What is Functional Medicine?

Functional medicine is such a unique and personalized medicine that deals with primary prevention and underlying causes instead of symptoms for chronic illness. Evaluating organ and system functions rather than looking for a specific disease is a basic principle of functional medicine.

Functional medicine involves a whole new way of understanding, assessing, preventing, and treating chronic disease. It integrates a variety of science-based approaches to find and treat underlying imbalances in how the body’s systems are functioning. Practitioners focus on what’s unique about a patient and try to understand how genetics, environment, and lifestyle interact with the body’s systems to create dysfunction. Treatments are then tailored to change and restore how the body’s systems function.

How is it different from conventional medicine?

Functional medicine is based on how the body’s systems are linked together and how their function is influenced by both the environment and genetics. Conventional medicine, in contrast, is based on compartmentalization into specialties. The conventional specialties are centered mainly on the body’s different organ systems (cardiology, endocrinology, neurology, etc) and focus only on symptoms management instead  treating the root cause of disease.

Six Core Principals of Functional Medicine.

1. An understanding of the biochemical individuality of each human being, based on the concepts of genetic and environmental uniqueness;
2.  Awareness of the evidence that supports a patient-centered rather than a disease-centered approach to treatment;
3. Search for a dynamic balance among the internal and external body, mind, and spirit;
4. Interconnections of internal physiological factors;
5. Identification of health as a positive vitality, not merely the absence of disease, and emphasizing those factors that encourage the enhancement of a vigorous physiology;
6. Promotion of organ reserve as the means to enhance the health span, not just the life span, of each patient.

Key conditions treated by Functional medicine practitioners

Any chronic diseases or  health issue in children or adults can be treated using a functional medicine approach. Whether you have already been diagnosed with a chronic disease or are still struggling to figure out what is causing your symptoms, a functional medicine practitioner can help. Examples of chronic conditions functional medicine practitioners treat, depending on their training and focus, include:

• Chronic symptoms of all types including fatigue, sleep problems, pain, weight issues, headaches and allergies.
• Hormonal disorders like ,Adrenal Fatigue, infertility PCOS,PMS, Estrogen dominance and hypothyroidism
• skin rashes, poor memory and concentration, frequent colds, constipation
• Mood disorders like depression and anxiety
• Women’s health issues like obesity, infertility, hirsutism, PMS, endometriosis, fibroids ,menopause symptoms.
• Men’s health issues like Fibromyalgia ,and low testosterone .etc.
• Metabolic diseases like diabetes, prediabetes, and metabolic syndrome
• Cardiovascular diseases like high cholesterol, heart disease, hypertension.
• Gastrointestinal disorders like IBS, celiac diseases, dysbiosis etc.
• Autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus

What Sets A Functional Medicine Doctor Apart  From Conventional Medicine Doctor?

Functional medicine Doctor have a bird’s eye view, look at the big picture and always strive to get the root cause of disease.They have a unique skill to think outside of the box and  generally spend more time with their patients than practitioners in the conventional medical system. Patients are usually interviewed at length and fill out questionnaires on a variety of topics as a comprehensive consultation.. Laboratory tests of many types, including some less conventional test, are typically recommended to help determine which key biological processes are functioning normally and which are not. All the collected information helps the functional medicine practitioner determine the underlying imbalances and influences that have helped create the disease or dysfunction.

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