Using The Intelligence Of Nature & Science To Transform Health

Functional Medicine 

Functional medicine asks how and why illness occurs and restores health by addressing the root causes of disease for each individual.

It is an approach to patient care that views health and illness as part of a continuum in which all components of the human biological system interact dynamically with the environment, producing patterns and effects that change over time. Functional medicine may be described as the clinical application of systems biology.

Poor diet, stress, pollution, poor sleep, lack of exercise and the impact of your busy life, all combine to deplete you of vital life giving nutrients & energy. This disrupts your internal balance and leaves you vulnerable to dysfunction in the body.

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Chronic disease is usually preceded by a period of declining function in one or more of the body’s systems. Restoration of health requires improving the specific dysfunctions that have contributed to the disease state or symptoms.

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The most important precept of functional medicine is that restoring balance between a patient’s environment and their physiology is the key to restoring health. It is also the case that by addressing any fundamental imbalance, the functional medicine model potentially postpones or prevents the future emergence of multiple other conditions.

These core functional imbalances serve to bridge the mechanisms of illness with the clinical manifestations of disease:

• Assimilation: Digestion, absorption, microbiota/GI, respiration
• Defense and Repair: Immune, inflammation, infection/microbiota
• Energy: Energy regulation, mitochondrial function
• Biotransformation and Elimination: Detoxification
• Transport: Cardiovascular and lymphatic movement
• Communication: Endocrine, neurotransmitters, immune messengers
• Structural Integrity: Subcellular membranes to musculoskeletal integrity