Key Takeaways:

• Collects early work showing how targeted diet changes and supplementation can be used to manage specific chronic illnesses.
• Bridges basic lab research on nutrients with case histories and clinical protocols, foreshadowing the “functional medicine” model Bland later helped popularize.
• Encourages clinicians to treat food and micronutrients as primary tools, not as secondary lifestyle advice tacked on after drug therapy.
• Represents a key moment where nutrition began to be framed as a specialized clinical science rather than just general health advice.