Functional Medicine
Functional medicine is a biology based approach that focuses on identifying and addressing the root cause of disease.
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Root Cause
Functional Medicine's key focus is to identify the root cause of disease rather than chasing symptoms. Functional medicine is about identifying issues in the human body and restoring optimal health and function. Function medicine allows for these different factors to be addressed to create an integrative and individualized approach to health.
Factors for health
Functional Medicine looks at the factors that contribute to your health, to determine why and how illness occurs. Each person has their own set of unique, complex and interwoven factors that result in their current state of health. Functional medicine also looks at the interaction between different factors such as genes, lifestyle, and the environment to see how they affect each other.
Treatments
In functional medicine, the primary goal is to work with the patient, using diagnostic testing, to determine what issues may be present and how to correct them. Functional medicine practitioners aim to educate patients on how different factors can be modified to achieve optimal health. Want to know more about functional medicine? Check out https://www.ifm.org