There is a Tsunami of complex, scientific information flooding the clinics and overflowing the desks of today’s healthcare practitioners. Research has to be filtered, organized, and made relevant before clinical work can begin. It is the practicing clinician who must daily try to find the most useful answers — amid this flood of disconnected information — to the very specific and often perplexing questions that patients ask. The mantra guiding the organization of The Institute for Functional Medicine’s teaching methods is: “From complex scientific research comes functional simplicity.”