NEW BOOK — PRE-ORDER NOW, ON SHELVES APRIL 27, 2027
More Vitality. Slower Aging.
Your roadmap to real energy, a sharper mind, and healthy longevity.
Dr. Jeffrey Bland has spent a lifetime studying what it actually takes to feel energized, think clearly, and stay well for the long run. In The Nourished Gene, he shares the science behind it all: how calming chronic inflammation and supporting your immune system’s everyday intelligence can restore energy, sharpen focus, and help you live a longer, healthier life.
The Nourished Gene:
Rejuvenate Your Immunity, Reverse Chronic Symptoms, and Activate Your Longevity
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THE WORK, THE WORLD
A lifetime spent redefining the root of human health.
Dr. Bland’s influence has never lived in one place. It runs through Functional Medicine, through the natural products industry he helped build, and through the researchers, farmers, fishermen, and organizations he continues to work alongside today. Explore the network behind a lifetime of lived experience.
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BIG BOLD HEALTH
Longevity is built through your body's most essential functions: energy, brain, and gut.
It all starts with a resilient immune system. Big Bold Health makes supporting it simple, with Himalayan Tartary Buckwheat, the ancient superfood at the center of Dr. Bland’s research
ORIGINAL PUBLISHED RESEARCH
The HTB Longevity Study
“The first clinical study exploring the effects of Tartary Buckwheat nutrients on
immunity, longevity pathways and epigenetics.”
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Reduction in rate of immune cell aging
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Increase in activation of the CERK pathway
Ceramide kinase, key to longevity and immunity
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Increase in activation of COP9 pathways
Linked to brain cell regulation and immune signaling
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ABOUT DR. BLAND
A lifelong teacher, whose influence keeps rippling outward.
Long before he was a founder, Dr. Bland was a teacher, and he still is one today. From the university classroom to the stage in front of thousands of practitioners, his work has always been about passing knowledge forward: to the colleagues who helped build Functional Medicine alongside him, to the students who’ve since become clinicians themselves, and to anyone willing to ask better questions about health. Explore the full story behind five decades of teaching, discovery, and influence that continues to grow.
FOR HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS
The Immuno-Metabolic Signature Program
After 50 years advancing Functional Medicine, Dr. Jeffrey Bland has distilled his life’s work into a single clinical framework — one that helps practitioners see a patient’s health trajectory to personal interventions and measure
success.
The immune system and the metabolic system are not
neighbors. They are the same machinery, read two
different ways. New insight: SII and SIRI belong in every
clinician’s first-line workup.
The Immuno-Metabolic Program is now available through Fullscript Journeys.
The Legacy
The world's first health podcast, before "podcast" was even a word.
Long before streaming or downloads, Dr. Jeffrey Bland was already doing something remarkable: recording in-depth audio commentary on emerging medical research and mailing it out on cassette tape to clinicians hungry for real answers. It was decades ahead of its time, built entirely around one idea: complex science, made usable.
Functional Medicine Update (FMU)
Recorded across generations of scientific change, FMU paired Dr. Bland's own commentary with interviews ranging from celebrated names in the field to researchers doing quietly groundbreaking work of their own, capturing new science as it emerged in real time. The digitized archive is now open for anyone to explore, a living record of how personalized medicine came to be.
DR JEFFREY BLAND AI
Five decades of wisdom, one conversation away.
Curious what actually drives energy, immune resilience, or healthy aging? Get thoughtful, evidence-informed answers, shaped by five decades of research, lectures, and writing. The Dr. Jeffrey Bland AI draws directly from his own body of work, in a voice that sounds and feels like him. It’s a resource for learning and exploration, not a substitute for medical care.
BESTSELLER
The Disease Delusion.
Published in 2014, The Disease Delusion laid the groundwork for everything Dr. Bland has written since: a case for moving beyond a disease-named medicine and toward the personalized practice of true health. It remains essential reading, and the starting point for the ideas he takes even further in The Nourished Gene.
“The Disease Delusion is the manifesto for the new medicine. Every medical student, every stakeholder in health care, and every government leader involved in health policy should read it. For the rest of us, it is our road map to true health and healing.”
Mark Hyman, MD
Trust & Testimonials
What clinicians and readers are saying.
"Dr. Bland's work changed the trajectory of my career and the lives of my patients. He gave us a science we could believe in."
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Integrative Physician
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