What is Functional Medicine?
Functional medicine methods are used to discover the underlying root cause of your symptoms, rather than covering them up (often with prescription medications). It is the restoration of optimal functioning of the body and brain. Functional medicine providers restore health by supporting individuals with personalized care, based on genetics, testing and analysis, and lifestyle and environmental factors.
When supporting a patient with a functional medicine approach, we may find one cause with many conditions or one condition with many causes. In either case, we look at the body as a whole interconnected system, rather than just focusing on the organ that’s expressing symptoms.
Functional medicine providers take a significant amount of time with patients to fully understand their health history, genetic risks, and lifestyle behaviors- like sleep, movement, stress, diet, etc.