How much do you know about Functional Medicine?

Many believe functional medicine is the way of the future, however, it’s still isn’t universally known. To really understand what functional medicine can do, it’s important to have a grasp on traditional medicine.

Traditional medicine came about as a tool for dealing with dysfunction or acute illness. No matter the ailment, medicine was the tool. The standard model of care is to diagnose a disease and match that disease with a corresponding drug, which works well for acute diseases, trauma, infection, and emergencies.

At the start of medicine, chronic disease wasn’t an issue. Unfortunately, there isn’t a medication to treat chronic diseases making traditional medicine ineffective.

But functional medicine can help! Functional medicine offers personalized care to treat an individual, not symptoms, and supports the body’s natural abilities to heal!