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Integrated Functional Medicine
The Institute for Functional Medicine defines functional medicine as addressing the underlying causes of disease, using a systems-oriented approach and engaging both patient and practitioner in a therapeutic partnership. It is an evolution in the practice of medicine that better addresses the healthcare needs of the 21st century. By shifting the traditional disease-centered focus of medical practice to a more patient-centered approach, functional medicine addresses the whole person, not just an isolated set of symptoms. Functional medicine practitioners spend time with their patients, listening to their histories and looking at the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can influence long-term health and complex, chronic disease. In this way, functional medicine supports the unique expression of health and vitality for each individual.
Client Focus
- Adrenal Fatigue/Thyroid Imbalance
- Chronic Fatigue/Fibromyalgia
- Osteoporosis
- Optimal Aging
- Allergy management
- Functional Thyroid Disease
- Nutritional / Diet / Supplements
- Sub clinical Diagnostics (I dont feel well but my doctors cannot find anything wrong with me)
- Functional Medicine approach to complex chronic diseases
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Auto-Immune Diseases
- Cardiovascular Disease and Hypertension
- Neuro degenerative Disease
- Depression and Anxiety
- Womens Health
- Menopause and Andropause
Chronic diseases such as obesity, hypertension, and diabetes wreck our quality of life and cost a fortune. In recent years, a new and intriguing concept has emerged in the prevention and treatment of chronic illness: the health coach.
CBS News, October 2009
The primary objectives of health coaching are to educate the patient regarding self health management and to encourage patients in taking a more proactive role in staying healthy.
-Medical Economics, Nov 2010
Hormone Replacement Therapy
Hormone balance is crucial to optimal wellness. Neglecting to fill our hormone reservoirs means we have no hope for health. We know we want to be healthy, have sex, be viable and active as we age.
Customized Hormone Replacement Therapy is the replacement of deficient hormones with Bio Identical Hormones that are identical to the molecular structures of what the body naturally produces, but which have declined due to aging or illness.
Unfortunately, when it comes to mainstream belief, discussion and treatment of hormonal imbalance, most conventional medical doctors (and as a result, society in general) have a very limited scope and knowledge of whats really going on in millions of womens bodies as they continue to simply treat the symptoms at the cost of healing the body as a whole. Women of any age can experience hormone imbalance symptoms. Perimenopause refers to the time of fluctuating hormone levels before periods stop, and can last anywhere from one to ten or more years before menopause. Menopause technically starts one year after a woman stops having periods.
