What is Functional Medicine?

 

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unctional medicine strives to address health concerns through a holistic, root cause lens.  Shifting from the traditional disease-centered focus to a personalized, patient-centered approach, functional medicine addresses the whole person, not an isolated set of symptoms.   Because each system of the body is interconnected dysfunction in one area of the body may greatly impact the whole.  Functional medicine works to address imbalances in any system to restore harmony to the body as a whole.  

This is accomplished by spending time with patients, listening to their stories, and looking at interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can influence long term health and wellness.  In this way, each individual is able to optimize their own health and vitality. 

At Renaissance Health Group, we ask how and why illness occurs.  Chronic disease is usually preceded by a period of declining function in one or more of the body’s systems. Identifying and addressing each dysfunction as early as possible allows for improvement or prevention of chronic disease and the optimization of wellness. 

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