Functional Medicine
Functional medicine is a fundamentally different approach to chronic disease and mystery illness.
Unlike conventional medicine, which focuses on the diagnosis of disease and then the prescription of drugs to cure or suppress symptoms, functional medicine aims to identify and address the root cause of disease from the ground up.
Functional medicine is a science-based approach to health and healing that evaluates the likely origins, triggers and underlying causes of disease and dysfunction. It is a systematic approach that emphasises not just restoring health, but also prevention of disease in the first place. It seeks to address the whole person, not just an isolated set of symptoms, and asks the all-important question “WHY?” – “Why does this person have this illness or these symptoms?”
In doing so, functional medicine is able to take a comprehensive view and connect the dots behind the symptoms. Understanding how the different bodily systems work, and how they affect and interact with each other, enables intervention at the very root of the dysfunction, rather than simply managing symptoms.
Using careful case-taking and cutting-edge laboratory testing a functional medicine practitioner is able to understand what may be contributing to poor health, and establish interventions around diet, exercise and lifestyle to restore health.
