What is functional medicine?
A patient-centered approach to chronic illness treatment is provided by the functional medicine model of care.
Functional Medicine is a system-oriented, personalized model that empowers patients and clinicians to work together to resolve the root causes of illness and to achieve the highest expression of health.
Using a system-oriented approach and involving both patient and practitioner in a collaborative relationship, Functional Medicine explores the root causes of illness. It is an advancement in the practice of medicine that meets the 21st century’s healthcare needs better.
Functional medicine practitioners spend time in FAMILY CLINIC with their patients, listening to their histories, and discussing the connections between factors of biology, climate, and lifestyle that can affect long-term health and chronic, complex diseases.
How Functional Medicine Changes Everything
Functional Medicine is a personalized, systems-oriented model that empowers patients and practitioners to achieve the highest expression of health by working in collaboration to address the underlying causes of disease.
- Functional Medicine introduces a powerful modern operating system and FAMILY CLINIC paradigm for chronic disease identification, treatment, and prevention to replace the obsolete and inadequate 20th-century acute-care models.
- Functional Medicine combines the latest in genetic research, the biology of processes, and an understanding of how influences in the environment and lifestyle affect disease emergence and progression.
- Functional Medicine makes it possible for doctors and other health practitioners to practice proactive, predictive, personalized medicine and empowers patients to play an active role in their health.
The Principals of Functional Medicine
A patient-centered approach refers to FAMILY CLINIC which respects and responds to individual patient interests, needs, and values, and ensures that FAMILY CLINIC decisions are driven by patient values. The therapeutic partnership’s strength stems from the belief that patients who are active participants in the development of their therapeutic plan feel more in charge of their well-being and are more likely to make improvements in their lifestyle to improve their health.
