If you are reading this page then the chances are pretty high that you have experienced traditional Western medicine and found it to be somewhat, shall we say, lacking. Now please don’t get me wrong, I hate dogma and bandwagon chasers and it all too easy to slate a medical profession who perform wonderful work on unbelievably complex tasks on a daily basis. The problem for us, the end user, lies in the final phrase of the previous sentence. The human body hasn’t even come close to unveiling it’s mysteries as yet, and every month new discoveries force slight changes in the way that we optimize both health and performance, and yet many aspects of the general medical profession remain rooted in thinking that is both retrograde and potentially harmful to their patients. Why do I write this? Well, from personal experience I know that it is all too easy for a doctor to say “let’s take this out” or “swallow these pills three times daily” as opposed to doing what I now see as the ONLY sensible first option – actually establish WHY something has gone wrong in the first place. A global view of what is occurring is imperative – to use a very simple example if you have a headache induced by dehydration, which is the better course of action – to take a painkilling pill, or to drink water and alleviate the functional problem. If you can’t see that all the common sense in the world screams the latter then skip the rest of this section as it’s not aimed at you.
We prefer a healthcare strategy that examines the underlying causes of dysfunction rather than symptoms and named disease. Referred to as Functional Medicine, this approach focuses on identifying and addressing nutritional, metabolic and gastro-intestinal imbalances as well toxin effects that underlie chronic disease.
We use world class laboratories in the United States, provided by a leading UK partner “Nutrition Geeks”. In some of Nutrition Geeks own words:
Functional Medicine treats the problem not just the symptoms. It uses the best of traditional medicine and holistic medicine with cutting edge functional tests and gets to the root causes so we can rebuild your health. It’s a wellness solution.
Functional medicine is personalized medicine that deals with primary prevention and underlying causes instead of symptoms for serious chronic disease. It is a science-based field of health care that is grounded in the following principles:
* Biochemical individuality describes the importance of individual variations in metabolic function that derive from genetic and environmental differences among individuals.
* Patient-centered medicine emphasizes “patient care” rather than “disease care,” following Sir William Osler’s admonition that “It is more important to know what patient has the disease than to know what disease the patient has.”
* Dynamic balance of internal and external factors.
* Web-like interconnections of physiological factors – an abundance of research now supports the view that the human body functions as an orchestrated network of interconnected systems, rather than individual systems functioning autonomously and without effect on each other. For example, we now know that immunological dysfunctions can promote cardiovascular disease, that dietary imbalances can cause hormonal disturbances, and that environmental exposures can precipitate neurologic syndromes such as Parkinson’s disease.
* Health as a positive vitality – not merely the absence of disease.
* Promotion of organ reserve as the means to enhance health span.
We are now in a position to easily and painlessly test your body for the following things:
* Hormonal and neurotransmitter imbalances
* Oxidation-reduction imbalances and mitochondropathy
* Detoxification and biotransformational imbalances
* Immune imbalances
* Inflammatory imbalances
* Digestive, absorptive, and microbiological imbalances
* Structural imbalances from cellular membrane function to the musculoskeletal system
Contact us today if you wish to talk about running tests that will allow you to truly see inside your body and optimize it’s functions.
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