What is Functional Medicine?

Functional Medicine is 21^st century medicine, a unique and system oriented medicine, devoted to understanding the root causes of chronic illness and then using a personalized medicine approach to intervene and reverse these underlying causes of disease, returning a patient to a state of health. This approach can be used to target virtually any chronic medical condition and, when focused on the aging process itself, is called anti-aging medicine. Viewing your body as an integrated system, functional medicine uses a systems oriented approach to a patient centered care.

How is Functional Medicine Different from Traditional Medicine?

Unlike conventional medicine, Functional Medicine addresses the patient as a whole ,not as an isolated set of systems and symptoms. While conventional medicine focuses on suppressing the symptoms of a medical condition, Functional Medicine discovers and addresses its underlying causes.

Functional Medicine looks at both external (environmental) and internal (lifestyle) factors to determine the best course of patient care. Functional Medicine can help in these cases. Functional Medicine works to diagnose these conditions at a much earlier stage and to reverse them, hopefully preventing or even curing the full-blown disease state.

Medical Conditions that dramatically respond to Functional Medicine?

Conditions that can be treated successfully with functional medicine.. Include:

• Hormonal Imbalance
• PCOS /PMS/Infertility
• Obesity
• High Blood Pressure
• High Cholesterol
• GERD/Indigestion/Acid Reflux
• Constipation
• Menopause
• Hypothyroidism
• Food Sensitivities and Food Allergies
• Irritable Bowel and Intestinal Parasites/Dysbiosis
• Migraines
• Anxiety and Depression
• High Blood Sugar
• Type 2 Diabetes
• Fibromyalgia
• Osteoporosis
• Autoimmune Disease
• Chronic Fatigue
• Fibromyalgia

What Sets a Functioal Medicine apart from Conventional medicine.?

Functional Medicine is Personalized Medicine

Each patient is assessed as an individual with an extensive medical, dietary, toxicity, and nutritional history. We use advanced functional testing to determine root causes of disease. Treatment is individualized based on specific functional imbalances detected via this approach. All Medications are safe and effective, science based and customized just for the individual patient, including advanced nutritional supplements, functional medicine, healthy diet, fitness regimens, and natural hormone balancing ,may be employed to return the patient to a state of health.

Functional Medicine is a Patient-Centered Medicine

By using extensive intake questionnaires, spending ample time with you during visits, and communicating with you by email and telephone, your functional medicine doctor will have a better understanding of you and your needs than perhaps any other physician.

Functional Medicine is a Partnership between You and Your Physician

Your Functional medicine doctor is such a unique doctor who will act as a coach, as an educator, as a nutritionist, as a detective, as well as a prescriber of treatment. You will be responsible for altering those aspects of your lifestyle that are contributing to the disease state and cooperating with the prescribed treatments. Your doctor will reassess you and point out where improvements can be made over time.

Functional Medicine uses the Latest Scientific Data and Technology

Functional Medicine uses the Latest and advanced Technology to evaluate you and treat your condition. All treatments prescribed are FDA approved and supported by evidence in the scientific and medical literature. Your doctor is willing to discuss the scientific rational for treatments and the degree of scientific evidence that is available and to involve you in the decision making process.

Functional Medicine is a true Health Care.

Functional Medicine is a true health care, unlike the disease care model of Conventional Medicine. We now have the knowledge to go beyond the current crisis care model and offer patients a much better approach to their health. We can incorporate lifestyle medicine, nutrition, supplements, stress reduction and exercise to improve the functioning of organs as a means of preventing disease and creating vibrant, sustainable health.  We can address the healthcare needs of the 21st century.