What in the world is functional medicine?

If you have ever felt like…

• Your symptoms were only looked at as separate conditions

• You are only being treated or diagnosed based on your current symptoms

• You’re constantly going to your medical provider with “new symptoms” but never truly feeling better

… then functional medicine may be the approach for you.

According to The Institute of Functional Medicine, “Functional medicine determines how and why illness occurs and restores health by addressing the root causes of disease for each individual”. 

Your body is a wildly complex system. With a functional medicine approach, your body is treated as a whole, rather than in isolated systems. Not only that, but each human body is unique. Your genes may interact with your environment completely differently from another person in that same environment. This means that one condition may have several possible root causes and one root cause can lead to a multitude of conditions. Crazy, right?

That’s why functional medicine delves into your nutrition, lifestyle, environment, past traumas, exercise regimen, and mental health in the management and treatment of your ailments. 

Working in tandem with your healthcare providers, functional medicine is used to empower patients to treat the underlying causes of their symptoms: promoting optimal physical (and mental) health and wellness. 

… and this is how people truly heal.

What does healing with kreifwell look like? Check out the next blog post the kreifwell approach.

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