What is Functional Medicine?

Functional medicine addresses the whole person, not just an isolated set of symptoms. A functional medicine practitioner will spend more time with their patients, take detailed health histories and look at the interactions between environmental, lifestyle, and genetic factors that influence your health.

We evaluate how environmental inputs - from the food we eat to the body wash we clean ourselves with - can effect your health and well being. There is consideration of mind-body connections because psychological and social factors can have a profound effect on your health and well being.

Functional medicine practitioners also consider that individual genes can make you more susceptible to some diseases, but that your gene expressions can influenced by your environment, diet, and lifestyle. That means it is possible to change the way genes are activated and expressed, and if illnesses can be managed naturally.

Promoting wellness by focusing on the fundamental underlying factors that influence every patient’s experience of health and disease is a top priority in functional medicine.