What is Functional Medicine?
Functional medicine "manages complex, chronic disease by intervening at multiple levels to address core clinical imbalances and to restore each patient’s functionality and health. Functional medicine is grounded in scientific principles and combines research from various disciplines into highly detailed yet clinically relevant models of disease pathogenesis and effective clinical management."
"Imbalances (including hormonal, inflammatory, digestive) are the precursors to signs and symptoms. Improving balance – in the patient’s environmental inputs and in the body’s fundamental physiological processes – is the precursor to restoring health and it involves much more than treating the symptoms. "
Special thanks to Dr Mark Hyman, author of UltraMetabolism for his ongoing efforts to educate, heal and evangelize. Please take some time to watch Dr Hyman's podcasts listed on the right of this page. If not for the work of people like him, the quotation from Abdu'l Baha could not be realized in our lifetime.
Several Functional Medicine practitioners are professionals trained in western medicine who found it while researching cures for conditions they suffered from. I invite them to add their personal stories to this site.
Before your first visit, you will complete a detailed online questionnaire, from which the doctor will know more about you than the average specialist ever discovers. The graphed results pinpoint probable imbalances and their causes.
