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Functional medicine is becoming more mainstream as more and more people realize the limitations of conventional medicine. At some point in our life, most of us have taken our complaints to a doctor, we’ve been prescribed lab tests with results that show nothing wrong, had other more or less intrusive exploratory procedures performed just to be told that we are well. We leave the doctor’s office shaking our head because we know that our overall feeling of not being right isn’t just in our mind—it feels too real. A prescription might mask our symptoms, attenuating the pain without ever addressing the root of the problem, and possibly causing problems down the line that we wouldn’t ever trace back to the little pills that we took one day back when...

For those who want real answers, functional medicine offers an integrative approach to medicine, one that aims at achieving wellness, one that brings us back to when we actually felt well. This implies that all the systems of our body operate properly, as they are originally designed to work, with all the intricate interaction that this entails. With proper testing we can understand our individual body chemistry and identify the causes of the malfunctions. This is the field of functional medicine.

Functional medicine focuses on prevention, individuality and the body as a whole. It takes into account individual chemistry, the patient’s goals, motivation, emotional response, and most importantly, engages the patient in the process of achieving optimal health. The metabolism of nutrients is a key factor in determining the functioning of an individual’s body, and in re-establishing a harmonious balance of hormones that lead to health and overall well-being.