Functional Medicine
Functional medicine is a therapeutic approach toward health, wellness and prevention which emphasizes health of the whole person. Functional medicine does this through consideration of:
- genetic and lifestyle factors
- avoidance and elimination of of factors and irritants such as allergens, environmental toxins, heavy metals, stress factors
- restoration of normal digestive ecology through diet and nutraceutical support.
This orientation to medical diagnostics and therapeutics has become the cornerstone of today’s integrative and complementary physicians.
The tools of functional medicine are:
- a thoughtful consideration to the patient’s story
- the dietary history
- the physical examination
- dietary and detoxification strategies toward rebalancing the digestive tract
- stress reduction
These approaches do not exclude ongoing traditional medical approaches.