NUTRITION & FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE

This personalized approach to medicine allows you to treat the underlying cause of disease—not just manage the symptoms of it.
Our approach to natural health care is grounded on functional medicine–a term coined by Dr. Jeffrey S. Bland, Chief Science Officer at Metagenics. This science-based, patient-centered medical system is based on laboratory tests central to many conventional and complementary practices. Yet primary distinction from some of these approaches is our focus on overall health—how you eat, sleep, drink, think, talk, exercise, and how your body handles toxins. It's not a single treatment for a single disease (or its symptoms), it’s a therapeutic lifestyle revolution.

An Individualized Approach to Disease Prevention
The goal of functional medicine is prevention and addressing the underlying imbalances that lead to any number of chronic illnesses (heart disease, diabetes, cancer). The human body functions as a network of interconnected systems that affect each other, sort of like a power grid.  Functional medicine treats the whole body rather than a sub-section or single organ system. Since each body is unique, we must considers each patient's "biochemical individuality"—those variations in optimal body functions due to genetic or lifestyle factors.
The treatment objective in our approach is overall vitality and a greater health span—not just absence of disease. That's contrary to what may currently be the standard for modern health care. But that standard is changing.

TLC & Nutrigenomics—Practical Modalities of Functional Medicine
Functional medicine aims to restore health and improve functionality by intervening at multiple levels to address core clinical imbalances. For some practices, that may be a transformation in the familiar standard for primary care. But the change doesn't have to be a difficult one. Find a training and certification in functional medicine health care professional to best help you adopt a healthy lifestyle.

Therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLC) and targeted nutrition to promote healthy genetic expression (nutrigenomics) are two patient-centered, functional medicine modalities that can be easily implemented into your busy life. TLC and nutrigenomics have been demonstrated effective in managing and reversing chronic illness and symptoms. TLC is also endorsed as the standard of care for many of today's most challenging and costly chronic illnesses.

8 Underlying Disease Precursors
Functional medicine addresses core clinical imbalances that are precursors or underlying issues associated with disease:
• Hormonal and neurotransmitter imbalances
• Oxidation-reduction imbalances and mitochondropathy
• Detoxification and biotransformational imbalances
• Immune imbalances
• Inflammatory imbalances
• Digestive, absorptive, and microbiological imbalances
• Structural imbalances from cellular membrane function to the musculoskeletal system