FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE

• Functional Medicine - What is it?

Functional Medicine is built on the foundation of conventional medicine while taking a personalized and integrative approach to health and wellness. It looks at preventing and managing the core causes of complex chronic disease and illness from the roots outwards.

• The Foundational Pillars of Functional Medicine

1. Integrative, science-based methodology

2. Patient-centered care

3. Integrating the best medical practices from multiple disciplines

Integrating, science-based methodology

This methodology is looking at the patient as a whole. Taking the patient and looking from the inside-out. Looking into internal factors such as mind, body and spirit. Then external factors like physical and social environment. Diving deep within the unique genetic makeup and moving outward to physiological imbalances. These imbalances may present as complaints, symptoms and eventually disease.

Patient-centered care

This is where the physician develops a unique and personalized management plan that addresses the needs of the patient After hearing a patients history and learning their unique story, the physician can relay it in a context that brings the patient into the discovery process. This helps the patient personally take control of their health and wellness. A true holistic approach to healthcare and medicine.

Integrating the best medical practices from multiple disciplines

Along with western and conventional medicines, the functional medicine physician integrates other medical approaches from around the world. This is a comprehensive understanding of science based practices that encompass what it truly means to be healthy and well. This integration of practices from around the world helps bring an emphasis to the following…

• prevention of disease through nutrition, exercise and lifestyle

• using the latest laboratory testing and diagnostic technique and tools

• prescribed combination of medications, supplements, botanicals, exercise plans, therapeutic diets, rehabilitation plans, detoxification programs and stress management techniques