What Conditions are helped by Functional Medicine

     Functional medicine physicians believe that disease is caused by complex networks of relationships between different metabolic and physiological systems in the body and that these relationships are modifiable with nutrition and behavior. Practitioners take a patient-centered approach to medicine as opposed to only focusing on the individual’s disease. The goal of functional medicine is to unearth and understand these metabolic relationships and attempt to optimize or balance them to help you heal. The conventional approach to medicine is to understand your diagnosis and then prescribe medicines to treat the pathology or symptoms associated with that diagnosis. In functional medicine, the physician will work to find the chemical causes of what is ailing you and look at behaviors or environmental conditions you can change. It is common for functional medicine physicians to include health coaching and nutritional counseling as part of a patient’s treatment plan.

  WHAT CONDITIONS DO FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE PRACTITIONERS TREAT?

Functional medicine is used to get to the root cause of both physical and mental health conditions and address symptoms related to chronic health concerns including, but not limited to: • Diabetes • Heart disease • Gastrointestinal problems • Metabolic syndrome • Fibromyalgia • Chronic fatigue • Autoimmune diseases • Functional disorders • Musculoskeletal problems • Stress related disorders • Arthritis • Excess weight and slow metabolism • Migraines and headaches • Digestive disease • Anxiety • Depression • Dementia • Hormonal disorders • Heavy metal toxicity • Mold exposure • Food/environmental allergies.