FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE FAQ
Functional Medicine is a framework within which your practitioner will evaluate you as a whole person; investigating root causes of disease, illness, and feeling unwell. A functional medicine practitioner cares as much about your biology and genetics, your physiology – even your environment and emotions – as they do about your “symptoms”.
From thoughtful, whole-body evaluation you’ll move into personalized treatment, often with a focus on dietary and lifestyle modifications, emotional wellbeing, and even targeted pharmaceuticals when appropriate.
Maybe you’ve tried everything and haven’t found answers that resonate or results that last. Maybe you’re moving through a time of illness or transition and you don’t feel like yourself lately. Or perhaps actually you feel great, but could you like, feel better? Patients turn to functional medicine when they become curious about their body’s health, its processes, and its limitations.
Functional medicine provides a safe, holistic framework to get answers and find solutions that are tailored to YOU.
Yes! The beauty of functional medicine is the “less is more” approach. Your provider will start with the least invasive, evidence-based treatment available and work from there. And because there is such a focus on “root cause”, your provider will not just understand what they’re treating but WHY. Patient safety and wellbeing are as much a part of the functional medicine model as it is in a more conventional approach.
Our provider, Amy, is a board-certified nurse practitioner – which means years of graduate level education, clinical experience, continuing education, and patient interactions.
Absolutely! Some patients choose to use a functional medicine provider solely for their needs. Others drop in and out when they feel a more holistic approach is appropriate, while others will work collaboratively with their primary care provider AND their functional medicine practitioner. You’re autonomous. You get to choose what health care looks and feels like to you.
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