S1: 11. It‘s What I Do

What really is functional medicine?  For today’s episode, I’m going to give you a little bit of a background about what I do as a functional medicine practitioner. As an integrated practitioner, you are using the understanding of a patient to make recommendations that are leading to disease prevention and reverse disease progression altogether. With this, you are trying to find the root cause of an underlying condition and get to the bottom of it to move forward and be on the best path to health and wellness.  “It requires me as a practitioner to act as an educator, a role model, as a mentor to help my clients achieve their goals”  What is functional medicine? Lifestyle modification Facilitating the healing response