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Natural Functional Medicine
Scottsdale, AZ
Functional Medicine near me
Natural Functional Medicine
What is Natural Functional Medicine?
Natural Functional Medicine is really a way of “thinking outside medicine’s box”. The typical doctor focuses on a symptom or a differential diagnosis to give you limited avenues of addressing your health concerns (such as drugs or surgeries). In contrast, with Functional Medical analysis, we can “deep dive in” to the systems of your body to put together the full picture of your health. This naturally leads us to goldmine of how to incrementally and substantially improve your overall health and vitality.
Why choose Natural Functional Medicine?
Like many patients, you may come to our clinic with a diagnosis, and sometimes a prescription, but with little health or relief to show for it. Or, just as many of our patients come to us without a diagnosis because of a few main reasons:
- they wanted to avoid getting told to take a drug
- the tests or office visits they've had were inconclusive
- they’ve been given the impossible to interpret “it’s in your head”, or “you’re just too stressed,” or “it will get better if you just lose weight/sleep more/exercise more/eat better/etc”
- they’re told that their poor health is what “you’re getting older” feels like!
Although typical medical experiences such as these may lead people toward a feeling of hopelessness, Functional Medicine was designed to unearth exactly those subclinical factors that the typical physician isn’t trained to see, and guide you naturally toward steady health improvement!
How is Natural Functional Medicine different?
Let’s take the symptom or condition of ANXIETY. Anxiety can occur as a result of more than one cause—and may come from more than one system or stressor in each patient. For example, anxiety can be caused by underlying inflammation, and inflammation may be occurring simultaneously in the nervous system as well as the digestive system—both of which (or either) could be “causal” in the case of your condition of anxiety! So focus on the anxiety might get the doctor and patient nowhere…
Now let’s take the underlying “cause” of inflammation and notice how it can often lead to a number of different diagnoses, and only one of these MIGHT be anxiety. Precise manifestations of each underlying “cause” will depends on the individual’s genes, environment, and lifestyle, and only treatments that address the right cause will have lasting benefit beyond symptom suppression.
It gets complex, doesn’t it? Natural Functional Medicine views your signs, symptoms and laboratory through the lens of optimal function throughout your different body systems. This is how we can piece together the puzzle of YOU through the focus on function, not on disease.
How will your results be different with Natural Functional Medicine?
Your return to health will come about only by following a sequential and achievable program. After we’ve analyzed you, your lifestyle, your health timeline and your labs for signals of suboptimal function, we then create Your Total Health Restoration Program. Your Total Health Restoration Program will be detailed to confront and interrupt present internal stressors and your personal obstacles to healing.
Most importantly, we will guide and educate you through your Total Health Restoration Program so you can be successful. Many of your most important therapeutic improvements will come through the application of personally Designed Clinical Nutrition.
Just as darkness fails in the presence of light, Nature’s law consistently shows us that disease retreats as health improves.