Nutritional Consultations
Function medicine is the future of conventional medicine–available now. It seeks to identify and address the root causes of disease and views the body as one integrated system, not a collection of independent organs divided up by medical specialties. It treats the whole system, not just the symptoms. My nutritional model of Functional Medicine is a metabolic approach aimed at discovering nutritional excesses, deficiencies, sensitivities and toxic overload, uncovering the hidden causes of overall systemic inflammation and disease which can result from blood sugar disorders, immune disorders, thyroid and adrenal dysfunction, anemias, gastro-intestinal issues, brain dysfunction and other life-threatening disorders.
In order to reach the goal in restoring optimal metabolic and physiological function and overall health, the patient is placed through a comprehensive nutritional analysis and consultation to address primary complaints giving the doctor direction for comprehensive lab analysis involving blood, saliva, urine, and stool. Through comprehensive lab analysis, doctors of Functional Medicine can interpret to the patient in detail what health issues are hindering optimal health and freedom from disease. This is a natural approach without the use of synthetic hormones or pharmaceutical medications allowing the body to actually heal through a nutritional approach with the use of specific diet, nutraceuticals and exercise protocols.