Functional Medicine is a patient-centered form of healthcare for the modern world. Functional Medicine practitioners look at each individual as a whole, not as a system or divided into parts, as the traditional medical model does.

Functional Medicine practitioners spend time listening to their patients. A common complaint of patients today is the traditional medical model, mainly due to managed care, is that doctors only spend a couple of minutes with a patient on each visit. Patients feel that their doctors do not understand them and their symptoms. Instead of getting to the bottom of their health problem, doctors just want to write them a prescription for a medication and send them on their way.

Functional Medicine practitioners will get a detailed health history of their patients and will look at genetics, environmental, lifestyle, and dietary habits. Once we have that information, we can recommend blood testing or other specialized testing from Functional Medicine laboratories. We use Functional Medicine laboratories because they give us insight into your health in ways that traditional medical testing cannot.

Functional Medicine practitioners analyze blood work differently than what a traditional doctor would. We use narrower normal ranges in our analysis. Laboratories will get their normal values by averaging all of the samples from patients that have been to the lab. However, most people getting blood work done are sick people. We want our patients to have optimal health, therefore, we use optimal ranges when looking at blood work.

Functional Medicine is the future of medicine, but the most progressive doctors are the ones practicing Functional Medicine right now.

If you are tired of not getting the answers about your health that you think you deserve, you can learn more about how to work with me here.