What is it?
Functional medicine is an individualized approach to find the root cause of a disease. There can be many causes of certain diseases and one disease can be caused by many different factors. For example, depression can be caused by antibiotic use, Omega 3 deficiency, and low thyroid level, Vit. D deficiency, and pre-diabetes. In the same way, inflammation can be caused by depression, arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.
And there can be genetic, lifestyle, and environmental factors affecting the root cause of any disease. To best treat the disease we should know the right cause.
It is patient-centered care to customize the healthy living plan.
Benefits:
Functional medicine is beneficial over conventional medicine cos it is
- Patient-centered
- Holistic approach
- Designed for health
- Find the root cause of disease and primarily prevent disease
- Biology based approach
How does it help?
Everybody is different from others on a genetic and biochemical basis. And Functional medicine is a patient-centered approach to treat the patients. It is health-oriented instead of disease-oriented.
The human body adequately self-regulate by several interconnected systems and certain factors can disturb the balance. Finding a certain factor that triggers the abnormality can help in achieving better. As our has the capacity to self -heal itself and prevent all the diseases of aging.
Functional medicine physicians educate their patients to take an active role in their better health as in this way there are more chances of living a healthier life.
Core clinical imbalances can occur in the Digestive stem, hormonal system, immune system, skeletal, and energy regulation systems. And triggering factors can be environmental (e.g; quality of water, air, food, diet, sleep, physical and mental activity), genes, psychological and spiritual factors.
By focusing on these factors we can identify the root cause and treat disease more efficiently.