How our Functional Medicine can help you
The Revolutionary Method to Understand & Resolve Poor Health & Disease.
Traditional Medicine v Functional Medicine (FM).
FM is an approach that aims to understand the physiological drivers & health imbalances behind symptoms - leaving no stone unturned.
Example: Considering a symptom, such as say high cholesterol: Other than the diet, we’d also consider the process in which cholesterol is produced in the body and all the factors that impacts it. We then test our theories via lab tests to get more information about what your body needs to restore health, using nutrition & lifestyle.
You can do nothing about your health symptoms and hope for the best outcome.
Or - you can listen to what it’s trying to tell you, and rectify the problem, halting inflammation, degeneration, or loss of function…
How FM is Different.
Perhaps the best way to explain what Functional Medicine is, is by comparing it with traditional medicine (which of course we all need alongside). Traditional Medicine focusses on applying a pharmaceutical to suppress a symptom, such as high cholesterol, to prevent more serious health incidents. This is how we work differently:
We’re at liberty of assessing and screening your WHOLE body. We’re not just looking at your stomach for answers for your acid reflux or your diet for weight gain. This is because we know that there are several factors contributing.
We consider new emerging research - not yet set in stone. This allows us to understand and explore things like your genetics and the microbiome, understanding how they play their part in IBS, constipation, anxiety etc.
We personalise your Healthcare, by consider the many triggers that combine to create your symptoms - let’s say acid reflux or high cholesterol. Another missing link in traditional medicine. Did you know that two people with the same disease, may not have the same set of health imbalances for their same disease?
Functional Medicine is for those who are dissatisfied with living their chronic conditions, taking meds that never helps the disease. Functional Medicine is for those who wants more from their body - and who has respect for their body, and what it’s trying to tell them!
Usually, you experience a combination of health symptoms (such as headaches, fatigue, constipation, or PMS), because one of your organs or body systems is struggling to maintain adequate normal function. This may be because it’s lacking something (a nutrient/dietary component etc), and/or has too much of something else. In functional medicine - this is what we’re trained in! Identifying organ and system gaps and overwhelms.
We’re trained in looking for gaps in health or function, and understanding what the body needs in order to restore function. Our cells are programmed to do a job (depending on whether it’s a muscle cell, a brain cell, etc) - and we want to help it do it.
More complex conditions (i.e a wide range of symptoms for longer) sometimes means unresolved problems have started to layer. This can take longer to unravel and requires a little more patience. Either way, you owe it to your body to prevent further decline. Of course, we don’t claim to have answers to serious disease - we’re merely in the business of supporting your body being as resilient as it can.
Give your body the love and care it deserves - giving yourself the best change of a happy, long and FULL life while you’re at it!! Why would you say no to this…