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Functional Medicine involves specific
biological terrain assessments to search for metabolic, endocrine
and/or digestive abnormalities (including bacteriologic or yeast
overgrowth in the intestine). These types of abnormalities can
result in a variety behavioral changes and worsening of
psychiatric symptoms; in addition to a host of physical ailments
(e.g. headache, chronic fatigue and irritable bowel syndrome, etc).
Since most illness results from a failure of
the bodies normal physiologic function (whether it be immune,
glandular, digestive, inflammatory, detoxification), the "downstream" effects
of those failures either contribute to or cause the symptoms
that are experienced. By intervening at the source of the
problem, not only is "cure"
possible but symptom alleviation becomes permanent. An example
of this is a patient of mine with long standing food and environmental
allergies. Upon treatment of a significant heavy metal toxic
burden of Mercury, her food allergies, of many years, disappeared.
Clearing the issue at the source is a more elegant and efficient
way of dealing with an ailment; and at Vitality Health & Wellness,
the preferred way. |