'optimum health' and 'living well' are apparently a rich man's game... reserved for those who can pay cash money...
searching on 'affordable functional medicine' has me bumping into a few of these... here's another good-intentions functional doctor claiming to make functional medicine affordable for the masses... yet having no clue what price point that would be or how to do precisely that... which renders their words empty and meaningless... the phrasing irritating to 20% of the american population who work 25-60 hrs/wk, but are suffering all the ailments of the MTHFR gene draining their energy, putting pain in all their muscles/joints/teeth, or plaguing their children with special needs i.e. austistic...
so these families struggling for decades to save enough in a 30-year no-growth stagnant-wages era, are unable to afford anything beyond basic food, rx, and utilities, trying to stay out of debt, juggle bills, forced to self-medicate or resort to selling things they rather not...
these 'progressive' doctors may have best intentions and believe their own words and are using classic marketing tactics to survive, but all of it tends to ring closer to 'false advertising'. this doctor did not open up her page to public comment or she would have felt the wrath of many she infers to be helping more than the next functional doctor.
this doctor, and i think the entire functional row, are from the progressive left end of political elites which, are doing the same thing that lost them the election... they're closely associated to upper east side wine/cheese lexus liberal elites, intimately tied to waste/fraud crony rackets even moreso than those they point fingers at for causing the problems we face. and they're doing it in this space. baiting people with false promises, giving them no access to tangible results, wont find ways to help the poor unless they're on the take, yet parading themselves around, campaigning as if anything but the same.
these doctors are just the newest 'alternative' on the old aka 'meet the new boss, same as the old boss'. the election was lost because liberal elites, like functional doctors, had no accessible message, were out of touch with blue collar labor aka all ethnicities and couldn't pull enough poor folk to support them. and the stakes for all the hypocrisy and falsehoods are equally high in both games: millions of families will suffer and die unable to gain access.
progressive elites have no clue what it means to be poor or why poor folks want to be rich and will follow a player fat cat who might have a clue on how to level the playing field enough for them. full disclosure: i am an ex-patriot who doesn't vote to stay maximally objective.
A new kind of functional medicine doctor | Well+Good
https://www.wellandgood.com/good-advice/parsley-health-affordable-functional-medicine-nyc/
She was practicing at the Morrison Center in New York City when she got the idea to strike out on her own. "I couldn't afford myself at my own practice," she says. Typically, functional doctors like Dr. Hyman, Dr. Morrison, and Frank Lipman, MD, don't take insurance and command hourly rates that approximate your rent, making the barrier to entry into functional medicine prohibitive for many people. "I'm interested in creating something affordable that can help a lot of people," she says.
Since she had always had one foot in the tech world, producing conferences like Health 2.0,she decided to apply current technology and a membership model to a functional medicine practice to streamline the experience and make it more accessible. Parsley Health was born.
How it works
Parsley uses a membership model, so Dr. Berzin doesn't take insurance, and you join for a full year at $149 per month. That price includes five annual 60- to 80-minute visits with the doctor (when was the last time you got a tenth of that time with your doctor?), unlimited health coaching with the two full-time coaches on staff, email access to Dr. Berzin and your coaches, and events like yoga classes and green juice happy hours. [and this doesn't include periodic repeat labwork or supplements which will easily double the cost and $300+/mo is not a budget 20% of americans are born into poverty and its the poor, nearly poor, and working poor across america who need it the most, half of them breaking their backs for lexus class and limo class elites to enjoy all they see.]
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