Functional medicine vs. conventional medicine

functional or conventional medicine

"All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident." Schopenhauer
Functional Medicine uses systems biology to understand and identify how core imbalances in specific biological systems can manifest in other parts of the body. Gives a name to the sum of symptoms a client is presenting a “DISEASE” & then they just use a pill for every ill.
They may find one condition has many different causes and, likewise, one cause may result in many different conditions. As a result, functional medicine treatment targets the specific manifestations of disease in each individual.
The Functional Medicine approach uses a broad range of interventions to achieve optimal health including diet, nutrition, exercise and movement; stress management; sleep and rest, bioenergetic medicine, phytonutrient, nutritional and pharmaceutical supplementation; and various other restorative and reparative therapies.
Each patient is unique, every single symptom, cause, ailment. Each program is tailored to be 100% individual.
I't recognizes the importance of modern medicine and combines it with traditional medicine and ancient wisdom, emphasizes the importance of everything that can affect the mind and body.
Journals uncorrupted by corporate or political interest, BIG PHARMA can’t profit from prescribing celery juice in the morning, or eating clean anti-inflammatory foods.
Are used to investigate functional biochemical, nutritional, metabolic and hormonal status. to promote optimal function, prevent and reverse disease, and improve quality of life.
Patient plays an active role, Functional Medicine is deeply interested in listening to the patient, every aspect of their life to investigate how and why illness occurs and restores health by addressing the root causes of disease for each individual.
Reverses disease, and prevents future complications.
Eliminates sources of inflammation or triggers providing the body with the ability to heal therefore restoring health.
Treatments have mild or no side effects, and other unrelated complaints often improve spontaneously.
Provides the right conditions so the body can heal itself.
By addressing root cause, rather than symptoms, practitioners become oriented to identifying the complexity of disease.
If you cant find the cause then the issue will present itself all over again, even if they take out the alleged tumor, mole, infection. Perceives the body as a collection of individual organs or systems, each of which has it's own specialist Digestive system: gastroenterologist Heart: cardiologist Brain: Neurologist They don't believe one thing affects the other.
The treatments available are very LIMITED they mostly consist of: drugs & surgery even with the extensive risks in complications and side effects.
Patients with the same disease get the same treatment regardless of their symptoms, age, gender, complaints.
Conventional medicine eliminates the validity of other forms of medicine, due to ignorance.
Influenced by corporate/pharmaceutical & insurance companies.
Tests and treatments results number based on the “NORMAL” average results of people (most people are not healthy) not on healthy individuals designed to prevent death and manage serious disease, without dealing with the underlying cause.
Patient plays a submissive role. Mostly dismissed or ignored when trying to communicate the beliefs of the factors affecting their health.
Saves lives when the only option left is surgery or hospitalization.
Conventional medicine prescribes medications, makes you a patient for life, they are just a palliative.
Just look at the back of any medication under adverse reactions, severe side effects every time.
Just because you can't feel the pain (thanks to the painkillers) doesn't mean the body is not hurting anymore.
Gives a name to the sum of symptoms a client is presenting a “DISEASE” & then they just use a pill for every ill.

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Adrenal Fatigue, Infertility, Estrogen Dominance, Menopause, Perimenopause, Dysautonomia Pots, Acne, Chronic Fatigue, Metabolic Syndrome, Painful Periods, PCOS, Hypothyroid, Hyperthyroid, Low Energy, Skin Issues, Pre-Diabetes, Type II Diabetes, Insulin Resistance, Weight Gain, Obesity, Sleep Issues, And More.
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Constantly feeling run down?

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Autoimmune Spectrum, Disorders, Autoimmune Thyroid Disease (Hashimoto's Thyroiditis) (Hypothyroidism), Autism, Celiac Disease / Gluten Sensitivity, Crohn's, Diabetes Dysautonomia Crohn’s Disease, Fibromyalgia, Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis (M.S.), Type I Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Ulcerative Colitis, And Many More.
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