FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE

Functional Medicine is a patient-centered, individualized approach to science and experience-based medicine that empowers both patient and physician to work symbiotically to find, study, and treat the underlying causes of disease and promote optimal wellness. Functional Medicine requires a complete understanding of each patient’s genetic, biochemical, and lifestyle factors, and that data can be leveraged to direct the patient’s personalized treatment plan and lead to much Improved patient outcomes. By addressing the root cause while keeping a guarded eye and controlling the symptoms, our team becomes oriented in identifying the complexity of the patient’s condition or disease. Our physician may find that one condition has more than one cause and likewise, one cause may lead to many different conditions. As a result, Functional Medicine treatment targets the specific manifestations of disease in each individual.

Who Can Benefit?

You may have guessed by now, in a word, “Everyone”. Functional Medicine does everything from mapping one’s full genome to testing for food sensitivity and food allergies. These programs can also be combined with drug sensitivity and efficacy testing. Not every prescription works the same way in the same manner with the same results and more importantly the same side effects on everyone. Changing one’s lifestyle whether it be the foods you eat, or your daily routine doesn’t always have to be so invasive as totally doing away with the things you love and are used to doing. It may mean one ingredient in something you normally eat or are around that is causing you to get sick, feel tired, or have internal inflammation either in your joints or intestines. Functional Medicine singles out the culprits that seem harmless, that your body is adversely reacting to, and gives the physician overall insight into how to treat it.

SC INTERNAL MEDICINE