What is Functional Medicine?

For far too long, we have approached our health one illness or diagnosis at a time. Many are confused about how they could have developed auto-immune diseases, or suffer from sudden thyroid dysfunction.  

What about blood sugar issues like DIABETES or INSULIN RESISTENCE or METABOLIC SYNDROMES?

GUT ISSUES have become common. Cholesterol levels are climbing.  Patients are taking medications to deal with the problems from their medications. Even BRAIN HEALTH can be effected by underlying physical problems. SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE!

If your favorite tree were to start dropping their leaves, loosing their branches, bark rolling off their trunks, of course we would want to do something!  But if the problem was below ground where you could not see, you might be suprised that each of these individual problems were initiated in the roots.  Although treating the above ground symptoms may provide some relief, full healing can only occur when we dig into the root system. That is what Functional Medicine is all about.