What is functional medicine?

Good afternoon everyone, it's been awhile since I've written a blog post, but since it's now built into our website, I'm going to keep you all updated with our upcoming events, my opinions on health topics in the news, and other topics in the world of health, fitness, and disease. Today's post is going to be on the topic of functional medicine. When I tell patients that I'm going to use a functional medicine approach to address their health concerns I often get the response of "what's functional medicine?". If you "google" the words "functional medicine", you will get a variety of different definitions and interpretations. To keep it simple, our approach to functional medicine here is to look at your health concerns and address the symptoms, but most importantly, simultaneously address the underlying cause. For example, I see many patients who have trouble sleeping. Some have trouble falling asleep, but others have trouble staying asleep. While we have various supplements here that assist in supporting sleep, we spend much more brainpower trying to address WHY this sleep problem is occurring. I fully believe that a functional medicine approach to health is the way of the future in healthcare, resulting in greater patient satisfaction, better outcomes in overall health and well-being, and minimizing side effects. Thanks for reading, look forward to seeing you soon!