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Functional medicine takes a comprehensive approach to prevention, health, and well-being. It treats root causes of disease and restores healthy function through a personalized patient experience — all while being a vital partner to conventional medicine.
When you work with a functional medicine practitioner, you can expect to feel seen and heard. A large part of functional medicine involves understanding who you are as an individual, your detailed personal and family history, the circumstances around your first symptoms, and the experiences you may have had with other healthcare providers.
Here’s more about what patients can expect from their functional medicine visit:
A comprehensive approach to health and well-being
- From chronic illness to disease prevention, functional medicine systematically addresses the unique physical, mental, and emotional needs of all patients.
- Practitioners bring together a wide complement of modern scientific tools, including a deep understanding of biology, physiology, genetics, social and environmental determinants of health, and the vital connection between mental and physical well-being.
- By understanding each patient’s genetic, environmental, and lifestyle influences, functional medicine delivers transformative care to promote optimal health and well-being.
A collaborative practitioner-patient relationship
- Functional medicine fosters a collaborative practitioner-patient relationship that empowers
patients to take control of their health. - Practitioners are trained to ask thorough questions and listen to their patients to better
understand the full context of their lives and uncover the root causes of their symptoms. - Patients and practitioners work together to develop a personalized approach to care, prioritizing
lifestyle changes and individualized interventions.
A personalized treatment plan focused on root causes
- As a patient-centered practice, functional medicine provides the framework to identify and treat
the root causes of disease, not just the symptoms. - Functional medicine asks how and why illness occurs and strives to restore optimal health by
addressing the specific underlying dysfunctions. - It is this combination of focusing on individual patients and applying a comprehensive treatment
path that delivers transformational results.
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PATIENT TIPS FOR WORKING WITH A FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE PRACTITIONER
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Once you are ready to begin your functional medicine journey, it will be time to find a provider in IFM’s Find A Practitioner listing. IFM is the only organization providing functional medicine certification along with educational programs directly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). Clinicians trained by IFM are some of the most highly respected and sought-after in the field. Patients may search for functional medicine practitioners using a variety of criteria, including by specialty, location, and accepted payment methods.
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To help you find the best-fit provider, we have prepared some questions for you to ask practitioners either prior to or during your first appointment. These questions are meant to help maximize the success of your functional medicine experience.
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After you choose a provider, the hard-but-rewarding work begins. First, both you and the functional medicine practitioner agree to be equal partners in meeting your health goals. Both of you will then develop a comprehensive and personalized approach to your health and well-being that targets root causes and prioritizes individualized interventions. This may involve creating a healthcare plan, setting expectations, and learning which lifestyle modifications will help you achieve your goals. Finally, it will be time to implement the plan in action, with regular check-ins and revisions where necessary.
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To continue learning more about functional medicine, below is a select list of books, magazines, blogs, podcasts, and recipes that take a functional medicine approach to your health and well-being.
Treating Root Causes for True Health
In my practice, I use the holistic "Tree of Health" approach, focusing on the foundational aspects of well-being rather than just treating symptoms. Conventional medicine often addresses symptoms with specific treatments, but this approach can overlook the underlying causes. By examining the roots and trunk—sleep, nutrition, stress, and lifestyle—we aim to identify and address the deeper issues that lead to symptoms. This holistic perspective allows us to achieve more sustainable health improvements and balance, integrating the strengths of both conventional and functional medicine for comprehensive care.
In conventional medicine, symptoms are often treated in isolation, leading to a focus on managing disease rather than understanding its origins. This symptom-focused approach can be effective in acute situations but may miss the broader context of a patient's health. The holistic "Tree of Health" model encourages a deeper investigation into the fundamental lifestyle factors that influence overall well-being. By addressing aspects like sleep, diet, stress, and genetics, we can identify and correct imbalances at their source. This method not only improves immediate symptoms but also promotes long-term health by nurturing the roots of wellness, leading to a more balanced and integrated approach to patient care.
Holistic Organ System Diagnosis
This comprehensive approach allows us to create a personalized treatment plan that addresses fundamental imbalances and supports long-term wellness. Unlike conventional methods that may treat symptoms in isolation, our method provides a complete picture of your health, enabling us to tailor interventions that address both immediate concerns and foundational issues.
Discover a deeper level of understanding and proactive care with our holistic organ system diagnosis.Our holistic organ system diagnosis provides a detailed analysis of each organ system and their interactions to gain a comprehensive understanding of your health. This diagnostic method examines not only individual symptoms but also how various systems—such as the cardiovascular, digestive, endocrine, and nervous systems—interconnect and influence each other. By mapping these interactions, we can pinpoint underlying imbalances that may contribute to a range of health issues. For example, a dysfunction in the digestive system can affect hormonal balance, which in turn impacts cardiovascular health. Understanding these connections allows us to address the root causes of your symptoms rather than just masking them with temporary solutions.
Our approach enables us to develop a personalized and integrative treatment plan that targets the fundamental issues and supports optimal health across all systems. This thorough assessment ensures that all aspects of your health are considered, leading to more effective and sustainable wellness outcomes.Our holistic organ system diagnosis is designed to reveal the intricate relationships between various organ systems and their collective impact on your health. By examining how each system functions and interacts, we gain valuable insights into the root causes of your symptoms. This comprehensive approach goes beyond surface-level diagnosis, uncovering underlying imbalances that may not be immediately apparent. For instance, issues in the immune system could contribute to chronic inflammation, affecting multiple other systems in your body. With this in-depth understanding, we can create a tailored treatment plan that addresses both the immediate concerns and the foundational issues. Our goal is to restore balance and promote overall wellness by targeting the core factors that influence your health, leading to more effective and long-lasting results.
Treating Root Causes for True Health
Integrative and functional medical nutrition therapy offers a personalized approach to health by combining conventional nutritional science with holistic practices. This therapy focuses on understanding how individual dietary needs and lifestyle factors interact with your unique health conditions. By integrating insights from functional medicine, we address the root causes of health issues through tailored nutrition plans that go beyond generic dietary advice. Our approach considers your personal health history, genetic predispositions, and specific nutritional requirements to design a strategy that supports your overall well-being. Through targeted nutritional interventions and lifestyle adjustments, we aim to promote optimal health, prevent disease, and enhance quality of life. This comprehensive method not only addresses immediate concerns but also supports long-term wellness by aligning your diet with your body’s natural healing processes.
Critique of Integrative Medicine: Integrating Quackery with Science
I often describe “integrative medicine” as integrating quackery with medicine because that’s what this inadvertently appropriately named branch of medicine in essence does. The reason, as I’ve described time and time again, is to put that quackery on equal footing (or at least apparently equal footing) with science- and evidence-based medicine, a goal that is close to being achieved. Originally known as quackery, the modalities now being “integrated” with medicine then became “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM), a term that is still often used. But that wasn’t enough. The word “complementary” implies a subordinate position, in which the CAM is not the “real” medicine, the necessary medicine, but is just there as “icing on the cake.” The term “integrative medicine” eliminates that problem and facilitates a narrative in which integrative medicine is the “best of both worlds” (from the perspective of CAM practitioners and advocates). Integrative medicine has become a brand, a marketing term, disguised as a bogus specialty.
Understanding the Power of Functional and Bioenergetic Medicine
The human body, nature's most intricate creation, is governed by an innate intelligence that orchestrates all physiological processes, maintaining balance and health. When this equilibrium is disrupted, disease and dysfunction arise. Functional Medicine and Bioenergetic Medicine work synergistically to restore this balance by addressing both physical and energetic imbalances. Functional Medicine focuses on identifying and correcting physiological dysfunctions through comprehensive testing and targeted interventions, while Bioenergetic Medicine fine-tunes energetic imbalances using principles of quantum physics.
This integrative approach supports neuroendocrine communication, digestive health, and the elimination of toxins, paving the way for cellular repair and overall well-being. By fostering an environment where the body can heal itself naturally, these modalities help patients achieve optimal health. Explore the transformative potential of Functional and Bioenergetic Medicine to unlock your body's innate ability to restore balance and vitality.
The Evolution and Principles of Functional Medicine
In the last few decades the emerging sciences of regenerative medicine and molecular medicine helped doctors develop a science based understanding of how to incorporate integrative medical therapies so that they can be allowed to be applied in instances where the applications of traditional pharmaceutical based medications failed. Old became new and from these finding came the original concepts that helped coin the term functional medicine in the early 1990’s.
Functional medicine is a type of medical science that focuses primarily on interactions between the patient’s physical environment and the patients’ bodily functions such as between the endocrine system, gastrointestinal and immune systems. Practitioners of functional medicine develop individualized treatment plans for the men, women, and children they treat. This paradigm shift takes healthcare with a disease-centric focus to one of where we look at the relationships of the bodily systems and examine the whole person and not just a few of the isolated physical symptoms.
As technology advanced over the last 100 years, doctors became more reliant on the use of pharmaceuticals based products and physicians failed to understand the underlying issues and were no longer able apply basic sciences in their practices. The medical industry became too concerned with about categorizing the names of diseases then implementing the appropriate drug protocols, rather than spending the time needed to better understand the cause of the patient’s imbalances and underlying physiologic dysfunctions.
Functional Medicine: Root Cause Medicine
Functional Medicine, often referred to as root cause medicine, emerged from the advancements in regenerative and molecular medicine over the past few decades. This approach shifts the focus from treating isolated symptoms to understanding and addressing the interactions between a patient’s physical environment and bodily functions. By examining the relationships between the endocrine, gastrointestinal, and immune systems, Functional Medicine practitioners develop personalized treatment plans that target the underlying causes of health issues.
This paradigm shift moves away from a disease-centric model, which heavily relies on pharmaceuticals, to a holistic approach that considers the whole person. Instead of merely categorizing diseases and prescribing drugs, Functional Medicine seeks to uncover and correct the root causes of physiological dysfunctions. By doing so, it offers a more effective and sustainable path to health and wellness, ensuring that each patient receives care tailored to their unique needs.
Functional Medicine: A Patient-Centered Approach
Functional medicine addresses the underlying causes of disease, using a systems-oriented approach and engaging both patient and practitioner in a therapeutic partnership. It is an evolution in the practice of medicine that better addresses the healthcare needs of the 21st century. By shifting the traditional disease-centered focus of medical practice to a more patient-centered approach, functional medicine addresses the whole person, not just an isolated set of symptoms.
Functional medicine practitioners spend time with their patients, listening to their histories and looking at the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can influence long-term health and complex, chronic disease. In this way, functional medicine supports the unique expression of health and vitality for each individual.
The Functional Medicine Framework
It is a framework that asks how and why illness occurs and restores health by addressing the root cause of disease. (IFM.org) Providers spend time listening to the patient and digging deeper into what is causing the patient’s symptoms. As the appointments are often longer than a conventional medicine appointment, the whole person is addressed including, how you feel, what are your goals, what does your diet and exercise look like, how do you think stress is playing a role, and when did you last feel well.
Through in-depth discussion, thorough intake and exploration the root causes are identified and can then be addressed in a variety of ways starting with diet and lifestyle interventions, use of supplements and herbals, and if necessary referrals or prescription medications. Often patients utilizing a functional medicine practitioner report better sleep, more energy, improved mood, clearer skin and better digestion.
Beyond the Physical
Healing with Electromagnetic Energy Waves
Quantum treatment is a treatment using electromagnetic energy waves to treat emotional, mental, or physical problems. It involves the use of magnetic waves through a computer program that controls the waves to adjust brain waves to be balanced. The programs chosen to treat emotional problems include the NLP program (Neuro-Languistic Program), the Emotional Grownth program, and the Stress Reduction program.
Binding the Universe at the Atomic Level
One of the strongest forces of nature – literally called “strong force” — holds the Universe together by making sure that atoms don’t fly apart from each other. At first glance, the strong and weak forces might seem like polar opposites, with their effects barely perceptible on the macroscopic scale. However, it is at the atomic level that their influence is undeniable.The strong force maintains the cohesion of atomic nuclei, a phenomenon of immense significance in our universe.
Unveiling the Mysteries of the Subatomic World
Quantum mechanics is the best tool we have to understand how the universe works on its smallest scales. Everything we can see around us, from far-off galaxies to our own bodies, is made up of subatomic particles, unimaginably tiny entities whose interactions produce the macroscopic effects we experience day-to-day. While it’s tempting to imagine that these interactions obey the laws of physics that we’re familiar with in our everyday lives, they are actually much much stranger.
Understanding and Empathy Beyond Conventional Care
Patients say their first encounter with a functional medicine doctor resulted in a session with someone who not only listens to them but understands and empathizes with them. These health practitioners can describe what’s going on in their patients’ bodies and in their lives and how corrections can be made. They begin to feel a huge burden lifted as their frustration is replaced with understanding and hope.
In this blog post, I explore some of the attributes of the practice of functional medicine that make it so different from conventional medicine. And despite my obvious bias, I will attempt to do so from a patient’s perspective.
Bridging Science and Personalized Care
Effective medicine is not just about following established protocols or administering treatments; it’s about integrating the latest scientific advancements with a deep understanding of each patient’s unique needs. This approach involves combining evidence-based practices with personalized care strategies to address the root causes of health issues, rather than merely managing symptoms. By utilizing comprehensive diagnostics, personalized treatment plans, and ongoing patient engagement, effective medicine ensures that therapies are tailored to the individual, optimizing outcomes and enhancing overall well-being. This method bridges the gap between cutting-edge science and compassionate care, leading to more successful and sustainable health results.
Addressing Root Causes in Medicine
Imagine caring for a tree: if the leaves went brown and spotty, you could paint them green to make them look better, or even cut them off. The symptoms will be gone, however, without having addressed the underlying problem, they will return. This is akin to using medications for rapid relief and symptom suppression. The symptoms might disappear for a while, however the underlying problem still exists, while the treatments themselves can often lead to further problems.
Consider the management of high cholesterol. Statins reduce cholesterol by inhibiting an enzyme used in its production. The same enzyme is also required to produce CoQ10, a critical antioxidant and cofactor involved in energy production - so synthesis of CoQ10 is reduced which can lead to side effects like fatigue and muscular pain, and an increased risk of developing diabetes mellitus.
