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What is Functional Medicine?
Functional Medicine is an integrative, science-based healthcare approach geared to treat complex medical issues and promotes wellness. Functional medicine is patient centered rather than disease focused and takes into account the individuality of each person while tailoring interventions to restore physiological, psychological and structural balance. It is imperative to spend time with each person listening to their history and looking into the interaction of environmental, genetic and lifestyle factors that influence long term health and complex, chronic disease. Our society is experiencing an alarming increase in people who suffer from diabetes, heart disease, cancer, mental illness, hormone imbalances, and autoimmune disorders. Functional medicine works to help treat and prevent chronic disease.
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Basic 5 Principles of Functional Medicine
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1) Functional Medicine views everyone as different; genetically and biochemically unique. This personalized health care treats the individual, not the disease. It supports the normal healing mechanisms of the body, naturally, rather than attacking disease directly.
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2) Functional Medicine is deeply science based. The latest research shows that what happens within the body is connected in a complicated network or web of relationships. Understanding those relationships allows us to see deep into the functioning of the body.
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3) The body is intelligent and has the capacity for self-regulation, which expresses itself through a dynamic balance of all body systems.
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4) The body has the ability to heal and prevent nearly all the diseases of aging.
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5) Health is not just the absence of disease, but a state of immense vitality.
A NATURAL APPROACH TO HEALING