What is Functional Medicine?
Functional Medicine is a comprehensive approach to health care that aims toward improving the physical and emotional well-being of an individual by restoring metabolic equilibrium. Functional Medicine includes nutritional testing, a physical assessment, and close attention to your medical history and ecological context to ascertain and remedy subtle imbalances in your body chemistry.
How does Functional Medicine differ from conventional medicine?
Each patient is biochemically unique. Your treatments are custom tailored and based on analysis of your individual molecular biochemistry, hormonal secretion patterns, and immune responses.
Your lifestyle factors contribute significantly to your wellness. Diet, stress, and environmental factors can have a fundamental impact on your health.
Minor symptoms are as important as major symptoms. Functional Medicine recognizes patterns of seemingly unrelated symptoms that can serve as early warning signs of an illness. Treated before the onset of illness, chronic and degenerative conditions can be prevented.
Your body is created as an integrated whole, not a series of isolated parts. By addressing the root cause of an illness instead of merely the symptoms, your diagnosis and treatment is targeted toward the underlying problem.
Toxic treatments are avoided in favor of natural alternatives whenever possible. Harmful side effects and drug interactions are therefore minimized.
Conclusion
Remember that good health is a choice. You can only make this choice when you have accurate information about your alternatives. One of our principle aims is to provide you with as much information as possible about your alternatives.
We do not intend to be a substitute to your primary care practitioner. The therapies we offer are designed to complement your current medical treatments rather than becoming a replacement. Ultimately, you make your own health decisions, and you need to accept and live with the consequences of your choices. Our goal is to help you make the wisest decisions.
