author #1 New York Times bestseller, Grain Brain and The Grain Brain Whole Life Plan

"Whether you call it progressive medicine, as I do, or unconventional medicine, as Chris does here--this is truly the future of health and wellness." - Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, MD, BBC television's Doctor in the House and author of The Power of Balance

"A passionate manifesto that will inspire healthcare practitioners to embrace a functional medicine approach to preventing and reversing chronic disease." - Terry Wahls, MD, Author of The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles
"Chris's book is both a visionary call-to-action to redesign healthcare, and a practical roadmap for creating an effective and rewarding functional medicine practice." - Kirk Parsley, MD, Health Optimization Physician and Former SEAL
"As Albert Einstein said, we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. Medicine suffers from major problems currently, from its failure to treat complex chronic conditions such as Alzheimer's disease successfully to its overwhelming costs to its reliance on many drugs with serious side effects. In Chris Kresser's book, Unconventional Medicine, he provides exactly the sort of thinking and analysis that will help to solve these problems, and usher in a new era of more effective medicine. Anyone involved with providing or receiving medical care could benefit from reading this book." - Dale Bredesen, MD, Founding President and Professor Emeritus, Buck Institute and author of The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline
"Seventy percent of health care costs are a result of poor lifestyle decisions. Our healthcare system is broken and in dire need of a reset. Chris Kresser has the revelatory vision and cogent analysis to create a new paradigm of functional and ancestral health for all." - Sara Gottfried, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Younger, The Hormone Reset Diet, and The Hormone Cure

"Chris Kresser is doing a fantastic job leading the effort to bring the world of Functional Medicine into mainstream prominence. With so many chronic health conditions defying traditional medical treatment, sufferers are faced with a confusing array of options ranging from sensible to useless and fraudulent. Kresser's broad efforts to educate both the public and aspiring practitioners is accelerating the understanding and acceptance of the fundamental functional medicine concepts. He is particularly skilled at detailing the integration of simple, healthy lifestyle practices with progressive health care to promote wellness and vitality." - Mark Sisson, New York Times bestselling author of The Keto Reset Diet, and The Primal Blueprint