Functional Medicine Seeks to Identify Your Toxic Load
Your body was created with the inborn ability to heal itself. Unfortunately there are "stressors" that inhibit your body's ability to perform this function. A stressor is defined as anything that inhibits your body's ability to function normally and pushes you away from your optimal health.
Stressors can be physiological, biochemical, metabolic, emotional or structural. Some common stressors are:
For some that breaking point may look like an allergy, an auto-immune disease, arthritis, or some other chronic disease.
Your body was created with the inborn ability to heal itself. Unfortunately there are "stressors" that inhibit your body's ability to perform this function. A stressor is defined as anything that inhibits your body's ability to function normally and pushes you away from your optimal health.
Stressors can be physiological, biochemical, metabolic, emotional or structural. Some common stressors are:
- Environmental toxins
- Digestive dysfunction
- Viral, bacterial, and parasitic pathogens
- Drug side effects
- Mineral or vitamin deficiencies
- Allergies or sensitivities to foods
- Spinal subluxation
- Emotional stress
For some that breaking point may look like an allergy, an auto-immune disease, arthritis, or some other chronic disease.
Functional Medicine Recognizes Biological Individuality
There are subtle differences in everyone's biochemical make up. What that means is that different people will react to foods, chemicals, drugs, etc. in different ways. Have you ever smelled a certain perfume and felt a headache come on, or used a particular cleaner and become sick in the next few hours? One of the classic examples is red wine triggering a migraine in certain people. How come this happens to some people and not others? Every one of us is genetically unique and we have all been influenced by the environments that we have lived in up to this point. Functional Medicine seeks to find out what your individual nutritional needs are and what you should work hard to avoid contact with.
There are subtle differences in everyone's biochemical make up. What that means is that different people will react to foods, chemicals, drugs, etc. in different ways. Have you ever smelled a certain perfume and felt a headache come on, or used a particular cleaner and become sick in the next few hours? One of the classic examples is red wine triggering a migraine in certain people. How come this happens to some people and not others? Every one of us is genetically unique and we have all been influenced by the environments that we have lived in up to this point. Functional Medicine seeks to find out what your individual nutritional needs are and what you should work hard to avoid contact with.
Functional Medicine is Patient Specific
Rather than trying to match up set of symptoms with the right medication to suppress those symptoms, Functional Medicine seeks to find the underlying cause of the disease process. I use the Functional Medicine techniques to do a thorough examination of your past medical records, perform a comprehensive history and examination, and utilize science-based Functional Diagnostic Tests to uncover those often undiscovered, real causes for your body's inability to function correctly and heal itself.
Once known I can develop an individualized, patient-specific treatment to eliminate those stressors that are preventing your body to work correctly and guide you in ways to provide what your body needs to begin the healing process.
Rather than trying to match up set of symptoms with the right medication to suppress those symptoms, Functional Medicine seeks to find the underlying cause of the disease process. I use the Functional Medicine techniques to do a thorough examination of your past medical records, perform a comprehensive history and examination, and utilize science-based Functional Diagnostic Tests to uncover those often undiscovered, real causes for your body's inability to function correctly and heal itself.
Once known I can develop an individualized, patient-specific treatment to eliminate those stressors that are preventing your body to work correctly and guide you in ways to provide what your body needs to begin the healing process.
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