La medicina della persona (Aboca)

Presentation of the book by Pier Luigi Rossi and Monica Bossi, at the Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino. In an era in which life expectancy has risen considerably, but living long does not always coincide with living in health, a revolutionary paradigm shift is necessary: moving from the medicine of symptomatology to the medicine of awareness. Pier Luigi Rossi and Monica Bossi invite us to move beyond the reductionist view, which dissects the body into independent organs, and to adopt a systemic view. They propose functional medicine: a discipline that does not limit itself to hiding the symptom behind a drug but investigates the deep causes of pathologies with an ecological and conscious approach, acting on the phase of dysfunction before it becomes disease. The pillar of this thinking is molecular nutrition, which considers foods no