What is Functional Medicine

Functional Medicine is considered to be the new Medicine of the Future. It is a holistic approach to preventative and palliative health care. The body is approached as holographic and web-like, interconnected with each mental, physical, emotional or spiritual response. Where as Contemporary Medicine compartmentalizes the body into different specialties: liver doctors heart doctors, mind doctors, etc. In Functional Medicine, all systems are known to be linked and the patterns between chemical reactions and the organ systems are explored.

Functional Medicine focuses on the dynamic processes which underlie and precede the endpoint or pathological state. While acknowledging the existence of pathology as well as a need to understand it, functional medicine seeks a path of therapy which engages these underlying events. Functional Medicine is used in combination with contemporary medicine for the best possible approach.

Functional Medicine

* Is Patient Centered *

* Is based on each person's unique needs *

* Helps balance your biochemistry *

* Integrates physical, mental and emotional *

* Is interested in outcomes rather than controlling symptoms *

* Is used by all disciplines of medicine*

Patient centered care has become the demand the educated individual seeking medical care. Today people want medical care that compliments their own lifestyle and values. Many people are turning to complimentary medicine because they feel listened to, cared for, and treated as a whole person. Functional Medicine looks at how you are "doing" and "feeling". You won't be told "It's all in your head." Functional Medicine is interested in YOU--your life, your well-being, what you eat, your work environment, your relationships and communication with others, how you relax and play your hobbies, what medication you've taken, how well your digestive system functions, and what chemicals you've been exposed to.

What is Expected of You? Your relationship with your doctor will be one of a partnership. This life is a journey, your doctor is an advisor to improve the quality of the experience. You will be expected to make changes in the way you eat, think, feel and experience life. YOU are an important part of this process and your role is primary. You and your lifestyle will enter into the practice of medicine, as the functional medicicne process looks at you in the context of your life and your choices.

How is all of this accomplished? At Optimal Health Clinic, we use the finest in diagnostic technology. Asyra's AT3 Electral Dermal Testing. Non-invasive and painless the AT3 is the most advanced equipment available to determine early symptoms and complaints that are undetectable by conventional methods.

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