Functional Medicine Specialist

Achieve YOUR Highest Expression of Health

Functional Medicine addresses the underlying causes of disease, using a systems-oriented approach and engaging both patient and practitioner in a therapeutic partnership. It’s an evolution in the practice of medicine that better addresses the healthcare needs of the 21st century. By shifting the traditional disease-centered focus of medical practice to a more patient-centered approach, Functional Medicine addresses the whole person, not just an isolated set of symptoms.

We’ll get to the underlying cause of disease by working collaboratively.​

Functional Medicine:

  • Offers a powerful new operating system and clinical model for assessment, treatment, and prevention of chronic disease.

  • Incorporates the latest in genetic science, systems biology, and understanding of how environmental and lifestyle factors influence the emergence and progression of disease.

  • Is proactive, predictive, personalized medicine and empowers patients to take an active role in their own health.

We use a multiple modalities to assess your current health and develop a uniquely personalized treatment plan to get you back to feeling your best.

For more information see Functional Philosophy.

Functional Philosophy

What Is Functional Medicine?

Functional Medicine practitioners spend time with their patients, listening to their histories and looking at the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can influence long-term health and complex, chronic disease. In this way, Functional Medicine supports the unique expression of health and vitality for each individual.​

Functional Medicine is guided by 6 core principles:

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An understanding of the biochemical individuality of each human being, based on the concepts of genetic and environmental uniqueness

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Search for a dynamic balance among the internal and external body, mind, and spirit

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Identification of health as a positive vitality, not merely the absence of disease, and emphasizing those factors that encourage the enhancement of a vigorous physiology

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Awareness of the evidence that supports a patient-centered rather than a disease-centered approach to treatment

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Interconnections of internal physiological factors

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Promotion of organ reserve as the means to enhance the health span, not just the life span, of each patient

A patient-centered approach refers to health care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values, and that ensures that patient values guide all clinical decisions. Patient-centered care is the core of what we call the therapeutic partnership; the relationship that forms between a patient and clinician that empowers the patient to take ownership of their own healing. The power of the therapeutic partnership comes from the idea that patients who are active participants in the development of their therapeutic plan feel more in control of their own well-being and are more likely to make sustained lifestyle changes to improve their health.